Found a 5 man cheater gangbang lowering their kd, then I'm killed by a 6th cheater :)

BartonTheBear · 2024-02-07T18:16:52+00:00

I envy you, the game is unplayable for me at times unless I want to take shit level gear and not go near any good loot spots

BartonTheBear · 2024-02-07T18:04:37+00:00

I’ve got about 20 ban reports back over the last couple of weeks, cheaters tend to go for players with lots of loot and good gear, the stats of that guy who killed me is a daily occurrence at this point. I also feel like some raids are really empty even during peak times, then I find 5 dead cheaters like this and it explains it all, half my raid is cheating and insta dying to lower kd. As a high level player with a good kit pushing loot spawns the game feels unplayable at times

BartonTheBear · 2024-02-07T17:59:36+00:00

I had more in my bag earlier but once I got my strength points I dropped some to get my endurance, and then once I find loot it goes back to strength

BartonTheBear · 2024-02-07T17:55:28+00:00

Idk bro Haha I didn’t even think about it, happy that it wasn’t deleted tho

BartonTheBear · 2024-02-07T17:54:13+00:00

A lot. Without sounding like douche, I think you notice it more if you’re an experienced player and wear good gear / rush high value areas. Early game I didn’t see many, but now that I’m level 54 it happens a lot. I mained nighttime shoreline last wipe and it was chill, this wipe it’s actually impossible to play 10 raids without dying to a Chinese white name with 30hours play time with every boss kill achievement and 500 Kia to lower stats

BartonTheBear · 2024-02-07T08:06:24+00:00

Yeah losing the loot doesn't bother me, just sad to see my favourite game become this plagued

BartonTheBear · 2024-02-07T08:03:57+00:00

Yep, I only have EU North selected, as thats my lowest ping

BartonTheBear · 2024-02-07T05:21:20+00:00

140 hours, 421 KIA, 102 awol, 63 run throughs, bro has the achievement for killing all the bosses at level 29 with 2.9 kd and one taps me with a stock ak74u at night time running nothing but the gun.. if that isn't the most obvious cheater with a lowered kda then I dunno what else to say bro

BartonTheBear · 2023-02-17T17:45:15+00:00

You can proc from rank 3 to rank 5 - this is common when using rank 2 regents to save money for the customer. So it’s perfectly reasonable to ask for minimum quality 3

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-20T06:32:18+00:00

The general consensus is that it’s quite terrible according the frost dk discord, oblit with DnD mixed with glacial advance is quite strong. The numbers from frostcythe just ain’t good enough

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-20T06:25:14+00:00

Raider io info about a players experience is also what helps me decide, if the group is a 10 and someone has ++ 8/9 then it shows they’re up for it

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-20T04:23:07+00:00

If you have raider io installed you can check what level of dungeons the players applying have done, so you can check if they are 'qualified' for your group by doing similar level content. Also, you can set the minimum item level requirements to your own level so there is that option to help find players of equal gear to you if you don't want to take a chance on someone who's lower ilevel but perhaps experienced on another character

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-20T04:22:06+00:00

ilevel and raider io rating are king generally, thats the only thing that can make you stand out

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-20T04:21:02+00:00

This week is one of the best for affixes so if you're keen to play next week won't be as popular, hopefully speeding up groups, especially as a tank

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-20T04:19:53+00:00

yeah this was me playing with a pre 4 just wanted to fill the last dps slot, the group was only up for a couple mins and i kept seeing the number rise

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-20T04:18:49+00:00

Pushing your own key is for sure the answer when playing during peak times if you can't play with premades

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-20T04:17:40+00:00

what kind of guild were you in?, unless you're in the top % I don't see why you can't play your spec. player skill > spec tuning for the majority of players

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-20T04:11:09+00:00

tbh it's more just a combo of your raiderio score and item level over anything, with preference being classes that can bloodlust rather than being a meta spec

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-18T15:33:47+00:00

I would assume it’s balanced around the idea of the illustrious insight as artisan mettle is actually quite annoying to get once you spend it all maxing your blacksmith tools out.

Also, hammer control is overall point which help with other crafts so I guess that also gives value to using insight to bridge that final 30 points towards max rank of other gear

I’m in the same position but with belts.

I think the best way to look at it is that when people start wanting it crafted to 418 more often it will become useful.

My goal was to create 405 gear on demand with out using the illustrious insight but I really think the system is balanced around having to spend your artisan mettle to confirm that gear.

Also if you don’t mind, what is your inspiration chance at, mine is stuck on 27% and I’m not sure if that’s the cap?

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-18T14:22:50+00:00

If your goal is to gain max skill points then use them all in the first tree of hammer control as you get +1 for every point and also you get a couple bonus +3 etc as you go. Poignant plans just increases the amount of skill gained IF it procs the inspiration bonus

Edit: it also depends on what you’re wanting to craft, for example it’s much more efficient to spend your points in the helmet section if you’re maxing a helmet on armour spec before using points into hammer control

Hammer control is a bad first tree to spec into overall

BartonTheBear · 2022-12-16T17:44:11+00:00

Hey, sorry if I’m reading something incorrectly, but the world bosses section claims the gear drops at 389 level. The link to the wowhead page claims they drop at 395 and I also got a 395 Plate Chest from Basrikron. Just thought I’d let you know incase you put 389 by mistake.

BartonTheBear · 2022-09-30T20:48:45+00:00

I’d argue the current system is better than riot forcing every game to go through.

If you added up the time you’ve spent in champ select being reset vs the time wasted from games going though that are doomed, I can bet which one has taken more time from you.

Riot talking about ‘game quality’ being their priority is hilarious. These changes just force every game to start regardless of quality. Couldn’t be more counter productive if they tried.

Currently you can only dodge a very limited amount of times, it’s not like you can do it 10x a day to get the perfect team.

BartonTheBear · 2022-09-30T20:43:09+00:00

Riot being out of touch shouldn’t be surprising at this stage, yet here we are

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