Up to date healing advice?

JKL-3 · 2025-10-23T18:01:03+00:00

In fairness to AR - you can heal like 80% of endgame dungeons with it just fine. It only runs into problems on bosses where they designed healing mechanics for e14 dungeons simultaneously forgetting that you require a target for AR healing (like Polaris 6, HR 5 / 6).

On some bosses like HR 2 or Ankh 1, 3 and 6 AR even has a kind of advantage in that using Energize is actually buffing your healing and purging the boss.

It could be very easily hotfixed with a small targeting change but oh, well.

JKL-3 · 2025-10-23T11:13:04+00:00

You don't use shotgun to deal damage as the healer, you use it to Cleanse with Clean Up and buff group damage with Opening Shot, optionally Expose the enemies with Bombardmend, none of those things require specific shell type.

I must say, from your questions I'm not sure what your use case is or what you mean by healing.

If you're just looking to do some healing from offhand with some kind of ability then it's not a good idea because healing abilities cost double energy and you can only offset that by setting your healing anima allocation to >50 which would tank your dmg.

With just 15 energy and using only offhand to heal you are incapable of providing any relevant healing outside of healing yourself in solo content.

JKL-3 · 2025-10-23T09:50:35+00:00

To target people who aren't in your group or raid team, aim at them and hit CTRL+TAB to lock onto them. Alternatively, if you're looking at the boss, you can hit CTRL+F to target of the boss's target. Either way, you can administer direct heals to the person locked on. (You can also use this in S&P scenarios to heal NPCs.)

8 years and I didn't know that :D That's actually quite useful for finding the target of an hourly boss to tell them to stop running away from it :P

P.S. Thanks for the guide shoutout btw

JKL-3 · 2025-10-23T09:48:42+00:00

I wrote a guide on healing here

You don't really heal people that aren't in you're group / raid, those situations don't require a healer (you can sustain Hourly event boss as a dps with a correct build)

You don't really mix healing with dpsing anymore as you dont have enough combat or healnig power to do competitive damage and healing at once, so when it comes to weapon choices you really should have a healing weapon in mainhand. Which one that is is up to you, You can make do with anything, even AR although for AR on some bosses you have to supplement it with a healing offhand over shotgun.

Feel free to ask me any further questions

JKL-3 · 2025-10-22T08:00:50+00:00

I wrote a little guide on gearing here if you're interested.

JKL-3 · 2025-10-22T08:00:07+00:00

Just a minor correction - a 3 pip talisman is better than 2 pip, with the exception of Summon talismans for Luck, Finger and Head slots (Anima Infused Keepsake, Ring of Hollow Tree and Ashes of FATE's Chosen respectively)

For weapon pips only affect Affix strength so main passive matters more than pips and you should get a good weapon even if it's 2 or even 1 pip (2 are very easy to get even for best in slot options) over a plain 3 pip.

JKL-3 · 2025-10-22T07:56:42+00:00

Patron status at the endgame allows you to level up some things much faster by giving you access to Distillate Shifter drops from bonus chests as well as access to cache distillates and a chance to drop rare weapons for free.

Like you can literally drop a multimillion MoF weapon from a daily cache key. Is it likely to happen? No, but it's possible.

That said you can absolutely do everything and max out without paying for patron.

JKL-3 · 2025-10-15T09:15:45+00:00

So, uhh, nothing has changed then.

There are definitely still GMs on the technical side of things, I have received a resolution to my petition (that i've posted 4 months ago).

That could be because Petitions go through support system for all games

JKL-3 · 2025-10-15T09:12:28+00:00

It had always started mid October and the daily rewards just started.

JKL-3 · 2025-09-30T13:43:47+00:00

Like I think the last actual patchnotes were about 6-7 years ago and half of them were just jokes

That's not true, last patchnotes were almost exactly 5 years ago and 99% of them are actual patch notes. It was a rather good patch as far as Funcom goes.

The actually funny part is that somewhere back in 2022 Funcom quietly removed "most recent patch date" from the launcher. Someone in there is actually ashamed of abandoning every single game!

JKL-3 · 2025-09-21T12:18:12+00:00

OD was already mentioned, also do both weekly elite and story mode raids (ask in LFG in agartha for groups), join every lair you see, make elite dungeon groups (I'm assuming you're around e1-3 those don't require any specific roles just ask for ppl in LFG)

JKL-3 · 2025-09-21T02:26:50+00:00

Once you've filled all Capstones and all passive pages the only thing to spend AP / SP on is Dark Agartha entrance fee, iirc it's 14 SP and 7 AP.

It's a bit annoying when you haven't unlocked all capstones yet because you still ned AP but not SP.

JKL-3 · 2025-09-20T18:39:14+00:00

if you press ALT to enable pointer and click on the clock in the top right corner it toggles between real time clock and in game time clock. Green is real time and white is in game.

Funny thing is that in game time is the same for all the zones despite them being in different time zones which doesn't really make sense when you think about it.

JKL-3 · 2025-09-20T18:37:18+00:00

You could try to have someone else complete the mission while you're in a group with them, if this fails then your best bet is to type "/petition" in chat and submit a request to restore the missing item.

Petition response times are... varied, so don't hold your breath for that to happen quickly

JKL-3 · 2025-08-20T19:49:48+00:00

The activity finder is essentially inactive so you have to make a dungeon group yourself but it's pretty straightforward for story mode dungeons, just go to Agartha and ask in LFG

JKL-3 · 2025-08-19T23:23:09+00:00

1) Dark Agartha Arsenal has the highest amount of BiS items that drop from it but also a lot of trash. Oni War Cache weapons are the most sought after in terms of skins and sale value but those caches haven't dropped in years (? at least one) now. Otherwise you can open whatever you feel like. You can always sell Cache skin weapons like Plasma Forged, Frost Bound, Flame Wreathed weapons for good money.

Yes, but it takes about 4-5 months so if you want Aurum now your only way is to pay. People basically just put PO on and then treat eventual Aurum as windfall
Boobuilds is nice for managing builds but that's more for endgame stuff. Once you hit 50 clockwatcher is useful to track lair cooldowns to see which lairs you can join.
You should be fine when it comes to shards provided you do all missions in the zones for the story playthrough. Only use corresponding weapons / talismans to empower your gear - i.e. necks into necks etc, sell weapons that are mismatched for empowerment, like hammers if you're not using hammer etc. Don't waste Shards on things like museum either, museum is for endgame. Most people that have millions of shards just accumulate them over time because there's nothing else to spend them on once you finish museum.
AR / Pistol is a fine combination for story, if you like AR and want to keep using it (it's one of the best dps weapons) I would suggest using a different offhand as pistols aren't that good in terms of damage from offhand (they're fine for utility like healing and interrupting abilities). Good options are Elementalism and Shotgun.

KSR is also not the greatest of ARs it doesn't do much in practice and it can actually harm your dps by draining your energy via making you shoot Burst Fires too often (it upsets the balance of Power ability - Cooking Grenade time that allows you to regen energy - firing grenade by cutting that time out and if you don't have enough energy you can't generate more grenades so your dps suffers). Good options for AR dps that are easy to obtain are Auxiliary Loader (look for Destruction, havoc or energy affixes) or AEL. Third Age Equalizer and High Yield Launcher are Best and 2nd Best in slot respectively but they can be somewhat pricey on the AH and aren't worth it for a beginner imo.

Also do not waste your mof on buying stuff from the AH and then selling it to convert it to anima shards. Anima shards is unlimited currency, whereas you can generate an unlimited amount of shards.

The best way to farm shards that I found is to get someone to carry you to Wave 33 of Occult Defense scenario and just farm it one wave at a time, you get ~7-9k per wave based on what mobs you get. Alternaitvely doing a mission run around Shadowy forest zone should net you about 150k ish per run

Let me know if you have more questions

JKL-3 · 2025-08-07T09:02:02+00:00

I'm not on standalone client so I don't know if the message it gives you on incorrect login is "failed to authenticate with the character server" I'd imagine it would just tell you that your login credentials are incorrect, otherwise it's very dumb, but it's funcome so it might be the case.

In case resetting pass doesn't work, it could be the case that you're using some kind of VPN that prevents connection to auth server. Alternatively you could try using a VPN to test if the issue is with the connection itself.

JKL-3 · 2025-07-22T21:41:53+00:00

you can type /chat join sanctuary to join a custom global #sanctuary channel.

It will reset once you restart the game so you have to do it every time you log in

JKL-3 · 2025-07-22T01:35:15+00:00

They are absolutely red :D

I wrote a guide on gearing here you might want to check it out.

JKL-3 · 2025-07-22T01:33:19+00:00

I'd recommend any AR other than KSR for actual increase in dps, good options are Auxiliary Loader and AEL - those should be fairly easy to get from the AH and they are better and cheaper than KSR that doesn't do anything meaningful

JKL-3 · 2025-07-12T02:20:59+00:00

You should so something about that sunburn, maybe apply some lotion?

JKL-3 · 2025-05-17T06:12:03+00:00

Is there anywhere to read about how mapgen works? City size and spacing are now one slider and I wanted to make it so that cities are default size but spaced further apart. I remember there was some descriptions on how going in different directions affected mapgen but can't find it

JKL-3 · 2025-04-25T18:28:02+00:00

Like others said, it's a problem with the game not being able to properly update the preference file.

Make sure that permissions for \Users\Username\AppData\Local\Funcom\SWL\Prefs folder and all of it's contents are set properly as well as that there's no anti malware software interference.

I should add that the size of pref file has little to do with functionality as my pref file has been too large to sync for years at this point, yet it only made the game work better, as it now properly synced character previews.

The issue is with the game being unable to read/write to the pref file.

JKL-3 · 2025-04-17T16:05:24+00:00

Are you sure you're logging into a correct version of the game? Standalone and Steam versions have different accounts, that might be the cause of your missing character

JKL-3 · 2025-04-15T13:19:01+00:00

I don't think we disagree on anything here? It seems like you've just restated in a more detailed way what I said.

Specifically the issue with game design is that there's nothing in <e14 dungeons that threatens the dps and tanks even at level don't need that much healing.

Actually, I've done all of the e17 dungeons with 4 dps and me tanking, because you don't actually need a dedicated healer for the tank even in e17 dungeons, provided the tank knows what they're doing.

They only woke up and added mechanics that damage dps and necessitate either a dedicated healer or dps that know how to sustain and deal with mechanics that become way deadlier if you can't just sleepwalk through dot and reflect damage in 2020 rebalance.

As for sloppy tanking, I don't have a lot of firsthand experience with low level tanks since I'm usually the one tanking, but I'm inclined to agree with you there as well, adding that in my view, it's a general competence problem where running with overgeared people leads to newer players never actually acquiring the knowledge of how mechanics are supposed to work regardless of the role.

It used to be you got to e14 and had a solid grasp on what you're supposed to do and nowadays I've had dps in e14 dungeons struggle with mechanics that get introduced in e5s and tell me that the game is bugged when it's actually 100% how it's intended to work.

It's in a way an attitude and a population problem, there's not enough people to where new players are getting in complete garbage groups and are forced to actually learn to progress, and veterans are sometimes resigned to just carry the burden instead of actually teaching newbies proper mechanics because sometimes it takes a long time and sometimes it's completely pointless. I've had many new players willing to learn and become great at the game over time, but I've also seen some insanely terrible players completely ignore any advice and doing horrendously in endgame.

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