The Secret World

[Rodimus86]

This games awesome, started off on pistols for my main and fists as secondary but been using fists much more. So far going for a DPS crit build. Here's Rodidongs, i still need to buy some better clothes but i haven't really looked yet...

[Marius]

The Virgula Divina mission was great. A bit sick though... I jumped out of my chair at one point.

Also posting this using the in game browser.

[Marius]

Huge new patch online now too.

http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showth ... ost1314822

Though... the patch notes don't seem to list all of the fixes made. That post is just 'highlights'.

[garamel]

Huge new patch online now too.

http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showth ... ost1314822

Though... the patch notes don't seem to list all of the fixes made. That post is just 'highlights'.

MMO's seem to be like that it's almost a meta game to work out exactly whats been changed and how.
I'm really looking forward to the marketplace, maybe I can offload some of the junk I can't bring myself to just vendor.

[Marius]

Speaking of the auction house, I actually like it, apart from the massive lag caused by everyone rushing to use it.

Bought and sold a few million worth of stuff, and almost geared up to do nightmare dungeons now.

Based all my gear around a combo of +crit and +hit. Going for something different other than the cookie cutter crit damage fist healer. Rifle is an attack healer, and a lot of my passive skills proc on hit. Just need 4 pure wheel runes, 12 pure lu runes, and 3 glyph kits, then will be good to go.

Crafting in the game is fairly interesting once you get into it, because you need to craft to optimise your stats. Also, I'm very glad my timepiece is accurate.

[garamel]

Hmm I ended up switching to healing so I could get a regular spot with a group, almost ready for Nightmare just have to finish a couple of elites and kill the gatekeeper. I started off going AR/Blood and honestly I only see AR being useful in those rare encounters with a lot of unavoidable group damage even with 2400 heal rating I just can't keep up with the damage to the tank, that being said being able to keep everyone else topped up without really paying attention to them is nice. Fist on the other hand I don't even need to use resource consumers in half the fights.

I'm not a fan of how the AH is implemented, for me it's unusable at the moment, virtually the entire list of anything I search for has already been sold with many showing up for days, heck there's a weapon toolkit still there I tried to buy the night the AH went live.

[Marius]

Two things.

1. This mod fixes the auction house completely: http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=51744

It is how I've been able to buy stuff.

2. Rifle needs you to think differently to other healers. I heal elites just fine, with less heal rating than you. Healed most elites at 1800 heal rating, though now I have 2350.

The trick is to properly pick passives. Rifle's unique thing is that it hits the enemy, unlike blood or fist. So, first you need to get some +hit. Then, you need to get passives that proc on hit. I have a weakness debuff I apply (-30% damage) on critical hits, and I have passives that give me a 20% chance on hit to build an extra resource. And I hit 3 times a second... So with rifle I'm building reosurces like crazy - only takes me three seconds to get to a full 5 stack, and then I hit the tank with an improved dosage shot of anima, every 3 seconds.

And since I go pistols too, I have plenty of heal over times, so also going to grab Empowerment from fists for when I need more tank healing over Veteran's group healing.

[garamel]

Two things.

1. This mod fixes the auction house completely: http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=51744

It is how I've been able to buy stuff.

omg amazing!

As for rifle healing it's entirely possible you're just better than me but I do agree being able to apply some of the on hit passives is really useful, one that comes to mind being 12 gauge reducing damage by 30% is really nice but convincing those selfish dps to give up a passive slot for it can be a pain.

[Marius]

Guess who?

[flabcab]

What server is everyone on?

[Marius]

Arcadia. One you get to QL10 it doesn't really matter, since Agartha LFG is cross server. But I like my server - people are friendly.

[Rodimus86]

What server is everyone on?

Huldra is where it's at.

[flabcab]

Arcadia. One you get to QL10 it doesn't really matter, since Agartha LFG is cross server. But I like my server - people are friendly.

So you can have cross server guilds or is it just for LFG?

[garamel]

Arcadia. One you get to QL10 it doesn't really matter, since Agartha LFG is cross server. But I like my server - people are friendly.

So you can have cross server guilds or is it just for LFG?

Yup the rest of my Cabal is on some other server whilst I'm on Huldra, the only issue is I can't join them in Fusang pvp.

Also beat the gatekeeper today, on to nightmares!

[flabcab]

Really quite enjoyed my trial weekend, now to consider wether I am iwlling to shell out some cash to keep on playing.

Only problem is a made the dumbest name because I was to impatient to keep on thinking of names that might not have been used.....