12:32 am, September 19, 2017
Can anyone recommend a build for dungeons based on the gear I have? Preferably DPS and preferably AR. I suspect I'll have to get a new purple 10.0 weapon though and switch one of my weapons. Wont be a [..]
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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 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
Hello
I am looking for a good Hammer/something build that I can use to survive PvE stuff.
I don't play alone, I normally play with my partner who uses a DPS Blood Magic build and I tank using a Bloc [..]
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12:32 pm, February 25, 2017
There are two series of DPS signets for minor talismans, they both increase damage but they have different percentage values.
Examples (all purples):
Assassination increases Strike damage by 4.5% (Ham [..]
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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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11:32 pm, December 7, 2016
This is for my solo deck, I use Blood/Blade. I'm about to make myself a long term goal, and in the long term, expenses are not a problem.
In another, old dead thread, it is explained that Abuse is bes [..]
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11:32 pm, December 1, 2016
Hi,
I am completely new to the game and would like some advises on builds. I am in the 2nd zone (Savage Island) at the moment and having quite hard time taking on mobs. Two normal type mobs at the sa [..]
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12:32 pm, November 4, 2016
Is it better to have penetration on the talismans and not on the weapons? It seems more popular to have all the penetration on talismans and to use crit or crit/crit power on weapons.
This could have [..]
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12:32 am, October 28, 2016
Hi,
I'd like to pick your collective brain on my first deck.
Basically I'd like to have a decent solo build which is not a burden in the halloween event dungeons/bosses (cat god, jack etc...)
As th [..]
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12:32 am, September 30, 2016
Well the title's self-explanatory, but as you may have gleaned from other posts, I'm back after an extended break.
I'm starting afresh with a new character, who is a blood/sword - which at first glan [..]
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12:32 am, September 21, 2016
I just wanted to ask. Is there ANY value to having health talismans in pvp when you're a dps spec? My build was created back before Issue 1 and a lot of people were running two HP Talismans back then [..]
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12:32 am, September 21, 2016
After enjoying lots of fun Pvp in Fusang due to everyone trying to get the doomboard I'm sad to see things are going back to normal. While the doomboard challenge was active and players were trying t [..]
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1:32 pm, September 8, 2016
I chose Assault Rifle/Pistols...Maybe that was a mistake?
Both weapons are QL 6
Talismans: All QL 6 except one QL 5
Actives: Safety off, fire at will, turn the tides, red mist, above the law, shoo [..]
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12:32 am, August 19, 2016
Hiya all.
Obligatory note: I am a recent return player. I played most of the BETA and a few months after release, but 2 kids later and not an MMO in between now and then... I have some more time now [..]
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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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1:32 pm, July 5, 2016
So I am lacking in gear. I have like 2100 Black Bullion to buy purple gear, otherwise I have some QL 10 blue.
Combat in this game kicks my ***, hense my lack of playing for the past 2 years or so. To [..]
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1:32 pm, June 27, 2016
So, I started out with a Blood/Pistol build that worked reasonably well, but after the Elite revamp I've moved to Blood/Shotgun. Despite the lack of Impairs (other than when I take down an AEGIS shie [..]
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12:32 am, May 25, 2016
Hi all!
I haven't played The Secret World in a long time. In fact, the last issue I was around for was Issue 3 and the last issue I'd even heard about was Issue 5. I really do like this game howeve [..]
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12:32 am, May 13, 2016
I am currently building my custom late game DPS/Tank gear, what kind of glyphs should I have for my talismans?
My DPS is DABS or shotgun/Elementalism SF, my tank build is a classic block blade hammer [..]
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1:32 pm, April 14, 2016
I hate elemental force.
I admit it is good (and i am currently using it in dungeons), but oh how i hate it.
I spend all my time watching my buffs instead of the fight, just so i don't miss the right [..]
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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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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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12:32 am, April 1, 2016
NEWIssue #14: Call of the Nameless is now out! Six all-new main missions and assorted side missions await in the sands of Egypt. This issue is available from the item store and may be purchased with [..]
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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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12:32 pm, February 16, 2016
Actives:
1.) Ground pound
2.) Blowout
3.) Razor shards
4.) Crimson theatre
5.) Martial discipline
6.) Mass provocation
7.) Silver streak
Passives:
1.) Shadowplay
2.) Agitator
3.) Regeneration
4.) St [..]
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12:32 pm, February 15, 2016
I recently started branching out from my pistol/shotgun penetration build to create a blade/assault rifle penetration build, and now I'm wondering what stat values I should be looking for in terms of [..]
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12:32 pm, February 8, 2016
How does the QL scale work from QL10? QL11 doesn't exist as far as I know, but there are many levels in between 10 and 11.
Above QL10, the scale is difficult to follow and it makes me wonder why they [..]
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11:32 pm, February 4, 2016
I never know what best suits my play style in any game, so I typically try out a bunch of weapons, pick what I like the look/feel of the best, and choose a bunch of skills that help me **** monsters t [..]
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12:32 pm, February 3, 2016
I think this is all of them. Let me know if anything is incorrect or missing.Weapon/Head Signets
Signet of Blessed Steps
Effect: Whenever you apply a barrier effect to an ally, that ally gains a be [..]
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12:32 pm, January 28, 2016
So, if I'm putting together a gear set for tanking NM Ankh, which might be better to replace my talismans with block on them: those with defense or ones with physical protection? I usually hear that d [..]
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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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11:32 pm, January 11, 2016
As I earn more and more Ability Points, it gets more and more difficult to pick abilities. Because I only can equip 7+7 abilities, I should feel it was important to learn new abilities as fast as poss [..]
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12:32 pm, January 7, 2016
I'm a fresh novice who would appreciate some advice on Talismans.
I don't know anyone so I'm playing solo. I'm neither Tank, DSP, or Healer. Or you could say that I'm all of those in one character.
[..]
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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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11:32 pm, November 14, 2015
Hi there.
I know you will tell me "that depends". But in order to be a minimum effective, and considering EFB, as a tank, as a healer and as a dps, how much minimum pen / crit / crit power [..]
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11:32 pm, November 12, 2015
The most brutal and difficult challenges in The Secret World await your pleasure. Test your mettle against two fresh Nightmare Raids and earn incredible rewards!
The two Nightmare Raids not only ta [..]
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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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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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11:32 pm, October 28, 2015
For one of my characters I am trying to make a healing gear set (Fist/Blood, may become Fist/Pistol purple Q10 currently un-upgraded) but I am not sure where the Crit/Crit Power should go on the talis [..]
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1:32 pm, October 23, 2015
"Whenever an enemy attack glances you, you gain [x]% of the damage it dealt back as healing."
Is there any point at all whatsoever in building up the second blade skill line?
Ciritty has a [..]
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1:32 pm, October 20, 2015
As the title indicates, I'm hitched with kids and I work 50+ hrs a week. As such, I'm looking to refine my build and seek advice to gain the most bang for my buck when it comes to advancing my char. [..]
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12:32 am, October 18, 2015
all the threads on these pvp forums seem so doom and gloom. its all fusang is destroyed and p2w and pugs are ****.
well fusang is dead, and fancy talismans from buying another game is sort of ****, a [..]
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1:32 pm, October 13, 2015
Hello guys. I'm trying to refine a bit my future PvP build for El Dorado.
I'd like to gather some suggestions, as I still in "draft" mode about it.
My main goal with this build is to attempt [..]
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12:32 am, October 12, 2015
Hi. I quit playing just before the New Player Experience, but I'm back (at the very least for Halloween, since I really liked their Halloween content). I usually solo, and my old solo build still wo [..]
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12:32 am, October 11, 2015
Has anyone done any experimenting to see whether a 10.7 talisman out performs a NY raid drop in terms of DPS?
My expectation is that if you have the majority of your talismans at 10.7, the dps improv [..]
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1:32 pm, October 2, 2015
Hi,
I'm running a Blade/Ar build. I think I have about 175 points spent.
Actives
Stunning swirl
Three Round Burst
Martial Discipline
Anima Burst
Balanced Blade
Bamboo cutter
Forking Path
Passives
[..]
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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 15, 2015
The fuse-tank
Mysteries about high efficiency – unveiled!
Hey guys,
ever wondered why there are tanks with an elemental focus in their off-hand?
Ever wondered why there are groups able to ** [..]
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1:32 pm, September 14, 2015
Hello folks!
With all the additionnal ideas that X-Pert gave to me with his thread, I've decided to try to build a Scenario Solo build for NM based on two of my favorite skills: Chop-Chop and Thrill o [..]
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1:32 pm, September 12, 2015
While not an expert by any means, I have been thinking for quite a while about how to level a character fast, or at least easier. Some of these suggestions will need a friend to work with, maybe two [..]
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12:32 am, September 7, 2015
The Facts: Ele/Blade in Transylvania. Doing pretty good only have to skip and come back to a few of the harder missions. Primarily solo.
The Question: Read a guide about high end gear but i guess [..]
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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 24, 2015
Hello, Builds & Decks
I was dared into producing numbers to support my assertions on hate in the age of the Orochi tower, as threads and posts by Yokai, Bluedot et al. are apparently not auth [..]
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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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1:32 pm, August 10, 2015
I'm probably about halfway through Savage Coast and I've been using the same build since Kingsmouth. I use Fist/Chaos, but I've also completed the inner wheel of Shotgun. I am playing 100% solo and ha [..]
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12:32 am, June 6, 2015
Hello!
I'm looking for some concise and straightforward directions about DPS gearing in TSW. I have always just used gear and builds to "get by" , never really mattered to me if the mission [..]
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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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1:32 pm, May 31, 2015
No not the idiotic thing from the early american history,
For solo, questing, type activities...
How would you experts build a deck around manifestations and their friends, like turrets and drones. [..]
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12:32 am, May 14, 2015
To start off, I have trawled and trawled multiple forums for definite answers to my questions, but am now more confused than when I started.
I am now at a point in game where I have pretty much finis [..]
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1:32 pm, May 13, 2015
Disclaimer, my current tanking gearset has been built following the guidelines in Ciritty's Pink tanking thread, and I like her recommendations for tanking passives, and the only passive that will lik [..]
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1:32 pm, April 25, 2015
I've been trying to work on higher-level scenarios recently and been having problems. I can sometimes do a nightmare solo but I struggle at portions, and elite solo is too easy. With my partner, we ma [..]
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12:32 am, April 19, 2015
I have a simple Shotgun/Pistol build, but I am disatisfied because I'm doing less damage then other dps with only slightly better or even with worse equipment. I don't have any Signet, besides the Kin [..]
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12:32 am, April 4, 2015
So i have just picked this up a couple weeks ago and have been having allot of fun with it i enjoy the AR/SG line and have tried a few of the different decks including the commando starter deck. I'm a [..]
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11:32 pm, March 19, 2015
Although I've been a Grandmaster since before launch, I haven't played TSW as a "primary" game for a while now. The furthest I got any of my characters was partway through Egypt. But the new [..]
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11:32 pm, March 11, 2015
GENERAL
* Fast travel has been added to the map UI.
* Using /reset now automatically resurrects you at the closest anima well.Tilty says...
In order to make travelling through the bigger playfields ea [..]
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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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12:32 pm, February 8, 2015
Ok, so I'm fresh from beating the Golden Boy (Gatekeeper), and now I've started running Nightmares with my cabal mates. I have 4 custom pieces so far-head, finger, neck, and wrist talismans at 10.1 or [..]
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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, January 12, 2015
_______________________________________________Proccing Blade - A Fist/Blade proc buildRandom Rambling
I think a Fist/Blade build with proc passives hasnt been discussed thoroughly on the forums yet. [..]
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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 14, 2014
For the longest time, the Signet of Benediction has been plagued with bugs that have rendered it worse than useless. At one time, Quokka and others were worried that the way Benediction, redirect effe [..]
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11:32 pm, November 14, 2014
I have been playing TSW solo casually for almost a month now, rocking a blade / chaos build [https://chronicle.thesecretworld.com/character/HanSuna] that has been close to a cakewalk so far after gett [..]
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11:32 pm, November 7, 2014
Ok, after having spent nearly an hour getting my *** kicked by a mission that I should've been able to breeze(well maybe not breeze) through, I have come to the conclusion that I need a more complete [..]
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12:32 am, October 15, 2014
TRANSMIT - initiate forum signal - RECIEVE - initiate Builds & Decks frequency - I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING - initiate newb lexicon - WITNESS - a request for help.
Hello all, here's the situ [..]
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1:32 pm, September 25, 2014
Hey, recently I've got a bit bored of my Blade+Hammer survival/ signet-farm deck so to spice up my game experience I was thinking on creating a blood based survival deck.
I have seen a few people eff [..]
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12:32 am, September 24, 2014
Yobo’s Efficient Guide to NM DPS Gearing
We’ve had a share of questions on this forum asking for advice on gearing up. So I figured it could be useful to have a guide to refer peo [..]
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12:32 am, September 13, 2014
So yah. Im going to make a post:P.
Alot of people been asking for a "nuke build" for NM dungeons, so was thiking to share it with everyone that is looking for a good build for dungeons and [..]
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1:32 pm, September 11, 2014
Returning after not playing since before Issue 8 dropped.
I was using the following build in Transylvania, based on a post that is now 2 years out of date:http://www.drakkashi.com/secretworld...=3&am [..]
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1:32 pm, September 11, 2014
http://i.imgur.com/2AKFrQ9.jpg Weapon skills SShttp://i.imgur.com/0sNYodj.jpg Skill wheel SS
My head is a QL5 rare attack rating
My major talismans are:
a QL6 rare HP with a QL4 uncommon glyph wit [..]
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12:32 am, September 7, 2014
The only thing better than slamming a BFH (Big [eff-ing] Hammer) into the face of a slobbering Werewolf is lighting that mangy furball on fire while you do it.http://www.tsw-builder.com/#26v67023...32 [..]
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1:32 pm, September 6, 2014
Hi!
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tl;dr : I'm trying to design a "core" general purpose/survival PvE build that can be tweaked for PvP & [..]
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1:32 pm, September 2, 2014
Hello, I'm currently making a tank build for PvP , but I need to know which talismans I need to use for that build, any tanks out there could give me a hand maybe? :)
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12:32 am, September 2, 2014
I think enough time has now passed for people to have tested the last change to Equal Footing sufficiently to give good feedback.
First of all, it seems to me that the new EF works much better than t [..]
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12:32 am, September 1, 2014
As the title says I am looking to do a tank build and I'm in Egypt at the moment and I need a little help. This is my build so far :-
WEAPONS: blade/assault_rifle (296 AP)
ACTIVES
1. Blade Torre [..]
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2:33 am, August 26, 2014
So ive got about 10.4 days played. In that time i have been beat up, set on fire, had bombs explode on me, undead try to drain my life away, spoken with watchers, been to hell, all through it all i [..]
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2:33 am, August 26, 2014
I'm fairly new so bear with me on this. Right now I'm at the start of Blue Mountain with a Ql10 Blade a Ql6 Assault Rifle and Ql 6 talismans. This is the build I have so far :Weapons: assault_rifle/bl [..]
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