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Companions Max level restrictions and why the level restrictions should be removed
iamcovered
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 4 Arc User
It seems to me that the companions are a tease. You have 4 types and they are common (white), uncommon (green), rare (blue), and epic (purple). Here is why I think that they are a tease. Each type is only allowed to raise to a fixed level, but in the description of powers they have a 3rd power that "unlocks" at level 30. The dice set for playing on the website show what the dice will be at level 30. However, the only type that is available to reach level 30 is the epic (purple) and so far the only way to get an epic is to use Zen to buy one or to use real money to get a starter pack that has one. Yes I know you can us AD to buy one from the auction house but I, as so many of us, don't have the millions of AD that are needed to buy one of these elite epic companions.
So here is my suggestion.
Remove the level caps on the companions. Let them all reach level 30.
Here is my reasoning.
Just as there is different class of gear, common, uncommon, rare and epic, each type of class of gear is found at every level and the difference in that gear are the "stats" based on the "class". You could, with common gear, go out and defeat every encounter, yes the challenge increases with common gear, but it is possible to do.
So why the level restrictions on companions?
Each "class", (common, uncommon, rare, epic) already have the balance built into them buy their stats, skills and bonus to the player, so why then put a level cap on them?
Leave your feedback please and let the Neverwinter team know your thoughts about this too.
Thanks
Jack
So here is my suggestion.
Remove the level caps on the companions. Let them all reach level 30.
Here is my reasoning.
Just as there is different class of gear, common, uncommon, rare and epic, each type of class of gear is found at every level and the difference in that gear are the "stats" based on the "class". You could, with common gear, go out and defeat every encounter, yes the challenge increases with common gear, but it is possible to do.
So why the level restrictions on companions?
Each "class", (common, uncommon, rare, epic) already have the balance built into them buy their stats, skills and bonus to the player, so why then put a level cap on them?
Leave your feedback please and let the Neverwinter team know your thoughts about this too.
Thanks
Jack
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As a result, very few people bother rank up their companion, but stick to the ones that are already blue or purple. And that again, obviously, means most companions won't ever see any use at max level. They can have some use before that, but at max level? Forget it. If the max level was removed, however, it means we can freely pick whatever companion we want to use, and we'd see a whole lot more diversity in the game. And diversity is good, right? Who wants a clone war?
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If everyone can rank up companions fully, for no additional cost. Then higher priced purple companions would simply become worthless. Why bother with a Galeb Duhr when your free guard can be leveled up to do the same job? What would be the point in purchasing ANY companion with all the lower level companions offered for free, or as event, and incentive bonuses?
And if you remove that, then we end up with a system where every pet MUST be paid for. And then this no longer becomes an optional system where most of us can get by as is. With a little encouragement to pay into it if you want that little extra bonus. Instead, it will become a system where EVERYONE will have to pay into it fully, weather they want the full bonus or not. That simply does not seem like a system that will sell well to the community.
Compare to a rank 10 radiant enchantment (same bonus, +300 power) which atm costs a staggering 4.1M. Compare to an rank 10 empowered runestone, which atm costs 2.8M (almost 2x the cost). Consider the cleric companion, which gives +300 regen at purple rank. There's not even an enchantment equivalent of that.
I don't know why you haven't noticed this since you're the one bringing it up, but upgrading companions is a much more lucrative way to increase your stats than getting a rank 10 enchantment. And you also get a potentially useful purple companion, besides.
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Exactly. Welcome to the glorious world of F2P microtransactions.
Instead of a set monthly fee, we'll nickle and dime you to death and many people will end up paying more than a subscription fee -- after all, it's only a dollar here and there. Adds up.
F2P -- aka Parable of the boiling frog:
"If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite placidly. As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death."
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And think about it: If we could upgrade for free, purples would be worthless. But since we can't, white, green and purples are useless. The whole system is flawed from the start. And as for "where would they make money?", that's easy enough. Simply give us other things to spend money on. Sell other stuff in the Zen-store people actually want to buy. I don't quite buy the "we need to make money somehow" and selling us a lot of HAMSTER, when tons of other successful F2P games does the exact thing you say can't be done. Just because you're a F2P-game, it doesn't mean you are unique and have to reinvent fire. Take Path of Exile, for instance. They only sell cosmetic stuff in theit store, yet they are doing fine. So why can't Neverwinter?
For their active bonuses. Some of the white comps get great active bonuses at 30, while some of the 'start at purple' comps have crappy bonuses. Most people will be using an augment as their summoned companion most of the time anyway.
Excluding white companions (green ones are quite easy to get for free/cheap promotions or buy from AH at a reasonable price), the cost to upgrade a companion to purple is 1,25mil. While being quite a big sum, it might be a good or bad investment, depending on several factors.
First, do you really need a purple companion? I mean, you can upgrade your basic white cleric to purple, but will it be any better? Nope, the difference is quite negligible and you will only get some +stat as active bonus, you'd get far more with far less by upgrading your enchantments if they are still low, or getting better equipment off the AH.
Second, check if there is a companion that has roughly the same function, but it's already purple and possibly on sale or in the AH or in the current lockbox. As for the healing companion example above, there was a Lillend promotion a few weeks ago, and you can still find Lillends for far less than the upgrade cost.
Third, how far are you into enchantments? If you mostly have r6-r7 stuff, upgrading your companion before upgrading your equipment might be a bad choice. Especially in case of a striker companion, their damage will always be negligible compared to yours.
What they are? How to obtain them?
I didn't find anything in anywhere...
They are from the lockboxes , they are not easy to get , first you need to beat the RNG to get the companion upgrade pack ( no idea if that is it's name) to drop from the lockbox then you need to beat RNG to get one upgrade token , so basically unless you open a hell of a lot of lockboxes using the upgrade tokens is a unrealistic option.
PS: no, I don't really trust them. But that is not a PWE issue.
So what? The people who are enjoying the game and want some new shiny stuff finance the game time of people who don't spend any money. Which then opens up the all the content to everyone for free.
I don't see why people have a problem with that. Some people spend money, the rest get a free game. Is that so horrible?
I'm close to getting the foundry achievement purple companion though, so at least I'll have a free purple one.
Also, I think so far I've spent around 50$ on the game, since I've been playing. So no one is forcing us to spend money on it, we do it when we want to.