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Ioun Stone of Allure or Ioun Stone of Radiance?
yethens
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Which one should I upgrade to purple for my CW? (I only have AD's for one) First I bought the Allure but then afterwards I got the Radiance. Looking only at the active bonus it seems to me that the Radiance (+55 Life Steal +55 Deflect) might be better than the Allure (7% chance to slow target). But then they have different summoning bonus so I dont know which one is better for my CW.
Can anyone give me some advice?
Can anyone give me some advice?
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Thx, but that was not my question...
Is closely related though, particularly if you are thinking of upgrading the Radiance stone as the Allure gives a special benefit (although wasn't it bugged at Epic level?)
Check how many +life steal and +deflect points you would get from upgrading your Radiance Stone from Blue to Purple, and how much you would get by spending the same money upgrading your enchants. Depending on what level your enchants are, either route may be more beneficial.
If it helps in your decision making though, i upgraded my allure to epic, and the 7% becomes 10%
If the regen of the radiance is tempting just use a Youth item in the neck, ring or icon slot
Radiance is going to cost you at least 350k AD more to upgrade
Also whether you prefer an icon slot or a belt slot might help you decide, since most L60 purple belts have HP which doesnt work for pets i prefer the Allure
Couple of points. Is the Alure Epic bonus bugged still? And hasn't the HP not transferring issue been fixed?
This has been fixed since module 2.
And my answer is with the others, that upgrading either to purple is a completely insignificant benefit relative to other things you could spend the AD on. Upgrading the radiant stone to blue is worthwhile for the gear slot. If the money is seriously no object... I'd probably consider obtaining and upgrading a different companion like a Wild Hunt Rider or Cantankerous Mage.
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Well I wouldn't be too concerned about the active bonus that much when talking about an Ioun Stone.
Really what matters is the gear and enchants on it you can equip it with. I go from a 13,000 gear score to about a 15,000 gear score with one in, even though it doesn't show it on your actual gear score. And that's just with level 6 and 7 enchants on an Allure at Rare.
But if you're talking CW, the two big ones in PvE are generally power and recovery which the Allure gives a ton of. If Renegade build... Crit Strike is good as everything you do depends on it.
In PvP things are very different, and there you may want health/regen/life steal but especially Armor Penetration.
Generally deflection isn't that huge for a mage. Life Steal can be depending on what you do mostly.
He can use his companion in PvP?
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I didn't mean to imply that, I was just giving the OP the Stats a CW generally needs and for what they need them for depending on their build.
Yes it takes up a slot.
Augment means that it doesn't fight or heal, and just passes on all of its stats and those of the runes/enchantments on it to you.
Well for the OP, I don't see the point of spending AD to upgrade a green Radiant to blue when he already has a blue Allure. (And as everyone else has said, upgrading to purple is silly). For everyone else, the blue Allure is cheaper to buy than upgrading the green Radiant.
I don't really see any viable argument for upgrading the Radiant stone, tbh.
The slow effect is pretty laughable but it does kick in once in a while.
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If money/AD is of no concern to you, go with a purple radiance stone for the maximum bonus.
Otherwise, a blue allure is better than a green radiance for the extra equipment slot. But if you can upgrade it to blue, extra points are way better than a slow effect, especially as a CW (you already have plenty of slow/knock/freeze powers, you wouldn't even notice the slow effect proc).
For the vast majority of players, the benefits aren't going to be worth the AD, but for top geared characters, Radiance (or Might) is a better fit. Might has a better active bonus, but the expense is even greater too.
For maximum offense, Might>Radiance>Cat>Allure.
Augment companions (specifically the Stones) are actually summoned and are next to you in-game all the time, except they are invisible. You can see them under specific instances, such as whenever you change maps/enter or exit an instance: if you watch carefully you can see a beam of light fade in and fade out immediately right next to you. THAT is your Stone companion.
In other circumstances you can see the blue circle that indicates the presence of companion on the ground, but otherwise invisible. So to answer the real question I suspect you have: No, you cannot summon another companion while "wearing" the stone (you must summon the stone to "wear" it, and only one companion can be summoned at a time).
Upgrading Companions:
The only reasons to upgrade ANY companion (Stone or not) is for additional equipment slots and (primarily) for use in Gateway/Sword Coast Adventures tier 6 dungeons. Therefore only you can decide if it's worth it or not (ignore the people who proclaim it's not worth it - what they mean is that it's not worth it to them, you may feel differently.)
Hence: Logic dictates that if you don't intend to use that companion (ANY companion) in SCA very often, and you further don't intend to use that companion in game a lot (as a summoned companion) for the extra gear slots, then the (stunningly high) Astral Diamond cost could be put to better use elsewhere, such as higher-ranking enchantment, etc.
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This may have changed since then, or never manifested. But if so, I didn't hear about it. I don't pvp, so I couldn't say.
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Anything companion related never went into pvp. I don't know where you heard that, but you were told false information. The easiest way to see this is to get any companion that changes your stats, check your stats before entering pvp, then check your stats after you enter pvp.