Stacking Pet CA unreasonable? [PS4]

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• micky1p00 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,594 Arc User

  September 2016 edited September 2016

  Look at my post here:
  
  reddit
  
  direct link I think
  
  I would use Earth arcon, Erinyess, Siege master witch perhaps one CA companion and not 3 CA companions.
  A 2k IL you probably don't see the Earth Arcon idea, but at 'late' game you will be with enough LS to have 100% health.

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• hawkwoodnha Member Posts: 20 Arc User

  September 2016

  Thanks a ton! Would you recommend going with an Earth for the bonus and then a Fire to use bondings on?
  (Also do you get the additional .5% bonus on the Earth for having the Fire active or is the tooltip misleading and it just means .5% for other Earth Archons)

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• raymond00713 Member Posts: 312 Arc User

  October 2016

  @micky1p00 hey I've read your comments on here and reddit and I appreciate everything you've been willing to share. Been playing tr on xboxone since the release. My question is, youve confirmed that the ca deal no longer applies and at best we should just be using one now? If so, I'll probably be moving to the earth archon for my tr and hr

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• micky1p00 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,594 Arc User

  October 2016 edited October 2016

  raymond00713 said:

  @micky1p00 hey I've read your comments on here and reddit and I appreciate everything you've been willing to share. Been playing tr on xboxone since the release. My question is, youve confirmed that the ca deal no longer applies and at best we should just be using one now? If so, I'll probably be moving to the earth archon for my tr and hr

  The CA companions were multiplicative, so once you get CA, you got 1.05^number of CA companions, doesn't meter if it was crit or not, and CA is very easy to get for TRs. So with one it's 5% dps boost, 2 is 10.25% boost and 3 is 15.7%.
  After the change it became much more problematic, you saw the non crit, I forgot to write the crit issue there.
  On crit CA added to crit severity (at least as assumed for now, need to recheck this) so on crit CA pet will be equal to the 5% crit severity blade, and that is not so good.
  So, IMO, it's situational, for example for dps GF, that can get perma CA with mark/ EF but their crit usually a bit lower and don't usually use vorpal, that can be interesting option, or SW with their non crit dots, not sure how they work with CA though. For high crit classes like TR, that use vorpal it's worse (though as I said the additivenes to crit should be retested, when it was tested long ago we didn't have the tools we have now, the fixed damage daggers) Still much better option than the crit severity blade itself, because you get the ~3.7 on non crit and the same on crit.
  
  IMO Earth Arcon is a great option, I use it. And if you can find better things than CA companions, go for it, you can find better, but you can do worse.
  
  
  edit: tagging for notification @raymond00713

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• izwor Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 238 Arc User

  October 2016

  Imho the best option right now (considering 'available now' only companions) are:
  Fire Archon (active+bondings)
  Air Archon
  Earth Archon
  Siege Master
  Erinyes of Belial
  
  While CA can be easily achieved using Infiltrators Action + Artifact Offhand bonus. I think that % DMG bonuses are the best, because it's working all the time, regardless of your item level, critical strike chance and any other factors.

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• raymond00713 Member Posts: 312 Arc User

  October 2016

  @micky1p00 thanks a lot for taking the time to respond. That all makes sense to me. Sorry it took a while to respond, didnt get notification even after you added my name. Had to come to this thread

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