Black Cat | Divinity Original Sin 2 Wiki

Worth mentioning there is a gift bag feature called 'Nine Lives' which makes the cat a follower immediately and also gives you a whistle to summon it or change ownership

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Ok i find something a glitch, or a bug... The black cat will stop following you if you do a certain thing : if you go to the left of the place where Dallis and Atusa are but without triggering the death of Atusa, the black cat will, if you close enough do the stairs make a "Hissss" while looking at Dallis and if you leave, the black cat will stay there. Beware if you escape without triggering Atusa death (or fighting Dallis) the black cat will not escape with you. But for the entirety of Fort Joy, if tou go by the ladder at the right each time you have to get in or out (or just teleport to the beach and the middle place) you will be sure that the cat is alive and well. For the Teleporter quest just get out of the fort by the ladder and go close of the right (where the black cat is) and you will see Gawin make it throught, just follow him until he is still by the entrance of the hidden alcove where he say "follow me" and you know the rest.

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played the game for the 1st time after my run with stray, cos internet said you have a cat companion in the game and it was a black cat.. after a couple of days, I discovered I'm doing the murder hobo run..

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I immediately kill this cat as soon as it comes up to me.

I'm just not a cat person, lol.

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I’ve used teleport on the cat and it loses respect for you, and I also had it killed by a guard in fort joy yes it loves poison thankfully I have rain and restoration (you can heal the thing) I am a dog person so keeping this cat alive is the hardest part so far

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If only this stupid cat actually had any redeeming qualities, like give the thing like 3 in the necromancy and retribution abilities even, i've sat here rummaging through a save editor trying to find how to do it myself

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I admire your tenacity with that dang Black Cat

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Just do buddy's and Withermoore's questline path to the sewer grate

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I teleported one of my guys onto the cat accidentally (I didn't see him) and now he's dead

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After meeting high judge orivand whilst the cat was summoned, my black cat say thank you and for reuniting and after the battle end thanking me for sending his former master to death. I did one of this that trigger the upgrade dialogue, use the cat to attack the High Judge Orivand, cat never get hit/ never re-summoned and use the power of the cat (not sure which one triggered it though). Now without lingering thought he is ready to help our entire group. You can swap the cat with any of your party member now. The lingering thought of his former master prevent him (my black cat is a male :D) from unleashing his true power.

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this cat is dumb af. Runs in the middle of fights, in fire pools, poison pools, you name it. Sometimes he even eats projectiles and ends up saving your enemy. Anyways, he eventually died in some fight, good *****ing riddance!!

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I got the whistle to summon the cat but I must have pissed it off somehow. Every time I summon it with the whistle (out of combat) it becomes hostile and i have to kill it. If i summon it with the spell it's an ally, but 10 turn limit means you can't just walk around with it permanently.

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The cat seems to be Bellegar's familiar. When you escape Fort Joy and he gives you the summon skill to call him to battle, he mentions, how his master talked to him in RHYMES, you know Bellegar, the most famous rhyming wizard in Rivellon, also the most lunatic among mages, doing weird stuff with good intentions (Dragon Knight Saga). So he left the cat in Fort Joy to "protect" it, definitely sounds like good intentions, but executed terribly.

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My cat just got shot by a random guard in joy!

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This cat really loves sitting in poison.

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As soon as the cat started to follow me it immediately died because of a poison pool where Fane is. oops.

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My cat walked through the first poison puddle we found and died

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Bypass the initial encounter via ladder and the cat will patiently wait there. Quite convenient and much better than having it follow you around.

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Here I was just minding my own business while Ifan had a little 'chat' with Magister Borris and one of the archers just starts shooting my cat! What the hell!? Had to reset to before the croc fight to get it back.

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Went into the alcove and it died to the poison, dropped me claw, intestines and earth essence 1 each.

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I just now met Orivand with the familiar, having escaped previously with the cat and tested a bit.

The only thing I haven't tried is summoning the familiar before the fight and re-summoning it every time it expires during the fight until it is over and the familiar is still there. But apart from that, I had no special dialogue, and in the end, the Swap skill was unchanged, it still only worked with the summoner.

In short, for what I can tell, there is no upgrade to it. Not just by going to Orivand after escaping with the cat, at least.

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Well i lost the cat somewhere between hour 30 and 35. The problem was I exited fort joy via the sewer after killing Kniles without the cat following. You can teleport to waypoints to temporarily lose it and stop it following you, useful when talking to Buddy the dog or taking on a fight with lots of area of effect damage etc.

I THINK, If you exit fort joy and get the quest update without the cat following the cat seems to stay in it place. I stumbled on it again after hour 48 at the scaffold tower exit near Orviand. x310 y124 (I was chasing after Gawin trying to kill him).

Maybe check all the fort joy exits before you consider the cat dead, since it is a very early summon with a utility teleport ability. Sewers, Scaffolding, Docks, Bridge.

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I have a slight problem...
I killed the cat in order to speak to buddy because it would not stop following me, now the cat is dead and I think it might have been a bad idea, is it very important later on?

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If the cat dies, and you didn't reload, you don't get the opportunity to keep the cat as a familiar. but I can 100% confirm that I now have summon cat familiar on my bar. It runs away during most combat, but focus on escaping without it dying before you go back into town and complete any other quests to minimize the chances you don't lose it. Heal it when it's low health from poison, etc. and as soon as you escape with Pet Pal, it will start a conversation about it's previous owner. You have to be a good owner while it follows you in order to keep it. :)

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The cat will follow the first character to approach the area close to the Fort Joy Entrance/Atusa scene

Don't walk by the archer at the gate guarded by 4 magisters and a source hound, he will shoot the cat cause "black cats are unlucky"

For battles, summon him prior to starting a fight so he can jump somewhere and swap spots with you for kiting.

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Same problem here... how can i meet the cat again without loading again and Play everything from Start on?

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I have a problem:
After i Loaded the Game to a older save, the cat just dient wann to appear... so is there a was to Met him or do i have to Play everything again to her him?

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Is it possible to change the "object of following" somehow?

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I can confirm that you get the "Summon Cat Familiar" skill after escaping with the cat. I got it after i went through the prison, looted the prison key and entered the main floor of the keep. I went towards the dock and fought two magisters that were interrogating Han. I escaped with him by boat and had a small conversation with the cat sine i dont have pet pal and was given the skill.

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can sombody tell me how the black cat familiar upgrade works? in the notes stands that ''the cat will express gratitude for reuniting it with its previous owner and upgrade the Swap Places skill, allowing it to swap places with any member of your party'' but everytime when i use the skill and enter the room, nothing happens. same when i enter the room and the dialoge starts, nothing happens. after that the fight begins and i summon the cat and still nothing happens.

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Just box the cat in where you find the shovel with the crate up top and one found near where you came ashore.. Just dont have the red prince with you when you encounter the cat unless you want him to have it.

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This f**king cat is completely bug, he went to the fire after a combat... I recommend to go rush the outside of Fort Joy to get the skill.

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The part about it following characters with Pet Pal seems wrong. We have a multiplayer game where it did not follow our Pet Pal and instead granted someone else the skill. Forum users report something similar for single player: http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=585618
It seems completely arbitrary who gets the skill.

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