Retainer Companions

[WellFooled]

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They already did something like this with the path companions. Each race and gender had their own personality and dialogue.

Something similar to path companions would be very cool and I'm sad that I missed playing ffxiv back when it was a feature. But I'm not trying to say it's too much work or can't be done, but rather that our own characters should get that extra dialog work if anything is.

There are very few instances in the game where we're given any dialog and even in those cases sometimes the characters around us give us the same responses no matter what we say. If dozens of new lines of text are going to be written for, and in response to, a character I would rather that character be us.

We designed both our own characters and our retainers, but the retainers are just extras in a movie, our characters are the star.

[Toodles]

Fair point that having the companions be unique in appearance would add to the immersion.

[Parz3val]

Something akin to SWTOR's companion-type system would be awesome.

I think I'd most prefer if the Path Companions were unique from your typical player-created characters or NPC's somehow... but I'd be okay settling with the average if we just had them!

[Duelle]

Something akin to SWTOR's companion-type system would be awesome.

I think I'd most prefer if the Path Companions were unique from your typical player-created characters or NPC's somehow... but I'd be okay settling with the average if we just had them!

You'd need to give them some sort of story without being overbearing the way it was in 1.0 (since the path companion was connected to someone from the ala mighan resistance and had personal reasons for getting involved with you).

[Fornix]

If in return I can send my chocobo out to gather. I'm pretty sure that fat bird ought to be able to catch fish just as well after all.

[TessaJalloh]

we're already outfitting them with classes and gear. I'd love to be able to bring my retainer with me in battle.

[Titor]

retainers as minor dating sim game plz.

[Toodles]

Let us date our retainers! Lol jk

[Parz3val]

I want to Eternal Bond with Crusty theClown, my Lalafell Coal Miner!

[KaedrianLiang]

My combat retainer is CaptJackSparrow. And hes always looking for a way to get off the job on hand "can i go now?"