Interesting! Care to share your Bastian and Mirri’s gears and skills? This one finds bastian difficult to be tank/sorcerer/healer/dk but he is very good at cheese hating

I wish tbh, it's just not targeted on me personally and lacking any usefulness currently. Also wasn't running followers in sp titles so no nostalgic value.

Maybe with some tweaks here and there, more thematic characters along the way and I'd finally use one for something more than getting achieves and be done with them.

There is only one feature I like from companions: ability to display another mount so I can see two nice mounts at the same time For me, that's their only useful feature. I especially don't like Bastian so I didn't even unlock him

I will stop using Mirri when I finally get her keepsake fo bonus loot from treasure chests. But she still needs two more levels for that, so in the meantime she is my mount-displaying slave



I hoped that Hollowjack mount would hide her head, to make her more unique than thousands of other Mirri...





NPCs are shocked!



Working as mount-display even when I'm dismounted Rare bug, and I hope it'll never be fixed.

SammyKhajit wrote: »

Interesting! Care to share your Bastian and Mirri’s gears and skills? This one finds bastian difficult to be tank/sorcerer/healer/dk but he is very good at cheese hating

I'm working on Bastian's build right now, but he seems to do pretty well in mostly bolstered and a few pieces of vigorous. Sword and Board.

Edit
And Mirri has an ice staff (so she don't roll around so much), and then I have her warp strike, fear, and then she does aoe and twilight mantle.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

SammyKhajit wrote: »

Interesting! Care to share your Bastian and Mirri’s gears and skills? This one finds bastian difficult to be tank/sorcerer/healer/dk but he is very good at cheese hating

I'm working on his build right now, but he seems to do pretty well in mostly bolstered and a few pieces of vigorous. Sword and Board.

Thanks OP. This one will be interested to learn.

I was running Bastion as a full tank and Mirri as a ranged dps. For the ranged dps, we only use a frost staff - every other ranged weapon and she will dodge roll all over. But with the frost staff she'll hold her ground in favor of blocking when needed and I much prefer that since she no longer spreads fights out. That was working fine until my elf finally fired Bastion for yelling at her when she accidently grabbed a red (stolen) potion instead of talking to an alchemist NPC.

Now, I just use Mirri but for all three roles and it is working pretty well. She wears 5 heavy and 2 medium and that doesn't change. Her jewelry is a mix of damage and sustain and also doesn't change. So all I need to grab to change her is s&b, resto or frost staff and change her 5 skills. Pretty quick to do in the field and she's doing a fine job in all three roles. Nice to be rid of Bastion's whining.

To the original question, my elf has always very much enjoyed adventuring with Mirri.

I haven't tried using a staff on mirri yet. What skills should I allocate on her?
Bastian I found the setup to use him as a tank at least.

Wandering_Immigrant wrote: »

Mainly my Nightblades, don't need a companion screwing up my ability to lose agro with cloak.

I actually have never had my companion pull aggro while invis

I like using Bastian for some delves, public dungeons and wandering in explorable in harder areas (like Craglorn). Although he isn't leveled up and not much equipped, he is a sufficient support for those.

I haven't bothered to unlock either companion on PC EU yet, because I'm trying to play through the zones in the "correct order" and he's still working on Cadwell's Gold. I've succombed to playing through just enough of some zones to unlock their dailies for event purposes, so technically I shouldn't mind unlocking the companions yet, but my PC EU main seems more proficient at soloing content than my PC NA main is, so I'm happy to wait for a while before unlocking them.

I do enjoy questing with Bastian every so often on my PC NA main, especially to help me solo(?) a dungeon or world boss a bit faster, and I've got both Bastian and Mirri maxed out as far as my rapport with them. But I haven't leveled either one up to their maximum levels, or acquired all-epic gear for them. I don't run around everywhere with one or the other out, although I suppose I should keep Mirri out when I'm opening treasure chests.

I'm not trying to farm the best gear for them, and don't shop for better gear; I just play with them as they are, using whatever gear I've managed to find, and whatever skills I've unlocked on them, and they both seem to perform fine like that.

Of course, I'm not someone who worries about chasing the latest BiS/META builds for myself, so I'm definitely not so OP that the companions are of very little use to me. I enjoy them well enough, but I don't want to rely on them, although I'll happily use them as needed to help make things go a bit quicker and easier.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Wandering_Immigrant wrote: »

Mainly my Nightblades, don't need a companion screwing up my ability to lose agro with cloak.

I actually have never had my companion pull aggro while invis

Well I'm not worried about the companion pulling agro. It's when I pull agro, you can lose it with cloak, but I imagine if my companion has already reacted and is engaged and fighting it might not work. Don't know for sure cause haven't unlocked them on those characters, but I'm ok with that.

They are fine. The biggest issue is their pathing and how close they get on you. There are some quest items or NPCs you have to interact with and they have a tendancy to stand right on you so it becomes really hard to click what you want. I actually think they should only be interactable in certain spots, or have it as a feature to just turn off. When I want to change their gear and sets I can turn it on.

Initially I thought they were a cool little addon to the game. They weren't particularly useful to me since I can solo just fine without them, but they added some fun.

But then one day I noticed I had been questing for luke an hour and never popped my companion. And slowly day by day I started forgetting them more and more until now I don't ever bother bringing them out.

tohopka_eso wrote: »

I haven't tried using a staff on mirri yet. What skills should I allocate on her?
Bastian I found the setup to use him as a tank at least.

Alcast's website has tank/dps/heal builds for Mirri and Bastion. I favour Mirri as a tank. As a Nightblade tank, she is much quicker to engage than Bastion, and opening with a fear lets me mop up the ranged mobs before they spread out.