Ananke

I skipped the tutorial because it's 2019 and I've played an MMO before. Obviously, I'm not all new players but it's worth mentioning that you don't have to want something on someone else's behalf.

Any pet that you can't run through is obnoxious. Wish they'd just give them that aura that makes them passable and the problem would be solved.

SG Name: Agents of Ruin RP/RP Friendly: RP heavy Theme/Era: Arachnos loyalist Redside/Blueside: Red Recruitment Message: Agents of Ruin is an Arachnos Villain Group dedicated to representing Arachnos through some of it's best and brightest, and not the darkest and grittiest. Despite being a part of the terrorist organization of Arachnos, this division under Ghost Widow comprises of many talented individuals in many fields for the sake of undertaking tough, never-ending missions to... RUIN THE PRESENT TO SAVE THE FUTURE ...which in turn is an attempt to ensure the world is Lord Recluse's for the taking, through fighting against the toughest, stubborn enemies who would oppose Arachnos, or perhaps those who would even destroy the world. Currently the leadership is composed of 6 individuals who have taken charge in their original leader's stead, this includes: - Operative Ezekel, Human Resources (Wolf Spider) Overseer - Strike Captain Suul, Crab Spider Overseer - Magus Mustang, Mystical Arts Overseer - Seer Renault, Widow Overseer - Yohannes and Zayne, Bane Spider Overseers Seek them out if you wish to be recruited, made a contractor, or an occasional ally. The recruitment process involves screening based on simply interacting with the SG: simply approach one of the officers about wanting to join up and the recruitment process begins from there.

I have one for the hell of it (demon/pain dom) and I'm messing around in Pines as we speak to see if I can make it work in any way (only demon abilities I can take are corruption, lash, crack whip) so I have a lot of room for pool powers. I'm finnicking around with field medic + power boost + heals more specifically even though healing is generally sub par in this game just to see if it actually can work. We'll see I guess. I disclaimer my build though. I feel like there's so much regen that I won't even need to heal, so I'd just sit there twiddling my thumbs...

They can do nothing else but 1/10th of damage a DPS class could do. I'm mostly trying to determine where you are on the scale in terms of what you consider griefing. FFXIV has this same kind of mentality of "play however you want" and unsurprisingly it can be very toxic: they'll defend peoples right to play thaumaturge in raid content to the death, by principle, even if it means that they spoil the enjoyment of a dozen other people. The aggressive positivity of it is directly detrimental to other people's experience. In a more general way of explaining, it's like if there was a 25man raid group and the level cap was 100 and a bunch of people in the group were defending one person's right to use sub level 30 abilities and gear exclusively, in levelcap content. So let's say, to complete the encounter, 500k dps from everyone but the healers and tanks is required. That one person is pulling, say 20k. They can't complete the encounter because of it and a huge spat ensues. (If this seems awfully specific, that's because I had pretty much this same argument with someone in WoW a few years ago regarding mythic raid progression.) Is it acceptable for one person to play the way they want if it has a significant negative impact on others? To me, it's not just a matter of telling someone they're bad at the game or whatever. If someone is deliberately making the choice to play something god awful because their enjoyment of the build is more important than other people's enjoyment of their gaming experience, they're flat out griefing. "That person is playing their AT wrong" doesn't occur to me there so much as "that person is trolling a bunch of other people and thinks it's acceptable".

Do you play healer classes in other games with the full intention of never healing anyone?

Anyway, at the same time, if you go and play petless MM and try to join a badge run for The Really Hard Way (which requires us all to bust our asses) don't get surprised if you're removed and replaced once someone realizes that you're a memelord. As much as people coming in to tell you how to play your AT can be totally unwarranted and obnoxious, it's just as obnoxious to deliberately be sub par and expect people to be fine with it. Naturally though this only applies if someone actually knows they're playing dumb bullshit, but that's why I picked the petless MM example because there's basically no way that you wouldn't know better (seriously, you don't play a beastmastery hunter on WoW and refuse to use pets for example). If you're going to play some bullshit for normal content it's whatever; the Incarnate system ensures that unless you're genuinely trolling that you'll probably be fine. Just don't expect everyone to be fine with a ridiculous concept like superspeed, sorc flight, teleport and superjump all on the same character once you try to do serious badge runs or if a group is very dedicated to speedrunning. Your performance in a team game never exists in a vacuum: you have to be respectful towards other people's time too.

I'm really glad that my petless MM is valid.

Revised my build a tiny bit and switched my mastery to soul for more defense (hopefully, I don't need body mastery after-all, since I'll have ageless and don't play sub 45) and had a free slot so I readded death shroud. We'll see how it goes!

Thanks! I won't.

I always heard that cloak of fear was completely useless. I was a little sad about death shroud admittedly but the damage is terrible. Even if I slotted it with 5 armageddon + 1 smashing proc I'd still only get 27 (16.5) dmg out of it.

Hey guys, I'm looking for advice/input on my TW/dark build. http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1521&c=709&a=1418&f=HEX&dc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

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand but I'll try to explain as best I can. Pets drag you out of stealth and the non-MM ones aren't controllable, so once you spawn them in they tend to spend the rest of the instance pulling you out of stealth while you're trying to position to crowd control as many mobs at a time as possible.

I've found that boosting everything with /end on it has helped a lot with my previous endurance issues, not sure if you've finished doing that on your build or not. Definitely gonna have to tweak the slotting on my build, that's for sure... EDIT: nvm, found what was messing up the stats, it was the force feedback proc

Yeah! Just saw that. Definitely saved it. That's a lotta haste though (isn't permahasten only 90% for us, since we have a baseline 20% from meantal training?). And is cardiac necessary for farming, over musculature?

I'm trying to polish off the following build and could use some second opinions. I know venom grenade is a bit of a wonky choice, but it has better -tox than shatter armor, plus it's an AOE with a shorter cooldown. The goal of the build is to be decently versatile for doing stuff like AE farming and DA street-cleaning, so some tankiness is needed. 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Defense (39) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance (40) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge (50) Shield Wall - Endurance/Recharge Level 30: Surveillance (A) Analyze Weakness - Chance for +ToHit Level 32: Mental Training (A) Run Speed IO Level 35: Placate (A) Recharge Reduction IO Level 38: Crowd Control (A) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage (40) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance (40) Armageddon - Accuracy/Recharge (42) Armageddon - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (42) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge (42) Armageddon - Damage Level 41: Mace Blast (A) Superior Winter's Bite - Recharge/Chance for -Speed & -Recharge (43) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime (43) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage (43) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/RechargeTime (46) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance Level 44: Poisonous Ray (A) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Recharge/Chance for -Dmg and Terrorize (45) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (46) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Damage/Endurance/Recharge (46) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (45) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Damage/Recharge Level 47: Disruptor Blast (A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy) (48) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance (50) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge (50) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage Level 49: Assault (A) Endurance Reduction IO Level 1: Brawl (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Dash (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Slide (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Quick (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Rush (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Surge (A) Empty Level 1: Conditioning Level 1: Sprint (A) Empty Level 2: Rest (A) Empty Level 4: Ninja Run Level 2: Swift (A) Empty Level 2: Health (A) Preventive Medicine - Chance for +Absorb (15) Panacea - +Hit Points/Endurance (45) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery Level 2: Hurdle (A) Jumping IO Level 2: Stamina (A) Performance Shifter - 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