Grieving Mother as non-playable, roleplay only party member?

[Ambrose1918]

Hello.

 

Playing PoE on Path of the Damned, Ironman and Specialist in my first run and trying to get as much from roleplaying as possible I have come with conclusion, that Grieving Mother, while being an amazingly awesome roleplaying elemnent of the game, is a terrible party member.

 

First, she has bad stats, which has been pointed out many, many times. But you know, thats not most important, I could live with that.

The problem is: I cannot find ANY way of fitting her into a fighting role without great harm to her roleplaying aspect. She is not any kind of warrior to be honest, she was a nurse. If ciphers could just cast their abilities without fighting, that would make SOME sense for Grieving Mother, not much anyway though. In her fluff she is basicaly ignored by everyone and doesnt interact with people.

 

On the other hand, I want to have her by my side all the time because of her impact on various events and dialogues.

Would it be possible to turn her into a non-fighting companion? Something like your pet, which follows you and sometimes causes interactions with party members (Eder has many sweet interactions with the dogs you can have as pets), and in her case- takes part in dialogues and events?

It would be lovely if she would not occupy party slot. Not because I want to have 6 fighting chars, I just want to have 7 talking characters in my party ;).

[ripple]

I am playing on hard difficulty, also a first playthrough, and I find her a great damage dealer. In fact, she apparently holds the record for the highest single target damage in the party (my character is a fighter, party is level 8 at the moment).

 

I gave her a fine arquebus (or maybe she started with one...don't remember), put her in light armour. She basically fires and charges up her "cipher mana" (whatever it's called...), then I spam mind binding on the AI casters and bosses so they basically sit out the entire battle. But I do agree with you that her stats suck--I gather that's intentional, since she is an RP companion, and most RP companions don't have min/max power stats.

Edited November 21, 2015 by ripple