Ring bonuses for companions no longer proc.

lordmalak

So the +5 rings that we get will no longer be able to recieve bonuses on companions sucks oh so bad. I had to farm those forever to get those. They better let me trade them for companion rings or I'm done with neverwinter. I have grinded for months and months to get those things and now they are gone in the next Mod the cloak asc. What a joke if all your going to do is give us something and take it away. What's the point of grinding this game is becoming less and less fun when all you do is take it away. So basically Neverwinter is telling me we don't care go F**** yourself. Not cool at all, because now if I grind for something I'm going to have to worry it's going to be taken away. It's on the PC release notes if you haven't read it already.

neverburnaclown

Kinda old news. Time to start going jewelcrafting for the personalized rings or farming fbi/msva. Or farmig the new area for the new companion stuff.

Putting the underdark rings on a con artist or a lilend was already kinda 'yeah gonna be patched'

Maybe now i can stop hearing about having a high dexterity every 2 minutes.

Plus, i mean, at least you HAVE plus five rings. Some of us have terrible rng in that respect.

wartailss

Armor, weapons, and items becoming phased out with a new expansion!? Never in all the MMO'S I have played has it happend where my epics and ledgendarys been made obsolete by greens on a new expansion. This is unheard of!!

oldbaldyone

wartailss#9312 said:

Armor, weapons, and items becoming phased out with a new expansion!? Never in all the MMO'S I have played has it happend where my epics and ledgendarys been made obsolete by greens on a new expansion. This is unheard of!!

Modules can hardly be considered "expansions". By my count, we have had maybe 1 expansion really, when we went from 60 to 70.

Even someone like you has to admit, things are being phased out pretty fast. In the OPs case, it is not even something being phased out - its more just evidence of poor planning and poor knowledge of how the game works by the dev team.

It took all of 5 minutes originally on preview for players to recognize that Brutality rings on Bonding pets was going to cause problems. They decided to go ahead anyways. They removed the horrendously overpowered ring out of the bunch, but left in Brutality.

At this point, players should just assume if it is super hard to get and/or overpowered, it will get nerfed pretty fast - plan accordingly.

wartailss

That is true but, we all know that we work for highest item level we can and then it gets replaced or made obsolete several months later. This is a never changing fact of all mmorpgs. I, like you, grinded my face off to just get to 3100 IL (hard work no zen bought, I know I still scrub) and in a few months 3100 IL will mean nothing, still a fact I accept and know is comming. Maybe they are moving to fast. I dunno.

shamrok

Um don't those rings have 2 slots

cattman5

If they are +4 or 5 then yes.

oldbaldyone

They still have value, just not as much. Loyal gear is better but not available. +4 rings are a decent alternative, if not as great. MSVA legendary rings drop more often than other legendary rings, and have 2 slots so they are decent and the epic ones drop like candy really.

sundance777

I assume you are referring to this statement in the patch notes:

Rings introduced by the Underdark expansion, received from Demonic Heroic Encounters, no longer apply their bonuses to companions or the player when equipped by companions.

I thought for sure on preview the PC testers verified the rings still work and the original statement sounded more like the companion will not trigger the rings on the owners. The above statement is odd, why say the part about dropping from demonic HE's? To me that sounds like the +1 and +2 rings but idk....I guess we shall find out soon enough.

ltsmithneko

Tbh im kinda surprised peeps still use Underdark rings in the back page, that rate they proc, when they proc, and how long it lasts seems utterly not worth while whenever I tested it. :P Sure you get alot of power, but it's very in-consistent.

hotlafi

I think it went live on Xbox already.

thefiresidecat

it's working fine for me.

hotlafi

I tested at the stronghold and my companions rings are procc'Ing but no stat boost. Another guildmate tested and said his were working. Idk what to think.

lordmalak

They work right now on Xbox one but when the new mod releases it will stop. My power gets high enough to compete and do some damage but after the new mod it will be broke.

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thefiresidecat

well everyone is gonna be in the same boat then

as far as the stats. iirc there was some kind of companion bug with stats. I think certain companions are bugged that way. it's probably always been like that for you. I've experienced it. I kind of thought they fixed it but maybe not.

cscriv79

ltsmithneko said:

Tbh im kinda surprised peeps still use Underdark rings in the back page, that rate they proc, when they proc, and how long it lasts seems utterly not worth while whenever I tested it. :P Sure you get alot of power, but it's very in-consistent.

The rings are great for most fights as with a good group and when you are a high IL most fights do not last very long at all, so 10 seconds of and extra 12k power with 20 seconds until next fight is great.

thefiresidecat

I use rising not sudden. rising are pretty consistent. not as huge a boost but consistent.

ltsmithneko

cscriv79 said:

ltsmithneko said:

Tbh im kinda surprised peeps still use Underdark rings in the back page, that rate they proc, when they proc, and how long it lasts seems utterly not worth while whenever I tested it. :P Sure you get alot of power, but it's very in-consistent.

The rings are great for most fights as with a good group and when you are a high IL most fights do not last very long at all, so 10 seconds of and extra 12k power with 20 seconds until next fight is great.

Aye, the proc's are never consistant even when attacking things, so ill stick with my 100% consistant back page. ^-^

mrimsogood

I don't see the point in removing the companion's ability to use and share the stats on the ring.
It's not like they where op or that everyone and their mother used them. 12k power every 30s for 10s isn't really all that bad nor good

sundance777

I agree that is odd if they do that, I get 9600 power for 10 seconds out of 30 from the ring but a continuous 14,400 from not the ring so it has to be something other than power creep.

Plus I still don't understand the wording of the underdark rings that drop from demoic HE's - idk...seems odd to state it that way unless those rings are the only ones being changed, my underdark rings came from Skirms and Dungeons...