Learning goals
- Understand companion investment.
- Understand when to rank companions.
- Understand when to add Forma or rare mods.
- Understand companion survivability.
- Avoid common investment mistakes.
Explanation
Companions can take real investment: ranking the companion, ranking companion weapons or claws, installing and upgrading mods, adding Forma, building modular components, farming category-specific mods, and choosing advanced support later. Heavy investment should follow role clarity, survival needs, and actual use.
Investment note
Do not treat one companion as permanently best for every account. Companion value depends on account stage, mission type, mods, survivability, companion weapon setup, utility needs, and current balance.
What should I do?
Before investing heavily, ask whether you use this companion often, what job it does, whether it survives, whether it needs a weapon or claw build, whether you own the required mods, whether it is easy to replace, and whether a simpler companion solves the same problem.
Common mistakes
Avoid these companion mistakes before spending resources, Forma, mods, or farming time.
- Using Forma before understanding companion role.
- Ignoring companion survivability.
- Ignoring companion weapon or claw setup.
- Building damage when utility was the reason to use the companion.
- Selling or ignoring companions before ranking them.
- Chasing rare mods before learning basic companion behavior.
- Building every companion halfway instead of one companion well.
Key Takeaways
- Companion investment should solve a role. Do not spend resources before knowing the job.
Practical task
Investment should solve a role, not follow hype.
- Pick one companion.
- Identify its role.
- Check its rank.
- Check its survivability.
- Check its weapon or claws if relevant.
- Choose one action: level first, add basic mods, improve survivability, build weapon or claws, invest later, or stop investing.
You can explain whether the companion deserves more resources.