motorised mallard
Member
Hit 13k prestige and got the next open area, the somethingsomething Peninsula, that place is too hard to solo atleast for the moment. 
The archer is cool though.
The archer is cool though.
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Skyforge |OT| Thou shall not workship false prophets
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Cracklox
Member
Loving alch. Just got the heal, which is on a really weird 8min16 cooldown but hey. The reflect shield even post nerf is pretty great. Getting about 36k reflects which is still nice. The other nice thing is the 21 sec cooldown starts ticking when you start the channel. Given you can hold it to negate all damage for 5 seconds, it really only has a 16 sec cooldown. Short considering how effective it is.
Once I get the 2 talents for the regular shield, and the BIG damage buff powers I might have a hard time wanting to play anything else in groups. Great utility and capable of pretty good damage too.
All the zones get progressively harder the further you get through them. The end of that particular zone is tuned to 22-23k range.
And archers great. I maxed mine. The only thing I was a little disappointed in was the back half of the tree. The other classes i've spent time with all had stuff I couldn't wait to get at the end of the tree. Archer not so much. Just 1 or 2 things that help work electric arrows into a proper rotation. At least for me.
Once I get the 2 talents for the regular shield, and the BIG damage buff powers I might have a hard time wanting to play anything else in groups. Great utility and capable of pretty good damage too.
Hit 13k prestige and got the next open area, the somethingsomething Peninsula, that place is too hard to solo atleast for the moment.
All the zones get progressively harder the further you get through them. The end of that particular zone is tuned to 22-23k range.
And archers great. I maxed mine. The only thing I was a little disappointed in was the back half of the tree. The other classes i've spent time with all had stuff I couldn't wait to get at the end of the tree. Archer not so much. Just 1 or 2 things that help work electric arrows into a proper rotation. At least for me.
TharpDaddy
Member
Yeah my Alchemist is my go-to atm for groups. I swear that every single group though people think the Alchemist ult is going to hurt them and they run from it. Hard to heal allies when they're fleeing from you!
Cracklox
Member
Haha. The 1st time I tried it I had no idea what was happening. I just saw orange and jetpacks.
We had the Cronnel platforms boss down to his last health bar, and only 2 of left standing. Thought I'd pop the heal as we were both missing health. Anyway, ended up re-positioning accidentally after the channel RIGHT next to him and straight into his AOE for a 1 shot kill. Other guy died shortly after and we had to retry. Had we just continued to DPS we would have done it.
I apologized in chat and explained that was the 1st time using the ability. I took the total lack of response I got, as they weren't too happy.
Dankit island? Ok, will give that a try...as soon as I can get connected.
partyphone
Banned
has to drop as loot. just go to an open area and find a task that rewards an item. you'll still be able to fight and farm without a weapon you'll just have less might.
Ploid 3.0
Member
And a lot less hp if thundr51 has upgrades for them both. Upgrades don't count until the slot is filled.
Thanks, I thought I'd basically be running around punching stuff. Going through the open areas now and building back up.
PVP is a good idea. If you really don't want to play you can just afk and you still get rewards.
In the same boat. Was really annoying that as soon as I opened the new class I find that I've reached my limit on sparks! Should have reset last night so can't wait to get earning again.
So uh.... Why the hell is this happening? https://my.mixtape.moe/ogaexd.webm
I can't beat this fucker because I lose out on so much damage from not being able to fully charge up that attack and get the second version..
I can't beat this fucker because I lose out on so much damage from not being able to fully charge up that attack and get the second version..
TharpDaddy
Member
I have no idea, I've never seen that happen on my Kinetic. That doesn't seem like a boss mechanic.
Whoa that's really nice. I look forward to that being patched it.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Wow....140k prestige. That's intense.
Yeah, it has nothing to do with the boss. I've had it happen when I tried Kinetic in training as well and thought it was some mechanic I had missed. I'm guessing it's just some weird server lag though. Some other attacks felt a bit off as well.
Ya gotta be server problem. Has happened on my warlock a few times when long pressing taint.
RaySpencer
Member
Is there a way to redesign my character at all? I wanna change a few things.
Cracklox
Member
Yup, see Quinta in the research center. 1st change is free, then after that it costs
RaySpencer
Member
Cool beans.
Cracklox
Member
Some fun runs over the weekend ladies and gents. Hardly needed to pug or go solo, cos there were plenty of people around.
Now I've got the alch skills and talents I want, it's an absolute hoot seeing how fast we can burst down a boss. I think the highlight was thais temple 1st boss, who's 1.1 mil hps disappeared literally in about 10-15secs. Nothing left to show but some crappy loot and health orbs everywhere. Good fun.
Every party needs an alch
Now I've got the alch skills and talents I want, it's an absolute hoot seeing how fast we can burst down a boss. I think the highlight was thais temple 1st boss, who's 1.1 mil hps disappeared literally in about 10-15secs. Nothing left to show but some crappy loot and health orbs everywhere. Good fun.
Every party needs an alch
14 days of premium here, only a few codes left. And it does work outside of Germany.
http://contest.mmosite.com/index.php/activity/sendkey/skyforge_gift_pack_giveaway_only_for_germany
Quote my post for a code, can only redeem 1 from this promo so can't stack them.
Activate it on your profile page on the Skyforge website.
http://contest.mmosite.com/index.php/activity/sendkey/skyforge_gift_pack_giveaway_only_for_germany
Quote my post for a code, can only redeem 1 from this promo so can't stack them.
Activate it on your profile page on the Skyforge website.
piratepwnsninja
Member
Yeah, being able to go as a four man group through that one instance was great.
Ploid 3.0
Member
I wonder if this works if you got one of the 14 days premium + threads + mount rental before. Every other code since I got one of those have not worked because it would say already claimed. I kinda want to sit on this until I have a few weeks of not playing to play with a huge cap on my main.
Edit: Ok these are just like all other codes, they are under the same activation group. Will this game ever have a different set of redeemable codes? Only one code ever.
Quote if you never used a code.
Ploid 3.0
Member
I'm very interested. I am letting caps collect starting this patch. After a few weeks of collecting caps I'll get 3 days of premium and try to burn through as much as I can collecting sparks of evolution for classes that could use them (especially paladin).
The way the game works forced my hand, I tried grinding paladin sparks slowly and to the cap but it's very tedious. Also I got tired of waiting for the next week a day or two after the recap. What were they thinking with this character progression system. New characters start at level 100 no talents and little abilities, and maybe no way to acquire them if you ran out of sparks unlocking them. Then they let you keep sparks that you didn't use from the previous week. The solution seemed obvious to me, I have a maxed Kinetic and Berserker, the Berserker will make it rain when I start farming my saved sparks.
I still do the order pantheon quests from the website.
Edit: Before this plan I hardly logged on when I was capped which was quick to achieve so maybe others did like me, wait on uncap.
The way the game works forced my hand, I tried grinding paladin sparks slowly and to the cap but it's very tedious. Also I got tired of waiting for the next week a day or two after the recap. What were they thinking with this character progression system. New characters start at level 100 no talents and little abilities, and maybe no way to acquire them if you ran out of sparks unlocking them. Then they let you keep sparks that you didn't use from the previous week. The solution seemed obvious to me, I have a maxed Kinetic and Berserker, the Berserker will make it rain when I start farming my saved sparks.
I still do the order pantheon quests from the website.
Edit: Before this plan I hardly logged on when I was capped which was quick to achieve so maybe others did like me, wait on uncap.
Oh wow. Thanks for this link!
I might be missing the boat on how to hit the weekly caps so quickly. I play around 2-3 hours a night and I never get remotely close to getting to the spark cap. I run dungeons and do missions, not sure if I am missing something obvious.
Haven't had a lot of time recently due to life/work, still try to get on once a day at least so I can do the Pantheon missions, get those daily Holy Texts, and quickly grind out an instance for church materials.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Some people just do one boss and exit. The boss on Krysis (the bee level, forgot how it's spelled) is very easy to get to and kill. I like doing the whole map though, I find it give me faster class sparks since I don't have to navigate menus, and load as often. I had to do the one boss thing with paladin because any other boss would have taken him a lot longer I figured. With the barrels, the Krysis boss melts 3 bars each time he move over to refill. So easy.
You get about the same amount of class sparks when you play on normal, hard, or impossible it seems, so I just cap on whichever I'm already on since the new scaling system, as it never puts you on impossible by default.
Edit: Recently posted on the official forums NA. Premium user though, so this person caps faster than I would.
https://na.portal.sf.my.com/comments/55dde76f3798083e1a26ff21
His routine.
You get about the same amount of class sparks when you play on normal, hard, or impossible it seems, so I just cap on whichever I'm already on since the new scaling system, as it never puts you on impossible by default.
Edit: Recently posted on the official forums NA. Premium user though, so this person caps faster than I would.
https://na.portal.sf.my.com/comments/55dde76f3798083e1a26ff21
His routine.
Ploid 3.0
Member
I mainly focus on speed when clearing missions. The reason I want to go fast is because I want the abilities, the nodes, or more currency. I mainly solo and there's little reason for me to chill with random people like other MMORPGs. Thinking about it, when I did chill and relax in those other games I was most likely exping in parties, helping with a class quest/level cap quest, or trying to get a rare drop from a specific rare monster.
piratepwnsninja
Member
I'm in crunch at the moment, so I'm really only on some during the weekends. I'm still playing, though.
TharpDaddy
Member
I'm still playing quite a bit but I don't really chat in guild chat ever since messages still won't go through occasionally.
All good things to hear. Was just getting a bit nervous when I saw nothing and a lot of stagnate prestige levels.
On a side note, I think at this point we got most of the Gaf community so if you have friends or run into people you like running dungeons with feel free to get them an invite into the guild.
On a side note, I think at this point we got most of the Gaf community so if you have friends or run into people you like running dungeons with feel free to get them an invite into the guild.
Cracklox
Member
I'll chime in cos, you know, the thread would be half as long without me.
I'm still around obviously. I was between jobs when I started playing so had plenty of time with not too much else to do. That combined with my sleeping patterns (accidentally) reversing, I was on at what would be considered some odd times locally, but fit in well with the other side of the world. ie most everyone else here.
But alas I can't really make a living playing this, so I'm back on the 9-5 grind, with much more regular hours. Those hours, as I've come to learn, don't really fit well with playing with people on the other side of the world with normal schedules.
That said, weekend times tend to meet up well if I (or you guys!) can get on during the day.
Yeah, I wasn't far off suggesting that idea myself.
The inactivity (stagnate prestige) is a bit of a worry. There's quite a few that don't appear to have logged since the big patch, which I thought would get a few more people back and interested. It is what it is though. I dig the game, but also understand there's a few issues that could def put people off. I also understand not everybodys life and/or gaming habits revolve around mmo's.
But, I also believe there's weight in the theory if people leave a game like this for 10 days or so they often won't be back. Especially these days when there so much else out there.
So not sure what we do. The (end) game is skewed towards big pantheons with plenty of active members. The way things have slowed down (inevitably I suppose) it's going to take us quite some time until we can do some of that stuff as a guild, and even longer to actually get some benefit out of it. Somewhat pessimistically, I feel I should add if we even get that far.
So what to do? Do we give people another big update or 2 to hopefully lure them, or do we begin a culling process and replace with f&f who will hopefully be more active? Or is there another way to do it that I can't bloody think of?
I share the same concern. I'm all for progressing to the end so I have been throwing invites to people I run successful dungeons with to give us a boost of active players. I agree that if you are gone for X amount of days that there is a really high chance that the user has already decided that this is not the game for them.
This guild was specifically to make a home for GAF members so I think our best bet would be to start/continue open recruiting and when we hit the player limit we either increase size or I'll start sending out private messages on the forum asking if a said user is coming back and if it is ok if we remove them for the guild for the time being.
If we get to the point we can't get past 50-60 members, i think we will just need to have a discussion about merging with another medium size guild so we can hit that golden 100 member requirement.
Granted we have time until all of this happens so we can go day by day and see what works best. As long as we give everyone a fair chance to advance with the core group.
on a game related note: They might not be the best class but Monk is incredibly fun.
This guild was specifically to make a home for GAF members so I think our best bet would be to start/continue open recruiting and when we hit the player limit we either increase size or I'll start sending out private messages on the forum asking if a said user is coming back and if it is ok if we remove them for the guild for the time being.
If we get to the point we can't get past 50-60 members, i think we will just need to have a discussion about merging with another medium size guild so we can hit that golden 100 member requirement.
Granted we have time until all of this happens so we can go day by day and see what works best. As long as we give everyone a fair chance to advance with the core group.
on a game related note: They might not be the best class but Monk is incredibly fun.
There is an EU guild. Write your information down on the google sheet (See OP) and an EU leader should get you an invite when you are on.
Thanks.
Inyourprime
Member
Hey guys, I haven't been on for a couple weeks now. A lot of stuff going on right now and I just don't have time to even login. I am going to ask that you remove Ogun Acar from the guild for now.
At some point I will come back and ask for an invite, if there is room for me.
At some point I will come back and ask for an invite, if there is room for me.