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Tome of Companion Experience

bobgreenwadebobgreenwade Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 65 Arc User
in Player Feedback (PC)
Dear Devs,

You've reduced the amount of Experience needed to get bonus levels for L70 characters; that's fine. My own opinion about that is ambivalent, but it's also irrelevant.

I knew at the time that you'd be fixing the frequency with which the cache of Astral Diamonds came up as a reward for that, so I took advantage of it while it lasted. I really have no problem with the reduction; I think it made great sense, even if it did inconvenience me (slightly).

But now... the sets of Experience Tomes is reaching a critical mass of ubiquity, especially since they can't be sold for either cash (to merchants) or Astral Diamonds (to other players).

All of my characters' Companions are currently at their maximum levels, so the most obvious option -- using those Tomes -- would be a waste, tantamount to just Discarding them. So, I have them piling up in my Shared Bank vault.

These are great things to have around; I've leveled many a Companion using them, and I'm getting ready to upgrade a Companion so some of the ones I have will be used. But, really... I don't think the rise from 35 to 40 will use up even a large fraction of the 400+ Tomes I have there.

I'd be much happier if they dropped, say, half as often, or maybe a little more. Or if they didn't Bind on Pickup. Or, heck. even if they could be Converted to RP, or traded in 3-to-1 for regular Tomes of Experience. Just something so I'm not left with either wasting, Discarding, or storing them until my Shared Bank can barely hold anything else.

(I'd suggest making the Companion upgrades cheaper -- which would be ideal, to my mind, for several reasons -- but I don't foresee that happening.)
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Author of the Realm Hunter series of novels

Comments

  • kharkov58kharkov58 Member Posts: 669 Arc User
    To make things even better, these tomes are one of the items chosen to get special protection. This means you have to type in "discard" when you try to discard them. Really? These are so important?
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  • bobgreenwadebobgreenwade Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 65 Arc User
    tousseau said:

    What would be a nice option (though I don't see Cryptic trying) is to be able to convert excess Tomes to Companion Upgrade Tokens... Perhaps via the Leadership Profession

    I think that this is a brilliant idea. Make it a Rare task -- or even part of Masterwork -- and let it cost 5-10 Tomes per Token. Yeah, I could definitely get behind that.
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    Author of the Realm Hunter series of novels
  • lowjohnlowjohn Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,061 Arc User
    My biggest complaint about the idea of turning companion XP tomes into companion upgrade tokens is that companion XP tomes are *so useless* that I've been discarding them for month and months and months now and if they suddenly started retroactively being good, I'd be sad.

    But seriously. They give a tiny amount of XP of a sort nobody getting an overflow reward needs, and take up inventory space. They're garbage. Even one companion upgrade token would be a huge upgrade over 100 of the companion XP books, and they don't even stack that high.
  • bobgreenwadebobgreenwade Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 65 Arc User
    I've now accumulated nearly 1000 of these, with no end in sight.

    It's actually made me afraid to participate in 2x XP weekends (like the one that just passed), lest I get even more. That's not right.

    Please, devs, pick one or more of these options:
    1. Reduce how often these items show up with bonus levels.
    2. Allow them to be sold for cash, and/or auctioned.
    3. Raise the stack limit from 99 to 999.
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    Author of the Realm Hunter series of novels
  • rickcase276rickcase276 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,404 Arc User
    edited October 2018
    No worries once next mod drops, as the books will no longer drop. Level ups will only give rp and rAD, in variable amounts.
  • bobgreenwadebobgreenwade Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 65 Arc User
    Well, that's not so much "no worries" as "reduced worries." I'll still have a full row of those buggers, but at least they'll stop accumulating from that point.
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    Author of the Realm Hunter series of novels
  • mystar#5733 mystar
    mystar#5733
         Member Posts: 179 Arc User
    Maybe they paired the companion xp with the character xp books because they knew some people wouldn't have use for the companion books...this way they'd still have something useful. I haven't had to discard the companion books yet, but i don't think it'd be that big of a deal considering i still use the xp books. That's kinda too bad they're taking them out next mod.
    Seems they just keep taking away more than they're giving to the game....but we'll see how it all works out.
  • callumf#9018 callumf
    callumf#9018
         Member Posts: 1,710 Arc User
    rickcase276 said:

    No worries once next mod drops, as the books will no longer drop. Level ups will only give rp and rAD, in variable amounts.

    Wow - isn't this actually something which makes good sense to everyone?
  • plasticbatplasticbat Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 12,404 Arc User
    edited October 2018
    callumf#9018 said:

    rickcase276 said:

    No worries once next mod drops, as the books will no longer drop. Level ups will only give rp and rAD, in variable amounts.

    Wow - isn't this actually something which makes good sense to everyone?
    Not necessary. I do like XP tome. I want to have as many as possible. I just don't like the amount of companion XP tome which I care less.

    For the RP, it is RP items I can sell. The stuff can be 2x during 2xRefining stone.
    It will be RP which is bound within a character and probably cannot take advantage of 2x (based on the current definition of 2xRefining stone).
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  • chidionchidion Member Posts: 446 Arc User
    edited October 2018
    rickcase276 said:

    No worries once next mod drops, as the books will no longer drop. Level ups will only give rp and rAD, in variable amounts.

    OK, companion XP tomes will no longer drop... and be replaced with what exactly? Nothing?

    Tokens you have to purchase from the Zen market or Tradebar merchant to more quickly upgrade companions?

    Companion XP tomes are useful, they would be more useful if they weren't bound so a player with a lot of those tomes could give some to a new player to quickly upgrade their companions... I don't know of any new or low level player who wouldn't appreciate or benefit from a more powerful companion to help them out while they are trying to survive leveling up.

    Companion tomes and player experience tomes should be stackable to 999 if they remain bound to account, but as far as I'm concerned those tomes, especially the companion XP tomes, should be unbound so that players who have them and don't need them, can sell them on the Auction House, or give them away to new or low level players to help them out. Or even not so new players who acquire or purchase a new companion.

    I know I would have been twice as willing to invest in new or different companions if I could quickly level them up using companion XP tomes.

    My 2¢

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