I know I’m gonna get a lot of toxic board members yelling at me for even daring to say she should have a different fighting style
I actually feel a bit worried by the implication that there are so many toxic board members that even the subset who might care enough about this specific issue to yell would be considered “a lot”
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I could be wrong of course, but I don’t expect this is an issue folk will get angry about. Personally I’m on the fence. Certainly you’re right that the defence(?) fighting style is the more versatile so makes a lot of sense for a companion. But on the other hand I myself like the companions to have a specific character expressed partly through their build and am happy to work around this as a constraint, and haven’t noticed keeping Lae’zel alive being particularly problematic on top of the difficulty of certain encounters.
I guess the most flexible option would be to allow us to rejig our companions’ level one build, including stats, spells and cantrips as has been suggested elsewhere. Again, this isn’t something I would be clamouring for if there were just a few tweaks to the existing builds, but I certainly wouldn’t object either.
PS I’m sure if there aren’t mods for this already then there will be, though I wouldn’t want Larian to use the possibility of mods as an excuse not to consider what would be the optimal default choice.
