I am looking for a specific companion.

dominiq666

Hi, since the Neverwinter wiki is kida trash when it comes to this and since inspecting the companion item itself reveals far less then I actually want to know, I feel I must ask the more experienced forum dwellers about companions.

I am looking for a companion that does several things.

1. has a no cooldown attack that is swift (sellsword, tief) as opposed to hard hitting (f.ex the dog attack, but that has a cd)
2a. generates combat advantage by staying in melee OR
2b. generates combat advantage trough a skill (so either melee or ranged )
3. its active bonus is something related to either HP, Armor Pen, Crit Severity or movement speed, or some other effect that achieves the same thing, f.ex. an effect that applies a slow on my target would increase my speed, relative to my target

Right now I have like 600k AD and am willing to spend 100% of it on such a companion.

Edit:

I have tried the Blink Dog and he sucks, hard. One fourth the DPS of my sellsword with no aoe.

bioshrike

I don't think you are going to find a striker with 3 defense rune slots. Though not available as a single purchase, the Erinyes of Belial, from the Scourge Warlock pack, has a main attack with a 1.2 second cooldown, gives +5% crit severity, and has 1 defensive and 2 offensive runes.

The Young Yeti companion is relatively cheap, has an attack that has no cooldown, but has 3 offense rune slots.

The Blink dog has an attack that specifically teleports it behind the enemy, its passive grants +2% combat advantage damage, its main attack only has a 1.2 second cooldown, and it has 2 offense, 1 defense rune slots.

dominiq666

The runes are optional , what I care for is attack speed -> combat advantage -> the active bonus

I will check those out , thank you.

Edit: They don't seem to be quite what I'm looking for doe.

phoenix1021

If you apgrade the blink dog to at least rare, it will also grant all around combat advantage against it's target for a few seconds. At epic quality, it gives 5% extra combat advantage damage. It's the best pet if you are all about combat advantage imo.
Zhentarim warlock has a very fast attack, but it is ranged.
Cantankerous mage gives combat advantages and can push enemies back. His storm pillar is also a pretty quick attack (1.5s cooldown)
Anyway, I don't think you will get everything you want in one companion...

dominiq666

Not everything but as close as possible ;-)

Right now, my sellsword/tief do mostly what I want , they attack fairly fast , roughly once a second and can hit multiple foes.

But their combat advantage is positional only and since they get pushed every which way / the mobs dance it not that easy to attack from combat advantage positions.

And their active bonuses suck. Hard.

dominiq666

Need a few more suggestions please ;-)

suicidalgodot

...it would maybe help if you'd tell us for which char class you'd need it.

dominiq666

suicidalgodot wrote: »

...it would maybe help if you'd tell us for which char class you'd need it.

Paladin,

-does not scale with attack power , regen , life steal , deflection (except for pvp), recovery, defense, scales poorly with crit.
-scales with (in order of impact) MOVEMENT SPEED, health, armor penetration, crit severity. <- these attributes are desirable, as I have stated in the OP

-as such I would like a companion that increases one of the desirable stats, but this is not mandatory, I can have trash companions that increase desirable stats active but not summoned
-the summoned companion however needs to attack quickly, be in melee OR generate combat advantage , a ranged companion that attacks quickly and generates combat advantage with a 100% uptime would be desirable obviously because of Stem the Tide, but it's a 5% damage boost so not critical.
-having three defensive runes would allow me to socket the attribute transfer runes on him and give the companion items with armor penetration ( since that is the only desirable stat that would be transferred since, because of poor coding, bonus health on the companion from items is not transferred )

phoenix1021

I looked through the collection and from what I've seen the green slime, the pseudo dragon and the cultist of air come closest to your desires. Only the slime has a defense slot though. You should take a look into the collection yourself, if you right-click on a companion icon in it, you can even see the stats sheet.

iambecks1

@OP If you are planning on spending a lot of AD to upgrade companions I'd hold off for a while , many companions have active bonuses that desperately need updating to be more in line with the module 6 stat changes and whatnot so it wouldn't surprise me if the devs run a update pass on all companions sooner or later , hopefully sooner.

suicidalgodot

...the green slime currently also costs like 50k AD on the AH, since we just had had Respen's Marvelous Game. Though m not totally certain the attack frequency is that high (got one on my HR, but rarely have it out, Beer Cooler does the much better (though sometimes too good :^/ ).

kolbathin

Blink dog with out a doubt.

I also play a OP, and that sweet dog of pwn juice increased my damage by 30%+ (ie my combat advantage damage) and the CA it grants is a debuff on the target for 5 seconds for the whole group so ie 15%-40% for the whole group when doing dungeons, depending on how much they specced into CA.

Get it and dont look back

BTW it happens to be one of the fastest Companions gift stacker I have seen, at one point a friend reached 5 stacks of it, and the only other pet I have heard of able to do that is the Zhent mage.

ph33rm3

kolbathin wrote: »

Blink dog with out a doubt.

I also play a OP, and that sweet dog of pwn juice increased my damage by 30%+ (ie my combat advantage damage) and the CA it grants is a debuff on the target for 5 seconds for the whole group so ie 15%-40% for the whole group when doing dungeons, depending on how much they specced into CA.

Get it and dont look back

BTW it happens to be one of the fastest Companions gift stacker I have seen, at one point a friend reached 5 stacks of it, and the only other pet I have heard of able to do that is the Zhent mage.

^This^

Took mine to Legendary and don't regret it

dominiq666

kolbathin wrote: »

Blink dog with out a doubt.

I also play a OP, and that sweet dog of pwn juice increased my damage by 30%+ (ie my combat advantage damage) and the CA it grants is a debuff on the target for 5 seconds for the whole group so ie 15%-40% for the whole group when doing dungeons, depending on how much they specced into CA.

Get it and dont look back

BTW it happens to be one of the fastest Companions gift stacker I have seen, at one point a friend reached 5 stacks of it, and the only other pet I have heard of able to do that is the Zhent mage.

Hi, bought a Blink Dog after all , thank you.

What are these "gift stacks" you mentioned ? o.0

kolbathin

Bonding runestones, buy em and love em

suicidalgodot

kolbathin wrote: »

dominiq666 wrote: »

What are these "gift stacks" you mentioned ? o.0

Bonding runestones, buy em and love em

...kinda temporal augment. Sweet stuff.

bioshrike

dominiq666 wrote: »

Hi, bought a Blink Dog after all , thank you.

What are these "gift stacks" you mentioned ? o.0

There are special companion runes called "Bonding Runestones", which give your companion's attacks a chance to grant a % of their stats, (including stats from gear). Additionally, those runes always grant either power (if placed into an offense slot) or defense (if placed into a defense slot).

dominiq666

Quick update , the blink dog does one third the damage of my sellsword , both at the same level and with no gear , and attacks slower and has no aoe and when he blinks he tends to jump under me then he proceed to run around like a mad dog , so no combat advantage.

Verdict = white trash companion.

bioshrike wrote: »

There are special companion runes called "Bonding Runestones", which give your companion's attacks a chance to grant a % of their stats, (including stats from gear). Additionally, those runes always grant either power (if placed into an offense slot) or defense (if placed into a defense slot).

Fascinating, so does this rune transfer stats like HP or movement speed ? As opposed to Eldritch with does not.

vadimt83

http://neverwinter.gamepedia.com/Quickling_%28Companion%29
I dont think you can get one anytime soon though.

suicidalgodot

dominiq666 wrote: »

Quick update , the blink dog does one third the damage of my sellsword , both at the same level and with no gear , and attacks slower and has no aoe and when he blinks he tends to jump under me then he proceed to run around like a mad dog , so no combat advantage.

Verdict = white trash companion. [...]

IMHO&XP all companions have crappy combat AI at Lvl 1 which then gets better when they level up.

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hustin1

Companions tend to be a mixed bag; it's hard to find one that's perfect for your needs. The Vicious Dire Wolf, for instance, doesn't do much damage, but its interrupt ability is great if you need more time to kill an enemy. The Phase Spider is very good at getting behind enemies, but it doesn't attack quickly. It does, however, seem to survive very well in a fight, and does a fair amount of damage. The Powrie hits like a truck, but her attacks take forever to build up and she has a bad habit of attacking the first minion you do, which often results in her attacking something that's already dead.

Which companion to pick depends a lot on your priorities: if you want combat advantage first, maybe look at the Phase Spider. If you want it to deal heavy damage, perhaps take a look at the Powrie. If you want to inhibit an enemy's ability to attack, maybe look at the Vicious Dire Wolf. There are even other possibilities, though some are hard to obtain. The Fey Panther is great at knocking enemies down, for instance. If you want to be able to handle multiple minion-level enemies, the Mystagogue might be worth looking at, as well.

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