I'm not as hardcore lore-player as some, but I do like to keep the first class of the Companions, even if makes my powergamingminmaxing heart bleed
Not always and not with all Companions, but most of the time ...
IMO I've simply been conditioned by Bg1/2 to view Companions as what-you-get-is-what-you-have, not necessarily "perfect" assets.
Reminds me of that female "Miss Anger Issues" Fighter in Bg1 with CON 9.
Do you mean Shar Teel? Yeah, she was pretty strangely specced.
I must say normally I do go with flavor and theme of the companions. I do make an exception with Honour Mode, there I'm a bit more into optimizing characters, but not too much.
As for Shadowhearts domain: I do like it, when I spec her into cleric/rogue, but I normally just like to play some of the other domains more. So it is more a fun than power thing for me, since I actually don't think, trickery is a bad domain.
