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Mr. Nice! posted:I just made a hotbar on the side of my screen and have all my companion stuff on it. I've got a black choco and a GC choco button that I'll switch back and forth in my middle click spot depending on whether or not I have him stabled. One spot for gyshal greens, another for sylkis bud, spots for free, attack, healer, and tank stance, plus a button for follow and withdraw. Using a controller so hotbar space is at a premium. What I have works well enough.
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Ouhei posted:I'm fighting the urge to pick up the Eso PLD chest this week instead of the sword. I know weapons are the best upgrade, but pretty pretty dress up! I'm not doing Savage at all and haven't started normal Alex yet (though I will be this week) so I know it doesn't REALLY matter other than making it slightly easier on me if I get paired up with DPS that get their weapon next week. If you're not doing savage alex it doesn't matter, get what you want.
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Hmm, I'm sitting here wondering if the Eso chest is a better buy if you have a Hive weapon because it's similar stat gains, but lacking the weapon damage, but a 20 ilevel jump instead of 10
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Jul 28, 2015 14:16
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Weapon is probably better, but I'm pretty sure the difference is a couple % tops.
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Ciaphas posted:Yeah it's a little bit odd that they're continuing to label the non-cap trials "Hard". Wonder what the logic behind that is. Normal mode primal fights have light parties (4 man), hard modes have full parties (8 man), extreme modes have full parties but are never part of any quest chain except for the self contained EX primal fight chain.
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I was running a low level dungeon (Hatali norm) and one of the party members was casting Protect, even though it's not available until lvl 34. How does that work?
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Just killed Alexander Savage 3. World First. First pull of the raid. loving. Incredible.  
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Jul 28, 2015 15:14
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SirPhoebos posted:I was running a low level dungeon (Hatali norm) and one of the party members was casting Protect, even though it's not available until lvl 34. How does that work? You mean stoneskin? It's a cross-classable skill.
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SirPhoebos posted:I was running a low level dungeon (Hatali norm) and one of the party members was casting Protect, even though it's not available until lvl 34. How does that work? Cross class skills can be used before the required level of the original class. If you put a level 50 skill in your first crossclass slot you can use it even if you get synced back to level 15.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:20
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Chyea posted:Just killed Alexander Savage 3. Christ! Congratulations. How in the holy hell did you get past the DPS check?
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Jul 28, 2015 15:22
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Chyea posted:Just killed Alexander Savage 3. Congrats! I've been watching Insomniac's/Synergy stream, fight looks incredible.
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Truga posted:You mean stoneskin? It's a cross-classable skill. Yeah, I meant stoneskin. Brainfart. And thanks for the explanation. Could I hypothetically put my native skills in the crossclass slot?
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Jul 28, 2015 15:24
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Chyea posted:Just killed Alexander Savage 3. Awesome stuff, man
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Chyea posted:Just killed Alexander Savage 3. Congrats, that's got to feel amazing.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:25
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Now I really want to know how loving insane SA4 is.
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Vermain posted:Now I really want to know how loving insane SA4 is. Faust is in the tunnel.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:33
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Vermain posted:Christ! Congratulations. How in the holy hell did you get past the DPS check? DPS check is hard but the execution is harder.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:33
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Chyea posted:Just killed Alexander Savage 3. Nice job! Can't wait to hear more details about it, and good luck on AS4!
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Jul 28, 2015 15:37
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So alexander normal drops 4 per boss now? Time to get super disappointed when I run it 8 times for the item i want.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:39
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 A small sample of the struggle of A3S.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:40
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This is perfect. Congratulations!
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Jul 28, 2015 15:44
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Chyea posted:
Oh bullshit, I remember that line blocking stuff from WoW, it's always extremely frustrating when it simply will not loving stick to you and it wipes the raid (and generally the person who it didn't stick to gets blamed, woo) Let me guess, if someone is dumb and "accidentally" passes in front of the designated blocker, you get a debuff too? More power to you guys dealing with the punishing check and apparently Tanaka running the mechanics himself.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:45
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Even in normal mode that tether is wonky as hell. Which is weird because Tempest Wing was always snappy in t13.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:45
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Shere posted:Even in normal mode that tether is wonky as hell. Which is weird because Tempest Wing was always snappy in t13. Yeah, I think they made the raycast cylinder too thin or something. I have what I'd consider to be a fairly good ping (70~ average), and I have to run into it about two or three times to get the drat thing to actually detect properly.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:53
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Chyea posted:
What is your schedule even like when you're trying for World Firsts? Do you take time before attempts to try and get new gear or is that too much of a risk of someone else beating you? Do you take off work? Do you have jobs? How do you afford the constant expensive food buying? I'm very curious about all this.
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armoredgorilla posted:What is your schedule even like when you're trying for World Firsts? Do you take time before attempts to try and get new gear or is that too much of a risk of someone else beating you? Do you take off work? Do you have jobs? How do you afford the constant expensive food buying? Assuming this isn't a troll. If it's anything like WoW progression raiders if you have a job you take a few weeks of using vacation. Or they are in school during summer vacation or jobless. They only raid a lot of hours the first 1-2 weeks then it's 1-2 hours a week from then on out till the next progression. (not so much in WoW anymore with needing to have multiple alts fully geared out). And I'd assume people at this level know if it's gear or skill that is holding them back from a kill and whether or not to go get more gear or do more attempts.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:17
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{I'm sorry.} Nice job. Looking forward to impressions from savage 4.
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It is not a troll. I don't know anything about world first raiding and it seemed like asking a direct source would be a good option to learn about it.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:35
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armoredgorilla posted:What is your schedule even like when you're trying for World Firsts? Do you take time before attempts to try and get new gear or is that too much of a risk of someone else beating you? Do you take off work? Do you have jobs? How do you afford the constant expensive food buying? We each took a week and a bit off work. All of us have jobs or go to school, and a couple of us worked from home during progression. Generally we raided for 14-16 hours a day, with a couple hours for real life and 6~ hours of sleep. We used the downtime when people went AFK to farm Alexander Normal or Esoterics. If we felt our mains or alts needed gear for progression purposes, we dedicated time before we slept to finish their gearing for the next day. Regarding food and potions, Elysium is well-networked and filled with dedicated crafters and gatherers. Food and pots were rarely an issue, despite sometimes blowing 500k per pull on potions
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Are people already sick of endgame stuff? I still haven't even hit 60 on my main class and I'm worried there will be no one left around to farm content when I do. On the other hand, it seems like Alex normal will be less of a frustration for me.
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Joining the chorus of getting the esoterics chest first. I'd get a greater benefit than others since I still only have the law weapon but I don't care, pretty princess comes first. 
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Mordiceius posted:Are people already sick of endgame stuff? I still haven't even hit 60 on my main class and I'm worried there will be no one left around to farm content when I do. nah, most people have been running it for a few weeks tops, you should be able to find people for whatever. GreatRedSpirit posted:Joining the chorus of getting the esoterics chest first. I'd get a greater benefit than others since I still only have the law weapon but I don't care, pretty princess comes first. normally id save up for a weapon but, dat bard body / head piece, gotta have it.
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Chyea posted:We each took a week and a bit off work. All of us have jobs or go to school, and a couple of us worked from home during progression. Generally we raided for 14-16 hours a day, with a couple hours for real life and 6~ hours of sleep. We used the downtime when people went AFK to farm Alexander Normal or Esoterics. If we felt our mains or alts needed gear for progression purposes, we dedicated time before we slept to finish their gearing for the next day. Regarding food and potions, Elysium is well-networked and filled with dedicated crafters and gatherers. Food and pots were rarely an issue, despite sometimes blowing 500k per pull on potions Being that it's 8 people and your FC has more then 8 raiders do you condense into a super 8 man alpha squad going for world firsts? Or do you have multiple groups trying with the same dedication?
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Chyea posted:We each took a week and a bit off work. All of us have jobs or go to school, and a couple of us worked from home during progression. Generally we raided for 14-16 hours a day, with a couple hours for real life and 6~ hours of sleep. We used the downtime when people went AFK to farm Alexander Normal or Esoterics. If we felt our mains or alts needed gear for progression purposes, we dedicated time before we slept to finish their gearing for the next day. Regarding food and potions, Elysium is well-networked and filled with dedicated crafters and gatherers. Food and pots were rarely an issue, despite sometimes blowing 500k per pull on potions followup question with no snark or sarcasm attached: Do you get anything out of doing it? Say Alexander [Apocalyptic] comes out next week and you operate as above. 1. say you get the "world first" - is there some reward for having done so? Or is it "take the screenshot, announce on forum, cool, see you guys next dungeon release, time to sleep?" 2. say someone else gets it, way before you or just before you - do you stop? Does it still feel worth it? How much does that suck? Side question: - how do you know you're the first to have done it?
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Mordiceius posted:Are people already sick of endgame stuff? I still haven't even hit 60 on my main class and I'm worried there will be no one left around to farm content when I do. Considering someone is posting about their experience as the WORLD FIRST of 3 of 4 raid turns, there's still plenty to do. Most people haven't even cleared Bismark or Ravana ex.
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Holyshoot posted:Being that it's 8 people and your FC has more then 8 raiders do you condense into a super 8 man alpha squad going for world firsts? Or do you have multiple groups trying with the same dedication? Elysium has several excellent statics, we don't rearrange groups or try to make a "super-group". We feel that supporting our existing statics and promoting synergy is a better way to have a quality raiding experience.
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Jul 28, 2015 17:09
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The real problem with the endgame is that the Great Library is the best dungeon of HW but you rarely do it at 60. Add Gubal to the EXDR yoshi.p plz
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Add something to EXDR. Neverreap is horrible and one of the main reasons I've been putting off tomestone grinding.
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GreatRedSpirit posted:The real problem with the endgame is that the Great Library is the best dungeon of HW but you rarely do it at 60. Add Gubal to the EXDR yoshi.p plz The Great Gubal Library (Hard) will fulfill all your magical talking book dreams. Please look forward to it!
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