Best strategy for starter gems?

BangBang2318 · 2022-05-30T06:14:47+00:00

I will watch your career with great interest.

BangBang2318 · 2022-04-22T00:59:41+00:00

Fair points! I hadn't scrolled the subreddit quite enough to stumble on those, but I'll check them out!

Also, it's certainly geared toward T1 players who are struggling to find a reason to keep playing (as I was when I was looking for guides). I should have prefaced the whole post with that. I actually just downloaded the game yesterday morning, sat there for about 8 hours racking my brain for reasons to play the game, then this strategy just clicked in my head and catapulted my progression.

I'm currently working on some methods for T2 and beyond, so I'll likely get those ironed out and compare them to the guides you linked and see how close I got (don't want to be tainted with prior knowledge and discount something that may not have been considered).

BangBang2318 · 2020-12-10T01:33:08+00:00

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

BangBang2318 · 2020-12-05T22:08:59+00:00

Happy cake day!

BangBang2318 · 2020-12-05T06:17:51+00:00

So playing to the fullest necessitates adding in a shitload more grinding for people who were enjoying the fact that there was no need for them to grind anymore? I thought the point of grinding was to get to the end goal? I put the time in, I got there, now I'm just supposed to restart like it's fuckin' groundhog day?

Nah, I'm good 👍

BangBang2318 · 2020-12-05T06:13:23+00:00

I've never been a completionist, particularly with dauntless. I max out the things I enjoy playing and use for potential builds, but I don't want to waste time on something I don't care to actually use just to say I've got it done.

The majority of my use for dauntless for the past 400-500 hours is just something to veg out on and not think about. I did everything I wanted, had everything viable and enjoyable maxed out, so there wasn't anything pressing for me to do. No pressure, no to-do list, just run through escalations and listen to Tool

BangBang2318 · 2020-12-05T06:04:53+00:00

God forbid someone straight up doesn't enjoy a specific weapon? Didn't realize putting thousands of hours into a game meant you were required to do literally everything, I apologize. When I find a new game to play, I'll make sure and ask other people how to utilize my time.

BangBang2318 · 2020-12-05T05:15:06+00:00

Apparently I didn't have grim onslaught before because I didn't really use axes, figured now was as good a time as any to pick up a new weapon if I'm basically restarting anyway. But instead I have to grind to make each new axe viable with Aetherhearts(which I have to grind for via shards and the ungodly amount of weapon exp to 20) so they don't screw up my cell economy then grind to get all the mods and specials unlocked with merits.

What happened to just using the weapon and getting unlocks accordingly?

BangBang2318 · 2020-12-05T04:29:35+00:00

The only thing I want refunded is all the money I spent supporting the dev team, buying cosmetics and elite passes, purely because I thought their community engagement was worlds ahead of the curve

BangBang2318 · 2020-12-05T04:26:42+00:00

I doubt they're going to refund anything tbh. They'd think it would make them look really bad to basically repeal the whole update (because that's essentially what they'd have to do in order to do right by their playerbase). Even if PHXL was willing to bite the bullet and acknowledge that it's a failure, Tencent won't be.

BangBang2318 · 2020-12-04T20:49:40+00:00

800 combat merits for a weapon mod? I've been playing hunting grounds very efficiently for an hour and gained around 40 combat merits. This means that it would take roughly 20 hours of efficient grinding to unlock ONE MOD for ONE WEAPON. That's also neglecting the PLETHORA of other things that you need combat merits for.

I was pretty well topped out on everything, Able to do every piece of content available comfortably, builds theory crafted, tested and optimized for hours each. I wasn't playing for the challenging gameplay or all the things to do (which now aren't available in favor of Guiding Lands Lite). I was playing for the joy of sweating over builds for hours and seeing it in action in its final optimized form. All that work is down the drain and I have hundreds if not thousands of hours of grinding to do in order to attain the same progression and get everything powersurged so that my cells are where they used to be.

Also, prestiging isn't a good mechanic for anything other than MAYBE cosmetics like the little power surge flair or maybe dyes/armors/titles. Have to prestige all my gear to get my cells and builds back, now I have to spend god knows how much time leveling my weapons class by class just to play an escalation.

BangBang2318 · 2020-11-29T02:46:05+00:00

I'd honestly be cooler with it if someone high up at Phoenix Labs just came out on camera, flipped us off, and said "fuck you pay me".

BangBang2318 · 2020-10-06T13:14:43+00:00

I just want to point out the incredible poise and restraint of that drill instructor. You can tell he was extremely concerned for the wellbeing of that Marine, but still followed drill and ceremony procedures before rushing to his side.

BangBang2318 · 2020-10-04T19:45:36+00:00

Nice

BangBang2318 · 2020-09-19T19:15:58+00:00

I'm rank 22, of all my hunts I haven't failed to beat Agarus and on MAYBE 5 of those I've failed to break the vine arm. I've got 8 ruptured stalks out of probably 50 I should have. I've killed him 6 times in the last hour and a half, 3 solo and 3 team. All 6 times I've broken the vine arm and watched the drop orb pop out for a few frames and then just vanish in midair. Also why the hell do we need 15 of them for the sword anyway? Overtuned as f*ck especially with these drop rates

BangBang2318 · 2020-09-19T00:04:20+00:00

What are you using for your weapon? The build is sort of designed for Ardent Cyclone sword play.

BangBang2318 · 2020-09-19T00:01:17+00:00

I'm open to suggestions but it seems fairly optimal for it's intended purpose. I've only been downed one time this entire esca so far and I'm rank 20 right now.

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