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Cleretic posted:Except the game throws both signets and pax at you like loving candy by the time you're QL10 anyway, so tossing green signets in gear you'll be using for an appreciable amount of time is pretty okay. I'd even be cool with throwing blues in transient gear if you're likely to be doing the three end-of-DLC missions often.
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So I finally got a good enough internet connection and computer to play online games again and decided to give this one a try. Any advice for someone new to this game? Full disclosure, I haven't played an online game since vanilla WoW came out and even then I only played for a few months 
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Jul 28, 2013 21:53
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The first post has a huge section labeled "New Players."
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guppy posted:The first post has a huge section labeled "New Players." I imagine the OP will make more sense after I've played the game a few hours and figured out the terminology. Thanks though.
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BigRoman posted:So I finally got a good enough internet connection and computer to play online games again and decided to give this one a try. Any advice for someone new to this game? This game is very friendly and rewarding for casual players, when your picking your initial faction go with what sounds interesting to you. The same goes with starting weapons, pick two that sound fun. If you get stuck in a mission, want some advice where to go next or just want to shoot the poo poo with goons while you shoot the poo poo out of zombies hop on our mumble server. We have an ingame chat as well, /chat join awful, mumble info is in the OP.
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Seconding that mumble is super friendly and helpful. There's usually someone willing to at the least answer questions you may have, and often times help out on tricky missions, dungeon runs, or whatever. And sometimes we talk about France, apparently.
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greth posted:And sometimes we talk about France, apparently. Is this what comes after Tokyo?
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Azubah posted:Is this what comes after Tokyo?
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Last night I finished the shotgun/chaos starter deck because its description looked cool. Good to know that chaos is cruddy; I only put in enough AP for the deck abilities and spent little SP on it. I'll just enjoy the deck outfit and start dumping points into something else. It sounds like shotguns are alright for general leveling, so: what should I pair with them? I'm also interested in any decent shotgun consumers that hit more than one enemy.
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Chaos has some of the best abilities in the game, for both tanking and dpsing. None of the weapons are actually bad, because no weapon is meant to stand alone. you're going to be dipping into a lot of weapons for passives anyway, so it's not really possible to waste points or anything. Keep in mind that whatever you end up doing, you'll probably fill out the entire wheel regardless. Pistols and elemental both play well with shotguns, with the added bonus of being a great build for when you hit QL10 and start pushing other content. Pistol/shotgun is a great starting dps build because you bring necessary group buffs to offset your lower gear, and short fuse in elemental is the same way.
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One thing that was definitely not intuitive was that passives do NOT require the relevant weapon equipped to function, they completely stand alone. So while your active powers are all going to be from your weapon pair, your passives will probably be from goddamn near anything (examples being things like on-hit/crit/whatever heals, damage increases, "when you strike an Afflicted target, you..." type things). Along the way, obviously, you'll be picking up more and more actives. And yeah, you do sort of end up filling out the wheel by accident as you go. If you're wanting to fill out the built-in decks, I recommend doing it in the order of "literally fill out the entire inner wheel" -> "decks that give cool looking outfits" -> "other". There's a shockingly large amount of good poo poo in the inner wheel.
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Ok, that's good to know that filling up the whole wheel is possible, I thought there was a cap on max ap/sp gained. I like pistols so far and I've already put a fair amount of points into them, but I want to experiment with some of the magic schools instead of swords as secondary.
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Ankh normal is weird, I'm convinced. I've been running it as a tank in QL8 Blues for a bit, and have run the gamut from smooth to impossibly stupid. And the failed runs have included folks in QL 10. I think having an overgeared healer presents a really hard tanking situation, in that you need the big heals (due to no mitigation with QL8 dungeon drops), and not enough hate generation to overcome a powerful healer.
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elhondo posted:Ankh normal is weird, I'm convinced. I've been running it as a tank in QL8 Blues for a bit, and have run the gamut from smooth to impossibly stupid. And the failed runs have included folks in QL 10. I think having an overgeared healer presents a really hard tanking situation, in that you need the big heals (due to no mitigation with QL8 dungeon drops), and not enough hate generation to overcome a powerful healer. If you have agitator and blade torrent nothing can pull off you.
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not blade torrent, but escalation/intensity with agitator and fuel to the fire. Still lost aggro.
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Jul 30, 2013 04:47
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How exactly do the Deck Outfits work? Do you get them automatically if you happen to take all the right skills or do you need to select them somehow? I've been able to find out precious little about deck outfits beyond what they look like.
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Once you have all the right skills, you'll be able to click the Claim Reward button while the deck is selected to get the outfit.
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Do you get rad free outfits, like, all the time? This is way better than the generic duds I started out with:
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Yes, once you unlock an outfit, you can wear it whenever. You should also check out Pangaea for more clothes.
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Toshimo posted:If you have agitator and blade torrent nothing can pull off you.
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orcane posted:Unless the healer uses barriers. Not so much, mostly its just if the tank has no AR.
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elhondo posted:not blade torrent, but escalation/intensity with agitator and fuel to the fire. Still lost aggro. The important thing to remember about tanking in this game is that 1) Equiping only "tanking" pieces will make sure you fail at tanking. I know it's really strange, but you usually want 2 pieces of blue attack gear on and the rest all tanking pieces. If you're having issues holding agro against an overgeared healer, try 3pieces of attack gear. 2) healing (especially with blood) builds INSANE amounts of agro, especially since with barries agro builds even when it's not doing anything. if you're having issues keeping agro off the healer, tell them to slot SUBTLETY. It makes them generate less agro and is very useful when you're overgeared healing.
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I wasn't really clear on what I was trying to express. I was responding to a post on pubbies sucking in Ankh. While I personally admit to the failings of stacking health and ignoring AR (that's just the way the blues fall before elites), I am a consistently bad tank, and my results vary greatly. Some runs go really smooth, aggro can be lost and recovered, and other times, the healer in purples can't keep me alive through multiple attempts. I don't know the hate formula well enough, but it makes me think that the TSW forum posters had something were on to something when they were pondering overhealing = additional aggro. On a separate note, Ankh PUG's are where the nominally chill community tends to break down.
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elhondo posted:I wasn't really clear on what I was trying to express. I was responding to a post on pubbies sucking in Ankh. While I personally admit to the failings of stacking health and ignoring AR (that's just the way the blues fall before elites), I am a consistently bad tank, and my results vary greatly. Some runs go really smooth, aggro can be lost and recovered, and other times, the healer in purples can't keep me alive through multiple attempts. I don't know the hate formula well enough, but it makes me think that the TSW forum posters had something were on to something when they were pondering overhealing = additional aggro. The problem is chaos. Swap to hammer and use stones throw and razor shards, never have agro problems again. It doesn't matter if you have an overgeared healer or dps then because hammer is so good at generating agro and doing more damage generating more agro once again. I've been in the situation of having q10 blues and running thru dungeons with the best dps in the game and its a joke to hold agro with hammer compared to chaos. Choas was the tanking build because it used to be the only way to apply exposed, this changed a long time ago but people for some reason still tank with chaos. You can get by with chaos but its a battle especially when you outgeared by others in the group, it's just dumb doing it considering you have much better options. You also must have ar gear in addition to tanking gear always, try and take 2 majors AR and you will work up to more later on. Whats your in-game name? I'll be happy to come help with dungeons.
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Firestander in game. (I've had it explained to me in previous MMO's, that I probably shouldn't stand in the fire.)
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Ok, we can help with dungeons that aren't Hell Raised then.
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So can people suggest a good damaging resource consumer for AR? My leech build currently uses High-Explosive Grenade, but even when I set up the bonus damage with Incendiary Grenade it's just underwhelming in terms of firepower.
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Cleretic posted:So can people suggest a good damaging resource consumer for AR? My leech build currently uses High-Explosive Grenade, but even when I set up the bonus damage with Incendiary Grenade it's just underwhelming in terms of firepower. Why not just use transfuse anima? does good damage, does good healing. If I am using Ele Force, I use Fire in the Hole. Otherwise I use Three Round Burst.
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I was playing through the story mission on my Templar alt and I saw this which I missed the first time through: 
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Zephonith posted:I was playing through the story mission on my Templar alt and I saw this which I missed the first time through: They've thrown a lot of neat easter eggs into the names of abilities, it's kind of cool.  One area has its attack messages written as warning messages - GET OUT, YOU WERE WARNED, etc - while one of the late game bosses has all their buffs and so on written in the native Romanian. You wouldn't notice these unless you actively went looking for them.
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I've always been a fan of "Too Slow", myself.
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My favourite attack name is from Dr Klein in Ankh. He has an attack on the bridge called "Profane in the Membrane". That's closely followed up by "Kittens, Jeez" from The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn.
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I remember the Black House's damaging effect being called "Leave This House" None of it has anything on Scrapyard Edgar though.
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If you walk into the carnival water the slow debuff is the spirit of tiny, drowned kittens scratching at your heels. Oh Andy, what did your Father do. 
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Zephonith posted:My favourite attack name is from Dr Klein in Ankh. He has an attack on the bridge called "Profane in the Membrane". That's closely followed up by "Kittens, Jeez" from The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn. Edgar's ability names in Tyler Freeborn are good too. Unfortunately I don't remember what they are right now.
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Cleretic posted:Edgar's ability names in Tyler Freeborn are good too. Unfortunately I don't remember what they are right now.
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Why don't pubbies want TSW to have bugs fixed?quote:/stuck works fine in all cases, where you are place you can no longer regularly move away from. It normaly moves you one step to the side. It however doesn't work, when the game believes, you are still moving (falling).
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Some of the ability names are ace, but none have tickled me as much as "Blood for the Blood Dog" in Darkness War. Simple things, eh? 
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