Real NPC Companions

[Jinrya-Geki]

I hope we can have a companion like in FFXI. I found it an entertaining to do the quests to fight with an NPC and fight her at the end It gave me something to do when I had nothing to do.

I also found it cool to level them up to get the cool items/gear.

Wonder if they will be implemented again.

If implemented I'd hope they give us the option to pick how our npc looks like, not like the choices we have been given to pick an already created NPC. Let me choose the hair, height, hair color. Let me make it any class I chose, by buying a weapon and giving it to them.

I miss having an Elvaan woman to keep my company on those cold lonely nights as I try to unlock Atonement and Drakesbane.

For those who don't know from not playing FFXI. At one point you could start a quest where you could gain a companion. You could choose their size, hairstyle and personality. After completing the first part of the quest you get an iem called a signal pearl.

With the pearl you could summon the npc you made to fight with you. Fighting certain mobs allowed you npc companion to equip certain armor. Not only could they gain certain armor, but weapons as well. The thing about the weapons though is that they were limited to certain weapons from a specific list, but were A with all weapons.

After training with them long enough you could choose their playstyle as well. An Npc companion could become a healer, or more of a melee, or a tank type.