Companion letters

Rageypoo

Since the letters are sent to you in the mail and not added to your collections (which is such a shame) does that mean if I want to put letters in other homes, i'd have to level up companions on other toons? Just making sure this is possible before going down that road.

SeaGtGruff

How do you put letters in homes? I finally got Bastian fully leveled up, received a letter in the mail from him, and accidentally deleted it while checking mail on one of my alts. But it would have been auto-deleted anyway after a given number of days, right? How do you place a mail message in your home?

DragonRacer

The newer companions give you a letter furnishing when you reach a certain rapport level with them - Ember, Isobel, Sharp-As-Night, and Azandar.

Bastion and Mirri do not.

OP has a good question, though, on whether the letters you CAN get can be placed in multiple homes or not. I haven’t tried.

SeaGtGruff

Bummer. I knew Bastian's letter was going to be auto-deleted after X number of days, but I wanted to hang onto it so I could reread it at leisure before it did, maybe take a screenshot of it-- and then I accidentally deleted it while processing the crafting hirelings' mails on an alt. Oh, well.

As for the OP's question about the letter furnishings, has anyone leveled up one of the newer companions on two or more of their characters? Do you get another letter furnishing on subsequent characters?

SeaGtGruff

Idea: Maybe ZOS could create special Companion furnishings that we could buy from those NPC Achievement vendors? If a given character has earned the achievement for fully leveling a given Companion and has received the letter that comes after that achievement, then that character could buy copies of that letter as a furnishing? That way we could buy the letters from Bastian and Mirri, as well as additional copies of the letters from the newer Companions.

katanagirl1

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Bummer. I knew Bastian's letter was going to be auto-deleted after X number of days, but I wanted to hang onto it so I could reread it at leisure before it did, maybe take a screenshot of it-- and then I accidentally deleted it while processing the crafting hirelings' mails on an alt. Oh, well.

As for the OP's question about the letter furnishings, has anyone leveled up one of the newer companions on two or more of their characters? Do you get another letter furnishing on subsequent characters?

I think the companion’s level is the same on all characters, right? It’s just the rapport that is different, I think. If so, then you can only level each companion once per account.

Cazador

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Bummer. I knew Bastian's letter was going to be auto-deleted after X number of days, but I wanted to hang onto it so I could reread it at leisure before it did, maybe take a screenshot of it-- and then I accidentally deleted it while processing the crafting hirelings' mails on an alt. Oh, well.

As for the OP's question about the letter furnishings, has anyone leveled up one of the newer companions on two or more of their characters? Do you get another letter furnishing on subsequent characters?

I just did this the other day and can confirm you get another letter.

DragonRacer

katanagirl1 wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Bummer. I knew Bastian's letter was going to be auto-deleted after X number of days, but I wanted to hang onto it so I could reread it at leisure before it did, maybe take a screenshot of it-- and then I accidentally deleted it while processing the crafting hirelings' mails on an alt. Oh, well.

As for the OP's question about the letter furnishings, has anyone leveled up one of the newer companions on two or more of their characters? Do you get another letter furnishing on subsequent characters?

I think the companion’s level is the same on all characters, right? It’s just the rapport that is different, I think. If so, then you can only level each companion once per account.

Right, their experience level is universal, but each character who unlocks them starts at neutral rapport and can build or lower it completely separately per toon (and, thus, also repeat their companion missions again). So, you could have a Nightblade that Bastion hates and a Templar that he loves, etc.

katanagirl1

DragonRacer wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Bummer. I knew Bastian's letter was going to be auto-deleted after X number of days, but I wanted to hang onto it so I could reread it at leisure before it did, maybe take a screenshot of it-- and then I accidentally deleted it while processing the crafting hirelings' mails on an alt. Oh, well.

As for the OP's question about the letter furnishings, has anyone leveled up one of the newer companions on two or more of their characters? Do you get another letter furnishing on subsequent characters?

I think the companion’s level is the same on all characters, right? It’s just the rapport that is different, I think. If so, then you can only level each companion once per account.

Right, their experience level is universal, but each character who unlocks them starts at neutral rapport and can build or lower it completely separately per toon (and, thus, also repeat their companion missions again). So, you could have a Nightblade that Bastion hates and a Templar that he loves, etc.

Oh, I guess the letter was for max rapport, not max level. I forgot this detail, it makes sense because not all of my companions have reached max level but I have all the letters.

Thanks for reminding me.

rpa

New companions do give letter to alts when they get enough rapport. I think plenty less than max is enough. (I don't care about rapport on alts so I do not keep eye on it.)

SeaGtGruff

katanagirl1 wrote: »

DragonRacer wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Bummer. I knew Bastian's letter was going to be auto-deleted after X number of days, but I wanted to hang onto it so I could reread it at leisure before it did, maybe take a screenshot of it-- and then I accidentally deleted it while processing the crafting hirelings' mails on an alt. Oh, well.

As for the OP's question about the letter furnishings, has anyone leveled up one of the newer companions on two or more of their characters? Do you get another letter furnishing on subsequent characters?

I think the companion’s level is the same on all characters, right? It’s just the rapport that is different, I think. If so, then you can only level each companion once per account.

Right, their experience level is universal, but each character who unlocks them starts at neutral rapport and can build or lower it completely separately per toon (and, thus, also repeat their companion missions again). So, you could have a Nightblade that Bastion hates and a Templar that he loves, etc.

Oh, I guess the letter was for max rapport, not max level. I forgot this detail, it makes sense because not all of my companions have reached max level but I have all the letters.

Thanks for reminding me.

I think it's both, because I've had Bastian and Mirri at max rapport for over a year-- probably over two years-- but I use them so rarely that I didn't get Bastian to maximum skill level until just the other week while fighting enemies in (of all places) Bastion Nymic. After I got the message that he'd reached the maximum skill level, he got automatically unsummoned when I had to summon my helpers to deconstruct gear, sell loot, and bank what I wanted to keep. When he got automatically resummoned afterward, I got the letter from him and the message about his bonus (the ability to find Potent potions) being permanent now.

I had thought that we had to level each companion's skill level all over again on each character, so it's good to know that their skill levels are actually account-wide.

ArchMikem

The final letter you get in the mail is not the one you get as a Furnishing, which made me really sad cause Ember's was stupidly heartfelt and I wished it could've been saved. (I took a screenshot for my personal folder at least).

Rageypoo

Ok, I was able to get another letter from a different toon so, that answers my question. Thanks!

ZOS_Icy

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