I have all of the Companion keepsakes unlocked, and I intend to keep unlocking the keepsakes of future Companions as they are released. Additionally, some Companions have better Class and Race skills that would allow for better performance in certain roles than others.

So, even if a particular Companion has a disagreeable personality, I may still use them if I need assistance of some kind. That said, I would tend to travel with certain Companions over others, especially if they can fill a certain role well and if their personalities and voice lines are agreeable. As of now, my favorite Companion for their personality is Sharp-as-Night, and his Class+Race skills work well for the role that I like to have around.

I personally voted for Ember as the one with the worst personality. I don't particularly use her keepsake — although it does come in handy when trying to complete the "Loot x Stealable Items of Blue or Higher Rarity" endeavor — and I don't always want to use her Class+Race skills. Further, her bubbly personality, hate of fishing, and her love of killing werewolves definitely drives me away.

There's just something I absolutely do not like about Isobel. She has the building blocks of a half decent character but she's written so poorly that she comes across as being so 'nice' that she's boring. Her starting quest is ok but whatever was suggested about her personality there does not come across properly in her companion dialogue or her quests. She's nice and she worships the ground you walk on that's about it really.

Both High Isle companions suffer with what appears to me to be an attempt to keep players happy by providing super pleasant, cute types who hero worship you and I think that comes at the expense of character writing. I don't need that in my companions so it grates on me.

He doesn't like cheese... 'nuff said.

I don't dislike any of the companions, so I could go for a "none of the above" poll option.

Malyore wrote: »

Ilsabet wrote: »

I don't dislike any of the companions, so I could go for a "none of the above" poll option.

They're all amazing, perfectly-made characters in your eyes? You don't favor one more than all of the others?

Neither of those was the poll question. I'd say that Bastian and Sharp are my favorites, and all of them have quirks or bits of dialogue that I don't enjoy as much, but certainly none of them make me want to shove them in a locker and never let them out.

Azander is whiney and full of himself. Plus no ToT? No *mushrooms*!?! Nope just nope!

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

Azander is whiney and full of himself. Plus no ToT? No *mushrooms*!?! Nope just nope!

No mushrooms coming from a guy who lived in apocrypha that is in a TELVANNI dlc amazes me. Dude lives in a realm of ink fossils and fungi. And he wants to throw hands with you for harvesting them for alchemy?

Sometimes when he dies in combat and the fight is over I just unsummon him before he has the chance to resurrect. Send him into the ground to make friends with the dirt fungus.

I use Bastian only and like him. I tested Miri a few times, and disliked her, so I vote for her.

My panel is reduced to those two, because I have one more comp. that I never used (can't recall name), so I don't know him(her maybe?), and after this 3rd one, I stopped picking companions so I don't have the others.

Bastian is like the teenager know-it-all who never had to actually live on his own in the tough world, but still knows how everyone should behave.

"Yes, I am wearing 5mil worth of armor that you bought me and clothed me in, but I'm very upset and judgmental that you decided to steal that recipe"

-SMACK-

You wear khajiit's armors and clothes and ride Khajiit's mounts then you speak with respect to Khajiit, or it is into the cheese bag you go, bald-bottom!

I can't stand Ember for 5 minutes and I don't play with her either. Just went through the quest line to get her as a houseguest.

My favorites are Azandar and Bastian, but I also like Sharp and Isobel.

i like Mirri less than the others because she hates Goblins, but i dont wish that she'd never opened her mouth.
i mostly like all the companions the same

i think Ember is my favourite

I just find Ember very annoying. I understand where she‘s coming from, but she‘s just not my type of person.
Azandar, on the other hand, is my favorite companion… and I can‘t even tell you why.

Azandar. I only played though his quest to the point were I attain him as follower. I didn't hate him, though I remember within his dialog he said something negative about his own personally, so at least the character is aware of himself.

A thread about companions? Sounds like a good excuse to dump my opinions and characters on everybody I tried to pair off the companions with characters I thought they'd get along with. I succeeded... mostly.

• Bastian is the companion for my main, who is a somewhat chaotic people-loving do-gooder dragonknight. They make perfect sense together to me, I love them. For this reason Bastian is my favorite companion, even though as some have already mentioned some of his companion dialogue makes no sense and/or is trying to be deep and philosophical but failing. Questline Bastian >> companion Bastian, but companion Bastian is still pretty great.
• Mirri hangs out with my sassy dunmer templar. My partner had her with a more serious character, and all her snark just came off as whining and made her unlikable. With my character, though, it comes off as playful banter, and she's pretty fun to hang out with
• Sharp is bros with my chill orc arcanist who mostly wants to study and be left alone. He didn't fish much before meeting Sharp, but found that it was a good way to spend hours lost in his thoughts while still doing something "productive". Sharp is super chill and it's pretty great.
• Azandar is the hype man for my conniving megalomaniac oakensorc who thinks she's Padomay's gift to Nirn. He doesn't disapprove of any of the evil things she does, and has been layering on the compliments since they first met, so she likes having him around. She just laughs when he's uncomfortable with riding somewhere or picking mushrooms.
• Ember's an interesting one, she's with my hircine-worshipping werewolf Reachman. I know, I know, Ember hates werewolves. To be fair, he worships primarily the bear aspect of Hircine and would be a werebear if ESO mechanics allowed that, and Ember's problem with werewolves seems to be more the 'wolf' than the 'were' part. They kind of see themselves as the civilization and wilderness version of each other: Ember has traditional magic and street smarts while my character has nature magic and a connection to the land. They learn from each other and respect each other's skills. Plus my character thinks that Ember is awfully cute

Then there's Isobel. I tried to pair her with my PvP character because they're both generally good-aligned and hopelessly gay, but as it turns out that isn't a good basis for a friendship Especially after my character sacrificed her soul to become a vampire for the Good of the Dominion (aka the undeath passive lol) and Isobel started passive aggressively praying loudly for her whenever she fed on a bandit. I'm not sure why Isobel's constant references to Stendarr bother me. I liked Erandur in Skyrim, and he was a priest of Mara that talked about Mara all the time. Maybe I just need to make a new character that she'll get along better with.