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New: Companions Collection in Module 2 - Shadowmantle, including Active Bonus

fondlezfondlez Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited November 2013 in NeverwinterPreview - Feedback/General Discussion
UPDATE:

This post is out of date. If you want to refer to the latest Active Bonus for a Companion (which sometimes change on Preview), it may be best to refer to Dardove's excellent and maintained text thread detailing the bonuses: http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?517521-List-of-Active-Bonuses-for-companions

The alternative is, of course, to log into Preview yourself and view the Companion collection.

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From the Preview Shard, captures of tooltip descriptions, including the new Active Bonus of the 46 Companions currently in the "Companions Collection" (Ctrl-J hotkey),

The Divine and the Abyssal
Angel of Protection - http://i.imgur.com/OMGNe8N.png
Book Imp - http://i.imgur.com/E7IiovU.png

Beasts of Faerun
Tomb Spider - http://i.imgur.com/RDkoKr6.png
Panther - http://i.imgur.com/RpAewBE.png
Honey Badger - http://i.imgur.com/KoGHpn4.png
Cave Bear - http://i.imgur.com/BDfLuKs.png
Boar - http://i.imgur.com/uDoA77u.png

The Dogs of War
Armored Orc Wolf - http://i.imgur.com/A5o9TaM.png
Wolf - http://i.imgur.com/BT22wgx.png
Vicious Dire Wolf - http://i.imgur.com/bwUNnYO.png

Domesticated Animals
Forest Hawk - http://i.imgur.com/fvI1SZu.png
Cat (*) - http://i.imgur.com/n66ENWC.png
Dog - http://i.imgur.com/FbfT1La.png
Hawk - http://i.imgur.com/Boxogex.png
Pig - http://i.imgur.com/ybjsmDC.png

Elemental Fury
Phoera - http://i.imgur.com/ZgASOcE.png
Mystic Phoera - http://i.imgur.com/QFZwidV.png
Galeb Duhr - http://i.imgur.com/TnFks5H.png
Fire Archon - http://i.imgur.com/DKSykKq.png

Protectors of the Wild
Sylph - http://i.imgur.com/TB1w4rY.png
Sprite - http://i.imgur.com/qIjt7y8.png
Quickling - http://i.imgur.com/jlMT9Ei.png
Leprechaun - http://i.imgur.com/nqpcFEg.png
Aranea - http://i.imgur.com/VFetxuJ.png

Beasts of the Feywild
Blink Dog - http://i.imgur.com/whxjcsq.png
Pseudo Dragon - http://i.imgur.com/9qJFBds.png
Portal Hound - http://i.imgur.com/P5b6Vfz.png

Clerics of Neverwinter
Cleric Disciple - http://i.imgur.com/mlpTzkv.png
Acolyte of Kelemvor - http://i.imgur.com/HJal9xA.png

Warriors of Neverwinter
Sellsword - http://i.imgur.com/45m6SLB.png
Neverember Guard - http://i.imgur.com/z0cGw6X.png
Man at Arms - http://i.imgur.com/dCzL1zx.png
Cold Iron Warrior - http://i.imgur.com/2krIa6E.png

Mages of Neverwinter
Wayward Wizard - http://i.imgur.com/e64bwEq.png
Cantankerous Mage - http://i.imgur.com/j0Jiq3j.png

Rogues of Neverwinter
Wererat Thief - http://i.imgur.com/QJj6SJU.png
Slyblade Kobold - http://i.imgur.com/NZDljHk.png

Magic Items
Ioun Stone of Might - http://i.imgur.com/utOgqTj.png
Ioun Stone of Allure - http://i.imgur.com/AelYoPP.png
Icosahedron Ioun Stone - http://i.imgur.com/k4M20ZW.png
Dancing Shield - http://i.imgur.com/1rWKmGN.png
Jagged Dancing Blade - http://i.imgur.com/noRg0ua.png
Dancing Blade - http://i.imgur.com/rRbN75V.png

Beyond the Grave
Helmite Paladin Ghost - http://i.imgur.com/8iQm0oJ.png
Ghost - http://i.imgur.com/AdUTT7Z.png
Skeletal Dog - http://i.imgur.com/z2Cn4AM.png

Gallery here, if you wish to flick through them: http://imgur.com/a/OFJeW#0

Enjoy!

Note. According to this post from a dev, the Active Bonus of Companions never applies in PvP.

(*) Yes, you are not dreaming, unfortunately...
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Comments

  • esteenaesteena Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 1
    edited October 2013
    Nicely done :) , thanks for the effort.

    May i ask if the active bonuses is affected by companion's level aswell or only affected by the companion's quality?

    I have compared two ioun stones ( blue and blue) @ level 25, and realized an increase in active bonus stats when i upgraded one of them but i haven't tested if they gain more when they level up.
  • hwlrmnkyhwlrmnky Member Posts: 90
    edited October 2013
    Thank you for taking the time to do this!
  • cheapjingcheapjing Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    thank you so much!
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    You missed a few companions that aren't in a collection, fondlez
    esteena wrote: »
    May i ask if the active bonuses is affected by companion's level aswell or only affected by the companion's quality?

    Just quality.
  • erikiki1erikiki1 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 144 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    YO, you serious? what the heck, the boar gives 50% crit severity???, what is that a free perfect vorpal?
  • fondlezfondlez Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    erikiki1 wrote: »
    YO, you serious? what the heck, the boar gives 50% crit severity???, what is that a free perfect vorpal?

    If only, lol. Look carefuly, it stays "Affects Companion"!
    dardove wrote: »
    You missed a few companions that aren't in a collection, fondlez

    Thanks for that. I did not notice you had made a thread in Preview forums two hours before, lol. We even have similar formatting!
  • yokihiroyokihiro Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 510 Bounty Hunter
    edited November 2013
    Thanks for the info.

    Although this is a step in the right direction to make companions other than the augments more usefull I highly doubt this will have any effects because the active bonus applies to you only. Companions already do fine when you solo, then they are not totally useless. Adding a little buff to them will make soloing a little better.

    The real problem though are dungeons. Here people rather use their stones and cats. Even if I have a small buff from my companion I won't switch out my stone. Instead of giving only a buff for yourself companions should give group buffs. Only then they become useful for a team because then you could mix your companions so that you have the biggest advantage with the current team setup. Like if you have 2 TRs you might take 2 Blink Dogs with you so they both get double Combat Advantage bonus and so forth.
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    yokihiro wrote: »
    Thanks for the info.

    Although this is a step in the right direction to make companions other than the augments more usefull I highly doubt this will have any effects because the active bonus applies to you only. Companions already do fine when you solo, then they are not totally useless. Adding a little buff to them will make soloing a little better.

    The real problem though are dungeons. Here people rather use their stones and cats. Even if I have a small buff from my companion I won't switch out my stone. Instead of giving only a buff for yourself companions should give group buffs. Only then they become useful for a team because then you could mix your companions so that you have the biggest advantage with the current team setup. Like if you have 2 TRs you might take 2 Blink Dogs with you so they both get double Combat Advantage bonus and so forth.

    But the nice thing about the new system is that you don't need to switch out your companion to get the active bonus. You get it as long the companion is slotted into an active slot.
  • yokihiroyokihiro Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 510 Bounty Hunter
    edited November 2013
    dardove wrote: »
    But the nice thing about the new system is that you don't need to switch out your companion to get the active bonus. You get it as long the companion is slotted into an active slot.

    So basically those who buy tons of active slots for ZEN will rock the house...

    Seems like an unbalanced system, should be limited somehow to summoned, not active.
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    yokihiro wrote: »
    So basically those who buy tons of active slots for ZEN will rock the house...

    Seems like an unbalanced system, should be limited somehow to summoned, not active.

    The active slots now unlock if you don't buy them. You get the 4th active slot at level 30 and the 5th at level 60. The benefit to buying them is getting the slot early.
  • yokihiroyokihiro Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 510 Bounty Hunter
    edited November 2013
    dardove wrote: »
    The active slots now unlock if you don't buy them. You get the 4th active slot at level 30 and the 5th at level 60. The benefit to buying them is getting the slot early.

    Hmmm thx for clarification. I though you could buy as many as you wanted to.
  • ladysylvialadysylvia Member Posts: 946 Bounty Hunter
    edited November 2013
    Boar: The vorpal for free. xD
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    ladysylvia wrote: »
    Boar: The vorpal for free. xD

    The bonus the Boar gives applies to your summoned companion and not your character.
  • tang56tang56 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    ladysylvia wrote: »
    Boar: The vorpal for free. xD

    Sadly not. It affects the companions crit severity, so only the boar's attacks have increased crit damage.
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  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    tang56 wrote: »
    Sadly not. It affects the companions crit severity, so only the boar's attacks have increased crit damage.

    Not just the boar. It effects whatever companion is currently summoned, provided the Boar is slotted in an active slot.
  • yokihiroyokihiro Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 510 Bounty Hunter
    edited November 2013
    btw. can you slot more of the same companion in the active slots? never tried that. so like 5 blink dogs?
  • ianthewizard2012ianthewizard2012 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,142 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Does the Active Bonus increase after the companion's quality being upgraded? ex: white to green, blue to purple, etc.
    == Edit ==

    Just found the answer at here.
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    yokihiro wrote: »
    btw. can you slot more of the same companion in the active slots? never tried that. so like 5 blink dogs?

    Come module 2 you won't be able to.
  • jeffmwillsonjeffmwillson Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 116 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    esteena wrote: »
    Nicely done :) , thanks for the effort.

    May i ask if the active bonuses is affected by companion's level aswell or only affected by the companion's quality?

    I have compared two ioun stones ( blue and blue) @ level 25, and realized an increase in active bonus stats when i upgraded one of them but i haven't tested if they gain more when they level up.

    I upgrade ioun stone of allure on preview.. from blue to purple.. went from 105 life steal and deflect to 165 of each. so yes.. upgrading quality does change the bonus buff.. some people post not testing.. so u get answers like 'just quality' ..
  • drakkenfeldrakkenfel Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 71
    edited November 2013
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  • corpsemaker86corpsemaker86 Member Posts: 148 Bounty Hunter
    edited November 2013
    No Lillend!!!???

    Looks like TR's will want Fire Archon, Galeb Duhr, and Dancing Blade
    Up to 10% more damage with Galeb Duhr o.O and an additional 5% damage outright to foes below 50% with fire archon
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    corpsemaker86 wrote: »
    No Lillend!!!???

    Looks like TR's will want Fire Archon, Galeb Duhr, and Dancing Blade
    Up to 10% more damage with Galeb Duhr o.O and an additional 5% damage outright to foes below 50% with fire archon

    He only listed companions that were part of a collection and promo companions like Lilend aren't supposed to be part of collections.

    That being said, Lillend's active bonus is that when you use a daily, nearby friendlies are healed 2% of their max HP. There is a 30 second cooldown before they can be healed by this effect again though.
  • ikeepit3hunnaikeepit3hunna Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    The active companion bonuses don't work in pvp.
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  • vasdamasvasdamas Member Posts: 2,461 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Nevermber's Guard bonus is just not worth it. At all...
    While CIW's one is quite good.
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  • thebrimanthebriman Member Posts: 218 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    corpsemaker86 wrote: »
    Looks like TR's will want Fire Archon, Galeb Duhr, and Dancing Blade
    Up to 10% more damage with Galeb Duhr o.O and an additional 5% damage outright to foes below 50% with fire archon

    An upgraded blink dog might be nice as well, given what a high percentage of combat advantage damage we deal. I'm guessing that if it's a 2% increase as a green companion, it probably goes up to 4 or 5% for a purple. [haven't tested, anyone who has feel free to correct me if I'm wrong]
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    thebriman wrote: »
    An upgraded blink dog might be nice as well, given what a high percentage of combat advantage damage we deal. I'm guessing that if it's a 2% increase as a green companion, it probably goes up to 4 or 5% for a purple. [haven't tested, anyone who has feel free to correct me if I'm wrong]

    It is 3% at blue. Likely is purple at 4%.
  • thebrimanthebriman Member Posts: 218 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    dardove wrote: »
    It is 3% at blue. Likely is purple at 4%.

    Thanks dardove!
  • twstdechotwstdecho Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 630 Bounty Hunter
    edited November 2013
    Has anyone tested the "On Resurrection" abilities with the re-worked soulforged armor enchant?
  • grimahgrimah Member Posts: 1,658 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    dardove wrote: »
    It is 3% at blue. Likely is purple at 4%.

    its 5% (i have one)

    Also does anyone know if the fire archon (trade bar pets) are BoE? or bind on pick up. I know it states on tooltip but I just would like some confirmation/
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  • fondlezfondlez Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    grimah wrote: »
    Also does anyone know if the fire archon (trade bar pets) are BoE? or bind on pick up. I know it states on tooltip but I just would like some confirmation/

    They are sold on AH all the time, so BoE.
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