The Secret World

Would really depend on what the tank builds are now Cae. Quite a few people here tanked when more played.

Comparing it to WoW its just as easy as a DK. Drop the TSW version of DND which is called Crimson Theater (think it was blades?) then you would spam builder and dump etc. Nothing really crazy or different back when I played.

@Kantern - Thats crazy it was only one and weak. This game still imo had some of the hardest and most fun dungeons Ive done in an MMO. I expected to hear the raid would be epic.

Caeden_sl said:

Just bought this and it seems pretty awesome as B2P. Only put about 3-4 hours in.

I see some folks talking of "having" to re-roll. I guess I thought you could unlock everything here skill wise on a character and your wep choice determined your role.

Anyone care to give a few sentence synopsis on how tanking compares to say WoW?

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The only reason you would want to make another character is for the other factions main story lines. No reason to reroll ever.

About the only reason I'd consider rerolling at this point is because it's been so long since I've played that I don't really remember what I was doing

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/01...ks-and-a-vete/


they talk about starting today working on account wide unlocks for pets, clothes for all characters, also vet reward system.

Scarhand_sl said:

About the only reason I'd consider rerolling at this point is because it's been so long since I've played that I don't really remember what I was doing

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You can always go back and re-do all the previous content, and continue to earn AP/SP from where you left off.

This came as a surprise but while looking at CheapShark today I noticed that TSW is$10 today on Originends on the 28th, pretty cool now I don't have to wait until the 31st for the Amazon deal.

Sure, but then you have to stick your dick in the STD factory that is Origins. It's worth the extra couple of bucks to wait for Amazon if it prevents that.

It doesn't require Origin, just got my key in a e-mail, went to the secret world website and plugged it in.

Between the meh combat and the terrible place called blue mountain my enjoyment of this game kind of got killed. I couldn't imagine being a dps late game. After a week of not playing I've decided to try healing.

I've been lvling as blade/ar but I've put a decent amount of pts into blood and fists just for passives. Problem is I only had enough sp for one more weapon to ql7 so I did blood. Is ar/blood good around egypt? Seems a lot more gear dependent than blood/fist. And anyone mind linking a build? Frustrating looking for one in this game because most places I find seem outdated.

Ar is quite powerful healing wise, i was able to heal np up untill ankh (then i stopped playing for a bit). Single target heal u just spamm the leech attack (cant recall the ability name but its either 1 insta shot or 3 bursts shot with 1 sec cast time, they both useful depending on the fight, and burst shot goes golden with hot spark fist passive). Aoe healing is kinda of a joke once u get mortar,veteran, platoon and the elite in blood that heal and shield everyone in the group (Cold blooded).

For a healing build check out dulfy website.. he has ar/blood, fist/blood and fist/pistol explained in details.

You need to find synergy between the 2 weapon types in order to DPS effectively. It's more about the type of hit than the weapon, for example a "Strike" build would be hammer / shotgun that both have a lot of "strike" attack types in their descriptions. You have to build your passives based on strike attacks. For example passives that boost strike attacks 12% or make strike attacks crit 20% harder. I haven't played in a while but I would recommend picking a weapon you really like as a main hand and then looking to see what compliments it for your off hand. I know AR used to be "burst" attacks and had really good synergy and high dps with pistol or shotgun.

Another thing is to make sure you're double dumping when you use your builder x3 or x5 or whatever the weapon cap is. You want to dump the finisher thats on GCD and immediately after the one that is off the GCD if its an option.

If you want to be as efficient as possible about your AP spending, you can get by with 3 builds for solo and grouping:
1. Blade/AR - For soloing 90% of the time. Clearing the Path is by far the best AE attack in the game, and it's up there for single target as well.
2. AR leech - For the 10% which is made of extremely annoying mobs that won't stay in melee range, do very high damage (especially DoTs), etc.
3. AR/Shotgun - For grouping, because melee ranges from merely adequate to extreme liability in boss fights for anyone but the tank.

Then all you need are the usual bunch of passives that are spread all over the place, along with Do or Die for your dungeon build. If you want to heal or tank, you can pick up some blood or chaos abilities and use that with the AR and blade ones you already have.

Thanks for the help guys. Got conflicting reports on ar healing so was worried. Maybe I will run some people through polaris, worse thing ill just dps down the bosses if I fail heal.

Think I'm in a good spot solo wise though, yes clearing the path is too good.

Hows the raid? I managed to lose intrest two weeks before it hit and havent heard much about it.

I was thinking of getting Secret World of steam. How is it now it's f2p? Has it moved to p2w or is the cash shop decent? Do you need a subscription to not be crippled and gagged like SWTOR or is it actually playable?

I played this for free weekend back in the day but it was during the time when I had lot of must play games that I didnt have time to play yet.

Im interested in giving it a go what server are you peeps running on or is just down to single server now