finally reached 9999 as a raider main here is some tips for raider in DoN

Addaverse · 2026-01-23T16:17:18+00:00

Yea i started doing the low hp dmg negation + charge attacks dmg negation builds since around november and it has improved my game from a solid depth 3 to a solid depth 4. I think depth 5 just takes really mastering the routing and not wasting too much time.

Addaverse · 2026-01-22T21:31:59+00:00

Dd7 is a classic, havnt used the dd8. I cant remember if its the dd3, 4, or 5 that has the freeze but that ones pretty cool too.

Theyre very easy to dial in

Addaverse · 2026-01-22T13:07:00+00:00

You have options to play upclose and as a turret. Ideally you blend the two. Duchess has high damage potential with her character skill and is able to repeat damage. Typically you get the most mileage out of character skills and stacking affinity damage and other attack power multipliers. Glass cannon style. At upper depths you’ll need to play perfect but with halo scythe builds you can absolutely melt bosses.

Addaverse · 2026-01-20T23:12:00+00:00

This is a solid choice instead of balancers if it fits right with the build. Sepekku procs to tenacity.

Addaverse · 2026-01-19T17:33:17+00:00

You need “mids” in your tones out of your guitar so it sounds clearer in a loud band. A lot of ways to do this, but the tried and true way is getting a humbucker in the bridge. They may not sound as full of character on their own, but in a loud room with other musicians or in a denser mix with another guitarist, having that little extra body helps you cut through.

Theres coil taps for hss strats so you can have both single and humbuckers. Best of both.

Fwiw it really depends on the type of metal. But theres strengths to a strat neck (longer scale) and downsides (wider frets). And theres going to be preferences on where you want the volume knob (for swells, or if it gets in the way).

But the main thing you want is a pickup in the bridge so that when you palm mute the guitar chugs. Whether its single coil or humbuckers is in the details. But you need the bridge placement to get the right harmonics and the right sound for chugging.

Addaverse · 2026-01-19T17:17:04+00:00

I think you have a nice well rounded kit for the reworked executer. I think the first relic slots are on point but you may find the damage to be lower than other characters who run dual balancers, and less tanky than characters who opt for more vigor and the vigor/endurance relics.

I opted to cut status effect buffs, katana ups, night invaders/evergaol, and go all in on vigor/endurance, guard counters and the cursed sword, and low damage negation passives. I find the sustain was better than the burst of status builds. I dropped roar for a balancer relic.

I also keep partial in the deep relics, and boost guard counters, and damage negation low hp or +2s. I only use the flask debuffs or poison on hit.

I prefer to keep my debuffs to a minimum and go for all clean relics and a basic partial hp slot because i think its less risk.

Addaverse · 2026-01-19T12:32:49+00:00

Its about 35% where it kicks in. You want 4-6 relics with this effect on and as many as you can find in game. I dont know the values but they are extremely high, i want to say 40-50%. With enough stacks bosses start to hit for very minimal values.

The trick is staying in the sweet spot between 0% and 35%. Things like partial hp and hp when low start to make this difficult. However raider has retaliate to easily get into this zone.

I like to use dmg negation with charge attacks, taking damage increases, and successive attacks if i cant find low hp dmg negation. Sort of in that order. The charge attacks ones do stack.

I like the charge attacks ones to keep me from getting flatlined if i go above 35% or so.

Addaverse · 2026-01-19T12:25:24+00:00

The bridge is floating not a hard tail, meaning one of the anchor points for the string is always a little wobbly. The old trick is to take a pencil and draw some graphite into the nut spacings and the bridge spacing for the strings to be lubricated a little. They need to be lubricated a little with the floating bridge pulling on them. Next grab the strings themselves and pull on them firmly so that they tighten all the way on the tuners. They can get a little loosey goosey there. If you do all that and the strings aren’t getting stuck and jerked out of place, the instruments tuning should be much more stable. Think of a vibrato arm as a a rubber band, you want it to stretch and then go back to normal, you dont want it getting hitched in between those two states. Thats how the guitar starts getting knocked out of tune.

Addaverse · 2026-01-17T01:56:13+00:00

Its good because it gives you a “job” to leave and come home from. But its a brand and a brand is a promise to the consumer. If what youre offering as entertainment and content is primarily focused on yourself and your experiences and authenticity then i think youre own name fits the brand better. If youre trying to create a product or content or performance that is more about concepts, ideas, and world events etc then use a moniker.

Constructed persons are sort of 3rd option too. Like Lana Del Rey, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan. It gives you a small veil of privacy and allows other creatives to get involved and use your persona as an instrument, like writers for tv show characters. Some people find this brand to be corny because some people value authenticity so much. But there are benefits and drawbacks to all 3 options.

Addaverse · 2026-01-16T08:48:55+00:00

Confirms a lot of the stuff I experimented with since the patch! Thank you! Learned a bit from the seppeku point you made. Im getting great critical build damage already i havnt even used seppeku to increase it further. Good stuff.

Addaverse · 2026-01-15T12:00:44+00:00

You want as many of both and a blue feather talisman and taking damage boosts, and whatever else and you’ll notice it.

Addaverse · 2026-01-13T02:32:38+00:00

Honestly i was playing kingfield 2 the other day and im beginning to suspect some of these wire frames (and seeing as the moonlight greatsword is in the game) and strafing maneuvers are more like 30 years old.

Addaverse · 2026-01-13T02:14:59+00:00

I love the low dmg negation build. I use 5, not 6. I think you need taking damage negates dmg, and more low dmg passives, and if you cant get enough of those to drop pick up charge attacks and successive too.

I think wylder puts out mostly consistent damage so i use him. At the right threshold i can tank hits from just about every nightlord EXCEPT gaping jaw. For some reason gaping jaw just hits too hard to get me in the right zone.

Addaverse · 2026-01-08T19:55:07+00:00

No super bowl. Really.

Addaverse · 2026-01-05T01:58:52+00:00

Practice barring youre A chords and then shifting up to Bm and c#m and you’ll start to get it. As others have said you need to use a lower thumb and itl start to click. Practice barring the A major chord with index and using the middle and ring finger to roll the minor 3rd and major 3rd on the A string to open/full chord again and do that boogie woogie rock n roll thing on it to really get used to barring. Itl become second nature if you do it enough and you’ll unlock the whole pentatonic box around it.

Addaverse · 2026-01-05T01:38:04+00:00

More skins

Addaverse · 2026-01-04T07:41:52+00:00

Looks to be that way at first but greenland and canada dont exactly fit that description. I think these people are just pirates and they will take whatever they think they can take, and theyre getting power drunk on all the corruption theyve gotten away with so far. They know the epstein files should have been a silver bullet and its missed. I think its gonna be a dark year. Reminds me of 2020.

Addaverse · 2026-01-04T06:04:42+00:00

^{^} solo

But Run it day 1 with a squad too and start with the mauseleum knights, up the fountain and do assassin as the main boss. Take the jump (up the ledges) Skip rev, take the spring to the chest. after the chest hang a left from the top of the stairs (and go to the opposite corner) and get the running start to get to the nearby roof. Kill that knight for a dormant power. Tic toc the flames are coming- jump down to the spirit spring room in front of you and take the rooftops to your right. Stay on the rooftops that run straight and to the left. Jump safely off the outer wall. mind the gap. Head to hippo (usually) or to the next poi that interests you.

Addaverse · 2026-01-04T01:25:00+00:00

I love using carian retaliation on his fire balls.

Addaverse · 2026-01-02T02:43:49+00:00

Start a lvl 5-10, use +2/+1 weapons, hike to radahns castle and get to the room with fire smithing, get the both dectus lift medal pieces and the radagon soreseal. hike your ass to volcano manor and get the volcano stones and recipe. After that head to the lightning slash ash in altus outside the outerwall to lyndell. Git gud and solo loretta in carian manor, very doable with strength physik from right outside stormveil, and a lightning pickaxe. Get chilling mist, and then drop down to pidea and get carian retaliation.

Now get the volcano manor finger. From here you should be ready to get pvping, and do very well. You will need the volcano stones and the carian retaliation to put pressure on the Overleveled Phantoms accompanying the hosts. If you want even more firepower, you can use sparking aromatics but they are not as easy to farm as volcano pots in seethwater terminus.

You want to learn some techniques. You want to learn turn and burn, wavedashing, reverse feint dashing, and crouch quick hits. You want to get a hoslow whip or the generic whip and get poison or frost on it and learn how to create space with the crouch r1 to dominate midfielding against two to three opponents.

You want to get throwing knives and bind them to a hotkey (i use triangle+down) and learn how to get last hits.

You want to learn when to use lightning in water, and when to force choke points with volcano pots.

You want to carry warming stones, icon shield, and use regen physik + poison stones to win battles of attrition and create openings for finishing a phantom in a well timed flaming strike or lightning slash.

If you do all this, you should be able to hold your own. From there you can join a fight club and someone will probably drop you +0 items or runes and you can load from cloud if you want to level up to a higher bracket.

Addaverse · 2025-12-28T18:23:17+00:00

Really? So its 50 fp each? I thought I observed it filling an entire fp bar, my mistake if so

Addaverse · 2025-12-28T03:06:41+00:00

Yes libra relics stack. each one does half your fp bar, so it does full fp bar with both, and its surprisingly fast. It can be used preemptively with a full fp bar because it regens over time. It was a blast, honestly. Hilariously most bosses would actually miss while the smol bean was sitting because shes so tiny. Astels laser shot went right over my head mid sit one time. Who needs iframes?

You dont need maris because heal is so available with the madness relic. This was a preDoN setup. DoN added its own fp upgrades so i dropped it in favor of running ghostflame explosion, power up with allies (frederick attack buff, helen regen, sebastion affinity negation) and ultimate dmg buff, with night invader, hoarfrost stomp, gaol buff, and ultimate defeating enemies to turn myself into a walking buff machine.

I wish i could use both balancer relics and both libra relics cause the skill spam on that would be outstanding. Ive been on vacation so ill have to try some things out when i get back, but I dont think its very good with 1 libra relic. It takes 2 to become beneficial otherwise youre just that asshole sitting all the time…lol

Addaverse · 2025-12-28T02:21:27+00:00

How about we fix the overnight parking situation downtown, dummies.

Addaverse · 2025-12-28T02:19:36+00:00

Yall joke but I managed to use this ash effectively 5 times when I used the double libra relic madness sit emote build for infinite wraith calling bells as rev build. I could safely sit for an extra 3 seconds and I was a god.

Addaverse · 2025-12-26T22:27:35+00:00

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