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Can you play NW without using a companion
kaizermos87
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I can't stand having companion characters. Is it possible to play this game without companions and still complete end game content etc? I understand not having one will of course make you weaker, or is the game tuned so that you need a companion?
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For end game, as others have mentioned, the cat or the stone become the most useful. And far less annoying. Anything that essentially gives you access to 3 more gear slots is hard to pass up. Provided you can live with having a cat following you around or a glowing rock buzzing your head.
Personally I was hoping for a glowing cat buzzing around my head.
Depends on what you mean by end game content:
1. The solo questline would be doable. Might be hard, but that'd depend on you.
2. PvP doesn't let you even use a companion, so obviously no problem there.
3. Dungeons would depend on your group. With the new passive bonuses coming in for companions I wouldn't be surprised if you got kicked for not using even one. But if you're playing with friends, sure.
If you just don't want something following you around.... I'd suggest saving up your AD and getting an ioun stone. Its a companion that doesn't attack or anything. Its just a tiny graphic whirling around your head. But it transfers most of its stats to you. Making you stronger.
The companions don't have to be out/summoned. They just need to be sitting in an active slot to receive their bonuses.
But, in practice, for endgame groups doing high level PvE, unless you are a Cleric (who do not benefit as much from Augment companions because most of their output is mitigation), you will likely be not accepted or kicked out of the group if you don't have a Stone or Cat.
However, come the next major patch, even unsummoned companions will be granting bonuses in PvE, so not having any companions at all may get you odd looks...
If you play with a stone you pretty much have no companion. It does not interact neither with you nor with the foes.
I talk to my stone allllll the time. And he talks back! I've named him and everything!
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I'm nearly sure you're absolutely correct on this but I cannot find the post I'm nearly sure I read that confirms it.
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If you show up with no companion at all. It'd be pretty obvious. Unless you come up with an excuse for not having one summoned. That said if you play with friends or something it shouldn't be an issue.
*Just switched to preview and tested it. The passive bonuses for being in an active slot do add to the gearscore rating number. Maybe they intend to change it though, who knows.*
That's odd because I didn't think augment companions add to the gear-score now. They add to the totals for individual stats, but I don't think its counted in the rating number.
Pets have never added to Gear Score in any way shape or form.
So, its more likely the other way around come Module 2. Active Bonus of companions may show up as "Features", i.e. the same as Boons, and therefore, when they contribute to a stat rating or HP, are added to your Gear Score.
EDIT:
Just tested it on Preview. The above behavior I stated is correct. There are 21 out of at some 52 companions that impact on stat ratings or HP and therefore influence Gear Score. Individually, the impact is low, but if all five of your Active Slots have such companions they do add noticeably. For example,
Ioun Stone of Allure = 105 Life Steal + 105 Deflection
Cave Bear = 400 HP
Hawk = 55 Armor Penetration + 55 Critical strike
Wolf = 55 Armor Penetration + 55 Recovery
Skeleton = 55 Life Steal + 55 Power
+Gear Score for a CW = 105x2 + 0.26x400 + 55x2 + 55x2 + 55x2 = 644.
The bonuses would be even higher if the pets are ranked up past their initial Quality.
Combined with Artifacts, which also passively grant stats from all three slots by up to an additional 1000, this is effectively (at least from player's perspectives in group PvE and Artifacts in PvP) an increase in level cap, a kind of "soft" level cap increase.
It seems they do intend for them to increase your gear score.
Also my main is a sent gwf with the regen/tankiness and has no need for a companion
That's what augment companions are for. Ioun Stones for example: They aren't attacked. They don't draw enemies. You stealth, and they disappear too. They do no damage to the enemy, instead they buff you. Its like not even having a companion.