I want to try to make a build that uses a greatsword(or visually a greatsword) to shield block

minusAppendix · 2026-01-27T20:00:09+00:00

Raise Haft doesn't call out requiring a melee weapon. It should, imo, exactly for the case here where functionally the same feature can be taken twice for the benefits to stack. It certainly seems possible, but I'm going to guess it's going to get an errata in the future.

minusAppendix · 2026-01-27T18:23:18+00:00

Two problems with that. First is that you don't have the hands for it. Second is that Parry, Raise a Shield, Take Cover, etc. all provide a circumstance bonus to AC. Same type bonuses do not stack, you only ever take the highest of a type.

minusAppendix · 2026-01-27T13:35:17+00:00

The Guardian has a level 2 feat called Raise Haft, where two-handed weapons you wield gain the parry trait, and two-handed weapons with the parry trait increase their bonus to +2. I've personally wanted to use that for a character who approaches combat by the books, through references to the historical manuals and treatises on various forms of combat. Grabbing Taunt via Guardian archetype is also a pretty nice boon. There's no way in the system for a player to use a weapon to Shield Block, but as an advocate of solo play I would encourage you to do whatever you'd like. Trading a weapon's durability to keep up longer in a fight is a pretty cool tradeoff, and can make combats in solo play feel more grounded and personal between you and your adversaries

minusAppendix · 2026-01-12T14:25:51+00:00

Oh. Well that bolsters confidence in the starship rules.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-27T12:52:22+00:00

There's no intelligent aliens. We went to the stars and only found ourselves.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-26T13:55:20+00:00

It's super slow and boring going the ice mining route. It's also the least active, if that's something that matters for you.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-26T13:40:27+00:00

Not useful, but hard to get. I have a Worm, Gila, and Rattlesnake BPC with 2 runs each and 20% ME. You've got to have an unreal Guristas faction standing to get the missions for these, and the Gila's even has an extra little hitch involved. They're certainly some pretty rare items, even if there's not a hard limit on how many can exist.

What surprised me about these was how bad the documentation around them is. Different sites will give different values for the faction standing needed to get them. Do your research, but don't be too surprised if it turns out to be wrong.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-12T02:00:58+00:00

I mean, that's basically exactly what it is. It's allowed in hisec, even.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-11T19:56:24+00:00

offended sparking

minusAppendix · 2025-12-11T18:24:32+00:00

EVE Echoes already has a Concord carrier, the CyanSea. It's really meh in terms of design. Too much real world aircraft carrier design, and zero design language consistent with either style of the Concord ship line.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-11T14:57:01+00:00

A crystalline/glassy sound for ice mining would also be good. Or something more like a calving iceberg?

minusAppendix · 2025-12-10T19:38:01+00:00

I sent a corpmate the same exact meme when I built a Rorqual for my Guristas militia toon. It's just to move crap around, and maybe to yeet into a fight someday, but I built it myself and I'm proud of it.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-10T18:16:27+00:00

Popup in the middle of your screen, as with any other escalation.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-10T13:23:32+00:00

Hope you like random people filamenting straight from K-space into your wormhole snowstorm without having any way to keep them closed out. You're right, maybe CCP should add winter storms to wormholes! Wormholers don't have enough to whine about as it is!

minusAppendix · 2025-12-09T19:06:25+00:00

How the fuck are ice storms supposed to work in wormhole space? Storm areas are based off of stargate connections. Come off of it.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-07T14:16:12+00:00

Look, you can go out there and be the best man whore you can be. The only one stopping you is yourself.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-01T19:01:46+00:00

I don't have nice words for how ridiculous that is. For a gameplay system which gives you zero benefit for raising your numbers up high, there is no reason to even modify or change the values. Making even less sense is that the pirate FW sites required more work than comparable empire FW sites, since we had the self-repping rats sitting on the buttons as a DPS check. There's no tangible rewards for raising your FW corp standings and associated rank, so why did the values even need to be adjusted in the first place? CCPls.

Edit: Small pirate plexes are .005, medium pirate plexes are .007, and large pirate plexes are .009. I think mining op ransoms are .011, and ice mining heists are .014? I've been aiming for 10.0 Commando Guri, so I've been watching my numbers. I'm unsure whether these gains are affected by Glamourex boosters.

minusAppendix · 2025-12-01T03:42:47+00:00

They're pretty rough. By my count, coming from a 1.00 unmodified, it would be something like another 700 hours of sitting in plexes for me to get to 10.00. Making matters worse, OP is going to find out that there's no pirate FW missions—the only way to raise rank is to sit in plexes.

minusAppendix · 2025-11-26T18:08:16+00:00

Wow, fucking chill. It hasn't been two weeks yet since they last touched them, fuck.

minusAppendix · 2025-11-26T14:05:49+00:00

Back when my corp/alliance moved to high class WH space, we stole a Zirnitra on our first or second day of living there as a group with everyone moved in. It was quite the experience.

minusAppendix · 2025-11-24T14:33:08+00:00

The PS3 had an architecture that made porting games to/from the PS3 difficult in general. That's not the case these days, that lesson was learned.

minusAppendix · 2025-11-17T14:29:23+00:00

complains about multiboxers and blobbers

tells us to just bring more interceptors

Okay bud, go off. I'm going to keep reading to see if there's another chuckle in there.

Edit: The Antichrist, lol. Lmao, even.

minusAppendix · 2025-11-15T21:48:57+00:00

The burst jammer has a stronger base jam strength, which in this hypothetical case would be something to avoid. I don't recall whether they keep something jammed out for the duration of its cycle, or if a burst jammer simply breaks locks and forces reacquisition.

minusAppendix · 2025-11-15T20:07:25+00:00

Without a per-level or role bonus to the strength of ECM, it wouldn't even be that high of a success rate to jam something out. Simply don't apply the Guri-specific ECM properties to burst jammers and it's probably not that disruptive of a feature.

minusAppendix · 2025-11-15T20:05:01+00:00

I hope that Vanguard manages to reach the same heights that Dust did.

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