Recruiting Choices

With all of them, if you want to specialize in their skill, knight enchanter ect, then you will have to buy the skills book at a store in Val Royeaux over just picking them up at the companion areas.

Also, with Sera, you will miss bees. But that's about it with her, she is pretty inconsequential to the game. I'm betting the same with Blackwall. I don't know about Iron bull due to Trespasser.

Sera can be dismissed, so you could theoretically grab the bee recipe and then kick her out. I can't imagine the Jennies would take that too kindly, though.

Nothing will happen, it's more about missed content. All of those have war table missions that only trigger if you have recruited that follower. If you don't recruit all four of them, you will notice considerably fewer WT operations as the game goes on.

But if you don't care about Vivienne not becoming divine (the largest issue), you don't take them anywhere as part of your regular crew, and don't want to be bothered with talking to them occasionally, then not recruiting them won't be any sort of loss.

I don't know for sure, but I don't believe Iron Bull will show up in the confrontation in Trespasser if you don't recruit him. Frankly, it just doesn't make sense. If you don't recruit him, then he doesn't actually betray you. There is no reason for him to be there in that case. What is he going to say? "Yo. Remember me? I'm that merc you refused to hire over three years ago."


Think of it this way: they're optional for a reason. If it were going to mess up your game, they wouldn't be optional.

What happens? The game is shorter. I did a playthrough with only Solas, Varric and Cassandra. When I did trespasser, Dorian was on the roster even though I got rid of him in the main game. I just used Varric and Cassandra for the dlc.

He shows up in the dlc because he's the trevinter ambassador. I don't recall much about what he says. I know he's on the roster and shows up with the others in the scene with everyone standing side-by-side. I would guess he's put on the roster because Solas is gone and  he would fill the role of a mage if the Inquisitor isn't one

There's nothing that changes besides missed content with Blackwall not being recruited - hell, my last Inquisition run, I didn't even turn him down, I completely ignored him and so far as the game was concerned, he didn't exist. Sure, Leliana asked the Inquisitor to seek him out, but she has nothing to say if you don't or if you turn him down.

I honestly got bothered with Dorian being positioned among the Inner Circle in that final shot when he wasn't recruited. It just feels like him intruding on a moment that he doesn't belong it. I didn't recruit him in my last game either, having my issues with him reach a point where I just didn't want to deal with him. I understand that it's a game mechanics issue trumping things, but the fact still is, my Inquisitor said 'I don't want you as part of the Inquisition,' and in that final moment, he gets to join in anyway.

Ah, nice to know!

Can I have a link? I like the man too much to be mean to him.