What is the huge deal with companions, i am a new ranger, but all i keep hearing is how companions are useless. You have to find one, feed it, pet it, burp it, tuck it in at night, and cook it breakfast. But what does a companion do for us thats USEFULL. Warrior mages get familiars, empaths get their creepy avengers, and moon mages get some sort of shadowling creatures. They barely do any upkeep AT ALL on their critters but can use them for as much or more functions then ours. Can we use companions in battle? Can our companions drag our bodies back to the guild? can they do anything besides be very annoying and whine all the time, causing us to concentrate more on THEM then on our training, whilst also having to carry food around for them. From the information i have been given our companions are useless. Rangers in all forms have been known to be "one with nature" calling on animals to assist them or commune with. We get a racoon and a wolf? What about bears, hawks, lynx, badgers, anything. We are the MOST intune with nature as far as guilds go but warrior mages have better picks than we do.
I guess all im saying is more variety would be nice, and less high maintenance creatures, they arent dumb, raccoons and wolves have been finding their own food for years, why not switch over to a "treat" system to train them, where if they do something "good" they are given a treat.

I appologize for the negativity in my earlier post. But everyone is talking about the NEW system and all the changes but i haven't heard word ONE about a RELIABLE companion system. Though it may not happen id like to see more variety in the companions, LESS maintenance or at least some that makes sense, and MORE actions and activities from the companions. You literally pull your hair out babying some wild animal for what, animal lore? id rather fish. I say give us something to be proud of instead of whiny fluff pets. We're suppose to be the nature dwellers not the warrior mages.

Companions are as useless today as they were they day they got released.

Perhaps moreso now, since we've had some 10 odd years to identify bugs that still haven't been fixed.


Welcome to Rangering!



No Ranger Stands Alone.

>really like being able to track people down with em

I believe that should remain.


- GM Sithix

just wanna say, anyone who doesn't like sithix deserves to be punched in the nose.

~Purnay
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

no she just kills puppies, so make sure the new ones stay away from her

~Purnay
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

>Sithix, really glad you are watching, even if they don't let you play with your ranger coding.

That's coming to an end soon. Also I never totally stopped, just slowed to a crawl. :P

Actually I'm focusing on better puppies for you to kill shortly at close to 100% effort. Except...

Well, anyway, I am looking to get together a list of the certainties about Companions that I can actually tell you. Soon hopefully, even though it will be a short list.


- GM Sithix

It's nice to see a moderator actually has responded to my first post in these forums. I really dont care what the list is on companions or how short it is, its still an improvement. But as said before just mull over the huge pile of complaints about companions.