Some Of The Better & Best Companions To Use In Neverwinter Mod 16
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- In this neverwinter video i talk about some of the better if not the best companions to use in mod 16 for dps classes for console players to prepare.
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1. The Stalwart Golden Lion some people say is amazing and other people say it sucks!
Im not sure if it is bugged, good or bad so please do your own research.
2. The Tamed Velociraptor is amazing!!! BUT only if you run it with a full team at least 4 people using it and preferably 5.
If all 5 people in your group have it on it is by far the best option.
3. POWER is key in mod 16. so try to use companions that give you power. i mentioned all of them in this video and there are not many of them.
4. According to Rainers sheet that i linked there is only 2 Defense slot companions that give power and only 1 thats gives +4000 power.
The Minstrel gives +4000 power & The Ion Stone of Might gives +2000 power. Making them a bit rarer.
5. The Alpha Compy Is Best but it is so expensive thats why i didnt mention it til the end.
6. Remember every class has different companion slots! so know what you need and do your research.
For example the wizard has 3 offense 1 defense and 1 utility while the Barbarian has 2 Defense 2 Offense & 1 utility i think and other classes have different setups.
7. Remember in mod 16 to get the Legendary companion bonus you will have to have 5 companions that are in the same bolster meaning as your summoned companion.
So depending on what companion you will use you will need more different legendary companions then the 5 you are running.
8. This is only a guide. You should ALWAYS do your own research and see what works best for you.
9. All of these companions were already very expensive before i even made this video on xbox and have been for weeks since the smart people took their time to research weeks ago.
10. Hope this helps some of you.
Make sure you check out Rainer's guide here : docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fP_cUugHdsObvQDzLFijGA-mVm_qLmSy0MI62aTLkDM/edit#gid=119945880
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cos your companion needs to use their powers in order to proc the buff from lion, which augments dont do :)
Stalwart golden lion should mathematically be superior to all other companions. 10% damage per stack of radiant weapon, with a max stack of eight = 80% damage = 80,000 power (bear in mind itdoesn't actually add to the stat, but should have the same effect for at Will's/encounters/dailys, but not for any passives or feats), and that is with at least 4 people running with it summoned, not to mention it's a very tank comp. But it may be bugged, because it should be decimating. Or it is decimating and people are trying to drive the price down.....but that never happens in NW lol
@@yopp3.016 that is not how it works, its a maximum of 10% radiant damage, not 80% read the tooltip again. you dont get a maximum of 8 stacks. you only ever get one and the reason is easy to see, its a 50% on "your companion's" power use "not yours" and companion powers have cd too. i did test with 10 striker companions at max rank and only even had 1 up at a time. yh not sure where you got that info from but nope.
@@DonatingCancer have you even played mod16?
@@juniorolumide got the info from the tooltip, and the Lions actual power (aurulent roar) adds 2 stacks of radiant weapon to everyone within 50' of it's power. You can have a maximum of 8 stacks of radiant weapon. Now I know why some say it's terrible and some say it's awesome, the ones that say it's terrible don't have it summoned or are out of range (CW, SW, HR, AC), the ones that say it's awesome have it summoned. Just FYI it does add to your damage upon comp use, I use it currently in mod 15 lineup unsummoned and it works like a champ. But it isn't a max of 80%, it would only be 26% at max stacks, just noticed a difference between celestial Lions presence (10% buff) and radiant weapon (2% buff).
I appreciate the videos you make keep up the good work.
thx brother
Yo bro I Appreciate the Effort u put into your videos and I never watch a video that u made that didn’t help me thank u and keep it up
Great info bro!! Thanks!! Thumbs up!
thx bro
Also, for solo players, the healing comps are supposed to get a buff soon. Might be worth a gamble if you see them low
thx bro good vid
Great video hopefully i can get afew over the corse of the next few weeks just came back to the game after a long time and had to get better enchants first lol
no prob good luck
Great explanation of the importance of how Companions work.
Been using the Portal Hound and I was focused on making it Legendary, but after watching this video, I'll go for the Bulete Pup.
The green Bulete Pup on PS4 is around 900k ADs at the AH. Sad that devs put a daily cap to convert RADs to ADs, making my way grinding 100k AD per day... hopefully, after 10 days I might buying it.
Thanks for the video!
Perfect guide. TY.
Great informative video. Maybe a mount one, next? Had 8m AD for a legendary but bought a lot of MoPs during sale. May use the 4.5m left to get some of these companions instead.
Mountpowers will get a huuuuuge nerf. For a leg should the + 10k Power be the bis OR the griffon with 30% cooldown on encounters if you proc a artifact. There are artifacts dat give cooldown 15 sec on misshit. There you go every 15 sec use artifactpower to reduce encounterpower to Spam more encounters which fills the AP faster also
i would get a +10000 power mount or a tensers floating disc.
I still have a hunch they aren't done tweaking companions. Augment companions I believe are the band-aid to fix a catch up problem everyone is having. I used an augment companion when my overall item level was low just to keep up, I think that is the case for everyone now. It will be completely different in a month or two I'm sure.
polar bear club lmaooooo, that made me laugh so hard l0l thank you for that one ahaha, keep up the good vids btw xD
;)
He was right dude best comp for a healer so stfu
polar bear cub is the BiS aug companion for healers. what is so funny about it?
@@blackcitadel37 he said 'polar bear club' instead of cub, hence the comment lol, i know its bis dw
Something that most people don't look at or consider when making list like this. When you compare companions and are choosing which to use summoned vs augment you also have to consider the companions encounter powers themselves. The best example would be the Dread warrior. One of its encounter powers is called Siphon Strike the Dread warrior strikes a foe and you and the Dread warrior are healed by the damage done from the strike. This is minimal healing at best not a power a player would consider needing or wanting from a companion at this point in the game. However the Dread Warrior has a passive ability called Warrior’s Thirst and Life gained by Siphon Strike fills the recipient with a thirst for combat and increases damage dealt by 10% for the duration of the heal. I have hit a training dummy for 10 hours to test the up time of this dmg bonus and it has about a 65% up time. As a dps class 10% dmg increase is huge exspecially 65% of the time.
Great video. Alot of good.info especially for the dps folks out there. We need yall doing damage!!! Watch everyone of your vids bro. Much love n peace!
Damn bro where you been mr greatest rant in neverwinter history video maker ;)
TheNickFloShow i agree with Assist Man, your rant video was epic and needed. Was nice to see you let them have it.
Man I remember the Minstrels was less than 1k each, now look at them, if only there was a way to foresee all of these prices lol, I wonder if all cheapies will get higher in price, who knows.
they have been 100k + for a few weeks now i bought like 5 for 110k
Gotta respect them rhyms :)
Quasit is a good augment companion but be warned he can get VERY talkative.
Worse that the talking skull?
@@Barbariandisks Well I don't mind his voice lines. They are pretty funny actually but occasionally he bugs out and keeps mounting/dismounting his little flying disc and just spams his voice lines over and over lol
I want a Brie Larson companion that when you summon says “Thank you VAAAAARY much”
I had a comment, but you are a cool guy and will leave it at that. Goodbye mate, if the game ever recovers.
Not sure if it’s said or not but the Minstrel can be acquired at the beginning for the seer girl
For my paladin Tank I use Chicken 10% Damage negation , Frozen Galeb Dhur 10% Damage Resistance (Good For Downscaled Dungeons) , the companion with 8k critical avoidance , deep crow hatchling (8k Power) , Energon (HP ) for utility -- when you said combat enchancement you meant utility companions the only class that has 2 utility companions is the cleric (1 Offensive Companion, 2 Utility Companions , 1 Defensive Companion ) - for minstrel you can easily get it from sybella so you don't need to buy it from others, for my wizard I use Alpha Compy 5% Power in utility slot ( with master expedition gear) I can have 10% power - Note: for Stalwart Golden Lion Radiant Damage is magic damage so the one that benefits from it the most is SW - DC - CW still it is damage boost
thx for the info i dont know anything about tanks
that also might be why some say the lion is good and others say it is not
@@TheRealAssistMan yes that is why paladin for example there is hybrid build where you stack intelligence and charisma instead of constitution .. I think stalwart lion charges stacks is affecting bronzewood weapon enchantment remember bronzewood has radiant damage but for that boost to work you need lion charges first so that damage is on the second rotation however for dps it is best for dps to slot vorpal .. So this equip is good for tank or healer because uptime of bronzewood is not 100 percent and lion is not augment so for dps you are loosing 10 - 12 k power at least
I wasn't aware that it boosts magic damage only. Tooltip only says 10% as radiant damage, the base damage type shouldn't matter, or am I wrong?
Edit: www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/5xu3gz/radiant_lightning_necrotic_fire_poison/
According to this, which is only one of the sources I found, the damage types make no difference, which would imply that the lion is actually broken on different classes and not activating completely. I'm guessing that the equip power isn't working, but the Lions ability is. Need to test in group to be sure.
what i'm wondering, and I don't even know if anybody knows, is if they cap dmg res at 50% and you're already capped on defense, does extra dmg res% do anything or is it just like being overcapped on defense?
Also deep crow will be 650 trade bars in mod 16 as well
I have both the Deep crow hatchling and Bulette pup at legendary and my overall stats(including power) drop using the Bulette pup.
imo deep crow is better
for summoned: Augment: best augments in order; Bulette Pup (power-CA), polar bear cub (Power-crit). CA>Crit (you should be overcapped on crit without doing much)
Bonuses; Deepcrow (8k power), Tamed velociraptor (2k per any party member that has it, 10k max), Staldorf (8k CA, you need 118k CA so yh it makes all the sense), Minstrel (in defense slot for 4k power, no better choice here), Owlbear cub (for utility, yes this may not show up in Act but i've done tests with it on and off and i can tell it contributes more than any other), But on the otherhand, the best choice for utility is Alpha Compy, reason i put it behind owlbear is easy, not alot of ppl have this, and its super expensive on pc right now. other ok choices for utility are mercenary (4k power 2k CA), Barbarian's shaman (4k Ca, 2k power), hunting hawk (can do up to 10% damage depending on ur distance from the target, max range being 80, so im assuming its 2.5% at every 20m from ur target, should be really good on bosses and for rangers ofc)
PD: i haven't tested everything in utility but i have tested companions like death slaad, cockatrice, grung and they aint that good.
Also everything in this comment is at legendary.
great info i agree
The Minstrel is the easiest to get for free in Uncommon rarity. All you have to do is to complete that Orbs of something quest chain from the intro campaign in the game and use Sybella's currency to buy one.
yup its great for new players that have access that havent spent their tokens
The leg golden lion Grants 10% more damage if your summoned companion attack. So if you use an augment comp. This Bonus is useless because augments do NOT attack. So for Utility slot Best comp are what you say is the Alpha and those with Power OR the owlbear cup because everything got a huge nerf and This comp give you 10%Chance (if you not crit) to Deal 50% damage of your POWER. Lets say you have around 200k power ( silly but possible) 10%x 1/2 ( 50%crit) = 5% Chance to Deal extra 100k damage. Think About dat
yeah I was just coming in here to ask about the lion/augment thing
also I think somebody commented on another vid that they suck, but I see he addressed that above -- maybe I can find the comment
Prices are absolutely redicules. They should be dropping things in chests and on que completion, that way these things become more available
Hi I have 2 questions please.
1. Can I have my deep crow summoned and still gain the 8000 power in an offensive slot?
2. Can you use 3 deep crows in 3 different offensive slots?
Thank you Assist Man for all your time spent on these videos 👍
yes
no i wish
I started to play to neverwinter when I saw your pg, when will be release mod 16 in PS4? I play on PC. I'd like to know what you will do with you pg, thank you for all your amazing videos!
What about the companions who give damage in %?
Doesn't that work out the same as when I take some with me?
(Siege Master, Arcanist and so on)
So bought the mercenary and minstrel at green and started levelling them up and noticed the mercenary bonus is greyed out.Never seen this b4 any ideas?
Just bought the Bulette Pup from you on Xbox lol...
thank you you got the best price then
The Assist Man.....question hoss. So im on xbox and i have a gwf/barbarian and i have the alpha compy stalwart lion and mercenary. But i also have a Legendary Black Dragon Ion Stone. Do you know what the effect or boost in mod 16? Id really like to know. Honestly I still love that companion!!
yes the black dragon ion stone gives +8000 critical strike
@@TheRealAssistMan sweet thanks hoss
Am I missing something or did they change the Bulette Pup?? I have a bulette pup and the stats you mentioned in the video isn't what they are in game.
The Assist Man I'm confused...so if you're saying the Bulette Pup agument companion is BIS, then how can you recommend the Lion Companions utility power...the description, and actually tested as well, says the 10% dmg buff is ONLY activated on "companion power use"...so any agument pet used as your summend will never activate the Lions 10% dmg buff since augments don't attack or use powers in combat.
true, thats if you are running a fighter companion.
Okay, I was wondering whether it's worthwhile to get the bulette from the trade bar store. Looking at this, I guess it is.
Well, I guess I’m not gonna be getting a better companion anytime soon. Spent all my ad on the tiger.
What’s best aoe or single target dps DPS
Hello assist man :D. What abt the icosahedron ioun stone? It shows no stats on the list. Thx
Just some advice .. I’m a new player.. it would be helpful if u showed some gameplay of your gonna do a list like this
yeee, problem with golden lion is the fact it doesnt proc with augments ;( as you wrote in the video while you spoke about it ;(
yeah i know ;(
Can you do a mod 16 wizard arcanist build please?
when we get it on console i plan on doing a build like i do every mod for the cw
A non complaining video? I don't believe it.
Ok. I just started back a couple days ago. I see you can pick different companion powers. Do I only get benefits from the summoned companions or from the slotted powers?
all of them
Can you make a video on masterwork crafting?
yup
You have 5 slots...does it matter which slots your companions go in. Like are the 3 slots offense the 4th defense and that last slot utility? Not sure how they need to be lined up? Thanks.
depends on what class you are they all have different slots
I play as mof,when u say CW i have the same slots as u?
Yeah
yes
Mr Las Vegas
Why would ppl buy the minstral when it's basically given to you..?
Wow this might be the last straw for me now all the good companions I have are bad and I need to get new ones. They really messed the game up tons of people are gonna quit instead of buying all new stuff.
thats rpg games. nothing stays best for forever its sad i know
@@TheRealAssistMan it's more the fact that almost all the bis stuff is changing for the worst. It's almost like they want people to buy zen to go back to bis. It just seems shady I expect some of the new stuff to be stronger that's power creep this is something else entirely. Maybe im crazy just how I feel... Also that's one of the reasons I love your channel always replying to you viewers.
nah man you are right for the most part. thx bro i try my best
@@TheRealAssistMan I'll keep watching regardless hell maybe the game will go back to a point where I want to play it again.
It's like buying a BMW i8, going to bed, and then waking up to a Ford pinto in your driveway.
Where does the minstrel companion drop? Does anyone know
that is from the campaign from sybella when you pretty much start the campaign go to Neverember in protector enclave she is in door next to neveremeber , but you need to take quest from knox first before going to her
yup this but people have most likely spent all their tokens so it can drop from dungeons rarely or buy from auction house.
Well, for someone that only makes 40k~50k AD/day, i will never have any of them, so.... ;/
are you on xbox?
@@TheRealAssistMan pc... I only have time to do The easy random queue and 3 me per Day kk
ahh sorry man if you were on xbox i would give you them for free ;)
did I not reply to this?
anyway, post up your @ and I'll hook you up with something
thought I already commented
The Assist Man What are you giving for free? I’m on Xbox and have been a struggling day 1 player since it was release on Xbox. Just so you know how upset I am. I sold a transcendent vorpal for 1.4 mil RIGHT before the price sky rocketed. My face was priceless
But If someone use augment with the Lion Power Will never get the buff from Lion, once ur companion need to use a Power tô trigger It effect
yes exacyly, but not everyone wants to use a augment some still prefer companions
@@TheRealAssistMan wich one u think is the best for someone that uses augment? I only have tokens to upgrade 1 comp to legendary so I have to decide what kind of companion i'll use
My companion only does 1dmg
From whrer the pup drop ?
random dungeon rewards
It’s 00:27 June 3rd... are you doing some sort of mass lockbox unopening cuz I see The Assist Man getting a bunch of stuff in the chat log. Lol
yeah i opened like 200 of them was bored still lost a ton of money lol
How is bullete bis as a green?
you need to upgrade it
My companion does five damage what do I do
get a new one
Thought deep crow hatchling was best in slot summoned lol
no never has been
@@TheRealAssistMan got it from mmominds lol
Alpha Compy 8.5 Mil on Xbox.
might be cheap lol i bought mine months ago for like 4 million ad
The Assist Man They were posted for 50 million not too long ago. I have one on my GWF but I don’t play that class anymore. Too bad companions weren’t account wide 😢
yeah i know they were more at 1 point. i see you selling some good stuff in the ah ;)
The Assist Man You do? lol. I’ve been holding on to Anvil artifacts and Orcus Wands for way too long now. I have a few Coin artifacts too I want to sell but only if they go up in price 😝
I always see your name in the auction house too lol.
yeah lol i see you watch my videos and get the right stuff. the anvils i still have 3 myself and the orcus wands i have like 20 legendary ones but mostly to give away ;)
And what happen whit Walter?
lol its Never Ember written as Neverember lol
man I sold a black ice ioun stone lol crap
I won't bother with augment comps, combat companions is what i prefer. Before someone types about endgame, i dont care about endgame, i enjoy the journey to endgame more so than endgame itself, and i blame world of Warcraft for the lack of interest for endgame
Agreed. The endgame loses its luster when you get there.
And most importingly u dont have to wastee your time grindingg for this stuff cuz they only gonna change it yet again next mod. Pointlless going bis.
Glad you decided not to complain in this video, I quit watching your videos because all the negativity.
It is called REALNESS. not negativity. you have to be able to see the positives and negatives. you might want to stay not watching cause that will never change
At legendary...... In other words, the DEVs want players to grind more, make less, and have to spend more AD..... Yeah... screw this game..... It was already grindy enough....
yup exactly lol. it sucks i know. im giving the guides and info to people but best beleive i dont agree with it either
@@TheRealAssistMan what would you use in the utility though since u have the bullet summoned? the golden lion i dont think works with augment companions nor do i have compy.
lol rainer is a big noob :)
You’re inflating the market early. Screwing the people on console who do their own research. I love your videos but shit man you’re fuckin us
no im not. if it wasnt for me then none of the shit you have would sell. also, i am in the business of making everyone have a fair chance at things so not just a group of people can control the market. sorry bro. you should be thanking me.
are you on xbox??
Not trying to argue so I’ll leave it at that. Again I enjoy your videos it just sucks it’s inflating prices mad early. And no I’m on ps4
im not trying to argue either. im just stating that i dont care about prices or inflating things. i am trying to put the knowledge in to the player base so they have it. telling people about good companions ahead of time so they have a chance to get them early is good for the playerbase. when things are too expensive cause a "group" of guys gets together and inflates the auction house with them it is bad for the players cause most cant afford the items so they stop playing the game and leave. then the only people that are left are all the rich people with no one to sell anything to other then themselves. think of the big picture. longevity. not a quick buck.
But you putting the videos out saying all this stuff is inflating the prices early making it so the poor still can’t afford. Idk about Xbox but everything on ps4 skyrocketed to pc prices already. And you saying you don’t care about inflating the prices contradicts you trying to help the poor players