Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Companion improvements

Primadonna and spoiled children personalities aside can we atleast have the option to customize our companions from lvl1? Its either that or the option to create custom parties, I'm mainly talking about their abilities which are pretty bad for the most part. Here is my idea for a Shadowheart build who is imo the worst offender in terms of ability spread. I decided to keep her backround in case you are like me and don't like keeping Astarion around

I agree with the *need* to change Shadowheart who is quite suboptimally and anti-thematically built, on top of being a class that is penalized by the ease of getting advantage in combat. Shadowheart is a detriment to the party unless abusing the broken rest mechanics to cast spells at will every combat turn.

That said, I hope Larian won't make the player too much into gods. The mechanical design of each companions is arguable inextricably linked to their background story and personality. In Larian's previous game, DOS2, I believe they implemented this omnipotent functionality though. And had free use of respec and designer mercenaries to boot.

I don't really care about their personality and backround for the most part. By all means let Shadowheart be a Half Elf Trickery domain cleric who worships Shar. It's not exactly what I would do but what the hell. I just wanted to post my suggestion for a build so the devs could have an idea about what a slightly more efficient build looks like if they decide to give companions some love in the future so the gameplay could be more fun and companions more desirable.

I mean, custom parties are planned, and even now you can make one with some effort (multiplayer, give yourself control over the custom party).

As for companions, I agree better stat distribution would be desirable.