Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Companions could have more dialogue while traveling or during combat in general.

One of the companions, the Zen Archer Lann, is a mongrelman who has spent the majority of his life living in underground caves. During chapter 2, when the fifth crusade begins and everyone is traveling on the road, you can find a crusader within the camp questioning Lann about why he keeps staring at the sky. He basically states that he's never really known what it's like to live with a wide open sky above him, and that he finds it fascinating and terrifying. The crusader assumes that the latter part means that he may be concerned about winged enemies attacking the camp and lightly mocks him for that concern, but it's a very valid threat to Lann because he never had to consider such a thing while living in the caves. Of course, the camp gets ambushed at night in that exact way later in the game, with Lann barging into your tent to make sure you haven't been ambushed while also complaining about how he had been warning the other archers to watch the sky. (The rest of the companions had already been taken or were fighting off the ambush in other parts of the camp, and slowly rejoin your party throughout that part of the game.)

After that part of the story is resolved, you can find Lann and the crusader talking to each other within the camp again, with the crusader vowing revenge against the demons for the events of the previous night. Both interactions are very easy to miss if you just head straight for the camp exit nearby.

If you keep Seelah (the Paladin and the game's primary tank) single-classed, she can be built for mounted combat somewhat early in the game, or focus more on improving her single target damage through weapon enhancing abilities. Mounted combat is generally the more favored choice, because it lets her ignore her massive movement speed weakness and run to wherever she needs to go to wreck/intercept an enemy going for your back line. And there is a lot of shit that tries to go for your back line/hard target your main character first in WotR, compared to Kingmaker. Which is why my backliner Eldritch Archer still uses defensive spells like Shield.

We think her tiger thing is supposed to be a horse like what you'd normally expect from a Paladin, but it's been over an entire year of testing by this point and it's stayed the same, so... One could argue it's still fitting for her, because she doesn't really behave like your typical Paladin either. I think you can ride stuff like bears and maybe even wyverns too, but you have to pick specific classes and/or archetypes for that kind of thing. Despite an entire year's worth of testing, I still don't know enough about Pathfinder's absurd class variety to really elaborate in this category. Apparently my character firing spells through his bow is pretty tame compared to the kind of shit I've heard others building for.

(On the topic of stuff going for your back line, it's probably worth mentioning something else interesting I've noted from this most recent beta phase. You know how in BG3, enemies seem to hard target whoever has the lowest AC? Kingmaker had the opposite problem in that everything went after your front line because ranged enemies/back line ambushes were extremely rare. WotR has a bigger mix of tactics, one of which involves things like enemy archers switching targets to whoever attempted to attack them/inflicted the most damage against them previously. It's pretty interesting AI behavior.)

WotR's companions have very atypical combat roles, even when compared to the Kingmaker companions. Kingmaker companions played things rather straight in regards to their combat roles, while the WotR companions appear to be deliberately designed so that you can build them in multiple directions even if you keep them single-classed. I described Seelah up there, who most people either go the shield wall or the mobile mounted bruiser route with.

The druid Camelia who wields a rapier and buckler can act as a support caster/buff bot, but she can be easily built as a tank too, along with inflicting respectable melee damage with her weapon enchant abilities later on. Ember can be built for buff/healing support, but is more than capable of being a scary ass fire blaster, and can occasionally shut down enemies using her single target slumber ability that nothing in the game aside from swarms are outright immune to. Lann has a completely novel build that I've never seen in any other cRPG to date - he is a TANK ARCHER, potentially capable of stacking as much AC as the actual tanks, and gets easy access to feats that denies opportunity attacks against him and lets him perform opportunity attacks with his bow. When he's not blocking off melee attackers ambushing your back line, he even gets a personal dimension door that lets him warp to enemy spellcasters in the enemy back line, threaten them all with opportunity attacks, and then once he's done with them he'll turn around and wreck the enemy front line from behind.