As soon as the main story “Vessel of Hatred” takes you to Nahantu, you will meet the blacksmith Rahair. He wants to introduce you to his mercenary friends, from whom you choose one person who will follow you and fight persistently by your side, and another who will appear when you perform a certain action every 20-30 seconds. While the narrative takes you on Neyrelle’s trail immediately after the opening of the new hub area in Den, We strongly recommend hitting the brakes and getting the gang together before doing anything else.
That is, do the mercenary missions first. Firstly, because narratively they are pretty good, similar in some ways Mass Effect 2‘s loyalty missions. The demon child Aldikin’s heartbreaking life after the death of his parents is the most heartbreaking of them all, and Subo is just a conniving asshole, but the winner is Varyana, a cannibalistic barbarian woman who still has a score to settle. Just a thoroughly sturdy old bird. She rules.
But secondly, the sooner you can start pumping Rapport XP into the mercenaries of your choice and improving their support skills, the better. The lower level skills for all of these people are invaluable in the later sections of the DLC. Not to mention that Rahair will eventually bring his daughter Fayira into the cave. Why is this important? So…
