zelaminator wrote: »I'll never understand how people can call them 100% useless
zelaminator wrote: »I'll never understand how people can call them 100% useless
I do.
Some people have limited game time and/or they just focus on one or 2/a few game feature/system. If companions can't help them in those game modes - they are useless to them.
Examples:
Player one may only have a few hours to play each day. So they focus on PvP or vet content such as Dungeons or Trials. Companions are not/wont ever be truly helpful in those modes if said person has a regular group they run with.
Player 2 has more time on their hands but they focus on only a few game systems so they don't spread themselves too thin so to speak. Or maybe said better, so they perfect themselves in those game modes. Again they probably fall in the same camp as player one - so the same outcome.
I am pretty much the opposite of these player types. I like to do a bit of everything and explore everything. Having said that I have not done Vet Dungeons or Trials yet. I fear if I do I will have to focus a LOT of my attention there since there are a LOT of Dungeons and Trials now. I only started playing almost 2 years ago so there's a lot for me to catch up on in that area. As such I am holding off, so companions being a new game system for me is not useless. They help out a tad in some of my other areas.
I do have good gear and I pretty much never die. All my DDs usually 2-3 hit trash mobs in overland and Public Dungeons. So I kill fast anyway. What the companion does is help to lower that in a lot of cases to 1-2 hitting mobs and groups. So yeah that saves a few seconds of time for my DD's. Also those odd times you get stunned/knocked down or back even when all my chars have "Slippery" slotted in my champ bars. My companion usually gets the last hit in and kill the noob before my char actually recovers (again from slippery which kills the stun etc effect) and does so. So again, shaves a second or 2 off lol. Might not sound like a lot, but it's something.
PS and besides all that they make good cheerleaders, who could ever dislike having a cheerleader around (besides the Adoring Fan of course.....)?
zelaminator wrote: »zelaminator wrote: »I'll never understand how people can call them 100% useless
I do.
Some people have limited game time and/or they just focus on one or 2/a few game feature/system. If companions can't help them in those game modes - they are useless to them.
Examples:
Player one may only have a few hours to play each day. So they focus on PvP or vet content such as Dungeons or Trials. Companions are not/wont ever be truly helpful in those modes if said person has a regular group they run with.
Player 2 has more time on their hands but they focus on only a few game systems so they don't spread themselves too thin so to speak. Or maybe said better, so they perfect themselves in those game modes. Again they probably fall in the same camp as player one - so the same outcome.
I am pretty much the opposite of these player types. I like to do a bit of everything and explore everything. Having said that I have not done Vet Dungeons or Trials yet. I fear if I do I will have to focus a LOT of my attention there since there are a LOT of Dungeons and Trials now. I only started playing almost 2 years ago so there's a lot for me to catch up on in that area. As such I am holding off, so companions being a new game system for me is not useless. They help out a tad in some of my other areas.
I do have good gear and I pretty much never die. All my DDs usually 2-3 hit trash mobs in overland and Public Dungeons. So I kill fast anyway. What the companion does is help to lower that in a lot of cases to 1-2 hitting mobs and groups. So yeah that saves a few seconds of time for my DD's. Also those odd times you get stunned/knocked down or back even when all my chars have "Slippery" slotted in my champ bars. My companion usually gets the last hit in and kill the noob before my char actually recovers (again from slippery which kills the stun etc effect) and does so. So again, shaves a second or 2 off lol. Might not sound like a lot, but it's something.
PS and besides all that they make good cheerleaders, who could ever dislike having a cheerleader around (besides the Adoring Fan of course.....)?
So everything PvP based is useless, because I'm a PvE player