TSW refugee migration

I picked illuminati just because some other coh types I met in game did. If Dragon is nemesis, I totally picked the wrong group.

I'm on Leviathan, usually playing after 8.

I made one of each group. So far, my Illuminatist is the one in the lead, with my Dragon in second. My Templar is a bit distant in the rear. Each one has a different focus right now, with the Templar being an AR/Elemental fighter. The Illuminatist is a Pistols/Shotgun focus and the Dragon is a Sword/Fists/Chaos focus because I didn't know how useful Chaos magic would be before a little research.

So far, I'm liking the story, but... I just don't feel the need to play it all the time once the newness is gone.

Or maybe I'm still just bumming because this game's going under.

Do people team in this game? I messed around with free account and didn't experience any. Wondering if the mobs scale up like in CoH. Don't see how as everything I've done is outdoorish street sweeping and not door missions like we have in CoH.

Okay, so I have been playing the Trial for this game... and just finished the 30 missions to get the bonus time and free points.

I gotta say, I am really liking it. The UI can be unituitive at times, but the game itself is a blast. It's strange, I don't even mind the "Kill X Zombies" missions because the story is so varied and the monster types keep changing around as well as I move to different areas.

I am very disappointed by the costume options though... but that is more than made up for, IMO, by the fact that I can have one character and he can have ALL of the abilities and literally do whatever role he wants.

I have focused on Elementalism and Shotgun/Pistols so far, but I may just branch out a bit more as well as I gain skill points.

I am on the Arcadia server with an Illuminati who's nick is Thirty-VII (as an aside, Thirty-Seven and many permutations thereof were taken ). He is my second character, but will likely be my main. I recreated the one I did the 30 missions on to team with the BF.

I think it is very likely that we will both pick up copies over the weekend while the sale online is going on.

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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay I cannot recommend this game hard enough.

Welcome back! Haven't seen your name around much in these parts.

I would also like to know how you "screwed up a build". It's impossible to permanently make a build choice that excludes other choices. You can just go run some low level missions and apply the AP/SP to what you now wish you had.

Heh.

So, regarding Marcian wanting to know why someone would want to use resources that build up on your target instead of you:

Right now I have a build with single target and chains+AoE. It's not really super powerful, but the premise works fairly well against clusters of weak enemies:

I use Open Vein (blood resource builder, chain) which builds up blood resources for myself and puts assault rifle resources on every target I hit. I use it from 3-5 times (the more the better), use Infection, which is another blood chain, which - in addition to doing damage, also causes an inflicted (DoT) state on everything it hits. Then I use High Explosive Grenade, which does more damage with more AR resources on any target it hits. In addition, it does extra damage on afflicted targets. The numbers in my ability screen say 233 damage, 280 if the target is afflicted - but that is what you get from a single AR resource. With five it's more like 450-700 or so, with additional damage (not sure how much) on inflicted targets. Also, after four seconds you can tab and grenade again because the next target will have AR resources as well, and so on.

For single target, I use Anima Shot x 5, followed by Transfuse Anima, and if it is available, Red Haze. Red Haze always does ~1k damage. Transfuse Anima with five AR resources on the target hits for about 700-1300, depending on penetration, criticals, etc. If you're fighting one target, that it puts resources on that one target isn't a big deal - you get the benefits if you want to make use of them.

I am not going to say this is an uber amazing build, I'm mostly experimenting with various things to see how well they work out, and most combat is easy enough that I'm not in any real danger, and the fact that all of my single-target attacks heal me means I end most fights at full health.

I have an alt of each faction on Daemon though mostly a Templar at heart. I'd really love to connect with any Paragon refugees in TSW.

Queller - Templar
Glider - Illuminati
Murk - Dragon

I bought it and paid the free month but I'm canceling my sub before it bills me. As others said, it's pretty much a single player game where someone else runs by once in a while. The chat window is messed up where it won't save any of my settings and constantly clears itself when I zone and, even when they're on, the only place I see anyone speaking is in Agatha (sp - whatever) looking for end game dungeon groups.

I bought it on sale for $25 and maybe the single-player experience would be worth $25 front to back but it's not worth $25+$15+$15+15+$15....

To tie into an earlier conversation, I went Shotgun/Blood pretty much at random (I liked the 'real life' idea of a shotgun without knowing the game mechanics and found a Blood focus early on). My build mainly centers around the Weakness/Penetration synergies between the two but I don't know the skill names well enough to define it right now.