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I've been struggling in Verdant Brink on both a Necro and a Guardian, and I don't even want to think about what's going to happen to my squishier alts. Should I be stocking up on specific runes and sigils, or moving away from running all 'zerker, all the time?
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I can't speak for Dragonhunter but Reaper-wise just load up on minions (make sure you slot "Rise!" too), equip your greatsword, and plow into piles of mobs with impunity. Your minions deal crazy damage, take greatly reduced damage, and heal you while soaking up your conditions and the damage you take. Lots of goons seem to like death magic/blood magic/reaper but I prefer dm/spite or soul reaping/reaper. Neither my minions nor I seemed to need the extra support from blood magic.
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Harrow posted:That is possibly for the best. When you play PvP, either you win, or you invent new swear words to describe those incompetent fucksacks who you've been saddled with as teammates. kater posted:... And yes I specifically went with Ele and not Tempest because holy poo poo that mess is a trap stay away... ... Of course, as soon as they noticed this, they'd focus me first, but... Ghostpilot posted:That's not so bad when you get to the new areas and realize that enemies are virtually immune to a lot of effects like immobilize, chill, etc. Vermain posted:The biggest problem is that the vast, vast majority of non-hammer/bow weapon skills for Warrior are some variety of "deals damage," and that's all they do. Take a look at any of the Revenant's weapon skills and it's generally something along the lines of, "Shadowsteps you to target while applying Weakness and Chilled and you gain stacks of Might whenever you're blocked," versus the Warrior's, which are generally something along the lines of, "Deal damage and gain Fury for 4s." They bring so little utility to the table compared to almost every other class in the game. wizard_supremacy.txt
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Just need more Exalted Mastery xp and I'll have my gaudy Glint Shield. Binged out a lot of the collection yesterday. Specialization collection achievement gear is probably my favorite thing about the expansion so far. I really like having something to work towards that doesn't involve just throwing gold at it. Hope they add more stuff like that.
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Nov 9, 2015 18:27
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Spent 25 minutes doing the Chak Killer achievement, last lurker walked into a wall and out of range of anything my rev could damage it with. Why does Tangled Depths have to hurt me so
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Nov 9, 2015 18:29
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Illuyankas posted:Spent 25 minutes doing the Chak Killer achievement, last lurker walked into a wall and out of range of anything my rev could damage it with. Just avoid anything to do with Tangled Depths right now imo, it's such a horrible place until they fix/tune it.
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Nov 9, 2015 18:33
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Daredevil actually has a hidden F3 skill, it works like Steal but instead puts a whiny forums post in your hands. What happens with it from there is up to you. e: never mind, looks like plenty of people have found it. Adhesive Gamin fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Nov 9, 2015 18:40
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Adhesive Gamin posted:Daredevil actually has a hidden F3 skill, it works like Steal but instead puts a whiny forums post in your hands. What happens with it from there is up to you. 
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Totbot posted:Just need more Exalted Mastery xp and I'll have my gaudy Glint Shield. Binged out a lot of the collection yesterday. A full set for every class like the revenant set would have been amazing.
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Just finished world complete, still working through story, but wondering what I'm going to do after that (aside from working on my Legendary). Anyone so kind as to give me the quick TLDR version of what the "point" (beyond for funsies!) is of the level 80 maps, how they work? Am I correct in assuming most work by "do the event chain, builds up to meta events, kill big bosses", and along the way you're collecting map-specific currency which you can then use for pretty princessing? That about the gist of them? I just haven't really spent any time in any of the "endgame" zones beyond 100%'ing and story quests (The Orr maps, Southsun Cove, Silverwastes, Dry Top, and now the HoT maps). If pretty princessing isn't my thing (I enjoy, just not sure that I want to grind for it. Once the event chains get boring, I'll want to move on), what other fun stuff is there to do / work towards in the open world? For example, I saw the jumping puzzle achievements, that's right up my alley, gonna start working on those that I somehow missed while 100%'ing. Would love to hear what other explorer-focused types find fun (other than 100%'ing, obviously heh).
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Adhesive Gamin posted:Daredevil actually has a hidden F3 skill, it works like Steal but instead puts a whiny forums post in your hands. What happens with it from there is up to you.  how times have changed.
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Nov 9, 2015 19:00
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Adhesive Gamin posted:Daredevil actually has a hidden F3 skill, it works like Steal but instead puts a whiny forums post in your hands. What happens with it from there is up to you. 
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Illuyankas posted:... I found a way through the world geometry in TD the other day. It's super easy to reach and you can get exploration on the whole zone with no effort just swimming around in the Undersea. If you actually want to pop back up into the world somewhere, all you need is a Flash-like teleportation skill. Turns out, those don't detect pathing collisions from under the ground 
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Nov 9, 2015 19:12
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:Once you've completed the story, gently caress these spiders and go to Dragon's Stand. If you run boosters that meta event gives insane exp as well as "useful" currencies, and is way more fun than fighting pubbies for spider spawns for hours. So sub 80s do have access to mastery abilities? Does that mean if i start a new character once I hit Pact mastery they'll get bonus crafting xp
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:So sub 80s do have access to mastery abilities? Does that mean if i start a new character once I hit Pact mastery they'll get bonus crafting xp My 40-ish necro gets the town boost from Pact Mastery. So it looks like it.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I can't speak for Dragonhunter but Reaper-wise just load up on minions (make sure you slot "Rise!" too), equip your greatsword, and plow into piles of mobs with impunity. Your minions deal crazy damage, take greatly reduced damage, and heal you while soaking up your conditions and the damage you take. Lots of goons seem to like death magic/blood magic/reaper but I prefer dm/spite or soul reaping/reaper. Neither my minions nor I seemed to need the extra support from blood magic. I tried this on my Reaper and it didn't work out at all. Rise! is one of the final skills to unlock with hero points so I don't have that yet. Or any reaper traits at all. Minions are okay I guess but I still seem to die really fast without killing much. I feel extremely fragile. I think I just can't play any class other than ranger 
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xZAOx posted:Just finished world complete, still working through story, but wondering what I'm going to do after that (aside from working on my Legendary). If pretty princessing isn't your deal, you might want to look into your elite spec's weapon collection. It should have unlocked when you got your spec weapon, and gives a flashier ascended version of the starter weapon once you've completed it. It's also an insane scavenger hunt that incentivizes you to do all these zones. Macdeo Lurjtux posted:So sub 80s do have access to mastery abilities? Does that mean if i start a new character once I hit Pact mastery they'll get bonus crafting xp Correct.
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Kerrrrrrr posted:I tried this on my Reaper and it didn't work out at all. Rise! is one of the final skills to unlock with hero points so I don't have that yet. Or any reaper traits at all. Minions are okay I guess but I still seem to die really fast without killing much. I feel extremely fragile. I think I just can't play any class other than ranger Hop on one of the goon hero trains next time you see one revving up, you'll get most of the hero points and waypoints in both VB and AB in just an hour or two. Make sure to abuse Reaper's Shroud, too, it puts out mean damage, acts as a second health bar, and if you do end up running minions the little disposable guys feed it constantly. Hopefully that helps a bit? 
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Hop on one of the goon hero trains next time you see one revving up, you'll get most of the hero points and waypoints in both VB and AB in just an hour or two. Make sure to abuse Reaper's Shroud, too, it puts out mean damage, acts as a second health bar, and if you do end up running minions the little disposable guys feed it constantly. If you don't want to wait, you can often find pubbie hero trains in LFG. Compared to goon trains these are sloppy as gently caress, but they frequently run Auric and Tangled as well as Verdant Brink. So if you're desperate for Rise you can unlock your full Reaper tree in complete safety by enduring strangers for an evening. Maybe try a ranged weapon on swap so you don't have to go melee in all situations? Is your camera zoomed all the way out so you can actually see lobbed aoes coming? Setting camera to max range and getting in the habit of zooming it back out when the game "helpfully" zooms it in has upped my mesmer survivability 200% Unsinkabear fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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People saying that CC is useless in the new zones are out of their minds. Good CC is the key to a lot of boss encounters and makes killing other mobs like snipers trivial.
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Kerrzhe, grab me sometime, most of the hero points can be done with 2-3 people (plus there are always pubbies everywhere) and I'm more than happy to help you out as well as getting hero points on my alts.
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You can also just sit at a HP a few minutes and eventually enough people congregate to finish it.
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:If you don't want to wait, you can often find pubbie hero trains in LFG. Compared to goon trains these are sloppy as gently caress, but they frequently run Auric and Tangled as well as Verdant Brink. So if you're desperate for Rise you can unlock your full Reaper tree in complete safety by enduring strangers for an evening. Maybe try a ranged weapon on swap so you don't have to go melee in all situations? Is your camera zoomed all the way out so you can actually see lobbed aoes coming? Setting camera to max range and getting in the habit of zooming it back out when the game "helpfully" zooms it in has upped my mesmer survivability 200% But yeah, what Arus said. The only hero points that are rough without 5 or so people are the frogs at the end of Verdant Brink and the Balthazar Champion in SW Auric. I've done all of them with a small group of 3 dentists/goons and those are the only two that have consistently given us any trouble.
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Hey Merc, what are the odds of a late night one (like 8-9pm Pacific) this week? I need herald on my new revenant!
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POS ISP had a stroke during the legendary wyvern phase of the Itzel village chain. Both of us were dead by the time I could reach the login server again. On the bright side, I've got gliding and itzel 1, and I'm better than halfway to gliding 2. On the dark side, Rogers Communications can choke on a bucket of dicks.
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Bieeardo posted:POS ISP had a stroke during the legendary wyvern phase of the Itzel village chain. Both of us were dead by the time I could reach the login server again. poo poo dude, get Teksavvy, if you can get Rogers you can get Teksavvy. So much better than that bucket of dicks.
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cpaf posted:What is even better is when you fail because of this and then it restarts the entire fight except for the parts of the island that have fallen away and now the rift is floating in space and you can't reach it. I had a similar experience yesterday with one of the early story missions, the one where you fight Stavemaster whatever. When the fight started, all my companions promptly died to the massive bullshit AOE vortex thing, leaving me to whittle away at his HP pool for several minutes and randomly dying when the AOE appeared too close to me to dodge in time. I got him down to like 5% and then his HP reset to 100%, forcing me to rinse and repeat. Sometimes I wonder if they playtested this poo poo at all.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Hey Merc, what are the odds of a late night one (like 8-9pm Pacific) this week? I need herald on my new revenant!
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Der Shovel posted:Sometimes I wonder if they playtested this poo poo at all. Well to do that they'd need a test server.
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Mercurius posted:I don't get home from work until after 11pm pacific so it won't be until Friday your time at the earliest, unfortunately. No worries, let's do one this weekend maybe!
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Illuyankas posted:Spent 25 minutes doing the Chak Killer achievement, last lurker walked into a wall and out of range of anything my rev could damage it with. I had a suspicion that tangled depths was the least worked on area when: - I walked on air and found multiple floating ores. - A charr switched from male voice to female back to male. - A spider queen hero point boss was named Champion [Hero Challenge] - The mini-map being almost useless for navigating.
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malhavok posted:You can also just sit at a HP a few minutes and eventually enough people congregate to finish it. Or put out a call in LFG, that'll get you a couple of people helping out in no time. Before HoT, I never even looked at LFG, and now I use it all the time (for HP trains and organized HoT maps).
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Kitty Fantastico posted:I tried and tried, but in the end the best I got was a silent crash to desktop. I tried all of that, but nothing happens (aside from the big ugly text spam on load). I wish I understood what I was doing.
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malhavok posted:You can also just sit at a HP a few minutes and eventually enough people congregate to finish it. Yeah I have missed the last few Goon/SFD HP trains but managed to get all the HP in VB and AB on my Revenant just by following the guides on Dulfy and waiting around a bit if it is a champion fight. Think the longest I have had to wait was ~10 minutes on the Golem fight in AB. Most can be done with 2-3 people so doesn't take that long for enough to show up.
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Der Shovel posted:I had a similar experience yesterday with one of the early story missions, the one where you fight Stavemaster whatever. When the fight started, all my companions promptly died to the massive bullshit AOE vortex thing, leaving me to whittle away at his HP pool for several minutes and randomly dying when the AOE appeared too close to me to dodge in time. I got him down to like 5% and then his HP reset to 100%, forcing me to rinse and repeat. I had something similar, except after dying I found a spot to stand where I could shoot him but his AoE would fall through a gap before it reached me. I regret nothing.
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Kerrrrrrr posted:I tried this on my Reaper and it didn't work out at all. Rise! is one of the final skills to unlock with hero points so I don't have that yet. Or any reaper traits at all. Minions are okay I guess but I still seem to die really fast without killing much. I feel extremely fragile. I think I just can't play any class other than ranger You don't have to use full zerker on anything, if that is what's causing this problem. For example I have made sure that all my medium class characters have at least one piece of soldiers, be it a soldier chest or some soldier ascended trinkets. My thief actually has a valk head and shoes too, and he can take a good few hits while I realize I've gotten in over my head and start playing better/get the poo poo outta there. Of course classes with great built in defenses like mesmers really don't need it if you're good enough. I'm particularly proud of my ranger's current setup. When I finally decided to quit being a condi ranger (which was complete poo poo at release, not so now), I didn't want to give up the survivability that a full rabid setup gave me. So I did research on the effective health (ehp) you get based on your class's base health, armor class, toughness and vitality. I have a crazy min maxed set of zerker knight and soldiers. I made sure I had at least 65-70% crit rate with fury, kept the same or similar ehp as a full rabid set and pumped up my power. I really should maybe switch it up a bit now that the stat points from traits were rolled into the class baseline. I loving love building setups like this, which is why I keep asking people about certain class/playstyles to try and get an understanding of the best way to work it out. Most people just go full A or full B, which works. I just want to push it a bit further.
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Mizuti posted:I tried all of that, but nothing happens (aside from the big ugly text spam on load). I wish I understood what I was doing. Well, that sounds promising, but maybe I recommended the wrong sequence of button pressing (I only just installed this thing myself). Perhaps you had a successful suite install with a blank or partially buggered configuration? I am now imagining a scenario where that Apply button is per-tab and if that's true my summary was off! But all the config files are thrown together in that ReShade folder so tracking down what's wrong shouldn't be impossible. Go into the bin64\ReShade folder and open up SweetFX.cfg. You'll see a bunch of commented out headings which are 3 lines tall. Find one of the SweetFX shaders that you wanted to use. It should read "#define USE_<SHADERNAME> 1" right under its heading. If not, set it to 1. Eyeball the rest of the shader settings under that line to ensure your "finetune" adjustments got saved, if not write them in too. The only other thing I can think of is something global, Common.cfg has a line (row 11) which toggles whether all effects are on or off when the game starts by default. Kitty Fantastico fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Sprite141 posted:You don't have to use full zerker on anything, if that is what's causing this problem. For example I have made sure that all my medium class characters have at least one piece of soldiers, be it a soldier chest or some soldier ascended trinkets. My thief actually has a valk head and shoes too, and he can take a good few hits while I realize I've gotten in over my head and start playing better/get the poo poo outta there. Of course classes with great built in defenses like mesmers really don't need it if you're good enough. In case people are unaware, the Marauder (and Crusader which is Power/Toughness/Ferocity/Healing Power) insignias/inscriptions/jewels are available from the normal crafting vendors for karma and use discovery and the normal exotic armour crafting processes/materials. Only catch is that they're account bound so you need to have the relevant crafting skill to 400 (for exotic gear) but quite a few people have that and as mentioned the gear itself is account bound so once you make it you can shove it in the bank and get it out on your alts. Been experimenting with a Druid in Crusader gear for overworld and meta events in the new zones, seems pretty neat so far.
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Mercurius posted:Been experimenting with a Druid in Crusader gear for overworld and meta events in the new zones, seems pretty neat so far.
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Kenshin posted:Hmm, Crusader seems like a good idea for my healing shouts warrior build...
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