This is something that’s on our radar. I can’t promise when it will be delivered, but I want everyone to know we were serious when we said that nerfing pets and followers would result in better balance later on.

We have long term plans to balance pet followers in such a way that they level faster and have an earlier power spike, but their health and power plateaus as they reach higher levels, and thralls are a bit more of the inverse where weak humans are very weak to start with, but as you level them up their health/power ceilings are higher because they can implement equipment. We hope to get it to a point where you don’t see pet followers as useless, but human followers will ultimately be the strongest common variation of a follower once leveled up.

Down but not out is still on our release schedule, so it will become a bit harder to lose followers accidentally when that releases as well. Its main purpose is to prevent follower losses to things that feel out of your control.

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