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[Goliath]

Originally Posted by Heartbrand

It's ok if it makes you feel better I got suspended for a week because my flayed barbarian leggings sold for 450k and the GM said it was a suspicious sale so it must be plat purchasing. Of course, the week they suspended me was the double exp week, go figure.

Certainly it was on another server? I'd say it was suspicious too if it was bonus exp weekend on Mayong (450k within first few days all on one char). Regardless they are stupid. I remember this guy on Veeshan got suspended for having 800k, no questions asked. He was just a great trader in NFP and would have bags and bags of lamentations/fungis/cof's, etc.

[Heartbrand]

LOL, my bad, yes this was on a different server.

[Goliath]

Originally Posted by ruination

According to SOE that is considering an exploit and I have seen people banned over it.

Btw, where exactly is your evidence on this? Not accusing you of anything, but I can't seem to find a damn thing. There's been a thread of jealous crybabies since March, and SoE has neither closed/locked or posted in the thread; they are aware of the thread because they merged two threads. If it was illegal, wouldn't they have simply said so, or locked the thread as they do to anything illegal?

using merc to afk exp [MERGED]

The logic on merc afk exping being illegal is completely fallible and retarded in so many ways I can't even begin.

[Crone]

You are using the mercs for something they were not intended to be used for. How is that not an exploit?

Just because something is in game, doesn't mean it's legal. Just because you can afk exp with mercs, doesn't mean it's legal, or should be.

[lost]

Originally Posted by Bongk

Banned? no

Suspended? maybe

I got caught using MQ2 visually by a GM when he entered The Nest and the whole zone was dead from Zero Delay and I was killing a mob on other side of zone at the zone in. I didn't even get banned for that.

It is technically against the rules, I got a couple warning way back on my mage for AFK leveling when pets used to be KOS if you were.

Does that still work where the GM cant detect you using zero delay unless someone in the zone reports you or the gm zones in? I used to hear about that and how ppl get away with it all the time in lonely zones, man I miss MQ.

Mercs were intended to kill shit for you and protect you, if you're afk, he's not afk hes still getting paid and doing his job

[Goliath]

Originally Posted by lost

Does that still work where the GM cant detect you using zero delay unless someone in the zone reports you or the gm zones in? I used to hear about that and how ppl get away with it all the time in lonely zones, man I miss MQ.

Mercs were intended to kill shit for you and protect you, if you're afk, he's not afk hes still getting paid and doing his job

Exactly. Saying merc exp afk is illegal is like saying boxing is illegal, or going afk in a group for an hour is illegal. All are getting exp without you doing anything. What's the difference if it's a mercenary? What if you go take a shit for 20 minutes and your merc kills shit? Where do you draw the line? If SoE wanted they could have spent 5 seconds including a patch that makes mercs go passive if you don't do anything for an hour, but they haven't. It's not illegal and people that cry over it are little babies and simply jealous they can't find a good spot or can't do it for some reason.

[Goliath]

Originally Posted by Crone

You are using the mercs for something they were not intended to be used for. How is that not an exploit?

Just because something is in game, doesn't mean it's legal. Just because you can afk exp with mercs, doesn't mean it's legal, or should be.

Where did you read mercenary intentions at? I didn't know there was a handbook. How can you even make an assumption since they gave mercs an "aggressive" mode and didn't code it so they went passive or went away after a while? Afterall, they made it so if you are FD for too long your pet poofs.

[Goliath]

Enjoying SoD progression atm. Just got access to VoidB and J2 Mercs. Whoever said it was easier to get Void access and by the Archaic armor instead of farming it was insane though. The Archaic armor costs like 600-900 chronobines, and you get 15-50 per mission. In contrast, you can pay 120+10 chronobines, find a power source and combine it for 500 hp armor. Buying Archaic from Zebox BLOWS! But for pet classes you can get a Pet Power (70) aug for only 45 chronobines in VoidB, that's pretty sick. The J2 merc are 47 plat per 15 mins at 75, pretty damn costly, but I do notice a decent difference from the J1. Going to wait till about 78-79 to do the next progression for VoidC/J3 Merc, still farming AA's atm, have about 450 each on both the Bard and Ranger.

[Terike]

so which one of you is Solt? Afk farming Tactics:P

[ruination]

Originally Posted by Terike

so which one of you is Solt? Afk farming Tactics:P

That's Sotaris, and it's Goliath.

[Goliath]

Originally Posted by Terike

so which one of you is Solt? Afk farming Tactics:P

Read the last two pages sir.

Can't do tactics anymore though, Collice/Vindicus/Vegarlson are far too jealous and play 24/7 so train me nonstop. Jealousy is a funny thing.

[Terike]

Originally Posted by Goliath

Read the last two pages sir.

Can't do tactics anymore though, Collice/Vindicus/Vegarlson are far too jealous and play 24/7 so train me nonstop. Jealousy is a funny thing.

Ahh okay.

<--- Melodi

[fucker]

Originally Posted by Goliath

Enjoying SoD progression atm. Just got access to VoidB and J2 Mercs. Whoever said it was easier to get Void access and by the Archaic armor instead of farming it was insane though. The Archaic armor costs like 600-900 chronobines, and you get 15-50 per mission. In contrast, you can pay 120+10 chronobines, find a power source and combine it for 500 hp armor. Buying Archaic from Zebox BLOWS! But for pet classes you can get a Pet Power (70) aug for only 45 chronobines in VoidB, that's pretty sick. The J2 merc are 47 plat per 15 mins at 75, pretty damn costly, but I do notice a decent difference from the J1. Going to wait till about 78-79 to do the next progression for VoidC/J3 Merc, still farming AA's atm, have about 450 each on both the Bard and Ranger.

that was me..../hides

what 500hp armor you getting for just 120chrono? tier3 essences from FoS nameds, you talking about those?

[Goliath]

Originally Posted by fucker

that was me..../hides

what 500hp armor you getting for just 120chrono? tier3 essences from FoS nameds, you talking about those?

I haven't got any myself yet, I'm still 76/75. But I have access to VoidB and Zebox sells the ingredients (minus the powersources) for I believe Head/Bracers/Boots. The powersources are from FoS named and a bunch of other named in any of the 80 SoD zones, and the first tier of the armor is 500hp unless I fugged my research?

I really can't wait till 80 so I can do more progression, it's just too hard atm with 75/75/76 of Necro/Ranger/Bard + War Merc/Cleric Merc x2 Rank J2. Problem is I know AA's are a bitch at 80-85 because they didn't tune the game properly (from what I've read), so I have to stockpile on AA's now before I can level and continue to progress. (plus I'm pretty sure I won't be able to afk aa's nearly as well as I am at 75, I honestly wish I'd have done it sooner, afk aa exp where I was doing it at 65 would have been out of control good, I was getting 15 aa's a night with 5 people grouped in the pit...it doesn't get any better than the pit for afk exp. My god are Bard aa's TERRIBAD. I mean they are absolutely worthless. I'm only at 500 and I just can't find jackshit that is really worth a damn. I really hope they do something about it; I read a post about 3 months ago that devs were seriously looking into the "bard problem", I hope that meant their aa's. They have like 6 activate aa's that only effect the bard, like increased hp, increased defense, super damage shield, double attack buff, etc. Why would you make bard aa's that ever only effected the bard? What the fuck is the bard supposed to be doing? Who designs this shit? Is it so much to ask for aa's that effect my damn group, like I'm supposed to be doing? We have a massive 2 aa lines and they aren't till 76 and 78.

Anyways, I'm done with pit in tactics so if any of you want to try it out, just find a spot that is safe from the stampede, summon a war/cleric merc, and go to town. Just about every spot in the arena (except corners) eventually agros every single mob that spawns in the pit, so once you find a safe spot from stampede you are gtg, Just watch out for the trainers I mentioned (Collice, Vegarlson and Vindicus), because they really go nerdrage over afk exp. If you don't have a bard for haste/ds while your afk, you'll need to prolly have two wars or two cleric mercs though. I had to create a perfect triangle with my bard in the middle so he'd never get stunned and stop singing melody, but my god do those mercs F shit up with bard songs while I'm afk. Oh and btw everything in pit is completely LB until 76, then about half goes green. I'd say the best level to do it at is 70, perfect balance of power to prevent ever wiping (never happened to me unless I crashed/ld'd on one char or those lame asses trained, stampede never got me, the agro range is very very low). Also I made over 200k from just coming back to my keyboard (when awake) every 30 or 45 minutes and mass looting everything. You get about 2-10 parchments an hour, half spec, half eth. Turn them into the more common classes (nec, mage, wiz, cleric) and sell the spells. Don't try to sell MQ, it takes too long and it's better if you just turn the spells in. There are so many spells that sell like hotcakes for 2-4k. The best class to turn specs into is nec/mage, and the best for eth is nec/wiz. Bard used to be good, but the prices have lowered because I think other people figured that out. I used to get like 2-4k for every damn bard song, the ae slow (eth) was 4k instant and the single (spec) was 4k instant.

I'm pretty happy about having so much fun w/o needing a guild (although I'm still really crossing my fingers for a night guild that doesn't raid on weekends and is dkp), there's so much great group content, and honestly the Tier1 progression of Oceangreen was pretty fun, albeit not that innovative (hello save villagers from undead who are going to plague the food stockpiles *cough WC3*). I was annoyed by the buggyness of the Oceangreen instance, the villagers kept agroing us because my tank was AEing, even when I put him on passive and stopped singing ae slow, they'd still agro us now and then, it was pretty annoying because you can't even cast on them to memblur like the good ol' days, so you're essentially fucked.

All that aside it's been great. I actually look forward to seeing the new zones in SoD like Toskirak and Old Kaesora, and that hasn't happened to me since Omens?

They've definitely made the game a lot better, I don't even mind the new graphics anymore (except for the models, I will never turn new models on, I don't care if I somehow magically have the Bardspeed Sorokor horse on my ranger (emerald of the green jungle thingy).

[fucker]

Originally Posted by Goliath

I haven't got any myself yet, I'm still 76/75. But I have access to VoidB and Zebox sells the ingredients (minus the powersources) for I believe Head/Bracers/Boots. The powersources are from FoS named and a bunch of other named in any of the 80 SoD zones, and the first tier of the armor is 500hp unless I fugged my research?

yep, thats tier3 armor

it's called tier 3 because...well it drops from tier3 zones (o'rly?) the FoS theme. Essence from nameds + items in void = teir3 armor

There are 4 different types of essences,

fractured = wrists and hands
warped = head/ feet (void b is necessary to buy the stuff from zeb)
distorted = arms/legs (void c necessary)
phased = chest (void d necessary)

each of these can be found in 2 kinds, luminessence or incadessence. the armor you will get is almost the same eccept few stats change. so just loot whaever and dont worry about it

once you have the tier 3 armor piece, you can upgrade it to tier4 looting a tier4 essence from Rathe theme nameds

to do the upgrade you need Void E

from Kuua/Korafax nameds you can loot the tier5 essence to futher upgrade your armor to 700hp level


few more things:

in Lobby near the guildhall entrance you can find a npc that will give you the item to upgrade your armor even if you dont have access to Void E. However, you can get only 15 of them so dont waste them

there is also a way to downgrade your essences. so if a tier4 essence is taking dust in your bags because you dont have the tier3, you can trasform it in a tier3 and get your armor (of course you will have to farm the tier4 again). Unfortunatelly i cant remember now the name of the item



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