In DA:2 (Hawkes) story. Companions could be set up to use health, stamina, and lyrium potions when it fell to a certain level, like 30% or lower. However, I don't see it implemented in this game, which I don't understand either. Comps should be allowed to use potions automatically if they need to. Must have been an oversight.
@Star_King1977; "Health" potions are the only ones companions will use automatically. All other use of potions, tonics, or grenades must be manually initiated directly by the player. Almost everyone agrees that the AI for DAO, and even DA2, was far superior to that in DAI.
The "stripped down options" may be a result of the change to the Frostbite game engine. Maybe as the BioWare team(s) get more familiar with it they'll figure out how to implement something more complex. (We can hope...)
