I've seen weirdness with the Druid companions as well, for example if Jaheira is in Myrmidon form when the battle to rescue Minsc wraps up, then none of the normal dialogs will trigger.
Instead the player will get a dialog something like "Share a vision of Jaheira at camp to calm him down" but of course Jaheira's standing right next to him that whole time, just still in her wild shape.
I really can't understand how in 3 years of feedback about it in the party movement thread, we still don't have a settings option to automatically ungroup whenever combat ends, or to always remain in turn based mode whenever combat concludes. This would solve so many headaches. Most of the issues I've experienced occur during the transitions from exploration to combat, or from combat back to exploration, or when a dialog prompts a combat/vice versa.
Also for Jaheira specifically, if she's Dual wielding weapons prior to wildshaping, the off hand weapon will frequently become unequipped, and then the remaining weapon (still in hand) will get stuck there. Only way I was able to get it to work normally again was to go into another wildshape and then drop out of it back into human form. Generally not the worst outside of combat, but if you get knocked out of form in combat this can be very frustrating. I had Jaheira drop Viconia's mace that was in her off hand, become encumbered as a result of going from 18 STR down to 10 STR, and then weighed down at the worst possible time for that to happen.
Another thing I've seen happen, not specific to Wild Shape, but sometimes characters when ungrouped will get whisked away back to camp randomly after combat ends. Or sometimes when I tell companion to wait at camp while at camp, they go ghost can't be interacted with (can't be highlighted/talked to). Again only thing that fixed it was a quit/reload or travelling to a different camp. This is more difficult in Act III since there are only 2 main camps. Happened to Minthara and Lae'zel, and a couple times to Astarion when I was switching around the party comp.
I'd honestly be kinda wary, because even though I think Honour mode is fun, the game just doesn't seem all that stable for a single save game mode with no going back at this point. Hotfix 16 borked quite a few major quests for me, where stuff was clearly bugging out but because of the game mode some of the usual workarounds were off the table there. One of the earliest Feedback and Suggestion threads I can remember reading on these boards was the one about Character Import/Export and why that's important for a BG game. I feel for anyone who loses their save in honour mode, especially if they didn't nab the gold dice yet, because that would have really bummed me out if it'd happened 2 weeks ago. At least if players had an Import/Export for their characters they'd have something to hang onto even in the worst case of a corrupted save or mod incompatibilities or whatever.
Oh and finally, so not for the Wild Shape but the Summons and Spells, if you respec at Withers I think it might retain the spellslots Or maybe that doesn't reset until resting or something? Otherwise I'm not quite sure how I'm able to upcast a lvl 5 Elemental spell using a lvl 6 slot that shouldn't exist for my Jaheira at as 2/10 multiclass Druid. Pretty sure I've seen the same thing with other upcasted spells in other multiclass combos. Say upcasting command or magic missile at higher lvl spellslot than should be available by class lvl. That one hasn't really been a problem for me as much as it's been for the Absolute, cause it's a pretty significant buff for multiclassing, but that doesn't go jank for other stuff like questline progression, in the way that wildshape sometimes does by missing the convo.
Last edited by Black_Elk; 16/01/24 04:21 AM.
