Companion gear isn't worth the ridiculous prices people charge. Your guild banks often have piles of them but not in the weight/trait you want but in the end the measly stats they grant in comparison to each other is laughable for the cost. Your companion doesn't stay alive long enough for it to matter regardless of the gear you put on them. The colour choice people chase is more a player OCD/completionism thing.
Clearly you've never taken the time to actually invest into the companions, because if you had, you'd realize that everything you just said is completely wrong. The only people who have failures with companions are those who don't actually take the time to level them completely, assign the proper skills, and equip them with the correct gear for their assigned role.
Companion gear isn't worth the ridiculous prices people charge. Your guild banks often have piles of them but not in the weight/trait you want but in the end the measly stats they grant in comparison to each other is laughable for the cost. Your companion doesn't stay alive long enough for it to matter regardless of the gear you put on them. The colour choice people chase is more a player OCD/completionism thing.
Clearly you've never taken the time to actually invest into the companions, because if you had, you'd realize that everything you just said is completely wrong. The only people who have failures with companions are those who don't actually take the time to level them completely, assign the proper skills, and equip them with the correct gear for their assigned role.
So you're saying the "million+ gold" price tag for all purple gear (over blue gear) for the "+3.6%" or a "few hundred armour" stat increase across all 12 pieces is worth every penny? I wasn't really discussing how good they can be, just mainly how ridiculous the prices are for the tiny stat bump they get from all the over-priced gear.
Instead of increasing the drop rate, ZOS should implement the ability for us to UPGRADE Companion gear. This way we could buy green or blue gear and upgrade them ourselves without having to rely on greedy (yes greedy) players who swoop in to grab cheap items and then resell them at exorbitant prices just to keep prices up.
Sure, not planning in advance, but also the fact that many of us tested recently on PTS and see a benefit (albeit slight) to running Purple gear.
Impatient? That too. Because it would be nice to have the gear BEFORE we get our companions, instead of having to wait weeks or months for prices to return to a more reasonable place.
I wouldn't be so bitter if it wasn't so many of the SAME people selling these items... so you know they are doing exactly as I said. Sitting at their computer refreshing TTC- probably several windows open- and as soon as they see a cheap item placed, they jump back to the game and scoop it up. It leaves those of us who just want to play the game and have fun a bit bitter over it. It also wouldn't be bad if they were doing this because, they needed gold for something, but I have no doubt most of them are just doing so because they care more about having millions in their bank versus actually playing the game. I know in other games players were like that, all about having tons of money in the bank, selling... selling... selling... yet doing nothing with the money they made. Sure, they CAN play that way, but it just sucks for everyone else who just want these items to further enhance the enjoyment of the game.
And as general question for all following this thread:
Is there a big difference in prices for purple between for example PC-NA and PC-EU ?
phaneub17_ESO wrote: »Dark_Wizard wrote: »phaneub17_ESO, can you post full build for Ember (and maybe other companions) please? items-traits-skills-tips
It's going to change next week. Telvanni Efficiency is going to open a wider array of builds. Ember may not be king anymore, Isobel or Azandar may take that spot and can do it with 3 abilities only because they won't ever reach 4 and 5 with the maximum cooldown reduction, it actually gives them room for survival abilities rather than straight damage.
If you want to stick with Ember, the absolute best setup after Necrom: You Telvanni Efficiency. Two-handed, dual-wield, or Ice Staff. 2 Medium, 5 Light, 7 Shattering, 5 Aggressive. Starfall, Crystal Blast, Sniping Silver, Haste, Second Wind. The timing will be shortened 9-hit strikes in 6 seconds repeats every 9 seconds (7 times per minute). This brings her total to 88,965 damage to Overland, Delve, and Public Dungeon mobs. 72,774 damage to Group Dungeon, Trial, and Arena mobs without Major Breach and Minor Breach applied.
Alternatively, you can get Ember's opening salvo into 12-hit strikes, this wasn't possible before because of Sniping Silver cooldown was still at 8 seconds with 31% quickened and Ascendant Ring, it would constantly clip. Telvanni Efficiency alone brings Sniping Silver down to 6 seconds, Starfall and Crystal Blast cast times together makes 1.2 seconds which goes perfect with Second Wind before Haste in this setup. In this case she would do a total of 118,620 damage over 8 seconds in her opening attack; however, the repeat cast Haste won't be as consistent so don't expect it to continue that way. The other way above is more predictable, but if you want higher upfront damage at the start of combat this will do more.
I don't really theorycraft, so I'm curious if you think Telvanni Efficiency is going to be worth carrying around five additional pieces in my inventory for when I use companions.
phaneub17_ESO wrote: »I don't really theorycraft, so I'm curious if you think Telvanni Efficiency is going to be worth carrying around five additional pieces in my inventory for when I use companions.
Without companions around or they're dead on the ground its the same as the Seducer set, but universal as the cost reduction applies to everything rather than just magicka. Telvanni Efficiency makes it more lenient to have mix-matched traits for beginners and advanced alike, all other traits become better with the only exception is Augmented; that trait will be obsolete. Quickened no longer becomes the required go to for everything, but doesn't make it less desirable either.
And as general question for all following this thread:
Is there a big difference in prices for purple between for example PC-NA and PC-EU ?
@hrothbern It's crazy to hear "Millions" to a console player: I recently found Purple Light Soothing Robe for 10.000; Purple Light Quickened for 100.000 and Purple Medium Aggressive Jack for 100.000.
If I have to expose myself - there are people hoarding Companion Gear and selling it at high prices. I just try to grab all the cheap ones that I can before them and place at around half the price, so that we split the earnings in the end I save them the time of going through all the traders by themselves...
Making millions this way, even if slowly.
phaneub17_ESO wrote: »I don't really theorycraft, so I'm curious if you think Telvanni Efficiency is going to be worth carrying around five additional pieces in my inventory for when I use companions.
Without companions around or they're dead on the ground its the same as the Seducer set, but universal as the cost reduction applies to everything rather than just magicka. Telvanni Efficiency makes it more lenient to have mix-matched traits for beginners and advanced alike, all other traits become better with the only exception is Augmented; that trait will be obsolete. Quickened no longer becomes the required go to for everything, but doesn't make it less desirable either.
phaneub17_ESO wrote: »I don't really theorycraft, so I'm curious if you think Telvanni Efficiency is going to be worth carrying around five additional pieces in my inventory for when I use companions.
Without companions around or they're dead on the ground its the same as the Seducer set, but universal as the cost reduction applies to everything rather than just magicka. Telvanni Efficiency makes it more lenient to have mix-matched traits for beginners and advanced alike, all other traits become better with the only exception is Augmented; that trait will be obsolete. Quickened no longer becomes the required go to for everything, but doesn't make it less desirable either.
With Telvanni Efficiency, 10x blue bolstered + purple S&B (costing not that much), and the right companion choice, would you be able to tank dragons ?
You lose only 3% damage mitigation and 700 Armor Resistance between 10x purple or 10x blue.
Perhaps even green bolstered would work.
I keep seeing the words "Telvanni Efficiency" quoted in this thread.
Can somebody explain, in simple layman's terms, what this jargon MEANS?
And without using other jargon to define it, because using jargon to define jargon gets horribly recursive?
I keep seeing the words "Telvanni Efficiency" quoted in this thread.
Can somebody explain, in simple layman's terms, what this jargon MEANS?
And without using other jargon to define it, because using jargon to define jargon gets horribly recursive?
And as general question for all following this thread:
Is there a big difference in prices for purple between for example PC-NA and PC-EU ?
@hrothbern It's crazy to hear "Millions" to a console player: I recently found Purple Light Soothing Robe for 10.000; Purple Light Quickened for 100.000 and Purple Medium Aggressive Jack for 100.000.
If I have to expose myself - there are people hoarding Companion Gear and selling it at high prices. I just try to grab all the cheap ones that I can before them and place at around half the price, so that we split the earnings in the end I save them the time of going through all the traders by themselves...
Making millions this way, even if slowly.
I keep seeing the words "Telvanni Efficiency" quoted in this thread.
Can somebody explain, in simple layman's terms, what this jargon MEANS?
And without using other jargon to define it, because using jargon to define jargon gets horribly recursive?
For one, you could have just copied and pasted Telvanni Efficiency into Google and it would tell you exactly what it is. Second, given that you have six stars on the forums, you should already know that the forums are a place full of jargon, and that sometimes you have to do a bit of research to know what people are talking about. There are many times I've had to do a Google search by typing "ESO ..." and whatever jargon I wanted to know- it's pretty efficient at providing immediate information. Just an FYI.
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Dack_Janiels wrote: »And as general question for all following this thread:
Is there a big difference in prices for purple between for example PC-NA and PC-EU ?
@hrothbern It's crazy to hear "Millions" to a console player: I recently found Purple Light Soothing Robe for 10.000; Purple Light Quickened for 100.000 and Purple Medium Aggressive Jack for 100.000.
If I have to expose myself - there are people hoarding Companion Gear and selling it at high prices. I just try to grab all the cheap ones that I can before them and place at around half the price, so that we split the earnings in the end I save them the time of going through all the traders by themselves...
Making millions this way, even if slowly.
PC-NA, yeah the prices are insane.
I keep seeing the words "Telvanni Efficiency" quoted in this thread.
Can somebody explain, in simple layman's terms, what this jargon MEANS?
And without using other jargon to define it, because using jargon to define jargon gets horribly recursive?
For one, you could have just copied and pasted Telvanni Efficiency into Google and it would tell you exactly what it is. Second, given that you have six stars on the forums, you should already know that the forums are a place full of jargon, and that sometimes you have to do a bit of research to know what people are talking about. There are many times I've had to do a Google search by typing "ESO ..." and whatever jargon I wanted to know- it's pretty efficient at providing immediate information. Just an FYI.
It would have taken less time and effort to simply answer the question.