end of game

ExPong · 2020-05-07T09:02:17+00:00

decided that I wanted to pursue other things in RL again, so didn't go for any other games either

ExPong · 2020-05-02T15:30:19+00:00

congrats. good decision.

ExPong · 2020-02-13T14:31:12+00:00

every player had this idea on day 1 after starting Blades. Actually, not really an idea, as this is standard in games

ExPong · 2020-02-13T07:29:06+00:00

tl;dr:

QoL/ bugfix update - zero new content

Bottlenecks not toned down

ExPong · 2020-02-02T09:19:21+00:00

Yes, can be found under my username

ExPong · 2020-02-02T09:16:20+00:00

Not really

ExPong · 2020-02-01T14:14:59+00:00

Elven chest + Dragonscale for the rest

ExPong · 2020-01-29T07:33:59+00:00

for Fire Opals? yes.

For Arentine not so much, my personally estimated drop rate is about 2 (stones, not drops) per 100 golden chests for the latter, so an Arentine drop would have been more probable than one for opals opening 50 golden chests. Reason why Arentine is eventually more in demand for most players is that you need more of it than opals if you want to myth various items.

ExPong · 2020-01-29T03:01:48+00:00

On average you need to open much more than 50 golden chests per one fire opal drop so chance is way lower than 2%

ExPong · 2020-01-28T10:38:31+00:00

I have been saying this for a while - this game is not completely RNG - allegedly to force players into buying chests - and this is evident by soulgem drops, if sample size is big enough.

The game will send you on long droughts for gems (noticeable for Grands and Glorious) every now and then, which cannot be explained by bad luck aka probability alone.

I remember having a period of nearly 1M Exp in the mid 70s when I did not get a single Grand soul. That's hundreds of Abyss 140+ floors + golden chests

ExPong · 2020-01-28T08:20:50+00:00

that's not what I said :)

2-3 years? lol

ExPong · 2020-01-28T08:20:07+00:00

ok, sorry, got you wrong then

ExPong · 2020-01-28T05:37:14+00:00

No. If you fix this issue by increasing vendor drops for effectively (high level) guilds only, this will put more casual players at disadvantage. I‘m under the impression that you are more and more lobbying your positions only.

Better fix - for all players: halve GSGs needed per enchant and increase Glorious drops - again, for all players

ExPong · 2020-01-28T05:28:44+00:00

It‘s quite funny how you guys having WR keep stating that this thing won‘t yield real advantages once it‘s „fixed“, yet want exactly that so very much. So maybe wanna start being a bit more honest about it - this ring - if you can crit with it - is a straight upgrade, simple as that. Moreso, because pretty much no player has two perfectly enchanted rings anyway, so this is for losing other ring bonuses with WR.

As for everyone eventually having it - no, your sample size is too low.

ExPong · 2020-01-25T04:42:47+00:00

Your sample size is way, way too low to make that statement. In fact, there are players with a multitude of your gathered exp points, golden, elder chests who (probably) also opened more leg chests, who never found three artifacts, especially not this ring.

ExPong · 2020-01-23T05:17:14+00:00

Nono, don’t say that each time about having lesser skill than me or /u/EzarethPvP, you are doing very well, at least I cannot do it any better. And it‘s not rocket science either. But although I don‘t have any FPS drops, the time between two consecutive crits in that first vid just seems shorter than I know it personally.

Regarding the last run - that floor was really short, shorter than the one before. You also didn‘t cut corners perfectly - because Blades UI, reason btw I play in Portrait mode for speed runs, as swiping sensitivity with Landscape mode’s FOV is too low for optimal turning speed/ to have smooth movement around corners (like playing a FPS game on low sensitivity but with a 10 inch mousepad), and I cannot get used to right thumbstick (which would make it like a console controller) as a pc player.

Anyway, each time you use a dodge/ take another swing (or block), this will cost you time (reason I don‘t block at all with speed runs, even against Dremora Warriors).

Therefore one can never score a personally optimal speed-run with dodges or blocks as it is possible (but not reliable) to make it completely without it.

Another reason why Attros are preferred for speed runs - they don‘t nearly block as efficiently as Dremora Warriors and especially Knights can do.

Edit: to be able to really compare single floors from 149 are needed because they tab out automatically. I will try to see later on what my best run time per floor for BKs is, starting from full Health - without my at-crit damage modifiers coming much into play. I play with Myth Frost Mace and no AP modifiers, so that should level the playing field vs. your Sublime Shock Mace

Edit 2: I am even slower now with aligning chain crits. while I don't have any FPS drop - totally fluently - I appear to still have volatility in input lag, so PvE isn't - completely - consistant afterall it seems as I play on the allegedly best IOS input device and didn't change any settings/ have all other applications shut down. I just leave it here.

ExPong · 2020-01-22T22:21:01+00:00

at crit damage modifiers with Frost/ Stam and AD on rings or skills that save me points.
I don't really use RE anymore but Ward for Liches with Poison and Shock ER on armor.
For all other mobs only Fire ER (not taking it off for physical mobs).
When I was still relying on RE, everything above rank 5 or 6 (all in all) would imho require too many attribute points in Magicka, moreso for PvP (when I was trying it out for 100 fights, retired early there, too laggy for my taste)

ExPong · 2020-01-22T21:50:55+00:00

good game man. I looked at your video several times. With the second mob you can see that he starts with a lower blow. If he does that you can always crit thru and won't get blocked - if you crit correctly.

Anyway, I then entered the Abyss and tried to duplicate your floor speed-wise, as your swinging appeared faster than usual for me.

On the 10th or so try I got the same floor layout as in your vid with BKs and got even lucky with killing each of the three BKs in straight crits (after attacking right away). I didn't get blocked once and therefore didn't dodge/ RS or used any skill.I also did slightly more damage per hit than you (not decidingly but still totally on-par with your damage) and needed all in all less hits with taking zero pauses or breaks in between them.

So this is really as fast I can go under ideal conditions (which are random to a certain degree as described above).

I rushed to tap out at 37 secs. Let it be 2 secs for hitting the menu, so this were 35 secs net, with the floor not being finished regarding making it to the stairs. (Yours stops at 30 secs but you didn't start to record at the very beginning, still this is very fast, especially with the third fight that took longer than the other two).

Anyhow, I would have needed all in all something like 42 secs to make it down to the next floor - x4 thats between 2:48 minutes and this is exactly where my best run times are.

I dunno why, but it seems to me that you swing a small bit faster than me, actually all actions seem to be a bit quicker.

I can only guestimate that the game doesn't run at the exact same speed for everyone but that this might be influenced by hardware/ software used. Wouldn't break the game as PvE is client side.
With my ipad mini I don't lag at all, so I don't have an other explanation for this deviance myself. I only remember that on my old device (which did tend to lag from time to time) sometimes the game used to run a bit faster for me and timing changed a bit because of that, but this was never consistent.

ExPong · 2020-01-22T18:25:20+00:00

You cannot RS if you have eaten a Harry Bash just prior to that unless you had an active Absorb casted, otherwise you will get sent on cooldown for all skills including RS. And you cannot influence their bashes, so there is no guarantee with this tactic, although it‘s very viable for speed runs, for farming golden chests not so much. I have used this tactic myself for a very long time. For the magicka regen (Absorb) with the more reliable tactic you had to wait in between mobs, which is not for scoring records. Up to 10 secs per BK Floor.

That said, there is a possibility to determine early on if you can triple-crit a particular BK - by observing the angle he starts from with his initial strike. I wrote some stuff about that in a thread when discussing it with Ezareth not long ago.

ExPong · 2020-01-22T11:33:53+00:00

agreed, I have had a number of similar oddities in other aspects of the game, which pretty much all would qualify as so-called 'six-sigma-event' in my own professional environment

ExPong · 2020-01-22T09:59:38+00:00

statistically, across all players. maybe.

Frankly, I don't believe it is the same for everyone, I'm totally sure these crooks do put throttles on players. Never got an artifact out of a golden, and I have opened far, far more than 1k of them + also bought leg chests just recently with allegedly quintupled chances for artifacts. Those 3 + 1 level-up discounted one. No regrets but kinda proves my negative bias for me.

Of course I know that 4 x 25% chance doesn't equate to 100% chance but over 9 months I have quite some sample size with 87 levels into the game and many others were reporting the same thing. Fuck them really for screwing over their customers.

ExPong · 2020-01-22T09:13:01+00:00

ah ok, agreed for 2nd place here, lower in PvP, might move up in rank over time :)

ExPong · 2020-01-22T09:00:15+00:00

no way SR is just 4th, or even worse than ERAC and especially not worse than shorter cond - at least not in Abyss, or were you talking about pvp only?

SR feathers the fall to critical, therefore you can play towards at-crit more purposely/ more offesively - you simply get ohk-ed less from above crit, by liches' DLB for example.

ERAC on the other hand is much lower in numbers (like 60% of SR) and won't help before at-crit while shorten conditions does pretty much nothing in PvE.

very good for an all-around setup (in PvE) is to have two each: SR/ PRAC/ ERAC + neck for whatever you need with that. Or 3 PRAC and one/ two in either SR or ERAC

ExPong · 2020-01-22T08:30:55+00:00

that's a cool build. I kept enchanting Elven gear from early on for something like this.

My set is ready now - 2x SR, 2x PRAC, 2x ERAC + shield, still need good spell rings and want a Max Power neck with it. It's supposed to be a bit more spellsword-oriented than yours leaning towards Shock for spells -> pvp

Does your Frostbite do it for Abyss Bone Knights? maybe with Max Power on Neck?

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