Best Weapon for Combat Companion?

[Gisborne]

Best Weapon for Combat Companion?

[Borlay]

I'm using Spear and Shield with battle style defense, and make sure your companion has -60% damage taken when fighting as companion, so he would be quite good.

Only thing he is not doing much damage since on defense they are even worse, but at least he is holding his shield all the time which helps a lot since your main goal is to keep him alive at all cost. And prioritize armor for him then your self. My first iron armor that i'm gonna craft today will be for him not for me.

And don't forget if things goes wrong you just press F6 and run as far as possible till he tps on you.

[Gisborne]

引用自 Borlay：

I'm using Spear and Shield with battle style defense, and make sure your companion has -60% damage taken when fighting as companion, so he would be quite good.

Only thing he is not doing much damage since on defense they are even worse, but at least he is holding his shield all the time which helps a lot since your main goal is to keep him alive at all cost. And prioritize armor for him then your self. My first iron armor that i'm gonna craft today will be for him not for me.

And don't forget if things goes wrong you just press F6 and run as far as possible till he tps on you.

I tried spear and shield but they never seemed to use the shield lol just take face hits, Do they have any sort of aggro generation though if they are set to defense?

[Borlay]

引用自 Gisborne：

引用自 Borlay：

I'm using Spear and Shield with battle style defense, and make sure your companion has -60% damage taken when fighting as companion, so he would be quite good.

Only thing he is not doing much damage since on defense they are even worse, but at least he is holding his shield all the time which helps a lot since your main goal is to keep him alive at all cost. And prioritize armor for him then your self. My first iron armor that i'm gonna craft today will be for him not for me.

And don't forget if things goes wrong you just press F6 and run as far as possible till he tps on you.

I tried spear and shield but they never seemed to use the shield lol just take face hits, Do they have any sort of aggro generation though if they are set to defense?

Try to put on defensive mode, they should use. And make sure other weapons are removed from inventory.

They shouldn't have any aggro generation or something, it's only battle style, how they fight when they fight, it shouldn't change if they fight or no.

And i noticed one thing that when he had blade instead of spear he stunned more people with shield i believe since when you attack with blade you don't shield which means it gives that probability for perfect parry and stun.

[Borlay]

But the main rule is - if you can't do alone you better don't do with him either. He is only to help you to do things faster otherwise he will just die.

[Gisborne]

引用自 Borlay：

But the main rule is - if you can't do alone you better don't do with him either. He is only to help you to do things faster otherwise he will just die.

I just did first boss again with companion, he semi died and i managed to revive him after fight, but he died while in defensive using shield and spear, The boss almost killed me too, the bleed damage and unable it use bandage because of his attacks, even full bronze i nearly died... and that is with server settings 0.5 damage taken, 2.0 damage dealt lol.

[~T~D~]

Bow and whatever is needed. - I have a tank i use for DMG mitigation she gives back dmg to the attacker.

[Borlay]

引用自 Gisborne：

引用自 Borlay：

But the main rule is - if you can't do alone you better don't do with him either. He is only to help you to do things faster otherwise he will just die.

I just did first boss again with companion, he semi died and i managed to revive him after fight, but he died while in defensive using shield and spear, The boss almost killed me too, the bleed damage and unable it use bandage because of his attacks, even full bronze i nearly died... and that is with server settings 0.5 damage taken, 2.0 damage dealt lol.

Yea.. i wouldn't be fighting boss with him, it's easier to take alone, at least on official servers with no damage settings. He can't dodge attacks so any heavy hit will kill him sooner or later.

引用自 ~T~D~：

Bow and whatever is needed. - I have a tank i use for DMG mitigation she gives back dmg to the attacker.

That's another tactic, but i noticed that with bow half of the arrows he waists on rocks and trees and just walls doing nothing, and it's not very good if you get surrounded by some wolfs or something.

[Agent707]

Whatever you have the most fun with, is the "best" weapon.

[Michael]

引用自 Agent707：

Whatever you have the most fun with, is the "best" weapon.

This is a discussion about what weapon to equip on an NPC that is accompanying you.

[Gisborne]

I want to use bow myself but it's super weak, I'm using the normal bow just so the draw is bearable, but when fighting those plunderers in the ruins they just take soo little damage from bronze bow and arrows compared to melee it makes range feel utterly useless especially when mobs. Can also dodge roll half your arrows etc.

[Varyn [GER]]

引用自 Borlay：

I'm using Spear and Shield with battle style defense, and make sure your companion has -60% damage taken when fighting as companion, so he would be quite good.

This. Get one with bloodbath recovery perk + the shield style vertical shield wall and he's almost immortal.
Wondering if companions can make use of class skills like healing others or taunt.

Tank-companion pairs well with me using the hammer's heavy attack.

[Krayzee]

Against Bosses I set my companion's battle style to Range Attack since the game mechanic doesn't seem to give them an option to run far enough to heal themselves when in melee range. It has worked in all bosses encounters so far with an exception of fighting the Mechanical mobs. I just give them a single weapon which the hammer.