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Bingemoose
Mar 24, 2014

Hurr Durr muts saf gotam cety
anyone bored and wanna help a fellow goon to hit 56 im currently 53 and having a hard time getting xp.

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Digital_Jesus
Feb 10, 2011

Have you tried getting good?

Hitting 56 wont solve anything if your gear is garbage.

If you cant grind in mediah your gear is poop. Get money bruh.

Bingemoose
Mar 24, 2014

Hurr Durr muts saf gotam cety

Digital_Jesus posted:

Have you tried getting good?

Hitting 56 wont solve anything if your gear is garbage.

If you cant grind in mediah your gear is poop. Get money bruh.

my gears not good but its not bad(i think? 108 ap 148 dp) I can kill in mediah just seems leveling has slowed quite a bit.

Digital_Jesus
Feb 10, 2011

Bingemoose posted:

my gears not good but its not bad(i think? 108 ap 148 dp) I can kill in mediah just seems leveling has slowed quite a bit.

51-56 is much slower than 1-50.

56-59 is much slower than 51-56.

59-62 is literally a years worth of grinding 10 hours a day.

Welcome to Korea

Also 108AP is low for Mediah. You'll feel better at 150+

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
From memory if you're still gearing up for the first time you pretty much want to go Catfishmen (south-west of Calephon) then Abandoned Iron Mine (west of Abun).

Both of those places have less challenging mobs, good density and decent drops.

Once you're comfortably geared for those places go slap around Manes for a while, then Elrics and eventually Sausans. Being able to kill and survive in an area isn't as important as your clear speed, so ideally you want lots of stuff you can chew through fast over things that take a while to kill.

I'm skipping over Helms because I think the elites in Manes are easier for lower geared players than the AOE happy golems in Helms. By all means go there too, once you're comfortable with the place.

J
Jun 10, 2001

They semi-recently added some solid accessory drops to certain mediah areas. See here for details, although ignore the time estimate. I'd farm at abandoned iron mine first to get the asula neck, iron mine is the easiest of those 3 spots and you can avoid the elites if need be. The elites get killed by high level players fairly often anyway. Same with the golems at helms. Once you get the asula neck you can bounce back and forth between elrics and helms as you see fit till you finish up the rest of that accessory set. Lots of elrics spawn in the canyon of corruption south of elric shrine too, feel free to look there if elric shrine itself is camped. If elrics and helms are too slow to kill then you can do manes to hopefully get money and levels for a few upgrades and then try elrics and helms again.

van fem
Oct 22, 2010

If you can't be right, be confusing.

J posted:

Elrics

Elrics are pretty tanky. I'd say stick to Helms till new-goon is near the AP cap at Elrics.

theSpokeyDokey
Jul 19, 2005
Is the Goon guild still relatively active? I've been floating around this game for awhile and I think I used up my trial without really getting too far anywhere.

Also, does anyone have a referral code?

TVDinna
Feb 17, 2013
59-60 isn't terrible, it's about 30 days of being consistent on the daily grind bonus iirc.
60 is still ok-ish but only about 1% per daily grind bonus.

If you're on your first character, grind in Iron Mines for Asula neck, Helms for ring/earring, Elrics for belt.

ParksAndRec has a bunch of casual Progress Quest'ers but we're not big/geared enough to fight in node wars yet.
We have a few people who will go around and kick some nests to try to stir up some pvp but often times it results in pissing people off and then they permadec us but most of those guilds aren't terribly scary.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
You can catch some good deals right before server resets. Just snagged a non-enchanted Nouver Ornamental Knot off the marketplace, no bid required.

Of course I haven't touched my Dark Knight in ages and will need to re-gear it completely anyway so I'll just bank that for now :v:

J
Jun 10, 2001

DancingShade posted:

You can catch some good deals right before server resets. Just snagged a non-enchanted Nouver Ornamental Knot off the marketplace, no bid required.

Of course I haven't touched my Dark Knight in ages and will need to re-gear it completely anyway so I'll just bank that for now :v:

Also people often try to sell good poo poo to their buddies immediately after the server comes back up from maintenance. I've seen multiple pen items get listed right after the server comes back up.

gwrtheyrn
Oct 21, 2010

AYYYE DEEEEE DUBBALYOO DA-NYAAAAAH!

DancingShade posted:

You can catch some good deals right before server resets. Just snagged a non-enchanted Nouver Ornamental Knot off the marketplace, no bid required.

Of course I haven't touched my Dark Knight in ages and will need to re-gear it completely anyway so I'll just bank that for now :v:

Are nouver knots actually that hard to get in the first place?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

gwrtheyrn posted:

Are nouver knots actually that hard to get in the first place?

From my experience yes, which is why I bought it.

berserker
Aug 17, 2003

My love for you
is ticking clock
So I wonder who the gently caress thought it was a good idea to have a boss on a 9-12 hour spawn that might then decide to not even spawn in the server you're on.

Velia2 had so many tired mad people early this morning.

Cheap Shot
Aug 15, 2006

Help BIP learn gun?


berserker posted:

So I wonder who the gently caress thought it was a good idea to have a boss on a 9-12 hour spawn that might then decide to not even spawn in the server you're on.

Velia2 had so many tired mad people early this morning.

I constantly question their decisions. This makes no sense to me either. What a horrible rat poo poo idea. I can't think of a single reason for it.

Ineptitude
Mar 2, 2010

Heed my words and become a master of the Heart (of Thorns).
Whats up with the launcher speeds lately. Getting 1 MB/s, took me literally 2 days to patch the game after not having played for a month

Cheap Shot
Aug 15, 2006

Help BIP learn gun?


Ineptitude posted:

Whats up with the launcher speeds lately. Getting 1 MB/s, took me literally 2 days to patch the game after not having played for a month

It doesn't help that the patches are massive either.

Shalhavet
Dec 10, 2010

This post is terrible
Doctor Rope

berserker posted:

So I wonder who the gently caress thought it was a good idea to have a boss on a 9-12 hour spawn that might then decide to not even spawn in the server you're on.

Velia2 had so many tired mad people early this morning.

Well, this patch fixed that. She spawns on all servers on a 4-5 hour cycle now.

berserker
Aug 17, 2003

My love for you
is ticking clock

Shalhavet posted:

Well, this patch fixed that. She spawns on all servers on a 4-5 hour cycle now.

Saw that, and increased drop rates on her random drops. This is a pretty nice patch, they just need to make the servers work...

CrusherEAGLE
Oct 28, 2007

Frosty Divine
Got a giath's helmet from the night vendor. Yay?

Then I realized how much it loving sucked to upgrade gear in this game and uninstalled.

Afgad
Dec 24, 2006

Ask me about delicious soy products.
If any of you are on the fence on whether or not to join Parks and Rec, just know that there are tons of jerks in this game and their tears are delicious.



Tacos you're my hero. You gave me this present (sorry it's hard to read sometimes):










For clarification, if you karmabomb someone to kick them out of their spot so you can solo, that's a pretty dick move. Doing the reverse to keep your spot from someone trying to solo your spot makes you a hero in my book.

Edit: I forgot to mention, this was after this guy killed me while I was gathering near Velia. Definitely arguing from the moral high ground, this one.

Afgad fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Nov 2, 2017

J
Jun 10, 2001

People get so mad about "karma bombing" in this game, it is loving hilarious. They get even more mad when you don't happen to agree with their made up set of e-bushido rules that they will constantly adjust to fit their own interest.

Svensken
May 29, 2010
What does karmabombing even mean?

Digital_Jesus
Feb 10, 2011

Its when you annoy someone trying to farm and they kill you so you keep running back to annoy them until theyre negative karma or leave.

Its not a real thing. People are just idiots.

stump collector
May 28, 2007
i have no idea who that is or what guild he's from. i'm glad he remembers me though.

i did karmabomb some guys for killing me while i was logging near heidel but that was weeks ago

Dejawesp
Jan 8, 2017

You have to follow the beat!
Karmabombing doesn't apply to wardecs right?

gwrtheyrn
Oct 21, 2010

AYYYE DEEEEE DUBBALYOO DA-NYAAAAAH!
no but it tends to cause wardecs

Afgad
Dec 24, 2006

Ask me about delicious soy products.
The thing I found the most hilarious was:

Asking people to voluntarily be nice --> Chinese socialism

Using violence on those who disagree with you --> not Chinese socialism.

Made me laugh.

gwrtheyrn
Oct 21, 2010

AYYYE DEEEEE DUBBALYOO DA-NYAAAAAH!
Funniest poo poo is that they think we abuse not being able to be decced on. Hell we've decced on a guild in order to let someone else dec us. Wonder how they decced us in the first place if we can't be decced :thunk:

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

I’m new to following the game — why can’t you be decced on?

Taran
Nov 2, 2002

What? I don't get to yell "I'LL FINISH THIS" anymore?



Grimey Drawer

Subjunctive posted:

I’m new to following the game — why can’t you be decced on?

Last I checked, endgame PVP guilds (those that own nodes in the Node War) can't declare war on guilds that aren't part of the Node War, in theory to prevent some level of bullying by guilds at the very top.

Dejawesp
Jan 8, 2017

You have to follow the beat!

Taran posted:

Last I checked, endgame PVP guilds (those that own nodes in the Node War) can't declare war on guilds that aren't part of the Node War, in theory to prevent some level of bullying by guilds at the very top.

Worlds smallest violin for the top percent pvp guilds.

Mr. Creakle
Apr 27, 2007

Protecting your virginity



Is it just me or has the game been pretty much unplayable the past couple of days? The lag has been insane and I just crashed out twice in ten minutes. I KNOW it's not my ISP because different games, as well as movies/streaming/other forms of media, work just fine.

gwrtheyrn
Oct 21, 2010

AYYYE DEEEEE DUBBALYOO DA-NYAAAAAH!

extra row of teeth posted:

Is it just me or has the game been pretty much unplayable the past couple of days? The lag has been insane and I just crashed out twice in ten minutes. I KNOW it's not my ISP because different games, as well as movies/streaming/other forms of media, work just fine.

It's been pretty bad

Dejawesp
Jan 8, 2017

You have to follow the beat!
I have been disconnected every single night and work day for the past week except maybe 1.

I've also had lag during game play.

Digital_Jesus
Feb 10, 2011

Destiny 2 stole all their bandwidth.

SweetBro
May 12, 2014

Did you read that sister?
Yes, truly a shitposter's post. I read it, Rem.
Is this still a gear grindy cluster gently caress?

YOTC
Nov 18, 2005
Damn stupid newbie

SweetBro posted:

Is this still a gear grindy cluster gently caress?

Yeah I got back into it for like a month and checked out the new areas. It's pretty as gently caress but God the k grind for gear and levels

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

SweetBro posted:

Is this still a gear grindy cluster gently caress?

This will never get better and only worse as time goes on. Too bad, I'd still probably play this game if the gear grind wasn't a complete cluster gently caress.

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Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Thats not entirely true, the game feeds you higher end gear more often and there are new budget gear thats better and cheaper than the old budget gear. Enhancing is absolutely poo poo still though

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