Posts by Marty Silverblade

  • Caravan in Trouble

    The old wiki says (for what it's worth) that it's possible for Cynn to be killed by a devourer. Try coming into Eastern Frontier via Pockmark Flats a couple of times to see if you're just unlucky.

    Regardless, if getting the skill is your only concern you could just buy it from any skill trainer given it's been unlocked already. As an aside though, why do you want Lightning Reflexes on your W/R? You do realise it's in Expertise and therefore you won't be able to invest in it?

  • Get 8 adrenalin charges with spear: +33% adrenaline VS +33% attack speed

    Adrenaline is measured in two units: strikes and points. When you hit with an attack you gain 1 strike, which is equivalent to 25 points. So it is possible to gain partial strikes, but then the question turns to the points. Now that you mention it I'm not 100% sure how it handles rounding; I was thinking in theory rather than practice. A couple of potentially relevant asides:

    -You can also gain points from other sources, such as being hit. In practice any rounding errors may become irrelevant once you've taken damage.
    -The adrenaline cost of a skill is not always an exact number of strikes. Penetrating Chop, for example, is listed at 5a (=125 points) but actually costs only 120 points.

  • What's the best Drunk Warrior build?

    Unfortunately there are only three skills that benefit from the user being drunk and none of them provide any particularly interesting functionality so you're not going to end up with something that feels substantially different to non-drunk builds. Nevertheless, some (untested) ideas:

    -Feel No Pain: it's not worth bringing inherently, but you could make use of it by combining it with skills that require you to have more health than your opponent. Example.
    -Drunken Master: this doesn't typically appear on warrior bars because warriors have multiple viable attack speed boosters, but if you're willing to burn a pve-only slot the speed boost is of course better than the downsides of flail or frenzy or whatever. Conceptually there's nothing to specifically leverage here.
    -Dwarven Stability: the only worthwhile use of a stance duration boost for a warrior would be a Dwarven Battle Stance build. Example. Trying to leverage the kd immunity is difficult because it's an enchantment, it has a 30 second recharge, you'll be aggroing first, and mesmerway generally lacks enchantments, so you can't expect to be able to keep it up reliably in the face of any non-trivial enchant removal. When people seek kd immunity they opt for I Am Unstoppable, which does the job much better. Coincidentally though, kd immunity skills can be combined with skills that would usually knock yourself down after use, one of which is called Drunken Blow. Typically it'd be combined with Steady Stance but that was nerfed. Maybe this instead?

    In all builds, weakness is assumed to come from Withering Aura on a hero.

  • Right to privacy

    Closing this now as this discussion has gone well past it's original intention. I understand that there may be times when discussing the activities of certain users may be in the interests of the community, but this has just become a witch hunt and that is not something we condone.

    For the record, one thing I should make clear is that the original thread was not purged solely because of the requests made by the user in question. By the time I gotten to the thread (cosyfiep was the one who initially decided to remove the screenshot) the discussion had devolved to the point where leaving it was not a viable course of action. As such, my deletion of those posts should not be considered to be a decision to take anyone's side or a criticism or endorsement of anyone's conduct.

  • [CERRADO]

    Making an item available for trade in this manner is not what the system was designed for but is not forbidden. This thread is not in violation of the rules.

    Given that Captain Krompdown has definitively and repeatedly stated that they are accepting item trades via pm only, I have cleared this thread (and will continue to) of other posts. I would not normally restrict thread participation this way but all things considered this should produce the best outcome for everyone.

  • Server Clock

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  • Looking for Necro builds

    Blood Magic can put out decent damage with something like this. Bring Dark Aura on a hero, and probably more healing than you would normally. That's just an example; there are plenty of other things you can do if you prefer. Maybe Vampiric Swarm or Touch over SoLS, though you'd likely be BiP dependant. I haven't experimented with such alternatives extensively.

    Edit: actually, I suspect the better option would be to drop Mystic Regeneration for either of those options so you can max out soul reaping instead. You can bring Life Transfer instead if health regen is desired.

  • Equipment for Hundred Blade Warrior /

    Vampiric is superior for damage over sundering. You'll also want to keep a zealous and elemental weapon.

    Luck of the Draw is never a good choice for a warrior. I don't know why the wiki page would suggest it as a "great example". It's only half as useful as -2/stance. The +10al vs <element> ones can be great picks but require you to pay attention to damage types and set up multiple shields.

    Swordsmanship rune goes on the helmet so that when you swap weapons you only have to swap that piece. Other runes can go wherever. I'd probably opt for a second vitae over clarity, though it likely won't make a difference either way.

    I suspect the radiant insignia were from you mistakenly believing that more energy = energy management. Sentinel or sentry would be the default choices.

  • Ranger pet builds

    I'm assuming we're only talking about normal mode here. Hopefully it's obvious to you that a no shield melee build on a no deaths character is generally a bad idea.

    You'll want heavy investments in all of expertise + weapon + beast mastery and don't want to risk using major/superior runes (normally essential for rangers) so I wouldn't bother investing anywhere else.

    Some untested examples:

    Minor expertise and beast mastery runes plus an expertise helmet for all.

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    Switch the attacks around as you see fit. I've gone for energy ones given they'll be basically free due to expertise + a zealous scythe. Farmer's Scythe could be a good pick once you get to Eye of the North.

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    An attempt at an adrenaline based one instead. Assuming Withering Aura on a hero. Dark Fury would also be nice if you want to cater to yourself that heavily.

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    Earthbind on a hero is ideal, perhaps essential. I don't know how the timing will work on Renewing Smash with only a 25% IAS.

    Ultimately once you get to the point where you can put together half decent hero builds you shouldn't have to worry much about minmaxing your own bar. As I said though, hm is a different story.

  • Question Game Mechanic Casting time

    As a general rule bonuses stack multiplicatively. Oftentimes there's a limit, though individual sources that exceed this will have their full effect, and some sources are exempt from the limit.

    Per the wiki, the limit for reduced casting time is 25% and the fast casting bonus is exempt.

    If my interpretation is correct:
    First example: 2 seconds * 0.85 (pie) * 0.72 (fc) = 1.224 seconds.
    Second example: 2 seconds * 0.5 (hct mod) * 0.72 (fc) = 0.72 seconds. Pie would be ignored because the hct mod alone exceeds the cap.

  • Rate my Build - 7 Heros as Melee #1

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    Guide: Using the gwbb tag to display builds and skills

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    It will display builds & skills like this:

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    The skills in individual and builds have a tooltip (hover-over) so you can see the name and details of the skill. You can also copy the build code from within a build post as well as see the primary and secondary professions.

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    bsoltan
    February 10, 2019 at 11:27 AM

  • Altrumm Ruins High Scoring

    Quote from Mr. Clean(-Value)

    Maybe also possible idea:

    Mercenaries heros + tool box Wich allows you to have a more unique set up then with normal hero profession options and you can not just place 3 heros separately you can basicly chose for all 7 team member individually where they should stand. So like a 3 hero team north, 3 hero team south with perfect positioning. And a player + support hero + summon stone middle. With a possible roam. This could lead to a way faster cleaning.

    Neither mercenaries nor toolbox are required to do this. In the settings you can bind keys for hero flags 4-7. Maybe toolbox adds a ui element for them, idk.

  • R8TWAY - 8 Ritualist teams

    Sight Beyond Sight is redundant with AScan, except that it functions as a cover enchant.

    I'd be inclined to bring GDW to add some crowd control to your ranged units. This also may mean you won't need the second splinter on the BiP, which is significantly less good at 11 than 14+.

    Some of the listed attributes clearly aren't correct. Idk if you had intended that to be the case.

  • Xander's Amazing Build Service! Now also providing Farming Builds!

    Bone Minions at 12 death have ~420 health (including spawning power) and 30 armor. Every damage packet they receive in any non trivial situation is going to eat a shelter charge. An ST rit is not going to work.

    Sitting in a middle ground between two fundamentally opposing concepts will leave you with something mediocre at best. Focus on either boosting the minions for damage or bombing. The effectiveness of minion damage grows exponentially with death magic so I would advise the latter, though your horrors will have ~540 health + 58 armor which maybe is useable if you really want to try that route.

    Order of Pain is party member only so it won't do anything for your minions or spirits. It's also not advisable to add another sacrifice skill to your bip, or to have something so time intensive on a healer.

    Maybe have Assassin's Promise + EVAS on the player bar to help ball the enemies and absorb the biggest hits before the minion horde arrives? Maybe try spirit's gift and/or blood bond to help sustain them.

    I would think two copies of BotM requires a meaningful increase on the amount of healing you've got there.

  • Where to get max q4 insc scythes

    Using a max damage scythe = terrible damage when SWS is down.

    Using a req4 scythe = terrible damage always.

    Stance removal is rare and in any instance where it is not the solution would be to run a different build or to kill or suppress the source before it can use it. Even if your intention is to only switch to the r4 when SWS is down, it's still not a particularly apt means of addressing the problem.

  • Campaign-based books do not get chapters

    When I asked what you've been doing I meant which missions specifically so we can most closely replicate your actions.

    I added the books to my inventory in the way you've shown and completed nahpui quarter nm. The book updated as expected.

    Are you running toolbox or any other sort of add ons? Not that I'm aware of those causing any such issues, or having the potential to do so.

  • Campaign-based books do not get chapters

    I'm not sure if you're trying to convey anything with the images, but just in case, you know there's a difference between the regular and hard mode versions of the books? Doing, for example, The Wilds in hard mode won't add an entry to the normal mode Flameseeker Prophecies.

    Have you tried talking to the NPC's that will retroactively fill in pages?

    Are you aware the early missions (eg the two shing jea island missions) don't appear in any book in normal mode and appear in the Young Heroes of Tyria in hard mode?

    It would help if you told/showed us specifically what you've got and what you've been doing.

  • Farming War Supplies

    If you're asking with regard to getting enough oppressor weapons for your Hall of Monuments, I got mine by doing the wanted quests with a high reward:time ratio and playing through the war in kryta and hearts of the north storylines on other characters. Wasn't significantly grindy.

    If you're asking with regard to how people obtain them in enormous quantities for sale, botting. To my knowledge, one of the hotn quests gives 5 war supplies in 10 mins or thereabouts. Idk which, or whether they do that one because it's the best war supply farm overall or if it's just the best one they can automate.

  • DOA 7 TEAM HEROES

    Normal mode or hard mode? With the various changes that have been made since release the former is not substantially more difficult than routine content like vanquishes.

    Have you given it a go? If so, are you struggling somewhere? I'll refrain from being overly specific now, but I'll note that like tougher content in general it's more about technique than builds. Aggroing carefully and paying attention to your compass are both very important. DoA isn't like UW though where it's basically essential to have a plan beforehand or you're going to fail. Still, reading the wiki beforehand can help prevent you wiping from any surprises it throws at you.

    Meta builds should be fine, though it's worth noting panic will do a lot more here than usual.

  • Ceremonial daggers or Shiro's blades

    I'll echo the above: the zealous daggers are the practical choice but are easy enough to replicate by buying the parts and assembling them yourself, so if you're really keen on Shiro's Daggers for the skin you might as well take them. Don't bother trying to farm weapon parts because that's never a time efficient way to get them - for a lot of things, like mods, you're better off just getting the money and buying them.

    Regarding balthazar faction: note that unlocking and obtaining are not the same. If you spend balthazar faction to unlock weapon mods then what this will do is make them available on demand for your PvP-only characters. It will not give your PvE characters one of those mods, so this is not a solution for your situation.