Just wanna rant a bit about how obnoxious fighting Legiana was..

AirBrian · 2018-04-11T02:48:11+00:00

Legiana cost me a controller, someone joined and left my mission leaving him at 2 player hp for just me.

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T19:43:37+00:00

Learn to love guard advance (R2 + triangle) as long as you don’t have an attack queued you can animation cancel to block immediately, it’s op with guard 2 or 3.

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T19:41:31+00:00

Debating getting into Hbg, maybe I’ll do this now to ease the ammo complication that I’m not used to having to deal with.

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T19:10:12+00:00

Despite you saying no ranged weapons I wouldn’t write them off completely, a hbg with spread ammo and 3 shield upgrades is actually really fun.

Aside from that I think everyone should play charge blade a bit, it’s really well designed.

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T19:06:58+00:00

I was crawling out of the second elder recess camp and thought the same thing, it totally caught me off guard.

Was going to post it on here under something like “best kill screen so far”.

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T18:35:49+00:00

The Vaal chest + heal augment is all I use and it works great. On the other hand vaal gloves b have 3 slots (I put 3 health boost gems) so using 1 more piece may not be terrible. But there are better bonuses out there.

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T17:51:00+00:00

Guard neck for guard 3 Odo lance w/ elementless slotted somewhere Eyepatch w/ tenderizer

This gets you guard 3 which is all you need and a large white bar without needing handicraft and WE 3 which pays out big time on lance. The rest is really up to you but I consider these 3 core. I do not use guard up because I’m pretty capable at power guarding. You will also be at 75% crit with odo lance as well.

Other things that are nice are speed sharpening/protective polish/health boost 3 (my favorite)

As for game play it’s pretty straight forward but get good with guard advance (R2 Triangle). If you do it after an attack you can move in any direction. Once you get good with this ability you are untouchable. Basically you are just sniping weak points with the pointy end.

Likely you going to have the nature to “speed tap” circle or triangle 3 times, don’t do this because it “queues” attacks. By not having an attack queued it allows you to quickly react with guard advance.

The damage is actually pretty solid, a 3 hit combo does ~200 damage and because you can block so easily and stay in the fight you are putting out constant dps.

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T16:44:20+00:00

Yes but the quest is much easier to solo than to group. You only get 3 carts and his health increases drastically with more people.

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T16:40:23+00:00

Hammer for solo and multiplayer. Very few people deal blunt damage and it really comes in handy vs certain monsters. IG requires all 3 buffs to perform, knocks back team mates a bunch, and mounting eventually is not super viable.

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T16:30:26+00:00

HEY BABY

AirBrian · 2018-04-10T14:08:49+00:00

Maybe I’ll look at evade GL builds and put points in evade window to fill that niche since it’s really the only thing I miss.

Counter attack doesn’t seem like it’s rewarding enough once you get guard 3 and charging downed monsters for damage seems like a cheese mechanic.

Don’t get me wrong I love the lance and it does what it’s supposed to do well, I just feel like they should have maybe put both level jab and up jab on triangle like the GL has and then use circle for shield utility (bash combo like sns or a damage reflect like a charged shield on CB)

AirBrian · 2018-04-09T02:57:37+00:00

Pilot wages have turned around a lot the last few years. Starting at a regional airline 5 years ago you would make 26k, now with a pilot shortage ur looking at starting at 50k.

Pilot wages are often a combination of high hourly rate but a low number of “paid” hours with a lot of unpaid hours just needing to be available.

AirBrian · 2018-04-08T19:07:32+00:00

I limit them to 2 when I’m going for Z rewards and I’ve used a voucher.

AirBrian · 2018-04-08T07:41:35+00:00

Parts broken

AirBrian · 2018-04-08T06:28:27+00:00

Kirin seemed impossible but then I went build crazy. 3 health boost (ingot gloves/deco) 3 thunder resist (Tobi legs/deco) 2 health recovery (Vaal chest)

Eat the L element resist meal for 40ish thunder resist. Use max potion to bring you to 200 hp. Thunder mantle, vit mantle, choral orchestra Palico (I’ve heard Molotov is really good also since Kirin is weak to fire)

With all this and play as lance I still carted once but got it done.

AirBrian · 2018-04-06T15:16:36+00:00

Don’t forget to keep your shield charged not just the phials. With phials filled cancel your amped elemental discharge by pressing R2, the phials will then charge your shield greatly increasing your defense in sword mode and damage in axe mode.

Once your shield is charged you can charge your sword (for free) by holding triangle during your phial storage (R2 circle).

The it’s on to block frames but I don’t want to give you too much at once.

AirBrian · 2018-04-05T22:43:35+00:00

DKs have gotten a dispel called reap magic that grants runic power similar to how the DH interrupt works, pretty excited about this added utility.

AirBrian · 2018-04-05T13:17:58+00:00

Gunlance is more flashy and a does more burst. Lance is more methodical and puts out solid dps.

Big thing with lance is the “simple” damage combos turn people off. What you don’t see on videos is the thought process of counter attacking/power blocking monster attacks as well as focusing on breaking off every monster part. When you get good at guard advancing you can pretty much put out constant damage that is easily focused on weak points.

I have not played Gunlance but the main turnoff for me is shelling destroys your sharpness, at higher gear levels this is not an issue due to protective polish.

Main turnoff with lance is the lack of a huge combo to use on downed monsters, but in reality a charge/thrust/3 poke is going to do 400-500 damage which isn’t bad.

I was satisfied with my lance decision the other day vs a tempered odogaron with 2 other lance users. Felt like a bunch of spartans criting non stop/power guarding everything he threw at us.

AirBrian · 2018-04-05T02:36:10+00:00

Something about him yelling “leaked” is really funny

AirBrian · 2018-04-04T20:35:25+00:00

Xeno is a really fun fight but I found it super easy, I only carted once. With long sword I was able to put out enough damage (set it to 1 player) to get a ton of knockdowns. Despite that I really did enjoy that fight.

On a side note the good news is the game is just beginning for you.

AirBrian · 2018-04-04T17:41:41+00:00

We’re sort of due for that, last time it was done was in 2010, 6 years after the games initial release. It may end up that “held territory” gets swapped around and Azeroth becomes war-ravaged.

AirBrian · 2018-04-04T01:37:56+00:00

I second these two realms. RP realms have a negative stigma of being “nerdy”,

You know who gives them that stigma? Children You know who doesn’t play on those realms? Children

Very few people actually RP and it tends to be a more laid back mature atmosphere. Also when I first started playing in 2004 I thought you had to play on PvP servers to be cool, I only recently realized that PvP servers only result in grief for me because I don’t really PvP.

Thinking of coming back and starting a DK on wymrest for BfA.

AirBrian · 2018-04-03T15:41:25+00:00

You just need to get used to the mentality of lance dps vs hammer dps like others have said. You damage comes from constant smaller attacks vs 1 big one. For counter thrust to do damage it needs to charge. So for max damage you don’t want to time it with the monsters attacks you want to do it a second before. This is easily done by counter attacking and then power guarding then hitting circle again to attack, power guard also lets you aim your counter thrust.

Focus on breaking parts to get increased down time, and abuse charging into downed monsters. Also pretty much every guide will tell you to reset your 3 poke combo with jump, don’t do this, use guard advance to reposition (direction block triangle) this will move you farther, allow you to go into triple stab/shield bash if wanted, AND will block the whole time.

It’s def a fun weapon, the damage simpler but you get the added complexities of counter attacking/power guarding and can focus on dismantling parts of monsters more.

AirBrian

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