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Danton, one of the many Hirelings you can obtain from Withers is by far the worst hireling to respec in the game. In spite of this, he has probably one of the best voice lines as a hireling, with the worst belonging to Jacelyn.

Why is he the worst hireling?

Well his racials scale with Charisma, but his background, Folk Hero, limits him to Wisdom based builds. It's very hard to make a good build without sacrificing something.

Could we change Danton's race to either a Dragonborn or a Deep Gnome so he is easier to respec without having to endure either having irrelevant skill proficiencies or very weak racials?

Alternatively, if you guys have plans on adding Tieflings with the Bloodlines of either Glasya or Dispater, those could make for very flexible characters. I'm personally biased towards Glasya because of the Shapeshifter Ring and the fact that Tieflings from Glasya's blood line get free Disguise Self.

Furthermore, Glasyans also get free Minor Illusion and Invisibility, which would make Danton a very good support character, while taking away his reliance on Cha.

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I rather like Danton. He's not my favorite but he's still a good hireling, especially if your main isn't a druid but you want one for roleplaying flavor during the grove questline.

I have him on an early playthrough and just looked over his info.. I didn't find anything that was tied to/scaled with Charisma. If I'm missing something, let me know but the only racials I found were not based on an ability score: from the Tiefling Race - Darkvision and Hellish Resistance, and Mephistopheles Subrace - the Mage Hand cantrip.

His background as Folk Hero does fit best with WIS based classes such as his default Druid class but it doesn't really cause a drastic limitation on what he can be respecced to, since you can freely adjust ability scores on respec.


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