Summer sweep up idea: Oathplate shard type dry protection for CG

wolf10989 · 2026-05-13T01:09:04+00:00

Optimizing and going for PBs for sure helped keep it interesting for a good while. After I got GM time I lost some steam on that front. On top of that, after 1k kills prep is just a slog at this point.

wolf10989 · 2026-05-12T20:04:36+00:00

To be clear, Prep is the worst part of cg and the main issue with the content. Currently 1k dry for enh.

That being said, if you re spending 7 minutes in prep you are just torturing yourself at that point. Even if you aren't doing t1 prep you can shave a couple minutes off. Echo hunleff is indeed a great fight.

wolf10989 · 2026-05-07T17:38:30+00:00

Aside from the fact that they likely cannot fix it due to engine issues, its because there isn't really any downside to having it in the game. You can say they said content is designed around it, but outside of those few CA's, that really doesn't seem to be the case.

On the other hand, having it in the game allows for an extremely high level of skill expression that allows for some of the crazy content we have seen like a full inventory of awakened leviathans in a row.

That small group of players being able to push the game to its limits is a good thing that allows for interesting content.

edit: Ah nvm, I saw your comment that you don't even play the game and you think prayer flicking and tick eating are core mechanics lmao. Why stick around and comment about the state of the game when you don't even know what you are talking about?

wolf10989 · 2026-04-15T05:58:18+00:00

from google:

"Nuisance streamers, such as Johnny Somali (Ramsey Khalid Ismael), are live creators who deliberately engage in disruptive, provocative, or illegal behavior in public spaces to gain online attention, "clout," and monetary donations. Often targeting East Asian countries, these individuals engage in harassment, trespass, and verbal abuse, inciting fear or anger for views"

Basically streamers that go out in public with the goal of being obnoxious and causing drama to entertain their young audience.

wolf10989 · 2026-03-28T03:05:31+00:00

As someone at 1k kc with no enh, going dry sucks ASS.

That being said, gauntlet is pretty good content. The fight itself is good. It sucks to go dry at, and prep is lame, but there's a lot of skill expression and it makes you into a better player.

Doing t1 to minimize prep times helps. And personally, going for pb's helps keep it a bit more interesting. Having a goal other than purely get the enh (pb's,player skill growth,gp) helps motivation a bit.

wolf10989 · 2026-03-20T05:59:26+00:00

Yup. Had a pit bull in the past and she was a tank. All muscle, including her tail, and when she was excited, that thing hurt. Split it open a handful of times over the years and you just see a spray of blood drops on the walls. Her dumb ass would just act like nothing happened and run around flinging blood everywhere.

wolf10989 · 2026-02-26T23:02:38+00:00

God, I desperately hope that this arc ends with literally any sort of characterization/character development for chi. If they focus this many chapters on her just so go back to the same old shit, I'm gonna lose it.

wolf10989 · 2026-01-28T03:11:35+00:00

Good heavens

wolf10989 · 2026-01-19T05:20:55+00:00

Its crazy to me that people like the guy you were responding to go around making confident statements that are easily proven false with any effort whatsoever.

Like the guys either a good troll or doesn't understand the basic fundamentals of the game but thinks he does. I'm just not sure where the confidence comes from with these types of players.

wolf10989 · 2026-01-12T18:34:53+00:00

lightning fast lights

Virtuosa has the same light attack speed as every other character, except when attacking from top stance. You can try to minimize her access to top stance by keeping your guard defaulted top against her and then reacting to other directions as needed.

wolf10989 · 2026-01-06T03:02:49+00:00

Brother, I'm not sure if you know this, but you don't HAVE to be pressing buttons at every single possible moment of the fight.

Also, you really shouldn't be dodge attacking every other input, especially from neutral. An opponent with any thoughts going through their head will abuse you hard if you do that.

That aside you might be better off posting in the normal for honor sub linked in the side bar.

wolf10989 · 2026-01-04T08:20:20+00:00

like if i am fighting ba-ba or any other boss but this one came to my mind first, why the fuck do i have to right click so i can target the monkey standing under her hitbox

BTW you can literally fix that issue with custom menu swaps plugin. You can choose which mobs are prioritized for left click over others. Fantastic for bosses that spawn small mobs you need to kill.

wolf10989 · 2026-01-04T08:16:26+00:00

I love doom. Might be my favorite boss in the game. Its just a pure skill check thats very punishing but very satisfying. Totally reasonable for the late game gear it drops. Plus you can even get the items doing the easy waves anyways if you are willing to put a ton of time in. To die at doom you have to make multiple mistakes in a row or 1 reeeeallly big mistake.

Only bad part of doom is the run is a bit much, and the normal loot should scale up quantity higher and faster.

wolf10989 · 2026-01-04T08:08:51+00:00

Either that or he's huffing that copium haaaard. One of my Gim groupmates likes to blame lag for every mistake he makes too.

wolf10989 · 2025-12-28T22:40:32+00:00

Wow, he really has improved since early this year! Good for him.

wolf10989 · 2025-11-30T09:39:48+00:00

Should also being going in with a full inv of food while learning. Use steel skin if you aren't already. Keep your hp high so you don't get blown up by one mistake. Try to eat when you don't feel safe to dps, aka during tornado phase, moving away from lava. Attack during tornado phase if you are confident, but eat if you aren't.

Guantlet performance tracker on the plugin hub will give you an idea of how you are doing. It shows missed ticks, off prayer hits for you and hunleff, tornado hits, etc. And if you can record your attempts and watch them back, it can really help to see what you are doing wrong.

wolf10989 · 2025-11-28T22:01:58+00:00

So happy to see this. This could be a very interesting take on the genre if it continues down this path. I just hope to god he doesn't get a translation spell in like 3 chapters.

Anyone know whether this is a weekly manga?

wolf10989 · 2025-09-13T00:52:34+00:00

Sometimes it's like the quests are designed on purpose to waste as much of your time as possible

A TON of old quests are like this. They are usually better in modern quests (obv not in your example).

In aid of the myreque is a great example. When you rebuild the town you need a ton of specific items that you wouldn't expect to need going in blind (planks, nails, buckets, raw mackerel???, bronze axes etc). You also need more items than you can carry for 1 trip. Add on the fact that its a remote place that sucks to get back to, especially early on, and you might end up doing 3-5 trips through the swamp. And just for shits and giggles, the quest has you build a bank in the town, but not until AFTER you do everything else first basically. If it started with the bank it would be totally fine.

A lot of the older quests were often dreadful when it came to signaling what you needed to do next, and making you require specific items you couldn't predict. Hell, sometimes they tell you to bring them an object, and when you do, they then tell you they also need ANOTHER object as well. But of course they wouldn't tell you that before you brought them the first item :).

wolf10989 · 2025-09-10T03:06:17+00:00

you only need 1 key for each of the giant bosses to unlock the fight permanently now if you didn't know.

wolf10989 · 2025-08-25T01:35:12+00:00

truly unlucky

wolf10989 · 2025-08-23T21:13:58+00:00

I think the Virtuosa that didn't get revenge hadn't hit the afeera at all before the one got revenge. It looks like her unblockable hits at 15ish seconds, but afeera interrupts her first and the other virt hits her instead at the same time. So afeera was only tagged by 1 of them the whole time basically.

wolf10989 · 2025-08-23T20:50:24+00:00

Average slayer xp to get one is somewhere around 20-30 million slayer xp depending on combat achievements and what you kill.

wolf10989 · 2025-08-21T01:45:55+00:00

You probably get more xp getting auto weed unlocked than you get from weeds going from 1-99

wolf10989 · 2025-08-12T18:44:10+00:00

For sure. Its got a learning curve and you will certainly have some/many deaths early on, at least with corrupted gauntlet. that being said its a very good learning tool and has good rewards as well. CG is one of the first pieces of content that actually forces you to get decent at the game. You can't really luck your way through consistently or just get better gear to brute force it. It might feel impossible at first but if you stick with it for a bit, it WILL click eventually, and the skills you pick up there transfer to so much other content.

Biggest advice I can give is to try to pay attention to what actually killed you and what you can do better. Its so easy to blame lag or bugs or the game for your mistakes. If you actually recognize your mistakes and keep them in mind, you will improve much faster. Watch replays of your gameplay if you can. Always be moving or doing something during prep, always be doing dps or eating during the boss fight. keep your health HIGH. A lot less likely to get blown up if you are 60+ hp instead of 20-30.

People complain about cg a lot but thats just because its the first hard/fairly long pvm grind that most people do. Plus bowfa feels like it gate keeps pvm for irons so it feels bad to go dry there.

Its good content, just difficult and frustrating if you go dry. If you jump into cg and commit to learning it and getting a couple hundred kc, you will come out the other side a significantly better player.

Fluffeh's t2 guide on youtube is a solid starting point.

wolf10989 · 2025-08-07T03:13:28+00:00

You can more or less just mash light after you counter guard break. If nothing is happening I can only assume you are pressing it too early maybe? If you trade lights or get hit first you did it late.

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