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ssunaria
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I got a survey asking me why I don't play anymore. Unfourtunatly nothing actually made sence to why I'm not playing. It comes down to one simple reason. I was enjoying the storyline uptil around L30 or so. With my Cleric companion dying every 5 seconds because I couldn't upgrade it with tomes, I felt like ... **** it this isn't worth the aggravation.
I was enjoying the games storyline as a single player, and couldn't anymore ... so thats the end then ....
I was enjoying the games storyline as a single player, and couldn't anymore ... so thats the end then ....
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u have 2 options...
1. buy better companion from store (im not spender btw)
2. work hard in game to earn zen (best possible feature in game that allow ppl who cant spend real money to still can get all that spender have... all depend how determinate u are...
if u dont know how to earn zen in game tell me and i will gladly explain to you
"COMPANION QUALITY UPGRADE
Can’t bear to part with your common quality Dog even though there are higher quality pets out there? You won’t have to with this new feature that allows you to spend Astral Diamonds to increase the quality of your companions."
Bout Time...LOL You know what it's like to have a choice of 4 or 5 different Lvl 15 companions? Do I take the slow moving Cleric? The dim witted and slow responding Wayward Wizard? The Ankle Biter? (a very handy trick, nonetheless)
Thank Goodness for two things happening. The super special Invasion of Valindra's Army event netted me about 4 Skeletal Dogs, one of which was the RARE blue one (level 25 Max) and a Nightmare Lockbox that took me three weeks to save the Diamonds to buy a key, by buying Zen Coins 8-12 at a time in the Astral Diamond Exchange. I got a Phoera (Epic critter, lvl 30 Max).
Other than that, I have basic Companions.
This is especially true on bosses and times when there are mobs of regular creatures in a dungeon/quest area/whatever that try to surround you. Inevitably, they surround your poor level 15 companion and wipe the floor with it unless you can kill them all in time. The frequency this happens once you get to level 60 varies depending on your class and play style. As a rogue, I found it almost essential to keep my cleric companion alive in order to use her as an aggro shield in places like Mt. Hotenow with ******bag fire rock archon guys and giants.
My clerics are able to survive level 60 Foundry & all the solo 'Fury of the Feywild' except the last fight in the solo dungeons, where they die sometime in the last 1/3 of the 'boss' fights.
But I cannot see you enjoying the upgraded companions as they will cost you 1.6 million AD each, to get your white (level 15) to purple (level 30)! As you can see buying a higher grade companion is generally cheaper!
Also the only things you need to spend real cash for are the packs (HotN, Guardian, Knight, the 2 bag packs) everything else can be bought for earned in game currency! (indirectly: Zen Exchange, Auction House, Direct Trade with players)
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I know there where tomes you could buy to upgrade them at launch but they where disabled. With the promise to reenable them. However each week that I checked the forums they wheren't enabled. So I'm still waiting ... maybe with this fey expantion they will become enabled. I would be happy to spend a few € on them just to buy those tomes
If you have more than one character and the Green Tielfing cleric is still available (Check Neverwinter promotions - IGN) get that instead as it is account bound.
Honestly if you're having difficulty progressing through the game at lvl 30.. Your companion shouldn't be a big concern.
The game is designed to get progressively more difficult as you level up, but yea level 30 is still relatively easy and easily soloable on any class, with all white equipment and no companion.
So yea you really shouldn't be relying on it for much at this point, else youll be running into even further frustration down the road.
But yea companion upgrades are coming august 22nd. Though I can guarantee you upgrading that cleric won't have much impact on the games challenge at all. It will still die frequently.
Best way to keep it alive is to keep the aggro on yourself, and equip it with lifesteal and regeneration items - they are super effective on companions. (a single lifesteal item will give her over 100% lifesteal).
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. . . . . As others have said, if you have a healing companion, you need to keep the aggro off of them. Not sure what class you're playing but the fighter classes have feats that will increase your aggroing of monsters while the Wizard and Cleric have stuff to decrease aggro. I use a few companions, but not a healer, on my Wizard. They rarely die before I do. So far, to level 40 I haven't needed a healer at all for I'm specced for regeneration and life steal. Food for thought!
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Sorry to tell you this but the patches(except the last one) were almost as useless as non augment companions. They still suicide run into groups of mobs and try to hug the boss while standing in red circles.
They finally fixed the sort button:o
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You prefer life-steal/regen on a healer companion to recovery? Is their DPS enough to actual matter as opposed to stacking Recovery so she heals you both more often?