The Secret World

Abuse or Aggression or Breaching for weapons?

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 [..] View

Against Signet of Insurance

1:32 pm, October 14, 2016 To me, this particular signet works in a very weird way. The game has no "counter" to debuffs: if I corrupt you, there's no ability that reflects that corrupt back on to me. If I afflict you [..] View

Help with an Elemental/Blood build

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 [..] View

Chop Shop change, Weakened Blade vs Swarmers

12:32 am, June 21, 2016 I noticed pretty quickly that with the 1.15.5 patch the blade ability 'Chop Shop' no longer works the same. I have wondered for a while if it was working as intended as it was shown on the hotbar as a [..] View

Some Abilities seem to Contradict what they actually do

12:32 am, June 13, 2016 So I'm looking for a way to make a New and improved Fuse tank, And I thought my solution came from Steel Echo and Dancing Blade, Why? Because breakdown Says Whenever you *HIT* a target with a Chaos [..] View

Sooo Lets Talk about Grand Slam. (Suggestion)

1:32 pm, June 3, 2016 So, I've recently came back but this makes me wonder. Why is grand slam not considered a strike? While Blade Torrent and Esscalation are both considered Frenzies? I haven't done any hard tests b [..] View

Is this good enough for beginner tanking

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 [..] View

n00b Shotgun/blood build

12:32 pm, January 15, 2016 Hi guys. The second I looked at the 9 weapons in the Crucible, I knew exactly what I wanted. Seeing as this game can name Doom as one of it's inspirations, I decided to focus on the Shotgun, and of c [..] View

I picked Hammers & Element. Bad choice

11:32 pm, January 13, 2016 For this character I picked Hammers and Elementalism before I knew anything about synergy. These two weapons don't have any synergy whatsoever, so I want to replace one of them. The question is which [..] View

Savage Coast Chaos build

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 [..] View

Weakened Not stack?

12:32 am, July 19, 2015 I've been playing around with tank builds and one thing I notice is that Debilitated and Exposed don't seem to stack. If I apply Exposed first, I don't see Debilitated. Is it just me or is this on pur [..] View

Chaos/Hammer soloing, and possibly tanking

1:32 pm, May 20, 2015 Hey, there, guys. Decided to come back to this game, after being away since roughly around Issue 4. Started a new character, in order to play with a fresh friend, and though i'd try my hand at Chaos [..] View

Advice needed on my build(s)

12:32 am, May 7, 2015 Hello everyone! I'm kinda new to this game, but I'm getting more and more into it every day. After the first week, I'm confident to have figured out how things work and I started thinking about buil [..] View

A Reference Manual for Healing

11:32 pm, January 26, 2015 The many forms healing manifests in the Secret World, as in damage and in mitigation, appear simple until you begin asking questions. Curiosity has led me to many wonders over the years, marked more b [..] View

Chaos Fist Solo Burst?

11:32 pm, January 23, 2015 Hi all, I was thinking about Chaos Fist and was wondering if you could have a look at this Chaos Fist build that I put together. It uses burst attacks to gather health and proc Ferocity. While that [..] View

What next? (Blade/Fist -> Blade/AR -> ?)

12:32 pm, October 31, 2014 So, I'm starting this game back up again after nearly a year (just in time for Samhain). I started out as Blade/Fist and switched to Blade/AR to get some range/pull. I also got a Quantum Brace (beca [..] View

Focus attack+Debilitated effect+EF passive = work?

12:32 am, October 22, 2014 hello. as i say in title. Is it possible? For example: (focus attack) shootout+ (passive) elemental force = all 5 attacks get critical(I confirmed) So..... Shootout + Elemental force + Insult to [..] View

Tanking in Stonehenge

1:32 pm, September 30, 2014 Is there any way to measure the effectiveness of debuffing as a tanking strategy compared to other options, such as more survivability or more DPS? How can you tell if you, playing as a debuff tank, [..] View

The Cleaner v2 [Scenario Deck Tank + Solo]

1:32 pm, August 31, 2014 Hey guys, after playing around with some new decks, I decided to share my deck which I use at the moment for soloing group elite scenarios and for tanking group nightmare scenarios 2-manning. The de [..] View