I like her extra loot from chests perk.
I've only recently started using Bastien and if he has any perks I haven't noticed them. It's also annoying to hear him say "This is a good area for harvesting" no matter where I stop to harvest something, not to mention his loss of raport every time I loot a thieves' cache out in the wild.
SilverBride wrote: »SammyKhajit wrote: »Bastian dies easily as sword and shield or two-handed...
I find the opposite to be true. I have him set up as a sword and board tank and take him with me to solo dungeons and world bosses. I can count on one hand how many times he has died and still have fingers left over.
I have him in heavy armor and all his gear is bolstered, mostly purple quality (still working on that, those pieces are expensive) and followed an online guide for his skills.
Fully agree! The majority of people who have Bastian die as a tank, 1) don't have the right gear and 2) don't have the right skills equipped... but then blame the companion when it's the player not knowing how to properly equip the companion. I have Bastian in all blue Vigorous, with purple sword and shield in Vigorous. I have Kindle, Drake's Blood, Provoke, On Guard, and Ritual of Salvation skills slotted. I used to have Basalt Barrier equipped too, but he always activated both shields at the SAME TIME, so I took Basalt out because the damage mitigated is so small and my Magplar doesn't need any additional protection. With Vigorous gear giving him a huge amount of health, the other shield and Drake's Blood scale better as well as they scale with max health.
drsalvation wrote: »Y'all despawn your companions when doing bad rapport activities?
I keep them on always, they have to know my dark sides as well, weather they like it or not. I reached max already, and since there's no romance, there's no point on keeping it up high anymore.
(That said, it would be cool if there was a romance option, in a way that would allow us to use scrolls of Mara to get the exp buff, the only other human person I play the game with is my brother and there's absolutely no danged way I'm going to "marry" him!)
Commandment wrote: »Mirri is a horrible person, she's not okay with me murdering someone cold blood with my blade of woe, but she's okay with me biting someones throat off...