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Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
EDIT: Hey thanks for the invite! Back to stabbin zombies in their stupid faces.

Dreadwroth fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Jun 4, 2013

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Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich

Paxman posted:

This game is a lot of fun and a nice change from endless WoW clones/DIKU muds.

Another small hint for newbies - get a second weapon as soon as you can and equip and learn a few skills in it. Don't try to specialise in one weapon and move on to a second later - that might seem sensible but it's not the way to go in this game.

You can't get your skills wrong, at least not as a newbie. Putting two or three points into the "wrong" skills might seem bad when you're just starting out but you'll get new skill points before you know it.
You absolutely need to dual-wield or you will probably be quitting pretty fast out of frustration.
I think you can pick up a second weapon in the training room during the intro questline.
Blades is usually a solid choice, it has a ton of aoe and defensive abilities, and it pairs well with healing weapons like fists. Well that's what I'm using anyway.

Dreadwroth fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jun 4, 2013

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Oh my loving god, I've been trying to keep my weapon skill tracks even too. I feel extra super dumb right now, but in my defence there is no information ingame telling you can do that. I thought I had to keep both tracks of a weapon even to level up the QL. Sooooo are there any respecs?
Yeah there totally aren't are there.
Blast!

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Well so far I'm enjoying my shotgun elemental build since I remembered what order to apply debuff in, things are going much smoother now. Hey 50Ft Ant, are you doing the Hobo Murder Express sometime today? I would love to tag along since I love the TSW dungeons so much, and I'm in dire need of better gear.
Oh I'm in the Awful Order as "Doomthorne", just so ya know.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Oh cool, Im in Alaska so that works for me.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
EDIT: drat why does this happen to me all the time.
Man I am not looking forward to the second bit of that, Egypt is hard enough as it is without a bloody maze too. Actually I think they could stand to thin out the number of mobs by a little bit, the Secret World is really crowded. Im suprised there are any normal people left alive what with all the wendigos, ghouls, alien bugs, and vampires every where.

Dreadwroth fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jun 10, 2013

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
I guess my real issue with TSW is they seemed to spend all of their time on Kingsmouth and just threw in Egypt and Transylvania at the end. I would have preferred more zones and maybe a few less quests per zone or something. It's really weird to go from basically Rhode Island to the desert to spooky Dracula land. It seems really disjointed.
I was expecting to run around cities more, not have them as mostly pointless social hubs.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Well it's am improvement to the Secret World "wiping your face with the food" method of taco-eating I guess.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich

Sekenr posted:

Realistically you will only need playerbase for dungeons and maybe a couple of regular missions. Or if you want to PVP for some reason. I'd say its active enough, never felt like there isn't enough players.

To be fair it has some amazing dungeons and duoing through the game trivializes most of the combat, so its worth finding a homie to murder monsters with.
EDIT: Im gonna go through the game again on a new charachter so if you need a murder buddy, hit me up on Dreadwroth. Ill be on the Daemon server.

Dreadwroth fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Nov 4, 2015

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Yeah I only see that sometimes. I ran into a bug on the Darkness War where my entire screen went black but I could still see my minimap, I think it was from trying to skip the long rear end cutscenes.
Oh and Thanks Hat for running around Egypt with me last night, I got lots of sweet skill points.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Aw man my demon spacebug just does a dance, he dosent attack other pets at all.
So I finally got past Scorching Desert and into City of Sun God and man is it easier, the story is awesome too and the Black Pyramid with the crazy sun thing is an awesome central setpiece.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Also it dosent matter what server yer on or what faction you can group with anyone.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Well after nosing through their 3rd quarter financial report, it looks like their income is down and they're planning to milk that Conan ip for all it's worth. So yeah, enjoy TSW while it lasts.

Dreadwroth fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Feb 9, 2017

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Just got in, holy poo poo this downloader is crap.
Guess I'll give it a serious go after work, I don't have high hopes if the beta forum is anything to go by yeesh.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
I didn't see that, and am not using Steam. The Funcom patcher is lovely as gently caress.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
I have no idea why Funcom are trying to claim this is anything other than a content patch for the existing game, there's literally nothing new aside from the forced reticle poo poo and how skills work.
Ps: the reticle combat is really not fun.

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Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Ugh those are both gross changes.

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