Talk:Adventuring Fellow
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Familiarity through Quests
I added a line about certain quests increasing Adventuring Fellow Familiarity based on my personal observations. I had been in possession of two tactics manuals for a week, waiting until I could complete Chameleon Capers for the third one and to be able to teach them to my NPC, and so I have been monitoring my Familiarity very carefully. Two days ago I was given the option to lock a piece of equipment and Luto gave me the 5th weapon upgrade message, meaning I was at Level 60. Over two days I used two Signal Pearl charges and called my NPC twice from a Rendezvous Point, putting me at 64. Then a conquest tally passed, and so I activated Investigations of the Emptiness.
After completing the quest, I checked the head gear options and saw that I had been given the 4th upgrade, putting me at 65. I then completed the Chameleon Capers quest. At this point my NPC was Lv48, and so I used three tactics pearl charges to obtain level 50, and in each use of the Tactics Pearl my NPC stayed out for only 20 fights, suggesting I was not yet Familiarity level 70. I then completed the Picture Perfect quest, and subsequently went to Jeuno and spoke to Luto, who gave me the Blessed Radiance quest. Since I started from Familiarity level 65, and got +3 from each Tactics Pearl charge, this means I must have either gotten +2 from Blessed Radiance, or +1 from each of Chameleon Capers and Blessed Radiance, respectively. I assume the latter is the most likely scenario since nothing else is known to give more than one Familiarity increase, so I added that information to the page.
Another possibility is that when your NPC is summoned to fight alongside you in a quest, that action is what increases Familiarity. The best way to test this would be to intentionally fail a quest several times and check how that affects Familiarity.
-Suiram 04:36, 28 July 2008 (EDT)
