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Dual stat belts are garbage in my experience. They should only ever be used until you can get a single stat belt. Even with that you will get more than a few drops that aren't meant for you. I estimate the dual skill belts dropped something I for the skills listed maybe 20% of the time but the single skill belts dropped 80%
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# ? Aug 18, 2015 20:43 |
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# ? May 9, 2024 02:11 |
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I dunno, it seems that the majority of my drops are either Unarmed and/or Mentalism with the belt I have.
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# ? Aug 18, 2015 22:39 |
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Yeah, if I'm not trying to get the perfect piece of archery boots or some crap like that, I usually found it worthwhile to use a dual belt with my target secondary on it. As it stands, in most cases you're going to be better off with the rare mixed gear that fits your two skills anyway.. many mods are limited to specific pieces of equipment, and you might find that the transformative mods like adding a stun or aoe to a skill show up on the same piece of equipment, and you're best piece might be a pair of boots with 2 such mods from two different skill sets. But it's been a while, and minmaxing is for a game that's done at 50, 50 is mid-level once they roll out the rest of this baby.
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# ? Aug 18, 2015 22:43 |
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This game is everything I have been looking for in an MMO for sometime. Put 100$ in the pot for Kickstarter, hope they get to the 60k mark for vampires! What a refreshing experience, it feels a lot like a spiritual successor to EQ
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# ? Aug 19, 2015 07:23 |
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lethargical posted:This game is everything I have been looking for in an MMO for sometime. Put 100$ in the pot for Kickstarter, hope they get to the 60k mark for vampires! Don't forget, the devs have a unique sense of humor. This is a quote from an earlier thread about undead: Citan posted:There's a bone-form planned for late-level Necromancers, which is technically an undead form, but nothing too exciting in terms of crazy rules. No official word on whether or not you could take off your armor so you would be naked while you ran around murdering other players.
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# ? Aug 20, 2015 05:49 |
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Inimicul posted:Don't forget, the devs have a unique sense of humor. This is a quote from an earlier thread about undead: That's amazing! hahaha.. Please please get to 60k ><
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# ? Aug 20, 2015 16:32 |
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Just pledged $50 and got to the 55k goal, I like being able to level up my skills while being offline with the VIP sub.
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# ? Aug 21, 2015 03:30 |
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I haven't paid attention to this game since the thread was originally posted. They're adding PVP? What kind? I was hoping there could be one sandbox MMO that didn't get taken over by rear end in a top hat griefers for loving once in my life.
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# ? Aug 21, 2015 23:14 |
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AlmightyBob posted:I haven't paid attention to this game since the thread was originally posted. They're adding PVP? What kind? I was hoping there could be one sandbox MMO that didn't get taken over by rear end in a top hat griefers for loving once in my life. At the moment there's a single PvP area and a seasonal recipe (Spooky Punch) you can use to opt into PvP for a few minutes. In the future they plan on adding duels. No global PvP is planned, though if there's enough interest they might make a separate PvP server.
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# ? Aug 21, 2015 23:46 |
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senrath posted:At the moment there's a single PvP area and a seasonal recipe (Spooky Punch) you can use to opt into PvP for a few minutes. In the future they plan on adding duels. No global PvP is planned, though if there's enough interest they might make a separate PvP server. OK cool. I'm fine with all that.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 00:00 |
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AlmightyBob posted:I haven't paid attention to this game since the thread was originally posted. They're adding PVP? What kind? I was hoping there could be one sandbox MMO that didn't get taken over by rear end in a top hat griefers for loving once in my life. A shameful goon.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 00:17 |
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AlmightyBob posted:I haven't paid attention to this game since the thread was originally posted. They're adding PVP? What kind? I was hoping there could be one sandbox MMO that didn't get taken over by rear end in a top hat griefers for loving once in my life. Angela Christine posted:A shameful goon. I was just about to say, the rear end in a top hat griefer goons might get all up in your grill for saying this.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 00:31 |
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I really hope PVP is a focus one day considering PVP is a huge driving force in a sandbox-type game. To be fair, I never played Asheron's Call so I've never experienced a PVE sandbox. I was about to say that I played Pre-CU Galaxies, but even that had a relatively large focus on PVP content.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 02:18 |
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Well they hit their 60k stretch mark! I wonder if they will implement another or just leave it at that. Regardless I'm excited to play as a vampire.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 06:20 |
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Alexander DeLarge posted:I really hope PVP is a focus one day considering PVP is a huge driving force in a sandbox-type game. To be fair, I never played Asheron's Call so I've never experienced a PVE sandbox. I was about to say that I played Pre-CU Galaxies, but even that had a relatively large focus on PVP content. If it becomes a focus that's going to be way down the line, as they've repeatedly said they have no intention of making it a focus.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 06:41 |
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lethargical posted:Well they hit their 60k stretch mark! There's now an "unofficial" 65k stretch goal so that everyone can have a party pack when the campaign ends, and to make sure that when pledges fail at the last minute we don't drop below 60k. Unfortunately, I can't really justify giving more. The next tier up for me is double my current pledge.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 19:09 |
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Same. I can't justify throwing another hundred dollars into the pot for the ability to grant a title to people.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 21:28 |
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I've been following this thread for... some reason? Should I just bite the bullet and try playing this thing?
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 22:57 |
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Saxophone posted:I've been following this thread for... some reason? Should I just bite the bullet and try playing this thing? It's free, so... yeah?
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 23:04 |
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30.5 Days posted:It's free, so... yeah? And not for much longer either, I think the devs said the doors are closing about a week after kickstarter ends (since they have to get game keys or whatever out to all the KS backers first). So if you're going to try before you buy, now is the time.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 23:07 |
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mushroom_spore posted:And not for much longer either, I think the devs said the doors are closing about a week after kickstarter ends (since they have to get game keys or whatever out to all the KS backers first). So if you're going to try before you buy, now is the time. Wait what? 40$ buy in AND a monthly fee? That's.. excessive.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 05:59 |
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Wolpertinger posted:Wait what? 40$ buy in AND a monthly fee? That's.. excessive. What? It's buy2play with an optional subscription that allows offline leveling (requires resources) and gives you some currency for cosmetics.
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# ? Aug 23, 2015 06:42 |
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Alexander DeLarge posted:What? It's buy2play with an optional subscription that allows offline leveling (requires resources) and gives you some currency for cosmetics. And double the character slots. It's pretty reasonable IMO. You can still get the game at a discount if you buy into the Kickstarter. mushroom_spore fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Aug 23, 2015 |
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mushroom_spore posted:And double the character slots. It's pretty reasonable IMO. I don't see the point of character slots if you can be good at everything on a single character though. I've never been a fan of alts so I'm glad they're doing this.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 02:01 |
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all the good MMOs of our day required an up front purchase along with a monthly fee. i'd rather pay the premium for a quality game rather than obsess over playing for free
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 02:19 |
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Alexander DeLarge posted:I don't see the point of character slots if you can be good at everything on a single character though. Technically, you can't, when you start bringing curses into it. Even just having lycanthropy can be a real inconvenience if you wanted to play sword/psych during a full moon game session, and Citan's been talking about requiring animal-form curses like spider to have to become incurable if they want to progress the skill past 50 and get various unique abilities (like spiders scurrying across water). And we have no idea how vampirism will work. I wouldn't be surprised if they stop allowing werewolves to have other animal curses (and no vampirism either/no vampires doing the lycanthrope questline).
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 02:48 |
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So, the admins have been spawning in tons of super bosses for people to fight over as celebration. It's been chaotic as all hell. As to character slots, every race will have race specific things, some things are permanent choices (Lycanthropy, Druid, Vampirism) that impact everything you can do, and supposedly the animal curses will become 100% permanent if you level them past 50.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 04:29 |
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senrath posted:So, the admins have been spawning in tons of super bosses for people to fight over as celebration. It's been chaotic as all hell. I'm sad I missed all the super bosses, because apparently they were dropping pretty good loot and my gear is still pretty meh. I did at least manage to have the admin give me super speed, which lead to a nice 30 minutes of flying around Serbule knocking out surveys.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 05:54 |
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Nemo2342 posted:I'm sad I missed all the super bosses, because apparently they were dropping pretty good loot and my gear is still pretty meh. Some were. Sadly the most dangerous ones, the Super Droaches, gave poo poo all because Droaches give poo poo all. The Spiderlords and Manticores up now give decent stuff, though.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 06:07 |
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Now, are they dumping the current build and characters, and starting a fresh load for the kickstarter alpha/beta, or is it going to carry over existing characters?
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 11:56 |
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glug posted:Now, are they dumping the current build and characters, and starting a fresh load for the kickstarter alpha/beta, or is it going to carry over existing characters? I thought they'd only wipe gear if necessary. Progression is supposed to stick around throughout, even after launch. mushroom_spore posted:Technically, you can't, when you start bringing curses into it. Even just having lycanthropy can be a real inconvenience if you wanted to play sword/psych during a full moon game session, and Citan's been talking about requiring animal-form curses like spider to have to become incurable if they want to progress the skill past 50 and get various unique abilities (like spiders scurrying across water).
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 12:12 |
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glug posted:Now, are they dumping the current build and characters, and starting a fresh load for the kickstarter alpha/beta, or is it going to carry over existing characters? No wipes are planned until before full launch next year, when items and money will be wiped.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 12:40 |
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Alexander DeLarge posted:I thought they'd only wipe gear if necessary. Progression is supposed to stick around throughout, even after launch. As far as I can tell curses are the real character choice. Races don't seem to do nearly as much and there are no classes per se. But I've just started. I'm just starting my guy sword/shields with psych because it has a full bar without requiring me to unequip my shield. Where do I grind low level foraging?
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 13:46 |
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So this games going buy to play soon? JW because of the backer rewards. I'll back if it'll save me money down the road because I'm definitely gonna play it but I'm not sure because I thought it was f2p.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 14:49 |
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Dang, I've been playing shootmans and missed the fun
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 15:09 |
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Nevvy Z posted:As far as I can tell curses are the real character choice. Races don't seem to do nearly as much and there are no classes per se. But I've just started. Races don't do much yet. More racial things are planned for later. THE PWNER posted:So this games going buy to play soon? JW because of the backer rewards. I'll back if it'll save me money down the road because I'm definitely gonna play it but I'm not sure because I thought it was f2p. Uh, the Kickstarter's already over, and yes, the game's buy to play. Free access ends on the 30th. It'll be on Steam Early Access in about a month, if things go as planned.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 16:40 |
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senrath posted:No wipes are planned until before full launch next year, when items and money will be wiped. And I think there's been vague statements that some number of "economy-related" skills may be included in the economy wipe if necessary, but we don't know what. For the most part though you can expect to keep your character, you'll just lose some small pieces by the time full release happens. Nevvy Z posted:As far as I can tell curses are the real character choice. Races don't seem to do nearly as much and there are no classes per se. But I've just started. Somewhere in the blurry mass of dev posts and comments I've seen were statements to the effect of "races will have more mechanics they can unlock, someday." So that'll change. Also for your low level foraging, apples spawn around Serbule along with whatever the lowest level flowers are. You'll be able to pick the grapes after a bit. Then I think you'll have to move on to harvesting in Eltibule. Then Sun Vale, though the guava stage is awkward now, it seems like their spawns were nerfed to hell from when I leveled my other character.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 20:02 |
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Be nice if it launches with an ability to one-time change your characters race and remove some perma-skills.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 20:20 |
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mushroom_spore posted:And I think there's been vague statements that some number of "economy-related" skills may be included in the economy wipe if necessary, but we don't know what. For the most part though you can expect to keep your character, you'll just lose some small pieces by the time full release happens. He's also not sure what to do about NPC favor, so there might be a full/partial wipe of that as well at some point. That's the part I really dread, based on how much time/money I've spent trying to get the vendors in Serbule to be useful to me.
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# ? Aug 24, 2015 20:26 |
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glug posted:Be nice if it launches with an ability to one-time change your characters race and remove some perma-skills. Citan did say we'd get a free appearance change in alpha once there are more options, so IMO it's not unreasonable that we will get more "get old characters up to date for new features" options. ex: if vampire turns out to be mutually exclusive with lycanthropy. Folks who picked druid are probably out of luck getting that removed, since the devs did put a giant warning sign on the druid altar, but if we get a new skill that druids *can't* take I can see that happening just so more people can test whatever the new skill is. Nemo2342 posted:He's also not sure what to do about NPC favor, so there might be a full/partial wipe of that as well at some point. That's the part I really dread, based on how much time/money I've spent trying to get the vendors in Serbule to be useful to me. It might not be too bad. We'd be going into a favor wipe with a lot of other skills at high rank, so it'd be trivially easy to replace a whole bunch of stuff that was a struggle for a newbie.
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