Changing a companion's class?

[Sjerrie]

Since Google could not help me I'm throwing it out here.

I am looking to change the class (and maybe corresponding skills and specializations) of some potential party members. There are obvious difficulties changing the Inquisitor's class, since some dialogue and plot relies on it and could cause weirdness, but if I'm correct the party members are purely referenced in game code by character.

Example 1: change Cole to a mage. His namesake was a mage and his very nature makes him flexible.
Example 2: change Bull to rogue. YES he is awesome with a 2-hander, but I'd like to see him dual wield like the spy he also is.

 

I could see a potential problem with example 2; maybe Iron Bull being a special model he has no animation for dual wielder or archery skills.

Could this at all be possible?

 

The main reason I'm actually looking for this is example 1: I need to make Cole a mage.

I want a playthrough with my non-mage Inquisitor romancing a specific mage, and this Inquisitor's outlook on humans is not super positive, especially human mages. Hence I would rather not play with Vivienne or Dorian much, and I might not even recruit them at all. That would however mean I would be lacking a mage in Trespasser, since our lover went AWOL.

I have already tried sifting through the assets, but I really have no idea where to look...

[nightscrawl]

That would however mean I would be lacking a mage in Trespasser, since our lover went AWOL.

 

 

Well no, in this case you would just have to actively ignore Dorian or Vivienne in Trespasser. I'm not sure about Vivienne, but Dorian appears regardless for exactly that reason: so players wouldn't be left mageless for the DLC.

[Sjerrie]

 

That would however mean I would be lacking a mage in Trespasser, since our lover went AWOL.

 

 

Well no, in this case you would just have to actively ignore Dorian or Vivienne in Trespasser. I'm not sure about Vivienne, but Dorian appears regardless for exactly that reason: so players wouldn't be left mageless for the DLC.

 

I would still rather avoid Dorian as well. Not only is he human, he's Tevinter.

 

Yeah, my elf has issues.

[Sjerrie]

It's been a while. Is there anything like this by now? I postponed this playthrough but the itch is becoming very real again.

 

I did in the meantime find a mod that would allow any class to do the environmental class-specific things like raising a bridge, but my initial hope remains: a mage Cole, and maybe even a rogue Iron Bull.