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Burren

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I made a Pal/Mnk/Shm trio last night just to gauge the difference between my previous trio. Using a +5 Skarlon sword, planar armor and the 100 AAs I had, I made 20 levels in a sitting and was killing pulls of 4 deep reds (wans and zols, about 10 levels above me) at once in lguk at level 27 including very easily clearing the frenzied room using lulls. I was occassionally one-rounding low yellows in my teens even without Nife procs. I obviously won't be able to make a fair comparisson until 50 but it's clearly much stronger than my previous trio. People hit the AC cap in their 20s wearing Befallen leather + bronze and the Befallen 2h is really good so the gear isn't going to make as much of a difference as one might think.

Paladins get a undead proc buff called Instrument of Nife at level 15 on here. Normally this is a level 30 spell on TAKP, or 26 on TLPs but it's level 15 here, which is rather insane. The proc damage is 193 before motes. It doesn't even need to scale with level before hitting for max likes it does elsewhere. This is more damage than wizard nukes at this level. Level 15 mobs have roughly 400-450 hitpoints, less for casters, so when it crit this proc was one-shotting full HP white mobs even before I put motes in. I later made it rank 6 which hits for 256. With my crit AAs it hits for 768 on crits. Since shamans get dex buffs it's procing all the time. The first real undead nuke paladins get is Expulse Undead at level 30 and it does 106 damage which is kind of comical considering.

The "just play what you want" philosophy is something I normally subscribe to but when the gap is this large I'm just going to roll Paladin on launch.
Gear and AAs do make a large difference though.
 
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Kaines

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It's good to see people still playing the beta, but I have less than zero motivation to play now. I already know the trio I want to take to 50, I know the leveling / gearing paths I'm going to use. Everything else just feels like a waste of time less than a week from the wipe happening. The 28th can't come fast enough.
 
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Creslin

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I made a Pal/Mnk/Shm trio last night just to gauge the difference between my previous trio. Using a +5 Skarlon sword, planar armor and the 100 AAs I had, I made 20 levels in a sitting and was killing pulls of 4 deep reds (wans and zols, about 10 levels above me) at once in lguk at level 27 including very easily clearing the frenzied room using lulls. I was occassionally one-rounding low yellows in my teens even without Nife procs. I obviously won't be able to make a fair comparisson until 50 but it's clearly much stronger than my previous trio. People hit the AC cap in their 20s wearing Befallen leather + bronze and the Befallen 2h is really good so the gear isn't going to make as much of a difference as one might think.

Paladins get a undead proc buff called Instrument of Nife at level 15 on here. Normally this is a level 30 spell on TAKP, or 26 on TLPs but it's level 15 here, which is rather insane. The proc damage is 193 before motes. It doesn't even need to scale with level before hitting for max likes it does elsewhere. This is more damage than wizard nukes at this level. Level 15 mobs have roughly 400-450 hitpoints, less for casters, so when it crit this proc was one-shotting full HP white mobs even before I put motes in. I later made it rank 6 which hits for 256. With my crit AAs it hits for 768 on crits. Since shamans get dex buffs it's procing all the time. The first real undead nuke paladins get is Expulse Undead at level 30 and it does 106 damage which is kind of comical considering.

The "just play what you want" philosophy is something I normally subscribe to but when the gap is this large I'm just going to roll Paladin on launch.
Paladin mows down undead, go anywhere without undead and the gap is much smaller. Raid targets are rarely undead so the advantage tappers pretty hard.

I think SK / zerker / SHM is great, war / nec / shm is great, war / bst / clr, war /(shm or ench or brd) / clr. Theres a ton of good combos.

The only rule for OP combo is you need tank + mediocre heals (pal/dru/shm) + great slow ( ench/shm) or tank + great heals (clr) + decentish slow (brd/bst/midnight mallet).

Then you have a bunch of good (like can clear D4 with gear and effort but not ez mode combos) which can be just any melee (rogue/ranger/zerker/monk) + CLR + a decent slower.
 
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Burren

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It's good to see people still playing the beta, but I have less than zero motivation to play now. I already know the trio I want to take to 50, I know the leveling / gearing paths I'm going to use. Everything else just feels like a waste of time less than a week from the wipe happening. The 28th can't come fast enough.
Does the beta close a week before the 28th? I haven't paid attention to that.
 
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Neranja

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I know the leveling / gearing paths I'm going to use. Everything else just feels like a waste of time less than a week from the wipe happening. The 28th can't come fast enough.
Is it Befallen from 10 to 25? Because fuck, for the life of me I can't stand Befallen, the corridors look all the same. After an hour I need to switch places. Gear is good, but for leveling I'd rather have some variety.

So I am using the beta to check alternative routes out, e.g. Crushbone today, and a few days ago I checked out Blackburrow. And then Najena and Splitpaw I guess,. Maybe Mistmoore, but I have high hopes that they revamp that, too. Because for the reason above I also don't want to do Upper Guk to Lower Guk for 30 levels.

I just don't have this autistic poopsocking for hours on end in the same dungeon in me anymore.
 

Burren

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Is it Befallen from 10 to 25? Because fuck, for the life of me I can't stand Befallen, the corridors look all the same. After an hour I need to switch places. Gear is good, but for leveling I'd rather have some variety.

So I am using the beta to check alternative routes out, e.g. Crushbone today, and a few days ago I checked out Blackburrow. And then Najena and Splitpaw I guess,. Maybe Mistmoore, but I have high hopes that they revamp that, too. Because for the reason above I also don't want to do Upper Guk to Lower Guk for 30 levels.

I just don't have this autistic poopsocking for hours on end in the same dungeon in me anymore.
New Crushbone from 5-20
Befallen 6-25 (I will only go for weapons then I'm out. Done it too many times)
Blackburrow 8-25 (I don't feel like traveling over there from the Freeport or GFay areas)
Najena 15-25 (awesome shit there and very consistent XP)
LGuk 25-whenever. Its too good not to do a few times here and there
Mistmoore I tried and its OK. I did maybe 25-30 there on a toon? Frustrating and bad loot
SolB 35-45?
SplitPaw today was decent 29-33. I'm sure could be done more efficiently than I did and its really interesting now
Cazic Thule for a spin around lvl 30-35 just to get a +2 - +4 Rubi chest for old time's sake (go there in that level range, don't stay for that long)
I did Unrest from I think 10-15 before hitting Najena. Its consistent and dense with mobs

Lots of dungeons still to revamp. Already many good choices.
 
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Xevy

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Man they goof'd with the raid hp scaling. Mobs with 80k hp last week with 5 people on D4 have like 230k with 3 people on D4. Making for some long fucking battles.
 

Burren

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Man they goof'd with the raid hp scaling. Mobs with 80k hp last week with 5 people on D4 have like 230k with 3 people on D4. Making for some long fucking battles.
Drop boss HP and increase boss damage output so strategy and coordination is required in a group.
 

Araxen

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It's good to see people still playing the beta, but I have less than zero motivation to play now. I already know the trio I want to take to 50, I know the leveling / gearing paths I'm going to use. Everything else just feels like a waste of time less than a week from the wipe happening. The 28th can't come fast enough.

That's where I am right now. It's kind of pointless to play when the game is closing down in about a week to prepare for launch. I farmed two Ghoulbane's and then realized wtf am I doing. This is all going to be deleted. I've slowly cut my time down in the game after that. The highest level character I have is 33. I didn't want to get 50 because I know I'll really enjoy farming Fear and Hate, and I don't want to waste that enjoyment during the pre-order beta.

I'm pretty set on Paladin/Monk/Shaman Froglock. I did make a Druid/SK/Zerker female barb named Allota Bajina on another server, but I didn't enjoy that combo as much. The druid ports are nice, but Druids are fairly boring in this game I feel. Zerker is equally as boring.

I did finally use the Shaman pet today, and it was pulling far too much aggro even with the pet taunt off. It was kind of ridiculous. Pet aggro needs to toned down at least for the Shaman pet.
 

Kaines

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Is it Befallen from 10 to 25? Because fuck, for the life of me I can't stand Befallen, the corridors look all the same. After an hour I need to switch places. Gear is good, but for leveling I'd rather have some variety.

So I am using the beta to check alternative routes out, e.g. Crushbone today, and a few days ago I checked out Blackburrow. And then Najena and Splitpaw I guess,. Maybe Mistmoore, but I have high hopes that they revamp that, too. Because for the reason above I also don't want to do Upper Guk to Lower Guk for 30 levels.

I just don't have this autistic poopsocking for hours on end in the same dungeon in me anymore.

SK/SHM 1 - 5 in Ferrott.
5 - 10 in Befallen

SK/SHM/WIZ 10 - 25 in Befallen

SK/SHM/DRU 10 - 23 in Blackburrow

SK/SHM/MNK 10 - 15 in Befallen.
15 - 25 in Najena.
25 - 40 in Splitpaw (maybe Permafrost if that revamp happens before launch).
40 - 46 in Hole.
46 - 50 in Planes
 
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