Talk:New Game Plus/@comment-115.134.181.168-20130824010053/@comment-202.188.45.98-20130910104131

Don't just "ignore" them, I did and still got some other guy, merely because I did a quest involving him. Make sure to lower the affinity of whoever you interact with, at least the first time meeting them. For people you see repeatedly, like vendors, just unsheath your weapon every now and then before talking to them.

I still didn't get the LI I wanted, despite giving them the Arisen's Bond YET AGAIN, despite gifting them, etc. Affinity is not equal, some NPCs' affinity appears to shoot up a lot even if you only meet them for all of two quests (i'm not bitter... really...). Meh, it's not entirely wasted effort, you can go do the quests you missed the first time, iirc there's a nice achievement (gold trophy?) for doing so. Plus you'll realise the storyline quests are actually fairly short once you know what to do and what quests you can ignore, and you can shortcut several of them by turning in forged duplicates of the item they want (iirc only one storyline quest even needs this, so you can simply just not do those other quests).