The Companions Update

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