A love letter to my fav group so far (1 hire, rest NPC's)

[QuiteGoneJin]

Me, Lady of Pain no recovery build. the wait for charge is a hellish slog but worth it, I love estocs and boreal dwarves plus bartender ring and kith enchant (thanks Boeroer) is amazing through the early to mid game.

 

I immediately hired a priest, I like Durances attitude and story but I hate hate HATE priests with low dex. So much so that I wiull only consider him if I have a priest PC, with high dex. 

 

Eder; I am a newly budding voice actor with a decently varied and deep voice so Matt Mercer is a huge inspiration. I I only wish the video game industry was bigger in Toronto so I didn't have to settle for cartoon's, anyway. His interaction with my next npc is lovely too. PS I also have a habit of letting Eder meet and comment on every pet (Cat, Dog etc) to make him happy.

 

Hiravias: built right hes a great bow using back line with sick aoe spells and if someone gets through to my backline his Stelgar form with specced wildstrike hits so damn hard, super satisfying. Loved the Wayfarer's hide on him. Him and Eder love to chat, and I love to listen.

 

Aloth: Matt also does this voice, his stats are serviceable and wizards are insane especially once they get the black pages. I don't mind his story and I could have hired a better wiz but again Eder's admiration for Aloth's... less classy side is also fun.  Ok, i'm noticing a pattern

 

My Hire; a fire priest, I went with the Mecwyn variation cause I like the scepter and putting Envenomed strike on a wood elf high might priest is also a blast for when fire won't do.  http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/86277-class-build-fire-priest-ranged-sup-offdps/ Sorry Durance.

 

And last of all the Juggernaut build on Zahua; this old stoner is hilarious too. once you get lvl 9 ish you could even put him on aggressive and just let him go he's that full (and fool) proof.

 

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/82367-class-build-the-juggernaut-a-heavy-armored-monk/

 

 

Heavy melee group, great aoe and cc, can be very tanky, lots of fun story. Love it, starting to think this game is more about Eder then the MC however.

Edited January 20, 2017 by QuiteGoneJin

[zeldagaiden]

For me, the real flavour is them talking to eachother :D It's the only thing I miss in full hires runs...

[rheingold]

Well Eder, Aloth and a lesser extent grieving mother tie into the story really well. And they are great companions, so I am really looking forward to pillars especially as the devs are hinting (not very subtlety) that Eder and Aloth will have something to do with the sequel. Who knows, maybe their va has been recruited again, in fact it is likely. Not sure how far you are, but the character aldhelm has just about the best voice acting I've heard in a game. He is superb. No idea who he is though.