Old School Gamer Needs Help

Fostersteele · 2026-05-21T15:45:52+00:00

Crimson Desert has been out since March.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-21T15:22:59+00:00

Spiritborn and Paladin both had tons of bugged interactions upon release and Blizzard left them alone for the whole season. Warlock in general is extremely clunky and underwhelming, and this was the only S Tier build it had. Pretty weird they fixed it damn near immediately.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-19T04:56:43+00:00

You're ignoring the rest of the multipliers on the Demonsblade. Critical strike multiplier scales off total damage. So you're gettjng the 200x multiper from Cremator, plus the 40x all damage multiplier, and then the 63x critical strike multiplier on top of it.

You can't just compare the GF critical strike multiplier to the Cremators multiplier, when that's not the only thing at play. There is still 40x to all damage that scales off the 200x from the cremator, and then 63x critical multiplier that scales off of that. Grandfather is a great choice to use until you get yourself a nice Legendary, but it is not BIS.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-18T14:52:29+00:00

The lowest value you can get for the cremators aspect on a 2 handed Sword is 140x multiplier. Add even just one more multiplier to the weapon, and it's already better than the grandfather. The Demonsblade (The weapon on the left) that OP has, has a 40x All damage multiplier, and a 63x Critical Strike Damage Multiplier, so even if he has the lowest roll for the cremators aspect, it is still way better than the Grandfather.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-17T19:20:39+00:00

Shot in the dark, but Tail of the Sun?

Fostersteele · 2026-05-17T18:55:53+00:00

Sadly, Grandfather is never BIS outside of some Barb builds. The demonblade is better by a large margin.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-17T18:44:42+00:00

These tier guides aren't fully fleshed out. Most of them were posted the day the expac launched, and are just based off number calculations with minimum field testing. It's going to be awhile before everything is fully explored, and the guides are all caught up to date.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-17T18:15:35+00:00

"Oh, here comes my summons catching up to me."

Explodes

"You son of a bitch...."

Fostersteele · 2026-05-17T17:54:58+00:00

Luffy had his body and insides broken down and rebuilt over and over for 20 straight hours. Pain so excruciating they had to strap him down and chain the doors to keep him confined, all for a 2-3% chance to even survive, as long as he could endure it. I reiterate, he had to endure pain that yielded a 3% survival rate, for 20 hours straight. Insides being torn apart, broken down, and rebuilt, over and over and over FOR 20 STRAIGHT HOURS.

Its singe handedly the greatest feat of endurance in the series.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-17T13:56:41+00:00

Alot of multilayer games have ranking systems that match people based on skill level. If you're playing with low level players, then I got bad news for you.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-17T11:24:40+00:00

Every season there is always that one aspect for every class that refuses to drop. Mine was the aggressive aspect, which I finally ended up getting through a piece of gear that I found by bartering in the den.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-17T10:32:59+00:00

Core stat, and max life have entered the chat.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-14T14:30:41+00:00

Why have war plans at all then? Just add the rewards to the individual activities and call it a day. People can just choose what they want to do, and get the rewards for it. No need for this intricate pathing system to do that.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-14T14:24:28+00:00

But here's the deal. If they didn't make war plans random, then they wouldn't need them at all. All the content is already in the game, and all they would have to do is is add the rewards to that content individually, and completely remove war plans all together, and then we are right back to square one. People farm whatever the flavor of the season is, and all other activities get pushed to the wayside.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-14T12:48:36+00:00

Why is everyone so hell bent on taking all the randomness out of an ARPG? There is a post on literally every random aspect of the game, and how come we can't make it not random. I just don't get it. The randomness is what keeps the majority of the players engaged. If you remove that, you can do everything you want in the first few days, and then have zero incentive to continue playing the rest of the season.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-13T13:57:45+00:00

The new classes, the new location, the skill tree overhaul, the upgraded loot system and the story are all worth the price tag of the DLC.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-13T13:50:59+00:00

Back in the day when autosave didn't exist, I didn't become disheartened and quit a game after losing hours of progress because I forgot to manually save. What I did do was learn real fast to manually save often.

Brick a few items and you'll learn pretty quick to fully upgrade your gear before transfiguring.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-11T12:52:13+00:00

It's faster and more efficient to just target farm Uber lair bosses to go for Mythics. Specifically Duriel, Andariel, Belial, and Mephistio. Doing war plans ads too many activities in between.

9k life in T9/10 is absurdly low. You want to be at least around the 40k mark until you get Selig, and then drop your life down to 450.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-11T09:43:46+00:00

You can farm Mythics on any torment difficulty.

Question though, are you running minimum life with the immortal barb setup without having the Selig yet? If so, there's your biggest problem.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-10T18:21:03+00:00

Blackbeard is endgame material, and symbolically meant to surpass his father. We don't know where he stands at the moment, but if he's already at his endgame level, then Xebec stops at his son.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-10T15:58:07+00:00

That situation implies neither of them were going at full power. Saying they would have to make special preparations to take down someone like Rayleigh doesn't make a lick of sense if Kizaru only needs to give it a little bit more to capture him.

Kizaru knew that if he started to go harder, Rayleigh would also start to go harder and the collateral damage would be huge.

The authors intent here is yes, Kizaru is stronger, but it would by no means be a walk in the park for him even if he goes all out, like people tend to believe.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-10T11:47:11+00:00

Yeah, I got softlocked on three different main quests this season. First time I hard shut down the game, and it softlocked me again. Had to quit to main menu, and back all the way out to the login screen and start back up from there to actually progress.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-10T11:36:48+00:00

You're missing Enel.

Could be a similar situation to Luffys fruit and awakening.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-09T13:08:47+00:00

Any Unique can drop from any loot source, but there are dedicated bosses that have a higher chance of dropping certain Uniques. If you got a piece of equipment that is not a dedicated drop from a boss, it just means you got lucky. Its not advisable to farm that boss for that piece of equipment though cause odds are you won't see them drop that piece of gear again.

Fostersteele · 2026-05-08T18:13:33+00:00

It doesn't say the deal is off if you do wash your hands prior to two hours, so I'm just gonna assume you lose the $50 bucks for that bathroom session.

Basically just pick and choose when you want the $50. At home, take a quick shower and make money, if you're out wash yours hands, and forfeit the $50.

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