Starrie wrote:
Maybe you can add some tips for Wizards (maybe for other build as well) how to stay alive during grinding. My lvl 20 wizard gets kicked a$$ too often on the Constantinople Beach. (using Life Control and Nukes Maxed)
once the tanks you're partying with get their quota have them cast it on you.
a level 20 tank should have quota
Pain Quota - Disperses damage received by xx% through the whole party. my pain quota takes away 55% of your damage, this can be casted on 2 people.
a level 30 tank should also have physical fence
Physical Fence - It takes xx% of the damage you receive and gives it to the tank, this can be casted on 2 people.
by the time you hit level 30 parties you won't be dying too often
a level 40 tank should have protect
Protect - It takes xx% of your aggro and gives it to the tank, this way the mobs will kind of slide off of you and go to the tank.
Now this is in a party situation, do not life control unless you have these buffs.
If you're soloing, you better have good gear or when you're level 40 get recovery division, it's like an autopot (cleric skill).
Or get noise, bard skill, which makes sure you only aggro the one you attack, just be careful what you hit.
Now since you're level 20, just go ahead and nuke green mobs for now and level that way, you'll get plenty of money and won't die so much and still gain decent exp maybe ones you can 1 hit or 2 hit without life control. Life control is a killer in solo.
Barotix wrote:
GodsAngel wrote:
this is more for ideas than anything else ^^ first part of the guide should be up in a day.
I'm already writing a guide for this; want to see it? I just need to type it then transfer.
I looked at your guide looks like it's coming along great. this is what i typed up during my lunch break, lol it's very rough and has a lot of opinions I need to make a little more professional but here you go.
I plan on doing like an encyclopedia, I'll send you a sketch of what I'm planning on doing for the character section
[warrior]
- brief description
- skill descriptions and recharge times (<-- i feel this is left out in most guides and is really important)
(a real skill description)
- recommended skills
- how to use this character in party
- who to buff, in different situations
- Q/A for warrior
probably going to add a lot more for each character.
anyways that's a sketch im planning for each character.
For the where to level section, i went out and scouted the areas I used to party level from 1 -> 80, trying to find a way to grind at every available mob before posting the pictures.
Also wanted to know if there was a way to kind of minimize pictures but when you click on them, they enlarge, i wanted to show the scenery of the areas too.
This is what i wrote during lunch, i might just scrap it all together but
European Characters and their role in PvE situations.
European Parties in PvE situations
Table of Contents
I. What is a Euro Party a. Basic concept behind a euro party. Tankers hold aggro while wizards nuke and clerics heal
b. Find out why people euro party. Leveling is much faster, european characters level much faster because of parties,
if they solo there's a tendency to die and it isn't as fast.
It's also more fun chatting in parties and laughing when the whole party dies because someone disconnects.
II. European Characters a. Why make a european character? some people call them overpowered, I disagree, but in a well organized party, europeans are overwhelming, I've seen
capped bladers go down to 26k nukes now imagine three of those nukes...
If you want to 8/8 euro party, which I consider to be more fun, exciting and a much faster and enjoyable experience
than chinese soloing then a Euro character is for you.
Of course chinese characters are welcome to join in, however, Europeans tend to have the potential to be more useful in
parties and are therefore preferred.
b. Ok, so I want to party grind and have fun! what kind of character should I make? These are introductions, each build and their specific role in PvE and PvP parties will be covered separately in very long essays.
Warrior The tank, not only is this the core and perhaps the most essential part of a good 8/8 party, it also requires
concentration and flexibility in order to be good at it. Ways of luring, tanking and holding aggro
are ever evolving, NOT a character for slackers. quota don't forget to quota!!
In return, you'll be much loved, possibly the most fun and stressful character to play in parties.
1. you won't die ever, if you do you suck
2. you can decide who dies and who lives in parties
3. you'll have 48k hp at level 80 in oblation
4. not very sp consuming 0 gap to 80 is an option.
Cleric The healer, is an essential component of an 8/8 party. You must buff and heal every player especially the tanks
and know which heal to use and when to use it. This will be covered later.
Clerics will be loved, you save our ass gratz, it can be either a very boring character or an extremely
exciting one. I'll cover this in the cleric portion
1. you won't die, at least you shouldn't
2. you do the most damage out of any build in game, once a minute. (offering)
3. you hold the lives of 9 people in your hands, including the one you're about to offer.
4. not very sp consuming without attack skills
Wizard The nuker, in parties you will be the one dealing the damage, if a rogue thinks he can deal more damage than you
tell him to mutiply your damage by the number of mobs you just hit, which should be 5. Remember to use AoEs in parties.
The reason tanks have 5 mobs on them is so you can nuke all of them at the same time.
You will die a lot without tank buffs make sure you have them. You will be loved and hated.
1. Loved, because with three of you, you have the perfect party
2. Hated, because the damage you do is insane, especially to me wtf.
3. if you love damage and don't mind dying this is the build for you
4. somewhat sp consuming unless you know which skills you want (refer to wizard guide)
Warlock The debuffer, in parties you will be debuffing monsters, allowing nukers and rogues to do almost 1.5x their normal damage.
On top of that you will be saving lives by scream masking your comrades and stunning and sleeping rogue mobs. Very useful class
and pvp as a warlock is fun to play, watch and listen to. (sound fx)
1. sp consuming
2. you will need to get pretty much, every skill available to you
3. it's not as difficult as it looks to debuff mobs in parties, just takes practice
4. there's a warlock glitch you can exploit in pvp ^.^
Bard the Barder, you have several jobs, one of them is to not get hit which you won't. You will not only be the party's mana pot,
healing the cleric and wizard's mp you'll also be putting up a tambor reducing damage received, anywhere from 20%~40% of it.
Your speed song, moving march, swing march, ss, mm, sm, whatever you want to call it, is vital to the party. Tanks cannot
lure without it, there will be unnecessary deaths without it.
Special case, when there are two of you, you will act as extra damage or extra heal or extra defense or extra hit rate depending
on what the party needs, I am referring to your dances.
1. somewhat sp consuming
2. don't use anything other than mana cycle when you're not buffed with protect
3. most people take this as a sub, if you do don't half a.ss the skills they're important
4. bards are much loved in any party especially generals where wizards can't nuke without a bard.
clerics will also be stressed out without a bard, in order to keep them sane please heal their mp.
Rogue the puller, you my friend will never be fully appreciated in a party, accept that. However, the damage you do in PvP is no joke
very effective in solo if you can't find a party and a fun build to play. Your job is to pull mobs, usually a tank will spare
a "protect"(lvl. 40 buff) and cast it on you, this will transfer a %age of your aggro onto the tank and the mobs you pull
will go to them. Also, there are many situations in which a tank can't save an int, step and and KD them while they move away.
Note to you rogues, in a good 8/8 party don't go around KDing and KBing mobs, moving the party around with KB and cancelling
nukes with KD will only get you kicked from parties. If the tank does not have a spare protect either switch to your sub class
and bard or kill potential threats around the ints, do not KB and KD the mobs on the tanks.
1. not very sp consuming unless you get dagger as well
2. the damage you will deal is insane in pvp
3. takes skill to be appreciated in a party
4. much loved in party pvp
c. Facts about European characters 1. you're not chinese, 1 v 1 is not your thing
2.
III. Where to party levelIV. How to Party Level a. Forming a party Advanced parties will be addressed later on.
1. Two tanks
2. Cleric
3. Three Wizards
4. Bard
5. _____
Find someway to just get out there and start fighting, while you're figthing slowly recruit people and make it whole
don't expect it to start out perfect.
b. Joining a party Be friendly with everyone, if you want to join a party "E" press E and the party match screen will pop up.
If there is a party that strikes your interest join them.
If the level requirement is too high, pm the leader 9/10 as long as you can do something
you'll be accepted.
If there are no parties in party match, you've pmed all the parties, even the ones without a description and no go?
Then head out to the training areas you'd like to be leveling in,
there are certain spawns where parties will always go. If you find a party ask them if you can join, if they don't, tell them your build and level, chat a while, whisper a few of them
and move on. You chat with them so they remember you, whisper them so they have your ign registered and you move on because it's
annoying for them to have you sit there.
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as for the PvP aspect I plan on making a separate guide for that and keeping this pure PvE because PvP is glitchy for euros and an area where a lot of post-chinese players mess up a lot.
eg. quota glitch i feel i should address the issue and how to prevent it etc...
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I really want to continue even though you've already started one Barotix, maybe I'll make a guide for areas which you don't plan on covering? would that be alright?
fena
