So, someone said grenadier is best for engie solo leveling. At 28 I felt it was a little lacking with sticky and the air strike. Maybe I was doing it wrong?
I figure since they are all up in my face I'll run expert skirmisher and the +bal skill. That a good idea?
If your soloing, I believe in grenadier, you need to get Throwing arm, and basically aoe grind. Get you turret out near a decent amount of mobs, pull with acid grenade to lower their resists, then cycle your dots/nades. When they are on you, start spamming blunderbuss blast while making sure you refresh dots when needed.
Combined with your turret throwing bombs, you should be able to take down 3-6 mobs efficiently.
Yeah that's how I was aoe'ing with a healer, but solo it seems to get me killed more often than not.
You might need to tune the number of mobs down. On my slayer, I can safely do three, five is dangerous, the way I'm specced. You might want to check out the WHA Engineer boards. They have some helpful stuff up from time to time.
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Sev: Your gameplay is the most heavily yomi based around. Usually you look for characters that allow you to force guessing situations for big dmg. Even if the guess is mathematically nowhere near in your favor lol. You're happiest when you have either a 50/50, 33/33/33 or even a 75/25 situation to go crazy with. And you will take big risks to force those situations to come up.
Thing is, I don't think they're bound to player (nothing on the mouse over says so), so a guild could just pool together when needed. Unlike tokens, which you really need to collect personally.
when you're aoe grinding, throwing arm is not really that useful, as most everything will be in your face.
you want to run expert skirmisher, the +ballistics, and the + armor tactic. at sub-30, decide what keeps you alive longer.
at 28/29 thru abour 32, you're in a little bit of a rough spot for grinding, as the best spots (or best spot, if it's "the spot" in dragonwake) is gonna be a little hard to grind through. at 33, you should be able to non-stop solo pull stuff.
pick a spot where you can use LOS to group mobs up, set up a turret (as grenadier, the bombardment turret is prolly better, but i never looked at the numbers compared to the flame turret), pull with acid bomb, drop napalm, and use aoe's (blunderbus, the melee cone attack, and you'll want strafing run for the cone knockdown) to kill stuff.
limit what you're pulling until you can deal with whatever, and by the time you're 33, you should be able to take 4 level 36 mobs in your sleep.
you should be stacking ballistics, wounds, and toughness as a grenadier, as you're a little closer to damage than long range rifleman.
What are the live event tasks for today? can anyone give details as I'm stuck at work. Thanks.
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Sev: Your gameplay is the most heavily yomi based around. Usually you look for characters that allow you to force guessing situations for big dmg. Even if the guess is mathematically nowhere near in your favor lol. You're happiest when you have either a 50/50, 33/33/33 or even a 75/25 situation to go crazy with. And you will take big risks to force those situations to come up.
Sev: Your gameplay is the most heavily yomi based around. Usually you look for characters that allow you to force guessing situations for big dmg. Even if the guess is mathematically nowhere near in your favor lol. You're happiest when you have either a 50/50, 33/33/33 or even a 75/25 situation to go crazy with. And you will take big risks to force those situations to come up.
I love word of Pain. Took on a BW and a slayer at the same time and with the resists/disarm/root, and that I was able to come out on top.
What rank were they? I've burned slayers and BWs down to the ground separately, but never at the same time. I usually throw chillwind, word of pain (with the tactic that increases WoPs dmg), then the spirit dmg/snare-if-cursed ability on any melee that makes a run at me to slow em down. If they get too close, I hit frostbite (disarm) and pound into them with quick casts until frostbite drops, then I root them with the Ice-cage thing. By that point, WoP w/ tactic goes off and destroys them. It's very gratifying.
If you're Calamity specc'd and pulled that dual-defeat off, my sorc will gladly learn at the feet of a master.
I'm kind of wondering how much variety Mythic will have regarding armor sets. I'm guessing there won't be any new style drops in the new dungeon.
On the contrary, I'm pretty damn sure that we will be seeing quite a few new looks from Land of the Dead. I'm thinking tribal looks, some obsidian weapons, with plenty of gold accents.
Honestly I'm looking forward to going all tribal/savage-looking on my Slayer.
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Sev: Your gameplay is the most heavily yomi based around. Usually you look for characters that allow you to force guessing situations for big dmg. Even if the guess is mathematically nowhere near in your favor lol. You're happiest when you have either a 50/50, 33/33/33 or even a 75/25 situation to go crazy with. And you will take big risks to force those situations to come up.
Sev: Your gameplay is the most heavily yomi based around. Usually you look for characters that allow you to force guessing situations for big dmg. Even if the guess is mathematically nowhere near in your favor lol. You're happiest when you have either a 50/50, 33/33/33 or even a 75/25 situation to go crazy with. And you will take big risks to force those situations to come up.
I love word of Pain. Took on a BW and a slayer at the same time and with the resists/disarm/root, and that I was able to come out on top.
What rank were they? I've burned slayers and BWs down to the ground separately, but never at the same time. I usually throw chillwind, word of pain (with the tactic that increases WoPs dmg), then the spirit dmg/snare-if-cursed ability on any melee that makes a run at me to slow em down. If they get too close, I hit frostbite (disarm) and pound into them with quick casts until frostbite drops, then I root them with the Ice-cage thing. By that point, WoP w/ tactic goes off and destroys them. It's very gratifying.
If you're Calamity specc'd and pulled that dual-defeat off, my sorc will gladly learn at the feet of a master.
kept the dots on the slayer, but WoP on the BW. Made sure to use the resist aura, too. When my morale 2 popped, I made it so I'd hit the BW with everything I had while the slayer was disarmed. I had to time it right.:3. After that, I rooted again and dotted up and detaunted, potted, and burned him down with a nice juicy WoP crit for 1700! And yes, I am calamity.
They fucking need to change the gold bag system to not give you pieces you've already aquired over... and over... and over... again. Denying other wb participants their chance of a set piece just so the winners can vendor their bop epixx, yeah...
Also I am currently dressing up the OP. Don't mind the dust but it is going to be turning all Tomb Kings-y.
Also you can PM me for some free signatures. First come first serve. More are being made soon. Please PM me instead of just snatching one so I know how many to make.
Hey fuckers, You want to ride around on this behemoth?
Or how about having a fucking griffon as your mount.
You just have to invite and have 6 people subscribe to the game. I am 2 away!
~Sighs~ I'm never getting rid of these. No one checks the first post, and the one time someone PM'd me I was asleep because East Coasters have silly things like work to worry about in the morning.
I love word of Pain. Took on a BW and a slayer at the same time and with the resists/disarm/root, and that I was able to come out on top.
What rank were they? I've burned slayers and BWs down to the ground separately, but never at the same time. I usually throw chillwind, word of pain (with the tactic that increases WoPs dmg), then the spirit dmg/snare-if-cursed ability on any melee that makes a run at me to slow em down. If they get too close, I hit frostbite (disarm) and pound into them with quick casts until frostbite drops, then I root them with the Ice-cage thing. By that point, WoP w/ tactic goes off and destroys them. It's very gratifying.
If you're Calamity specc'd and pulled that dual-defeat off, my sorc will gladly learn at the feet of a master.
kept the dots on the slayer, but WoP on the BW. Made sure to use the resist aura, too. When my morale 2 popped, I made it so I'd hit the BW with everything I had while the slayer was disarmed. I had to time it right.:3. After that, I rooted again and dotted up and detaunted, potted, and burned him down with a nice juicy WoP crit for 1700! And yes, I am calamity.
Rad. Another Calamity spec sorc.
What morale 2 are you running, the AP drain or the Focused Mind one? Which one do you think is more worthwhile in running? I've had my WoP crit on mobs for around 1300 to 1600, but I've never paid attention to what it crits for on RvR yet, I'm usually running like hell and trying not to die. I'll have to pay closer attention on my PT sorc.
damn new mounts!
.... anyone need a referal or invite
This is exactly how I feel right now.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
edited April 2009
ok, so I just finished the first BtS event as a Chosen, the second event is till in question marks. This is my first Live Event, so I realize this question might be very stupid, but is this ok, or is there a secret condition I need to unlock to advance in the event?
Imagine how Europeans feel, who don't even have a referral system in place. Or Skaven cloaks. All we have is the stupid bear hat.
what server are you guys on? and what guild (if there's an official PA one there)?
No guild, at least not a PA one. My group plays Order on Burlok (I'm the guild leader of our might rank 10 guild. Yeah, small guild progression is sloooow) and Destro on Karak Eight Peaks (we don't have a guild there yet). Echo is also on KEP.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
Imagine how Europeans feel, who don't even have a referral system in place. Or Skaven cloaks. All we have is the stupid bear hat.
what server are you guys on? and what guild (if there's an official PA one there)?
No guild, at least not a PA one. My group plays Order on Burlok (I'm the guild leader of our might rank 10 guild. Yeah, small guild progression is sloooow) and Destro on Karak Eight Peaks (we don't have a guild there yet). Echo is also on KEP.
well, now you can add one more on KEP. I'm just starting out, trying to figure out if I'm doing this Beyond the Sands thing right.
What's your name? I'll add you to my friends list so I can tell when you're on; my Chosen is Alettes.
I really do dislike how mentoring is not a default feature in this game. It's very easy to level out of the 5 level difference range in the lower tiers and suddenly you can't party with someone without stealing all their kill EXP.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
edited April 2009
I'm also a Chosen, Mephazel.
Alright, let me ask you this: is there only one quest so far in the Destro BtS event right now? Because after I finished the initial thing in the IC it never went anywhere, the tome still shows a bunch of question marks. Will the rest be unlocked at a later date or do I have to do something myself to unlock them?
They fucking need to change the gold bag system to not give you pieces you've already aquired over... and over... and over... again. Denying other wb participants their chance of a set piece just so the winners can vendor their bop epixx, yeah...
Lol tokens.
If the gold person doesn't want it, set them to master looter with no threshold - they can loot it to whoever they want (as long as they won a bag).
Alright, let me ask you this: is there only one quest so far in the Destro BtS event right now? Because after I finished the initial thing in the IC it never went anywhere, the tome still shows a bunch of question marks. Will the rest be unlocked at a later date or do I have to do something myself to unlock them?
What level are you? I had 2 quests to do yesterday, find an airship lookout and go talk to some gobbos in an RvR lake. I'm assuming there'll be that + some more today (although I have no idea, still at work).
I actually had 3 because I hit 31 after doing the quest in the rvr lake and it let me get another one for the next tier. Guess they don't check for that. It's a secret.
They fucking need to change the gold bag system to not give you pieces you've already aquired over... and over... and over... again. Denying other wb participants their chance of a set piece just so the winners can vendor their bop epixx, yeah...
Lol tokens.
If the gold person doesn't want it, set them to master looter with no threshold - they can loot it to whoever they want (as long as they won a bag).
But after you've looted the bag, and found out its a piece you don't need, you can't master loot it to anyone.
Alright, let me ask you this: is there only one quest so far in the Destro BtS event right now? Because after I finished the initial thing in the IC it never went anywhere, the tome still shows a bunch of question marks. Will the rest be unlocked at a later date or do I have to do something myself to unlock them?
Yeah, the question marks are quests not yet unlocked. And EU is one day behind in live events, so what the chaps here discuss is in our future.
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You might need to tune the number of mobs down. On my slayer, I can safely do three, five is dangerous, the way I'm specced. You might want to check out the WHA Engineer boards. They have some helpful stuff up from time to time.
when you're aoe grinding, throwing arm is not really that useful, as most everything will be in your face.
you want to run expert skirmisher, the +ballistics, and the + armor tactic. at sub-30, decide what keeps you alive longer.
at 28/29 thru abour 32, you're in a little bit of a rough spot for grinding, as the best spots (or best spot, if it's "the spot" in dragonwake) is gonna be a little hard to grind through. at 33, you should be able to non-stop solo pull stuff.
pick a spot where you can use LOS to group mobs up, set up a turret (as grenadier, the bombardment turret is prolly better, but i never looked at the numbers compared to the flame turret), pull with acid bomb, drop napalm, and use aoe's (blunderbus, the melee cone attack, and you'll want strafing run for the cone knockdown) to kill stuff.
limit what you're pulling until you can deal with whatever, and by the time you're 33, you should be able to take 4 level 36 mobs in your sleep.
you should be stacking ballistics, wounds, and toughness as a grenadier, as you're a little closer to damage than long range rifleman.
I am naive and trusting.
What rank were they? I've burned slayers and BWs down to the ground separately, but never at the same time. I usually throw chillwind, word of pain (with the tactic that increases WoPs dmg), then the spirit dmg/snare-if-cursed ability on any melee that makes a run at me to slow em down. If they get too close, I hit frostbite (disarm) and pound into them with quick casts until frostbite drops, then I root them with the Ice-cage thing. By that point, WoP w/ tactic goes off and destroys them. It's very gratifying.
If you're Calamity specc'd and pulled that dual-defeat off, my sorc will gladly learn at the feet of a master.
More info on the land of the dead. Its mostly a repeat of the podcast, but in written form with pictures and some light RP text.
The minimum level for land of the dead content is 25.
Or how about having a fucking griffon as your mount.
You just have to invite and have 6 people subscribe to the game. I am 2 away!
On the contrary, I'm pretty damn sure that we will be seeing quite a few new looks from Land of the Dead. I'm thinking tribal looks, some obsidian weapons, with plenty of gold accents.
Honestly I'm looking forward to going all tribal/savage-looking on my Slayer.
You ponce.
kept the dots on the slayer, but WoP on the BW. Made sure to use the resist aura, too. When my morale 2 popped, I made it so I'd hit the BW with everything I had while the slayer was disarmed. I had to time it right.:3. After that, I rooted again and dotted up and detaunted, potted, and burned him down with a nice juicy WoP crit for 1700! And yes, I am calamity.
I want a Doomwheel.
Lol tokens.
.... anyone need a referal or invite :winky:
Also I am currently dressing up the OP. Don't mind the dust but it is going to be turning all Tomb Kings-y.
Also you can PM me for some free signatures. First come first serve. More are being made soon. Please PM me instead of just snatching one so I know how many to make.
~Sighs~ I'm never getting rid of these. No one checks the first post, and the one time someone PM'd me I was asleep because East Coasters have silly things like work to worry about in the morning.
Rad. Another Calamity spec sorc.
What morale 2 are you running, the AP drain or the Focused Mind one? Which one do you think is more worthwhile in running? I've had my WoP crit on mobs for around 1300 to 1600, but I've never paid attention to what it crits for on RvR yet, I'm usually running like hell and trying not to die. I'll have to pay closer attention on my PT sorc.
This is exactly how I feel right now.
what server are you guys on? and what guild (if there's an official PA one there)?
Need skaven first.
Also, more cowbell.
well, now you can add one more on KEP. I'm just starting out, trying to figure out if I'm doing this Beyond the Sands thing right.
I really do dislike how mentoring is not a default feature in this game. It's very easy to level out of the 5 level difference range in the lower tiers and suddenly you can't party with someone without stealing all their kill EXP.
Alright, let me ask you this: is there only one quest so far in the Destro BtS event right now? Because after I finished the initial thing in the IC it never went anywhere, the tome still shows a bunch of question marks. Will the rest be unlocked at a later date or do I have to do something myself to unlock them?
If the gold person doesn't want it, set them to master looter with no threshold - they can loot it to whoever they want (as long as they won a bag).
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What level are you? I had 2 quests to do yesterday, find an airship lookout and go talk to some gobbos in an RvR lake. I'm assuming there'll be that + some more today (although I have no idea, still at work).
But after you've looted the bag, and found out its a piece you don't need, you can't master loot it to anyone.
Go to eataine, and follow the warcamp's river to the left. About halfway to the east keep you should see two dudes and a tent.