I'm wondering how the companions will work on dungeons and trials, hopefully we'll see some on this topic.
Maybe the companions make my dps useful for random dungeons and pledges, hate false tank/heal but also hate wait Alf and hour in queed

This is somewhat off-topic, but since we have a senior content designer on the stream, I wonder if you'd be willing to field any other content-related questions.

For instance: The Alliance starter towns and capitals are getting stuffed with prologue characters. Are there any plans to alleviate this?

And also: While it's fun to see returning characters, some of us worry that the (very excellent) story is getting hard for new players to follow. This is especially noticeable with characters who either have a clear beginning or end point, like Darien, Abnur Tharn, Sai Sahan, and Lyris Titanborn. Are there any plans to mitigate this in any way, either through selective rewrites to older content or perhaps through an optional story guide?

A more on-topic question, in case you do actually check this thread for tomorrow's ESO Live: Will companions have commentary on the questlines that already exist in the game, and will they continue to evolve and grow as new content is added to the game?

opaj wrote: »

This is somewhat off-topic, but since we have a senior content designer on the stream, I wonder if you'd be willing to field any other content-related questions.

For instance: The Alliance starter towns and capitals are getting stuffed with prologue characters. Are there any plans to alleviate this?

This. We're already struggling with the pets clogging up common areas, I'd hate to see what they'll be like if these companions are in the way too. If they behave like other collectible pets, we may be ok, if not, then there's a problem. Of course @ZOS_GinaBruno or someone on that team could communicate this point...

We definitely need to be very vocal in hopes that people like @ZOS_GinaBruno acknowledge the existing issues and inform the devs so they don't make a bad problem worse.

1) Can you please provide a way to instantly unlock companions for testing on PTS, without need to do their quest lines?

2) Also, I'm interested to see if there will be some rework of the way combat pets/companions behave in the game. They really need to stop blocking their owner and other players from interacting with objects...

3) And I wonder if we can equip polymorphs on our companions

Ok, so based on this info, we can't use polymorphs on companions... No pre-order from me then

Another nicely done stream that shared quite a few new details on the companion system. Well done!

heavyvogue wrote: »

Hotdog_23 wrote: »

Nice stream but for once it would be nice if you would show the console Ui and not always PC UI.

Console player's never get to see the ui we will be using. Makes us feel left out and feel like an afterthought.

I never see or hear of anyone directing pets on console. Well maybe never but extremely rare in any case.

Please tell me someone spent time actually testing and using this on a controller and not think oh they can already direct pet's it will be okay.

Thanks again stepping off my soapbox.

PS please fix the green tree.

here's the console UI from March 31 preview event if that's what you mean by UI. you can also check it out here: https://twitch.tv/videos/970411105?t=00h01m12s

Thank you very much!

Thannazzar wrote: »

Really disappointing that you cannot add skins, personalities and Polymorph on companions. Such a wasted opportunity for this feature.

I imagine the reason we are not able to add skins or polymorph them is because each has a story/journey they go on and maybe does not fit into the skins or polymorphs out there now. For roleplay purposes though to polymorph one of our own characters played and have one of these as their companion would be an alternative, though I do wonder how Bastian or Mirri might favor being a companion of say a Spriggan or a Werewolf Lord, or even a Companion to a character that is Meridia aligned or some such.