I'm shocked that so many people seem to be set on a singular party. Now that party lock is a thing of the past, I'm gonna be swapping out constantly, so there will be all manner of unusual parties for me. My only thing is that I like to have at least one melee character in the party
I’m happy that party lock was removed for the sake of everyone who didn’t like the idea, but I’m definitely not gonna use it. I like designing playthroughs around specific party builds with strong thematic cores. This way I need to “solve” each encounter only with the tools available to me in that playthrough. It adds reasons to replay the game for me.
I also generally will not recruit companions I’m not going to be using in that playthrough. Sometimes I might even kill them. If I’m playing a good character, Shadowheart, Lae’zel, and Astarion definitely aren’t invited. Gale can maybe sit as camp as the party researcher.
