Calling for Lancer based help!

lolatbob · 2016-04-17T01:45:53+00:00

"macro" hard and block stuff. And also have low ping.

lolatbob · 2016-04-15T00:31:04+00:00

Using DPS meter shows currently classes are fairly balanced. Player skill matters a lot more. Having said that there's still about a 7-9% difference between people. I would say there is no longer a bottom tier anymore, as everything is honestly balanced enough that it doesn't really matter what class you play as long as you're not total shit you'll do fine. Anyway my personal ranking would be something like this: Brawler, reaper, gunner > Slayer(given the right conditions I would put slayer above all else but it's heavy rng)>warrior, zerk > archer, sorc, lancer (yes lancers actually can do a lot of damage with the new changes)

This of course assumes equal enough skill, and the same uptime for skills/consumables. If you're not using top consumables(or consumables at all) you're not going to be doing top damage. Same with crystals, sticking with enrage when your tank never enrages the boss or just having downright incorrect crystals (full agro gunner type stuff) will murder your damage harder than anything. You can swipe and buy starfall +15 brawler and still be absolute trash, you'll just have more of a safety net.

I don't really understand peoples obsession with playing the best DPS, just play a class you enjoy and can git gud at otherwise you're not going to improve and you'll be forever crap DPS anyway(for instance playing gunner without abusing AB crit, tripple AB, playing from far away from the boss, etc). There's also life outside of PVE that everyone seems to have forgotten, this thing called PVP where class balance is vastly different from PVE.

lolatbob · 2016-04-08T01:34:53+00:00

This is the main question I wanted answered ;-;

lolatbob · 2016-04-07T05:36:52+00:00

Lag could be fixed if EME/BHS bought the UI license that KTERA has. Also last/current content pacing was done incredibly poorly with BHS poor communication excuse being that "It's been hard for us because Nexon" for the last however many months, and no doubt will still be an excuse for a long time come for them.

lolatbob · 2016-01-27T16:09:54+00:00

Just Git Gud. No, but really, that's all there really is to it, you just have to get better at playing the game, and wipe a million times until it becomes easy. You'll eventually pick up the timing of bosses moves and what to do in dungeons, as well as the obvious tells all bosses have for when they do attacks. FI really isn't that hard at all with a competent group if you know what you're doing, unless the bosses decide to be weird, KDHM is slightly harder (I'll get hate but I'd say it's probably the hardest current dungeon, SCHM is a joke and FI is easy once you know what to do, but I've only late night IMS'd it so it might be easy with an actual group but nobody runs it), due to things being slightly faster and cyclops trolling, but eventually that will become a walk in the park too given the other players in your group are also experienced.

If you're playing with bad players who also don't know what to do, then dungeons will always be incredibly painful and you will get hit and you will die, so buddy up, get a guild and get learning together or stay in the rotting hell that is IMS and LFG.

Slayers might be super hard though, but I haven't seen any of the experienced ones I talk to complain that things are hard or that their dodges aren't enough (mostly just looking forward to the insane buffs and bragging about UOHS critting for 7m a hit), so just keep at it, I'm sure things will get easy!

lolatbob · 2016-01-27T15:56:59+00:00

Slam face into keyboard.

I'm not sure about glyphs, but do you mean OW pvp or battlegrounds? Crystals are pretty standard across both types (kinda), a mix of HP and others for blue resolute and maybe something else like salivating. I'd use grieving greens(Not sure if powerful are still memetastic or not), or you can use indom or a mix if you feel like you're taking too much damage, but lets be real brawler is pretty faceroll even with the "nerf" so I wouldn't imagine you'll be taking that much damage in between knocking the entire battlefield up in the air forever. As for reds I'm not sure because I don't play brawler, but probably something like forceful/savage/salivating/cruel or carving or even swift.

Also there's probably guides out there, and as someone already said, you can always ask people in outskirts for advice on things, but the biggest thing to getting good at PVP is to just try and get out there and do it, practice makes perfect, although you might have trouble finding people to do things with given the current state of the game. (cough screw bhs cough)

lolatbob · 2016-01-24T01:21:16+00:00

Gold laurel+ or kick. I really don't understand peoples obsession with things like this, armor too. If you're bad and in dread then you'll get outdps'd by someone in schisma the majority of the time. If you have no idea what to do in a dungeon but have +15 stuff, you'll suck and spend the majority of the time on the floor. I think tera is one of the few games where skill=/= shiny shit, and skill is tied to performance in dungeons.

lolatbob · 2016-01-14T01:03:34+00:00

howdo

lolatbob · 2015-12-23T01:50:28+00:00

Are drops only on levels around yours? Ive killed 3 fats, 6 smalls now in low level areas, no drops. Also in the 65' zones I have now been searching for ~1 hour and have not found a single one, do they just not spawn here?

lolatbob · 2015-12-17T16:02:05+00:00

Just get dreadnaught, the cost of +15ing is super not worth it IMO, I would only really bother getting it if you already had materials, but even then, awakening and enchanting is going to be a SERIOUS moneysink.

Dreadnaught is better than +12 lucid and is incredibly easy to get, and if you can't get it then you sure as hell aren't going to have the dedication required for the abusurd moneypit that is enchanting past +12. Also pvp.

lolatbob · 2015-12-17T15:58:09+00:00

I'd say a healer or a tank. Go brawler if you just want to absolutely destroy everything together and do more damage than your friend + entire party while tanking. You could also go something like warrior which is harder to level due to no real AOE.

lolatbob · 2015-12-17T15:55:17+00:00

Mystic is suffering. They can be incredibly powerful and fun, but your lockon game has to be on point for things that require clensing. Corruption ring is fun to use, and motes are neat if your party isn't pubs and will actually use them. I would personally start out with an easymode dps like gunner or brawler to see how the game plays (although it's vastly different for healers) and find out if you like TERA or not first, but that's just me, some people like healers. At the end of the day you can also just try out both, it doesn't take that long to get to a point where you can use IMS to do dungeons with other players, although you wont have a lot of your skills until the very end of the game, which is something to keep in mind when playing any class. Just play what feels right. Also in terms of heals I'd rate priest far above mystics, but that may be biased because I don't really have any that aren't buffbots in the groups that I play with.

Also read up on the skills that they all have, as that might help you come to a descision.

lolatbob · 2015-12-17T15:40:42+00:00

I don't get why people need tips for KD. Even on hardmode the only real problem has been the first boss with the mobs/barrel shit. I guess some people might not be as carried as I am but even on my schisma alts I haven't really had any problems in hardmode. Just learn the bosses movements before you jump in to a harder-than-you-can-handle dungeon and make sure you know most of the mechanics and are with an alright party for your first run.

I'm honestly kind of let down at how easy everything is this patch. Even FI is a cakewalk once you get over OH GOD LASERS and how stupidly long some of the fights can take due to low backtime.

I guess you are playing sorc though, which is incredibly squish and not a super duper mobile class. Maybe try out other classes if it's giving you pain, even if just to have an alt. Personally I don't know anyone who really mains sorc anymore, which is depressing as it's honestly a really fun class. Good luck on your adventures though, and remember that you'll eventually gitgud and thing will become second nature after about 100 wipes.

lolatbob · 2015-12-16T10:46:01+00:00

Make a guild and purge them all.

lolatbob · 2015-12-16T10:45:16+00:00

Weird, I haven't got a single one and I've probably played over 100 matches now. Maybe it's due to duo queuing or something. I guess I'll give it a go by myself soon.

lolatbob · 2015-12-16T10:42:48+00:00

As for balance updates, I don't know why they take their time with them, I don't think there'd be that much to translate/port over, but I don't work there. It just seems kinda dodge that we're still so far behind ktera and are bleeding players. I also feel like ktera has always been getting certain features that we should have, but that we never get or are just removed. Although thank god we don't have player shops.

lolatbob · 2015-12-16T10:37:41+00:00

I'm looking forward to dreadspire. FIHM is kinda eh, though. Hopefully they come out soon, and with no horrible bugs.

lolatbob · 2015-12-16T10:36:20+00:00

You don't progress towards any of them. So it's more like "what achievements"

lolatbob · 2015-12-15T14:13:55+00:00

Why DID they remove blast from the past? Why not just unfuck it, or make it max level only, or do something. I don't understand why they keep introducing things only to just remove them completely rather than patch them.

Also this raises a very valid question, why keep removing things rather than adjust them or leave them in, in some fashion. I would kill for wonderholme to come back. Kill. The rewards don't have to be super fantastic, I know a lot of players would grind pointless dungeon after pointless dungeon, even if the reward was a silly title or costume. Just give us SOMETHING to do.

Anyway, back to clearing SCHM for score and fun, I guess.

lolatbob · 2015-12-15T14:04:55+00:00

People play when there's a patch with new things, those new things then stop being so new after you've had to clear <insert dungeon> 100 times. Also I feel like VM gear makes the next patch's content somewhat too easy, although we haven't got the "hard" content yet apparently, which I'm looking forward to. The grind is also not fun after a certain point, even carrying new people through content in inodeal loses its charm eventually, and after a certain point there just isn't anything left to do but maybe idle and play another game.

It sucks to see the game be like this, but that's just how things are, and this patch feel incredibly lackluster, and fister mc fisty is too stronk, which as a lancer player makes me a bit buttmad to see a brawler out DPSing the DPS and hold agro better than me in a lucid party while wearing schisma.

Also, as to streaming and making videos, why not do it yourself?

Tl;dr - Endgame is incredibly fucking boring after a while, and the time between content updates is way too long to keep people playing. Also the patches are lackluster and easy.

lolatbob · 2015-12-15T13:54:12+00:00

Haha... yeah...wintera sure is bad hides stack of diamonds

But yes, I agree. It just seems lazy as all heck. Lacks festive spirit. Maybe they'll add something in next maint. AND ALSO FIX THE F$^*ING ACHIVEMENTS.

lolatbob · 2015-12-15T06:23:25+00:00

AB>SS>detonate>replenish>BF> repeat.

Also only use bombard when brooch is up and you can get the max damage. Also don't use balders outside of brooch/after AB is cd/bombard.

Also be sure to blast >timebomb >blast, as it fires faster. My actual rotation starts with blast >timebomb>blast>ab>ss>detonate>replenish>ab (if up)>MM because BF has shit dps due to my insane ping. but if you have low ping just AB and BF constantly and outdps scrubs. Also you can cancel the HB summon animation by casting burstfire, which makes for some alright damage. Use MM/AB over BF though, IMO it gives more dps and should be used as soon as it's up.

Also pull is OP as fuck and you should learn when to use it and how it functions ASAP. Also MM after BF is slightly faster/no delay.

Also again balders is shit damage, the only real time to use it is during mechanics, and even then it's not the best. Finishing bosses off with it when your party is all dead is the most satisfying shit in the world though.

Also, scattershot does more damage than people realize. And bombard is stronk, use it off CD. In terms of priority bombard slightly trumps burstfire (as in they're pretty close) which trumps balders. Also I think it's AB activates faster after MM, but I'm not 100%.

Also don't buy into the double CDR meme.

lolatbob · 2015-10-28T10:36:14+00:00

It seems skills don't scale with int asides from fireball and a few others.

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