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Then I guess I'll continue on Hell and lower to Nightmare if it becomes a bit unbearable.

Regarding shade/power, I do get some sup/exq good pieces, but I'm going to limit it to RE. OFC will help that lots, and I'll push towards PFU RE soon enough, but I guess I'll stick to 2H light armor then. It's just frustrating since monsters are getting nightmare tanky, and maintaining the same difficulty is getting more and more annoying.

I'll see if I can buy/rent a good Ethereal estoc. I know about the debate, but I desperately need the AS for more survivability.

For now, I guess it's collecting 5 blood tokens for the daily spaghetti at least, I'll probably run less Arenas in general, or lower the difficulty at least. It isn't hard, it's just not brain dead, which hurts sanity when repeated hundreds of rounds a day.

Everybody's advice here sucks horribly.
As an improvement, I request you all try to suck less horribly in the future.

Here's meaningful advice:

1: Quit your job, stop paying the mortgage, and tell your significant other that they need to get the hell out.
2: Sell everything but your laptop, microwave, and refrigerator
3: Use that money on soda and frozen corn dogs.
4: Put hasps and padlocks on your doors
5: Put the fridge, microwave, corn dogs, and sodas next to your laptop
6: Buy every energy drink available
7: Play 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until you run out of energy drinks.
8: Buy every energy drink available.
9: Play 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until you run out of corn dogs/sodas
10: Rob a bank
11: Buy sodas and frozen corn dogs
12: Repeat steps 6 through 11 until you have every perk, training, and flagship equipment available.
13: Snap picture of your e-penis and upload so we can admire it.

Sincerely,

Roadtroll.

Uncle doesnt even have a laptop. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Uncle doesnt even have a laptop. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

oops..

Step 1a: Buy Laptop. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Everybody's advice here sucks horribly.
As an improvement, I request you all try to suck less horribly in the future.

Here's meaningful advice:

1: Quit your job, stop paying the mortgage, and tell your significant other that they need to get the hell out.
2: Sell everything but your laptop, microwave, and refrigerator
3: Use that money on soda and frozen corn dogs.
4: Put hasps and padlocks on your doors
5: Put the fridge, microwave, corn dogs, and sodas next to your laptop
6: Buy every energy drink available
7: Play 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until you run out of energy drinks.
8: Buy every energy drink available.
9: Play 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until you run out of corn dogs/sodas
10: Rob a bank
11: Buy sodas and frozen corn dogs
12: Repeat steps 6 through 11 until you have every perk, training, and flagship equipment available.
13: Snap picture of your e-penis and upload so we can admire it.

Sincerely,

Roadtroll.

Playing like this is dangerous for Life and Health of a Person. People need to eat various Food, sleep enough, walk outside sometimes, clean the Haus. I recommand, if HV is really for some People as important as you say, and those People want to play more and longer, then they should live healthily and have Income. If they lose their Life or Freedom, they can't play more.

Step 1a: Buy Laptop. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Sorry, you had to come up with that ealier. I did allready spend my money on a new vacuum cleaner. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Playing like this is dangerous for Life and Health of a Person. People need to eat various Food, sleep enough, walk outside sometimes, clean the Haus. I recommand, if HV is really for some People as important as you say, and those People want to play more and longer, then they should live healthily and have Income. If they lose their Life or Freedom, they can't play more.

True, but Road was probably not entirely serious (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

This post has been edited by DJNoni: Jan 24 2019, 16:24

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There's another option.

You can hire 3 or 4 people to play on relay scheme. Then it will be possible to play 24 hours a day. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

And look on the bright side: you would be creating jobs. Have you thought about how many jobs would be created if everyone did this? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)

He wasn't entirely joking either, that's the worst. We do know some players who aren't far from that.

And that advice sucks too anyway. Just do like RoadShoe : take years of adopt-a-servers, sell the hath, get tokens thanks to the lottery. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif)

speaking of which, is there any way to speed up the turns?

Waiting for server syncs is driving me crazy. Daily grind would be less of a stress if I don't have to wait ~1-2s every action I take.

Play on [alt.hentaiverse.org] http://alt.hentaiverse.org to get rid of the delay induced by the Cloudflare network. It does wonders.

Jesus Christ that's at least 5-8 times faster

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There's another option.

You can hire 3 or 4 people to play on relay scheme. Then it will be possible to play 24 hours a day. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

And look on the bright side: you would be creating jobs. Have you thought about how many jobs would be created if everyone did this? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)

wouldn't that be illegal?

wouldn't that be illegal?

It's been so long since I read that I did not even remember. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)

According to rule number 5 it would be illegal and as it is more or less unimaginable that people would do illegal things within the internet, I guess it was more of an hypothetical example (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

But talking about doing real damage:

If he ever chooses ethereal, you and others will be the ones who start lecturing.

I just say that ethereal is overrated and not the best for 1H. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Ok, this is obvious a total landmine. Maybe even a full field of it. But now I'm curious and willing to take a jump even if I can already feel all the facepalms and "why" crys:

Why exactly is elemental better than ethereal?

With a look at the wiki for me as a beginner the advantages of ethereal are maybe just more obviouse:
- no inteference = less mana cost
- no burden = higher evade chance + if otherwise > 40 higher attack speed + if otherwise > 120 even higher crit chance
- (short term advantage) even before item level 10 void strike which does probably slightly more damage than an additional elemental strike

As far as I was able to collect the advantages for elemental weapons these are:
- 25% additional magic damage in that element (I once tried to use an attack spell. The resulting damage was embarresing. I doubt that 25% would get me beyond shameful, but maybe that's a higher level thing)
- 25% more resistance to that specific element? Not sure about that though - the wiki says something that could be interpreted like that.


And there is another total noob question:
What exactly is a "crystalpack"? As one could guess from the name and https://ehwiki.org/wiki/File:Crystal_packs_vs_PL.png it is probably a package of multiple crystals. But how many of each or is it random?
For example qinkin1979 offers "Crystal pack (1200) @ 21K" at the WTS board.
As one crystal costs 10 credits at the basar the pack should at least inculde 2100 crystal - otherwise it wouldn't be ... that of an amazing deal, right? So i guess the "(1200)" is not the number of crystals?
I thougth about to just buy it and find out myself, but if I mess up at a shop because of the lack of knowledge it could really piss other peole off - so here I'm again! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

As always: Thanks in advance and regards
-hopkar


Edit: My question for the advantages of elemental weapons meant for 1h users. For mages I'm sure the additional spell damages is more than useful.
And as I'm already at asking questions: How do I post links to equipment? Or rather: where can I find the url of a specific item?

This post has been edited by hopkar: Jan 24 2019, 20:51

Why exactly is elemental better than ethereal?

Uncle says overrated, not better. You get free void strike at IW10, or a random element for ethereal, which makes it less of a gamble when you can get desired ele from the start and ethereal weapons will cost more.
1h doesn't care about burden and interference.

What exactly is a "crystalpack"?

If type of crystals is not mentioned, it's pack of 1k crystals of each type and it is a far better deal than buying crystals separately.

Thanks for the fast reply!
Ok, so Crytsal pack is more or less clear now: 1k each means 12k in total. Maybe qinkin1979 was missing a "0" at the (1200) and just nobody cared because everyone knew what it should mean.

As for the prefix: Uncle said ethereal is not the best - which means there should be something better. As I understand that burden or interefenrce from the weapon may not be critical for a 1h, accoring to wiki even if you have low burden as 1h light (like me) each point "Reduces evade by 4/3%, or roughly 1.33% per burden (fully eliminates evasion at 75 burden). The penalty is multiplicative; a player with 50% evade and 0 burden will be reduced to ~33.5% evasion at 25 burden."
So I would have guessed that it's still better then a "maybe" worse second strike at level 10 which you could try to redo with an amnesia shard.


Edit: Ok, so maybe you can't counter after an evade - only after a block or parry? Then it would make sense that the evasion thanks to the lack of burden would not be necessarily an advantage.

This post has been edited by hopkar: Jan 24 2019, 21:09

It's been so long since I read that I did not even remember. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)

I just search that too as I only vaguely remember.

and in my search I am reminded how some people are... special...
I know what happened with blackjack thread, even with reminder people still sending him trophy, and I think it still somewhat acceptable as some people still saying that blackjack accept the CoD.... but necroing a 1 year dead wtb thread for selling... really... you need to actually scourge through the hidden thread to be able to even open the thread.

Why exactly is elemental better than ethereal?

afaik it's basically boil down to 2 thing.
1. Ethereal extra elemental strike from IW 10 is random, while on the elemental one you could choose it based on it's elemental prefix.
Though, if you're willing to make a little(?) extra effort, this point is somewhat moot when you count that you could simply leave the ethereal at IW 9 and use whatever element you wants via infusion.
2. Some people prefer having the extra burden/interference to intentionally decrease their attack speed bonus.
Though, once again, I think this is pretty much depends on each person just like that haste or no-haste playstyle.

though I'll just agree with the fact that the ethereal is currently overated considering current expected price compared to other.

This post has been edited by Fudo Masamune: Jan 24 2019, 21:09

As for the prefix: Uncle said ethereal is not the best - which means there should be something better. As I understand that burden or interefenrce from the weapon may not be critical for a 1h, accoring to wiki even if you have low burden as 1h light (like me) each point "Reduces evade by 4/3%, or roughly 1.33% per burden (fully eliminates evasion at 75 burden). The penalty is multiplicative; a player with 50% evade and 0 burden will be reduced to ~33.5% evasion at 25 burden."

The assumption for elemental is that the cost of featherweight shards is negligible.

So I would have guessed that it's still better then a "maybe" worse second strike at level 10 which you could try to redo with an amnesia shard.

No, you would have to use 10 amnesia shards (or 5 with dark descent) and start over.

Play on [alt.hentaiverse.org] http://alt.hentaiverse.org to get rid of the delay induced by the Cloudflare network. It does wonders.

How do you make that the default?