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  1. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    You get adventure tome, but not welcome challenge.
  2. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Yeah, it's weird, been in T3 for a few weeks now but I'm still struggling with finding a gear set that isn't shit. T2 it felt really good/easy to get.
  3. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    You run tower? It gives an obscene amount.
  4. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    I don't know how you made it to t3 when you did. You're playing on hard mode I guess.
  5. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Yeah, I've been short leapstones like one time, but short on shards all the time on both my main and alts.
  6. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I wish I could've made a career out of being a pundit. This is quite the prediction! He's really going out on a limb with this one...
  7. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Sylmael bloodstone vendor. One in every city. You trade all the crap you've been getting by doing daily donations and research for weekly materials.
  8. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    You may have already done it, but a good reminder is to make sure you hit everything. Weekly una (pvp and boss rush for leapstones), daily una, guild material vendor, sailing trade vendor outside any city, guardian and chaos x2, two regular t2 abyss and the three 8 man's, and run an alt through...
  9. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    I'm out of town the last two days, but my first alt should hit t3 within a day or two of getting home. I won't say I'll be "swimming" in t3 mats, but it'll be nice for sure.
  10. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    80g for leapstones? That'd be a bargain on US East. I've been selling them for like 235-250, and apparently that's after the price fell big time.
  11. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Guess I'm glad I took some advice a couple weeks ago about selling all mats. I didn't do all of em, but made probably a good 20k extra gold. Think I'm sitting around 40k gold with 2k BC. It's not as much as I'd want, but it'll do for a while. Hopefully with these changes I can brute force the...
  12. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    There's something in t2 I think that gives you a speed buff after dashing. I think it's t2 because I had it on my blade but once I got into t3 I lost it, and my pally in late t2 has it now. I don't see it on any equipment though. But when I'm doing something like Tooki and I dash, I jump out in...
  13. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    And yet, you're also pushing your ilvl...so what gives, booze?
  14. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Can't decide if that's better or worse than my mom being in ARKK. I'm hoping she cut ties with it at some point on the way down.
  15. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    I mentioned it in chat, but Monday I had 9 failures, including 8 in a row on a single piece (9 was on weapon), and that was on +11/12 so not even getting the really crappy odds yet. I think yesterday was 2 for 4 or 5. But that's after failing so much I finally got into the 30% range in those...
  16. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    What a weird event. It's literally just a random character on your roster logs in for battle chests? Anyway, glad they're fixing the timer. I haven't done islands in two days outside of Tooki.
  17. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    This might be my biggest complaint about the game. I really enjoy the abyss dungeons, especially with the guild. But they're locked to once a week. Your most fun content is once a fucking week? Oh, and then things like Vold won't participate because his hard mode ones share the same lockout...
  18. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    I haven't quit, but man the t3 grind is a really massive misstep by either AGS or Smilegate. I basically don't even want to play my main anymore because I just fail and fail some more. Log in to do an hour of dailies for mats and flush them all down the toilet in 20 seconds. This seems like...
  19. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    That was over 20 years ago though. And it was essentially the only option.
  20. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Well from what I've read, they also borked this by leaving a bunch of stuff out, or moving things like hard mode abyss to 1370. These are things that would've helped ease the pain of getting to 1370.
  21. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    I think I'm one piece from 1350, but that video makes me not even want to bother going higher. And that's after spending almost a week just selling my t3 mats.
  22. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    So after watching that Asmon video, I'm even more impressed with getting to 1370. That's ridiculous. What's the general strategy? Is it cheaper to just smash them with low percentage, or better to buy the increased chances mats? And at what point would you start doing that if so? I really...
  23. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Could be worse, I'm getting pity stacks around +10/11 on my main in T3, and now on my fucking alt at like +12/13 in T2. I've got some terrible luck lately. I failed 4 90% hones yesterday.
  24. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    I'm jealous. Think I have ten days of fucking Tooki left.
  25. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    You kind of nailed bard. My issue with them is the range on the spells are also shit. Unlike Paladin shield, you basically have to be on top of the other players for it to hit. I've had it miss standing on the opposite side of a boss, it's that small (and if there's a range, sorry you're shit...
  26. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Which is weird, because Yorn is awesome with everything so close. My only complaint is having to go into that building for the broker. But otherwise it and I think Luterra are the only ones where everything is at the same triport (Stern is okay, but tower/cube/boss is all up by Sasha).
  27. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Oh. Yeah, fuck waking up at 4am to get an extra scroll. Not gonna bother with that.
  28. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Wait, what?
  29. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    The post of yours that I was responding to said no one could've hit 1340 before Argos without swiping. I told you I didn't swipe. Don't go changing the qualifier to 1370 all the sudden. And I agree with others, if I had the month of experience I do now, I'd be gold rich and likely 1370 easily.
  30. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    I had a bronze pack, and then went on a road trip that basically negated the "head start." Bronze pack didn't come with any currency. I was 1340 for a week and a half before Argos.
  31. Gravel

    Weather

    This is a weird cold front. We're supposed to get below freezing here in Florida. In March. That map says "freeze watch" but we're on the coast and it's forecast for 28 or 29 overnight. It's going to be like a 50 degree drop, and then right back to normal a day and a half later.
  32. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    I think part of our fucked up expectations is that you're 1382 (wtf man) 1370, and we recruited a few super hardcore people from outside FoH that are also in the 1350+ range. The reality is I saw a Reddit post saying the only people that were 1340+ at this point are whales (which isn't true...
  33. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Apparently there's a new Pixar movie called "Turning Red" that comes out tomorrow. It's about periods. I want off this timeline.
  34. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Right, but why? Anything in particular?
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Context on what this is?
  36. Gravel

    Survivor

    There's a tranny this season? My wife mentioned that there was a new season, but I'm boycotting CBS shows due to their wokeness. Looks like I made the right decision again.
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I said it just before my three day "gaming weekend" ban from useful threads, but there are two realities. One is that shit hits the fan and the stock market crashes to zero (or realistically, anything greater than 70% and the economy is basically over). In that case, your money and assets are...
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    The other side of it is that the CPI basket is manipulated. I'm sure someone can post the charts with 1980s CPI basket where we're actually much closer to 20% inflation. So sitting in cash is a pretty big haircut, not just the 8% they're talking about which is all shit no one actually buys (or...
  39. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Yeesh, 1370 content tomorrow? I'm not sure I'll get there in a month at the current honing rates. 1400 sounds crazy.
  40. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Just a reminder about the definitions here. Transitory 9-10% inflation means they expect it to be a one time event, increasing from 2021 to 2022. Actual inflation of 9-10% means it's expected for a period of several years.