Aggro. Aggro. Aggro. Less of it. They seem to call attention to the Daedric Princes themselves and I have to run everywhere trying to kill whoever is trying to kill them so bosses don’t reset.

But what I’d REALLY like to see is some little tweaks to the rapport. Like, Mirri enjoys going to dungeons/delves. If she says something before entering a delve, she could have a green aura/glow/highlighted indicating that if you talk to her, you can get a little back and forth and depending on how you answer, you can raise her rapport a little more than reading a bookshelf. Maybe it’ll even give her a tiny little buff like “attacks a but quicker or has more health recovery” or such some nonesenses.

Or you and Bastian enter Anvil and he has a little dialogue of how he came there once with the fam as a kid and lost his favorite teddy Bobo and randomly in the map is a long lost Teddy just waiting to be found, so you’ll have to explore.

Edited because of many many spelling errors.

My ideas taken from another thread:

Sarannah wrote: »

Playing with both, here are some suggestions:

-Remove rapportdecreases entirely. Rapport goes up so slowly, there is no reason to punish certain in-game activities. And worrying about rapport is a major hassle when playing multiple characters. Also, with future companions in mind.

-Disable interacting with companions while in combat. (Give us a hotkey to disable/enable interacting with companions completely)

-Give us a simple command to tell the companion to move towards us.

-Do not let companions go out of a certain range from the player, as this causes monsters/bosses to reset. Or causes them to walk for miles.

-Do not let companions get aggro at all, unless they use a taunt.

-When in combat the companion does not have line of sight of the enemy, let it instantly respawn onto the player.

-Do not show the companion marker on the compass, it is only in the way.

Sarannah wrote: »

After completing a few more zones with the companions out... I noticed regularly leveling a character is massively underperforming with regards to companion rapport. As opposed to doing the fighter/mages guild dailies. Therefor I feel more regular/zone things should give positive rapport, like for example: Completing side and main quests, collecting skyshards, discovering areas, completing map objectives, opening treasure chests, killing bad guys in general(questmobs/bosses), opening resourcenodes, etc.

Right now we have to go out of our way, to gain any noticable positive rapport. While regular play should be (atleast) equally rewarding.

Issue a formal apology for the lazy attempt and do a DLC giveaway in next month's sign-in rewards. Companions were ill-conceived, sloppy, attempt to sell an expansion and then the PTS issues fell on deft ears. Nothing was fixed?
With the exception of Roll, Play companions add no value and are more trouble than they are worth.
Wonder how much of the recent performance issues are due to all the companions?

Gameplay, I'd like Companion gear to get an overhaul. Include it in the stickerbook and specify locations where certain types of pieces drop, even if ZOS doesn't want to let us transmute, craft, and upgrade the gear.

Roleplay...at the least, Companions need some emotes. The trailers made them seem a lot more interactive than they are. You can't really go to a tavern after a quest and unwind or celebrate.

For a real reach, I'd love for ZOS to record some reaction lines for after major zone story quests. Thing is, if you want to roleplay with your Comonaion, once you've done their quests, there's not much more they have to say. They become combat pets and houseguests. No doubt this is because ZOS expects us to drop our Companions like a hot potato when the next set of new Companions comes out. On the other hand, ZOS made Companions with planned obsolescence in mind - for roleplayers, the content literally runs out.

- make them gain shared XP from quests, having them only level by kills is odd
- remove negative rapport from daily gameplay things like crafting or gathering
- make gear craft and upgradeable, or at least give it a decent drop rate, even green gear is way to rare
- give them AoE resistance similar to pets
- improve the customization, having clones is not making the game betetr and full customization would be good

I wish we could equip them with standard gear, honestly. There are probably pretty good reasons why we can't, but even just the craftables would be good.

That said, I've made decent money in my Used Companion Gear side-business...

More position controls
Inventory space
Balance on what gives them XP.
More controls in general

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VaranisArano wrote: »

No doubt this is because ZOS expects us to drop our Companions like a hot potato when the next set of new Companions comes out. On the other hand, ZOS made Companions with planned obsolescence in mind - for roleplayers, the content literally runs out.

This is likely the case, and it's very sad. Since companions are not yet great with combat, they could at least have more RP potential... unique or customized dialogue after clearing certain content, full outfit options, emotes, more 'personality' in general. I hope the plan is not to just release different companion classes in the future...

Do something about the gear situation. Stickerbook, craftable, unlimited companion gear storage bag. Something.

Let me set a range to follow me. I do not want Mirri in my personal space while looting.

Let me set a range to attack when using ranged weapons. Destro staff aoe seemed good until I realized the companion would run up to do things, then roll back and continue light attacking from max range. Let me tell them to get stay in.

Let them stand on pressure plates. If you can program Stibbons to do it... in the very same update... you can get companions to do it.

Do something about red circles. It's pretty much the end of companions once a persistent red circle lands under them. They are surprisingly survivable otherwise.

Those are the things I would adjust based on the current implementation. After that, I could come up with about 50 new things they could do from adding new skills and quests, new companions and more gear options like set bonuses.

We need some settings to be added to the game. A Wheel like interface as used on either Bethesda Games would be nice, but these could be added to the existing menu.

1. Distance, set to closer or farther away.
2. Companion Aggression, either they can aggro without us, or they wait until we attack. In latter mode, they do not draw mob aggro.
3. Barking, either they talk or they dont. Quest related utterances would not be affected by this.
4. Wait Here command. However this auto ends after say 10 to 20 seconds or if we leave a building or cell.
4. Dismiss function.
5. Auto return after using banker or merchant dismiss.

I'd remove rapport. They are my companion, not my conscience.

Different buttons for command companion vs command pet.

My warden likes to send in her bear first to draw first aggro (when not in a group dungeon). But a companion with a ranged attack's arrow/spell will foil this by getting there first. Result: My bear wardens will only run with pure melee companions.

My magsorc might want to send in a tank companion but that same command will cause her matriarch to shoot sparks and make a mess of the poor tank companion's attempt to pull. Result: My magsorc dumped the matriarch.

Neither companion has an ultimate yet but I hope that will not interfere with the command function. If so, the result (sigh) will be to not slot companion ultimates.

1. Remove them from the game
2. See above