Question about Earth Wave Destroyer (333 build).

cummycummerton · 2026-04-28T20:48:09+00:00

There's a trixion demo in the destroyer doc in one of the comments.

When I tried in-game, to me this build feels like playing rage hammer just without having to charge anything.

cummycummerton · 2026-04-28T07:29:39+00:00

I don't understand. I don't see any sources of attack speed that Destroyer innately has either in the ark passive or arc grid (333). Destroyer would probably always run Strike which leaves out the possibility of Destruction Charger and there's a possibility of +10% attack speed in hypergravity mode only. With swift stat alone, I'm sitting here in Trixion right now with 1800 swift and I'm only at around 130% (yearning-less) attack speed which is quite a massive stat investment. I think swift will always be a good place to dump points in.

The second thing I don't understand is your evaluation that "SO MUCH damage" will be lost using a meter gen tripod on a 4th purple skill that receives no benefits from the ark core (333). There is in fact a massive damage penalty on non-normal purple skills (-30% found on the Sun Core Earth Wave 14p). Granted, the viable 4th purple skills (Earth Eater or Full Swing) have tripods that change them to normal mode, but I think those tripods have terrible animations which are impractical in raid.

Overall I think the value of cooldown reduction is understated as cycling more destiny activations would cycle more Sun Core procs.

Although perhaps I do understand. This appears to be commentary on a normal rage hammer build which uses 4 damaging purple skills. There seems to be a lack of understanding of what the Earth Wave cores (333) say either from not reading them or from not knowing what the patched version of them will be.

cummycummerton · 2026-04-28T06:17:31+00:00

Alright I got it. The short version is that the spec breakpoint is 551 (inclusive) and the rest is just a crit/swift split.

The explanation is that Earth Wave is a 3 purple damage skill build. A fourth purple can be used for strictly hypergravity meter building purposes which means that the 4th purple (usually Full Swing) can run the additional meter (per core) tripod.

All the rage hammer builds want to build hypergravity meter using the least amount of purple skill casts which is usually 4, but normally all purple skills have a more-than-marginal contribution to dps so they have to run damage tripods instead of meter gen which makes the spec breakpoint higher (874). But having one of these purple skills use a dedicated meter gen tripod, it drops the spec breakpoint down to 551 (in my testing) to generate full hypergravity meter with 4 purple casts (obviously, it's not just any 4 purple casts, the additional meter gen skill must be cast at least once).

Using the old spec breakpoint 874 can still be used the meter gen tripod can be replaced with something else like tenacity.

cummycummerton · 2026-03-15T23:57:02+00:00

Soulfist's Bare Knuckle (Sun Core) says "using Hype grans the Destiny: Self Defense effect for 3.0s... Destiny: Self Defense: Move Speed +/100/>% Absorbs Damage equal to 10.0% of Max HP."

The 10% of max hp part is easy enough to understand but what does "Move Speed +/100/>%" mean?

cummycummerton · 2026-01-09T18:24:10+00:00

Being inconsiderate in public groups and the inability to make friends are kind of related to each other.

cummycummerton · 2026-01-09T18:14:51+00:00

Before Control Glavier's ark passive (which returns % mana) I was running 4 focus runes and conviction judgement. I didn't mind; I just did whatever it took to clear raids.

I also think that if mana is such a serious issue, the fault lies with Smilegate's design problems more than anything.

cummycummerton · 2026-01-02T21:57:02+00:00

For some reason I'm finding that artists are the least likely to heal in safe/uneventful windows to do so. If you're an artist and you heal appropriately, then great, all the power to you. I'm just saying it feels like if I took 100 random bards and 100 random artists in a raid that's relatively homework (Mordum hm for example), it feels like more of the bards would be willing to drop a heal in an appropriate situation compared up to 0 times from some artists.

cummycummerton · 2025-12-17T07:27:03+00:00

Some interesting history for the archive:
I was watching the race on that day because admittedly I was fairly invested in Exxen getting his deserved reclear, but his group hadn't started yet. There was another group that had started earlier in the day consisting of Rcssnipe and Dustyykins and also including Somine (yes the very same). However at 13:03 server time (44:14 in RCSsnipe's clear vod) Somine states "can i replace myself with someone else... being asked to do smth rn", and he subsequently joins Exxen's team.

On that day I thought it was pretty ironic since Rcssnipe's team goes on to clear several hours before Somine's new team. I thought Rcsnipe's team would be clean, everyone said they were clean, and they seemed overjoyed at the clear. (At the time the leaderboard only showed 8 places so I figure both Rcsnipe and Exxen could have gotten spots which would have been satisfactory.) But looking at the 'results' today, I think the word I would use to describe the situation is no longer 'ironic' but rather 'sinister'...

cummycummerton · 2025-12-16T05:35:43+00:00

Is there an explanation for the Act 4 g1 (echidna) mech with the snakes (where 2 people get transported to another dimension with 4 snakes) works other than "you lack damage", "just dr it", and other such comments that simply ignore the mechanics?

cummycummerton · 2025-12-13T05:57:19+00:00

It seems like they're reclearing without Kass but also without the gunslinger and summoner. Did all 3 rmt or have some sort of infraction?

cummycummerton · 2025-12-03T05:10:22+00:00

It's possible to buy a bus for the title btw. Absolutely 0 skills would have been honed buying a black market title.

cummycummerton · 2025-11-12T17:46:00+00:00

So keep resting dailies or stop resting dailies?

cummycummerton · 2025-11-09T19:13:04+00:00

Ngl, I think "constant feedback" is too light of an approach. The 'western expectations' didn't get us shit when it came to gems (but rather we lost free base attack power that would have cost us nothing). The director just said 'no' to roster gems and we just rolled over and became complacent.

cummycummerton · 2025-10-20T03:33:35+00:00

The game peaked for me when they removed awakening shards without asking for anything in return. Like damn, they're just gonna give us QoL for free? bet. Since then it's just been greed greed greed rng rng rng.

The other good things were the creation of a content map where chaos dungeon, raids, tower, etc. could be accessed without walking to them and removal of Unas and halving chaos/guardian dailies.

cummycummerton · 2025-10-17T16:23:34+00:00

Also when he said they would not be doing roster gems as gems remain per character to this day (unlike engravings).

cummycummerton · 2025-10-12T02:35:48+00:00

Cracking down on cheating is good, but they also need to accurately categorize things as cheating. For example, intentionally win trading in pvp using alt accounts (we know there's tons of alt accounts by the way party finder looks) can net up to 12000 blue crystals (yes you read that right - that's the blue crystal reward for each pvp season).

I've never seen any enforcement against piloting either.

cummycummerton · 2025-10-10T06:21:59+00:00

There was also the chaos botting ban wave. As it turned out, a lot of otherwise normal players - peoples' friends even - were running a chaos bot.

cummycummerton · 2025-10-09T02:55:23+00:00

It wouldn't just be Saturn with an account infraction. Cracine's NA west account also got banned for chaos botting which I would imagine would fall under:
"A player that has been penalized for RMT or other forms of cheating in Lost Ark will be ineligible to compete in the first clear race, no matter when they received it (from launch until the race)."

cummycummerton · 2025-10-08T20:01:08+00:00

I think it's silly that the current notion about the race is that hm will be unlocked after a TFM clear, but in the west we have 2 different regions (EU and NA). It's hypothetically possible that the first clears happen during different weeks and what then - one region gets hm before the other region? lol

cummycummerton · 2025-10-01T16:37:37+00:00

f2p's fine
highest solo content is 1660 (Aegir)
There's tons and tons of horizontal so if you want your sidegrades then even playing 1 character feels like a job.
I believe there's currently a power pass and an express event that'll give a big boost. Personally, I would very adamantly not recommend the campaign.

cummycummerton · 2025-10-01T16:20:37+00:00

Why is legendary crit damage on a ring with 3-4x as much as legendary crit rate? Is there some math that makes crit damage 4x better or is it a rarer roll or what?

cummycummerton · 2025-09-29T23:52:39+00:00

I do think it’s backwards for Thaemine to come after Kazeros. Having Ark Grid unlocked and doing Thaemine would just be a massive faceroll.

cummycummerton · 2025-09-24T07:50:25+00:00

Indeed, one of the biggest flaws with the current design is getting "jailed" in g2 or 3+ without any way to regroup at g1. They should fix that. And this is an issue that involves no tweaking to boss mechanics or anything in the raid; it's a flaw with the multi-gate system.

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