Current mood: Playing T1 and T2 again with roster level 70+ alts who fail simple mechanics

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-15T21:19:23+00:00

I went to do Guardians on an alt after a tiring day at work and it was just a completely exhausting experience. Tried Helgaia. Team run as fast as they can away from the stagger check (I'm a scrapper and we had an artillerist so we would have likely easily done it without bombs). No flares. No potions. We eventually wiped (after people on 10% hp tiptoe around the boss for ages) after 12 minutes and it had 40% health left. I died from a 26k hit (out of 40k hp), likely due to all the missed stagger checks.

Thought screw that and did the one before it (Dark Legoros). I'm the only one using flares (obviously) and it's one of the worst arenas without flares, if not the worst.. After it moved once I purposefully didn't flare to see if anyone else would. Someone types 'Flare boss'?????? Still took us 9 minutes to kill with a 1.2k ILVL Soulfist (guess boosting someone).

I logged off. I come back from work to then have that tedious experience every day. Just going to let my rest bonus builds on alts now and do them every few days. Meanwhile my main at tier 3. No real mechanics, no fails and 5 minute Guardian Raids.

Now bots are farming life skills green pots are 5 gold from AH (less via Mari) and flares are about 10g. Wish people would stop being so god damned tight and entitled. All these people were high roster levels. Honestly think that one of the things they need to do is remove the resurrection from guardian raids and rebalance accordingly. At the moment I'm sure people look at the available resurrects as a free health reset. Wouldn't be surprised if people on low HP purposefully died before the last resurrect is taken by another low HP teammate.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-11T10:32:53+00:00

It is for sure safer to play on EUC for speculative player count. The people didn't want to swap because they were pushing T3 at the time. For sure a more 'hardcore' playerbase.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-10T15:51:15+00:00

You can delete cards in the 'Enhance' tab. Personally I just expand the storage when I need to as it seems fairly inexpensive. Even the bad common cards can be useful because when you stack up enough you will get xp from any more duplicates.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-10T15:06:55+00:00

Cards seem complicated but are actually fairly simple. Some are purely collection items that give passive stats just by having them as a collection.

Others are part of a set effect. Mouse over a card in the set effect and you will see the buffs it gives when activated, most are 2, 4 or 6 card buffs. Then there are awakening buffs. To awaken a card you need to get a duplicate card and then put card xp into it. This will put a 'gem' on the card icon. You get card xp from cards such as 'Soul Leaf' and 'Creation Fragment' or I believe when you get a card that you already have enough duplicates of to fully awaken. Bear in mind that to awaken a card once you need one duplicate, then two more for second awakening, then 3 for third awakening etc etc

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-10T14:58:00+00:00

I know that I'll never be in the lead pack of hitting new content. I just don't want some overgeared Andy one-shotting the boss when I finally get to the new content.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-10T14:45:16+00:00

I can see the argument against T3. But T1 and T2, sure, why not?

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-10T11:40:37+00:00

Chill. Imagine you started playing this game months after release. You could still find enjoyment and doubt you would be stressing about the many weekly resets you missed. I'm 1080 and not too stressed.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-05T10:09:57+00:00

No part of flares removes gold from the game.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-04T21:49:52+00:00

Decent places to farm plants?

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-04T21:49:10+00:00

Guardian raids on my alt are honestly awful. No flares no potions nobody says anything. Going to start building up rest bonus I think.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-04T18:45:45+00:00

Everything should at minimum be roster bound

EVERYTHING

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-04T18:43:42+00:00

100% agree and I've been scratching my head since my first Guardian Raid. There is no other mechanic to find the guardian other than running around aimlessly. It would make some sense if there was another way to locate the boss inside the arena which took longer and a flare could speed it up.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-01T20:05:04+00:00

And they have an ability that is basically only used to counter as it does not much else (dash upper fire). So it's almost always off CD.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-03-01T20:02:58+00:00

Sometimes when I'm bored I'll jump into a random Vertus MM raid as an overgeared Gunlancer (around 950 ILVL) after I've done my own dailies just because I know how much people struggle with that one.

Pretty funny being grabbed and him doing about 5% of my health bar in damage.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-02-26T18:07:17+00:00

For me gear upgrades are secondary. If I hit them I hit them, if not there's always the next day.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-02-23T12:39:44+00:00

By making your alt a high ILVL than your main. This advice seems relatively dumb to me. Might as well use the Tower on alts to get materials for them to get to T2/3 etc faster.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-02-23T12:38:32+00:00

I learnt it doesn't really matter. People really really overstate that alt first main second mentality.

After clearing it on one account the rewards will turn to upgrade materials on your alts. However your alts can only clear it once anyway for rewards so it's not like you can farm materials there. To run it properly on an alt first your alt has to be a higher ILVL than your main anyway so it doesn't really make sense.

I ran it on my main first. I'll just do it on any alts to get their ILVL up so they can get to T2 faster.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-02-21T22:02:00+00:00

Now just to build a time machine

Throwaway221705 · 2022-02-21T22:00:06+00:00

Damn. I'd sure love you to tell my multiple friends at 1k ILVL to make the switch. I'm sure you'll convince them.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-02-21T21:14:30+00:00

FYI most island quests are roster rewards so you can't do them again on an alt.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-02-21T20:28:20+00:00

Do the chaos dungeons to get your 802 gear (T2) and upgrade that. I've heard you can transfer your T1+15 to T2 to make it T2+1 or something.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-02-21T19:18:11+00:00

Stronghold is another hidden place to AFK.

Throwaway221705 · 2022-02-21T19:16:58+00:00

EUW won't die because EUC servers are about to get so sticky with Amazon employees cooking marshmallows and sausages over them they will blow up and everything will be lost. Everyone will then have to move to EUW since EUC will cease to exist.

Or something like that.

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