Engineer Companion

[:P]

I've been in a few sieges with my Engineer Companion. Her skill doesn't seem to level up when attempting seiges. I even increased her Engineer Focus.
Has anyone had success with this?

 

[Lord Irontoe]

Have you assigned her to the Engineer clan role? I think that's necessary or else her skills won't even apply.

 

[TurtleFactz]

They have to be assigned to the engineer clan role AND make sure their engineer skill isn't capped due to a lack of focus points in the skill/intelligence.

Easy to level up companions these days if the latter is the case.

 

[:P]

Yeah she was assigned the role and not capped. The weird thing is, after a few more sieges, both my main character and her are getting Engineer skill points.

I don't get it :S, do both their points contribute to the speed of the siege? Is there any type of feedback to know my companion is increasing the speed of the siege?

 

[rowyerboat]

I've noticed the same thing

 

[ShaunTheGoat]

Yeah she was assigned the role and not capped. The weird thing is, after a few more sieges, both my main character and her are getting Engineer skill points.

I don't get it :S, do both their points contribute to the speed of the siege? Is there any type of feedback to know my companion is increasing the speed of the siege?

The companion member's engineer skill will only increase after you complete the siege time and construct the siege project. However, the main character's engineer skill will increase when you are waiting for the siege time.

If you always start the fight as soon as completing the siege time but not construct any siege projects then your member's skill will not increase.

 

[Bob Gnarly]

I'm pretty sure this is bugged, it's been submitted to the dev team. Every other role works fine except for engineer.

Instead of using my dedicated engineer companion for sieges, it uses my player character who has 0 engineer skill and has no role set. My dedicated engineer who is assigned the engineer role does not level up whatsoever.

 

[:P]

Alright, thanks guys.

I now know how it works and that it's broken.

 

[Bramborough]

Even if it did work as it's supposed to (and certainly appears that's not the case), Engineer still seems quite lackluster in its perks and siege speed bonuses.

I still have an Engineer companion/role in my party just in case some mechanic appears which shows I'm wrong, or if they patch in an Engineer rework. But I'm about 90% to the point of deciding it's just not worth a companion slot. Probably better off with an extra caravan or party leader...or even just a good fighter in the ranks with no special role.