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jokes posted:I’m taking my time and I’m at like ilvl 340 or so and I feel like I am severely behind. I'm not even done Annika yet! This is a side MMO, not a job.
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yeah I don't think it's possible to "be behind" unless you're looking at other goons progress and expecting to be at the same place. Take your time, there's a ton of poo poo to do and contrary to popular belief you don't have to be 100% optimal with your progression. I am really enjoying the game post-50 specifically for this reason; it really felt like a marathon for the first part of the game where you ran through leveling with blinders on but now that it's opened up and there's no particular rush I'm having a great time with it.
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Feb 22, 2022 17:01
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Lawlicaust posted:You can also just do rifts every 3 days and get the same rewards with the rested bonus. I have a bunch of characters that I only touch twice a week when bonuses stack up. No, doing chaos dungeons every three days gives you 2 days worth of stuff, not 3. It’s more efficient for your time spent but less actual materials than doing them daily.
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Feb 22, 2022 17:43
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Gishin posted:I wouldn't do that. You might think you have a lot but they will be hard to come by later. My will to continue in this game is dependent on if I can clear the tier 1 endgame consistently on my main and my two alts, so I am burning up my silver, pots, and plumes. If all 160 of plumes disappear, I know what the game is telling me. RPATDO_LAMD posted:I know in abyss raids it's also possible to run forward too fast before the little restock-circle appears, but I don't think that can happen in guardian raids since the stage isn't resetting when you wipe like in abysses. Like said, I burn plumes. Jabor posted:Literally everything (except the geysers, which you just need to not stand in) is avoided just by standing behind the boss! Okay but what about the Garum and Sigmund? At my ilvl 340 alts (Bard and Gunlancer), I basically die to their non-red attacks.
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Feb 22, 2022 17:44
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Stop burning plumes to Tier 1 Guardians. You're only making it worse for your team if you come back, can't dodge mechanics, and don't have pots.
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Suprfli6 posted:No, doing chaos dungeons every three days gives you 2 days worth of stuff, not 3. It’s more efficient for your time spent but less actual materials than doing them daily. Oh.... I also didn't realize this. For some reason, I thought it did give you the same amount of stuff. drat.
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Any recommendations for some particularly easy dailies without much interaction required that can be done, say, while on a conference call? I just did the "give patients their medicine" one and that was definitely a good one. Edit: VVV oh good call I forgot about the taxi one explosivo fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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explosivo posted:Any recommendations for some particularly easy dailies without much interaction required that can be done, say, while on a conference call? I just did the "give patients their medicine" one and that was definitely a good one. Peyto taxi driver is basically you are on a boat
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Pragmatica posted:Oh.... I also didn't realize this. For some reason, I thought it did give you the same amount of stuff. drat. It’s a better deal for respecting your time. This “must do x things daily” to be optimal is a poo poo system in all these games, especially mobile. Just let me go old school and kill 10000 bears to get the mats I need.
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explosivo posted:Any recommendations for some particularly easy dailies without much interaction required that can be done, say, while on a conference call? I just did the "give patients their medicine" one and that was definitely a good one. The Runaways Island one is just walk around the island and click on 3 npcs. Totopia's daily is similar. Both of them also need to be completed a certain number of times for their island token. The Lopang Island delivery quests just ask you to sail from the island to one of 6 continents. If you pick up 3 tasks, you can complete the other two just by hitching an ocean-liner line! After doing 11 of these you unlock the Brahms ship (which is pretty disappointing since it actually has lower base speed than the Estoque... kinda weird that the free starter ship is the best one so far?)
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Virigoth posted:It’s a better deal for respecting your time. This “must do x things daily” to be optimal is a poo poo system in all these games, especially mobile. Just let me go old school and kill 10000 bears to get the mats I need. That's fair, but I was intentionally waiting even though I had time because I assumed it was the same amount of rewards with rested XP or whatever. I am glad I know that now so I can adjust accordingly. I am soooo close to 600, today I hope! Also, I love how this game has so much random poo poo to do. Yesterday, I did my few dailies, then ran around just doing the life skills stuff because whatever. I felt like it. That was nice!!!!!
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Feb 22, 2022 18:19
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I assume the game is still stupid popular in Korea right?
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jokes posted:I assume the game is still stupid popular in Korea right? Its fine. Not like one of the biggest massive games in the region but still very profitable. Honestly the people at amazon are probably completely dumbfounded that its been this successful here.
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Amazon is going to take a look at this and decide that the real key to success is financing another korean MMO but this time from start to finish and we'll finally get the proper sequel to Ragnarok Online.
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I will pray this game's success in the west leads to a global release of the next Dungeon Fighter.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Amazon is going to take a look at this and decide that the real key to success is financing another korean MMO but this time from start to finish and we'll finally get the proper sequel to Ragnarok Online. After the disaster that was New World they're definitely going to pivot to licensing.
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Feb 22, 2022 19:53
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I reached Tier 1 a couple days ago and have done some of the endgame content so let me see if I can analogue this to FFXIV content difficulty.
Each of the above 4 are limited in some way for grinding materials needed for progression. There's also cube, tower, and boss rush which I haven't touched yet but from my understanding:
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Abyss dungeons aren't really that bad imo, at least the ones I've done. Garum and Sigmund both essentially just have one mechanic each and the rest is just don't stand in bad. Definitely much easier than savage raids; the hardest part is just getting party members who can press their buttons and do a mechanic once or twice. The rest seems to track though.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Amazon is going to take a look at this and decide that the real key to success is financing another korean MMO but this time from start to finish and we'll finally get the proper sequel to Ragnarok Online. Good, they suck at making video games so I hope they stop. Maybe we will get another dragon's dogma.
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Feb 22, 2022 20:17
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Guardian Raids are more comparable to Monster Hunter fights than anything in FFXIV tbh. Abyss Dungeons have Savage/EX-esque mechanics in the sense of requiring coordination and personal responsibility or you wipe, but (at least so far) just one per fight, and the rest is standard dodge-red-punch-boss, with the red being generally less dangerous than Guardians.
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Yeah Guardian Raids, no joke, are a straight up Monster Hunter fight. It even has you manually do a special action to harvest the dead monster. Sometimes you feel bad for slapping the absolute gently caress out of the monster. Sometimes.
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I was talking more about the time spent in trying to clear them, although thinking about how smoothly the Abyss Dungeon run I had last night with a party that actually knew their stuff it's probably closer to some sort of sliding scale between Extreme/Savage. The cleansing debuff thing was basically the Aurum Vale Morbol bosses on steroids and I had a number of parties that I was trying to teach the mechanics still constantly fail at picking up the orbs. It's more that the difficulty:punishment ratio in Lost Ark at the moment seems to be way more skewed toward punishment than in FFXIV which leads to a LOT of resets.
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If Abyss Dungeons are taking you as long to clear as a Savage something has gone terribly wrong Abyss Dungeons are like a Savage that ends right after the first checkpoint mechanic.
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Like I said, I spent like 3 hours last night trying to teach people the mechanics of the 2nd Abyss Dungeon and I never once had a party that could all just survive to do orbs. DPS was also all over the place, I swear there were some party members who were determined to just stay as far away from the boss as possible and never hit it. I ended up joining an alt clear run and one-shot it in 10 minutes. So, just like PF experience in FFXIV overall. Finding the other competent players is the hard part.
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From what I hear (I'm not up there yet), pubbing abyss raids gets 100x easier once you get up into T2 and have fewer of those clueless "always stands in red, never reads party chat or asks about the mechanic" players
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Feb 22, 2022 20:48
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Yeah well for me to get there is going to take me not getting absolutely blasted by upgrades. I've been diligently saving every one of those upgrade saving items on the assumption they'll be more useful later, but failing a single piece of armor 5 times in a row has me in despair.
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Infinity Gaia posted:Yeah well for me to get there is going to take me not getting absolutely blasted by upgrades. I've been diligently saving every one of those upgrade saving items on the assumption they'll be more useful later, but failing a single piece of armor 5 times in a row has me in despair. Assuming you're talking about the 5xx-600 hump, that's where you stop using T1 materials so there's no point in saving them unless you're planning on power gearing alts.
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admanb posted:Assuming you're talking about the 5xx-600 hump, that's where you stop using T1 materials so there's no point in saving them unless you're planning on power gearing alts. Oh, I guess I should've assumed there'd be a new tier of star... breaths? I don't know what the gently caress they're actually called, the ones that add to the likelihood of success on forging. I'm still saving them for the final 14 -> 15 step since not all of my poo poo is at 14 yet.
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The game sometimes takes you places. I landed on an island with an old man with a piano next to starving polar bear, started a mission to get some food for the bear, entertain some penguins and a few steps later I'm a investigating eco-journalist trying to bust some kind of environmental conspiracy.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Its fine. Not like one of the biggest massive games in the region but still very profitable. SmileGate was expecting an average of 250,000 - 300,000 players. Instead it is averaging 1 million players in the west. It's nuts.
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TeaJay posted:The game sometimes takes you places. I landed on an island with an old man with a piano next to starving polar bear, started a mission to get some food for the bear, entertain some penguins and a few steps later I'm a investigating eco-journalist trying to bust some kind of environmental conspiracy. And sometimes all you get is a lovely oversized boring maze.
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TeaJay posted:The game sometimes takes you places. I landed on an island with an old man with a piano next to starving polar bear, started a mission to get some food for the bear, entertain some penguins and a few steps later I'm a investigating eco-journalist trying to bust some kind of environmental conspiracy. The penguins playing around the radioactive waste barrel made me laugh because like the questing in general that whole section of that quest felt very "it's a small world after all" like it was a diorama or something.
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Hyper Inferno posted:Like I said, I spent like 3 hours last night trying to teach people the mechanics of the 2nd Abyss Dungeon and I never once had a party that could all just survive to do orbs. DPS was also all over the place, I swear there were some party members who were determined to just stay as far away from the boss as possible and never hit it. Competency probably plays a part in it, but based on my experience, boundary ilvl is just hard mode and public matchmaking allows for it. There is a purpose in setting a "Find Party" party to higher ilvl than what the entry requirements actually requires.
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I have a bunch of purple T1 ability stones and legendary jewelry from 560 Chaos Rifts. Realistically, should I just dismantle it, or is there something decent to get for them? I think it costs Pheons (sigh) to flip stuff, and it's not like I caught anything that magical.
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It only costs pheons to buy gear on the market board. You can sell for free. I've been putting up any orange T1 jewelry with +2 to a decent engraving and it sells pretty consistently for 50g each atm. (especially class engravings, which you get from the weekly abyss raid) I don't think people buy many purples though. If you aren't auctioning it, then just dismantle it ASAP. Honing stones for the honing throne e: vvv oh is THAT how you do it? Despite being tradeable you can't put the stones in your accountwide storage which was very confusing to me RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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its funny to me that when you level up an alt you see a billion new random name bots chaining one main quest to another so they can spam area chat, but so far ocean chat is the main and chill chat without any bot spam, only LFG and ADD ME
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Just finished gunlancering my first guardian Ur'Nil and I guess it went pretty alright, even managed to counter him a couple times (after generous reading build guides and stuff like "what counter is" beforehand) but was I just dumb but for the whole fight I had no idea how much health he had left. I could not see a healthbar anywhere and nothing on the sides of the screen showed it. Now, if I could dare to step in some abyss dungeons..
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I'm halfway through the wuxia style martial arts tournament. How close am I to vern/the ability to power pass and Jumpstart a new character? Because I'm not feeling paladin.
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Gyoru posted:you can also send old unrefined ability stones and accessories to your alts via mail what the gently caress i just dismantled a bunch because i couldn’t figure out how to get them to alts 😞 well, now i know!
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