More Companion monsters than just Chocobo?

[LioJen]

Would you like to see more options for a companion monster other than our standard Company Chocobo?

Such as:

Wyvern (like FFXI DRG)
Drake
Tonberry
Cactuar
small Malboro
small Adamantoise

and so on, whatever you could fit within size limitations. Got this idea from playing FF Explorers and enjoying the monster party members there. They could make this a relevant feature by allowing your Companion into dungeon instances with you finally

[Savagelf]

i like see beastmaster personal

[Blazinhart]

I wish we could have Moggle companian. There's a lot of of possibilitará to do with the and they already have a lot of moogle animation

[Cidel]

Would like to see some variety for companions as well, but unfortunately the scarce times they've been asked, the response was roughly "we have no plans to add another companion any time soon because we don't want to design another levelling menu/system" and "we don't have time to animate a new companion's actions, have some more minions instead!" The latter reasoning which is odd, because many prospective companions have a lot of existing animations for both spells, abilities and anything idle.

[Lokier]

Would like to be able to use /some/ of the mounts we get as battle or following companions other than the minions tbh.
Or at least let me dye the mounts different colours like the chocobo.

[ErdrickLoto]

I'd imagine that a beastkin race would be the easiest to add in as another companion - since they're enemies, they already have casting animations, and they already have roles to use. You can even ally with them already, so a scenario at, say, max trust could be "hey, you've been a great companion, we're letting you take one of our own with us to help beat up stuff".

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Never thought about it till I saw this, but...

Marlboro Companion complete with {Bad Breath}. {Can I have it?}

Especially if you can Command it to use it on others... I just imagined using it to clear up some space in Idyllshire, and now I wanna do that.

[Enkidoh]

I've said it before and I'll continue to say it: please Yoshi, please bring back 1.0's Path Companions!

They were one of the things 1.0 actually did well - I miss my sophisticated, flirty, bisexual Moonkeeper kittygirl GLA and that every time she spoke it was a thinly veiled come-on to my character:


:3

Really though, I just miss that the Path Companions were kind of the player character's 'voice' in cutscenes - they frequently summed up exactly what the player was thinking in situations and of course were also helpful in the battles you could use them in. Please Yoshi! Please bring them back!

[Cidel]

I'd imagine that a beastkin race would be the easiest to add in as another companion - since they're enemies, they already have casting animations, and they already have roles to use. You can even ally with them already, so a scenario at, say, max trust could be "hey, you've been a great companion, we're letting you take one of our own with us to help beat up stuff".

To be honest, I'm a little disappointed that the devs didn't do anything else more with the Ashcrown Consortium that they introduced in the allied questline. If there was an established location to recruit such a companion, that would be the place to go, I'd say.

[MikeWW]

One thing I liked about Neverwinter was it had companions that would fight alongside you, there were just so many possibilities and quite fun for a while. It went completely insane after a while though, the pets were no longer just cute things to tag along and let you slightly min max more, they became P2W integral part of being effective in combat, you needed multiple of them, choose specific ones since they had broken stats, give them broken equipment, etc., not good the way it turned out.