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I try to keep my regeneration rate down to 3 seconds or less so I can spam Pelting Strikes. I haven't really tried pairing it up with anything, but now that I'm seeing it discussed, soul hammer does sound like an option.
Good! Be sure to socket some Regen Per Hit jewelry too.. It will keep Pelting Strikes spammable.. It doesn't really NEED to be paired with any other CA - it does it's job well enough on it's own - provided you've got a good sharp sword (or swords or hammer(s) or whatever if you're dual wielding). The key is to keep the regen low so you can hit the enemy repeatedly until they are DEAD and there's no one left in the area to fight.
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Hi again
The skills I have selected are as follows
Full gear Stripped
Sword weapons 35 26
Exalted Warrior Focus 21 19
Celestial Magic Lore 13 11
Dual Wield 31 26
Revered Technology Lore 28 23
Armour Lore 26 24
Combat Reflexes 16 14
Tactics Lore 9 7
There are two empty slots left. I currently have 4 points to give the skills but haven’t decided where to put them or even to hold them over for a new skill such as Toughness or Constitution.
You’ll see from them that I settled on Dual Wield, Sword Weapons and Exalted Warrior Focus fairly early on then I started reading other peoples Dual Wield Seraphim skills and tried to apply them and I think this is where my problem starts.
My Attributes are
Strength 157 152
Stamina 156 156
Vitality 161 156
Dexterity 157 157
Intelligence 159 152
Willpower 159 159
She has full set of Endijian’s and Niokaste and some Sofia things and quite a few Justice Pieces. I have tried the sets on her but they are nowhere near the sort of protection a mix and match set gives so she has a number of different ‘makes’ of items on.
My mount is Level 51 and is the Celestial Magic Sabertooth.
My favoured buff is Warding Energy which has 42 memorised runes and is level 19.8 with three modifications, two gold and one silver. I do use Battle Stance which has memorised runes 28, level 24.3. I also use Cleansing Brilliance when in dark areas which has memorised runes 19 and is level 15.4.
My favoured CA’s are Pelting Strikes, Radiant Pillar, Assailing Summersault and Archangels Wrath. I starting applying runes to Flaring Nova on some advice I read but I found it to be a very weak CA even though it has 34 memorised runes and is at level 18.8.
I hope I haven’t swamped you with too much info it’s just I am so grateful of your offer of help I thought I would give as much as I could so you have a overview of my Seraphim and her way of staying alive.
Many thanks.
I see a MAJOR problem..
It's not only your Buff CAs that are overfed, it's your other ones as well...
First off, you can only get your CA to just so high (level 19 IIRC) without feeding points to the FOCUS skill that CA belongs to. If you look at the focus skill description (any one of them) it will give you the highest level you can have your CA without penalties. Looking at what you've said - you've got 34 runes eaten and your skill level is only 18.8...
Keep in mind, without penalties - each rune in Bronze or Silver should give you 1 full point for that CA. In Gold, it should give you 2 points per rune eaten, in Platinum, it should be 4 pts per rune and in Niobium, it's 6 points per rune.
But that's ONLY going to work if you have the right Focus skill and are pumping points into it regularly.
At this point, eating more runes is pretty much going to be a futile exercise until you get the focus skill AND put points into that. You've got one focus already - and if you notice - the Battle Stance nerf isn't quite as bad as the other buffs/skills. Keep adding points to that focus as well.
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In that case.. Shadow Warrior springs to mind since 2 of his Aspect Lores are Tactics - which is already off limits...
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First off.. Welcome to DarkMatters..!
Secondly.... You almost HAVE to do some farming of mobs and bosses and such if you want set items, legendary or uniques. Those NEVER show up in the market unless you've sold it to them - or you get that weird glitch that happens like once in a bazillion years. And more often than not, sets, uniques and legendary weapons/armor are better than the stuff you or your shopper might find in the market.
Set items when you have enough of them will give you set bonuses that you won't get with market items.
That said, going to the market isn't all that bad to do. You will find some essential items - like Regen per Hit (RpH) modded jewelry more frequently there than you would normally find picking up from dropped loot.
Personally... I usually do make sure I have Enhanced Perception whenever/wherever it's available. I will also take Bargaining if possible. I find shopping networks have flaws. More often than not, the shopper will not be the same class as you - and this makes the shopper's task all that much more difficult.
Let's say you've got a Shadow Warrior - who can't bargain to save his life. So you bring up a Seraphim shopper to find goodies for him. MOST of the stuff the Seraphim finds in the market will be for... the Seraphim. So the Seraphim will have to work triple time shopping to find just ONE item for the Shadow Warrior. And some Shadow Warrior items (such as 2 handed Axes and Hammers) are hard to find to begin with. Might as well just take the Shadow Warrior to the merchants and have him find what he needs directly. Yes, he will have to pay thru the nose for what he buys, but you don't have a lot of options.
The same sort of thing goes for the Dryad - you rarely, if ever see blowpipes in the market when you're playing a Dryad, let alone another class.
FWIW, I just go play the game, and more often than not, I get what I need from drops in the field, from quest rewards AND from the market.
All in all, I do think it's possible to make it through the game in Niob without having to do a lot of farming.
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That is some bad damn luck.
My internet was out all weekend too, for no reason I could discern. Then this morning, just before a technician was supposed to arrive, it started working again. After I made sure I would be home and everything...
That would be "normal" - its defined as one of Murphy's Laws.. I think it's the 2nd one..
Any device that is malfunctioning will suddenly start working properly whenever the mechanic/repairman is either observing the device or is on his way to repair said device.
The corollary also states:
The device will resume malfunctioning as soon as the repairman/mechanic has been dismissed and/or is no longer observing the device.
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Ok.. What about other Lores - aspect or weapon lores? (I.e. sword weapons or hafted weapons) All of those add damage as well...
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Well.. You could do that.. but who knows when that will be released... It is being tested in beta at the moment so it won't be too long before 150 is released. Of course, there's no guarantee that it will be the final version either. 140 was supposed to be the end of the road and yet, there were enough things found and such that warranted a v150.
At any rate, I'm not entirely sure the new version will fix or change the status of those already completed quests. The key is to NOT remove the CM Patch once you've started using it. It does make changes to how some things are listed in the files and that CAN cause previously successful quest completions to become fails.
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You can always check the roadmap... it's posted on their bug reporting site.
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Oh.. DOH! I forgot to mention the coup de grace in all of this mess.
My cell phone got whacky. It would make calls without problems - but the phone book/contact list got wiped out. Or so I thought.
Fortunately my info was OK - it's just the phone that said I couldn't have any contacts stored on the SIM chip. Put the SIM into another phone and my numbers were still there. BIG major sigh of relief..
Mercury must be in retrograde... (as a friend of mine who was heavy into astrology would say)...
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Just found this picture of apple-chips making, probably easier to reproduce than my staircase oven method. I line the chip rings up on silicon threads and hang them in the heat flow, this person does it on drying plates in an oven.
My wife likes just cinnamon as a spice, I prefer pepper.
Chocolade Chips
Or dip them in hot chocolade and let them cool- here having them on a thread easies it a lot. I do my chocolade chips last, I put some chili in the chocolade.
Adding that we can use quinces, pears, service tree fruits, mespilus germanioca (common medlar), ... to do the chips and use 10 ways for spiciing, 20 ways for a dip,... that a lot of combinations. Normally the year runs out before we have tried all combinations.
Look out! Chattius is going Aztec on us!
Back in the day, the Aztecs would put spicy chilies in their chocolate.-
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Robb...
You DID look at the calendar... Right? Friday the 13th...
But I can feel your pain - tho my string of bad luck started on the 12th. My power supply in my PC decided to frizzle and fry. Right when I was in the middle of doing something - of course...
So I grab my tablet and figure I can at least watch RWBY - which I managed to after several restarts. Bleeping tablets..!
And I thought that was the worst it could do.. Nope. It decided to pack itself in while I was trying to sort something else out. It turned itself off and refused to come back to life after a reboot. DOH! So there I as without anything to access the internet with for a day and a half. At least I managed to get those two items sorted out...
OK.. In light of what you said - my problems don't seem to be that serious. But look at it this way - it could have been worse. MUCH worse.
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By the way, are there any plans to implement a respec option?
No..
That would require serious - and I mean serious coding work that would be pretty much impossible to pull off. There are character editors out there you can use to do this sort of thing - but as always when dealing with stuff like this - be sure to have a good backup!
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Y'know, we really ought to get more people watching this. >>
Yeah.. I know.. Been telling people to check it out. But... <shrugs> They don't seem to grok it..
Well, after what was a long (in RWBY terms), action packed episode, we come down to this. And I have to admit, watching the four girls unpacking and redecorating their room was quite amusing, complete with 'Achievement Hunters' poster. Actually, watching Blake even get into it the way she did was also funny, given how she was initially so aloof only to see her cut loose in this episode. I figured the girls, save Weiss, would be fooling around during the class, but Ruby picking her nose in the end... wow. Also caught a little animation error during the classroom scene. The girls were wearing their school uniforms throughout the whole episode, yet in one instance they revert back to their normal clothing.
Good catch.. I watched it on my craptastic tablet.. My bleeping PSU decided to let out the sacred blue smoke and called it quits about an hour or so before it was released. Good thing Roosterteeth have the video setup so Android users (and presumably iOS users) can view it without Flash being installed.
At any rate... I'll have to watch that episode again now that I've got that fixed.
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As they have all said, it's not the difficulty, it's the annoyance factor that makes mist of miasma a boss people hate fighting, and as the title of the thread says, it is which boss you HATE to fight, not which boss is hardest to fight.
Mist of Miasma is a resource hog, and it's already a slow, tedious fight as it is. Now, add glitches, and it's no wonder people hate fighting it so much.Frankly, the ultimate boss I hate to fight are not bosses themselves. What I hate fighting most are the game's bugs, glitches, and crashes.
You left out ONE crucial factor in why the mist is the most despised..
You have to fight the bugger 3 times on the Light side and 2 times on the Dark. Other bosses are bad enough when you have to only face them once, but this one you've got to do multiple times. With a High Elf spamming Blazing Tempest it's not too bad, (Yes, I know, the ice shards will do damage but somewhat less as the baddies are armored against ice damage)... Ditto for a Dryad with a blowgun. But it's still not AS good as the HE has it with BT...
If you want a boss that's the biggest PITA to fight - that would be the Spider Queen from the CM Patch. The only class I've managed to get thru her lair mostly unscathed was a Shadow Warrior who was fully cloaked and had the biggest 2H hammer/axe I could find. The boss in this case will heal.. frequently.. but only if she sees you. Fully cloaked you can walk right up to her and unleash a torrent of blows and she doesn't even have a chance to react.
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And it's Thursday again and you all know what that means! YES Episode 9 should be right around the corner in a few hours!
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Right.. But besides Primal Mutation and Untouchable Force (buff), the other CAs aren't the sort you're going to be able to spam. Fiery Ember, Icy Evanescence and Charged Grid are all long term CAs that have cooldowns as well. We need to make them stronger, and the Lore would help do that.
It's like this - you hit say, Fiery Ember. You switch to Dedicated Blow, and while the ground does it's glowing thing, you go to work taking out the bad guys. By the time, Fiery Ember finishes, odds are the baddies are dead anyhow. Regen for those CAs is not super important.
Makes sense?
Feel free to post a fresh thread if you need help.
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Sauerbraten is traditional made from marinated horse meat. Rat, hmmm, perhaps a sailor has a good recipe, I do not know one. My grandpa said he ate them as POW.
Back to the chips. Illegal over there?
http://meetinx.de/files/2013/08/chio-maedelsabend-chio-maennerabend.jpg
I'm kind of with Col. Sherman T. Potter from the TV series M*A*S*H... There was an episode dealing with some disease or other the locals were getting that they were having problems with because they ate horse meat. Seems the cure was also made from horse and because of this, it was much less effective. He said something to the effect of he'd rather see them eat pork - because pigs are ugly and we're doing them a favor by eating them. Horses are too majestic to be put down for food. Of course, he was an old school cavalry officer.
As far as those chips being "illegal"... I doubt it's illegal - but would probably irritate numerous women's rights groups who frown on such things. That and the "transgendered" crowd who would likely be as confused as their gender identity when it comes to which one to eat.
Haha Wolfie I like how you tried to name some gross meat and everyone's like "YUM so much better than burgers!"
And...those would be illegal because it's discriminatory chips? Yeah I can't imagine those would ever hit the shelves in the U.S.
Oddly enough, in the movie Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone finds himself in a future where real food is non-existent. It's been reduced to pills and such. When he finds himself in the underground lair of some poor people who don't fit into the utopian future, he finds himself a burger to eat.
Lenina Huxley: [Spartan encounters a burger grill in the underground world] Just don't ask them where the meat comes from.
John Spartan: Huxley, what's that supposed to mean?
Lenina Huxley: Do you see any cows around here, detective?
John Spartan: Que es este carne?
[What is this meat?]
Hamburger Stand Scrap: Este carne es de rata.
[This meat is from rats]
John Spartan: Rat? This is a rat burger?
[vendor nods]
John Spartan: Not bad! Matter of fact this is the best burger I've had in years!
Hamburger Stand Scrap: Gracias, Senor.
John Spartan: Prego. See ya later.
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John -
FWIW.. I do not know the game's maths. Truth be told, I do not care to know the game's maths. I play to relax and get away from life in general - even if it's for only a couple of hours and not as a new job...
All I know is what works from hard experience. I've managed to take a TG up thru the final battle in Gold. In other words - he's Platinum ready. I haven't taken him beyond this - mainly because I tend to get distracted by other characters and something I haven't explored yet about them. It keeps the game fresh.
For TG CAs, I primarily use Dedicated Blow, Icy Evanescence, Fiery Ember and occasionally Charged Grid. I use both buffs - T-Energy Shroud and Untouchable Force. More Shroud than Force. I do not depend on these to stop the enemy. I rely on DB knocking them into oblivion. THAT stops the enemy. Permanently.
Your best bet if you want to understand all of this is to play the game, try stuff out and if it works - GREAT! If not, Oh well. Start over and try again.
As for Source Warden Focus - It's one of the few times, I'd recommend the LORE instead. Most of the CAs in that aspect are those with long durations AND cooldowns. As such, the only bonus of SWF would be the number of runes you can eat for those CAs and how high the a level you can get with them. Without the focus, you will not be able to eat more than 20 runes before you run into penalties.
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Hmm..
I'm sure there's probably a point where Tactics alone will more than make up for not having Combat Discipline.
However, you're opening paragraph is disturbing.. Only ONE point for Concentration? Um.. Where did I say that would be a good thing?
The primary point of having Concentration is NOT to unlock a second buff. That is an added bonus, but not the reason to take the skill. The point of taking Concentration is to reduce the regen nerf - penalty - to make ALL combat arts regardless of the aspect they belong to. To make this work you MUST invest points into this skill - more than just one!
Look, it's fine and dandy to have a good defense, but, you must balance it with a good offense as well. You want a shopper, and you want to take them into higher levels. Great. That's like 1 skill out of 10. You need to concentrate your efforts on BOTH offense and defense. It's good that you can stand up to the baddest boss on the map, but you eventually have to take the boss down. And if you have no offense or are limiting it to Deathly Spears - which you've been told doesn't really do much until you get to maybe Platinum - you're never going to get there.
What you need is Dedicated Blow, Concentration and Regen Per Hit. That IS the secret sauce behind the Temple Guardian - especially at the lower levels.
The idea here is you kill the enemy before they have a chance to damage you. And to do that, you will need to be able to spam Dedicated Blow so you can kill 1 enemy with 1 hit. Champions might need two, but that's OK. They're supposed to be stronger. You need a regen time right around 1.5 seconds and with RpH socketed, you should be able to have it instantly regenerate so you can hit the next guy coming at you. BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! They're all dead.
Dedicated Blow does not have a cooldown. It's just a regular combat art that only has the typical regen penalty. One that can be overcome easily if you add points to Concentration, the correct focus with a side of RpH.
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Um. OK.. Would Rat be more offensive..?
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I'm partial to rare steak or chicken myself... Not super fond of the meatball and tripe varieties..
What I'm not quite understanding - why Pho hasn't become more popular... It's better than having craptastic burgers and tacos and such..
And given some of the reports from various places - it's likely better FOR you as well given it's not crammed full of horse or kangaroo meat like SOME burger places have been reported as having.
OK. Here's a whacky idea..
Lays - are you listening:)
PHO FLAVORED CHIPS!
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Thank you for the detailed response! Dude what do you mean we got a bugged combat discipline on consoles? 0_0 Well you seem to have given me confidence in a choice: toughness > SWF in my case at least. I do however think it'd be beneficial to keep UF running for the 10% stun chance (that doesn't seem bad at all for a small penalty). Honestly I was second-guessing myself for a moment after reading your post--I was thinking, "Well it sounds like concentration is worse than combat discipline...... Combat discipline gives a cooldown AND bonus damage." But then I realized 1. Combat discipline does not give as much cooldown and 2. I CAN still get combat discipline since I'm going to scratch SWF.
I guess the decision now becomes for the last 2 choices: toughness and combat discipline? That sounds solid. Or would constitution be much better than toughness for when my shield dies?
Also, how much should I level concentration later on? I'm trying not to think of it as a waste but rather an opportunity to spam Combat Arts better later on.
For the record, when I level willpower, my shield's "ward efficiency" (whatever that is) goes up by two points. For example, it just went from 753 to 755... Do you suppose that's even worthwhile? Or should I just level something else instead of willpower?
So my big question is what to pick for my last 2 skills. Can I get away with combat discipline if I choose toughness as well? Or should I pick constitution and toughness? Combat reflexes? In regards to the offense/defense balance, I do not know where I'll stand. Since I'm not putting pts in strength right now, I arguably need to compensate more with tactics lore and stuff. Also, I haven't been raising my hafted weapons at all... I am level 41 as of right now. Anyways, hope to hear back from you or anyone else within the day! :]
Weapons Skills - such as Sword Weapons or Hafted Weapons - are good for a few things. It allows you to unlock modifiers on the type of weapons in question. If you have an Axe of some flavor that has a Modifier: Hafted Weapons notation, there will be one or possibly more skill boosts that are associated with having that skill that you can only gain if you have the Hafted Weapons skill.
By the time you get closer to level 70 or so, you will also find modifiers that require Hafted Weapons Mastery.
Argh sorry for the double post once more but of course this made me go on a researching spree again. I still don't know if concentration was a good choice as compared to combat discipline! In retrospect, perhaps it would have been smarter to take CD. But oh well. What's done is done. And I still think unmodded UF may be worthwhile--doesn't it have a 10% chance to stun everything around me? :] This would make concentration--in tandem with the notion that concentrations aids "spammability"--worthwhile.
Anyhow, it seems that people who talk about platinum and beyond talk about a large HP pool as necessary. That said, I'm leaning towards constitution (hopefully good shield + good health = tank). Also, my reduction mod on my shield provides slight damage mitigation--5% + .1% per CA level. I mean just saying that at CA level 50 for this buff, I'd have 10% damage mitigation (equal to mastering toughness, no?), in addition to other bonuses such as larger spell reflection and even more derogate damage. Question: is it wise to eat runes for my shield?
Anyways, combat discipline seems like a real option then. I know--it's really obvious I want to witness the extra damage from it lol. Well I gotta go--early morning tomorrow. I won't make any large choices without checking up on this topic first.
<sigh> At least 3 of us have told you that Concentration is important to have. Trust us. It's important to have.
As far as runes go... Given an eaten rune does make your CAs (including buffs) stronger, then the answer would be a resounding YES - with 1 caveat. You have to balance the gain with the pain. In other words, you can't eat too many of them at any given time or your other combat arts WILL suffer.
Your other option would be to use what is referred to a "buff suit" - meaning a special set of armor you've got with lots of sockets, all with buff runes socketed. you switch into the armor in question and turn the buff on, then take it off and store it while you're wear your best armor. This gives you the boost of a high level buff, but the CAs don't get regen nerfed as badly.
On the plus side, as long as that buff is active, you've got the benefits of the high levels the suit gives you without the excessive regen nerf.
On the down side, it takes time to swap armor back and forth. If something debuffs you while you're in combat, you're kind of screwed as you can't simply reengage the buff and have it work the same. Not to mention, if you haven't killed whatever debuffed you, it will not be patient while you swap armor to reengage your buff.
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I know what ya mean.. Nothing like a good bowl of Pho to clear your sinuses when you're congested.. Especially if you make your bowl a bit on the atomic side. That endorphin rush also does wonders for headaches..
And of course it comes in very tasty varieties..
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The big difference is - the Christmas thing in Sacred 2 is available in single player mode as well as multiplayer. IIRC, Haven island is not reachable in Single player except maybe by the Battle Mage with his teleport skill.
The Daemon and the Dwarf probably didn't get any set love mainly because they were part of the Underworld expansion - and by that time, they were busy with Sacred 2 to spare some time to muck about with that...
It's the same sort of thing with the Dragon Mage in Sacred 2.. He too is lacking a Christmas set as well as a mutation set. All because he's part of the expansion, not the original game.
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I recently came across this while watching some videos for game currency... It's kind of soft metal - a retro sort of thing you might have heard from REO Speedwagon way back in the 80's...
The only bummer about this video - the female lead in the story keeps turning into dust and vanishing on our poor hero... Then again, this song is about heartbreak...
It's pretty good tho...