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Companions; why only one?

cicirose97cicirose97 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
edited July 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
Does anyone else think that it's rather silly to not be able to summon multiple companions?

I mean, why even have more than one active slot when you can only have one out at a time?

I guess it may not be, but I would love to have it explained if I'm not understanding something correctly, since I didn't know this and just recently bought a second companion thinking they could both be summoned...
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  • mutantdemocracymutantdemocracy Member Posts: 497 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    With the ability to have 3 companions, you'd see a lot of people with 3 Ioun Stones of Allure.

    Solo play while leveling would be mad easy.
  • seu1seu1 Member Posts: 26 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    You have more than one slot because there is more than one type, you might have a dps comp, and a healer comp. Not everyone plays the same, and some folks like to be ready for different situations.
  • labbblabbb Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Active slot companions keep their gear on . So its easy to call one while the other is training . Inactive companions can not wear gear so they have to be outfitted to use .
  • ambisinisterrambisinisterr Member, Neverwinter Moderator Posts: 10,462 Community Moderator
    edited July 2013
    It would be far too overpowered to have multiple companions out at the same time. Plus every player in a party can have a companion out everywhere except in PvP so running around in dungeons with 5 players and 15 companions would be maddening.

    And that's disregarding the stability issues which are sure to arise by having that many entities in such a confined area.
  • trevien29trevien29 Member Posts: 257 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    While I think the premise of having 3 companions out is quite silly, it might be a more enjoyable experience in boss fights when dealing with the annoying adds!
  • mutantdemocracymutantdemocracy Member Posts: 497 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    trevien29 wrote: »
    While I think the premise of having 3 companions out is quite silly, it might be a more enjoyable experience in boss fights when dealing with the annoying adds!

    You should realize that if people aren't bringing 3 stones, then you'll see a bunch of downed companions litter the floor in every fight.

    It would suck trying to revive a single teammate who was downed in a mob of downed companions.
  • trevien29trevien29 Member Posts: 257 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    In my dream scenario (not really, the notion of more than one companion out at a time still strikes me as stupid), I also assumed passable AI for the companions.
  • lostmarblesherelostmarbleshere Banned Users Posts: 654 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    they screw with you when exploiting dungeons i heard but sometimes can help
  • psychicslugpsychicslug Member Posts: 210 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I think a better AI or some control options would be nice like guard, aggressive , passive, or something like that.
  • ghostravynghostravyn Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 59
    edited July 2013
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  • trevien29trevien29 Member Posts: 257 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Yes, but people make that a difficult thing to accomplish. I haven't seen a decent MMO community in a long time
  • klixanklixan Member Posts: 447 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    This is where foundry missions shine! You can have as many companions as you like in a foundry mission. The author just needs to include them :)
  • chidy1776chidy1776 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Only think i dislike about companions is how fast they die. I just wish companions were useful in dungeons outside of iouns tone and cat, since not all of us have the $ or ad to spend. Im hoping theyll buff them up in the future. Ido not however think having multiple companions ot at once is a good idea. I feel it would cause issues and it would also mean that solo enemies would need buffed up massively to make up for the increase in player potential.
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  • gingervitosgingervitos Member Posts: 275 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    chidy1776 wrote: »
    Only think i dislike about companions is how fast they die. I just wish companions were useful in dungeons outside of iouns tone and cat, since not all of us have the $ or ad to spend. Im hoping theyll buff them up in the future. Ido not however think having multiple companions ot at once is a good idea. I feel it would cause issues and it would also mean that solo enemies would need buffed up massively to make up for the increase in player potential.

    But at least they aint the pawns from Dragons Dogma :P

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  • kaiserschmarrnkaiserschmarrn Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 390
    edited July 2013
    ambisinisterr wrote: »
    It would be far too overpowered to have multiple companions out at the same time. Plus every player in a party can have a companion out everywhere except in PvP so running around in dungeons with 5 players and 15 companions would be maddening.

    And that's disregarding the stability issues which are sure to arise by having that many entities in such a confined area.

    I think it would be reasonable to allow one passive companion (like the stone or cat) and one active companion (anything else) at the same time.

    Either that or fix active companions so that they are useful in the endgame. Even the purple ones are far too weak to even dent a trash mob in the endgame dungeons.
  • sirjestosirjesto Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 176 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    psychicslug wrote: »
    i think a better ai or some control options would be nice like guard, aggressive , passive, or something like that.

    this..........
  • savagedeaconsavagedeacon Member Posts: 219 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    While we can argue about having three companions out at once, we could have one companion that is made by two or three guys that work together. Examples: a little witch that fight with her housecat (her familiar)- two twins a brother and sister that fight together one a GWF the other a TR -three pint-sized dogs- Triad (of the legion of superheroes) and so on
  • dirtyhookdirtyhook Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    When I first started playing I bought 3 2g companions as I thought I would be able to have 3 active companions. Man I was disappointed.
  • darksxdarksx Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 198 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    ambisinisterr wrote: »
    It would be far too overpowered to have multiple companions out at the same time. Plus every player in a party can have a companion out everywhere except in PvP so running around in dungeons with 5 players and 15 companions would be maddening.

    And that's disregarding the stability issues which are sure to arise by having that many entities in such a confined area.

    No its not Maddening, its called a Raid when you have that many in a party.
  • chrono0812chrono0812 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 501 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    mutantdemocracy wrote: »
    With the ability to have 3 companions, you'd see a lot of people with 3 Ioun Stones of Allure.

    Solo play while leveling would be mad easy.


    This would probably be what would happen, I know if I could have three pets out at the same time I would have three Ioun Stones of Allure.
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  • mytgroomytgroo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 165 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    Already having trouble with bandwidth. Imagine if you were in a dungeon, which was the companion which was the character-- 15 companions and 5 characters. It already is messy.
  • savagedeaconsavagedeacon Member Posts: 219 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    chrono0812 wrote: »
    This would probably be what would happen, I know if I could have three pets out at the same time I would have three Ioun Stones of Allure.
    Not necessarily. You could be forbidden to have three pets of the same kind out at the same time.The three pets should be different pets for example a panther, a wolf, a cleric
  • mconosrepmconosrep Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    savagedeacon wrote: »
    Not necessarily. You could be forbidden to have three pets of the same kind out at the same time.The three pets should be different pets for example a panther, a wolf, a cleric

    Or a Cat, a Blue Ioun Stone and a Green Ioun stone......
  • ghostravynghostravyn Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 59
    edited July 2013
    trevien29 wrote: »
    Yes, but people make that a difficult thing to accomplish. I haven't seen a decent MMO community in a long time
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  • bioshrikebioshrike Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 4,729 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    mconosrep wrote: »
    Or a Cat, a Blue Ioun Stone and a Green Ioun stone......

    Then limit it to the class of pet. For instance, you could have a defender, support, and augment pet, but not 3 augments or 3 defenders.
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