Elegost

I Survived PvP Bootcamp
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  1. Elegost

    I remember....

    Best memory:
    Killing Tiny C for my 18th birthday. Then we went and got pizza.

    Top 5 best days of my life.

    edit:

    Pwny recorded it:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbK4xidD2ts
  2. yes. That is the "lobby" that you were initially sent to for arena matches. It was redundant or whatever so they stopped using it, but left it there.

    For Warburg, you use the same mechanic. There's a door mostly underneath a slope in town somewhere. Do the logout trick and you end up on the underside of that hill, free to farm.

    Warburg has a couple really good farming locations (getting behind the blue wall was the best, naturally).
  3. Actually the SacBros never got that badge <.<

    Thanks for the compliment, though.


  4. A more recent picture of the Ryxxegost brothers. I shaved my head last year and maintained hair roughly this length ever since.
    Also every single picture of me from his wedding looks like ****.
  5. I'm gonna name my future pets after the guys here who helped me get to the level I reached on my namesake.
    Werner, Billz, Nihili, Iggy, and especially that jerk Umbral :[

    God I'm going to miss all of you guys.
  6. Elegost

    I remember....

    My name is Elegost, and I'm a dick. It's time to come clean.

    As my brother already pointed out, I grew up here, and it's interesting for me to look back through old images and chatlogs to see how I've changed. It's bittersweet, seeing myself now, living in the long shadow of my former self. I don't have many regrets, but the attitude and image I made for myself in this world is one of them.

    I was the one that was always flipping hundreds of performance shifter procs and ruining all of those prices, also Essences of the Furies. I ruined those, too.

    I was the one who global-silenced the VB channel to keep the spammers out, despite the other mods' opinion.

    I was the one who repeatedly removed AAs mod-star (but I always gave it back, rude prankster).

    I had the secret intention to slowly remove the stars of every single member of VB (including myself), save Cannonfodder, one at a time, while they were all offline. Because I was a malicious dirtbag.

    I was the one who make fake globals and pretended to be three of you (I'll only post the chatlog of one of them, however. Blujay and Fire Kittie were the other two). If any of you happen to remember this.

    Tiny C
    Quote:
    [Victory Badges] MOTD (2007-11-28 21:05:23): For everything Badge related . Yes we can get Isolator now ask Panzer how.
    [Victory Badges] sigma1932: wow, raid in Atlas... heh
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: hay every1
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: ?
    [Victory Badges] Lanna Su: hey Tiny
    [Victory Badges] Veris: Rikti in AP
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: nobodies here?
    [Victory Badges] Semeck: Hey - to eveyrone that did that thing at that place - sorry for hte abrupt depature - but I need the Rikti world raid badges - did we get almost everyone to the goal?
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: oh hay guys!
    [Victory Badges] Veris: close two left in the 300s
    [Victory Badges] Veris: probably do that thing again tomorrow
    [Victory Badges] Semeck: again, sorry I bailed so quick, but congrats to the new goal setters
    [Victory Badges] Semeck: I'm off to join the farm
    [Victory Badges] Semeck: thanks guys
    [Victory Badges] Veris: yeah very close, and thnx for all the help
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: wuts goin on ?
    [Victory Badges] sigma1932: what thing is that?
    [Victory Badges] Veris: the thing from before
    [Victory Badges] sigma1932: I wasn't here before, mind filling me in?
    [Victory Badges] Plasmic Fire: and wtf, for 100% boost you only get 2.5%
    [Victory Badges] Veris: it is the thing that shall be not named, and it shall not be named
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: does ne1 need a blaster???
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] anymore for heal farm?
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: **** yoo and yor farming kind bluejay!!!!!!
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] ??? sorry to be so offensive ???
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: u shuld EARN badges not farm them!
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] tiny, are you being contancerous for a good reason?
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: ..... wut?
    [Victory Badges] Masque: HAY TINY!
    [Victory Badges] crobar: Cantankerous
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] look it up
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: HAY MASK!!!!!!
    [Victory Badges] crobar: aka a freakin hemherroid
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: ima tank.. ?
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] contemptible, tiny.
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] contentious
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: stop using big words so u sound smarter
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: im realy smart
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C.: ok wtf is using my Global???
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] it shows
    [Victory Badges] Masque: lol
    [Victory Badges] Vakdor: so now we have Tiny C and Tiny C., hmm
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C.: who is using my name as their global?
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: hes faking!!!
    [Victory Badges] crobar: funny
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: im the real tiny C!
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] shoot them both. the real wolverine will heal, damn it
    [Victory Badges] Vakdor: lol
    [Victory Badges] Silent Zoe: they're multiplying!
    [Victory Badges] Masque: You both have tiny c's
    [Victory Badges] Fyre Knight: lol BlueJay
    [Victory Badges] Vhaasen: Help control the Tiny population, have your Tiny spayed or neutered.
    [Victory Badges] Silent Zoe: LMAO
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: wut?
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C.: ......
    [Victory Badges] Fyre Knight: lol
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C.: that is not cool dude
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: seriusly.. sum1 make him stop
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] no, it's not. but it's how we handle the uncool that matters
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C.: tell me how did u get that name...because that is the name of my WP/energy tank...
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] take it to tells, tiny...
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] lol
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C.: NO
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] one of ya's
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: how did u get MY name? its the same as my archery/nrg blaster
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] don't get snippy
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C: NO
    [Victory Badges] Tiny C.: what Slick Arrow?
    [Victory Badges] Plasmic Fire: huh?
    [Victory Badges] joshua-kotc: [Bluejay] I'm leaving VB; this is too annoying. I think Tiny C., the real one, needs to stop being snippy, and I think the guy making every else's globals needs to stop; beyond that, what do you want of me? g'night
    [Victory Badges] Plasmic Fire: oil slick?
    [Victory Badges] Jr Bullseye: ok im walking away til yall get it together
    I have the image from our fastest QMoSTF time: 0:25:18, 6 corrs, 1 def, 1 scrap (post incarnates, pre-hybrid), but my photobucket is borked and won't upload it, will potentially include later.

    While my badging experience wasn't as rough as Chads mentioned heal farming, I did manage to get 1k pillboxes on dial-up, which sucked (thanks to Necrotech Master for so many months of trading pills between sides).

    What I wanted most out of the story of this game was for Rularuu to be the next threat for the incarnates we had become. The Aspects were there, the zones were there in the Shadow Shard (ready for a revamp), the whole layout was just begging to be used. I am incredibly saddened that the Rularuu will not be expanded upon further.

    I really don't want to play GW2, but there really aren't any other options for this style of gameplay that I can use to game with my family and friends. I'm still on the fence.

    Buying GW2 is like marrying your rapist, as Ryxx put it.
  7. "realignment of company focus and publishing support,"

    Also funneling everyone into their new child, GW2.
    Goddamnit I'm so mad right now.
  8. I will come back for 1 week for every billion that is donated.
    :P
  9. Elegost

    K Bai!

    just figured I'd poke my head in one last time for a while.

    Bro messaged me a few hours ago, said he just landed, and that he got a window seat on the plane on the way down.
    As he said, I'm pretty much stuck outside of the gaming world while he's gone, also I am swamped with schoolwork at all hours of the day, so I don't have much choice anyway.

    I love you guys. Give us something to come back to in a few months :]

    PS: Mark, you can have what is sitting in Daedrous', Ele's, and Wetrix's WW if you want.
    >.>
    <.<

    <3
    ggkthxbai
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Errant View Post
    I just want Katana to be correctly handed... WHY ARE ALL KATANA SCRAPPERS MIRROR-IMAGED? *nerd wails and gnashing of teeth*
    Some of us left-handed people like it that way :[


  11. They're a little taller than they were last year <.<
  12. I say Master of- but that means I'll just be using the settings. If I can't do it without dying, whatever, but I'd still try without temps or insps. Those're just the requirements I'd set for myself.

    I don't honestly know if it's possible, it's just on my list of things to try.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade View Post
    Elegost, have you built yours? How does it fare?
    Oh hai, been gone a while.
    I did actually built that one out, yes. There are a few minor changes I have in mind, but they don't come until the AO sets arrive and the 3 new enhancement slots.
    Because I'm waiting on those slots, my FH and Resilience are still only single slotted, even though we got that buff.

    As far as the build goes now, though. I feel like a god. I don't really solo any +4x8 stuff because that's not particularly enjoyable to me (plus school started dominating pretty much all of my time - damn you physics), but when I do play him, death is never close to an option.

    At that level of survivability, there really isn't much clicking to be done just because of the playstyle. I rarely find myself having to stop killing to use clickies. Everything is preemptive, rather than reactive.

    If I ever have some extra time I'd like to run a solo MoITF, but time is the one thing I've been lacking lately.
    If only I was a neutrino...
  14. Elegost

    ???/energy aura

    I'm running elec/ea for mine, been saving the name "Joulomb" for a long freakin time waiting for an opportunity like this.
    Now we just need a Mids update >.O
  15. Elegost

    Here we go!

    Not sure if I'll need to buy more toon slots or not. I'll have to check my roster. I'm almost definitely buying veterancy, however, just because I hate being behind the train, and I could use those damn celestial pieces (among other things). That also depending on how much it is to go from t7-8ish (whatever I'm at) to t9.
    All I wanted was time manip for a corr and /ea for scrappers, so I'm good with powersets.
    Enhancement slots are teh hell yeah (for respeccing!), and boosters are going to be useful for a few of my min-maxed builds (specifically the few short-slotted powers that could actually use the boosts). Hopefully the store looks a little better than it did in beta... but I honestly doubt it. The whole layout was freakin trash.
  16. Elegost

    Here we go!

    I want hard numbers on how much cash they made today alone just from the store and people buying veterancy. I want to see those paychecks.
  17. Elegost

    Claws/Regen

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Square_Woot View Post
    "Well, I MoGed so nothing hurt me...but I didn't have my weapon out, so...this is five seconds we've wasted together."
    Redraw is only an issue if pretend it's one. The best sets to pair with a regen cause redraw, and you'll be kicking so much *** you won't even notice the few momentary pauses in between.
    ~~
    Regen will also be getting its buff this tuesday with i21 - enhanceable regen debuff resistance in FH and base 9.36 res(all) in resilience.
    It's not particularly *bad* at farming... but being a regen doesn't really add anything to the experience like a /fa or /shield would. That is, no damage aura, no AoE burnination (or shield charging), no AAO, nothing. You *really* don't benefit from the farming style fighting, but that doesn't make you bad, you're just not that type of fighter, just like a /sr. You're still whooping everything, just not as well as other secondaries could.
  18. 15 years of school and I still don't know how to read.
    ~ I think I just saw the word "heal" and I was like "OMG DON'T GO FOR HEAL SET BONUSES RAWRAWRAWR" and didn't even comprehend what he was asking.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by JusticeisServed View Post
    Ok so I'm trying to figure out the incarnate related stuff..
    And my gut tells me to go with Spirtual related alpha slot stuff for my scrap.
    Spiritual gives me +healing and +recharge
    You are correct. Spiritual Core Paragon is what you want

    Quote:
    If I go spirtual core paragon I'll have about 3 seconds of downtime between hastens.
    Instant healing is up for 90 seconds then down for about 110 seconds (not too bad). This is all based on my current build.
    We typically try to get IH down to around a 50% uptime, that is, 90 seconds up, 90 seconds down (recharging in roughly 180 seconds total). It's not terribly hard, try and at *least* get 3 slots in it (3 heal/rech set IOs should do the trick if you're on a tight build).

    Quote:
    But I'm trying to figure out how the +heal factors in. Obviously the +heal makes all my healing better but it appears to also affect my +regen is this true?
    Unfortunately, no.
    They will make the healing component of Dull Pain heal for more, but that's already high enough that you won't notice the set bonuses. Heal powers like healing flames and reconstruction that have a resistance component ignore heal set bonuses (for mechanical reasons, not intentional reasons). And they also do not boost regen-powers either (so no boost to FH, Integration, health, or IH from those bonuses. You would literally only see a change in Dull Pain - the one power where you really don't need it).
    So definitely do *not* build for heal set bonuses (4 piece numina set = no. Don't even go for a 3 piece, that hp set bonus is worthless, too).

    Quote:
    Now I'm playing around with it in mids to figure it all out and this is where i'm more confused.
    Without factoring in the alpha stuff, I've got 625% regen but when I hover over it, it says: capped from 625%..

    If I hit instant healing.. It moves it to 1425% capped from 1425%.. So what is the cap? I want to make sure that if I take spirtual (obvious benefit to a /regen IMO) the +heal part isn't going to waste.
    The wording there is poor, not sure why it says it caps so early. As previously stated, Regen cap for scrappers (it's different per AT) is 3000%. You'll be somewhere between 600-700 normally, IH will add roughly 1k to that, and if you get radial rebirth (which I highly recommend), that can push you to regen cap for the first 10 seconds of its duration (if you use it with IH). Or alternate between the two, and sit around ~160hp/sec all the time.

    Quote:
    Also what's the cap on HP?
    2409.6
    Accolades, dull pain, and spiritual core paragon will make you have this at all times. That is, if you have enough recharge for perma-dull pain.
  20. thanks for managing my thread for me, Voo >.<
    I was just about to post this link.

    I've been away for too long, forgetting to keep updating this stuff.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus View Post
    My thought process is that you don't need to choose.

    I know its stating the obvious, but you can have multiple Incarnate powers for a single slot.
    I actually do have both t4 radial rebirth and barrier core on my katana/regen. This is only because John showcased the idea of rebirth on a regen *after* I'd just finished crafting t4 barrier. Even then, I still never use it. It's such a freakin chore to switch any incarnate power out that I'd almost never promote getting multiples of them (there are a few exceptions with alphas and destinies).
    They say you can do it "on the fly," but if you can't change it for 5 minutes at a time because you were hit by any power, that "on the fly" quickly becomes "before you start doing anything," or "in between missions," ~ which, in incarnate trials, doesn't even exist.
  22. In the particular case of dm/regen, I'd more heavily consider getting barrier instead of rebirth. Here's my thought process:

    Since DM is lacking a real AoE, there's a higher incentive to get ball lightning or fireball, thus giving one a reason to skip out of soul mastery. Not having shmeld might be a good enough reason to get barrier, but I'd also say the added regen from siphon life might diminish the *need* for the extra regen from rebirth, as the values are moderately comparable, at least if you exclude the huge heal (1.1k with spiritual core) plus the ~133hp/s in the initial burst. Siphon life giving about 30-45hp/sec (depending on slotting/attack chain), while rebirth gives about 26.7 hp/s per individual buff, (dropping from 80.1, to 53.4, to 26.7).
    Let me see if I can do a rough break down of what I'm trying to say. Taking each portion of the rebirth phases and comparing each one to the maximum amount of potential hp gained from siphon life (as in, you never are full on hp, and all of it is always gained, and you get the maximum number of siphon life casts within the time window).
    Assuming I did this right:

    first 10 seconds
    rebirth: 133.5hp/s + 81.3hp/s = 2,136hp/10s (plus roughly 1,100 instantly)
    Siphon: 2 casts, 580hp/~10s

    next 20 seconds
    rebirth: 80.1hp/s = 1602.6hp/20s
    Siphon: 4 casts, 1161hp/~20s

    next 30 seconds
    Rebirth: 53.4hp/s = 1602.6hp/30s
    Siphon: 5 casts, 1451.5hp/~30s

    last 60 seconds
    Rebirth: 26.71hp/s = 1602.6hp/60s
    Siphon: ~9 casts, 2612.7hp/60s

    That's with siphon life having two level 50 golgis slotted, and including spiritual core for both powers (98.84% healing enhancement in SL). I did a lot of quick rough rounding with the siphon casts in the duration, so those could be off by 1 in either direction (this is also basically assuming you only ever used sl/smite/mg/smite, so it's an unrealistic maximum), with that, one could probably assume 1 or 2 less SL casts per each time frame being analyzed, increasing the differences between the two.
    I guess siphon life doesn't compare too well to rebirth after all... and I'm still not sure which would be better in this case.
    Do we need to make another god-build and figure this out? >.<
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SickSadisticBomb View Post
    why is everyone in their regen builds putting +recovry uniques into powers that clearly mark +Regen..it seems like its such a waste to put a enhancement into a power that cant even utilize it
    Umm... it's a proc, it adds the percent recovery to you, it doesn't increase the recovery of the power you slot it in (as that would only be useful in PP).
    Unless you mean why are we only slotting health with a miracle unique instead of trying to get more regen out of it. In that case, you have plenty of regen in FH and integration alone, but having enough recovery for all your toggles and sustaining your attack chain over long periods of time is very important in our builds. Slotting the miracle is (usually) vital for that to work.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
    By the way, you pegged my build pretty well
    There are only so many ways to build a regen

    Quote:
    I really want more slots, though, what with more benefit coming for really slotting up Resilience and Fast Healing.
    We will be getting 3 more lvl 20-30 slots eventually, I just hope it's sooner than i21.5. I really need them for FH and resilience too :[ no way am I getting those slots from anywhere else.