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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

I upgraded my guy with a lot of stuff and now I'm trying to understand something. My main Pawn, Tron, will gain experience. But the other two I have won't gain anything, and essentially I just need to upgrade to a better one eventually, right? Also, I figured out that the people in the weird rift stone world are characters from my friend's list. Cool stuff actually.

Yeah normally I would go back and recruit new pawns pretty frequently. If they are even a few levels behind your character it will be pretty easy to notice. Also if you use the stone you can 'search' for companions. It's usually a good idea to filter by the class you want (like search for mages) and check the box for characters with "good defense". After that I'd pick the five with the abilities that seemed useful, and the game summons them all into the space where you can examine them and decide who to recruit.

You can also search for pawns that are ABOVE your own level, but it costs rift crystals to summon them and you probably don't have very many of those yet. There is a little bit of 'insurance' that you get by doing this. If you recruit a higher level pawn, they'll be useful to keep around for a bit longer without needing to replace them. And they'll be stronger in the short term.

With that being said, it's very easy to simply go back and replace your low level pawns. Especially at the start of the game when all of the quests are near the city or encampment. I do remember recruiting higher level pawns sometimes before heading off on what I knew was going to be a long journey.

Pawns will also have their own level of knowledge regarding enemy types, specific quests, etc. They gain experience by actually going on quests and fighting monsters, and you can check this information on their sheet before recruiting them. I always thought it was more useful to get a mage with healing, a weapon buff, and an offensive spell. You'd be surprised at how many don't have all three of those things. I'd put a priority on that before recruiting someone with quest knowledge. A lot of the striders and rangers look the same and have almost the exact same stats and builds, so normally I'd just summon whichever one had the coolest name or appearance.