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Epic Companion attack frequency

dethsdezyndethsdezyn Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
edited January 2014 in PvE Discussion
I thought the low freq at which the companions attack was because it was a free(cheap) regular companion.
I have bought an epic Galeb Duhr and he hits, but he hits, waits for a two count or so (while he is being whaled on by the enemy) then hits again. They are designed to be this way?

TIA.
It follows therefore, that this young man will be as unfeeling, as unthinking as the dead, until the day he joins them.
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  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Yes, every companion power has the cooldown time listed in their stats page.
  • dethsdezyndethsdezyn Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Ok thanks.
    It follows therefore, that this young man will be as unfeeling, as unthinking as the dead, until the day he joins them.
  • pitshadepitshade Member Posts: 5,665 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Companions unfortunately don't have atwills.
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  • khimera906khimera906 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 898 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Generally every companion has a power with a shorter cooldown and another with a longer cooldown, but they don't have a basic attack.
    Now that I think about it, only player characters have an at-will, basic attack. Mobs and even bosses have cooldowns on all of their attacks as well.
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  • greekstudgreekstud Member Posts: 46
    edited January 2014
    well as i have said many times if cryptic fixed this and the companions were more usefull in pve then not all of us would run to ioun stone
    but i guess its their choice
  • vasdamasvasdamas Member Posts: 2,461 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I will lvl up my boar, ghost, shepherd dog and jagged blade soon. Want to see how far my CIW with +50% damage against fey creatures can go in DPS -_-
    But I already guess that I am not going to like it...they need to rework the companions.
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  • arcmoon99arcmoon99 Member Posts: 499 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Please tell me you didn't buy a tank companion for DPS lol
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  • khimera906khimera906 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 898 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I generally try to stay away from Striker companions, but the ones I have do pathetic damage. Strangely, the one companion I've seen doing somewhat decent damage is a Controller companion.
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  • rlrobrrlrobr Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Add recovery runes and itens: it helps a lot.
  • rabbinicusrabbinicus Member Posts: 1,822 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    vasdamas wrote: »
    I will lvl up my boar, ghost, shepherd dog and jagged blade soon. Want to see how far my CIW with +50% damage against fey creatures can go in DPS -_-
    But I already guess that I am not going to like it...they need to rework the companions.

    You know that only applies to companion damage, right?
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  • devocutdevocut Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    dethsdezyn wrote: »
    I thought the low freq at which the companions attack was because it was a free(cheap) regular companion.
    I have bought an epic Galeb Duhr and he hits, but he hits, waits for a two count or so (while he is being whaled on by the enemy) then hits again. They are designed to be this way?

    TIA.

    Galeb is designed to take aggro and stay alive. I don't care about his DPS. He's mighty helpful when my CW is soloing an uncontrollable mob.
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    rabbinicus wrote: »
    You know that only applies to companion damage, right?

    I read that as using the Cold Iron Warrior as the summoned companion, buffed by all the other ones that add to companion damage. It's a very specific list of all the companions that buff other companions, see?
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