Please, ZOS, allow us to create companion gear items

Scaletho

Please, remove the green and blue drops and allow us to create AND deconstruct green, blue and purple gears. If you need to keep purple hard to get and only affordable for the most skilled and gold-rich players, make this top gear hard to create somehow. And remove the drops, because it is maddening.

The companions' gear system is completely nonsense. We need to endure an ordeal of grinding to find a single gear for our companion builds, and the result is an astonishing number of gears in our backpacks, mostly useless, impossible to deconstruct and unworthy to sell (except the purple, which is insanely expensive). This is very frustrating!

I understand that in order to give the companion's gears a crafting option, ZOS need to develop a new craft system. But I think we players deserve it.

Right now, just for one of my characters, I have 32 companion gears taking space in my backpack. Yeah, I could destroy them, but I still have companion levels to work it and idk if I will need another kind of set.

And sell them in the NPC merchant for a couple of coins is a joke.

Yeah, I could buy it from another players but we all know very well how crazy is the in-game trade prices. I can't afford to buy blue/purple gear after gear (green is garbage), and destroy the ones I don't want to with no good benefit for me because I'm losing gold.

And no, I won't put green/blue gears to sell because there are literally thousands in the market. And the purple ones, sure they will give a huge profit but to find them demand a lot of time and skill -- which many players don't have -- not to mention they are very important for use in our own companions.

Give us a crafting/deconstruct system, please. The situation is seriously messed up right now.

vivisectvib16_ESO

Agreed. It's time to at least let us re-trait/transmute companion gear. It's absurd that I could potentially grind forever and never get the piece of gear I need in purple and with the correct trait.

This message brought to you by me looting my THIRD purple heavy chest with a SOOTHING trait. 😑

Heartrage

Just adding a transmute option and a way to upgrade the quality of the pieces would come a long way.

WinterHeart626

Welcome to the hamster wheel.
They won’t do anything of the sort unfortunately, as it’s a chase thing, you want it, you chase it, there’s hours logged and that goes into “this game gets played”.
I haven’t bothered chasing after the meta traits, at least I don’t think I have…. My companions in all blue gear, a mix of heal% up and hp% up.

vivisectvib16_ESO

WinterHeart626 wrote: »

Welcome to the hamster wheel.
They won’t do anything of the sort unfortunately, as it’s a chase thing, you want it, you chase it, there’s hours logged and that goes into “this game gets played”.

Same could be said for player gear prior to the sticker book.

WinterHeart626

vivisectvib16_ESO wrote: »

WinterHeart626 wrote: »

Welcome to the hamster wheel.
They won’t do anything of the sort unfortunately, as it’s a chase thing, you want it, you chase it, there’s hours logged and that goes into “this game gets played”.

Same could be said for player gear prior to the sticker book.

Thing is, stickerbook is set items, companions don’t get set items currently (and with the drop rates, would we even want them to do set items for companions…..)

BretonMage

The problem is that there isn't even anything to grind. The drops are completely random - they drop from any enemy, I think I've had as many drops from trash mobs as bosses; the chance is exceedingly low; and the range of traits and gear is so vast that you mostly end up with useless stuff. It's so random it doesn't actually encourage grinding.

I second the OP. We need either the ability to craft or to transmute companion gear.

Snamyap

I have three companions outfitted in purple in the desired traits, because I have nothing else to spend those millions on. I like the companions but the gear system was a huge, boring, uninspired disappointment.

jtm1018

Scaletho wrote: »

Please, remove the green and blue drops and allow us to create AND deconstruct green, blue and purple gears. If you need to keep purple hard to get and only affordable for the most skilled and gold-rich players, make this top gear hard to create somehow. And remove the drops, because it is maddening.

The companions' gear system is completely nonsense. We need to endure an ordeal of grinding to find a single gear for our companion builds, and the result is an astonishing number of gears in our backpacks, mostly useless, impossible to deconstruct and unworthy to sell (except the purple, which is insanely expensive). This is very frustrating!

I understand that in order to give the companion's gears a crafting option, ZOS need to develop a new craft system. But I think we players deserve it.

Right now, just for one of my characters, I have 32 companion gears taking space in my backpack. Yeah, I could destroy them, but I still have companion levels to work it and idk if I will need another kind of set.

And sell them in the NPC merchant for a couple of coins is a joke.

Yeah, I could buy it from another players but we all know very well how crazy is the in-game trade prices. I can't afford to buy blue/purple gear after gear (green is garbage), and destroy the ones I don't want to with no good benefit for me because I'm losing gold.

And no, I won't put green/blue gears to sell because there are literally thousands in the market. And the purple ones, sure they will give a huge profit but to find them demand a lot of time and skill -- which many players don't have -- not to mention they are very important for use in our own companions.

Give us a crafting/deconstruct system, please. The situation is seriously messed up right now.

Or at least let us improve it like our own armor, maybe let us transmute it too. With lesser requirements on materials.

drsalvation

We haven't been able to put a danged helmet on them, let alone change their hairstyle, even more, their personalities, I doubt they'd ever do anything more complex than what we already have with their gear.
Letting us equip them with normal player gear would be amazing, unfortunately, that too is nearly impossible to ask for.

kind_hero

Improving companion gear via crafting would most likely destroy the market for companion gear. Unfortunately, that market is almost dead, because it is flooded with very cheap green/blue items that nobody wants, and at the other end, with very expensive epic items.

There should be a way to change the trait of companion items.

In terms of priorities, I think that companions really need a bag for companion gear, which should be shared across companions and characters. I don't know how many slots, but perhaps something like 10 slots per unlocked companion? This bag should carry only companion items.

An other thing that would be awesome to have with companions, is to give them food/drink buffs. I would love to give Mirri a drink and Isobel some sweetrolls. Players have hundreds of mostly useless recipes. We should be able to put some to use for companions.

sPark101

Maybe they should add the purple companion gear to the possible drops from loot / prize boxes we get from events throughout the year.
Or make them purchasable with event tickets.

Snamyap

drsalvation wrote: »

Letting us equip them with normal player gear would be amazing, unfortunately, that too is nearly impossible to ask for.

That ship has sailed, unfortunately. Best we can hope for is companion gear with set bonuses. Of course that would also means a complete do over of the way it's acquired.

Bat

They really dropped the ball with companion gear. After so many great QOL updates with stickerbooks and recreation of set items, to revert back to having to grind for weight/trait/quality just feels like an oversight to be honest.