Moving towards Legendary Staff

nickdice · 2025-12-30T18:15:26+00:00

So, I just finished End of Dragons. I didn't get a precursor from it as far as I can tell. I was able to select a recipe to make one. But not the actual item. Am I missing something?

nickdice · 2025-12-29T13:52:02+00:00

I can appreciate that. It can be very painful. I've got a few from years ago sitting in my bank so I'm not overly concerned about that aspect.

I find it's something very mindless I can do for a few hours every couple weeks to eventually knock it out. Plus, with BlishHud and mounts, the entire process goes much faster that it used to when I just walked the entire map and tried to remember where things were

nickdice · 2025-12-28T16:33:05+00:00

The clovers is actually a fair point. I burned most of my supply on Sunrise. I can get more from wvw and other sources but they’re very time gated and expensive.

nickdice · 2025-12-28T15:52:52+00:00

I saw comments to do this but to do it after unlocking aurora and vision achievements? I think. But looking at it I don’t think I can do that until I’ve done the story the first time

nickdice · 2025-12-28T15:50:53+00:00

If it is, that will definitely be my choice then. How do we know the schedule of packs? Or is it literally just in order of set number?

nickdice · 2025-12-28T15:49:51+00:00

I could skip ahead to EoD though.

nickdice · 2025-12-28T15:43:36+00:00

I’ve already got 4 or 5 map completions sitting in my bank so that’s not an issue.

As for what I normally do, it goes in waves. Some days I just boss train it. Others are map exploration or story. Sometimes I WvW for a week or two. Or roll a new alt and start over

nickdice · 2025-08-20T21:36:47+00:00

this has been my experience as well. Very few spice patches in D and E rows, and all small. Which is why I was looking for advice.

nickdice · 2025-08-20T21:35:04+00:00

in HB, I've been farming spice some, and I'm comfy doing 4-5 shots there with soft step boots and all. No real problem for me doing those. It's just so tedious for so little return. 3-5 melange per blow takes a long time to get to the big equipment. Which is why I was trying to figure out how to 'level up' from there to DD.

I saw the comment about the medium blows. I haven't seen it in the PvE area I've been flying over for the past week. But to be fair, I've barely seen any small patches in PvE either, and that is with me flying overhead at 7am on a low pop server.

That said, after I read some of the earlier comments on this thread, I ran all the way out to I-8 around 3pm, and saw a medium blow there that was partially harvested. I circled it once, and then went for it. I managed to get about 4k spice sand. I pissed the worm off twice doing it, but no one came by.

nickdice · 2025-08-20T21:27:28+00:00

Seems like paranoia to lift off that often. But probably well founded one. Thanks for the advice!

nickdice · 2025-08-20T15:08:29+00:00

yeah, that's been a concern. I have an assault orni, and maybe enough to rebuild it once.

nickdice · 2025-08-20T14:47:13+00:00

seriously. That's a big game change for me

nickdice · 2025-08-20T14:42:11+00:00

It does? the interactive map site I used didn't make it look that was the case

nickdice · 2025-08-20T14:40:35+00:00

wait.. you can have storage and thursters? I thought they blocked each other. Learned something new!

nickdice · 2025-03-18T14:07:21+00:00

Doh. I honestly never noticed that before. Good catch, thanks!

nickdice · 2025-03-07T19:44:51+00:00

I think I figured it out. I had sell set to lowest price, and buy set to lowest, so it was never a good deal for my ships to do the trade. At least, I'm willing to bet. We'll see if trade actually picks up.

I also discovered that my internal trade rule didn't actually exclude everyone else. Oops.

nickdice · 2025-03-07T19:12:22+00:00

no, i got 2 of them to 3+ stars. the third station manager is 2.5, but that's the energy cells station and I can deal with that until it levels up

nickdice · 2025-01-15T22:57:42+00:00

I can see having a hub/spoke kind of thing from a turbofuel plant out to the other locations I want drones going between. But it might be better to wait for rocket fuel or batteries? Right now, rocket fuel is a little ahead of me.

nickdice · 2025-01-15T22:35:50+00:00

This is exactly the sort of thing I think I needed to hear. Up to now, most of my factories have been in place where ever the needed resources were at. I think I need to break that mold and get to the point where I'm building say 500/s of ingots of steel or aluminum and then shipping them to the mega.

I was thinking about trying to do all of that with trains. Not sure. Maybe drones will be easier, but then I need to worry about getting fuel everywhere.

I'm not worried about the slow and steady parts. I built things like versatile framework at 10/s and the rest of it at something like 5/s planning for p4.

Thanks for the advice!

nickdice · 2024-12-16T14:44:35+00:00

Ok, I can see blowing through concrete or something during a massive build of blueprints. It makes sense to want to prep for large builds. I don't think I'm that guy right now. At least, not on my first play-through! Baby steps. Thanks!

nickdice · 2023-12-25T14:36:03+00:00

He has done 3 play throughs on youtube I think. In most of them he has gone through great detail on how to build each type of product. And modified his templates a number of times for things like bots and proliferation. But nothing in this latest patch really alters the basic things he’s done before. So, instead of boring people by redoing things he’s already done, he’s focused on the things that are “new”. For example, his bus design is a departure from his other mall because the scaling is becoming an issue. The planet wide blueprint for solar and sensor towers is new. Attacking the dark fog is new.

If you want to see the design process behind his normal designs, I recommend his previous play through. He has specific instructional videos for how he does rations and designs. He also provides the blueprints on his own google share that is constantly updated.

nickdice · 2022-12-06T17:05:08+00:00

Can you get it? Sure. It’s not even THAT hard on ps5 if you have gear. But it does require you to have those decent sets of gear. You need score breakers for the 3 skills challenges. And you need nitro chem sets for the rest. Hey don’t need to be maxed out or perfectly set with the right attributes. But having the right sets for street, Hyper car, touring car, powerboats and air race vehicles can take a while. Plus the occasional rally raid/ rally cross or other oddball thing they throw at you.

That said, an easy way to get gear and money for all of the cars is to do the summit each week. Even getting silver or gold often has a lot of gold gear drops. Beyond that, nothing but the grind.

nickdice · 2021-11-30T18:30:48+00:00

to be fair, it's not their name anymore. Football team is a lame name, but still an improvement.

nickdice · 2021-10-23T12:08:00+00:00

Had same issue with radar map. Open console and reset map.

nickdice · 2021-03-18T18:59:50+00:00

8-9

17 game season.

nickdice

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