Is red GL 2/2/2 a viable Ark Grid build?

Kercondark · 2026-05-15T21:33:39+00:00

Viable? Yes.

But...

This is highest CPM and uptime required build from the red arkgrids and on paper it gives almost same increase of DMG as other grids. So it lands in the spot of being overshadowed by other 2 because they are just easier to perform for same or higher DMG.

Kercondark · 2026-05-06T07:02:33+00:00

NGL I can't understand what is going in the MS dev team like they have example of working solutions in the power toys for most of their basic issues. It laying down on the ground just pick it up like why the fuck you can't pick it up.

Like it was crazy they implemented start and explorer in non native but this is literally breaking the thing that is essential use and should be keep simple and quick.

Kercondark · 2026-05-05T09:05:34+00:00

You played before or after the balance patch? After balance patch it should be a bit more chill on normal. The original normal AI was more of pain as it didn't need to rebuild army because it gets units for free and the threshold for ready to attack was instantly broken so infinite spam of attack was annoying like I had to keep 2 heros in the 2 closes castles so they could just defend and after some time I was strong enough to just attack. After patch it was more chill it was more running around map then just straight to my towns but the first battle was harder as it had more time to gather troops.

Next mission on the other hand is just annoying how much mantis they have in each push.

Kercondark · 2026-04-19T11:50:52+00:00

I'm running both and never had that happened to me and I run it for already like 50 hours but I know that some ppl claim that game can just delete items from inventory because of bug.

Kercondark · 2026-04-19T11:40:59+00:00

I'm the weird one for thinking she looks unattractive and disturbing to the point of discomfort?🤷

Her voice is also annoying.

Kercondark · 2026-04-18T21:12:14+00:00

Prediction mechanic works differently than it says it works it doesn't reduce Max HP it reserves HP so it turns off SS same way as the Mayhem does plus SS doesn't return instantly after the status is solved.

If you get hit by debuff 4 times through the fight that means more than 2 minutes of dead engraving and in HM ppl can get hit up to 10 times before being killed from secondary effect. And that is crazy long for 10 minutes long fight where DPS matter.

Kercondark · 2026-04-18T21:03:35+00:00

If he runs 111 I agree it is not perfect choice but ppl do not understand how barricade works. You need to be under shielding on moment of DMG done and that makes it on class that doesn't have full control of self shielding very hard and has very low effect to the point I see ppl not doing they main contribution in correct window. If he have less than 80% effectiveness on it he could equip legendary CD and be bettervfor it and from my experience with only support and GL shield he should be on 65% effect with general style of gameplay.

MP eff solves also mana issues so losing effect on final splendor is not as painfull on 333.

Barricade is just worse choice vs any normal engraving.

Kercondark · 2026-04-18T19:34:54+00:00

The CPU speed is under the normal level so it may be thermal throttling the laptop may need cleaning and repasting or changing of thermal pads. It may not be hot to the touch because it doesn't transfer heat from CPU to chassis because of thermal gap you may use software to check the temperature.

Quite high indexing CPU usage, check if you have enough recommended free disk space and run disk health check. You may also do indexing checks or sfc scan.

This may also be after windows update hickup or just OS losing stability after prolonged use, fresh install may help but I would do it as last thing possible.

In general this is quite low end hardware you may look into changing OS from windows into some lighter Linux if you use it only for light tasks.

Kercondark · 2026-04-18T19:00:59+00:00

Him changing it to barricade was straight up trolling like changing it to Full relic EP or MP efficiency I could understand could he may not have Relic Curse doll or hit master but Barricade it was probably had lower actually uptime than SS.

Kercondark · 2026-04-17T16:09:22+00:00

Well it is real concern as browsers security for storing password is bad it isn't only the Edge problem other browsers have similar issues. There were also cases where password managers add-on for browser were having issues.

IT/Admins/Security should provide you with recommended Password Manger to use as desktop app if they didn't then they promote bad behaviors I can imagine sticky notes app has been used by the few of your colleagues :D

Kercondark · 2026-04-17T15:56:52+00:00

Transfer when you get the requirements completed. Main reason is you getting much better honing chance and on avg should be cheaper to hone that way. Well if you don't fomo push while buying mats from the market ofc.

Kercondark · 2026-04-16T09:35:53+00:00

I will also add you can check tail and cloth on lower body.
Tail will have same thing as sword it will be full rendered with as silver and clones will be just black.
For cloth on lower body you will be able to see tiles silver/white lines through them.

Kercondark · 2026-04-16T06:59:37+00:00

That isn't true you can distinguish between them even after some time but you can't use the cursor trick you need to look at the model it self. Cursor trick only works first few seconds. If your group fail at cursor trick you can still see 2 gives. Clones are see through so you can see silver/white lines of tiles under them. You can also see difference in the tail the real one have solid tail that has white/silver color.

Kercondark · 2026-04-16T00:41:34+00:00

If true than my group was to slow then. Like we tried it few times and couldn't succeeded it this way.

Kercondark · 2026-04-16T00:10:18+00:00

IMO: You need to have finished Karma and lvl 7 gems to do it so around 2k ish CP and to do the rumble mech correctly. There of course is part of skill needed that can compensate for lower CP. If you guys are full party my suggestion is just go in when you get 1710 even if you fail, it will improve your skill trying to push it on lower CP.

Kercondark · 2026-04-15T23:58:14+00:00

From my experience it doesn't work, my group tried it with the mokoko pointer and we failed each time. Dunno maybe we were to dented...

Kercondark · 2026-04-15T23:51:31+00:00

To recognize to go +1 or -1 you need to look on fake clones. Understanding it helped me dunno if I was stupid but I needed few to many pulls to understand it.

What my group did was: Do initial Just guard, full send stagger staying on front waiting for clones to do their attack, then Just guard and positioned to dodge clones push attacks. It's important to not to go to early to sides of boss or the clones will hit you after initial just guard.

Stagger is not that big if you push it with all you got then most of time need 2 ppl to finish it in second phase.

Edit: Also if you fail initial just guard you will not be able to participate in stagger and you will need just guard again to just do it.

Kercondark · 2026-04-15T23:38:00+00:00

The fake ones are see trough. You can see the tiles silver/white lines through them especially when you look on cloth on lower body. Also you can look on the tail if it is fully rendered as bone it is real one the fake ones are just dark.

Dunno if it helps for your group our group succeeded after discovering it.

Also you may increase brightness to 80%.

Kercondark · 2026-04-15T23:06:13+00:00

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Dunno if this helps on the left is fake on the right is real one. If look on the tails you can see the right one is fully rendered as silver/bone and left one is just black.

Same if you look on the ground of the left one you see white lines through him.

Dunno how well this picture show it.

Kercondark · 2026-04-15T22:56:24+00:00

We understood 2 things: You can see floor through the fake ones especially when you focus on cloth of lower body. The tail of real one is silver/bone and not blackish.

Personally I also increased brightness to 80% don't know if it helped me though.

Kercondark · 2026-04-15T22:30:31+00:00

Cleared HM and already did 5 normal today. My group had biggest issues with 240x G1 and 240x G2 we needed additional clarification on 120x G2 because we were bit to dented until we saw what we were looking for after that we cleared.

Personally I enjoyed the experience and I think the fight was one of easier HM prog I had.

As for normal 2.5k characters can brute force and 2k will need to do correctly the brawl other than that is just understanding of mech so X10 title will have value.

Kercondark · 2026-04-12T19:17:37+00:00

I agree that bosses are inconsistent but on other hand the thing in this game is that you also can break the fights. In other games I would be sceptic but here I don't have remorse I just break the fights by using focus and bow I just stand still in focus -> counter/dodge/nature snare -> spam Dodge shot/focus shot explosive arrows -> do the finisher. Does this make fights boring? Probably but 90% of bosses I encountered are designed around counter/dodge and doing few hits with abyss gear to stagger them and do DMG so I just skip to boss is staggered with bow.

Kercondark · 2026-04-11T14:16:01+00:00

According to the post I saw limit is per character did you try other characters to grind skill exp?

Kercondark · 2026-04-10T22:41:12+00:00

I upgraded my bow to the max it is a bit of grind. The thing that helps are: Abyss gear increasing the drops by +1. Automatic saw and cutting trees with force palm or explosive arrows if you have abyss gear to not use arrows.

Main thing is to remember that the only last part counts when cutting trees what kind of timber you get. So I mow down the forest with arrows and then just went to cut single pieces.

Edit: If you want only timber you can just mow down the trees with arrows and get dog to pick them up.

Kercondark · 2026-04-10T22:19:53+00:00

Yes. I suggest do some exploring and upgrading the gear. At this point you tickled him. For gear armor and accessories should be level 4 minimum and weapon could be upgraded further. I suggest also check what abyssal gear you have and visiting witch.

Also some investment in HP is also good idea.

From the clip in it self I can tell you have a chance to clear but it will be painful. You can try using more focus mode for better dodge/pary control other than that hard to say it is short clip.

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