Change the lost warrior escort reward?

[Frumple]

Specifically the tree it gives, combat training. It's been noted a couple times in the forum, but the reward is an outright trap -- it gives you combat training at .7 mastery and locked. This is compared to the lost hope sword shop, which only costs 50 gold and gives you combat training unlocked and at 1.0 mastery. If you get combat training from a lost warrior, then buying it from last hope only unlocks the tree, leaving it .3 mastery below par.

It seems to me the best thing to do here would be to change the reward tree -- or have it do exactly what the last hope shop does, but that'd make lost warriors the odd one out in how escort trees functioned. Despite it being locked on a first level warrior, I suggest Field Control (Disengage, track, heave, slow motion) as their reward talent. It's considerably less boring, and more in line with the other escort reward trees.

Alternately, change them to be more like lore masters -- instead of a tree, offer a point in every combat training talent (except, perhaps, thick skin -- that'd be a little too much of a no-brainer, heh.). If it went this way, there would have to be care taken to make sure it doesn't set the player's combat mastery to .7, though. It currently does this if you take a combat training talent -- but not the tree -- before you actually get combat training. Unless, that is, you have a hidden mastery, like the golems. The player doesn't, so far as I know.

[edge2054]

Field Control is nice but I suggest the new Conditioning tree

Let the warrior still teach exotic weapon mastery since this is the only place in the game to learn it (right?). But replace his other two talent offerings with the new Vitality and Unflinching Resolve outlined in this thread http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=3 ... 4&start=30

Otherwise yeah, something else would be good for all the reasons Frumple pointed out.

[Aquillion]

It's bizarre that the sage escorts teach disarm and the warrior doesn't.

An escort that teaches Track, though, would be incredibly nice; it's a talent that absolutely everyone could get some use out of (well, fine, except maybe some Cursed with Preternatural Senses.)