Preview Shard and Companions

rainmantis85

If I want to test a companion on a certain character can I copy the character without the companion bound to the preview shard then bind the companion to the character copy without binding the companion to that same character in the Normal Shard? Will Companions bound in Preview remain unbound when switching back to Normal mode or do the Companion bindings carry over from the Preview Shard? I'd like to start testing out character/companion compatibility in the Preview shard before deciding to bind in the Normal Shard, but I don't want to do anything rash until I can confirm or deny the binding nature of the Preview Shard.

iambecks1

Anything you bind on the preview shard will not become bound on the live shard , so say you have a character with a unbound ioun stone on live ,if you copy that character onto test then bind the companion to the character on test it will remain unbound on live.

TLDR; Any action you take on a character on the test server will not affect the character on live .

midnightfang93

Preview and Live and completely different servers. One will not affect the other (except Live copying over your character to Preview). Nothing done in preview will affect Live.

klkcahboy90

Just think of Preview as a separate game.

When you copy your character from live, you only create a duplicate of your live character in this new game, from there on out, the 2 characters no longer have any influence or relation to each other because it is 2 different games.