Best Companions for Story/Dialogue?

[Messier-31]

18 hours ago, 3x0du5 said:

I was pleasantly surprised when Konstanten who was awfully quiet for most of the base game started talking a lot in SSS, also he has killer line that happens in Beast of Winter when dragon resurrects    

Spoil-tag me the line, please?

Edited September 10, 2019 by Messier-31

[MedicineDan]

I just started playing Deadfire and I get a real kick out of the dialogue.  I especially like Edér's input.  The various interactions that show approval or amusement are funny.  I guess sometimes a bit on the nose and sometimes a bit overdone.  I'm hoping some of my companions have a better poker face, but I really enjoy what I've seen so far.  The funny Edér moments are truly well done and the voice actor does a great job.  I'm kind of wondering if Edér and Aloth end up with that weird love triangle in two bodies like the first game, but I don't want to be spoiled.  I'm still pretty early in the game right now.  I only have five companions:  Edér, Xoti, Aloth, some orlan cipher character, and this dwarven chanter.

I have a question, though. When I recruited the dwarf, the tutorial popped up to tell me he didn't get his own quests or some such.  For my particular style, I think I'd rather have an enchanter than a cipher, but I don't want to miss dialogue or fun.  What exactly is the difference if I switch in the dwarven chanter for one of the others?  I'd hate to lose Aloth for sentimental reasons, but my main is a wizard already.  I really should have multi-classed or alternate classed Aloth.  Ugh.

[bugarup]

On 9/18/2019 at 8:43 PM, MedicineDan said:

I have a question, though. When I recruited the dwarf, the tutorial popped up to tell me he didn't get his own quests or some such.  For my particular style, I think I'd rather have an enchanter than a cipher, but I don't want to miss dialogue or fun.  What exactly is the difference if I switch in the dwarven chanter for one of the others?  I'd hate to lose Aloth for sentimental reasons, but my main is a wizard already.  I really should have multi-classed or alternate classed Aloth.  Ugh.

The dwarf is a sidekick, meaning he has no dialogue input in the main game (he has in one of the DLCs though). If you want a chanter, you can always class Tekehu into Theurge, he's very good at it with a benefit of being involved in the story and having a lot of stuff to say. 

Edited September 20, 2019 by bugarup

[Kaylon]

Not companions, but if you want the most talkative party you should bring along also Modwyr, Concelhaut and Nemnok (use Berath's Blessings to unlock Eder's pet slot). 

[Boeroer]

Good point. Lots of trash talk there.

If you don't have Blessing points yet or don't want to bring Edér or want to use more than two pets:

You can have 5 pets simultaneously without deactivating challenges & blessings: save your game, then type

IRoll20s

and then

UnlockPets

Which will unlock athe pet slots of all party members in this cheated instance. No surprise here.

Then reload your non-cheated save game --> still unlocked pet slots for you. The UnlockPets command gets activated globally and stays active when reloading. 

This also used to be the case with

FreeRecipesToggle

- but I was able to report that during beta (or right after release, can't remember) and it got fixed. I only recently discovered that UnlockPets has the same behavior as original FreeRecipesToggle.

That way you can have Concelhaut + Nemnok and three other pets if you wish. There are some nice little synergies possible with 5 pets. It's not OP but it does give you an advantage of course.

Edited September 21, 2019 by Boeroer
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