grind. lol. with the possible exception of lvl 50 AR, there's nothing in this game that qualifies as a real mmo-style grind.

I always travel with Bastian - unlocked him on the first day he was available. He's lvl 12 - it seems I will never get hom to 20. As for rapport, it looks as it is not moving at all. So I just gave up. Way to hard for me to level a useless talking pet, let him just be a cosmetic companion. Same will be for the any new companions - I will use them as cosmetic pets.

karthrag_inak wrote: »

grind. lol. with the possible exception of lvl 50 AR, there's nothing in this game that qualifies as a real mmo-style grind.

Companion rapport: Time-gated grind, 250 rapport/day via dailies - max 5500 (3 week grind) Bastian's is worse.
Companion XP: 532550xp to Level 20, only gains XP from kills (ie. no quests) Only receives 15% of combat xp received by player (boostable)
Companion gear: 9 traits, 3 weights, 3 qualities. Can be traded but cannot be upgraded. Low drop-chance from bosses
Companion skills: Armor, weapon, guild skills. All need to be leveled individually similar to player progression.

If they was worth using than just cosmetics or rp purposes which rapport doesn't need than I'll do it for my main. Otherwise, I'll just wait til the next year whenever it maxes out.

It depends on their rapport perk reward... if it was something super awesome, then maybe, but if it's something similar to Bastian and Miri's then no'. Especially since grinding involves the FG dailies, which take ages. I really didn't enjoy doing that for the current companions, not to mention I still have the levelling to do, so doing that for a new set of companions would be overkill. I'll most likely let rapport level on its own, over time, rather than grind it.

Marto wrote: »

Wait... why did you write "only for my Main" on one of the options?

Do people seriously grind out rapport on multiple characters? Why? There's no point to it. All rapport rewards are account-wide.

Other than for roleplaying reasons or wanting to do the quests again, there is no reason to level up rapport on multiple characters.

True that. But that was my mistake at first, maxed out rapport and xp for both on my Main..got the unlocks and such. At first I thought once the companions were maxed out both xp and rapport that it was account wide but when I checked my alt it wasn't maxed out on rapport but maxed in XP...so I continued to do it since I was pretty close in achieving the 5500 rapport goal. Then looked at the other alts and said screw this because it was going to be a chore to do them all (7 other alts). If I was a completionist I would do it..but I'm not.

So yes, I agree it doesn't pay to do alts once they have been completed on the main toon. Took me the hard way to figure that out...lol

Looking at the poll...it really doesn't make sense to do Companion rapport maxing for the alts.

Now if they could only add the ability to slap the companions when they become annoying ...lol

Other … my characters all run a companion, but rapport will just happen. No deliberate action is taken to increase it.

I did get both as houseguests, by doing some extra dailies on one character, but that was where it stopped. Max level and rapport are still to come, and I do not see any reason to rush them.

I just get rapport as I play. I don't grab torchbug/butterfies and routinely open a bookshelf, sometime do the relevant dailies (which I enjoy) and it happens. As pointed out, no performance gain from rapport and it happens over time just fine with minimal attention.

What drives choice of companion for me is personality and Mirri clicks whereas Bastion does not. I currently have Mirri set up as ranged dps for the variants of my character who want that and Bastion set up as a tank for the variants of my character who want that. What I would much prefer to do it have a QoL friendly way of quickly changing Mirri from dps gear to tank gear and simply change her on the go. Changing her skills is easy but the logistics of changing her gear is a headache.

For @kargen27

kargen27 wrote: »

... I just would like her not to do backwards rolls half way across the zone every time we get in a battle.

Mirri will do this irritating habit with any ranged weapon except one. If you give her an ice staff, she will hold her ground, favoring blocking/interrupting. Made all the difference on my Mirri; just be careful you don't slot the destruction staff ability that includes a taunt if using an ice staff.

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

What I would much prefer to do it have a QoL friendly way of quickly changing Mirri from dps gear to tank gear and simply change her on the go. Changing her skills is easy but the logistics of changing her gear is a headache.

Maybe get someone at ESOUI to write a gear changing addon for companions where you can save gear sets like Gear Manager for players does?

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

The rapport system needs to be re-worked. it doesn't move quick enough and to many things on the core game play lower it. Both the current ones you lose rapport for using blade of woe. One should and one shouldn't. Just playing the game and having them out they should slowly gain rapport as well

They lose it over the stupid stuff to. random walking aninmals get caught in a AoE and oops there goes Bastians rapport...I'm not going to survey the entire area before I engage a mob I need to kill to make there is a chicken or something walking around. It's really stupid.

Some of the things you can lose rapport for might be a bit much, but it makes sense that you would always lose rapport for blade of woe since that can only be used on civilians, right? I think only a dremora or other being without empathy wouldn’t disapprove and strongly. Of course they could have such a companion… I think one would have to watch their back then…

I'm more worried about grinding skill lines than rapport. What I've maxed is mainly:

• One companion (Mirri).
• One weapon for her (resto).
• One armor line for her (heavy).
• All the guild lines for her.

That leaves a lot more to go.

One thing that does NOT help -- the tediousness of changing companion builds. If you want their best build for some content, but to grind another build when you're doing easy stuff, that's a nuisance even if you only play one character, and a much bigger nuisance across alts.

Would depend on the reward for doing it.

Current "perks" turned out to be extremely "meh" and not really worth the grind to get them.

Mirri is close to reaching level 20, but why is it that when she is summoned, she would appear in underwear before the costume shows up and covers her?! This one is married and can’t look at semi naked Dunmer ladies!