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exard3k
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So two weeks left for new module. I'm planning to roll a protection paladin and wondering which (type of) companion you would recommend for leveling and lvl 70 business.
With my GF I experienced low damage and long fights when leveling and doing dailies and I fear this will be the same with the paladin. Astral Deva comes in mind...or Angel of Protection for healing.
your thoughts?
With my GF I experienced low damage and long fights when leveling and doing dailies and I fear this will be the same with the paladin. Astral Deva comes in mind...or Angel of Protection for healing.
your thoughts?
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I will roll a healing Paladin.
But if you want to purely tank and withstand alot of damage, I would go for the Angel of Protection. It has very powerful abilities that heal you and reduce the damage you take.
If your party will let you do your job, you will constantly take damage, and the Angel will heal you 2 in 2 seconds for 6% of your HP.
Those small cd heals will allow Bonding Runestone to proc alot of times, you will have 3 stacks active many times, which means that during combat you will have an active combat companion and an active augumentation companion.
There are other alternatives, but for the tank, the Angel will excel, as she posseses a special ability that reduces all damage taken by 50% for 10 seconds once each 50 seconds.
Also there is another ability that's always active while she is summoned, it reduces the damage taken by 5%.
Have fun,
Almondum.
Why? Companions massively profit from their level boost, they resurrect themselves 10 seconds after going doggie style in combat (some sources say this'll work for all, some that might work only for legendaries), and, yeah, draw some aggro away from you. Whether this is alwayys desireable or not is a different topic. But basically their survivability gets buffed quite a bit.
Furthermore there are companions that stand back before you initiate the fight, but rush in and aggro mobs once you start it. That won't stop them from getting stuck on corners and in dungeons every now and then, but this probably isn't soooo relevant with Mod 6, as the time of pulling half the dungeon to the big slaughter fields in front of the boss door probably are over for a while...
On topic:
For leveling I'll first take the Sylph (50% CC resist. No other way...).
Next one of the numerous Frost Mimics from the Simril trader as a first try... ...nicely aggressive, decent damage, already now fairly robust, will be even more so with a Healadin, and heck, why not? But this can probably be exchanged by any other melee Striker or Defender that doesn't cap out at Lvl 20...
Third one will be the Priestess of Sehanine Moonbow - -30% crit chance for the reds and +15% for me is plainly a wiin-win-situation.
Number four then will be the Guardian Angel. But then I have some LS mules that can just buy it with invoke coins, and it's BoE...
Number five on my list is an augment, finally... ...not sure which one, gotta get the feel for the Pal's needs first.
Sylph and Priestess of Sehanine Moonbow are Pay companions, but as they are from Packs, they are unlocked accouunt-wide. So those don't cost me any money or AD - apart from that augment pet.
I went Bulwark also (tanking line).
Ioun of Might was far superior, to be honest.
-Kymos
1000 TarmaBars... ...that's - optimistically guessed - what? 100 Lockboxes? So, ca. 10k ZEN?
Not sure if you want to give meaningful advice or brag about how affluent you are...
Augments are superior in group, solo you might want to have a "healing companion", if you have a full set of the hit point gear from mod 6 quest lines (Bare minimum.).
-Kymos
...so you're probably one of the mailing gift recipients. Sweet for you. Or one of your friends was and gave plenty of them to you and some of your mules still have theirs unequipped...
I didn't get that even though I'd been in the game since November '13 and had bought some ZEN before that :^(
So, looking at the OP's join date, he might or might not have access to those. However other playeers might look in, which is why I put up the current price...
I use both, I only need Ioun of Might for the 5% stamina...it's always active as long as the stone is in some slot.
Angel is my summoned companion, keeps healing me and giving that awesome passive shield and the active shield when I get nucked.
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I use a healer on every class other than a DC.
If you are playing a Prot Paladin then a healer would probably be the best bet I assume. If a Heal paladin then my initial thought would be the man-at-arms which I think has an aggro ability.
If not a healer then DOG FTW. Dog has Armor Penetration active slot stat (which you'll *need* in levels 60-70) and Interrupt/knockdown attacks. And also because DOG! C'mon! How can you NOT!? Mine in named Fifi.
Angels of Protection are BoE and therefore pretty cheap on the AH for an epic companion.
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Freebie Dog and Freebie (promotion) GWF Dwarf (I forget her name) both give Armor Penetration and Recovery. That and I'm plopping Red Enchants (Armor Penetration) into my gear where I have slots - I've decided to focus on ArmorPen at my beginning levels and I'll start concentrating on HP later on (50's-sh).
So far for not having any DPS I'm tearing them apart, feels nice and strong and I don't feel like I have lackluster DPS (at this point) but I am only in my 20's so far. My summoned companion is a healer but haven't needed much healing as of yet (and haven't taken a single potion yet, either) - but I know that will all change as I level up so I am using the leveling opportunity to get some companion XP to rank it up.
This is my own recipe, others will have different ones I'm sure.
The Acolyte doesn't actually heal you until she reaches rank 30, and that was reportedly bugged and I don't know if it's been fixed.
The Angel is an actual healing companion right out of the box.
The Angel also has a more universally useful active bonus.
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Yes.
I posted detail on your original thread.
The thing is your dps starts to drop off at the same point where other classes tend to pick up dps. This is mostly due to the fact that we get very little damage feats, its pretty much all support based. That said I am pretty much untouchable, I heal probably 3 times faster than I take damage, I can even pull 4 or 5 groups and just melee them all down or wait on encounter cooldowns if I want. In fact that is what I have been doing, just pulling 3 or 4 groups of mobs and using encounters, I have yet to face anything that could be called dangerous, even dungeons would be easily soloed they just take forever due to doing low dps. Granted this is as a healing paladin, tank paladin might be different but from what I have heard they are just as beefy at 30.