Secret World Legends General /swlg/

For those just joining the conversation left off with the vets explaining to the new guys why AR healing is amazing.

>>181010968
New player here, does that mean I'm fucked cause I picked shotty?

>>181011028
not at all, some guy was just claiming AR healing sucked, I was stating that is just grossly misinformed. Shotty does decent dps and is great for tanking.

Redpill me on the Templars

I am very interested in hearing whether people are going full in on one weapon or splitting their hotbar between two equally. There was room to do both in tsw, but I've yet to really grasp what the new best way to go about builds is. The absence of general party buffs like breaching shot and deadly tricks makes me think that just dipping into a weapon won't be worth it, or at least that dipping into something other than your primary purpose isn't worth it.

Also, trying to think about builds is feeling very flat without states, attack subtypes, triggers, passive synergies, aux weapons, etc. What is there to think about other than "this does more damage" or "this does more healing?"

>>181011519
Templars should be great, but their leader is a ponce.

>>181011519
I just started and I really don't like the Templar's leader too much. Acts like a snob.

>>181011671
Looking on shittit and discord as well as through my own experiance. You'll want to focus on your primary weapon. Its baseline energy recharge is 1/sec while secondary is .5/sec. This means you benefit more from more primary skills. Most set ups want 1 or 2 from secondary at most. Preferably 1 but 2 isnt that much of a performance drop. Some weapons work much better as secondaries due to their low "slot tax". Slot tax is the amount of slots you need to take advantage of the weapons mechanic. So pistols chaos, and elemental all work pretty well as secondaries. Assault rifles have some abilities that dont rely on grenades but because you cant use them well without the right passives and atleast 2 skills equiped the slot tax is the highest of all the weapons.

>>181010837
>No link to previous thread
smhfam

>>181010837
I'm using blood/AR and I don't like it, it's boring. But since synergy are gone I'm guessing all weapons are like that. It doesn't feel like I'm making my build since the new passive are restrictive as fuck on which abilities they can work. Also mob being piss easy to kill I often find myself with more than 30-40AP/SP I just forgot to spend.

>>181010837
OP you need to make a better general.
Put a few more links with information about the game for Christ sake.

>>181011519
Templars are obsessed with ridding the world of Evil, with a capital E. You might as well file them in the phonebook under Crusaders, with all that implies. They are more neutral good than lawful good though; they are willing to sacrifice for a greater good.

If you regularly play Paladins, Clerics of a good alignment, Rangers of a good alignment, or something similar in other games, you will like Templar.

Their only downside is that the handler likes his own voice a little bit too much.

>>181011745
>>181011854
Dragon is the only faction where the handler doesn't act like a dick all the time.

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Any lore nerds around? I was playing through Blue Mountain yesterday and was doing the investigation mission with the rune stones and those two ravens. The ravens tell about how the Norse gods are involved in all of it and let you in on Beaumont's identity, they also refer to Odin. The way they mention the all-father is now sleeping a "honeyed sleep" makes me think Odin was a bee in one of the earlier ages. Also points to the direction that The Buzzing is the collective consciousness of all the bees who came in previous ages, and got downloaded into Gaia once the ages ended.
Peter Stormare a best. He voiced the ravens.

>>181012303
Nah i bet that he also acts like a dick but it is all lost in the translation :^)

Is there a way to stop needing to join a chat channel every time you login? What the fuck.

>>181012740
https://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?74514-Scripts-for-Customchats

>>181012740
Open Notepad ( or simliar ).

delay 5000
/chat join ‘channelname’

Save this as

auto_login

with no file extension.

Place in the scripts folder of your base game directory.

>>181012931
>>181012987
Didn't work. There isn't a scripts folder in base directory so I made one and no dice.

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>>181013279
Odd, I used that format, made a tab in-game & enabled it from within (right click the tab, subscribe etc etc). Try not to put too many chat channels within one script if youre doing so, that might be a problem.

>>181013471
I don't know. Oh well.

>>181012569
>The Buzzing is the collective consciousness
Maybe. What is more probable is that it's a biomechanical entity/hivemind made by the builders, whoever they were, that has been around since the 1st age, part of the Immaculate Machine like Gaia Engines are.
"She [Gaia] gave you strength to rend the lion. Now eat the honeyed entrails, because it is good, because it is sweet, because it is terrible. Initiate the Samson Prerogative. Out of the eater comes what is eaten, and out of the strong comes what is sweet."
They're a safeguard for the Dreamers, made to guide the Gaia's chosen agents so that the Filth would not consume everything.

Can you people share your min/maxing experience?

I'm rolling shotgun/hammer but I feel like all the stuff I pick is weak. Might drop hammer for something else but not sure what yet, or both if I find something that sounds worth trying.

Has anyone found like the perfect secondary? like minimal skill investment on the bar, yet providing enough benefits and getting some love from their gimmick?

How is chaos doing? I just wanted to be a brainless murderball with enough sustain to ignore damage. Any ideas welcome

>>181014291

Combat seems harder all around desu, a lot harder to get an efficient build/rotation going when you're effectively limited to 6 skills and a single weapon. Not enough AP/SP to make much work till you're well into egypt.

>>181013279
scretworldlegend/data/prog/script

>>181014448
>Combat seems harder

What ? Are you sure you're playing Legend ?

>>181014535
The content is easier, but the builds are harder, because picking up stuff is still somewhat experimental. It's hard to be sure which skills are worth shit and which aren't.

You can read like AoE or single target, x cooldown, power attack, or elite etc, but until you try it out you can't really tell if it really works like you imagine. Like I picked one of the hammer aoes, and it's so shit, and I don't feel like spending hundreds of SP just to see if the passives make it worthwhile. But at the same time obviously maxing all the passives will make it more effective as well as upgrading my weapon. But since I'm using it as secondary I don't feel like commiting so many points when I could swap to something else that someone found to be very reliable already.

>>181014535

Did you play the old TSW? You could breeze through transylvania with quality 3 gear, now you HAVE to squat in every zone and grind levels or you'll get your ass stretched open. Not to mention how the game literally wont allow you to have a full set of gear till you get further in. I never had to grind in the old TSW.

>>181013948
>They're a safeguard for the Dreamers, made to guide the Gaia's chosen agents so that the Filth would not consume everything.

In the lore entries The Buzzing says few times that "they were once like you", and The Black Signal pretty much says the same when it talks about how The Buzzing has "forgotten what it felt like to be plural once".

>Patcher literally going 5kbps - 500 BYTES PER SECOND

Fix your shit. Love it when a game launches and can't even download it.

>>181014932

Did you play the old TSW? I used to run NM daily. Also if you have to grind in each zone in Lagend you're doing something wrong, Just playing the quest and doing the dungeon give you enough to have your weapons and talisman overlevel.

Also you don't need a full set because the game is easy as fuck compare to tsw. Just look at polaris, before in normal you needed a tank , a heal and some dps, now just go with what you want it doesn't matter.

>>181015343

>I used to run NM daily

Wow, that's super impressive. You dodged my point about quality 3 gear being sufficient for Transylvania, too. Icing on the cake, you concede my point that you have to run the missions in every area to stay geared when that wasn't necessary before.

But because you believe that normal Polaris is a good indicator of overall combat difficulty I understand that you're a huge fucking retard, don't ever reply to me again.

>>181014932
>Use shotgun
>solo everything now
Yeah legends sure is hard

>>181016048
Talk to me about the shotgun.
I've thrown AP into pistols right now but I'm only level 12. Should I just concentrate on shotgun instead as my first weapon.
It seems way more efficient considering group damage and survivability, essentially solo play, even if pistol probably beats it in overall DPS.

>>181015936
Not my fault you can't deal with the most easy combat ever know and are butthurt about it.

>>181016048
which passives and skills do you recommend for shotgun? Other tan odds and evens everything seems weaksauce.

>>181016201

;)

>>181016048
Shotgun seems pretty based yeah. Good dps and aoe, decent solo heal with dispell, possibility of tanking/taunting... At this point i think I'll only pick a second weapon for like a stun or something and only ever use it for that.

>>181001501
>wanting to delete based mining helmet
I always used it when exploring dark places. Good times.

So, I hear the original game had actual face customization, was there any other customization removed? Cause choosing between a faggot and a boyish hipster bitch is unappealing.

>>181016952
No. They fucked up the character creation for whatever incomprehensible reason, but clothing options seem to have been expanded slightly.

>>181017069
>They fucked up the character creation for whatever incomprehensible reason
It's really hard to figure out why.
I mean, this already existed, they didn't need to change anything.

>>181016952
>was there any other customization removed?
Weapon skin transfers are gone for now, not sure when they'll be back.

>>181017287
Never.
They'd rather you grind, farm and pay to relevel the cool looking weapon you just found to the level of your old.

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I found this extremely funny in a hilariously sad way.

>>181017325
That would suck but it's not unlikely with their new model.

>>181017209
That's the thing, the change is completely nonsensical.
Legends doesn't have the option of a barber shop and plastic surgeon that the old game had, so they're not even trying to cash in by limiting the initial creation and making you pay for the remaining options. Retaining the old creator would have cost them nothing, but they still redesigned it by removing the option to choose facial features separately instead from a dozen presets.

Can't believe I was hyped when this game was first announced. It's special how much people defend this shit in general though.

>>181018137
It's understandable. A lot of them are players who were invested in and really liked TSW.
It's pure and simple denial, because they still would want the game to be good. It will wear off after a while, stages of grief.

>>181018265
I supppose, but I just don't understand exactly what part they see as an improvement.
If you've never played TSW you could still make the argument that Legends is better because it's free.
I suppose the weapon mechanics exist, barely.

The ARG weapon codes didn't go out yet, right?

>>181017339
I just realized that the last game I played with that mechanic was FUCKING
ARCHEAGE

>>181018447
>I suppose the weapon mechanics exist, barely.
I actually really like AR's weapon mechanic, but that's probably due to me overthinking it.

>>181018759
I haven't tried the AR, but it's the weapon mechanic people cry about the most. No idea why.

Are they going to drop TSW anytime soon?
I might just go back to that, got to Transylvania and randomly stopped playing. At least the builds were a lot more fun than this.

>>181019097
Even if you go through the story they won't be adding anything in there any more.
All further story updates, if such are ever made, will be in Legends.
Additionally you get to play the issues if you do not own them. Stick to Legends if the world and story interest you. Best look elsewhere though if you want a good MMORPG.

>>181019376
Pretty sure I bought the version with all the issues and they haven't even released all issues on Legends have they?

>>181019376

Their devteam is most likely cut down by 70% since launch. There will never be an xpac or proper content additions. When was the last issue for TSW anyways?

>>181019097
I think they shut down the TSW item shop so you can't play anything you don't already own.

>>181019670
They released 14 bit over a year ago, it was a separate mission chain, like 13 was.
Continuation to Tokyo, i.e. Main Story, is what people are waiting for.
>>181019532
No, but they said that tokyo will be coming later, and with that it would mean issues 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13.

Are Tyler Freeborn, Last Train to Cairo and Dream to Kill in yet? Dream to Kill especailly is pretty much essential for the main story, I could see that being part of the Tokyo update since it pretty much leads to issue 9.
Issues 1 to 4 are integrated to the game as they already were in original.

Aight I'm about to give this game a shot. What am I in for lads?

>>181018912
I guess it's because you're essentially playing hot potato, you have to waste skill slot just so you won't yourself for 15% max HPs, or you may get that one passive which makes you immune to it, but question is would that really be worth it?

>>181020162
Shit gameplay, horrible monetization, worst item drop system I've seen in a while, incredible atmosphere, great quests, good writing and investigative quests that you'll either despise for being too vague or love.

>>181020162
A shell of once unique and interesting concepts.
Writing is probably the best the entire genre has to offer, heck it's great for video games in general.
Too bad this is Funcom trying to barely stay afloat so the game has been messed up by f2p shit.
You'll either put up with that because the world completely takes you in, or you get turned away pretty quickly.

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Got any themes you like?
https://soundcloud.com/slipperhero/butterflies-wings-from-the-secret-world
I like the instrumental version of this too

>>181020641

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU1qkH7Fwqw

>>181018912
If you're using an AR spender, it means you're generating grenades. You can do one of three things with grenades, the first being slot a grenade skill and use them. This is slightly Effort, because there's a delay between generation and spending and because grenades are GTAOE, which is a pain to place right now. The second is to ignore them. This solution is shit, though, because it means you lose 15% of your maximum health every ten seconds or so.

The third option is to slot the explosives expert passive, which doubles the amount of time you have to respond to a grenade and also makes it so you can ignore them without penalty. This costs a passive slot, and most people don't have the ability unlocked/know about it.

Are the last few issues (classic TSW) worth playing or should I just jump straight into SWL?

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>>181020641
There is something about the radio music in videogames. TSW is one hell of example.
https://soundcloud.com/quadraphonicsoundproject/chasing-ghosts
https://soundcloud.com/doublestone/le-blond-all-inn Overlook Motel radio, starts on 11:20
And remember those songs that play at Raven's Knock? They are so soothing.
https://soundcloud.com/achazia/fire-inside
https://soundcloud.com/achazia/the-queen
https://soundcloud.com/achazia/thousands-thoughts-deep
One of the most atmospheric games I've ever played and it's a fucking MMO with loads of flaws.

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>Choose shotgun because shotgun fuck yeah
>All of the really damaging abilities have retarded animations, with one handed firing and other such nonsense

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>maintenance in 2 minutes
>downtime 2 hours
>40mb patch 20kb/s

>>181017649
Those two will probably be implemented later, no?

>>181017339
Havent found a single one yet, and I'm 12-13. Is there a level minimum to get them?

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Carter is a cutie.

>>181025365
>DX11

>>181025365
No, but the female teacher with the accent is.

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>>181025492
I don't have a toaster and DX11 run fine, outside of a micro freeze every 2 hours

>>181025525
I'm sure you can get both.

>>181024210
Kneecapper is objectively the best elite skill in the game.

So many salty mother fuckers over the new system. They have lock boxes which can be ignored. They have dungeon keys which are in place to prevent someone from grinding a green to an epic in a single 2 hour play session which was done in beta and posted in the beta forums. As for hollowed out weapon builds. Everyone did slight variations on 8-9 builds in the original. Maybe swap out a builder or 2 but that was the diversity. Investigation missions haven't changed. In fact the only system i can understand the bitching over are the inventory expansion and sprint speed. For real let us use anima shards on that shit. New combat is much better than the shit old combat. (BIS for everything, fully upgraded aegis and maxed out museum don't get me started on scen grinding) I've been with tsw since 2010 when they posted the first few screen shots participated in every arg so on and so on. I've enjoyed legends gameplay wise much more than i've ever enjoyed vanilla.

There is another complaint but I'm not in a position to have an opinion on it due to my legacy status. The stat increases from passive nodes affect you no matter what weapon you hold. New players start out with a disadvantage in having to unlock them. Though 40k isnt that much. Considering a single blue can net you 15k. Also 3 pips are easy 5k.

>>181025909 Continuing this rant
>>181025192

The guy talking about the download is also right. The patch server is shit. took me 6 hours to download a 60mb patch after the AH exploit.

>>181025909
>New players start out with a disadvantage in having to unlock them. Though 40k isnt that much. Considering a single blue can net you 15k. Also 3 pips are easy 5k.
I've been playing for a few days now and i have no idea what you are talking about.

>>181026158
Probably selling items in AH.

Hi anons. I remember playing this long ago and giving up before even finishing Kingsmouth. It wasn't the combat/animations themselves that turned me off, but also how those issues were coupled with the large amount of boring af action quests. Should I still give Legends a go?

I was just going to try it myself right now, but maintenance.

>>181026305
What is AH?

What do you wanna bet with the state of the download and login server it'll be 1hour+ after the downtime ends before we can play again? If this was supposed to save Funcom and TSW, oh boy things are looking bad.

>>181026428
The thing that has been disabled for few days now.

>>181026158
Sorry was on a rant, and i failed to adequately explain that. On the market you can sell a blue quality item for 15k Marks of favor. Thats 1 and 2 pips as well. (Pips are the little dots below the weapon and talismans with 3 being the rarest) Green 3 pips go for around 5-7k a piece. For example im sitting on 53k Mof after selling a few blues pretty early on. I'd have more but I've bought sprint and a few Inv expansions. What im trying to say is from my perspective its easy to make money. But I'm also a subscriber and a tsw transfer so I have advantages so its hard for me to just flat out say "Stop complaining over nothing i can get money just fine" as I'm not in the same position as them.

Fucking caches, I've had 15 of them drop in 20 minutes
Normally I'd start praying to every god and saint out there, but fucking hell

>>181026428
Auction House.

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Is it still down for maintenance or is it only me who can't get in? :<

>>181025309
>>181026707
Bump. When did you start looting some?

>>181025309
They don't drop until you're level is 15.

>>181026798
They just started dropping when I went through the scrapyard and airport

>>181027010
... and then they never stop.

>>181027101
...Never ever...

>main story quest: go raise your level
this is cancer

>>181025909
>New combat is much better than the shit old combat.
New combat is literally the same as the old reticle combat. Nothing has changed except for removing builders and making energy recharge over time instead. Now you just spam consumers rather than making yourself a rotation based on your weapon combination.

Combat is so fucking bad right now because you constantly have to turn the camera to hit what you want to hit.

>>181027327
Literally happens in only 2 places in Kingsmouth. After that you will always be appropriate level unless you decide to skip everything but the main quest.

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>>181026750
Should be up in about 20 minutes. Get ready to meet your friend Territory Manager though.

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>>181020162
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiEKJ0_K9nY

>>181027405
Except the reticle combat feels good. The using resources feels good. Requires management. Builder spender required no forethought save theory crafting. Also taht last comment was autistic. They wanted reticle target arpg feel and.... HOLYSHIT YOU HAVE TO PLAY IT LIKE AN ARPG THE FUCKING NERVE.

>>181028285
www.autismspeaks.com

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>>181027310
Even when the servers die you'll still get them...

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>when servers are down you can't download the game

Geniuses.

I miss all the skill synergies.

>>181028285
>Except the reticle combat feels good. The using resources feels good.

It doesn't feel better, it the same as before except instead of spamming a builder and a spender, you spam two spender.

>>181028874
The surge of new players disagree.

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>>181028961
This surge will soon leave after a while. F2P games have a bad player retention, especially with the nickle and diming in this new iteration.

>>181028961

Because it's a relaunch. Wildstar had a resurge when it went F2P too.

>>181028961
You mean the surge of new players to a game that just went f2p?

>>181028285
>reticle combat feels good
>only 1 server

>>181028961
>thinking new players came to tswl because of the combat no because it's f2p.

>>181029278
>Implying megaservers haven't existed since fucking neverwinter

>>181029567
still doesn't make it any good. in fact it's so shit it killed neverwinter.

HOLY FUCK IS THIS GAME SHIT!

WOW are the servers ever up for this game i waited yesterday and then couldn't log in because of Verification bullshit every time i tried and now its down again today

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>>181030338
Always up except for the times you try to log in.

>>181030338
Try reading what is written on the launcher.

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Can anyone recommend me Abilities and Passives for maining Pistols? I've been doing low to medium damage but I feel like I'm missing out on something. My secondary is Shotgun for healing as well.

I understand that Blade and Sledgehammer are OPed as fuck but I just love Pistols.

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>>181028531

>>181026328
Combat is way faster and braindead easy now, it's impossible to die to mobs your own level and every mob encounter lasts only a fraction of what it did in the original.
This means that action missions are also way faster than they used to.

>>181028285
The reticle combat is exactly the same.
Exactly when do you not look at the general direction of an enemy when using abilities in TSW?
You don't shoot projectiles that you have to aim, you don't have animation that have to directly hit an enemy. It's still the exact same MMO combat, except instead of pressing tab to target something else you move your mouse somewhere near the enemy.

>>181028285
If you had played the old TSW for the slightest of time on reticle mode you would have known this is the exact same shit we had back then. Except the players HATED it and rarely anyone used it, but Funcom thought it would be a good idea to just implement it over to SWL without any improvements.

It feels so fucking bad and it will drive away a lot of potential players.

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>The Exchange is still offline, but we plan to re-enable it later today, June 28th. Thank you again for your patience!
What the fuck are they even doing in there

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>yfw "2 hour downtime" is in fact 3 hours because it takes an extra hour the download a 60mb patch at third world speeds

>>181027010
>>181027013
>>181027101
>>181027310
>>181028531
Ok, thanks!

Does the faction mission have disapeared ?

>>181033946
Hey, I'm downloading at an impressive speed of up to 70 KB/sec today opposed to the 18 KB/s of yesterday!

>>181034235
Are you a third worlder ? I can get 80KB/sec, it feel good not having a shit internet.

>>181034595
I CAN GET 30MB/S OFF DECENT SERVERS AND IT'S NOT EVEN THE MOST EXPENSIVE ISP OPTION, WHAT IS IS KB/S CRAP ARE WE IN 1980s REEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>181034595
I blame the Illuminati.

"Getting Character list" wew sure am glad they fixed the servers so i still cant log in

>>181035047
They should hire a new territory manager.

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> 10 minutes for launcher to get past "Getting character list"
> Several more minutes to load the character select screen
> 10 minutes for menu to load after choosing to create a new character
> Crashes
> realize that the launcher didn't update to the new patch properly

This relaunch is worse than Wildstar going F2P, and that's a pretty low bar to begin with.

I understand that MMO launches are inherently shitty and unprofessional, but it never stops being annoying.

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>>181034036
Yes and aux weapons and the quests for them.

BUY A LOOT BOX KEY TODAY!

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>>181035558
Faction special missions are gone?
Literally why? I understand aux weapons, but there was absolutely no reason to remove the special assignments.

>>181035756
Funcom gotta funcom

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> Unable to create more characters in this dimension. Please select another one.

Motherfucker, how do I change my server if I didn't even start character creation yet? I yelled "WHAT" so loudly that I woke up my dog.

>>181025525

Finally, a man with taste

>>181035558
>>181035756
Apparently the faction missions take place between story missions now rather than when your faction rank goes up.

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20 minutes messing around with the character creator and it spontaneously crashes. This is in addition to a bunch of other crashes that happened already.

There's a feeling in my stomach telling me that this isn't worth the time or effort.

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>>181025525
>ABC of Monsters up in the treehouse
>Miss Usher
>Caution: hot

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>>181035756
Let's all pretend I'm from Funcom and I know what's happened to them, and that I too am upset they're gone ok?

The initial plan was to remove them and then RESELL them as mini-expansions down the road, however, instead of using a surgical knife to remove it from the game, they took a sledgehammer to it, like the majority of what they've done with this "Facelift" so because of this they're not sure if they can put them back into the game so they're on permanent hold now.

This can all change and this is Secret World Legends "Open Beta" so it might be re-introduced in the coming months or sadly years.

>>181036775
How do you know when you have one?

>>181037146
They've said that all story content will be free, upcoming ones as well.
If they don't want to shoot themselves in the leg they wont sell mission+story content and will focus the monetising on different aspects.

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>>181037090

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Why the fuck is this game 40gigs

what the fuck

>>181035756
The NY parking was one, right? Hope it's still here, that's one of my favorite quest ever.

>>181037090
OMG i remember reading this but i never made the connection.Is it the same teacher?I forgot the name.

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>not playing SWL: LSD

>>181038564
There's also a page for Montag.

Anyone know if the gravity quest is bug ?

Is it like the old TSW and I should finish at least Solomon Island with the weapons I started putting points into, or can I just change right now still in Kingston, at about lvl 14 and not run into problems?
Pistol just pisses me off, I keep reading people saying shotgun is great and that's what I did most of the old TSW with the first time, might as well switch back.

Ahahahaha holy shit.
So I logged in, moment it finished loading, I died. Like, died. I dunno why.
When I respawned, I have no energy at all.
Am not recovering any energy at all. I've killed myself so many times and it's not recharging now.
Damn.

>>181038338
>accidentally save it in your SSD
>can't move it since downloading takes forever right now

yea... pretty annoying

>>181039136
I've changed at like lv7 and had no problem.

>>181039136
Shotty seems to be even more easymodo than the game in general is now.
It's a dps and tank weapon so you get damaging abilities but better group handling potential than pistol.
Healing and tanking abilities and passives, and picking anima infused shells on reload on hairy situations lends to solo play much more.
I feel like blade could probably achieve the same.

So, what weapon should i even take with the Shotgun? I'm not really feeling any.Went for the AR but the grenade is a shitty gimmick.

>>181040809
are you trying to dps or tank?

>>181041081
Dps i guess. I'll mostly be solo though.

>>181041248
try elementalism

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>can't recreate my TSW character
>autisms prevents me from enjoying the game
Why did they have to remove options?

>>181042081
Create a char of the other gender.

>>181042052
Aright, thanks.
>>181042081
Modified mine a bit. Just imagine he/she got older over the years.

>>181042471
>got older over the years.
that's what I had to do

>>181042743
I tried to do that but couldn't get over how weird it looked.
It was very close, but not exactly because of the wrinkles.
Had to delete that character and create a new one. This time a bit further.
Now it doesn't hit my uncanny valley, though it also doesn't really look like my old character beyond hair and facial hair, of the latter which by the way my old choice isn't even in anymore so I had to settle for the closest one.
The creator is an absolute shit show.

>>181043292
it wasn't good before either, but I get your disappointment.

>>181044468
I know it wasn't good compared to other games, but I don't get why they removed options when it could have just been moved into Legends as it was.

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>>181020641
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zutKoJ_QQ&list=PLXSaJ1VYkIYsbYlKA__KoBXqjqaZR4R6K&index=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiUPR4ckbSw

>Varangian runs away when he only has 100 health left
I'm guessing that's not intended? He went towards the first place you meet him.

>>181044993
I don't disagree with you, but I can understand why they wanted to up the graphics a bit. I don't know shit about making games so I don't know whether or not that would affect their ability to keep the old faces.

Also, is anyone else finding the speed with which you kill mobs a little off-putting? The speed with which I roast zombies and the like kind of cuts into the horror ambiance.

>>181049059
>the speed with which you kill mobs a little off-putting
It's literally impossible to die to mobs close to your level. I blasted away the lvl 15 zombies in airport as 11.

>>181049059
Mobs were never much of a threat before either.

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Let me see those outfits, post your dudes and dudettes.

>>181049265
I distinctly remember dreading pulling extra mobs while playing tsw when it came out. Now it seems like nothing. Then again maybe it will get hard later, but I'm not counting on it.

>>181049397
You could still die to them. Weapon and ability synergy understanding was essential in TSW to handle mobs. Now you just kill them with a couple of clicks of one power ability.

>>181049397
I can't tell you the number of times people hit Blue Mountain, pre balance tweaks, and got a rude awakening. Synergistic builds used to be near mandatory. There were entire sections of build websites just for Blue Mountain builds to get the newer players through it.

>>181049616
>distinctly remember dreading pulling extra mobs
That's because it pretty much meant certain death.
Mobs were placed so that they were single encounters. Pulling and killing more was possible, but only after you had good gear and a great build that could dish out a lot of group damage.

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>>181020641
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aHcANs4GE

Still give me the chill

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>>181049616
>Would not trust the terminator.

Played TSW for a little, enjoyed it but I was stuck and dropped it. What is this and should I get into it?

>>181050560
read the thread

>>181049836

Christ pubbies are fucking bad. I made it through BM and didn't know shit about my build.

>>181050560
TL;DR Funcom being greedy jews re-released the game as F2P. All issues (expansions) will be F2P. Has a pay 2 win cash shop, has tedious grind and loot boxes designed to nickle and dime you for every cent you have since Funcom is going under financially.

Also has much more simplified and easier content which is both a good and bad thing. TSW was brutally difficult unless you had a maximized build and that's done away with, but at the same time skill trees are too simplified.

Still has the great story, questing, and atmosphere of TSW.

Overall I'd say give it a go. Note that the game starts getting more difficult after you get to the Savage Coast and steadily increases in difficulty to the point where you do need to pay attention to what you're doing.

>>181050560
https://secretworldlegends.com/faq/

Relaunch of TSW with easier combat and f2p mechanics.

>Be Blades
>Go down the top skill path
>Get Dancing Blade
>Animation looks like shit and it does fuck all for damage outside of its final burst

>Do Dungeon
>Try to DPS
>Typhoon seems to do less damage than regular old Swallow Cut
>No real reward for progressing and investing AP since the moves seem to get weaker than the basic 1 hit Swallow Cut.

I know the game just opened and everyone has shitty builds but is there anyone in here who is also blades and knows how to fucking build them, because I'm not getting it.

>>181050931
>>181050979
Alright, might have to check it out since its (free)

>>181051086
I saw some other people saying that blades are doing shit for damage right now.

>>181050914
I don't get the BM difficulty spike either and I played before they made early game easier.
Doesn't change that TSW still required some thought into your build, unlike here.
Hell even in transylvania, where you probably had already blues from doing dungeons, you still had to change your abilities to, if not get wrecked, at least make your life easier, e.g. to counter vampire's high evade rating.

>>181051319
I did Hell Rising at lvl 20 with 2 pugs and we were legitimately having trouble with the DPS check bosses like the Corroder and the one guy in the cathedral whos name escapes me.

The boss just wasn't fucking dying fast enough and the fire reached us and fried us. I was blades, another guy was shotgun and the last guy was blood/something. The blood guy just fucking stood there most of the time and did fuck all.

But the point was that the DPS checks were fucking us. We only BARELY scraped by when blood guy finally decided to use his fucking damage abilities.

I don't know if it was me with a shit build because I don't know what the mecca of blades builds is, or if blades itself is bad, but it was a pain in the ass.

>>181049836
Was this early on?

I only played the game 1-2 years ago. I had a zero-thought build and even then didn't die that much on Blue Mountain. I may have adapted and pulled less mobs there compared to previous areas, but at no point the enemies felt intimidating.

So what's the best prefix for shotguns?
Does it even matter? I was thinking restoration mkII for the heals.

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I played this three years ago. While I agree the combat sucked it was the next comfiest experience after starting regions in WoW.

What did they actually change as I'm still downloading?

>>181052253
*suffix, fuck

>>181052253
Always go for Energy

>>181052291
no skill synergies or passive synergies anymore.
no skill wheel.
no aux weapons.
no tab targeting, "action" combat with reticle
agartha is different.
the weapons each have a gimmick outside their skills.
less skill slots on the hotbar.
no crafting really, not that it was good before.
pay to win (((cash shop)))

>>181052068
In 2014. They made the early game easier at some point in 2015.

>>181052068
>I only played the game 1-2 years ago
You played the "rebalance" version of Blue Mountain that was much easier. They didn't change any of the mechanics, just toned down all the numbers so nobody had any chance of dying.

Brand new to the game, can someone redpill me on all the factions and if joining one over the other is worth it?

>>181054795
> redpill me
You're going to be right at your place with the Illuminati.

>>181055046
Their intro video makes them seem edgy as fuck though.

>>181055113
I don't think any of the factions are edgy.

>>181054795
Doesn't matter further than flavor.
Dragon is ridiculously boring.
Make the choice of your particular flavor between Templar and Illuminati.

For head-roleplaying:

Templars fight the Evil, crusaders, though not religiously oriented ones. Defenders of humanity or tunnelvisioned zealots, depending on the view.

Illuminati are Illuminati. Pulling the strings of governments, information control, conspiracies, money flowing into right pockets and out of others.
Powerhungry hedonists or just humans who don't want to pretend they live for anything other than themselves?

Dragon is an enigma. Nobody really knows what the fuck the Dragon do or how they even operate and for what purpose, not even Funcom.

>>181054795
You should always pick Templar for a variety of reasons.

Illuminati are basically corporate America gone overboard, doing anything for wealth and power.

Dragon are idiots who think they can out-chaos Cthulu.

Templars are righteous, if narrow minded, zealots who want to stamp out Evil from the world.

I will never solo the Ur-Draug again. Fucking hell, took me 30 minutes. I need to google for builds.

So how long until i can start doing the social aspects of this game like dungeon running for loot progression and selling things and doing Auction House PvP?

>>181055113
their organization isn't as cool as the Templars, but their allied groups throughout the world are cool. Illuminati get Innsmouth Academy and the Oni Bathhouse in Tokyo.

>>181054795
I had an Illuminati character named Shekel and no-one batted an eyelid if that's what you ask.
They're not edgy, they're supposed to be a parody of the whole evil corporate manipulators trope, faction made up of wolf of wall street types types, except various levels of competence.

Dragons have the best flavor text which goes from Man Running In Front of Bus Gets Tired tier confucian wisdom to complete rambling.

Templars are actually fairly straightforward as >>181055573 described.

>>181055972
You'll be googling 3 year old builds right now.

>>181055917
I played Templars before and rolled up an Illuminati this time. Not sure yet whether or not it was a mistake, London is by far the best city.

>>181055113
>edgy as fuck
What do you think /pol/ is? You're the one who asked for a red pill.

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>it's still downloading

In the meantime, do we have a cabal?

>>181035874
it's a bug, when you try a second time it works normally

If you spazz for something like that you have some anger issues to deal with.

>>181057073
It wouldn't work.
You're either a lone wolf or you grin and bear the few unsavory mmorpg types when in a random cabal.

I was in a cabal for a while. They were okay people when I did some dungeons and lairs with them, mostly because the active members and leaders were adults, but I didn't socialize.
It's best you try to find just a relaxed random group that doesn't have lelsorandumb internet humor on their introductions.
Imagine the mess a bunch of virgins together would be, even if Secret World attracts a supposedly more mature playerbase than many other games.

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left, or right?

>>181058605
right

>>181058605
Right is generic as fuck "i want to play a super cute grill"-character
Left is funny, which'll get old after a while, but what really amazes me is that one same person made both of these.

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>Using the assault rifle that gives you instantly cooked grenades
>Gain a grenade
>Grenade ability is on cooldown
>mfw

Anyway, I realized you can (Somewhat) replicate OG Merc build on TSWL, but you need to give up a basic ability ability and you lose out on one elementalist ability

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>>181058018
You never know, I played WoW with a dorf-only /v/ guild and STO in the /v/ fleet and they were both fine. No memes or drama.

I think exposure to autist drama ravaging other generals made you a bit jaded, anon-kun.

>>181058605
Left looks like some pajeet protagonist from a bollywood movie, which ranges from excellent if you'll roleplay correctly to terrible if won't. Right is "My main on Eredar is a pink haired gnome" horrible.

>>181058018
You know we used to have a channel and one cabal per faction a few years ago, right?
It went all super fine, we did Nightmares and shit.

>>181060152
Guess I'm just jaded.
Though I didn't really want to hang around /v/ types back then either. I was absolutely sick of gamergate and the board's culture in general. Still am, I just visit a few generals at times, haven't been a resident /v/irgin for years now.
/tg/ had a chat channel but no active cabals, I think. That was allright.

>>181060693
>I was absolutely sick of gamergate and the board's culture in general.
It seems that you forgot that /v/ doesn't play video games.

>>181060693
I've had the best times with /vg/ guilds', when there's an insufferable faggot he just gets ignored, easy as that.

Age of Wushu with /vg/ was simply amazing, a brotherhood of anons kidnapping chinks, drunken outlaw fights everywhere, playing go, collecting silk worms, patrolling the towns for spies, I miss that bunch so much.

>>181061326
Yeah same. Always had fun with /vg/ guilds too.

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>Played TSW for years work my ass off to get end-game gear and be able to do raids
>Buy all the issues
>Later game gets rebooted
>complete fuck you to veterans and they added a F2P model

I'm not sure how to feel about this. I've been thinking for the past few days whether I should come back or not.

To people who actually played the original what are your thoughts? you think its worth doing it all over again?

>>181061724
Do you love the world and the story? I assume yes, if the game hooked you before.
If you want to replay, well, now you kind of have the incentive for it. Other than that the game's gone simply worse.
On the plus side, replaying is easier since combat is now way more straightforward, easier, and faster.
Worth it for mmorpg experience? No.
Worth it for Secret World experience? Yeah, sure.

>>181049397
Oi, depends. Some fights were tough, especially if you're the exploring type.

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>>181049616
Man I was trying to trade for those damn glasses right up to SWL start, but didn't find anybody who wanted my shitty epics.
I'm using my old outfit I had in TSW, minus the Puritan glasses which got canned :(

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>>181049616

>>181059579
>and STO in the /v/ fleet
I downloaded STO recently and played for one day. It seemed super mediocre. Was I just not far enough in or does it just need the player to be a ST fan?

>>181061326
>Age of Wushu
notrabbu is deaaaaaaaad

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>>181049616
Now we just got to wait for the addon for outfit saving and quick changing.

>>181062101
>Worth it for mmorpg experience? No.
>Worth it for Secret World experience? Yeah

Damn that's a good question. I worked my ass off for alot of my stuff, at least they gave us the option to transfer them over. I'll download it tonight and give it a whirl. I'm not crazy about the F2P shit or the face they removed alot of stuff, and yeah from what I'm hearing game has gotten worse.

The way to make a decision I guess is to play it and see if i feel the same way. Gonna miss old TSW

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>>181063283
I'm not sure what state the game is in now, but kinda both. First two seasons of "episodes" are garbage made original developers whp almost killed the game, it gets much better afterwards. There's also an in-game editor where users made some neat missions. Love for Star Trek helps, but it's optional. In general all walking aspects are shittier than the space aspects and space aspects really shine in end-game. Most people play for the space battles and if the space combat won't win you over then nothing else will. It was also genuine F2P where you only really paid to look good and you could grind cash shop money in-game.

I can't comment on on PvP, it was heavily in favor of a specific Klingon ship build which was apparently never nerfed and I heard it's unplayable now due to severe P2W.

My girlfriend broke up with me, I lost my job, and I was forced to move back in with my parents.

Is Legends worth playing to get my mind off things? Original TSW was pretty fun.

>>181064752
Good enough, jump in!

Fucking hell piece of shit keeps fucking crashing. I never had the old game crash even once.

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Ready to slay some cthulus.

Amir, can you please fucking follow me.

I'm just getting started, zero experience with the game. What faction should I pick? What weapons are trap choices?

>>181071491
go dragon, don't pick shotgun

>>181071491
>>181072236
This except do the opposite.
Go Illuminatis, and the shotgun is pretty good.

>>181072695
Is sword or blood magic good?

>>181073070
Apparently sword is mediocre right now. Blood's fun though.

As some one new, how do i get the AK looking rifle i can see on the exchange?
It costs a shit ton more than the m-16 and it has a magenta background if that means anything.

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>>181074960
bumping question i want to buy it but dont know if its worth 15k of the Marks of Favor i only have 20k

>>181074960
Getting a purple weapon early in the game might make things easier

>>181011028
Shotty is such a good solo weapon with it's different ammo types. I run it pure and everything is so easy.

>>181074672
Is blood primarily a healing thing? I'm not much into healing.

>>181014291
Drop your hammer and go pure shotgun. Switch to healing ammo when hurt, purple whenever you can get it, blue to debuff in the three times you play group activities, red when you fucked up or fighting weak groups.

Secondaries don't seem worth it to me unless you desire another power to spam when you lack energy in your other gun. Otherwise all it does is split up your passives slots. Maybe late game you can get something working but pure seems to be the way to go with leveling.

>>181079349
It used to be that you could use any nominally healing weapon for dps(half the weapon's tree was dedicated to damage and half to healing) but given the way blood works now with the sadism/martyrdom gauge that might be less the case.

>>181016253
Not him but right now I'm running straight down the DPS tree, then I took the double barrel (whatever it is called) ability with the cone aoe that generates rage and the healing ability that uses 6 shells.

The six shells heal mostly is there to let me change ammo quickly, and the group attack is for applying fire to an entire group.

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>at level 50
>run my 3 dungeons, 3 scenarios
>then get my shit fucked up in shadow forest doing missions
>try do C.fang, get even more rekt

I need some level 50 friends. I mean just like old TSW, doing C.fang/SF with QL10 greens was a death sentence. Not to mention the mobs have some of the worst gimmicks.

The dungeons are decent right now at 50 since very few of the casual new friends have made it to 50. But once they do, dungeons are gonna suck hard.

>>181080185
there wasn't anything fun about transylvania 'stun you for four seconds and heal for half' mobs
i mean, unless you took a stun break, then they were probably less awful
Or, wait. were those after fangs?

Is Chaos and/or Fists good?

>>181081236
I would take Tokyo over Transylvania any time.

Transylvania has
Ghosts that Shield half their hp constantly
Most mobs do some sort of aimed AoE that you need to watch for to get out of or youre fucked.
Stacking damage debuffs that tick off 1 at a time.
Monsters that stack Debil/Exposed on you easily.
Vampires that drag you into them, also have high af evade.
And alot of the monsters hit like trucks
Hate all these insects in SF

>>181082345
>Most mobs do some sort of aimed AoE that you need to watch for to get out of or youre fucked.
i mean
i played wildstar, that's completely normal
but yeah fuck the rest

Does shotgun need every single ability/passive slot the way blade does or could I spare one of each to slot a filler skill from another weapon?

>>181027981
>Self fellates himself in the comments
No big surprise that british guy keeps himself as some sort of hero and saviour in gaming

Please tell me Hayden Montag comes back and is a re occurring character i love Jeffrey Combs and his voice acting is just the best.

>>181074960
KSR-Whatever? It has innate special that makes your grenades instantly cooked, but you always start at 3 seconds in grenade timer.
If you instantly fire the grenade and have luck enough to get another grenade, the global grenade cooldown timer is longer

>>181072695
>>181072236
Don't listen to either of these faggots, go Templar and pick pistols or blade.

Don't pick fists, it might as well be a strictly healing only weapon.

Don't pick hammer, it might as well be a strictly tanking only weapon.

So have we set up a cabal or a chat channel yet?

So what's the difference between TSW and TSWL?

>>181089639
Templar bab pls go

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>>181091124
>>181052630

Alright, new shitbag here, sell me on why your faction is the best?

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2 agartha cache from the same pack of mobs... this is getting ridiculous.

Maybe I'm crazy, but is there no place where it shows your current stack of buffs? I would have assumed it would be somewhere reasonable like near your healthbar, but I see nothing.

>>181093127
I've heard that 100 of crates can be sold for 5k anima or smth.

>>181093318
Nevermind, buffs get put above my health, but stacks of improved stats do not. Annoying.

How good is the weapon customization in this game?
I wanna go blades and use kitchen knives or cleavers but I'm scared I'll just get stuck with samurai swords or something.

>>181092703

three character slots idort faction is the best because you never have to think about suicide when you are too busy grinding three characters!

>>181093127
Buy a key, goy

>>181093571
I dont remember other blade weapons besides katanas. I do remember a small dagger which I used as a skin

what do you think about shotgun+AR
can it work?

>>181093571
>kitchen knives or cleavers
Don't remember any of those. I do remember a regular sword though, so it's not just katanas.

>>181096630
If you pick AoE abilities for shotgun and something like burst fire with AR, I can see it working

>>181095719
A small dagger might work.
>>181096783
Not sure about a sword. The smaller the blade, the better.
I basically want to roleplay a serial killer so I can feel like a monster in a world of monsters

>>181097287
>smaller the blade
Every blade I remember from tsw was of full sword length, but I quit playing years ago so I'm not sure if there were any put in after that. There might be something machete length, but nothing like a knife.

>>181097287
OG TSW used to have some daggers, that one ancient dagger for an example, but I dunno if that loot is in TSW Legends yet.
Remember to wear the butcher set, although that may require few days worth of marks.

>>181096630
Not sure, I'm trying to figure out what weapon to combo with shotgun tanking right now. I'm trying to avoid the other tank weapons to try to create some sort of utility, but so many of the abilities seem weak to me, very dependent upon the weapon mechanic.

>>181097287
https://sephorassecretcloset.wordpress.com/tsw-weapon-skins/blades/

When will they give out the blood weapons after finishing the puzzle?

>>181099439
Isn't that for The Secret World though?
Or does Legends have the same weapons?

>>181100043
Some of the assets from tsw haven't been transferred over yet, but honestly I don't see why they wouldn't be. It's much easier than making new ones.

Can a blade attack that hits multiple enemies proc multiple instances of chi? Also, can the damage over time left over by the tempest ability proc additional chi?

>>181100504
No, and I don't know.

Also PSA for any other blade users, the elite ability in the top path (whose name escapes me right now) is fucking garbage.

In fact almost all the blade skills are shit except for swallow cut.

reading the weapon sheets and actually trying them is very different. so from my early experiences, for anyone that cares;

Ele - goddamn ridiculous, maybe one of the best for burst damage, lag doesn't fuck up the gimmick, probably easy mode for general questing. damage and control based, applies roots.

Chaos - I'm biased because i like purple magic, and popping out clones, but its a bit inconsistent with the random chaos gimmick. no lag issues. decent, and good survival. damage / tanking, gives protection.

Pistol - It does a lot of damage but lag is going to kill the highest potential, plus it feels a bit broken? Its the only skills i find don't fire off smoothly; bad desyncing issues etc? i think less range than you'd expect too. pretty much pure damage, but capable of hots and snares.

Shotgun - its very satisfying, you are blasting a shotgun, after all. the shells gimmick hardly matters, its fine, none of them are bad. you should take better healing and not rely on reloading anima. i think you can handle all roles and use a shotgun somewhere in the build. exposes armor.

Rifle - Need to play with this more, only used it as a secondary healstick. Using a rifle should be pretty satisfying though, those ancient Anarchy Online sounds, ohh nostalgia.

Blood - its a disc priest / scholar. I think it'd work great as primary or secondary weapon. healing / damage, disease, stuns.

I'm not really a melee person so those i've not tried, but the claw animations look pretty rad. i have three characters but its still annoying as fuck to waste AP/SP. btw if you look at the skill lines, they are colored white for basic, red for power, blue for support, yellows are elite of course. i mention this because its helps when you are new and trying to understand where to spend points. if you want your second weapon to give support / healing, you probably want to look at the blue skill lines, etc.

>>181101013
I'm just looking to dip into blade for the sweet healing. Trying to figure out how to get easy chi procs for immortal spirit and clairvoyance combos.

>>181099742
It was written white on black that you receive rewards during waxing crescent. This phase isn't over yet, look it up on the moon calendar.

>>181101901
You can't. Chi is a pain to get no matter what you do with Blade. It's really one of those weapons that you HAVE to use as a primary. It just doesn't work as a secondary.

>Hell and Bach
>run my ass all the way back to New York and London
>slowly type in the answers to each of the three circles
>wonder around London until I find the final piece of the quest in the trash
>rewards is 2500 EXP and a youtube channel
>go do one sidequest in less than 3 minutes
>2050EXP
I am so close to ignoring these fucking investigation quests.

>>181101341
does the doppleganger gimmick ever get good? it seemed awesome in the video, but for me they just pop up for like 2 seconds and stand still, then just disappear.

I'm low level obviously, but I don't want to invest in it if it's shit, I got baited by clones too.

>>181105524
Ignore them (or cheat), they used to give triple the exp
I mean unless you're having fun with them, they only get worse and worse every zone.

I think they now give a bag with a random cosmetic or something. Only for the first completion.

>>181105524
There are plenty of other games where you have to bring 5 deer pelts to some elven chick in a lovely village for 69k xp.

>>181105524
Doing Hell and Bach without cheating is pure torture

Read someone on /v/ claiming you stop getting AP/SP at level 50 and you only get enough points to max two and half weapon pages. Does anyone have any ACTUAL evidence of this or is this another "Lol, I want this gayme to fail because fuk u"?

I don't know if it's "good" but chaos with a shotgun backup is fun. I'm still pretty low, but I just put double barrel on for when I run out of AoE energy and don't feel like roundhouse kicking.

>>181105875
I was thinking of leaving them for the end of the zone or when I feel like spending 3x the amount of time a combat mission would take for the same reward. I get the appeal of studying the quests, learning Latin to decipher hellspeak but when the reward is nothing why would you feel compelled to stay there for hours. The only argument for it is "it's fun!"

>>181105975
I like to be rewarded for solving a complex riddles and cryptography. You know, how TSW did it.

>>181105986
I feel bad for anyone that tried to input the translated phrases.

>>181106536
Yea as I said, well they used to give way more exp, and some aren't that long, some are super long like the one you just did. They traded the exp for the cosmetic cache I think, didn't you get one out of it? I mean if you keep playing and max all your shit, evnetually the only thing you'll have to look up will be rerolling to do it all over again, or play the fashion game and collect stupid cosmetics.

>>181105524

i wonder how that would go, if you just care about for progression for now and doing grind quests, you can come back and get new cloths / pets etc crap from puzzle quests any time. i know you can get through kingsmouth like this, because i just did that.

i was thinking it might be a good idea to save them for last, so after i'm tired of combat i can get a big burst of xp to finish the zone, but the comments here suggest they dont really give much XP now.

>>181105631

they don't do anything because you finish combat by the time they pop, and they don't persist. you need to fight a dungeon boss or something.

i dont know if they are good, the dream would be if you could keep proccing it quickly and stack like 20 of them. but that sounds like actual fun, so i bet you can't.

>>181106879
any advice on which skills and pasives to get for Chaos?

>>181107694
The one in the 4th tree, i think the first one, that stops your random effects from going on enemies too. Also every second in combat you got a chance of gaining a paradox.

So I found out that Pistols and Hammers requires the least care for the gimmick, which one's better for solo?

I'm running out of main quests for the daily. What do?

>>181108029
solo dungeons

>>181107973

if you want to ignore git'n gud, hammer. all the weapons do the same base dmg don't they? pistol is only good if you manage the gimmick.

but i don't know who they designed this slot gimmick for, maybe TSW is big with some Vegas pensioners.

>>181028531
who dis bitch?

is there a way to login to the old servers using the legends client?

>>181011028
I'm actually going to try a combo shotty AR fir healing, I think I know what gear I need but its going to be dicey handling energy requirements.

>>181090171
Chat channel is vidya
No cabal yet, want me to start one later today?

>>181106017
From what I read elsewhere you just need a shitton of Exp for the AP/AP past 50.

For fuck sake, I'm trying to get past the tutorial in the subway (I used to be able to skip this shit) and every time I play it, my internet shuts off for half a second and I have to repeat it. It doesn't happen if I don't play the game, and didn't happen until I hit that goddamn tutorial.

>>181112506

yeah i couldn't just walk out anymore, even on a third character.

>>181112506
Same thing happened to me during the Joe Slater quest.

>>181100043
Blue Q7 might work for a dagger/machete.

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>>181035558
I chuckle every time I see that image. My home city.

I don't know how I feel about the new skill tree, I'm level 22 and it feel like my build will never change anymore.

>New donwtime June 29 10:00 UTC, 6:00AM 2hours

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>maint every day now
>they dont even change anything for the better

The cash shop gouging in this game makes Nexon look fair

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Someone explain to me. Why are the cache keys and dungeon loot such a big fucking deal to people? Who gives a shit about cosmetic items from the bags?

And the dungeon loot? People bitch about not getting weapon drops but only distillates. Is it that great to run dungeons with no loot at all? Shit, in SWL you are always guaranteed to benefit from running a dungeon by getting at least the distillate.

>>181123068
Because distillate doesn't give you the same feeling of progress that getting a new weapon/talisman would.

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>>181123183
True that.

>>181123068
>Why are the cache keys and dungeon loot such a big fucking deal to people? Who gives a shit about cosmetic items from the bags?
I actually don't understand this post. Are you complaining about people who want the stuff in the bags or are you complaining about people who don't like the concept of bags?

>>181123183
Explain how
>A. 10% chance of weapon and 90% of jack shit
is better than
>B. 10 chance of weapon and 90% of distillate

>>181123068

funny enough i was just checking reddit to see about this downtime, and i saw all the complaints about dungeon keys and... marks of honor?

gonna be honest i don't even know what the various currencies and everything are that people are obsessed with. i complete dailies without checking the window, not really needed anything like sprint, maps are small. its been pretty irrelevant. however, i already owned the game so i haven't needed to unlock shit. that might be a big factor idk. i think marks are like black bullion?

i've been maintaining different sets of attk/heal/hp gear and keeping everything pretty up to date. not like combat is hard, you always feel quite powerful now. anything more than distillate is just a bonus from dungeons really, and you still get enough keys for multiple runs. most MMOs i can think of, lock dungeon loot after a single run.

do people just wanna complete every skill tree and ride a flying sparkle pony after a single day in Kingsmouth?

>>181123520
Pulling number from your ass isn't going to help
The chance to get a weapon were higher in TSW.

Also if you don't see why people would feel better rewarded by getting a new weapon, with a new passive and new skin in comparaison to getting a distillate for their plain looking starter weapon I can't help you.

>>181123946
Probably, gotta collect em all and all that

I noticed that some lore drops from monsters. Was it the same back then?

>>181124479
yes

>>181124637
How does it work? Kill X amount and it drops? Or is it all random? Wiki's dry

>>181124698
I don't know but I would say random with a high probability if you don't have it.

is it back now-ish, or in an hour-ish?

>the amount of exp to get 1 sp/ap at 50 is so bad.. like doing 2 full quests for 1 point bad.

>>181123423
He's saying he wants to eat Funcoms shit off the floor while thanking them like a good goy.

>>181123946
Takes 20k marks to unlock one weapon from what i've seen.

>>181124698
Got one when i did the illuminaty wards quest where it kills everything in the graveyard. Also probably got someone else's because i got a specter one in the kindergarden while i haven't encountered any (beside the one from that shitty tutorial).

>>181125371
20k marks is about two days worth of dailies, would easily grind them on solomon island.
Yes, I'm aware that the prices get higher as you unlock more weaponry.

>>181125371
>>the amount of exp to get 1 sp/ap at 50 is so bad.. like doing 2 full quests for 1 point bad.
Wasn't the amount of XP/point fixed in TSW?

>>181125417
Strangely I got two from the graveyard. I'll have to check if it's both zombies or something else. Unquiet Dead are specters right? Maybe that's why I got two

>>181125883
Then again, I'll check. It's probably not from Unquiet Dead.

>>181124698
>>181125417
>>181125883
I got one on Priest Island while doing the Orochi and side quests there.
It dropped from a hulk.

>>181125883
There are probably more than one by species. You probably got lucky. I think i've got more at the Fire Department and maybe on one of the mobs pack in the streets.

>>181123520
I remember running Polaris for Orochi weapon skins and getting everything I wanted in a few runs. The loot system in TSW was fine.

Is it down? It keeps telling me that I have incorrect account information.

>>181129057
same

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>>181129057
I don't know, what do you think ?

>>181129208
I think it's up.

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>>181129228
it is supposed to be now

>>181123946
>do people just wanna complete every skill tree
I know I do and I'm pissed if getting AP and SP is slower than in original.

Full wheel in TSW was a significant achievement and benefit.
You were no longer a random player who had to manage with what they had, you could adapt to anything, because builds were no longer a concern beyond gear and it wasn't even that hard to get several all-purple sets by doing NMs in addition to your custom gear.

>>181129208
twitter said it's online now

At wich level do you unlock item fusion?

>>181108029
You can redo main quests that you did at least three days ago.

>>181125848
Yeah, later zones just gave more xp per quest. You got AP at cap way faster.

Why do I keep people seeing people saying that this weapon goes well with that one?
Does any secondary weapon even matter anymore? Does anyone even use their secondary at all except when they run out of energy on the primary?!
There's nothing left like "this chaos skill AoE stuns around you, and this AoE blade skill does 50% more damage to stunned target, and shotgun has a passive that makes you do more damage to stun targets", right?