Hehe it's OK man. I think any charcter that's not a fighter or warrior will be fine as long as they are like 50 or more. I've found that the dificulty kinda plateaus after you hit 70 or so. Warriors and fighters are fine for bbi after 70. My pawns pretty tanky now. I've just been using me and him for the 15 levels. He keeps the aground off me pretty well while cast spells and debunks. I'm running real low on RC atm cause I repaired all but the last riftstone in bitterblack isle. I think I used your pawn for 3/4 of Bitterblack isle and pretty much the entire main question line after meeting the duke. I only leveled so much cause I had a bunch of spare time off work. I got nostalgic playing the game and couldn't put it down the magic system in it is by far the most godly feeling magic in any game I've played. I love making massive earthquakes, and meteors. Ricochet arrow is hilariously op in bitterblack isle.

How hard is hard mode? If I'm level 70 would I be OK to try it? How's your playthrough going. I've been using your ranger quite a bit so you should be a fair bit of rift crystals. Just started NG+ and started BBI run. That Gore Cyclops is no push over. I had to use a wakestone to finish the fight with him.

Tysoyaha said: Update: Ok, so I spent my morning getting two copies of the Ring of Perseverance and Legions Might. Named her Anita and made her semi-short for good stamina recovery. I can change any of that just by restarting on hard though. Which I plan to do anyway, as soon as I'm ready to grind DP/EXP...I just wanted to set up a Portcrystal at greatwall first. So far I've just been training Mage so she's like lv12 and rank 5, iirc? Once mage is maxed I'll do Sorc for the augnents and then whatever you want. Here's the thing though...I got silentium and she uses it constantly on things that don't even use magic. Maybe we should hold off on that skill until I can train her bestiary knowledge a bit.   Btw, how do inventory items work when renting? Like...do only equipped items carry over, or would Wyrmkings ring carry over into your game? Yea i'm pretty sure it's just the equiped stuff that carries over. But when you are on New game + I think if you gift the Wyrmkings ring to someones pawn, the guy that does forges will sell another one for a heafty price. Hmm yea I can see that using silentium on a cyclops would be a bit useless lol. how about coming back to it once she gets smarter and seeing how she goes then? maybe use ingle or levin as a space saver for now? 

Sounds good man. I read somewhere the best way to train your pawn is to spec yourself the same as them and show them how too do things. Ranger sounds good for stamina man. And as far as looks I usually make my characters look like other characters from games or movies. So Triss or Yennefer from the Witcher, Morrigan from Dragon Age, Daenerys from GOT. You could even make a Dumbledore or Gandalf lol. The only limit is you imagination with DD character creator. It's really good. Um so yea not too fussed with name or gender any of those would work fine, just don't put a really squeaky high pitched voice on them lol. Thier inclinations should be to priortise healing and buffing the party and debilitating/disabling enemies. Can't quite recall the name for those. Mendicant and Mitigator?  This post was edited by Furrion 17 at January 21, 2019 2:03 PM EST

Tysoyaha said: Yea, considering the other skills you want I'll probably focus on Augments that let you cast faster/more often instead of raising magic stat. I also figure I'd give them either legions might or a rusted/golden staff...so Grapnel is probably way better than an offensive spell. If you do want to use a rusted staff then Blearing or Frazil will Torpor pretty quickly. So that could be useful. Yea Legions might is an awesome staff to have for late game. Don't have to worry about reviving if pawn gets KO'd. Um yea so go for that one. And you may as well throw in silentium because any offensive magic will be pretty meh with a low magic stat. But I've always thought of the mage as the support class anyway, if you want dps go for a sorcerer. Mystic Knight is a badass vocation. I killed the drake that hangs out in the forest near the shadow fort in like 2 or 3 hits after storing enough of his melee attacks on a demonspite, that shield skill absolutly wrecks if you know how to use it. And Holy Furor for the lols. Great cannon and full moon slash are an awesome combo too, especially if you have an enchanted weapon, thing goes off like a machine gun. And stonegrove is pretty fun as well. Mystic knight is probs my my fav class in the game, I've always liked paladins/death Knights.