[Xbox] PVE Companion/Mount DPS Combinations.

loveride

So I've been planning on reworking my Companions and Mounts to aim to maximize my DPS more for my trapper HR.

I'm looking for input on Companion/mount loadouts you are using, or some BiS companions to use.

With my current companions/Mounts I'm personally hitting roughly 53k power with 29k (95%) Crit. this is taking a lot of BiS Armor (Dusk and Umbral wombo combo) with Brutals in the Offensive slots.

Companions:
FIRE ARCHON (Purple) : (Active companion) Bonding r12 in all 3 Off slots. Ring of Sudden Precision +3 (Radiant off slot), Gemmed ele Talisman of Fire (radiant off slot), Ring of brutality +4 (Radiant Off slot, Dark def)

Young Yeti (purple)
Air Archon (Purple)
Bear Cub (Purple): This is the hero I'm planning on replacing. since their bonus is more Survivability based
Arenies of Belail (Spelling?) (blue): Does upgrading to purple increase the crit severity stat?


Heros I'm contimplated adding:
Blink Dog (2% combat Advantage Bonus at green)
Dancing Blade (3% crit Severity at blue, but stacks on top of the 5% from erienes of Belial)



MOUNTS :
Equip Power: +2000 Crit Strike ( with bonding proc puts me at 95% crit chance) or +2000 Power (91% crit chance with bondings proc)
Combat Power: I just have Griffion bonus, reducing damage enemies deal by 30%. Nothing fantastic, but I cant think of a combat power thats good besides the Tensor Disk

Stable:
Winter wolf: Protector's Freindship
Rage Drake: Protectors Camaraderie
Sylvan Stag: Magistrates Patience
Dawn Unicorn: Gladiators Guile
Gorgon: Assassin's Covenant (This is stat im thinking of replacing for Beserkers Rage)

I had recently tested out slotting 3 Protectors Camaraderie, 1 Protector Friendship, and gladiator guile. I found the stacking bonus to be very minor and not worth investing into to many mounts with that insignia bonus. With each additional Protectors Camaraderie I was only gaining maybe 300-400 power, where the initial gave me a 2000 power buff.

wdj40

loveride said:

So I've been planning on reworking my Companions and Mounts to aim to maximize my DPS more for my trapper HR.

I'm looking for input on Companion/mount loadouts you are using, or some BiS companions to use.

With my current companions/Mounts I'm personally hitting roughly 53k power with 29k (95%) Crit. this is taking a lot of BiS Armor (Dusk and Umbral wombo combo) with Brutals in the Offensive slots.

Companions:
FIRE ARCHON (Purple) : (Active companion) Bonding r12 in all 3 Off slots. Ring of Sudden Precision +3 (Radiant off slot), Gemmed ele Talisman of Fire (radiant off slot), Ring of brutality +4 (Radiant Off slot, Dark def)

Young Yeti (purple)
Air Archon (Purple)
Bear Cub (Purple): This is the hero I'm planning on replacing. since their bonus is more Survivability based
Arenies of Belail (Spelling?) (blue): Does upgrading to purple increase the crit severity stat?


Heros I'm contimplated adding:
Blink Dog (2% combat Advantage Bonus at green)
Dancing Blade (3% crit Severity at blue, but stacks on top of the 5% from erienes of Belial)



MOUNTS :
Equip Power: +2000 Crit Strike ( with bonding proc puts me at 95% crit chance) or +2000 Power (91% crit chance with bondings proc)
Combat Power: I just have Griffion bonus, reducing damage enemies deal by 30%. Nothing fantastic, but I cant think of a combat power thats good besides the Tensor Disk

Stable:
Winter wolf: Protector's Freindship
Rage Drake: Protectors Camaraderie
Sylvan Stag: Magistrates Patience
Dawn Unicorn: Gladiators Guile
Gorgon: Assassin's Covenant (This is stat im thinking of replacing for Beserkers Rage)

I had recently tested out slotting 3 Protectors Camaraderie, 1 Protector Friendship, and gladiator guile. I found the stacking bonus to be very minor and not worth investing into to many mounts with that insignia bonus. With each additional Protectors Camaraderie I was only gaining maybe 300-400 power, where the initial gave me a 2000 power buff.

Yeti Active damage bonus is broken so I would drop that one until it is fixed (have not tested myself for a while).

Erinys does indeed give you more Crit Severity at Epic... 10% to be exact which is pretty decent

I would work on getting one of the Combat Advantage companions to Epic for 5% extra CA damage.

Also Sudden Rings (especially +3) are pretty poor on a Fire Archon. I would think about swapping to Rising Rings for perminant stat boosts instead of a few seconds here and there. Some people would disagree with me on this one though. The reason for this is any fight lasting more than 6 seconds will get you 0 stats sent over via Companions Gift until they proc again (a whopping 24 seconds later).

I tested the Fire Archons Ring capabilities a short while ago... It takes roughly 4 seconds for him to proc all 10 stacks of Rising Rings.

davidagaldo

loveride said:

I had recently tested out slotting 3 Protectors Camaraderie, 1 Protector Friendship, and gladiator guile. I found the stacking bonus to be very minor and not worth investing into to many mounts with that insignia bonus. With each additional Protectors Camaraderie I was only gaining maybe 300-400 power, where the initial gave me a 2000 power buff.

A lot is lost when you stack your mount bonuses. There are very few that will stack. I know Guile can be stacked.