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  • derspenglerderspengler Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    gefjon wrote: »
    I bought the $60 Guardian Pack, but my character still is not being offered a companion.

    I have received the money in the game, so the purchase must have been successful.

    How do I retrieve the companion please?

    Edit - I still do not have the special Forum Title either.

    On the off chance you come back to this thread gefjon, once you get out of the tutorial to Protector's Enclave and speak to Sgt Knox for the first time you should immediately get mail with gift boxes to open containing your pack rewards. You can also go to the vendor just past the guy you visit to get your peasant gear (1st mission Knox gives you) and buy or reclaim (if you throw anything away) your rewards. You'll get a dog collar you can use to bind your dire wolf immediately.
  • heidi77heidi77 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Hi there im new in the game i read alot stuff about companions but cant seem to find anything about mounts :D are they availeble in game and at what lvl and price? im a mount lover :D
  • derspenglerderspengler Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    heidi77 wrote: »
    Hi there im new in the game i read alot stuff about companions but cant seem to find anything about mounts :D are they availeble in game and at what lvl and price? im a mount lover :D

    You get the ability to ride mounts at level 20, Sgt Knox gives you 3 tokens to "rent" a horse for a few hours at a time from the mount vendor in the middle of Protector's Enclave, a full time mount costs several gold for a regular mount, 1 to a character. There are blue and purple mounts that you can get from the Zen store and founder/guardian packs. I don't know about the Zen Store mounts but the mounts from the packs are available to all characters on your account so you'll never actually need to buy another mount if you have any of the packs unless you're going for a certain character look (not everyone looks good on a giant spider). Color determines speed, and you can purchase upgrades to a mount to bump it up to the next rank of speed.
  • vmlinuxvmlinux Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    If you buy a zen companion do you get it for each of your characters? Thinking about buying the ghost, but if it's per character then I'll leave my money in my pocket.
  • tang56tang56 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    vmlinux wrote: »
    If you buy a zen companion do you get it for each of your characters? Thinking about buying the ghost, but if it's per character then I'll leave my money in my pocket.
    All zen store companions are for one character only.
    RIP Neverwinter 26/06/2014
  • vmlinuxvmlinux Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    tang56 wrote: »
    All zen store companions are for one character only.

    Thanks, PW's loss.
  • inumbrateinumbrate Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    What stat(s) are worth putting on a cleric companion or even the Llilend companion ?

    Does power actually increase the healing amount as the tooltip suggests?
    Does crit allow the HoTs to crit ?
    or does nothing really matter?

    Seems that power didn't really do anything to the tooltip of the Llilend's attack so I'm not quite sure what the point of gearing them up or using expensive runes is currently.
  • dragredderdragredder Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    i hate how my panther is weak as **** compared to the dire wolf.
  • annashadowsannashadows Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    If anyone's interested, here is the most updated (that I know of) list of current ingame companions and basic overview, sorted by type:
    http://neverwinternotes.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/companion-master-list-overview/
    All the rune slot types, equip slot types, rank, price and origin are there. No info about usefulness, but you can at least compare them easily in one place and make up your own mind :)

    Also some basic stuff:
    http://neverwinternotes.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/companion-system-general-information/
  • thegreeblerthegreebler Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 2
    edited July 2013
    If anyone's interested, here is the most updated (that I know of) list of current ingame companions and basic overview, sorted by type:
    http://neverwinternotes.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/companion-master-list-overview/
    All the rune slot types, equip slot types, rank, price and origin are there. No info about usefulness, but you can at least compare them easily in one place and make up your own mind :)

    Also some basic stuff:
    http://neverwinternotes.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/companion-system-general-information/

    Worthless threads with basic info we already can get here. Lots of commercials FORCED onto my screen.

    Dont go. No benefit to gamers.
  • thegreeblerthegreebler Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 2
    edited July 2013
    Galeb Rock guy; got him rank 30 on my cleric. Best 30 bucks Ive spent on an mmo. However, while GF are moaning about how great companions are and taking their jobs; this is false. I cannot control the Galeb well enough to control the fight, this makes him USELESS in big boss fights.

    Yes he is useful when soloing. Dummies might say "oh he dont hold aggro!" Actually he does, all you got to do is take two steps away, and NOT hit the thing while he gets aggro. Something you might want to try in groups too if you are dying alot.


    Priestess of Kel; Dummies might say she dont heal... Her lifetap buff on my GWF sais otherwise; When I AOE and get crits we are talking thousands of health healed in two swipes. Only thing that can kill me when I roll with her is MASSIVE spike damage from boss, or her getting PROXIMITY aggro that I dont catch.

    If you do good dps, she is very useful.

    Ghost; least useful zen bought Ive used yet. Will possess lowest level mob in a group, and then die later. Ive tried and tried with her. HAvent figured out how to ; 1. make her possess more than the LOWEST lawn trash, or 2; become more useful than the free cleric.

    Cleric; Free at 16. VERY useful solo if you keep the aggro off her. Sad that she is actually more valuable than 90% of the companions you pay money for.

    To the makers of NEverwinter; Your validity is falling fast. You keep pushing out USELESS companions for money. Funny part is that you are doing this to the people that actually PAY for this game; and you are alienating them in the process.

    Not a sustainable business model. I suggest actually putting work into the companions before just rolling them out there with a bunch of fancy commercialism. You are making stateside gamers think this is just some singapore money grab company.
  • mordwolfmordwolf Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I have a level 30 phoera kills off hordes of adds easily and and takes the aggro off my rogue so far works out great in all situations havent tried it with any other class...but id definately say its a must have in the rogues stable
  • mordwolfmordwolf Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    well actually it is really a simgapore money grab company...most stuff bought has no real impacting usefullness...but on the other hand if you remmber everything including zen can be gotten in game without cash makes it slightly less of a money grabber company...just remember key word is company so its main purpose is to generate money for itself
  • derikmastersonderikmasterson Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    You do know that You can Put Epic Items/Rune stones in your companions slots. Mine are all one of the free level 16 choices.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • prediwave1prediwave1 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Nice Summary. One comment on the Cleric. AI has her enter meele range constantly and dies often due to boss aoe.
  • jc0429jc0429 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Is there a way to tell which companions are best for certain classes? I know from reading some guides that the cat is really good for the CW, but didn't know if the majority were good for all classes. Anyone help with this?
  • shanawdithitshanawdithit Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 50 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q60/TigerSharkman/hinduwarrior_zps139d60b6.jpghinduwarrior_zps139d60b6.jpg


    hey mods/devs how about a warrior/fighter companion like this,
  • far21100far21100 Member Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Where can I get the icons/etc for a companion. I have tried to attach a few, but I get the red "X" and it says wrong type of item?
    Are there special items for a companion? Cleric Disciple is the one I am using.
  • thunderquntthunderqunt Banned Users, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I used the glory from my main character (a GWF) to buy a Floating Dagger companion for my Alt (a Devoted Cleric).

    In my experience, it has not be useless at all. I think it is an incredibly useful pet to use when leveling new characters. I am currently lv 52 and the thing has more HP than I do and hits harder than I do. The fact that you can add GWF Sword Knots means you can add lv 60 purple gear to it 3 times and doing this with glory from my main character was so easy.

    Maybe I am missing something but my experience with this seems to be different.
  • calvin1tagcalvin1tag Member Posts: 322 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Just wait till you start doing Epic T2 dungeons and you will see all the companions with the exception of the Stone and Cat SUCK!! They all have a laundry list of issues / problems I don't care to rehash again but they need to fix ever single "ZEN" companion in this game or just sell the cat and stone as that is all anyone should be buying at this point anyways
  • angryspriteangrysprite Member Posts: 4,982 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Galeb Rock guy; got him rank 30 on my cleric. Best 30 bucks Ive spent on an mmo. However, while GF are moaning about how great companions are and taking their jobs; this is false. I cannot control the Galeb well enough to control the fight, this makes him USELESS in big boss fights.

    Yes he is useful when soloing. Dummies might say "oh he dont hold aggro!" Actually he does, all you got to do is take two steps away, and NOT hit the thing while he gets aggro. Something you might want to try in groups too if you are dying alot.


    Priestess of Kel; Dummies might say she dont heal... Her lifetap buff on my GWF sais otherwise; When I AOE and get crits we are talking thousands of health healed in two swipes. Only thing that can kill me when I roll with her is MASSIVE spike damage from boss, or her getting PROXIMITY aggro that I dont catch.

    If you do good dps, she is very useful.

    Ghost; least useful zen bought Ive used yet. Will possess lowest level mob in a group, and then die later. Ive tried and tried with her. HAvent figured out how to ; 1. make her possess more than the LOWEST lawn trash, or 2; become more useful than the free cleric.

    Cleric; Free at 16. VERY useful solo if you keep the aggro off her. Sad that she is actually more valuable than 90% of the companions you pay money for.

    To the makers of NEverwinter; Your validity is falling fast. You keep pushing out USELESS companions for money. Funny part is that you are doing this to the people that actually PAY for this game; and you are alienating them in the process.

    Not a sustainable business model. I suggest actually putting work into the companions before just rolling them out there with a bunch of fancy commercialism. You are making stateside gamers think this is just some singapore money grab company.

    I personally find this the most useful post in this thread over the last month. Kudos.
  • annashadowsannashadows Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Narayan's "Companion master list & overview" got updated with all the new companion info from after the Feywild patch, so if anyone's interested, here is the most up-to-date list of ingame companions (past and current) and basic overview, sorted by type:
    http://neverwinternotes.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/companion-master-list-overview/

    Recently added:
    Aranea
    Phase Spider
    Blink Dog
    Cold Iron Warrior
    Sylph
    Mystic Phoera

    Some previous updates also include:
    Cave Bear
    Lillend
    Ghost
    Armored Orc Wolf
    Tomb Spider
    Book Imp
    others

    Additionally some basic stuff about companions, equipping them, upgrading, etc:
    http://neverwinternotes.wordpress.co...l-information/

    edit:
    The companion info includes now also all the rank 30 passive skills for when you upgrade your non-purple companion to purple and level it up to rank 30.
  • onememberonemember Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Anyone know that for what role the Pig from Midsummer Festival is good for?
    The more you learn, the more you know.
    The more you know, the more you forget.
    The more you forget, the less you know.
    So.. why learn?
  • sharzadeesharzadee Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Anyone have reviews on how effective the Aranea, the Midsummer pig, and the Blink Dog are?
  • wylderfoxwylderfox Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 43
    edited September 2013
    When you say "blink dog" is that the same as the "phase hound" those who bought the feywild packs received?
  • serpinecohserpinecoh Member Posts: 552 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    wylderfox wrote: »
    When you say "blink dog" is that the same as the "phase hound" those who bought the feywild packs received?
    They are different creatures, the Blink Dog is a potential reward from Tower of Celadaine.
    * Blink Dog: http://neverwinter.gamepedia.com/Blink_Dog
    * Portal Hound: http://neverwinter.gamepedia.com/Portal_Hound
  • jupterfistjupterfist Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Blink dog sounds much like the Phase Spider... which is btw... a great companion for fighting... one of the best so far. Literally, it phases behind the person you are attacking... then goes off on its own to kill. Mine uses it phasing to minimize its damage (this may not be intended but this is what is happening). It has the a ability to attack multiple baddies... even though it does not really list that as a type of attack. I believe it first attack can hit multiple targets. If you get one of these when you are young (you will need to open a lot of chest to get TBars or have your higher character buy you one off the AH) it will do wonders for you. As a guardian... esp when I was below L20... I would just hold my shield up... and my spider would go around and kill everything. I am in my 30's now... and my spider is L22 and going strong. He does not kill things like he use to... but that is understandable. He does seem to take the aggro off of me for a few why I dispatch baddies. Overall... he is a great companion... but we shall see once we get into higher areas. I suspect like all companions... they will have limited uses other than to get aggro or tie up baddies while you catch your breath or wait for your attack timers.

    Speaking of which... the old Mage is a great companion for his ability to blow back the crowd... at any level. That in itself can be a life saver.

    BTW... this is one of my new chars... I have four L60 chars already.
  • serpinecohserpinecoh Member Posts: 552 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    jupterfist wrote: »
    Speaking of which... the old Mage is a great companion for his ability to blow back the crowd... at any level. That in itself can be a life saver.
    The Devastating Smash ability on the wererat thief is also handy for that, though it can be pretty disruptive for less mobile melee characters, particularly in teams.
  • paixerpaixer Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Dunno whether anyone else bumped into this or not, but maybe it'd worth to mention in the OP section that the Upgrade button is an instant one, without any Confirm or Ok or anything... I managed to mis-click on it :(
    300k AD, easily a Mystic Phoera on AH, and I have instead a lame, upgraded man-at-arms... and of course no rollback or refund either.

    So, just carefully with an open companion page, fellas, learn from this ****'s fault and don't throw AD's at PWE for nothing...
  • darkjeffdarkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    paixer wrote: »
    Dunno whether anyone else bumped into this or not, but maybe it'd worth to mention in the OP section that the Upgrade button is an instant one, without any Confirm or Ok or anything.
    In my experience, that's not true. I had to click confirm when upgrading my Ioun stone.
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