Tabula Rasa

[Requiem]

arms, sprint, are both good to get to 5

[Tyen]

They could easily make high end group/raid content absolutely amazing, but of course they are polishing the low-mid content. This game could have amazing potential on raids but who knows, I've heard absolutely nothing about what they have in mind in that area.

The game, in my opinion, is very fun for myself but when release comes and I'm lvl 50 and there is nothing to do I will of course cancel my subscription. I believe they have more than enough time to throw up raid content but I have been proven wrong before.

The high end group content will probably be in the game come release, I'm not too worried about that aspect.

[Tyen]

Firearm is #1 on getting to 5. If you get that up quick you can blow mobs away with ease.

Sprint is great for 6xing or just getting to places quicker.

I wouldn't blow anymore than 1 point into the recruit/soldier armor, hold off until the lvl 15 armor.

Machine guns are meh as they totally rape your ammo.

Lightning is a good ability but it's not a necessity. It is very useful from lvls 9-15 but thats about it.

[QforQ]

There is a beta event tomorrow (Saturday) in the game and we're going to have Cuppa Jo (the TR community manager) on Uberguilds Radio helping us provide live coverage of the event. It will be between 9pm and 11pm EST Saturday Sept. 8th. Here's a link for more details:
Tune in Saturday for Tabula Rasa Event! | Uberguilds Radio

Message from General British:

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Message from General British:

Attention AFS Soldiers!

We have received intel that indicates the Bane are preparing for a massive invasion force tomorrow, September 8, 2007. Our surveillance team reports that the enemy appears to be planning to deploy in the Wilderness area. It’s going to be messy out there. You may expect the worst, but know that we will be led by one of our best and brightest – SFC Sara Morrison.

Report to Wilderness at 8:00PM to 10:00PM, Central Time.

[Witoubo]

Originally Posted by Requiem

I was using medkits when you saw my actual health going up really fast. I did go very heavy on regen statwise though, and yes it was definately the best for grinding. I can't speak of the end-game though, since it doesn't exist at the moment. I can see max hp being more important on assrape mobs if there's an EQ1-style tanking sort of situation going on.

How heavy on Spirit did you spend? I'm trying to figure out how I want to spend skill points if I want to go a similar route. Flamethrowers etc.

[Tyen]

Sprint 5 is what he had. At lvl 15 is when sprint 5 is amazing to have. At this level you get your 'assrape' weapon and are able to mow through mobs.Sprint helps in getting to one mob filled area to another quickly so your 6x doesn't go away.

At the lower lvls sprint 5 isn't much of a necessity since you would probably die before you run out of mobs, when in the right spot ofcourse.

[Jabberwhacky]

My adrenaline comes back way too slowly to support any kind of consistent Sprinting. Does adrenaline come back based on how much damage you do? It seemed that way from those videos.

[Tyen]

Adrenaline goes up after you kill a mob. So, if you are killing nonstop you basically have enough adrenaline to keep sprint up constantly. Its tough to keep it up pre-15 because you kill a hell of a lot slower.

[Flood950]

Did you all get the beta client from Gamespot? I am having difficulties just downloading it.

If I use their download manager, I wait the hour or so, then it sits there with 1 second left indefinitely.

When trying the old method, which looks like it would take about 6 hours to complete, its halting before its done. I never have connection issues downloading so I have no idea whats up.

Just wondering if anyone knew of an easier way to get the client. I have a key already. Thanks.

[Noah EQ2]

Not sure how the higher level stuff is, but TR is pretty freakin fun. If there is higher end content where 10-20 people have to blitz massive amounts of crunchies, then be stomped by some 50ft tall boss, it could end up a huge plus for NCs game selection.

Good timing too with other games not releasing new content till nov-later.

[Agraza]

Content thins out drastically past Wilderness. Divide is decent, but I expect its getting another pass soon since it isn't as polished as Wilderness. Palisades is damn near a joke at the moment. The map doesn't even line up with many of the points of reference.

I'm not sure if I approve or disapprove of discontinuing hand-holding with regards to logos locations past wilderness. I don't go hunting for them myself, I refer to walkthroughs. I suppose I could get over it if I could add notations to my map. Just me being a slacker I guess.

As far as being a ranger, 15 is indeed hot shit. I spent on firearms then banked everything for rank 5 stealth armor and a point in my net gun. The net gun one shots most things and the dot that follows kills all bosses. I run around picking and choosing who and what I'd like to attack, due to my stealth armor, instead of being raped 24/7. The only downside at the moment is that technicians/stalkers/machina are immune to the electrical net gun, forcing occasional rifle/shotgun use. I've been informed I'll have access to diverse damage type net guns later on.

And yes, sprint is almost necessary 15+. I've lost my damn multiplier dozens of times by a fraction of a second.

I'm Maas on the USA1 server if anyone cares.

[Tyen]

Double post

[gwood]

There is higher end group content, overland maps as well as instances. It's just blocked off during the beta.

[Tyen]

Get the incendiary and cryogenic netguns they are totally win. Palisades has the best grinding spot in the game that I have found. The only zone that is totally gay. Is mires and pools. Mires is buggy as hell and pools is pretty empty in a lot of spots. Pools is totally assrape though so be carefull. Other than that all the other zones are developed fine in my eyes.

[Agraza]

Escort/Defense quests are quite different as a ranger. With full stealth armor on the enemy can't see you and will always begin the fight with your escort. It's pretty annoying, so I've been carrying around a set of reflective/motor assist patchwork to toss on for escorts. Most of the escorts are pretty durable, but it's the exceptions that define this necessity. I'd like that my stealth effect extend to nearby friendlies, but that ain't going to happen. It's unfortunate I can't disable my stealth at will because reflective/motor assist armor doesn't have as much resilience as stealth.