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Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Play support, then you can flip a coin!

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Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I'm almost certainly going to main bard, but for my damage alt...after watching the videos I'm torn between shadowhunter, soulfist, and scrapper. I really like all their aesthetics.

Then I watched videos for the unreleased classes and got sad reaper isn't going to be available. it looks unique even compared to the other assassins.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Whenever the active player count starts to drop. :v:

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Harrow posted:

Watching that video is kind of amusing because I know Striker and Wardancer are sort of gender-swapped counterparts (Striker was added to be a male version of Wardancer I think?), with some differences to justify being a different class, but drat Wardancer looks so much cooler in action than Striker. I'm not sure why but I can just tell by watching them that Wardancer seems a lot faster and more dynamic (at least aesthetically) despite being mostly the same class.
I'm not sure but I think a lot of this comes down to whether the build you're watching pumps agility or not, because it affects attack and movement speed.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
You can buy more character slots up to 12 or 18.

It's also worth noting that most forms of progress not gear or directly connected to gear are account-wide.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Yeah, mirror classes share the same buffs. It's worth noting that different buffs with the same effect from different classes do stack, but the same buff coming from multiples of the same class (including mirror classes) doesn't.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
You're right, I guess they share one but not the other.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
This is a new one. I've been on for what must have been bigger releases and never seen steam's decryption fail

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Substandard posted:

I thought about trying to delete the preload and download the whole thing again but I haven't tried it yet.
Don't bother unless you're sure downloading would be faster than decrypting for you, you'll get the same connection error until you get lucky and the download actually starts.

Sindai fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Feb 8, 2022

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Okay now it's time for the game's login server to implode as everyone installs and rushes it

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I got to the cutscene with all the demon lords talking after you find the first ark and...is their boss supposed to be silent? Every time it was talking the screen was shaking and there were subtitles but no voice audio, not even some kind of demonic rumble or roar. If that was intended it certainly didn't feel like it was.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Memnaelar posted:

I thought the game was pretty simple also, but once you get to the second continent and hit the level 20 dungeon, you can taste some of the FFXIV inspiration and you finally, for better and worse, get a long-form WOW-type dungeon. I think it's pretty clear you're in tutorial mode for the entire first continent. I'd say reserve judgment until you get to that point.
It's so confusing that this game calls regions "continents."

And yeah, the dungeons that end in multi-phase boss fights are pretty cool, although not particularly difficult compared to the regular boss fights.

I think the only casualties I've seen in hard dungeons have been people who get really stubborn when the boss targets them and just stand still and get juggled instead of running around dodging while the rest of the group does damage.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Really? Does the HP scale down if you solo them? Stuff doesn't die instantly in a group of 4.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Good Citizen posted:

Man no health potions in guardian raids is rough when you haven’t learned the boss yet. The ilvl 340 one put me in the dirt fast
I thought you could use green/blue/purple potions in those? Just not the common ones that heal a fixed amount.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Two questions:

If I hit 50 early in steampunk robot land because I loving love side quests should I immediately sail to North Vern to do the important unlock quests or is that impossible for some reason?

Once you unlock the powerpasses, can you use them on another server?

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I'm kind of impressed this game actually bothers to have Z-axis hit detection but also kind of annoyed because it feels like half the classes constantly juggle trash above my soul fist death fields and kamehamehas.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Taima posted:

I still can't believe how much they underestimated the launch (huge queues before the free people can even play) kind of crazy, someone hosed up.
I mean there were enough servers for everyone to play without queues but as every MMO launch ever shows there's nothing you can do to stop people from piling onto a few servers until the queues are several hours long because they're scared of being stuck on a dead server.

And it's way worse in this case since apparently moving character rosters between servers is a colossal pain in the rear end on the back end and Smilegate almost never did it.

Sindai fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Feb 11, 2022

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

deep dish peat moss posted:

I started off playing a Soulfist the other day and while I love their Supersaiyan resource/skill in theory, I hate the way it plays out in-game where it just ends up being a not-100%-uptime damage buff - so you just have periods of doing less damage and periods of doing more. There's nothing wrong with it exactly but it didn't feel like 'going supersaiyan' for tough fights, it was just a buff I pressed on cooldown then forgot about.
How far did you get? You don't get level 3 until 30, which gives a 60% damage buff on top of the other stuff and is definitely noticeable.

Idk if the other class's gauges unlock gradually like that but it definitely makes a huge difference for SF.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I managed to make it to level 50 with an ilevel of 234 and the game won't let me into chaos dungeons, even solo. That's extremely lame. Is there an easier way to gear up or is it back to steampunk island for me? :sigh:

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Chaos dungeons are pretty mindless fun, like greater rifts but you barely even need to move, 100 monsters just spawn on you ever 5 seconds.

Guardians feel like they take forever, but maybe everyone is just bad. I know I am. Are chaos shards easy enough to get I should be using awakening on cooldown?

I know I should use my counter when the bear flashes blue, but I swear it never works, even if I'm kind of in front-ish of it. Does it only work directly from the front? Standing there waiting to counter seems like a bad idea when 80% of the time he'll just be stomping on my face instead.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Count Thrashula posted:

If I just got to Vern Castle and I have 3/7 of the Ark pieces, am I anywhere near the end of the story? Or am I really less than half of the way there? I'm curious what point I get my other Powerpass buffs.
I think you get the powerpasses at or near the end of the North Vern story.

There's more story interspersed between content tiers as your ilevel gets high enough, but the T1 endgame stuff all unlocks during the NV quests afaik.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Avalerion posted:

Finally sitting down to try this and all the servers have 10000+ queue's what is this bullshit. :argh: Would the cheapest starter pack give me priority or something or should I not bother?
I'm guessing you're EU? They already doubled the number of servers from early access so hopefully they add even more soon.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

acumen posted:

Also - having just hit 50, is there anything I should be doing immediately? I just finished the hoverboard robot stuff and I know I've got a whole new continent to plow through before I get a couple power passes. Should I be optimizing my playtime by clearing chaos dungeons or whatever other activities there are at this point? Can I skip the rest of Arthetine and just go to North Vern so I can play some other classes?
it's absolutely worth doing 2 chaos dungeons and guardian raids the moment you can, you'll shoot from 250 ilevel to 300-320 in half an hour.

Sindai fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Feb 12, 2022

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

FFXIV Porn posted:

idk who said soulfist kills poo poo slow but they must have been playing bad. soulfist owns
My super saiyan 3 spirit bomb crit a guardian for 300k, which I would have known was about a quarter of its health if their health bar was visible. :ssj:

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Scoss posted:

The campaign leveling experience is the end result of them trimming basically all the fat it is possible to trim out of their original launch content in order to accelerate players to the higher levels where all their efforts have been concentrated.
Is that why every quest takes 5 seconds to complete once you actually get to where the objective is? Was it originally more "kill 30 bears to collect 3 bear asses"?

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
The loot preview for chaos dungeon resonance 2 (the 340 ilevel version) shows I should be getting purple accessories from it, but all I get are blues. I do get purples from the second guardian. What gives?

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
It turns out they literally can't add any more servers to EU for technical reasons (how many servers are there in KR? I guess it makes sense there's a limit considering how many things are region-wide) and instead they have to create an entire second EU region. Oof.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Soul fist will run out of energy if you take a bunch of expensive skills or have a bunch of swiftness and aren't hyped up, which is why the infinite energy class engraving is so nice.

I dunno about the other classes, it may never be an issue unless you have extremely high swiftness and a bunch of CD reduction tripods.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
It was a real dick move to put a red overlay on the screen during the part of Sigmund when you need to look at the ground to see whether color the death shockwave was red or white. No wonder people have such a hard time figuring out that mechanic when you try to explain it in text.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

sharknado slashfic posted:

e: unrelated, it there any terrible drawback to switching mains after 50?
The only really annoying thing is not getting those 20 free class engraving books while leveling, so if you didn't save them from your first character (they're not character-bound) you either have to buy more on the AH or do islands for them.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

jokes posted:

Nobody likes or plays wardancer it seems but I really like it. Is something wrong with it?
No wardancer is great because you have two party buffs. All the martial artists are fairly underrepresented because people love being warriors, wizards, and rogues:



This image came from someone taking the time to note down the advanced class %s during character creation on Una, so it should be accurate.

Though a lot of this may just be that there's no destroyer/summoner/reaper to dilute the pool of players who wanted that type of character, while 4/5s of the martial artists are in the game and they're somewhat similar.

Sindai fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Feb 16, 2022

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I wish guardians just got more dangerous instead of becoming HP bricks. 15 minute fights aren't fun.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I got to the barricade just after it was broken and respawned again, luckily three people "trapped" inside thought they had to help me break it to escape instead of just using a waypoint to teleport out.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I don't think I understand how event islands work. I went to the giant chicken one, got the quests, helped kill the chickens, but got almost no reward for it, nor an island heart, nor credit for the "collection adventure island rewards" welcome task.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
After using it for Vertus and the second abyss It's wild that the group finder only lets you apply to one group at a time.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Is there likely to be a point where people start actively excluding me for not getting the collectible skill points? Just the thought of having to actually do any of that makes me want to uninstall the game.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
AFAIK there's no reason not to pop every random card pack and learn the cards immediately. If you get duplicates they stack up in your card inventory until you use them to actually level that card.

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Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

JuffoWup posted:

Also still trying to find a way to get pirate coins.
Island quests shower you in thousands of them.

Sindai fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Feb 20, 2022

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