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pointsman
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Which companions are best in terms of their active bonuses for a CW?
Right now I have the cat, a jagged dancing blade, the man-at-arms that I leveled up with, and an armored orc wolf. Should I be thinking about getting something else?
Right now I have the cat, a jagged dancing blade, the man-at-arms that I leveled up with, and an armored orc wolf. Should I be thinking about getting something else?
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I will personally just go with whatever is affordable, so Stone, the cleric chick, the glory and the seals companions (one is useless tho' so I'll need to find replacement). Maybe I'll continue to grind for a Blink Dog in Celadaine's, just to fill a spot.
The only good part in this whole charade is that they are disabled in PvP. They should disable artifacts too.
Most likely it will come down to what stats you might be missing. Maybe you need some regen or deflect or AP gain. So you'll want to look at those companions that give that. In all fairness I'm sure Cryptic is hoping this has the underlying effect of moving more zen pets.
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The only 2 certain choses I made:
- Galeb Duhr, 10% more dmg based on the amount of damage you have taken.
- Fire Archon, 5% dmg boost to mobs under 30%
- Stone of course.
For the other two I will wait, they will certainly release some new companion with the launch of module 2, at least I am guessing that.
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dancing blade (regular version)
book imp
sprite
archon
blink dog (upgraded to epic if renegade)
and also the featured satirical comedic adventure "A Call for Heroes".
It doesn't work like this.
- you don't just do ANYTHING as a company just because it brings profit, it tends to make your products undesirable
- there are 5(?) companions to be had and upgraded as necessary, not one
- there are other priorities: do you have perfects on your char(s)? Rank 8+ enchants? If yes, and you PvE A LOT, then yeah, maybe get companions and upgrade when needed
- what if you have more chars?
- there will be Artifacts to upgrade as well...
In this context, this is a hugely greedy move from PW which I hope smart people will ignore and give as negative feedback as possible.
Will Fire archon stack with Tiefling?
Or just like the tempest magic again...
http://neverwinter.gamepedia.com/Companion#Active_Bonuses
I havent read that anywhere
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IIUC, that bonus is only useful for melee who take significant damage, such as GWF or GF. Wizards aren't supposed to take that much damage.
Fire Archon (hopefully this correctly stacks with Tiefling racial)
Hunting Hawk (for all those who want to purchase the new pack. Alternatively you can go Skyblade Kobold, which should work with Steal Time, Chill, maybe even Entangling?)
Dancing Blade (easy call as it's a nice direct DPS boost especially with EotS)
Wild Hunt Rider or Con-Artist or Dual-Stat-Companion (Mercenary, Wolf, Hawk, can even go defensive as CWs do tons of damage already and the diminishing returns shouldn't be as bad)
that how should companies work.....except for cryptic. if u dont know that u pretty new to game.
Ioun Stone - augment
Blink Dog - +2% (3% 5?%) Combat Advantage Damage
Cantankerous Mage - +15% Control Bonus
Wild Hunt Rider - On Encounter Use: 2% (3%? 5%?) chance to increase by 10% damage for 5 seconds (like EoTS, which procs quite often...) -> needs testing
1 of the following:
Archmage's Apprentice - +55 (+105 +165) Life Steal and Power (going for LS with artifacts and boon anyway...)
Dancing Blade - +3% (5%?) Critical Severity
Stat rating based (also impacts Gear Score):
Non stat-rating (no Gear Score impact):
And this may be the most useful defensive pet at highest rank (also has a Gear Score impact):
I only mention Gear Score for two reasons:
1. Such a stat rating bonus could most likely be used to replace for Power on yourself.
2. It makes clear the opportunity cost of slotting a pet that does not improve your stats.
My possible choice:
Stone
Blink dog(Thaum with Nightmare wizardry)
Dancing Blade
The first 3 is a nobrainer.
Then:
Book imp (probably you can hardly get it)
Fire archon(fingers crossed for tiefling)
Hunting Hawk
Sprite
In Module 2, you can no longer have multiple of the same companion in Active Slots.
In mod2 we got around 1k gear stats thanks to the new slots. No point in getting more expect of course the soft capless Power.
If you have 24% armpen, no point of stacking it.
And the softcaps for crit/recovery will be met with the artifacts most likely.
The only stats that might be worth stacking is power.
Im going all-in on companions that gives other stuff.
Ioun Stone of Might - 5% Stamina Regen
Dancing Blade - +3% Critical Severity (more on epic)
Fire Archon - Increase damage against targets with less than 30% Hit Points by 5%
Galeb Duhr - Deal up to 10% more damage based on the percentage of damage you have taken.
Dont know for last spot yet, but i have:
Blink Dog - +2% (3% ?%) Combat Advantage Damage
Wererat Thief - On Encounter Use: 3% (5%) chance to poison target
Ioun Stone of Allure - On Encounter Use: 7% (10%) chance to slow target
Phoera - On Resurrection: +1000 Regeneration and Power; Duration: 10 seconds
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also you crit more than 50% with eots.
So 5% severity = 2.5% extra damage atleast.
also nightmare wizardry with eots on has around 40% uptime.
and also the featured satirical comedic adventure "A Call for Heroes".
By itself, that's true. But it gets you nearer to your desired RSI if you're using the type of build that needs high RSI. Plus it's free, so might as well take it when we get the chance.
I am unfamiliar with the math of what gives more damage. +300power or +5%crit severity(on p.vorpal)
Can someone give me a link for it plz. I didn't find so far.
Then Sellsword or Mercenary are also good choices.
I think plain +2% Recharge speed with the Book Imp is a good choice.
1. Ioun Stone (Zen)
2. Dancing Blade - Crit Severity (PVP Honor)
3. Blink Dog - Combat Advantage Damage (Think I have one in the bank)
4. Fire Archon - Increases damage against targets with less than 30% Hit points by 5% (Zen??)
5. Cleric - Regen (Gold)
Backup Options:
Skeletal Dog - Life Steal
Sellsword - Power
Skeleton Warrior - Life Steal/Power
Archmage's Apprentice - Life Steal/Power
Mercenary - Power/Crit
the problem with the white quality companions like the Cleric is that regen is +25 and I'm personally not spending about 1.5M AD to get it to purple to get +300 regen.
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