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sluggo is mad posted:Everybody zergs, but we murder players alot and I'm not sure how the zergs could avoid each other on this map. Also, taking the center keeps and crowning an emp is fun and none of the other factions are gonna sit on their hands while you do that. We generally run in a smaller group and on the last run thru' AS were constantly outnumbered but it didnt seem to matter. There's a core of decent players and a host of bads, so numbers are often meaningless. If we ran small goon groups for pvp, i'm sure we'd do what we've done in the past., tower farms and grabbing any small scale fights we can find. Is Emperor a feat only possible for the spergiest of the sperg grindlords? I read up on the basic mechanics but I'm not sure how it plays out in practice.
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Hakarne posted:Is Emperor a feat only possible for the spergiest of the sperg grindlords? I read up on the basic mechanics but I'm not sure how it plays out in practice. By that metric Froido would be the spergiest goon, considering he's gotten emp on two characters. Basically getting emperorship revolves around intra-faction politics. If your faction likes you, you are far more likely to get pushed for emp, even moreso with a good PvP guild at your back. That's how froid got his, and how I was on track to get it as well until I got lazy and started playing my Negate-dispensing sorc. Alternatively, you can be a straight up shitlord fuckwad, join DC, and get in good with Fengrush and his band of jackasses and have them carry you to emp on any campaign with the DC streamer zerg. In other news: it turns out that you can, in fact, gently caress with idiot pubbies. Khumbu and I spent about 30 minutes trolling and griefing the gently caress out of a bunch of idiots at a grind spot and pissing them off. Basically, I was on my DK tank (which I was using to pull large amounts of mobs for Khu to burn down with AoE for mass xp gain), and any time I saw a pubby about to pull aggro on any mobs, I would use my chains to pull them directly to me. Then I dropped Talons for insta-roots and then threw an Ash Cloud to further snare them. The grind spot turned into a fuckin war zone with idiots trying to tag any mobs before I could pull them to me so they could get at least *some* xp. Khu lost out on some grinding XP but IMO it was worth it just to see people raging in /zone, /say, and /yell chat.
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Scyantific posted:In other news: it turns out that you can, in fact, gently caress with idiot pubbies. Khumbu and I spent about 30 minutes trolling and griefing the gently caress out of a bunch of idiots at a grind spot and pissing them off. Basically, I was on my DK tank (which I was using to pull large amounts of mobs for Khu to burn down with AoE for mass xp gain), and any time I saw a pubby about to pull aggro on any mobs, I would use my chains to pull them directly to me. Then I dropped Talons for insta-roots and then threw an Ash Cloud to further snare them. The grind spot turned into a fuckin war zone with idiots trying to tag any mobs before I could pull them to me so they could get at least *some* xp. Khu lost out on some grinding XP but IMO it was worth it just to see people raging in /zone, /say, and /yell chat. Can you post your DK tank build? I'm trying to figure that out myself, and I'm not using any of the skills you mentioned here. I might be going about this the wrong way.
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Hakarne posted:Is Emperor a feat only possible for the spergiest of the sperg grindlords? I read up on the basic mechanics but I'm not sure how it plays out in practice. Scyantific posted:By that metric Froido would be the spergiest goon, considering he's gotten emp on two characters. I won't dispute it; I committed a 3-day weekend and part of my Holiday break grinding for it on my 2 respective runs. Basically you devote all your playtime to Cyrodiil, religiously acquire the 1-hour AP buff (for killing a delve boss in cyrodiil), and try to stay online for longer than every other member of the faction to discourage anybody competing with you. The char name helps as well, because I'm pretty sure me vaguely RPing as Freddie Mercury is the only reason any of the pugs were so zealous in helping my Magblade get Emp.
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Guess who's back? And as big a baby as ever. I don't think he meant to draw the comparison but I like that he just naturally assumes (even though he has no idea what my gear or build is) that a 2v1 with him still isn't inherently fair unless his solo opponent has additional restrictions.
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Bustycops posted:Guess who's back? but my e-honour 
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I think they called it "Space Bushido" in EVE, and it was just as stupid.
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Scyantific posted:In other news: it turns out that you can, in fact, gently caress with idiot pubbies. Khumbu and I spent about 30 minutes trolling and griefing the gently caress out of a bunch of idiots at a grind spot and pissing them off. Basically, I was on my DK tank (which I was using to pull large amounts of mobs for Khu to burn down with AoE for mass xp gain), and any time I saw a pubby about to pull aggro on any mobs, I would use my chains to pull them directly to me. Then I dropped Talons for insta-roots and then threw an Ash Cloud to further snare them. The grind spot turned into a fuckin war zone with idiots trying to tag any mobs before I could pull them to me so they could get at least *some* xp. Khu lost out on some grinding XP but IMO it was worth it just to see people raging in /zone, /say, and /yell chat. This was loving hilarious, the experience points lost were well worth the comedy. Proof that no matter how many layers of kid gloves modern MMOs try to put on PvE mechanics, the potential to grief is always there 
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Aramek posted:I think they called it "Space Bushido" in EVE, and it was just as stupid.  extra row of teeth posted:This was loving hilarious, the experience points lost were well worth the comedy. Proof that no matter how many layers of kid gloves modern MMOs try to put on PvE mechanics, the potential to grief is always there 
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Except the xp value diminishes for each additional person that hits it. That's why it was an XP loss for Khumbu.
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Scyantific posted:Except the xp value diminishes for each additional person that hits it. That's why it was an XP loss for Khumbu. This. It's also why if you want to grind, you really need to either do it with a dedicated partner or grind solo. 3 or more people and the exp dives off a loving cliff. A lot of MMOs do diminishing returns per player added after large groups so that people don't just mindlessly zerg with zero difficulty (most people grind mindlessly and easily anyway, making that pointless), but for some stupid reason ESO's efficiency caps out at 2. This sucks not only for larger groups of friends who want to play together, but also for grinders because with the current player population and 1T, most of the good grinding spots are camped to hell already. Any mechanic in a MMO that discourages group play is dumb and backwards and causes situations like the one stated above.
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Bustycops posted:Guess who's back? You had best watch out, he has a sick rememberance/endless hail combo on his...whatever the gently caress templar build he is running (with drinks! and not food, apparently) edit: and I happily ulti bombed him 1v1 in BWB on my magsorc while he was "rallying" the AD forces, because Vurian. DoriDori240 fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jan 25, 2017 |
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DoriDori240 posted:By stupid you mean the best possible outcome for GDB, then yes. Well, way better than before anyways. What? I don't give no fucks about GDB. If you like the changes good, I'm happy too. I was referring to the fact I'm about to critical heal for like 15-20K on a mDK.
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Jesus Condumb posted:What? I don't give no fucks about GDB. If you like the changes good, I'm happy too. I was referring to the fact I'm about to critical heal for like 15-20K on a mDK. 35k magicka + 3k spell damage gives a 7.5k tooltip. Cut that in half for PvP, and then add 33% to it at the maximum. Compound that onto the sustain issues that most mDKs have and it's only going to help partially.
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Gonna start playing this again this weekend, any suggestions on the "funnest" class/spec to play? I think I was a Templar last time. Probably gonna be mostly solo.
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Out of what I've tried so far, I'm having the most fun with DPS magicka dragonknight. It's very much a glass cannon, apparently isn't good in PvP, and is one of the cases where there is one clear best race choice (Dunmer), but it has a lot of easy synergies and I just have a lot of fun running around torching enemies. I haven't played magicka Nightblade extensively yet, but that's also looking pretty fun, with a playstyle strongly focused on debuffs. It might not even be the class so much as a convenient excuse for me to wield an ice destruction staff. Dragonknight strongly favors fire, and sorcerer strongly favors lightning, but I don't think any class has special synergies with ice. Werewolf is an ultimate that is kind of a class in itself, and is the main reason I've kept playing my stamsorc, though it would work with any stamina build. You have to kill enemies quickly and devour them to allow yourself to stay in werewolf form, and it's fun to speedrun delves this way. Also, Pounce is hilarious and will let you vault over gaps to attack enemies, and I've noticed other players get momentarily spooked when you swoop in from out of nowhere to maul the enemy they're fighting. It sucks and is slow to level until you unlock devour, though.
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boho posted:Have they made any PvP changes yet? proc sets won't crit mdks got a very tiny bit of love you'll be able to buy a buncha sets with tel var so really, not really In summary: fengrush is still short and fun to kill and destro ult parties are still alot of fun
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Seems like a couple of other pvp changes maybe? Aren't they changing AoE caps? If so that will change dynamics a lot. There is a weird thing related to the DK heal. Frost staff blocking uses magicka now instead of stam? Seems like there might be all sorts of block builds trying that, maybe even flipping between stam and magicka pools for blocking. I might try a fire/ice destro build on a DK so I can lower magicka defensively for a heal. Something like that. Probably not, but I imagine others will make frost builds for blocking and such. ***************************** I am wanting to make a primarily light wearing MagDK. I tried a 'ghost', build using Shadow Dancer and Silks of the Sun. This should have run about like a stam Nights Silence/Autamton, but doesn't. The sustains are all wrong and I can't find a solution on DK. On a stamplar Restoring regens magicka during Mist and and Power of Light sets up a very good burst. I can't seem to figure out how to get any real burst with a MagDK though Lava Whip is getting buffed and the Flame Lash morph is already pretty good if you can trigger the off balance buff. Woven with destro fire heavies it has possibilities maybe? Buffed with the current broken build (armor and cp all wrong) I seem to be able to hit around 20k dps on single pve targets, which is a start I guess I changed my MagDK from a lizard to a dark elf just to see, since I have never run anything that was the right race for a class. I know I am a race traitor, but the delf looks pretty Old Testament fire and brimstone. I like it ok, but let's me see that the lizards self heals are incredibly underrated if you optimize them. I am abandoning the shadow dancer set, though it has the same quality as Nights Silence where it makes your sneak speed faster than your normal speed, which when combined with Mist makes you very zippy and sneaky. I am currently building a Spinner set (high magicka pen) to go with silks. Silks has a lower buff than Spellweaver, but it it is constant. When a buff has a proc chance I consider that by deducting the percentage from the value (used in financial planning). E.g. burning spellweaver has a 20% chance to proc giving 600 spdmg. This means that over time we could consider it a 480 buff, so 80 more without considering the 4sec downtime even if you get perfect back to back procs. I think the burning status is redundant with most fire DK builds maybe. So 5 Spinners, 5 Silks and summin else. Maybe Maw or something.
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I'm really digging magblade and appreciate the beginner guide. What should I be gearing for as far as armor enchants? Obviously magicka will be the primary but do I want any health or other enchants for leveling and/or endgame? And just to confirm you should never dump points into health when you level right? I see lots of other places saying to go for a 3:1 ratio of magicka:health but I'm assuming they're dumb and bad unless the OP is out of date or something. Basically I need a magblade intermediate/advanced guide. Thanks. 
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Hakarne posted:I'm really digging magblade and appreciate the beginner guide. What should I be gearing for as far as armor enchants? Obviously magicka will be the primary but do I want any health or other enchants for leveling and/or endgame? It's easier and cheaper to just Glyph for Health, or use healthy jewelry if you find you want a little extra. Generally speaking 17k~ Health is alright if you know what you're doing, and are comfortable keeping up Annulment (light armor Shield) when thinks get tricky. Otherwise running 18-20k~ Health is a safer alternative.
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Looking for some advice from some of you who have played a lot of classes. I am playing stamblade and have gotten to lvl 33. I am going to make an alt to do some of the other factions content - I know I can do it with my main but I thought it would be fun to play a class with some different mechanics than what I am used to. So although it is arbitrary, I am wondering what some of your favorite classes are. I have made a magblade, magplar and magdk so far and run them through some of the lower levels. I like them all, which does not make this easy. The Templar feels really powerful but slow to kill things, and is basically just spamming aedric spear. The dk kills faster and generally seems fun so far but I read it is garbage in pvp (not a huge issue since right now I am focused on pve dps). The magblade also seems fun and has a lot going on but is also slow to kill things - it feels really strong though since I am constantly hearing myself. I haven't tried sorc yet. I am not adverse to trying another stamina build but I though magicka builds would be the biggest contrast in playstyles going from stamblade. It could be fun to play some stamina character with 2 hand weapons but I haven't found any character that use them in pve...lots of dual wield builds or sword and board tanks but is there any strong dps class that uses 2 handers? I am trying to avoid jumping between like 4 classes and would like to choose one but I don't know what to expect further down the leveling treadmill so any advice or thoughts would be appreciated.
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Baron Porkface posted:Is health regen ever relevant? Unreduceable heal every 2 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxXnwhJK9bE Imagine getting 3-6k health every 2 seconds while in an engagement that cannot be reduced by debuffs.
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Aramek posted:I Troll King in PvP You should write a guide, your majesty!
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Just wanted to give a shout out to the goons last night for putting up with my noobishness while doing dungeons in Craglorn. Just getting back into all this after playing in beta and everyone has been really cool about going through random dungeons with me and carrying me through the really hard stuff. You all are awesome!
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So, I got a slew (sic?) of rage tells tonight in AS. One dude I got to kill 6 times, but apparently I jumped a group of spectators watching some dual poo poo. Mattfire was upset I wouldn't follow him and gently caress me if it didn't make me think AS is toxic. We did de-emp DC right before shutdown, that was fun.
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I want it to be Craglorn II, and I'm kind of serious; another zone with a bunch of overworld group events on it would be sweet. Also I hope we get to kill dunmer, like lots of them.
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 The oldest profession in Tamriel. Also, here's another little "this game world is really loving pretty" screenshot dump.  Stros M'Kai  Stonefalls  Malabal Tor  Coldharbor
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