1:32 pm, August 25, 2017
Hi,
I've only played dps back on TSW a couple of years ago and now I thought I'd try out a tanking role so I chose the trickster archetype. Now my tank is lvl 26 and in hell raised I keep loosing ag [..]
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11:32 pm, March 11, 2017
Evening,
I am looking for a setup with the tanking woodcutter to run NM Polaris for BB farm for my other gear and was wondering if I can get a setup or advice on gearing it this way. If it becomes to [..]
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11:32 pm, March 10, 2017
The goal of this thread is to provide a short guide on how to gear for PVE in the beginning of endgame, before getting to aegis content, without using too many Mark of the Pantheon, Black Bullions and [..]
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12:32 pm, March 6, 2017
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...zUqylTNU8/edit
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THE BOX METHOD: Pistol/Shotgun Guide
Ide [..]
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12:32 pm, January 15, 2017
Is there any way to get the role uniforms that boosts your stats in the fight clubs? A friend and I are new to the game and wanted to duel while we waited for the queues to pop and ended up just one s [..]
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11:32 pm, January 9, 2017
Playing AR Blood sniper type character.
I can put out decent damage, especially 1v1 can usually **** him before he kills me, however have problems getting **** if hes getting heals (seems like burs [..]
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12:32 pm, December 30, 2016
Recently, I have learned hit is not as essential in scenarios (idiot me).
That made me doubt all my stats selection. I wonder if you could give me some advice.
I use this chaos/blood build (and vari [..]
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11:32 pm, December 19, 2016
El Dorado in it's current state is not working at all as intended. Literally if a team has 2 semi decent tanks and manages to get 2 relics while others have 1 each or non so that they get a point lead [..]
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12:32 pm, December 6, 2016
i just raised my talisam skills to 11 because i had the extra points. i had assumed the "understanding equal footing" thread was oudated, having the cap of resists before other stats were [..]
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11:32 pm, December 4, 2016
So this is the build that I'm working on for dungeon running and this is what I've come up with so far in TSW Calc. I dunno if I had to pick and choose between certain stats or if it was possible for [..]
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11:32 pm, November 10, 2016
Hello so I am a somewhat new player to the game and for the most part unclear as to what the current meta is for DPS in terms of stats. I believe the old meta is 900+ pen 650+ hit 500+ Crit Power a cr [..]
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11:32 pm, November 3, 2016
Hello there! I just recently started the game less than a week ago.
I've been looking through the various tank guides on this website as well as others and have a general idea how I want to go about [..]
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11:32 pm, November 3, 2016
So - every time I come back to the game after a few months break I think "i have some black bullion from the seasonal events, I really must sort myself out some custom gear".
And then I spe [..]
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1:32 pm, October 27, 2016
Hi all, first time doing a serious post to the TSW forums. I hope everyone's doing well!
One thing that I keep ******** up now that I'm in the late game isn't so much looking up a build and putting t [..]
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12:32 am, October 21, 2016
The idea of this thread is to gather some information about the math behind the signet, items, actives and passives of the game. The goal is never to tell if signet a is better than signet b, but just [..]
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1:32 pm, September 25, 2016
Hi.
I have come up with a simple survival/bullet sponge gear setup that makes tanking WC (Regret) procs easy to manage.
This is sort of a proof of concept for me, since i see a lot of people regard [..]
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1:32 pm, September 2, 2016
hi
the tactic i always use in NM group is "1 camp" with tank, healer, 3 dps - however i was told that nowdays people do them like elite groups - all 5 members are dps (but in NM use some def [..]
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12:32 am, August 22, 2016
Would it be enough for Transylvania?
QL10 all blue
1 major heal and 1 minor health talisman.
Hit rating: 342
Penetration rating: 739 (weapons included)
Using Blade/ AR combination.
Or should I put cri [..]
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12:32 am, August 19, 2016
Hi there,
for a while I play a Ele / Pistol build and have mostly 10.4.4 Gear with Head and weapons a little better. But i think my DPS are a little low, with just 2600 DPS on a dummy. My Build looks [..]
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12:32 am, August 18, 2016
I admit it: I've never fully understood my stats. I want to make the best DPS build I can, and am asking for your help. I have three purple gear and the rest blue, and now realize I concentrated too m [..]
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12:32 am, August 12, 2016
Hello, I'm currently upgrading all my gear and I'm working on getting it all to 10.5 at the moment but I think I've messed up with my glyphs because I have very little penetration. I'm using the elit [..]
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12:32 am, August 4, 2016
While no longer critical as it was when fuses were rare, I still would like to reuse gear if possible between my dps, tank, leach, and solo builds. I have come up with the following design to re-glyp [..]
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1:32 pm, July 15, 2016
I am planning on putting together a classic elemental buff tank build and I was wondering if I cast a manifestation with Crit on my elemental focus and my primary weapon has penetration, does the crit [..]
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12:32 am, July 15, 2016
Hello. I am new.
There's undoubtedly hundreds of these threads lying around here, but with the recent meta change due to passive/elite revamp, i will go ahead and ask these questions again on behalf [..]
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12:32 am, July 12, 2016
Hey all - Myndr here. I want to know what the top PvE players think is the theoretically most efficient and effective scenario build. The challenge? no QL 11 gear allowed. An additional possible chall [..]
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12:32 am, July 2, 2016
In a new build I am mooting I have a Critical Rating of 135 and a Crit Power of 45.
In my offensive stats it says that my critical chance is 9.3% including a Fusang bonus. (I'm currently in Seoul, s [..]
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12:32 am, July 2, 2016
Hi there Traveler,
this is my first TSW-Guide, however its not my first Build-Guide.
I'm a passionated MMO-Nerd but not a "hardcore Theorycrafter".
This guide is not for those of us who a [..]
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1:32 pm, June 20, 2016
Hi everyone, i'm recently getting into DPSing and would love if you could give me a few suggestions on my build.
These are my stats: http://joakibj.com/tswcalc/#weapon=4...4,1,0,4,0,2,37
This is my [..]
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12:32 am, June 20, 2016
The dozen or so matches I’ve played in Stonehenge in the past several days since the 1.15.1 patch was launched have demonstrated the precarious balance inherent in PvP. It was tempting in th [..]
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12:32 am, May 21, 2016
I'm just starting in Blur Mountains, and really enjoying the combo so far. I'm focusing on exploiting hindered states, and it's working well so far:
Actives:
Powder Burn
Pump Action
Buckshot
Out [..]
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12:32 am, May 3, 2016
Another SH day and the farmers are back yet again. Seems they're consistently locking the queue out to Temps though for hours upon hours - have we gone back to the 'groups have priority' setting with [..]
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1:32 pm, April 22, 2016
I have a question about this glyph stat.
I was looking at tswcalc to determine what stats would be if mixed with others.
However upon doing so at QL11 I find that glyps can only be mixed evenly, not u [..]
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1:32 pm, April 17, 2016
My thoughts on these tanking signets...Info Box
Signet of Resilience (epic)
When you evade/glance/block, you get +150 phys and mag protection for 4 seconds, up to +450. No cd.
Signet of Reinforcement [..]
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1:32 pm, April 16, 2016
Before reading this post, take a moment of silence to appreciate how amazing Lotiz (me) is at pvp. Once you have reflected on this, you may continue to read what I presume will make you the second bes [..]
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12:32 am, April 10, 2016
I am working on my Dragon character who is mainly using Chaos/Blade though I will have all the melee weapons as her theme.
I want a build that has good survival, healing and DPS stats.http://joakibj. [..]
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12:32 am, April 9, 2016
Good morning.
Since I received excellent advice for my build, and how to **** Beaumont, I wish to help out my sister.
She tanks for our family group. Which is her, her husband, and myself. She star [..]
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1:32 pm, April 5, 2016
so i have questions as to how to get optimal dps from leecher - i read guides but they are mostly from 2012-2014 so update is needed
The Reaper guide - https://forums.thesecretworld.com/sh...ing-edit [..]
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12:32 am, April 5, 2016
Hi all.
I am gearing up atm and trying to reuse as many talismans as possible.
After reading lots of guides this is my first draft for the major roles (Solo, DPS, Tank, Leech).
Everything calculate [..]
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1:32 pm, April 3, 2016
I've heard a lot of different stuff regarding tank gearing, and since the seemingly most popular tanking guide thread is from 2013 with only 10.4.4 gear I figured I'd double check before building my g [..]
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11:32 pm, March 1, 2016
Hi guys. I played a little secret world a while ago closer to when it first released but quickly got involved in another game at the time and now I just reinstalled because I wanted to try this again. [..]
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11:32 pm, February 26, 2016
Brutally Efficient Dungeon Leechtank
I've been running a lot of non-aegis nightmare randomizer lately.
This allowed me to perfect my leechtanking and transform it into a kind of semi-bufftank.
In my e [..]
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11:32 pm, February 23, 2016
So, I am thinking of trying my hand at tanking in TSW.
At least to start with it will be in the Normal dungeons and/or the easier Elites. (It will be a while before I am ready for any Nightmare dun [..]
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12:32 pm, February 18, 2016
Howdy folks. Thanks for coming. I'm looking to get some advice regarding an "old" soloing deck of mine to see if it can be improved any further.
(I say "old" because I've been usi [..]
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11:32 pm, February 15, 2016
I have almost no experience with tanking and I need help to point out the biggest flaws in this build.
Hammer, blue QL10. 397 weapon power, +44 Crt Power, +109 Pen.
Elementalism, blue QL5, 215 weapon [..]
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12:32 pm, February 15, 2016
I wanted to advice in the stats to use and the type of build to use currenly i am running pistal shutgun proc build with 720 penetration but since i switch i feel that my dps went a little lower so i [..]
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11:32 pm, January 13, 2016
Oh, NO! Todays patch ****** Anima Shot? I guess people will stop using AR now, or will they?
Have fun nerfing Funcom :D
Here some ideas for replacement builds. I'm reconstructing those builds from [..]
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12:32 pm, January 12, 2016
Ok, so, my character has her APs spent almost evenly between Blood Magic and Blades. In SPs, she has Blades and Blood Magic at 5, and her talisman skills all at 4. One thing I've noticed is that the d [..]
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11:32 pm, January 7, 2016
So I've been working on a build that involves woodcutter + coney for the hell of it (while keeping coney useful for other builds, by filling it with crit) and I can land on 644 hit rating, OR 697 hi [..]
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11:32 pm, December 25, 2015
i want to know which survivability augment (or 2) will be of most use to me in pvp
i dont use any defensive glyphing (i take tank suit to compensate for that - is this a bad idea?) i always use swor [..]
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11:32 pm, November 28, 2015
Having high-quality gear should provide either no advantage or a small advantage over less-geared players. There's a fair amount of discussion on these forums about what the magnitude of this advanta [..]
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12:32 pm, November 21, 2015
I've noticed that putting full corrupt stacks on healers does nothing noticeable in downing the healer. I had one match in El Dorado where I spammed corrupt on two healers, and the match stats showed [..]
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12:32 pm, November 18, 2015
My build is :
Shellshocker, shot of Anima, Anima shot, Transfuse Anima, martial discipline, clearing the path and bamboo cutter.
Bloodsport, circulation, regeneration, experience, Eagle eye, leechi [..]
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12:32 pm, November 11, 2015
The new patch reworked crit formula (increased the stats-based crit cap). For testing purpose, I raised my crit chance to over 100% with Deadly Aim and Egon and proceeded to shoot Hell Raised NM mobs, [..]
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11:32 pm, November 7, 2015
Actives
1. Blade Torrent
2. Domino Effect
3. Steel Echo
4. Clearing the Path
5. Four Horsemen
6. Chaotic Pull
7. Helter Skelter
8. ***** From AbovePassives
1. Leeching Frenzy
2. Immortal Spirit
3. Bra [..]
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12:32 pm, November 7, 2015
I apologize in advance for asking about this. I'm sure there are a TON of similar questions and responses about this topic, but most of the stuff I've found is years old and I have no idea how outdat [..]
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12:32 pm, November 3, 2015
Hey,
I just want advices from healers, so please if you don't know a thing about healing a raid go away.
So before i12 healing survivability was ok, all stats were pretty good with some training.
A [..]
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11:32 pm, October 29, 2015
Hey people just thought the new Woodcutter's Talismans were a pretty cool addition to the game and I love additional effects that add to build diversity. I haven't seen this really talked about yet so [..]
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12:32 pm, October 28, 2015
So some months ago, I realized I barely ever used elementalism in my builds. Previously I'd had the same realization about hammer and it ended up becoming my favourite weapon for a while (hammer heali [..]
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1:32 pm, October 8, 2015
I'm still puzzled about something, after many many many talk on the topic: actualy, how much the game can push you to take defense stats to finish all the dungeon/raid content?
From what I heard:
- [..]
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12:32 am, October 8, 2015
Your healers is trying their best. Some healers are more experienced and can handle 4-5 dps attacking their back, other healers are less experienced.
With the new challenge system there is alot of ne [..]
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1:32 pm, October 6, 2015
In this thread, some people said interesting things on the topic of the most sturdiest tank possible in TSW, a topic that interest me a lot.
Since however this was not the main topic of this thread, [..]
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1:32 pm, October 4, 2015
Pure Rifle/Fist healing
Hey guys.
After playing so much time in TSW as all roles, i wanted to go back to my roots as a pure healer. I never really enjoyed HoT fist healing cause it’s so depr [..]
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1:32 pm, October 1, 2015
Here are my top 5 reasons why:
5. Matchmaking - Why are battle rank 150+ people playing against battle rank 0?
4. Equal Footing - Most of my gear is between 10.4 and 10.7. I made some special healt [..]
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12:32 am, September 29, 2015
What the hell is equal footing and why should you care about it?
The equal footing buff (EFB in short) is a buff that is applied to you whenever joining a PvP minigame. Its purpose is to raise your s [..]
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12:32 am, September 29, 2015
I was speaking with a fellow beginner a few days ago, that explained me that he had hard time to deal with daily scenarii because he was still investing to complete his dungeon tanking gear, and thus, [..]
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1:32 pm, September 13, 2015
Sorry, the topic is kinda "misleading" - of course it's for Group Nightmare Scenarios!
So:
Here comes another deck.
I actually developed this deck before I made the Stunner Build to farm Gro [..]
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1:32 pm, September 12, 2015
Hi all,
After building Maverick>Paladin I decided to explore Penetration and Afflicted, so I made this build. There's probably a lot of stuff wrong with it, so if you've got some pointers to sh [..]
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1:32 pm, September 11, 2015
So Kemo brought me to the idea to release my favorite scenario deck.
Been a while since I shared stuff - but today I want to share the deck which escorted me to my 100% augment wheel.
This deck is for [..]
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12:32 am, September 11, 2015
I've been attempting to heal in PvP and I'm trying to figure out if there is a one build good for ED, SH and Fusang, or do I need to consider different ones for the different maps/instances?
On on [..]
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12:32 am, September 8, 2015
I will start this off by saying I have not been a regular PvP player in TSW. I've dabbled with it here or there since the game launched, but nothing extensive or routine. Now with the Challenges, I' [..]
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1:32 pm, September 4, 2015
I was speaking with some people yesterday evening about NM scenarios, and a particular build that used blade, art of war, martial discipline and clearing the path... and I was suprised that the build [..]
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12:32 am, September 3, 2015
Before I12, the tank uniform was great for tanking(obviously), but was also good for healing and dps.
Now with the new uniforms, using a dps or tank uniform and healing is quite detrimental.
(Every ve [..]
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1:32 pm, August 31, 2015
Hello! I'm (relatively) new to PvP, and I had a question I couldn't find answered anywhere else in the forum.
I'm currently plotting out my endgame PvE gear, as I'm also getting into endgame territor [..]
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1:32 pm, August 30, 2015
hi all
wanted to ask advice for my new pvp & scenarios builds - first of all the talismans i intend to keep for both builds: coney island band, egon pendant, brooklyn bracer, subway tokens, he [..]
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1:32 pm, August 21, 2015
For awhile now, I've been managing to get by with builds made up of random NM drops and bits of custom gear I've thrown together in, ah, "serviceable" builds. But now that BBs have become fa [..]
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12:32 am, August 1, 2015
Just a small thought I've had for a long time: what if crit were slightly buffed? I've thought of 3 possibilities:
1) every point of crit rating would give more critical chance. It doesn't need to be [..]
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12:32 am, July 16, 2015
So I tried to help out in the last event by running my main (Toad) as a Tank and trying to save the endangered squishies. I have no other tanking experience and so I threw the following build togethe [..]
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1:32 pm, July 3, 2015
Hi
I am "new" here or a returner :D
But i am sort of lost when it comes to builds in games.
I want to go blood/ele and have found some builds there was ****** and outdated.
So i would li [..]
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1:32 pm, June 27, 2015
Need a little help with my build. Ive played this game a long time,since before the begining, Problem is I'm pretty sure my build is obsolete. Looking for constructive criticism, Thanks to my gear my [..]
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1:32 pm, June 2, 2015
I am using a chaos/blade build built around one build to solo Transylvania,https://forums.thesecretworld.com/sh...o-Transylvania
I have reached Tokyo but am get my *** handed to me and get ****** by [..]
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12:32 am, May 3, 2015
I'm at nightmare dungeons and Tokyo and I've come to realize how I am still a massive noob. My gear is far from optimized. My builds are often taken from out of date sources (because google likes show [..]
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1:32 pm, April 27, 2015
Hi there
I recently started to do Nightmares and I'm trying to optimize my gear. I created an Excel Sheet to get a proper overview. I compared the values of my spreadsheet with the character statisti [..]
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12:32 am, April 23, 2015
Hi folks, I've been reading a lot of threads and I think I have a good plan for how to approach my gear upgrades, but I wanted to run it by you all. Here is the scenario:
- I've recently started doin [..]
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1:32 pm, April 22, 2015
currently in rank 8-9 gear and I was wondering what a good mix of AR and HR would be for dealing damage and healing myself while soloing. I was thinking of going with blood barers and maybe pistol dr [..]
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1:32 pm, April 22, 2015
Hey everyone, I was playing at release and I'm back after a 2 years break , so I'm a bit lost about Dps stats for NM/Raid so I'm asking for community help :)
Could anyone tell me about the current op [..]
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1:32 pm, April 9, 2015
Hi all
Some of you may remember that I said last year that I couldn't see myself ever doing PvP. I'm just not wired that way. Some of you will have noticed that I've ended up in Fusang recently too. D [..]
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1:32 pm, April 8, 2015
With the 1.11 changes, Bombardment just begged to be included into a Scenario build, so here we go:
WEAPONS: blade/shotgun (972 AP)
ACTIVES
1. Blade Torrent (Blade->Technique, 1 AP)
2. S [..]
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12:32 pm, March 5, 2015
Hello,
I frequently encounter Tank/Heal builds which seem to resist impairs 100%.
When hitting with "Strange Attractor" I get combat log messages like:
"Player XY resisted your spell [..]
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12:32 pm, February 14, 2015
I wrote this awhile back. Its mainly just Ciritty, Claretta and Katarina's info just put together, so absolute credit to them. I think starting off it's a good path to get you at a decent level for ev [..]
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11:32 pm, February 13, 2015
So I'm a relatively new TSW player...been playing for about 2 months, just got GM pack on sale, beat Gatekeeper not too long ago, just started doing NM dungeons in the past few weeks.
I've already st [..]
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12:32 pm, February 8, 2015
Im thinking about returning (again) to TSW, because damn i love the setting, but the thing that annoys me the most is that pretty much every "top performance" build in NM/Raid setting is usi [..]
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12:32 pm, February 2, 2015
I decided to make a new consolidated thread of PvP builds because the old one is not frequently updated. I will leave it here for now, as I feel more people who can benefit from these builds will be i [..]
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11:32 pm, January 6, 2015
I will try to keep it short.
PVP right now is favoring imbalance in the wrong way. Imbalance in PVP could be the fuel that fire the fun but only if it is controlled and weighted in the right way, the [..]
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11:32 pm, January 6, 2015
I'm thinking of changing my character's rol or improbing my stats rebalancing them and choosing the ones that are a bit more optimal to my current situation, so a little doubt has come to my mind.
Mo [..]
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11:32 pm, December 28, 2014
The Templar heal suit is an angry bird.
The raid window is for more than just seeing who is in your raid.
Healers play a mini-game of hide and seek as depleting green bars in your raid window do not m [..]
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12:32 pm, December 27, 2014
I just noticed that the different relics in ED give different buffs. Does anyone have a list of the relic buffs? I saw one that gives a defensive boost. What does that mean exactly? Is it meant to boo [..]
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11:32 pm, December 25, 2014
The following build is exactly what I use when I tank/carry in ED. Not only is it incredibly mitigated but when focused, which you will be if carrying, I do lots of reflect damage. Can get upwards of [..]
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12:32 pm, December 20, 2014
Here's some random ideas I thought up that would be fun PvP events for certain holidays in the upcoming year. Let me know what you think! (Sorry for any spelling errors, this is being typed on my phon [..]
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12:32 pm, December 15, 2014
Got a challenge for you all. :P
A friend of mine, Kittymod, has been running this pistol/shotty build in Kaidan for a while. I decided to give it a shot and had so much fun with it. To challenge ours [..]
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11:32 pm, December 11, 2014
Hey there,
after Issue 10 went live and with the new great patches to some underused skills, I would like to share my Tokyo-build (yea, Tokyo finally has my attention thanks to this item ) which is [..]
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