After 10 Companions Are Released, What's Next?

Paulytnz

Like the title says, this poll is about Companions once we have the assumed 10 (one for each playable race). I know it's still at least 2 years away, but still, it's never a bad idea to start putting ideas into the devs heads. So with that said, what would YOU like to happen once we have a full 10! The Options are:

Paulytnz

Other - Please post your ideas!

As for my vote I put "other", because I want ALL of the options except the first lol. Yes, I AM that GREEDY.

LunaFlora

Give us different races, non playable! Examples - Daedra, Goblin, Giant, yes give me a GIANT companion please!

dremora, xivkyn, skaafin, shrike, spiderkith, and other humanoid daedra would be cool and we've had dozens of quests with friendly humanoid daedra and in fargrave we can interact with plenty of them without hostility.

though i believe maormer and reachfolk are more likely if any non playable race ever happens.
naga argonian, and any of the bipedal khajiit seem likely as well.

and i doubt goblin or giants would happen.
i would love to see goblin happen i just haven't seen enough examples of friendly goblin npcs that we can communicate with to believe it'll happen.
the only ones i can recall are from Frostvault and Toothmaul Gully, two or three.

one friendly giant has happened in Eastmarch.
but giants are well gigantic, don't seem to use our armour nor weapons, and wouldn't use mounts like us.

maybe half giants like in Kyne's Aegis? but again no friendly instances at all.
would be cool though


edit to add: the main quest companions and other npcs like Eveli would not work.
they're established characters. we shouldn't have the ability to do a quest with for example Eveli and have a companion Eveli clone accompany us.

every companion so far has been new characters that require one quest to unlock.
how would it work with an established character? would there be a requirement to do all their existing quests to get them as a companion?
that wouldn't work either if zos ever wanted to use them in more quests.

that'd be a lot of quests to acquire a companion.

Kendaric

Other - Please post your ideas!

I want a combination of several of the ideas.

So, let's have a look:

Unusual companions:

- Senche-raht companion (bonus points if we could it as a mount)
- Alfiq companion
- Dremora companion
- Werewolf companion

Story companions I'd love to have:

- Naryu Virian (I know it's highly unlikely but still...)
- Ashur
- Bradan (the werewolf guy from the Markarth DLC)
- Eamon (from Karthwasten (Markarth DLC))

Other:

- I'd love to have an option to include one or more of our alts as a silent companion

More companions in general would be good, I'm still waiting for a male Nord (with manly beard and long hair) and a male Dunmer.

Inaya1

Give us different races, non playable! Examples - Daedra, Goblin, Giant, yes give me a GIANT companion please!

Daedra, Dremora?

I hate you mortal, I hate you mortal, I hate you mortal, I hate you mortal, I hate you mortal, I hate you mortal, I hate you mortal.
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Wow, this dungeon has the most sophisticated torture instruments I've ever seen! Do you want to try them out on those mortals who terribly enrage me?
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What do you like more? Torture souls or bodies?
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I hate mortal food, take it away from me.
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I like music very much. For example cries of pain and despair.
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What was that, a sorcerer? I hate sorcerers! The last time I was forced to wash the floors in his house and kill mudcrabs when he summoned me! I am very angry!

Khenarthi

STOP! No more please, 10 is enough!

I like the companion system but 10 is plenty of choice already, I'd rather have something else from new expansions.

HedgeHugger

Give us different races, non playable! Examples - Daedra, Goblin, Giant, yes give me a GIANT companion please!

How about a "Build Your Own" Companion?.
Or maybe 2, so you can make male and female of your choice.
Any of the Races, with a mix and match 3 skill sets of the ones available.
So you could pick a1 from DPS skillsets, One from defence/tank and one from the healing.

RaddlemanNumber7

Give us different races, non playable! Examples - Daedra, Goblin, Giant, yes give me a GIANT companion please!

Why wait for 10 of the playable races. A skeleton and a Dremora next year would be just fine

Aztrias

Give us different races, non playable! Examples - Daedra, Goblin, Giant, yes give me a GIANT companion please!

Goblin companion

derkaiserliche

I just want my nordish skyrim like companion or an imperial one looking like the craiglorn one, then i am good to go

Hapexamendios

I think the companion system is enough as it is. Would like something new.

kyatos_binarini

Other - Please post your ideas!

give us AI for companions

deejayvee

Other - Please post your ideas!

I want to be able to create my own companions

Snamyap

Give us different races, non playable! Examples - Daedra, Goblin, Giant, yes give me a GIANT companion please!

While a werewolf or vampire would be fun, it wouldn't work with the justice system. Do wonder what they going to do with a necromancer companion.

Jaimeh

Give us different races, non playable! Examples - Daedra, Goblin, Giant, yes give me a GIANT companion please!

Different races would be great, for example a daedric companion à la Lyranth or Rynkyus. I just hope they will keep updating the older companions, their lines, reactions, or even functionality, because it's a pity if they are left behind.

emilyhyoyeon

Give us another 10, this time of the opposite sex (example Bastian is an imperial male, next Imperial we get will be a female) and also try to give a completely different personality.

I wouldn't hate it, but I'm personally not interested in non-people companions, as in, non standard races like dremora, minotaur. Maormer would be fine. I'd also only want to keep getting more if it didn't take away from other content.

Recent

Other - Please post your ideas!

Others...I can choose what companion i want. I'm not forced to have them all.

ADarklore

Give us another 10, this time of the opposite sex (example Bastian is an imperial male, next Imperial we get will be a female) and also try to give a completely different personality.

We already have Sorcerer and Warden for 'non-human' companions... I don't think we need any more. Although, I wouldn't mind a Daedra companion that can speak- such as Dremora or Xivili; some of the Xivili can be quite attractive.

Paulytnz

Other - Please post your ideas!

@LunaFlora - Yeah, the Giant option is a bit out there lol. They could always make it we can't change their mount, which comes standard with a Mammoth. Weapons, armours, etc would just simply scale to size.

As for the established characters, they could simply sell or reward them as "skins with voices" for our current Companions. No need for extra quests or anything to unlock them.

@Kendaric

Doh! The Alt Char Idea should have been an option, it slipped my mind. Lucky I put the 5th option in. I know it worked well in Guildwars 1.

@HedgeHugger

That's another good idea. Create your own companion. They could have a quest that adds a story as to why/how this can be done to unlock the feature.

colossalvoids

STOP! No more please, 10 is enough!

Personally think that one of each class is plenty, they can make the last one customisable to make everyone happy at last.

Treselegant

Other - Please post your ideas!

I just want a more in depth companion system. More dialogue, more quests, a romance system - anything more than what we have currently. It's just so thin right now. They release them, abandon them, create more, abandon those, on and on. It's so shallow.

I like companions but playing other games with companions recently has been such a reality check as to how basic ESO's system really is. It seems a real cinderella system (how many people are actually working on it I wonder?). A lot of the problems they suffer from, including the lack of depth, seems born of a small team rushing to churn out content without a cohesive vision. Whole system needs more resources and an overhall before we reach ten companions.

BloodyStigmata

Other - Please post your ideas!

10? We've only got one more class to go and that's necromancer.

Theoretically they could create companion exclusive classes after that but, well, I must put emphasis on theoretically.

phaneub17_ESO

Other - Please post your ideas!

They repeat the races and classes with different combinations, with additional skill sets. Vampire and Werewolf, Assault and Support, Psijic Order and Vigilant of Stendarr (future content). They will have different abilities such as the next Dragonknight is poison based.

Kendaric

Other - Please post your ideas!

Snamyap wrote: »

While a werewolf or vampire would be fun, it wouldn't work with the justice system. Do wonder what they going to do with a necromancer companion.

Of course it could work. The werewolf would be in human (or whatever) form outside combat and the vampire would essentially always be stage 1 or 2. And given that, for example, House Ravenwatch members use their vampire abilities very sparingly around others, it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

And of course, no one is required to have every companion. I still have only Bastian and Mirri unlocked, none of the others they released so far are of interest to me.

endgamesmug

Other - Please post your ideas!

Just buff them next easy

TaSheen

Other - Please post your ideas!

I'm not at all interested in dev-provided companions. I *might* like to make my own, but actually I'd just prefer to have my other characters as occasional house guests.

I can already do "companions" by running two client instances at once, to pretend getting together to chat with my other account characters.

Elsonso

Other - Please post your ideas!

I am entertaining the idea that we will never get to 10. I think they will stop at 8.

Snamyap

Give us different races, non playable! Examples - Daedra, Goblin, Giant, yes give me a GIANT companion please!

Kendaric wrote: »

Snamyap wrote: »

While a werewolf or vampire would be fun, it wouldn't work with the justice system. Do wonder what they going to do with a necromancer companion.

Of course it could work. The werewolf would be in human (or whatever) form outside combat and the vampire would essentially always be stage 1 or 2. And given that, for example, House Ravenwatch members use their vampire abilities very sparingly around others, it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

And of course, no one is required to have every companion. I still have only Bastian and Mirri unlocked, none of the others they released so far are of interest to me.

Last time I played a werewolf in overland I found there is a surprisingly big amount of civilians wandering the wilderness. Sure, you could work around but you know the forums will be filled with complaints.

AzuraFan

Other - Please post your ideas!

I'd be happy if they stopped at the six we have, unless they allow us to form parties with just one player and all companions. Otherwise, I don't see the point of levelling new companions (and their rapport) when most will just collect dust. But if they let us do all group content with a one player + companions party, I might get more use out of the ones that I'll never use once they hit 20.

HazierBlue

STOP! No more please, 10 is enough!

Taking a break from adding companions for a year or two and diverting those resources to something else wouldn't hurt. The game needs many things imo, and new companions is certainly not one of those things.

Tenthirty2

Give us different races, non playable! Examples - Daedra, Goblin, Giant, yes give me a GIANT companion please!

I love the idea of non-standard creature companions!

I kinda liked the idea too about having Lyris, Abnur, et al. as companions but then I realized it could feel kinda weird and lore breaking depending on where you were in some zone stories...

But a giant companion? or a werewolf?? HECK YES! Sooo many possibilities