Newest Companion Gear Location

nitocris83

Greetings Adventurers,

Certain highly coveted pieces of companion gear that adventurers had hoped to find in Uprising content have actually been located in Chests of the Lost Adventurer (Zok boxes). Due to the desirable nature of these items, we will be increasing their drop rate in a near future patch.

Note: This gear is currently only available on PC. The gear, along with the increased drop rate, will go live for Console on the Uprising launch date (October 1).

lardeson

nitocris83 said:

Greetings Adventurers,

Certain highly coveted pieces of companion gear that adventurers had hoped to find in Uprising content have actually been located in Chests of the Lost Adventurer (Zok boxes). Due to the desirable nature of these items, we will be increasing their drop rate in a near future patch.

Note: This gear is currently only available on PC. The gear, along with the increased drop rate, will go live for Console on the Uprising launch date (October 1).

Ah no, with the rediculous rate that zok and his boxes already have? can u atleast decrease the rate of vanity pets from those boxes?

poisd2strike

lardeson said:

nitocris83 said:

Greetings Adventurers,

Certain highly coveted pieces of companion gear that adventurers had hoped to find in Uprising content have actually been located in Chests of the Lost Adventurer (Zok boxes). Due to the desirable nature of these items, we will be increasing their drop rate in a near future patch.

Note: This gear is currently only available on PC. The gear, along with the increased drop rate, will go live for Console on the Uprising launch date (October 1).

Ah no, with the rediculous rate that zok and his boxes already have? can u atleast decrease the rate of vanity pets from those boxes?

I don't see what is bad about increasing the chances of getting new Companion Gear, unless you mean that an increase will likely not increase the chances measurably. I do, however, agree that the rate of rare vanity pets should be decreased somewhat.

tom

Imo if it drops from the ZOK boxes they should make it unbound, it will be nearly impossible to get the piece u want

lardeson

poisd2strike#7598 said:

lardeson said:

nitocris83 said:

Greetings Adventurers,

Certain highly coveted pieces of companion gear that adventurers had hoped to find in Uprising content have actually been located in Chests of the Lost Adventurer (Zok boxes). Due to the desirable nature of these items, we will be increasing their drop rate in a near future patch.

Note: This gear is currently only available on PC. The gear, along with the increased drop rate, will go live for Console on the Uprising launch date (October 1).

Ah no, with the rediculous rate that zok and his boxes already have? can u atleast decrease the rate of vanity pets from those boxes?

I don't see what is bad about increasing the chances of getting new Companion Gear, unless you mean that an increase will likely not increase the chances measurably. I do, however, agree that the rate of rare vanity pets should be decreased somewhat.

nono, not the increase but adding them to zok's boxes lol, those boxes have a 99,99% chance of dropping vanity pets over anything else

gonzakotwi

God no please, from the start of m16 i have done expeditions and yet to see any ilvl 1000 gear (ANY). Now with those things 1000 gear will have even less chance

sobi

For goodness sake, make them unbound and we'll support your laziness by just paying you the zen you want and getting the AD to buy the companion gear we need. This grind is terrible and time gated makes it even more so. Just please stop giving us more time gated things because NW now feels like a daily chore than an enjoyment.

jessechism918

Honestly am disappointed if this is the only way to get most or all of the pet gear. I have 4 characters I do daily expeditions with and have done so since the launch of the module,and still nothing. So honestly sucks that there isn't currency or just drop from mini boss on expedition to get the gears. You guys have the lowest drop rates and I speak from over 4 years of game play. Will make you really angry if your like myself and log in for 8 hrs a day and get nothing across all toons. Honestly as soon as I get the chance I'm jumping on other games because of this. Tired of playing hours on end and achieving nothing, like 100k astrial diamonds a day is all ya get and you can make one damn dungeon key per day how stupid. You took all our ways to make astrail diamonds away and try to force us to purchase zen by doing so. And making the only things with a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> come from lockboxes. Should I continue.....

silence1x

While I do appreciate the honesty in this announcement, I have to question the setup. In order to maximize your ROI, you'll have to run the two dailies in the new Mod, go back and run three MEs in Undermountain using a rune in each (which requires 10-15 minutes in a zone running the "rune circuit". This will give you 5 chances at Zok giving you something decent. If you have several characters that you run daily, 5*x = max(frustration). We all accept a certain level of grind in this game, but I think this pushes even the most hardcore grinders to a level that may not give you what you're looking for.

As stated above, I'd think you would make these unbound so that they could be sold. Sharpedge posted a while back about the number of new companion items and an estimate on how many times you'd have to run FEs to get them. Now, putting them in Zok boxes, makes the grind even worse. Please rethink this.

ccs2009

RNG controls your fate in NW.....IT decides who advances and who does not. You can buy all the zen/ad you want, but if RNG does not favor you for whatever reason (real or imagined) your toon is as good as dead in NW.

Case in point, am going on 2 months and still missing oh alabaster on HR...increased the drop rate they said - sure, just RNG is not on my side. Consequently that toon is dead in the water.

And THAT....is the saddest part of this game.

trgluestickz

The sheer number of different companion gear pieces will make getting the one you want next to impossible if its anything like what we see for other item's droprates like 1000 IL gear.

Like the other people talking, I'd appreciate it if the droprates for blue vanity pets were decreased. They drop like candy and are bound to character so there is no point in getting more than one of each. At the very least, these should be made bound to account if their droprate is going to remain high.

If you do change the droprate for vanity pets, please don't lower the droprate for the legendary vanity pets, its been an entire mod and I still don't have an umbraxakar vanity pet despite doing my MEs daily.

spoonybard

Does this announcement mean they will drop from BOTH the Zok boxes and from the ME's, or just from Zok?

silence1x

spoonybard#3189 said:

Does this announcement mean they will drop from BOTH the Zok boxes and from the ME's, or just from Zok?

I think both FE and Zok as I've gotten three pieces of new epic companion gear on two toons total.

tardbath

maybe the 2 off slots are Zok only!!

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midnightita

Is it me or it's not clear if the drop rate is already increased with this patch? or will be with another patch?

adinosii

nitocris83 said:

Greetings Adventurers,

Certain highly coveted pieces of companion gear that adventurers had hoped to find in Uprising content have actually been located in Chests of the Lost Adventurer (Zok boxes). Due to the desirable nature of these items, we will be increasing their drop rate in a near future patch.

That's fine.... but how about increasing the drop rate of the regular (non-companion) IL 1000+ gear too ? It's just vanity pets all the time, and they are not even BtA, just BtC ... getting the same stupid vanity pet for the 20th time is not, well... rewarding.

ecrana

Speaking from a console perspective, a lot of people I play with are already sick of MEs and the crappy drop rates on the artifacts. IF I can muster someone to run an ME it's solely a watcher run attempt. But with the garbage RNG for the ghost to spawn a lot of us don't even want to bother with that now.

Most people I play with have moved on to other games until M17 hits because the grind got too annoying. Now another mod following the same format and you've put comp gear behind it. So now, I can try my RNG at a chance to get a vanity pet, a rank 6 potion, a comp piece, an artifact or nothing. The drop rates need to be heavily adjusted if this is the case because I honestly don't think I can store any more goristros.

There's not a whole lot of long term player retention planning going on in the boardroom is there?

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dafrca

Just to be clear, it is the dozens of copies of the Blue Vanity Pets that are a pain. I would not mind seeing one of the legendary pets that people say come from the boxes. Right now it seems all I get are the blue pets, bound to character of course.

It is the soul crushing RNG on anything of value combined with the over use of BtC rather than BoA that has made me stop putting real money into the game and reduce my time in game. I am tired of fighting so hard for green and blue junk.

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blackmagid

I feel I need to chime in on this too. Been running M16 ME's since the module landed on 3 characters - M17 has added more. No thank you - running ME's on one character now as seriously - aside from AD + Pots where is the fun? I'm not AD rich - I run a dungeon or 2 for shards as even that is becoming tiresome with afk'ers, scaling and lemmings! I am now hoping that M18 brings some fun back into NW.

Thanks
Black

spoonybard

ecrana#2080 said:

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There's not a whole lot of long term player retention planning going on in the boardroom is there?

In most F2P games, and probably where most of NWO's revenue comes from a player that comes in and plays a few days, have tons of fun, buys an Epic mount & companion or two, maybe a few bags, and might exchange some Zen for AD.
A lot of those gets quickly bored with the grind and unrewarding loot, and moves on to the next game in a month or less.

Then there's the whales, there are a few in NWO, but it feels like that's more of a gacha thing.

drizztdur78

@nitocris83 pls lighten us up about what exactly was added to zok boxes...
are you sure its "uprising" companion gear or possibly the 2 missing purple "undermountain" questline companion items belt+ring?!
having uprising gear in mod16 content available would be hmm weird,so this is confusing.if topic is correct ME runes give ppl an early chance for m17 companion gear drops.

looking at the collections in game will tell ppl to go for expedition to get a chance on dropping new uprising 1010 gear.now from first looks it seems like FE drop shirt/pants and WE drop companion gear,zok boxes???

when looking into my bank there is only 1xoffense 1xdefense items currently, 990+1010.i been asking in alliance chat about other ppl experience with drops no difference.friends within other guilds and alliances same thing, everyone only dropping 1xoff 1xdef.im no math genius and certainly this is possible with the horrible rng but hearing of no one dropping the good stuff (double offense slots) and myself seeing 4x the same item -yeah,4x same 1010 companion ring (7 chars grinding)- that just sounds off.
im really wondering if we have a watcher scenario here again - devs: its in the game,just look out for them...a few weeks later ninja patch...?!

pls double check if all new items made it to live server - i.e. 1010 2xoffense slot companion gear - and possibly add WE/FE or zok box to drop locations in collections to make things more clear!!!
whoever made the descision to put more gear into zok boxes should reconsider that even if drop rates are increased.

jmiller84

While boosting the Zok Box rates is a good start, I feel like another step would be a lot easier and incentivize people to run their dailies. After completing the Fragments quest, have a repeatable quest that takes the same amount of time to complete to get a box with a split-stat companion piece of your choice or a type of your choice that you don't have, ie: 2 offensive slots, 2 defensive or 1 offensive and 1 defensive slot. Then at the very least you're making progress toward the piece(s) you want or need. Too many things are stuck behind RNG and having people run 3/5/7 Expeditions per toon per day just for a low chance is a bit much.

maruda

160/5000
From the last 200 boxes from "ZOK" 200x 5k ad and 200x potions .. In the past, some artifacts now fall out of nothing but basic garbage is not received.

strathkin

I'm honestly disappointed by the GEAR they give with Trophies & Trinkets; most is garbage and the only thing to acquire is Potions.

I admit the potions are very good, but given the cost for Companion Gear they should offer more, like 980-990 Rare with a single Rune slot minimal, or a dual Rune slot for 1.75x the price at current and how long it takes to earn them.

But I agree with everyone the drop from ZOK boxes is horribly outrageous.

*sigh*

jmiller84

"A near future patch"

Is there a date set for this yet? August 29th or September 5th maybe?

evergreenzz

Seeing that zokboxes will be getting a look, listing vanity pets that come from it as unique items would be nice. As it is now many player's reward comes with the nuisance of having to discard their duplicates.

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