Guild Wars 2

A new feature at character creation. When you make your character – or the next time you login for established characters – design your very own NPC companion using the same character creation system as your current one, with the added addition of a limited list of armor skins.

You meet this companion during an upcoming Living Story chapter and they appear alongside you in all future living story missions. Once you have met them, you also have the option of bringing them into any Personal Story missions.

Also, you can dictate their role and that changes them through presets. Full set of customizations:

Appearance, Class, Race, and Gender – just like your character

Friend, Love Interest, or Rival

A few personality type presets that affect dialogue

Build can be customized at any time.

I really feel like this should be a thing….

It would make for a more interesting npc than the ones we got in the personal story.

But I have an alternative idea: Make a party member fill in the role of companion. That way, if you bring friends along, they dynamically fill in the spots that otherwise boring npc’s would take.

you can pick a companion npc for the Charr Storyline, sadly they only stick around for the first 2 arcs, then you leave to join an Order and they stay behind to manage the warband for you.

There was something similar to this in GW1, the Mercenary Hero. It would allow you to bring along one of your other characters as an NPC party member. I would love if I could get all my characters in one party and run dungeons, that’d be some cool stuff… however, I don’t think that would ever happen.