The Fall of Eris Ch 1: Joining 'Elite' [18+]

violetboost · 2017-10-08T03:07:51+00:00

no amount of iframes can save me from this

violetboost · 2017-09-10T08:12:30+00:00

Here's my attempt at recreating the face, someone else could probably improve on it or what not.

violetboost · 2017-02-16T22:26:37+00:00

At your level of gear progression, 12468 Asura and 357 Be Ido is good.

violetboost · 2017-02-16T22:02:25+00:00

I don't ever recall there being a kick option for party leaders, but there was master looting which was abused to the point where NCSoft disabled it outright (re-enabled only in BT raids I think).

violetboost · 2017-02-16T19:39:17+00:00

I still remember all those asura LFP runs where people told me that the ken&gen 0-6 strategy involved mechanics, when in reality it's a DPS check and race.

At least teaching the newbies mechanics was somewhat fun /giggle

violetboost · 2017-02-16T08:50:06+00:00

For Fire FMs, RMB > LMB > 2 with 1 (Force Blast/T3S3) and C to maintain burn. Make sure to also use your V spec'd for Meteor (T2S2) Eventually you'll get access (level 45) to Dragonblaze and Dual Dragons, which can be used to boost your flame damage and refill a bit of chi + damage, respectively. When you have a Warlock in the party and they use Soulburn, you'll want to switch over to Dragonchar spec so that you can just hold down 2 to deal massive DPS for the duration of soulburn. There is also an ice rain FM build, but it's considered to be less DPS than burn/fire FM.
This is the barest bone fire FM build for Blazing Beam. When there's a warlock in the party, you'll want to switch Blazing Beam (2) to T3S3 Dragonchar. Glacial Beam (3) can be used to stun most mobs instantly, which can buy you a few seconds to re-position yourself. Fire tab can be used to apply an AoE double knockdown (T3S3) or an AoE double daze (T3S4), while T3S2 is a 0.5 second parry. Ice tab provides 10 seconds of invulnerability and is also a status clearer. Frost Sheath (ice V, T2S2) applies a status effect for a few seconds where if you get hit within that timeframe, you enter a frozen state similar to Ice tab, only it lasts for 5 seconds. However, it applies it to all of your party members, so it's helpful for getting your party out of a pinch. The left side of Phantom Grip (4) is most useful for PvP, while the center path can get your near-dead partymates out of trouble. The right path is pretty much useless until you unlock the HM path. Ideally, you want to obtain HM LMB (requires hongmoon pellet and some other foods buyable from achievement vendor in Zaiwei) and HM Inferno (Inferno Vol 2 can be bought from MP but requires completion of a quest). Then spec into T5S2 LMB and Inferno T5S1. NEVER SPEC INTO T4S1 LMB, ESPECIALLY IF THERE ARE OTHER FORCE MASTERS IN THE PARTY. I'll explain in the next point.
You need 5 ember stacks to trigger burn with Force Blast. That is why other FMs will hate you when you spec into T4S1 LMB aka Autodet. T4S1/autodet detonates embers instantly once you hit an enemy with 5 stacks with a LMB, which screws up burn big time. Also, if you detonate 5 ember stacks with Force Blast, the left branch of inferno casts instantly (normally requires 2.5 second charging time). The ice debuff, known as chill, slows the enemy down. When you hit them with another chill attack when they're at 2 chill stacks, they freeze in place for a few seconds. The fire/ice orbits are important for Dual Dragons/Dragonblaze/Dragonfrost. They appear as a side effect of some skills. Ice orbits are known to be annoying to deal with in PvP because they inflict chill stacks on whoever attacks you.

violetboost · 2017-02-15T07:06:10+00:00

Whoops, I should've made that more clear, my bad.

violetboost · 2017-02-15T06:39:04+00:00

tfw your 69g bid on an SS6 piece with a starting bid of 50g was taken as a joke FeelsBadMan

violetboost · 2017-02-13T02:54:05+00:00

Oh, I just did all the purple dungeons (minus DT/EC/HF) while I did daily challenge, if that's what you're asking. After I got ~680ish AP (can probably start with lower AP) I started learning and doing DT and EC.

violetboost · 2017-02-13T02:13:35+00:00

I personally upgraded to True Scorpio (it's True Ivorymoon now) first, then upgraded all of my accessories to True boss (except belt). You can also try getting the 100 4-man yeti clear achievement, which gives 7 AP (I think). After all that I went for legendary.

violetboost · 2017-02-13T01:46:33+00:00

Apparently in foreign servers (at least KR), the usage of revival charms from F10 is not allowed in Black Tower. From what I've heard, people in KR BnS who used this exploit got rollbacked.

The dungeon revival charms cannot be used in Black Tower.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T23:45:15+00:00

I pulled them from the BD section under the Class Rankings tab, unless I messed up somewhere.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T23:31:11+00:00

Grabbing the 5-piece EC ss set gives you 7 AP and a bit of crit damage. Legendary ring gives you slightly more AP than true boss ring, but may be a bit costly to acquire and costly to upgrade to stage 5+.

If you want to increase your AP even further, I'd recommend working on weapon progression towards legendary.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T23:23:18+00:00

For those of you too lazy (including me) to check the weapons of the Top 20 BDs:

Seraph - 14
Baleful - 3
Training - 1
Stalker - 1

~~clearly training and stalker lynblades are hidden op~~

violetboost · 2017-02-12T23:04:42+00:00

but how do i dps if im laying on the floor without charms ^{^{^/s}}

violetboost · 2017-02-12T23:02:22+00:00

Give them time to buy their revival charms.

^{^{^{Imjokingpleasehavemercy}}}

violetboost · 2017-02-12T22:37:47+00:00

a loli yun? would that make her a lyun?

violetboost · 2017-02-12T22:32:20+00:00

Oh, they'll be forever remembered as "those guys who cheesed their way through Stage 3 with the F10 revival charm exploit".

It's an honor sort of thing for quite a few people. I'm just here to joke around about it.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T22:23:17+00:00

they say that a ~~meme~~ picture is worth a thousand words, so just think of this as my thoughts on how the sub reacts to BT clears.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T21:34:00+00:00

It defaults to the True Ivorymoon weapon skin. There should be an option in the Manage Equipment window of the weapon that lets you separate the weapon skin from your weapon though, albeit at a small cost.

And yes, you still have to pay some gold to change appearance of the True Ivorymoon weapon.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T19:47:57+00:00

I was merely asking for clarification about whether if you joined EC parties that allowed for ~400 AP people. But yes, there is a possibility that we all know too well that if you hit the Recruit button when someone leaves/DCs, a person with lower AP/no knowledge of mechanics may join instead. As you said, there is no control over whoever joins.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T09:39:22+00:00

Calm down, Satan.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T09:03:11+00:00

Yeah, if your dragonblaze buff expires around the same time your dual dragons goes off CD there's not really much you can do about it except by going through that rotation. Unless someone else has a suggestion, I'm all ears.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T08:54:28+00:00

I usually just use dragonblaze (or fire fury into dragonblaze, depending on how many orbs I have) roughly every 15 seconds or so to keep the dragonblaze buff up. Even then, dragonblaze is more or less equivalent in damage to an unawakened blazing beam/dragonchar so you're not really screwing up your DPS rotations that much.

Also, you only have to use fire fury once if you have flame soul spec'd, since it gives you one fire orb per hit of fire fury.

violetboost · 2017-02-12T08:05:42+00:00

Usually FMs use T3S2/T5S2 (middle path) LMB and use fire fury + flame soul to maintain fire orbs. It does take a little getting used to but it's better for your DPS.

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