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admanb posted:Pretty much. Ability stones have tiers and ilvls as well so unless you’re in high T2 you’re not getting anything of high value. If one has a skill you want see if you can hone it into something useful, if not just dismantle it. Thank you!
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Yeah the difference in vitality boost between legendary T1 stones and garbage T2 stones is absolutely massive and you’ll basically be trashing all T1 stones immediately after making the transition
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Feb 17, 2022 19:10
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Ok, how do the dispatch station elemental adaptation work in your stronghold? One mission with ice adaptation to which I have a pet and a crew linked to gives me 150%. But that same crew on another mission with the same adaptation is 102%. Googling has only covered that adaptation is the quality of the loot. Another related question is the pirate coins. These runs are rewarding 6-8 coins per while costing 3 to run. Yet, I appear to be slowly draining coins. What did I miss?
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Feb 17, 2022 19:20
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One of my favorite streamers has been having a mental breakdown (straight jacket mental asylum style) over the last few days as the end game progressing slowly dawns on him. 10/10 game just for the hilarious content.
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Feb 17, 2022 19:29
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Can you do island stuff with a friend?
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Feb 17, 2022 19:36
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I beelined a few maraton sessions into unlocking the sailing and it seems like it's not exactly open world but I still have to follow the main quest? I tried going on to some islands but there's nothing to do on them and the mobs are level 50. A friend tells me that you actually need to do some quests before you even get access to islands and can't just go around sailing on them randomly. How does this exactly work?
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Feb 17, 2022 19:44
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The boat is mostly just for sailing to your next msq destinations for now, until you get to level 50 & Vern at which point you have an opportunity to go a bit off the rails. You do want to complete Vern and the following continent, Shushire, at some point, but there's no huge pressure since after that the game just throws you out the door and says "ok run some raids and explore random islands until you're ilvl 460". There are islands with item level restrictions though. The Majority are 250 which you'll easily hit by Vern but some go all the way up to 1000+.
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TeaJay posted:I beelined a few maraton sessions into unlocking the sailing and it seems like it's not exactly open world but I still have to follow the main quest? I tried going on to some islands but there's nothing to do on them and the mobs are level 50. A friend tells me that you actually need to do some quests before you even get access to islands and can't just go around sailing on them randomly. How does this exactly work? Yeah the actual "island hopping" most of us are discussing is post-50. As you progress the main quest you'll visit a few new islands/continents but those are basically just the same as the rest of the MSQ up to that point.
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Good Citizen posted:Yeah the difference in vitality boost between legendary T1 stones and garbage T2 stones is absolutely massive and you’ll basically be trashing all T1 stones immediately after making the transition Even before that the difference between a blue stone you get from questing and the purple stones you get from 340 Guardian/Abyssal is like 500 vitality.
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game owns. did my first abyss, guardian raid, island raid thing (a giant chicken and a pvp thing), and chaos dungeon. starting to look into gear and stuff but im having trouble grasping the relationship between engraving, faceting, ability stones, and maybe theres another system im forgetting that also connects to those? ill peep a guide or video but prefer goon words cause youtubers all talk like possessed dolls edit: also i just love this game's position on story. everything goes. everything is "why not?" it's like nicholas cage movies. lord of the rings? why not? harry pottery? why not? yoda? why not? steampunk why? hot pirates? why not? thehandtruck fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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poemdexter posted:Raids I've had no trouble with. Now that stupid loving scorpion fight? I still haven't found a pug that can do it. If you can stagger it you can damage its tail with weak point abilities/destruction bombs. As a Gunlancer I was able to break it in a party by making sure I hit it with a flame round (with tripod for level 2 weak point) and a destruction bomb (level 3 weak point) each time it fell over. When its tail is broken it loses a lot of the really annoying electricity spamming moves. It still keeps its grab attack though. Fortunately I was able to tank all of those as a blue gunlancer. thehandtruck posted:starting to look into gear and stuff but im having trouble grasping the relationship between engraving, faceting, ability stones, and maybe theres another system im forgetting that also connects to those? Engraving enables special abilities if you get 5 points of that engraving. You have two engraving slots on your equipment page, but you can only equip into those slots if you have consumed at least 20 engraving books for the skill you want. This early on you will probably want to equip your class specific engraving in both slots. This will give you 3 points per slot, for a total of 6, which gets you past the 5 engraving points needed for activation. Engravings have three ranks, each rank requires five points to activate, for a total of 15 points to have a level 3 active engraving. For example, the grudge engraving only gives 3% boss damage at rank 1, but at rank 3 it gives a whopping 20% more damage vs bosses. Some engravings aren't worth their drawbacks at rank 1. Your accessories and facet stones can also contribute towards your engraving points. They can also give you NEGATIVE engravings with things like reduced attack power, defense, or movespeed if any of those goes over five points. It's probably still worth having a "useless" faceted stone equipped since they will still give you a big chunk of vitality even if the engravings aren't doing much for you. Diephoon fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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Feb 17, 2022 20:33
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The melting gelato is a dirty trick and I'm glad I caught it before I used it and wasted my silver.
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Daman posted:so I mindlessly named a powerpass'd toon teemo with some accented characters, did my dailies being a bit chatty to help people learn abyssals & counters, come back the next day to: Is this the first game that bans “IP” nicknames?? What the hell?
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Rabid Snake posted:Is this the first game that bans “IP” nicknames?? What the hell? i remember city of heroes would factory reset your appearance if you tried to recreate an actual superhero/villain with the character creator but this is the first ive heard a game make names illegal
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Rabid Snake posted:Is this the first game that bans “IP” nicknames?? What the hell? Blizz does it for Disney names if they get reported.
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Daman posted:so I mindlessly named a powerpass'd toon teemo with some accented characters, did my dailies being a bit chatty to help people learn abyssals & counters, come back the next day to: I honestly think it’s more likely you got mass reported by some guy since that’s all it seems to take lol pretty sure new world had the same issue since their report system is so automated
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I changed my Stronghold name because I am way too addicted to this game to get banned for some dumb name poo poo. At least that only cost 100 gold. LOL at banning people for their character names and then trying to charge them real money to change it
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Charles 1998 posted:One of my favorite streamers has been having a mental breakdown (straight jacket mental asylum style) over the last few days as the end game progressing slowly dawns on him. 10/10 game just for the hilarious content. It's a korean "f2p" mmo, kinda figured anyone planning on playing a ton would know this going in 
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Charles 1998 posted:One of my favorite streamers has been having a mental breakdown (straight jacket mental asylum style) over the last few days as the end game progressing slowly dawns on him. 10/10 game just for the hilarious content. Those of us who followed Lost Ark since its Korean release, tried to warn everyone that the end game was brutally challenging and grindy. The people playing on Korea that you see doing the top tier hardest content, have been playing Lost Ark really hardcore since day 1. The western release makes it easier to get to that tier of content, but not by that much. Those who didn't pay attention, thought this would seriously be like World of Warcraft where you would clear all content in a week or two.
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Even then isn't top tier mythic raiding or whatever wow has pretty grindy itself to get into? And the raids themselves also marathons of synchronized swimming? Like I get that kmmos are probably still grinder but any of this should've been painfully obvious from the get go. Even if you thought this was an arpg you have PoE and d3 which are also just grind fests too. Any MMORPG or GAAS thing is gonna be a grind.
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Yeah unless you're in the 1% Mythic raiding is a 6+ month affair where you're probably doing daily and weekly activities to keep progressing your numbers even outside of raid drops.
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Elroy Jetson posted:Do not trust the gum goblin, he will betray your family. Is that the face of the hero of El Facil?.... disregard that. Instead of going UP trying to race to the endgame, for this game would made sense to go sideways and complete maps, faction points, and make your character (all your characters, really, since is account wide). into savants-cool kids-monsters with lots of bonus from different content. Or the moment the game become a second job, drop it, and just return for expansions or things. I have yet to play the last expansion of FF14, is not like we lack good stuff 
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Slider posted:It's a korean "f2p" mmo, kinda figured anyone planning on playing a ton would know this going in I'm just glad that there isn't a chance to permanently blow up your item when upgrading past +10 without a cash shop consumable or whatever. This is least-malicious korean f2p game I've ever played.
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Hefty posted:i'm sick of this narrow rear end bridge You are gonna get banned for naming your kitty cat after a famous video game character.
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filing the report as we speak, good luck idiot
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:filing the report as we speak, good luck idiot  e: wait, you can change your pet’s name?
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The Locator posted:You are gonna get banned for naming your kitty cat after a famous video game character. Hefty posted:
don't know if pet name changes cost currency because I haven't tried to change it
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I have admittedly paid attention to basically nothing in this game so far but what is this mechanic/resource/whatever for this dialogue option?
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Garrand posted:I have admittedly paid attention to basically nothing in this game so far but what is this mechanic/resource/whatever for this dialogue option? you are not [whatever stat] enough to pick that dialogue option
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Hefty posted:
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It's really funny that after changing your pet's name away from "Bunny Rabbit", you're not allowed to change it back because the default name has a space in it.
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thehandtruck posted:game owns. did my first abyss, guardian raid, island raid thing (a giant chicken and a pvp thing), and chaos dungeon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu_ZP254DV8 but at t1, it's probably not something worth obsessing about, so just save your times and equip a stone of birth for that +777 vitality bonus you'll need a bunch of books to really make use of the engravings, and the timing of engravings being introduced is just flat-out stupid imo. but i guess it's a relic of when it originally got introduced and mattered in the game i guess if you're going to get into it, remember the distinction between general abilities and class abilities. the latter are simpler to focus on since there's probably only two for your class. all the other ones are a bit overwhelming and will make you even more scared to mess up kliras fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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I really love this game but it's at a weird crossroads soon. More casual players will be getting into later T1 over the next few weeks and they will finally understand what the actual game is like, which is: 1) Gear honing will become much harder, fail often, and levels will be earned much more slowly. 2) They will see that you can increase the odds of honing by paying real money. 3) They will get into Abyss Dungeons and understand that this game asks more of the player than almost any MMO I can think of. They will see that one single person not doing a mechanic will wipe the entire group, even in tier 1. I like this content and think there are lots of people who will, but it probably asks too much of the player for the Western audience. There is no easy mode normal raids like there are in WoW. Experienced players will need to either get into a guild and have a static raid group, or be willing to fail continually in a pug where just one player not reading the strategies can doom a run if they aren't willing to learn fast. and god forbid they watch Saint's video about difficulty of raiding in T3. Which is REALLY worth watching by the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nww-9YAdbRU At this same time Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring, two of the most anticipated games of the year, will release almost at the same time. I'm hopeful for the future of this game but the further along I get in level (and therefore getting closer to the "real" experience of the game in terms of higher level Abyss Dungeons and the much higher rate of honing failure) the more I think this game is going to fail in the West, and that's before taking into account the other games coming out concurrently. Amazon may be able to get the game changed so it can succeed in the West but it will have to, imo, be a significantly different game than it is now. Don't get me wrong, it can still be objectively successful if enough super dedicated players spend lots of money, but mass appeal seems like a big stretch honestly. Just my opinion. I would be interested to hear other's opinions, especially if you're at least level 500 or above, where the game starts to ramp up. A lot of the best features of the early game that roped in players are effectively super reduced or removed fairly quickly in the grand scheme, which makes me think there will be a honeymoon period and then a decline, like other MMOs of this nature. Again, if Amazon and Smile can completely redo the incentive and punishment structure of the game for the West, it could do fantastic, but it would be such a... frankly... better and easier game than the other versions, that those regions would likely complain. It wouldn't really be worth detonating the core of the game just to appease us, basically. Taima fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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Taima posted:and god forbid they watch Saint's video about difficulty of raiding in T3. Which is REALLY worth watching by the way: this is absolute nonsense 
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Is t3 raiding even like, "mandatory" I guess if you want to keep playing? Like in FFXIV I was cool just levelling all my different classes and totally ignoring savage raiding in its entirety. Can I still get up to a decent ilvl just by doing the more casual stuff like guardian raids/chaos rifts or is it really just that everything 500+ or whatever is ball-bustingly challenging?
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victrix posted:this is absolute nonsense it's cool
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acumen posted:Is t3 raiding even like, "mandatory" I guess if you want to keep playing? Like in FFXIV I was cool just levelling all my different classes and totally ignoring savage raiding in its entirety. Can I still get up to a decent ilvl just by doing the more casual stuff like guardian raids/chaos rifts or is it really just that everything 500+ or whatever is ball-bustingly challenging? It seems like in T3 the raids are also the main source of accessories but those are auction-house-able.
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