NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

Bastian hates the competition.

Bastian is best man ♥️

Best companion at the moment. Can't stand Mirri, doesn't matter she's okay with stealing, I just don't have Bastian around on my stealing characters. He's kind, supportive and approves of my obsession with books! And not bad on the eyes either.

While I personally don't mind Mirri that much, I also like Bastian much more than her, and for all the reasons you just stated. Bastian's the kind of guy who would cook a meal for his girlfriend or offer to help a friend move without even needing to be asked, sure he gets a whole thing about cheese, but it's easy to work around his dietary restrictions. I also find having a companion tank to be by far the best use of them, since they won't pull mobs all over the place and instead hold the big ones still. And he's quite good at tanking for the most part, with the obvious restrictions on the kind of content he can do.

Also, I'm much more likely to accidentally touch an insect than steal or make a meal. Those actions are much more deliberate, so for me personally, Bastian is less testy than Mirri. I know some people play on PC with an add-on that prevents touching bugs, so it's the opposite for them.

I would have loved a new male companion. Bastian isn't really the type I see my characters having around as a companion and having another male to choose from would have been nice.

As long as each companion has a good questline, good voicing and interactions, and can be somewhat helpful, then I am happy to let the artists/creators do their thing and have their vision come to fruition

We can't gear them properly, we have a limited choice of skills to give them, we can't direct them to fight, there are limited conversation options, they can't res... what on earth does gender have to do with it?

They're just oversized animate paperweights to me, so I couldn't care less.

Not a particularly well thought-out poll - where is the 'rather have more males'? The first 3 are more or less the same thing. Anyway, yes, I voted for a fully equal split. I like to use either, but my hopes for a nice khajiit tomcat are sadly dashed.

If we will never get ability to fully customize our companions and only get premade NPCs... I would love some companions for players who are on darker side of ESO. For example, I would be very excited to see old and serious argonian necromancer (with some dark sence of humor in some situations, but that should be implemented tastefully and not over the top), who would have pale skin and white eyes, and preferably member of Dark Brotherhood. Their gender wouldn't matter: male will be very cool (there is no such NPC character in ESO so far), female would pleasantly remind me of Sulahkeesh (and she is one of my favourite NPCs).

Or some serious Dead-Water argonian, who would be good fighter (and who would not be disturbed by criminal activities).

When I first heard about companion system when Blackwood chapter was revealed, I got immediate idea for my perfect companion, or rather my apprentice I even bought the mask pack specially to make my companion look like:

Later, when we finally learned about many limitation in companion's look, I was extremely disappointed :'( I don't care what gender they would be, I simply wanted to use hats and polymorphs/personalities on them. Because my second perfect companion was supposed to be Skeleton thrall (using Beast personality for extra fun).

Nothing of that is possible, sadly. Also, my characters can look really strange, so simple-looking companions of any gender won't compliment their look at all

Mirri looks simple, and I stopped using her after I unlocked her passive bonus.



Bastian looks simple too, but luckily he has very bold body art.



Even if I don't enjoy any of them so far, Companion is needed to display my second mount. So for now I use Bastian.

I am not excited about looks of upcoming companions... And Breton girl might be very similar to Bastian in personality, so she better have some nice body art too if she wants to compete
If Khajiit girl will be cool with criminal activities, I will replace Bastian with her. If she will have suitable personality, I might even enjoy her presence

It doesn't bother me, it's a game, not real life. But.. that said, I use primarily female characters, so more female followers would be cool in my book. Besides, Bastian is kind of annoying compared to Mirri - at least she has some funny lines.

Somehow I do not find gender an problem. That a companions backstory may require gender based story lines is rather logicial.

Story first, gender issues second, please.

I just want an argonian shadowscale honestly

I don't really like Bastian lol so I was hoping to have another option for a male companion, other then just him. But maybe the next batch of companions will be two males then!

It makes me feel like ZOS is trying to court the straight male gamer community. I realize the female companions are probably more popular, but I would appreciate a close to 50-50 gender balance a lot. It's not a trivial issue for me, personally.

i really don't care.

As long as we get a flirty Jakarn/Darien-type and "romance" added in next years Chapter, I'll let this years "two ladies only' slide 😏

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I just want an argonian shadowscale honestly

That would be cool and in that case I would strongly prefer male and voiced like Green-Venom-Tongue or Tsatva-Lan and not Heem-Jas for example.