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elidib

Vyemm Raider
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i did it!
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Chimney

Trakanon Raider
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Had a hell of a work weekend and was only about to go one night for hard (cleared G1 with pugs). Hoping to have more time to commit next week. Vykas is certainly a pretty steep increase in difficulty for a lot of folks though, I truly do enjoy the gates.

They are fun as shit and after tonight I can do gate 2/3 with 1-2 potions at min gear score and no support all the way to the end due to the amount of pulls that got done which is the only high point.

The huge assholes joining reclear groups when they clearly haven't done it once (I started checking for kill achievement to just auto boot them - bring lost ark raider.io unironically!) and wasting peoples time is insane. Especially when there is an endless amount of learning/prog groups on NAW to see the fights. After my experience tonight I'm probably better off to joining a prog group than a reclear group full of high gear score traps =O.

I wish I didn't wait to do tower until today to get the premium price on grudge books. Dipped all the way down to 600g after my honing session before getting 9k each for 2 books. Used like 3/4 of the tower mat rewards to get my scrapper from 1472.5 to 1475 hitting that +18->+19 pity on my helm and bombing my +21->+22 weapon attempts.

If they remotely matched RMT prices for gold in game I'd seriously be tempted to swipe cause unless I get lucky with some accessories I'm going to be poverty levels for another 2-3 months from relic gearing all the chars I bumped to 1415+ and the high gear score honing costs. My regret of frivolously burning through near half a million gold is high =D


i did it!

Awesome pics. Great size. Look thick. Solid. Tight. Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakn' huge, solid, thick and tight you can get. Thanks for the motivation. ;]
 

BoozeCube

Von Clippowicz
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I only cleared the gates on normal these week because we as Vold said we had only 1 night to work on anything guild wise. The fight in general was fun and really this game is just learning patterns and memorization at the same time though it kind of suffers from the same thing Mythic raiding in WoW does which is one person who might have a steeper learning curve really makes all the fights super frustrating for the rest.

I enjoy games with individual responsibility and a certain level of group effort, but in these fights when dildo #8 fucks up it's pretty much game over for everyone. I ended up joining some guild group for G3 and there were two places that really made it hard to want to continue on with. One is the typing part, it's a pretty easy mechanic but doesn't match the rest of the gameplay at all and people fail hard on it. The other was the tentacles, I don't know why but for at least 10 or so someone who rush in to close and get insta charmed instead of spreading out and waiting, I guess people get really antsy to kill them quickly but if you don't rush in like a tard there is plenty of time to get it done.

A fair bit of this fight is simply communication specifically gate 2 which I saw people fuck up a number of times simply due to more than one person calling out contradicting places to run. I imagine just like the other content they have released already it will simply get easier and easier as people learn the mechanics. There really isn't any timers to fuck up or unexpected game play it's all as robotic as possible, once you know the patterns and mechanic health bars there is nothing surprising. With that being said if you were to take on these fights 100% blind brand new with no guides it would be some grade A turbo aids learning sessions.

This game remains the same as always for me, impressive and fun gameplay, raids are unique and interesting enough, but the RNG casino aspect to the degree that it is embedded in everything on top of the nonstop chore nature really prevents it from ever having a mass appeal or being a top tier game.
 
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Lumi

Vyemm Raider
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You boys are hella silent? Vykas breaking everyones balls or what?

Today finishing gate 3 on my alt sucked a dick. 4 hours of a "know mechs/reclear" group that had at least 40 players get the boot until lead brought in 6 other guildies and me staying in last spot to finish.
Well, I tried it out on normal first go around and wasn't bad at all. Like 45 minutes for gate 1, 30 for gate 2 and like 2.5 hours for gate 3. Gate 3 was definitely a bitch. We had some insanely unlucky shit happen during the final phase and the final take out she literally had 1 pixel of stagger meter left and everyone was charmed but somehow we managed to get the kill. The tentacles and the final stagger bar are the hardest parts for sure, everything else is relatively easy, it's just a matter of everyone remembering to do everything as you can't even afford minor mistakes a lot of the time.
 
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Kythik

Molten Core Raider
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I did one normal and one HM clear. Gate 2 is the most punishing if even one person messes up. Gate 3 is all about the tentacles, which just go behind them and it's a lot easier.
 

Chimney

Trakanon Raider
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After hard mode tonight I can say that I hate g1 the most. I got locked in reclear after reclear groups for 2 hours that clearly never cleared. But when I got a solid group we banged out all 3 no prob even with a bugged ass seed in g3 that felt like hell mode at times. Think I'm skipping running my 2 vykas normals this week. Too high of a chance I spend an 10 extra hours playing and blowing up consumables for what will likely be more trash accessories.
 

BoozeCube

Von Clippowicz
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I wonder how much cash some of you fags throw at this game I have played pretty much regularly since the game was released and only have one alt at 1415 currently, and one at 1400 I am pushing to 1415 the rest of 1370 and have a couple of other alts I have all but abandoned for now. Trying to keep up with even a standard 6 per week it max out gold gains is more effort than it's really worth. I know I have pretty dogshit luck with all the casino shit but how you guys with 1/2 the play time with a ton of high ilvl alts have either dropped down those dollars or just are insanely lucky, either way it's interesting to see how fast some rosters progress.
 

Chimney

Trakanon Raider
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I have still only spent my $100ish and not for player power. All but my main and main alt are parked now so no more expenses.

I would buy some now though if they made the crystal to gold ratio better since I'm going to be poor for months after juicing them alts.
 

Sabbat

Trakanon Raider
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I wonder how much cash some of you fags throw at this game I have played pretty much regularly since the game was released and only have one alt at 1415 currently, and one at 1400 I am pushing to 1415 the rest of 1370 and have a couple of other alts I have all but abandoned for now. Trying to keep up with even a standard 6 per week it max out gold gains is more effort than it's really worth. I know I have pretty dogshit luck with all the casino shit but how you guys with 1/2 the play time with a ton of high ilvl alts have either dropped down those dollars or just are insanely lucky, either way it's interesting to see how fast some rosters progress.

I didn't play for 6 weeks or so after the launch week. I have one character at 1415, one at 1370, and 2 at 1325. So, how many dollars did you throw at the game?
 

elidib

Vyemm Raider
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Only money i've spent is the bronze founders pack so I could play early ($15), one extra character slot ($8), and the ark pass ($15). that's it.
 
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BoozeCube

Von Clippowicz
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I didn't play for 6 weeks or so after the launch week. I have one character at 1415, one at 1370, and 2 at 1325. So, how many dollars did you throw at the game?

If you actually follow the thread which you don't fucking seem to I have thrown $50 at the game to buy some royal crystals for extra character slots which I have only used 2 of so far. Any more retarded ass questions.
 
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Kythik

Molten Core Raider
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I bought the arc pass and both of the growth packs; they weren't enough to get my second paladin from 1395 to 1415 after pushing my one paladin from 1415 to 1430. Side note, they reduced the punika growth pack to 1 but the people that bought them early, before they were removed, got 3.
 

Voldeth

Trakanon Raider
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We finally cleared Vykas as a guild. Was a great week on that front (after a rather sad Valtan experience). Good to get that done in the guild group since a lot of us had to pug. Special shout out to Cyni Cyni for his clutch orb on G2.
 
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Voldeth

Trakanon Raider
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GG. Did you guys get all 3 in HM?
No, first two gates on hard and third gate was on normal (half our raid hadn't done the third gate yet, so it was a learning running that we switched to normal for).
 
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Voldeth

Trakanon Raider
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Chimney Chimney Arcanist on Thursday with a power pass and ability to boost to 1370. You going to be playing one? The rotation is absolutely insane to get good at, so I suspect you'll enjoy it quite a bit. I'm still torn on whether I'll use it on that or a Destroyer.

Next class release is going to be pretty big for me. I am praying it isn't Summoner. Obviously I'd kill for Scouter but I also think Reaper would satisfy many (fuck, I'd take Artist too obviously).
 

Chimney

Trakanon Raider
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Chimney Chimney Arcanist on Thursday with a power pass and ability to boost to 1370. You going to be playing one? The rotation is absolutely insane to get good at, so I suspect you'll enjoy it quite a bit. I'm still torn on whether I'll use it on that or a Destroyer.

Next class release is going to be pretty big for me. I am praying it isn't Summoner. Obviously I'd kill for Scouter but I also think Reaper would satisfy many (fuck, I'd take Artist too obviously).

I've got a striker/deadeye/gunlancer sitting at 1370 that never get played so one or all of them could eat a delete for new chars to try it out. They should really should bump these passes to 1415 to get more fresh faces into the base good content of valtan/p3 argos/deskaluda etc. instead of what will likely turn into more lopang alts and yoho burdens for the majority of the remaining playerbase and not entice any old players to return. The materials/gear/time costs associated to get any new classes to at least equal footing of my crappiest core character of 1415+ is pretty high which makes wanting to even start the process on new class a struggle.

l am mostly maintenance mode now though as I do summer things/travel. Just playing enough to ensure my core 6 don't go fully capped on rested. Haven't even done vykas/valtans on any char other than my main the last two resets which eats ass for my gold, but better for my time. =D


Feels bad.

That is a lot of collectible progression that I wish I had the drive to do. Grats =]