Please don't make me redo guilds for new companions in High Isle

Arrodisia · February 2022

SammyKhajit wrote: »

It’d be better if they level up through doing the DLC story quests or maybe even tie it to the daily/weekly endeavours (eg pick three locks with Ember in tow).

This to be honest.

Grinding dailies again for some companion I barely ever use is a pass for me personally.
I much rather let the companions have access to a more optional style of companion guild leveling where we choose whether we want to do dailies or stories or other guild related activities as we go along. Meaning we'd be able to choose and switch between all activities to level the companions' guilds.

tomfant · February 2022

It's a grind anyway to level them up. I'm not looking forward to that... I'm using Mirri and Bastian less and less. Might do the new ones when I'm super bored. If at all.

SeaGtGruff · February 2022

Fennwitty wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I can't imagine taking a companion on a heist or black sacrament. Those just don't seem like companionable activities.

You just haven't met the right people

It isn't that Mirri and Bastian don't seem the types (although they definitely don't); it's more that heists and black sacraments strike me as being more appropriate for solo missions than team efforts. I mean, most of the time you're trying to avoid being detected, and might need to hide in a basket while a lantern guard passes by; or you're trying to disarm a trap or assassinate someone stealthily. What exactly would your companion be doing to help you during those sorts of missions?

Oreyn_Bearclaw · February 2022

I think this is one of the biggest downsides to companions. Not only are they practically useless and often get in the way, they are a royal pain to level. I have been trying to play with Miri when I quest, but I find myself unsummoning her more and more frequently. I really dont notice her in combat unless she pulls an enemy out of my ultimate. LOL

SeaGtGruff · February 2022

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

I think this is one of the biggest downsides to companions. Not only are they practically useless and often get in the way, they are a royal pain to level. I have been trying to play with Miri when I quest, but I find myself unsummoning her more and more frequently. I really dont notice her in combat unless she pulls an enemy out of my ultimate. LOL

I play with Bastian more than Mirri, but I haven't bothered to completely level either one, except for maxing my rapport with both of them. I generally keep them unsummoned except when I feel like I could use the extra help-- and they do help me, as my main is essentially a tanky wet noodle-- not because I find them annoying, but because I'm loathe to end up with any more companion gear. Not that I've already acquired the best companion gear, mind you, but I've had to hand it all to one of my alts for safekeeping because it was flooding my bank space, and that alt is already holding onto so much companion gear that he barely has room for the gear and consumables he needs to craft for his daily writs.

pecheckler · February 2022

I for one won’t be using new companions if I’m required to level undaunted, fighters and mages guilds again on each of them. Unless there’s a new way for them to gain experience in the skill trees. Exclusively leveling via daily quests is lame.

SeaGtGruff · February 2022

Eh, I actually enjoyed doing the dailies for the Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, and Undaunted again, as it had literally been years since I'd last done them. I stopped doing them again once I no longer needed to continue with them, but I won't be frothing at the mouth if I have to do them again with new companions.

To be honest, I sort of view the companions to be similar to collectible pets, mounts, and assistants in the sense that you don't need to actively use all of them on any given character. You don't even need to acquire all of them just because they exist in the game. So just collect a single companion on any given character, as determined by which particular companion you feel "fits" that character the best, and level that one companion as desired. No need to acquire and level every companion on every characted.

Supreme_Atromancer · February 2022

But there's no huge impetus to grind them, is there? You don't become disgustingly more powerful when they're levelled. You don't need it to keep up with your guild... its something that can happen in the background.

I didn't mind the mages or fighters guild dailies. I love having a reason to go dungeon crawling, and I like that it feels like the way older elder scrolls games did things. I'd be very happy for them to continue riffing off of these sorts of devices. It really just happened in the background for me, and didn't take all that long.

Bat · February 2022

I think it'd make more sense to me at least, if companions could just automatically be brought up to match the player level. It makes sense to do these dailies and complete collectible quests if you're new to the game. Not so much when you've completed almost all quests, done dailies hundreds of times, and do end-game stuff. Can't they just go and do their dailies themselves? Why do we have to babysit

SeaGtGruff · February 2022

Supreme_Atromancer wrote: »

But there's no huge impetus to grind them, is there? You don't become disgustingly more powerful when they're levelled. You don't need it to keep up with your guild... its something that can happen in the background.

I didn't mind the mages or fighters guild dailies. I love having a reason to go dungeon crawling, and I like that it feels like the way older elder scrolls games did things. I'd be very happy for them to continue riffing off of these sorts of devices. It really just happened in the background for me, and didn't take all that long.

Exactly, why grind at all? I mean, it's a personal choice to do that or not, but it's not for me. I still haven't gotten Bastian and Mirri leveled up to their maximum skill levels or decked out in all-purple gear, and yet Bastian still seems to do more DPS than I do, or at least as much as I do.

I'm not really wild about the Fighters Guild dailies as far as doing dolmens, but it's only three dolmens a day so it isn't bad-- and you can get a motif page if you're lucky. I already have all of the pages on my main, but I give anything I already know to my alts to learn. The Mages Guild rewards are not great, but the actual quest is more interesting because it involves going into a public dungeon. And for the Undaunted I just do the delve daily rather than a dungeon pledge. None of them give very good rewards, aside from a possible motif page, but you do get ornate gear, potions, poisons, food, and drink that can be sold to NPC merchants-- and the ornate gear can also be useful for the crow's tribute quests in Clockwork City.

Snamyap · February 2022

Public dungeons are the best place to level companions anyway. So just pop an exp scroll and clear the dungeon the mage guild send you to for an hour.

p_tsakirisb16_ESO · February 2022

jerek95 wrote: »

It's boring enough to do mages, fighters and undaunted dailies for Mirri and Bastian and having to do 15 dailies of each guild for each companion is just... not fun?
What I would like to see is new Khajiit companion for example to not have any of the base game guild lines but instead have thieves, DB and psijic guild skills, that would be done via activities related to those guilds.
It would also be encouraging people to revisit old content.
The only downside would be that players would need to own thieves and DB dlc's but honestly I think that most people who would be interested in High Isle already have DLC's from 2015.
As to the breton one - vanilla guilds are the ones that suit her most... So maybe some other way to level them up? Or at least make them different from Mirri and Bastian?

There is a better option, do not pick ANY companion like many of us have choose to do so.