Mod 16: Changes to Companions

prethen

I have to admit I don't fully comprehend what the changes mean to me in regards to what they're doing with Companions. I'm curious to know if you guys think my Owlbear Cub companion (Epic) will be not as useful in Mod 16 since it's good for just augmenting me and provides no other offense/defense support. I wonder if maybe it will be basically deprecated or will augment-only companions still be as useful.

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greywynd

Augments will still have stats that the bondings will pass along.

sandukutupu

First they basically change how we attach runestones to our companions. Your Owlbear Cub currently has 3 offense slots and 3 item slots for; Talisman, Ring, Ring.



In mod 16, all companions share the same 3 runestone slots which are reserved for Bonding only. Over on the right side all companions share the same 3 item slots reserved for Companion only items, no more placing primal rings etc. on them. The companion only items no longer accepts enchantments, they use any runestone except bonding. This means your companions could share the same 3 companion only rings. And all other companion equipment is junk. You need 3 bonding per character and if you own eldritch you can convert them to bonding in M16 at the person next to the Rewards Claim Agent. You also need 6 runestones and 3 companion only items per character.



Down below you can see (assuming you have other companions) the abilities given from various groups sorted by classification. The image shown above, I have the skeleton companion active, and he grants "Boney Wisdom" in that block. Thus all companions became very generic and you would be running your augment for skin only purpose. I don't have an Owlbear Cub to tell you if they changed the stat bonus or not. Your best bet is to wait for mod 16 in April or clone your character, load preview, and see for yourself.

prethen

Thanks for the detail explanation Sandukutupu!

cdnbison

The Owlbear Cub is currently a 10% chance on hit to do 20/30/40/50% of weapon damage when you don't do a critical hit. The damage % scaling starts at uncommon (green), and hits 50% at legendary.

krumple01

cdnbison said:

The Owlbear Cub is currently a 10% chance on hit to do 20/30/40/50% of weapon damage when you don't do a critical hit. The damage % scaling starts at uncommon (green), and hits 50% at legendary.

1% chance to get 10% chance to do 10% more damage reduced after hidden back end damage reduction of 20% but great companion.