You have GOT to be kidding me! (about the derp companions)

[Skuld]

Is better to avoid the soldiers cause if u're engaged by them after receiving the podling, maybe they take it and u will fail the quest. If u listen what the sylphs says u'll see that u can speak with the ones on the way to receive a spell that allow u to cross through the solidiers without agro. The NPC dont agro the soldiers so take care to follow him too much close.

[LillithaFenimore]

I can't really do that because she'd like it... so it wouldn't technically be punishment... :/

Yeah I have noticed my companion is a bit naughty as well...and likes both sexes! WOW! LOL Good for her! SIlly kitteh!

[miqokini]

Yeah I have noticed my companion is a bit naughty as well...and likes both sexes! WOW! LOL Good for her! SIlly kitteh!

Haha yeah. Like the one in the Miner's guild. If you're a female character and talk to her, she says something along the lines of, "Don't be shy. Two ladies can have fun, too."

xD

[Davorok]

What was lame, is not having a earring to call them in the open world to grind with you. LAME!

...and let us call them for Dungeon Runs too.

[odintius]

I'd thought there be more to them but guess not.

[LateReg]

I remember when I had to do it, and when me and the companion were walking to the finish, he glitched off of the cliff. Just walked and fell right off the side and couldn't even just re-position himself back. Was awesome to have to repeat the whole thing again.

[Trigger]

Just the other day was doing the mission "The bell Toles" or something like that for Ul'dah. The quest has you get some beastmen to stop fighting by damaging them below 20% hp and then they run off. Was on the very last one and my companion decided it was a perfect time to use their weapon skill right after it started to run off causing it to go into invincible mode. Jerk caused me to fail cause of that.

[Irana]

Ok, now I'm extremely mad. Just retried. Got the hang of it this time. Didn't realize you are supposed to follow them, not vice versa. Still annoying, because she stops every 20 feet, runs back 5 feet, then continues (repeat process the entire way).

So, I get ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF THE QUEST, AND THEN FOR NO REASON WHAT SO-EVER, I FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I seriously almost punched a hole in my wall.

WTF!?!?!?

I realize the first time was partially my fault, but this time my companion was RIGHT EFFING NEXT TO ME WHEN I FAILED!!!!! HOW THE FUCK!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?

You know you can just...target your companion..lock on...and auto-run to auto-follow? that quest is so stupid you dont need to do anything at all.

[KitCat]

I just did that mission yesterday and it was damned annoying. I didn't fail but got pretty close on time. Anyway:

My opinion of "Companions" so far is pretty grim. I was a HUGE fan of FFXI's adventuring fellow npc. I spent hours upon days upon weeks levelling her to max level, doing her own, interesting quest line, spending hours working on getting the gear setup I wanted her in locked into place.

You could call them to hang around and fight/heal while you solo'd, or grab 3 people and do something harder with 3 npcs.

right now it's just some weak, annoying escort quests with an NPC who has terrible AI and poor terrain navigation.

At least FFXI did it right as far as im concerned. And from most of the people in this thread, it'd be hard to get much worse than what we have now.

So as much as I see people hating on similarities to FFXI, and as biased as I am towards the only MMo i've ever been able to get attached to, do a revamp of "Companions" and take the ideas from ffxi :P

Just my preference anyway

[Morticous]

i beat this mission first try.