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I am not too bothered by the chats neither. Though I am annoyed that sometimes I miss the more important stuff (like guild chat or someone LFG for the same thing that I am doing). That and it seems that there is no escaping the annoying chats since it seems that people can and will crap up any channel being it area or LFG or Global... Edit: on the topic of leveling, I heard that it is not optimal at all to do quest in zones, right? I am bit of a completionist, so I tend to do every quest... Is there any perks for doing that? lethial fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Feb 12, 2013 |
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Phosphia posted:Well, there is nothing wrong with doing every single quest. You do however have an advantage if you know when you can skip one and when you can not, by following the story quests. Oh dear... I have been trying to do every quest, even if I have out leveled them... I figured XP is XP right? (I strongly suspect that this is not the case, maybe I should just grind...) On another note, while leveling up, I find that I have to stay in defensive mode most of the time for BAM soloing. I read that warriors should actually stay in assult stance for that, but w/o any self heals, I often find myself needing to bandage or drink potion due to damages that I almost always will have sustained... I am sure my inexperience has something to do with it, or maybe gear? Is it recommended or time efficient to solo even level BAMs?
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Feb 12, 2013 19:53
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Velveteen posted:After awhile you get used to the Elins really. It is quite hilarious to tank giant BAMs as an Elin. What I find most offensive is Amani females though. Apparently forcing all the women into high heels wasn't enough, for a race with hooves they decided they need to chop away the back to give them high heel hooves. What kind of stupid sexist crap is that! Yeah those attacks that "reach behind" you while blocking sucks. Those are my #1 source of damage when I solo BAMs. Worst part is that I don't have a good read on when that is going to happen, since sometimes they would all of a sudden do a forward or diagnal movement followed up by an attack that I normally know I could block so I get hit. But sometimes, they don't move enough and I still can block. Oh, does anyone have a issue where sometimes cross parry doesn't activate? I know that DFA and evasion can't be blocked out of, but I have had occasions when I finished a skill yet my cross parry is still not up despite my trying. Is this to do with lag? Sorry for the slight derail, but does non-human or non-popori male character get somewhat "fully clothed" armor? I just find it really weird that my hulking Aman lancer have a armor that opens up in the middle, presumably to show off his great physique. Just feels bit off.
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Pierson posted:Yep. At endgame you've got a decent mix of full armour and sexplate, unless you're a Castanic woman in which case enjoy your frostbite. Edit: Or you're a male Castanic/Aman in heavy armour, in which case you'll be showing everyone your HOT ABS. Oh wow! I completely didn't expect awesome and not too "sexy" armor from High Elves. drat, I need to level up my zerker. :P And you are right, Baraka looks amazing. Though just to be clear, we no longer have to worry about Baraka being too big thus having too big of a hit box right? I mean, they are HUGE...
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Feb 13, 2013 03:02
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Alavaria posted:This is one of the reasons (as well as not moving the mob) why you might want to tank with your back against something immoveable. Not rotating the mob is also a plus. (If it walks over you and turns around, your DPS are now right in front of it instead of behind ... for melee DPS, welp) I have brought up an issue I had with this in the previous thread. But here is the issue I seem to get when I try to get myself back up against a wall: I get into situation where my whole view is taken up by the BAM and I can't see a thing, needless to say I miss all the tells. I think it is because in those cases, I am somewhat under the BAM and my camera can't decide what zoom level to use, so my view is literally akin to having the BAM sit on my face and the only thing that I can see is the texture of its butt... This is not a FOV issue either. :/
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Feb 13, 2013 19:52
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Velveteen posted:It depends on the walls, some are see through, while some zooms you in on crotch. Its all trial and error to see which walls are tankable at. If there isn't a choice you'll just have to tank by sound. Oh wow! I was wondering about why some walls can be seen through, I thought it was because of some of my display setting that is causing it... This is good to know, thanks! By sound? Hmmm I need to jack up the audio level of the game...
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Feb 14, 2013 03:02
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Actually, what are those non-BAM but still have special icon mobs? They usually look just like regular mobs but hits harder and have more HP. I never had any issues with fighting them (though never for a quest or anything). But for the first time, in Essenia (sp?) zone, I fought a pair of mantid looking things that I actually thought was somewhat tougher than soloing BAMs in that zone. I mean, soloing BAMs in the zone takes much longer and more risky, but I usually can avoid or mitigate too much damage. But those mantids... They attack so fast so that every time I attack, I end up having my health taken away... Couple potions later I finally killed them, and ofc they dropped nothing... What are those things?
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Feb 14, 2013 18:06
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Yasser Arafatwa posted:If you're in the right level for some of those named monsters, they'll drop cool stuff like exp boost orbs or blue and green items. I grinded a level or so off of the Hyena one in Colossal Ruins and made a couple hundred gold in drops in under an hour. Err... really!? Right level? Do I have to be within some level range to those named mobs?
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Feb 14, 2013 18:51
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Alkanos posted:You shouldn't be soloing BAMs for the XP or loot. Grouping for them, or just doing regular quests will get you faster XP and probably more loot. It's also a shitload faster. Yeah. Also, it can be a little addicting... I got brave enough with soloing BAMs starting in that desert zone, and while frustrating a lot of times (esp. when that archer pks you just as you are about to down a BAM) the experience is very exhilarating. I don't dare try to solo the special ones like ones for guild quests though... Since for those things, if I mess up just once I am done, that or I have to spend a lot of time running around so that I can bandage... I also love the design of the BAMs that I have seen. I esp. "liked" the one in the desert that has little flower looking thing that pokes out of the sand. I mistook it for a regular named mob once and I was "pleasantly" surprised... :P On another note, at around what level do we start to really accumlate gold? Judging by the LFG channel, higher end equipments are like 20k-30k at a minimum... I can't imaging ever saving up that much gold...
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KaneTW posted:Torrent of Blows is pretty much the best taunt you can ever wish for and I'm easily holding aggro against people in full +12 with my t14+9 swords whereas most lancers in t14+9 can't hold aggro against my t14+12 slayer. Yeah, I think the biggest issue that I have is the need to change mindset between tanking and move everywhere while soloing BAM, that and remembering that I need to switch out my bars... 3 invuln? Are they DFA, backstab and evasive roll? Do you even use backstab or later on Staggering Counter when you tank? It just seem that both of those moves will make you mess up the positioning for other people in the party. About using rising fury. How the heck do you use it to move around a big BAM like Fangspawn (sp?) that thing has a huge hitbox...
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Feb 17, 2013 19:56
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KaneTW posted:We've got our first J4G What is a J4G?
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Feb 26, 2013 18:33
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Oh... I did't know that was a thing... I thought it was a secret code for something like all guilds on the server declared war on us. Or that we are in a pack of alliance with 4 guilds or something...
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Feb 26, 2013 18:48
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Thievery posted:So i'm level 33 at the minute and am questing in Pora Elinu (kill me) but I am just aimlessly following my story quests to the zones it tells me to go to. I noticed that I have unlocked a buttload of new flight paths when I hit 30 - Can I just go to these places and begin questing there too, or is it recommended to follow the story? While I agree that following the story is very much recommended, I was one of those that just did all the quests, and "wasted time" doing dungeon runs and really wasted a lot of time soloing BAMs during my later levels. Certainly not efficient in term of xp/hour. But I enjoyed the journey. By the time that I hit the level 52 grind, I was well on the way to 57 and couple sky garden runs later I was 57 and before I knew it I got to 58. So the level 52 grind wasn't much of a grind for me. In fact what really felt like a "grind" was level 58 -60, since I erraneously thought that at that point I should just only focus on the story quests, and barely do any other quests that are around the story quests' areas. So I ended up had to back track a lot to hunt down the quests that I needed to get to level 59 to unlock more story quests. So depends on your game play preference and your class.
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Oh I didn't mean that I actually grinded (aka. killing mobs w/o quests endlessly) I just rushed through and only did the story quests and nothing else and thought that I'd get enough xp to get to 60.  So by "grinding" I really meant that I had to go back to all the hubs with yellow quests and redo them all, and sometimes forgetting where the quest givers are 
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Velveteen posted:
First of all, sorry about the suckage of staying alive on cof last night. (honestly though, I had the weirdest lag yesterday, I tested things out after we were done with the run and I could most definitely evade out of a lot of my chain attacks that I apparently couldn't during the run... I don't usually spam the evade button to conserve res...) Will do better for sure next time.But my question is how do you actually know what your dps is? For that matter where is the ping indicator? @ syrek: was it just yesterday? Because if it is, I am pretty sure it is something on their end. I had abnormally long load time and quite a bit of lag spikes all throughout the night yesterday, and it wasn't like this the days before, even during Nexus time... I don't want to derail the thread into Elin talk, but I am curious, there are actually things censored in the US version? I certainly can't imagine that...
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Feb 27, 2013 18:44
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Eigo posted:You see ping by mousing over the clock/FPS counter if you have it enabled. As for DPS, you basically only get to guess; stealing aggro more often might be a sign, but that is also "how lucky is that guy with crits today." Thanks for the explanation. I never imagined pulling agro would be a good thing though... I guess I am safe even if I get super gears since warriors don't crit like other dps classes. I never actually taken a loser look at Elin characters, so thanks for the explanation on that too.
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Velveteen posted:After running ACHM again I realized how much I hate that place. So I was thinking of setting up a MCNM run in the future for our more geared members! What is the recommended gear requirement for that place?
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KaneTW posted:Full T14+12 team for the last 20% of last boss to minimize chance of failure. T13+9-T14+9 for rest. Ouch, hmmm I barely got some regent stuff, but don't have enough enchant fodder or MES to enchant and/or MW them yet... Is anyone in guild that is selling t14 fodder? Or for that matter, dire badges and talents?
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