COMPANIONS
A new NPC, Vangela, has come to Town! She will help you create and manage Companions, new AI-controlled allies with all the same customization options as you. Create your perfect combat partner, or the perfect full squad!
Companion Customization
- Can equip any gear they meet level requirements for
- All Talents
- Full Utility Flask Customization
Companion AI
Companions are versatile allies capable of using:
- Any skill, including Supers and defensive abilities like Block, Guard, Crimson Rush, Riposte, and Blinks
- Health Flasks
- Utility Flasks, with dynamic decision making based on current flask effects and combat situations (conservative during normal encounters, all-out during boss fights)
- Dodge Rolls
Misc. Companion Info
- You can use (Shift + 1/2/3/4) to quickly control new tabbed menus (Equipment, Talents, Flasks)
- Companions in your party will scale up enemy health just as in normal multiplayer (about +80% additional health per ally)
- Companions do not generate any additional loot, but they will pick up their own Health Flask, Utility Flask, and Super Orb drops
- Magic Find on Companions has no effect, but it is effective to run Magic Find yourself and have your Companions do the killing
- Companions will teleport to you on meditation or if they are far away when combat starts
- Companions can be resurrected on death
- Companions will attempt to resurrect you at the end of combat if necessary
- You can toggle a Companion's aggression in Town by right-clicking on their party portrait. This only works while in Town.
- All companions created by Hardcore characters will also be Hardcore. Hardcore characters can only recruit Hardcore Companions.
ENEMIES
The original spider enemy has been replaced with a new model
FIXED
- Fixed enemies becoming faster than normal after becoming frozen
- Spire of Teurok will now spawn with a usable projectile skill that can benefit from its effect
- Fixed skills sometimes becoming unusable in Town after talking to a merchant