Path Companion Discussion

I thought of this about our Path Companions back in 1.0 and how they could be improved on from the last version and from FFXI. I thought that we could have them being more customizable, akin to what we can do with the character creation in ARR. I mean, the way we had the Companions in 1.0 was just a class and character race, and there was very little to do about their appearances. Maybe in ARR us players would have more of an ability to change them up.

I'd like to make my Companion like a girlfriend to my own character. Hopefully if we can have them out for a longer period of time, it would be different than from FFXI. I remember mine only staying out and fighting with me for 15 minutes. That was such as waste :(

I want to lock my path companion in the basement of my hou...

oh right I was told not to share that stuff... lol

I want a moogle companion >.>/ - wandering the Thanalan wastelands with my moogle riding my chocobo.. !


But for the current path guys I'd like to be able to have them try to chat with me through mail, linkshells, and dialog as we do stuff (not count the cutscenes but like actually chatting while doing things like you'd find in mass effect, or one of those bioware games lol - I want to see my chocobo peck my path companion or something).

Hey, this fun little subject. In general I'd like to see NPCs as something far larger in ARR. It's never been capitalized upon in any MMO, and while I can't say it'd be worth the time costs without an elegantly formed finger of the larger whole pointing at its different possibilities, it does seem lucrative.

Wouldn't have to stop at path companions either. We've got our fellow guild-members, both AI and PCs. It always suprised me that the quests didn't more often step from those NPCs themselves, and perhaps with their own set of semi-automatically generated missions or quests that might even have an NPC laughing his head off at my utter failure compared to a fellow PC guildmate on my friend's list and still within the same sort of level tier/ladder/rank/period of guild questing.

"MMOs are so players can interact" doesn't leave you with story situations when your friend has gone missing out there somewhere, unable you to contact you, in danger, and probably with limited time left. These things do not occur to those who simply send you a tell and ask for help gathering from or hunting around a dangerous zone, which is about the only reason a PC would ever get themselves stuck out anywhere. Especially until 'quests' become something more than journals and triggers and xp rewards, something we pursue for ourselves, our own needs in story, NPCs provide an access method into a large part of the FF feel that PCs cannot.

My three cents, spent.

Edit: Need IX Moogle couriers for humorous letters and hints on world events.

Path companions are gone for 2.0.

I'd prefer a motley crew with some customization controls. Like along your journey you get the chocobo to start. Then maybe at around 25-ish a moogle joins you on your adventures as an available companion. At 35-ish you get your path companion/adventuring fellow (with whom you have a romance option). At 48-ish you can train one of your retainers to fight alongside you.

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

Path companions are gone for 2.0.

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They said they -may- be brought back, much later. lol

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

Edit: Need IX Moogle couriers for humorous letters and hints on world events.

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Yes please XD. I want a moogle buddy >.<

Plus I think its a good way to make him the Jiminy Cricket (kingdom hearts) of FFXIV. For the tutorials, and when they do that smart phone app they can put him as the little guy talking to you and helping you manage your garden and what have you.

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

Path companions are gone for 2.0.

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It was said that they will return in ARR at a later date.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

They said they -may- be brought back, much later. lol

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Hopefully they can time in some fairly deep lore around the same time as they bring them in. Path companions will then go from being the introduction into the complexity of an era too late to save to being the late-comers with understanding. Playing on that difference a bit could be pretty fun too. I just hope the world won't seem basically defeated by level cap. There should definitely be some things out there only a very, very skilled level-capped player can solo, and a lot to make an intense party fight from, and some things with crushingly higher strength. The world still shouldn't give a shit about you the player in that it still has its majesty, bows to none. Not sure if I've explained that very well, but I hope I at least got the gist across...

Yoshi said he wants to bring back NPC companions later on, in a way that allows you to summon them for help whenever you like, kind of like Chocobos or FFXI's NPC Fellows.

Ahhh yes... our Path Companions. Mine is likely to give me a long sarcastic speech about abandonment when next we meet.

I had the witty female Lalafell Shantotto build and it'll be great to eventually get them back so we can upgrade their gear and level them up (hopefully) like we could with our FFXI NPC Fellows.

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Originally Posted by Ramesses

Ahhh yes... our Path Companions. Mine is likely to give me a long sarcastic speech about abandonment when next we meet.

I had the witty female Lalafell Shantotto build and it'll be great to eventually get them back so we can upgrade their gear and level them up (hopefully) like we could with our FFXI NPC Fellows.

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Mine 'ad th' good ol' Limsa 'abit o' 'avin copious 'postrophes. It's like a bloody game o' Wheel o' Fortune!

They said path companion are gone but they be redo the system to allow them to be use in party like how FFXI had npc you could summon.

i miss adventuring fellows from XI.

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Originally Posted by Rau

i miss adventuring fellows from XI.

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I -really- miss my XI fellow Fhig. I did sooo much with her, worked really hard and managed to get her to 65. She was amazingly helpful and I loved that we could chat. The quest line with it was pretty great and eventually a NPC allowed us to buy gear,jobs, attitudes, headpeices, weapons and even wedding attire for the time I spent summoning her out. I would be the happiest cat in the whole wide world if I could have this NPC fellow back in my game.

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Originally Posted by Kyri

I -really- miss my XI fellow Fhig. I did sooo much with her, worked really hard and managed to get her to 65. She was amazingly helpful and I loved that we could chat. The quest line with it was pretty great and eventually a NPC allowed us to buy gear,jobs, attitudes, headpieces, weapons and even wedding attire for the time I spent summoning her out. I would be the happiest cat in the whole wide world if I could have this NPC fellow back in my game.

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I miss Liabelle, my naive female Elvaan companion as well. While there's not much that I remember fondly from FFXI, fighting against her in the Clash of the Comrades quest was one of the few exceptions. Duelle the Red Mage vs Liabelle the Red Mage was fun.

If I were to assign customization options, I would definitely go the route of classes, a LOT more face options for companions as well as hair options. Rather than random reload intro screens like what was done with path companions in 1.0, I'd make the quest revolving around a crime scene and having someone "sketching" a suspect description (could even make it a Hyldibrand quest while we're at it), which then is used to create your path companion/adventuring fellow.