The Top 5 Companions To Use For Offense Defense & Utility In Neverwinter Mod 16
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- In this neverwinter mod 16 gameplay i talk about the top 5 best companions to use for all slots.
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Very good analysis. Thumbs up!
I have a death slaad as well and I have been telling people for days how good it is. Glad you see it as well.
yeah man it is awesome i love it
I have been using something in every slot from your list save one. I love the alpha compys. The only downside they keep getting separated from me in the undermountain dungeons. I think they keep wandering off to snack on whatever they see move in game.lol. I am glad I never sold them. Thanks for making these vids! My game has improved so much because of you.
Very thorough super helpful in your explanations, will be watching a lot more of your videos. thank you.
I've been playing around a lot with companion bonuses. Currently I'm only running on rank 10 / 11 loadout.
So far I've found the following very useful for Rogue.
:Mercenarys Discipline 4k power 2k Combat Adv
:Brooms Insight %4 crit sev 2k avoidance
:Yetis presence 10% chance 4k power for 10 secs when hit(procs very well)
:Dancing Blades insight 4% crit sev 2k combat adv
:Mighty insight 1500 power 3k deflection.
My mighty insight still has to hit legendary and my yetis presence is only on green quality but like I said that 10% procs quite well in my opinion.
With my crit strike at its cap my severity is currently 105% coming in from comps and boons. I hit 560k shocking execution without potions or food items so that in itself for me is fantastic especially with the new scaling system.
Pre mod 16 I was a 14k duff that had crappy rank 8 loadout. Since new mod, I already am at nearly 22k, making great AD, and spent it well to get to a comfortable playing level.
I could use all power on my comp offense slots however, I've found with my crit at its cap, the extra severity especially running vorpal is quite beasty.
But when I do get yeti and my ioun stone to leg, whoooah yeahhh.
Best part about this new mod is how fast I've found myself get to the new level for comfortable playing without having to worry on still being a duff.
Everything has just become easier in my opinion to refine, upgrade, and reach better goals :)
Ghost,in utility is decent too because it also can slot into offence and also has crit strike if you want crits up a bit
+1 on the hunting hawk. I have been telling people they were sleeping on the hunting hawk for over a year now. Before this new mod, you could slot 2 neck items, so I doubled up on the crafted BIS necklace that boosted crit and power. Plus it had two offense slots for my rank 14 black ice... not bad for a Ranger and his Bird. The only problem I have yet to solve now is - they made the archery options for Ranger a little nonsensical. Ranged specialty Paragon doesn't have access to Split the Sky. Also, the bonus you get is for being within 25 feet of your enemy. So to maximize that bonus you lose on the hawk bonus and Visa versa. But - I WILL figure something ranged out as it's my favorite way to roll on the masses. Even if my ranged loadout is actually in the non ranged paragon, I will make a viable build, my brother. 🇺🇸
yeah man the hunting hawk is really really good and very versatile as well with its multi slots
I bought all these you mentioned when mod 16 was announced and the new comp bonuses came out. I read through what I thought would be good and bought them. I actually got 4 hawks (have 8 endgame toons). I never heard anything about them and thought I just wasted ad. Luckily I held most. I did get others also that I thought may be good at that time like kobold and panther. With icy terrain and the cockatrice, the panther might actually be good. I think its 10% vs rooted targets
Do a video on what all the caps in the game are and how to know if you are currently capped or where you are...
Thank you assist man I am a ranger I’m rocking the Doohickey the fire enchantment trying to get the vorpal and putting a lot into power and defense so far is working oh and the essence works pretty good too
Love and have most of these. Underrated picks are Shadow Demon, Ghost, Scarecrow, Leperchaun, and Zhentarim Warlock. Lots of strong options. The aforementioned are best bang for the buck if you run lots of toons and don't wanna splurge.
Kills me that I had so many companions and either discarded them or threw them away to make room for others.
staldorf for 8k combat advantage in offence could be an option for those low on ca
The Star of Simril is a great comp too. Power, Critical Avoidance and Awareness. Doesn't have Combat Advantage but people underestimate defensive stats (a dead dps is a dps that deals no damage). It's also super cheap.
I've been using the Goldfish, along with some Tenebrous and am liking it! I had him at Legendary in Mod 15, pup is still only epic!
Idk if it’s only me having this problem, but on my ranger, if you use profession weapons like mithral blades, they are glitched and do 0 damage, you should try it out and see it for yourself
all the time or sometimes? if only sometimes it is cause your accuracy is too low and the enemies dodged your attack perhaps
The Assist Man it happens all the time, when I switch to a normally obtainable weapon, they always do damage
i watch your videos and base them for Trickster rogues so i need to use the cockatrice for utility
Hey bro love the new intro very electric boogaloo
haha thx man i do to
@@TheRealAssistMan I'm kinda bored of mod16 already. How do you find it?
change wise mostly positive, content wise very disappointing.
@@TheRealAssistMan Yeah I find it hard to motivate myself to run my daily 3 ME at the moment. I'm playing alot of division 2 and destiny 2. Destiny 2 is going places
The Hunting Hawk has a huge drawback in dungeons. The farther you are from the boss, the higher your chances of not being healed if you take damage because healers will prefer healing 4 people rather than you alone if you are far away.
I agree. Additionally, being far away can mean you will not deal Combat Advantage at all.
Combat Advantage does make a big difference so fighting from afar with a Hawk won't help.
Fantastic stuff bro. I see someone else found my lil secret pet for DPS. That stone pet is a staple on my Wizard. I was explaining to a friend that the Bullette is bugged for some players (If it was your main pet before as it was mine on my main, it's not bugged). The stone works better if you lack crit.
The Slaad poison does the same damage as the scorpions poison (at least on my toon. both of mine are purple, not orange). It just spreads, whereas the scorpion poison is per enemy attacked. But the good thing is (unless this is a bug) you can use them both at the same time & they stack. Dots for days.
In my testing, crit severity is way better than a 4k power buff. Power is flat...power increase, lol. Whereas crit severity (especially when your crit% is @ the 50% max) is almost double your power.
Again, fantastic vid bro. & not just because you validated my self made build, lol
You are taling about the black death scorpion right? that thing is weird for me i cant get it to proc that often lol. seems broke is yours proccing as much as the slaad? yeah the power crit thing is so minimal of an amount its not worth it. the 4000 power is giving me a 1.4% dps increase while the 4% crit severity is coming out to be about a 2% increase on crits so im gonna just not use it i have enough tied up in to companions already from all my testing lol
@@TheRealAssistMan Yes, the black death scorpion procs every time I attack. I assumed its broken or NW is actually being kind to me for one. But while it's working I'm gonna keep using it. I've found some bugged pets are bugged for only certain toons. Some companions that are bugged on 1 of my toons isn't bugged on another and vice versa. Very weird.
Correction, the scorpion procs every time I crit..
weird on my cw i never get the scorpion to proc. i just tried it again didnt proc once in 50 encounters and woulkd only proc like once every 15 secs on at wills while my death slaad proced like every 2-3 seconds
@@TheRealAssistMan that's interesting. Perhaps it only works on physical attacks. I only use the scorpion on my barbarian and my rogue. So either, its physical attacks only, or as I speculated, its currently broken and just being generous to me. Either way, thanx for responding
The barbarian, and the fighter and paladin have three defensive spots cause of their tanking paragon paths, the cleric has three utilities slots
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Keep up NW!
lol man that was what i was going for! lol thanks man
Haha true!
Great video as always. Death Slaad is performing nicely but you should also look into Owlbear Cub, since you can use it in utility as well. Procs all the time to include your at-wills. Some of these obviously benefit a DPS that has ranged abilities. I main a Rogue so the hawk isn't going to really benefit me but the crit severity does. Keep up the good work.
owlbear cub is broken hasnt worked at all since mod 16 came out its supposed to be patched
Interesting...thanks for update
no prb
Tamed raptor is bugged gives full benefits even without party having it. Making it the best power companion to run in offensive slot.
shhhhhhhhh ;)
ALSO, I failed to mention if you want the Icoasehdron Ion Stone you can buy it from the zen market for 2500 zen at purple even less if you have a coupon, dont get caught slipping and spending more on the auction house ;) ALSO, The Iccosahedron Ion Stone is ONLY available on consoles and NOT on pc.
I'd love to buy it on auction but tbh I have all the ioun stones except the black an icoa. However finding icoa is hard other than in store an I say that because I've looked for months an hust like the ioun stones.
Just bought purple one on auction house on ps4 for less than the zen store after seeing this. I was having the issue with bullette pup you mentioned, so will give this a try
The way he says I don’t do the tank thing I don’t do the cleric thing just sounds super disrespectful to those classes 😂
And the minstrel u can buy at green from sybella, also what about the other companions that poison there targets? An a final comment the top 5 enhancement powers? Why do all the endgamers fail in not using batiri runts? 5%bonus damage(legendary lvl) on boss fight not worth it to them?
Thanks
i am using dread warrior not the greatest of companies but dose give good armor pen and defence
btw I was making a whole big list of awareness items cuz I'm a tank and was tryna smash that up --- not sure if there's any great stuff, off the top of my head, but there are some chult rings and undermountain rings that get you 4-5k, also portal hounds I guess, but those might not be worth giving up another pet
Looks like I have my work cut out for me since I stopped playing after mod 10. Oh god
I did too and I just got back a few days ago lmao. that Storm King Thunder grind back then was too much and made me quit back then 😂
Problem here is...I have offense,defense slot and I don't really know what else should I use..actually I'm using powrie that gives 3k pen.arm and 1.5k crit.avoid (Have barbarian)
How to get Icosahedron Iounstone today? Congrats for the video.
Hey man cheers for the info... just quickly I have two questions if you’ll indulge an Aussie amateur..
Just pulled the Glorious Resurgence Legendary Pack and was about to go ahead and get the armoured bulette companion as per your prior vid and was wondering what you’d suggest I do with this box in terms of the most profitable and practical way to boost my character ? I have one leg. mount(tensers) and two leg. Companions ( none of the above hence the decision to get bulette) .long question shorter, do u suggest I sell it to get my equipment enchantments up or get another leg. Mount or companion maybe the arcane whirlwind for the 10000 power? Xbox.. Cheers again for your help and helpful videos Mate!
i would sell it and use the money to make sure you have all rank 15 bonding and empowered on your companion that is most important if you dont
Will do Mate ! Cheers again
btw I know you're a man of the ppl and like to give stuff away -- so fyi silv3ry's gonna be doing some contests this month with millions in prizes (pc only)
I thinks its pretty dumb that the barbarian only has 1 offence companion power slot
i do to
Its because of the other paragon tank spec
Yea fucking dumb as fuk think if u go dps u should get more offenseive slots and go tnk u should get more deffensive slots
Barbarian is completly chetead. Thats ok 1 offence bonus.
The most amazing thing about M16. Every single person in NW doesn't have a stupid F***ing Tiger following them around!!!! Unfortunately the opposite happened with Artifacts :\
i like to use The wererat power cuz if it pops With your build really make and a lot of dmg
I used that too in loadout, along with grungs instincts and slaads presence. Had all three proc at same time in combat in a t9 run. It's quite godly, especially if you add bilethorn to it along with dragon glyphs to proc poison too. It's almost like your a toxic terror of dps
When is your rogue build guide you mentioned going to be ready?
im still testing a lot its gonna be a bit longer havent had much time
The Assist Man ok thx for quick reply
no prob brother
What is the name of your helment i want it for my library
What do yall think about Owlbear Cub, Ambush Drake, Makos, Aranea, and some other sleeper picks? Damn there are so many fun options now that we can really mix and match!
owlbear cub is not working currently on consoles either is manticore. arnea i tested it was underwelming to me. havent tested the others
@@TheRealAssistMan Owlbear Cub when fixed will be a strong pick for toons who rely on their at wills for damage output me thinks. Aranea is not that strong but as a budget pick it is nice. If you get her to proc a lot, the damage adds up. 8)
4000 power probably beats 4% crit severity since it applies to all damage and not just critical strikes.
yeah i think so as well
Guardian fighter dps only has 1 offense slot, 3 defense slots and a utility slot.
as a trickster rogue should I be stacking armour pen over crit or is it crit over pen?
pen maxed then crit but both
@@TheRealAssistMan Thanks super hero
I play on PS4 so I don't know if it's different for Xbox but the dps fighter doesn't have 3 offensive companion bonus slots. We have 3 defense, 1 offense, and 1 utility.
yes thats cause in mod 16 barbarians and gfs are not dps.
See there's a lot I don't understand cause my character sheet says I'm dps but obviously there's a quirk there. By the way, thanx for the response. I am always watching your vids. In my opinion, your the best when it comes to information for me. Thanx for doing what you do.
Were can I farm the bullet?
Um bullette pup is an augment pet it doesn’t do anything in dungeons it’s the exact samething as the ioun stones
go run lair of mad m,age with it and watch it get stuck behind things and not follow you. all of my friends have had it happen to them
I have run lomm hundreds of times already and yes on a few occasions it gets stuck but I still don’t understand what powers the pup has that that would effect , its an augment it doesn’t have any powers or do anything but give you more stats . Only thing I can think of is the enhancement power which is a chance at getting a 2k stat increase when ur pet is near
thats what we thought as well. but i have had 6 people it has happened to already in there where their stats did not have any of the companion stats cause the companion was too far away to apply them. makes no sense cause it is an augment i agree but trust me it happens i have video proof.
Must be another Xbox thing , I just ran around for 30 mins in a lomm run trying to get my pup stuck lol finally he did and my stats staid the same till I got far enough away for him to reset . Someone should def post in the bug forum
I'm curious to see if certain companion powers proc player powers and bonuses.
Why doesn't anyone mention the war boar from the gwf pack
So is the stalwart lion no good In the utility slot people were telling me to get it so i did now I'm wondering if i wasted half a mill ad. Should i be changing it out. Love your vids very informational as always
if you use a regular fighting companion it is amazing. if you use an augment then no it wont work at all
@@TheRealAssistMan OK thanks for info i use a bulette pup as summoned so obviously i was given the wrong info unless I didn't listen right i think I will get a cockatrice possibly. Thanks for your reply
I am a barb on ps4 and I have 3 defense powers instead of ofense, is it a bug ? Thanks ! Love your videos !
barbs have that since they are considered more hybrid tank now
Maybe a year late to watch but still useful
Hi sir what's your name on Xbox?
Do you have a video on how to level up from blue to purple for example with companions?
you just click on them and upgrade their quality. cost either ad to do or companion upgarde tokens
@@TheRealAssistMan just got it. Now I need a million refine to legendary my ioun augment
What about fighter we only get 1 offensive 3 def and 1 ult what's good companions for us
it depends on what you need. for tank i would stack defense and deflect and crit avoidance til you reach cap then work on hp
I'm a dps build
Is hunting hawk viable for melee classes or just ranged? Sounds like ranged get a larger damage increase but would a class stuck up bosses ass also benefit?
at melee range it is about a 4% damage increase
4% I can live with that,got owlbear cub in utility atm which doesn’t seem to work. Thx again for quick response
nope owlbear cub is broken on consoles and does not work at all, either does manticore
I'm really upset that the GWF(dps class) now a barbarian blade master is considered a hybrid tank!!! WTF is that. If I'm a blade master I'm a dam dps. So I should get to choose 3 offence companion powers. I'm not a sentinel barbarian which is a tank. So what would be considered the best offence companion power to use?
I need a video about how to level them up
Lol i got the skull from the tresures of the nine trying to get celestial stag i dkny know if the pheora is any good at legendary it was amazing at mod 15 for fighting but as for equip slot dont know but i dk have the erineys of belial, laughing skull, the minstral, the quasit and wardog best knes i git so far 1 is epic the rest are blue only legendary is my pheora any advie assist man would be greatfull and great content you make the game possible i play dps sword and board
How did you get 8000 power from it I get 6000?
upgrade it to legendary
So I’m a returning player, are augment companions BIS again or something?
most of the time yes, depends on how you want to play
That skull, when I had it summoned I turned the volume down. Sooo annoying.
right!! lol be talking hella shit
I love his trash talking. Always cracks me up when others run him!
Tamed velociraptor is bugged on ps4 right now giving the full bonus regardless of teammates is it like that on Xbox too ?
yes keep it a secret lol
Lol u 3 off pet slot guys are so luckyyyyy
I only have one offense slot as a dps
Same here I don't get it, I'm using what was the gwf and I have only 1 offense slot for companion bonuses?
Should I buy rank 13 enchantments cuz they are cheaper or go for 15’s?
buying fully made is always cheaper then upgrading 96% of the time
So I've got a dreadnought fight an was curious what were the most important stats to get up 1st?
i made a video about stats just a few days ago check it out
Missed thx will check it out!
What weapon enchantment is good for a barbarian in mod 16
Vorpal!
toss up between vorpal and lightning depending on playstyle and stats
Thanks
Alpha compy cost like 60 mill ad
Does icoshidron ioun ston have same stat as pup at legendary not the 3 binus stat but the acctual stat like hp defance accuracy...?
Icosahedron
Barbarian dps. has 3 defence 1 offence 1 utility
Right
Bulette polar bear cub ioun stones
What about xuna? She does well for me
Xuna is awesome. but i think she is broken right now as the procs seem very weird with different classes. she seems to proc more on melee and not much on magical
Hi, the quatermaster enchantments have become useless?
if you need refinement no, if you dont then yes.
@@TheRealAssistMan What do you use to have for refinement? Before mod 16 with qartermaster enchantments i won 50 000 refinement with 100 bags.
@@zyrock4 well quartermaster is bugged right now so its not working, but i dont use anything for refinement i have aton
so for utility - no stalwart lion or owlbear
lion no if you use an augment, owlbear is bugged on consoles and does not work i have it and tested it with others
Barbarians also only dps class that had 3 def slot n 1 off unfortunately
Spartan3020 Fighter has a DPS path now with the same slots.
How dumb is that , such a big disadvantage in power compared to all other dps classes
thats because in mod 16 they put the barbarian as more of a tank class and not a dps anymore. real dumb, i know
@@Spartan-xx2md very dumb it seems like every mod just gets worse and worse
hello
hey man
Where can I get a bank loan to pay for all these?? lol
Just curious... what’s that cloud following you lol
Energon
the coint storm vanity pet
@@TheRealAssistMan sorry i aint got to watching yet just assumed it was the comp lol
loool shouting out the 30m pet
Ah, I almost got the first comment, The Assist Man bringing the fire content as usual.
my man! thx for always coming thru Jason
Also i im a little new at this game where can i find the cap for my stats if anyone can help thanks
i made a video about it a few days ago check my channel th-cam.com/video/KWRK-ZzN79I/w-d-xo.html
I'm a barbarian so whats the best class for dps?
barbarian is not really a dps anymore its more of a hybrid tank/dps. the dps classes are the rogue,ranger and wizard pretty much
Fuck I just bought the bulette pup took forever to save up the ad
The pup is still good man, very good. Just high maintenance in some situations and need to make sure it’s with you and not stuck somewhere is all.
What does bolster do ?
i explained that in my video i made about companions and how legendary companions work a few weeks ago
I'm gonna have to rewatch that. Thanx
What about lion and mercenary on utility
lion is not good cause it does not proc on an augment companion. mercenary is not bad but there is better
The raptor it say 0 power
damn dude, siege master didnt even make the list? 3% more at-will dmg.
it is bugged, not working currently on console. plus it is only on at wills leaving other companions much better overall
How I have gold ?I need 300 gold please how I have😢
Can I join Overkill?
not sure im not the leader im only in it
Alpha on ps4 is 40-100mil rn
waste of money. not worth more then 5-6 mil and thats if you had a lot of money
Neverwinter is dead :)
I've noticed the stats but who doesn't have crit capped
some people dont. but its all up to you.
I’m over the cap on my fighter. I have like 83,000