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zombiewizardhawk

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Pvp against summoners makes me want to break my keyboard. It's annoying as fuck trying to make sure all my moves hit the summoner instead of their retarded pet and they seem to do a LOT of damage without much skill requirement.

Granted, my assassin is only like 28 and I haven't done a whole lot of pvp but no class gives me as much trouble as summoners.


I didn't play very much during this CBT, partly because of work (and the Pats game on Sunday) and partly because I don't want to be bored at release.
 
zombiewizardhawk

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Yeah i'm thinking about pushing for 40+ and doing a decent amount of pvp during the 6day coming up to get a taste of the later game.
 
Zindan

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There isn't much of a later game at the moment, nor at release (I think). Just four max level (lvl45) dungeons, dailies, faction dailies and arena pvp. People will be disappointed with the lack of content (compared to what is out in other areas currently), but I would suggest use the time at 45 to hoard resources, gold and max out crafting so you'll be in a better position when content starts being rolled out over the course of several months.

Given that many of the people I've met in the game during the last two betas were new to B&S, it seems smart to limit the amount of endgame content to the lvl45 dungeons, to give the larger population (new players) time to learn the game. I only hope that NCWest manages to localize new content in a timely manner, like has us be at current CN/JP/TW content by Summer (that would be a lot(!) of content to be released, so maybe not).
 
Pyros

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They said Mushin would be in at release, and a lot of people expect the pirate shit to be in too cause it was the old lvl 45 cap content. Sure hope it's in since leveling is lightning fast in this game.
 
Kriptini

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Pyros_sl said:
They said Mushin would be in at release, and a lot of people expect the pirate shit to be in too cause it was the old lvl 45 cap content. Sure hope it's in since leveling is lightning fast in this game.
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Is it? I must just be really slow, then. I've played about 4 or 5 days' worth of time and I think I'm in the mid-30's.
 
zombiewizardhawk

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I could see how if you just wanted to powerlevel up to cap asap then you could do it really quickly but it's not bad if you actually play the game/read the quests/etc.

Also, my later game comments were mostly directed towards how pvp is at higher levels/cap since i'm not really getting this game to spend 500 hours on PvE (I get burnt out super-fast on end-game PvE in basically every MMO... I don't understand how people can do the same 4 dungeons 300 times each). It's cool to do the dungeons a few times each to get your lewtsies but then i'm done with em. No thanks on grinding out 275 daily hard-mode dungeons to get enough tokens to get my 2 pieces of dungeon gear until the next expansion pops out where I get to repeat the process. Never been able to attempt the raiding scene due to working in hospitality and never having a permanent schedule so that I can dedicate 8-12 EST Tue,Thur,Sun to mandatory raiding.
 
Pyros

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Still only takes 30ish hours if you just quest to cap without wasting time like running dungeons or world bosses and shit, and that's when not knowing the quests and watching the cutscenes/reading the quests. Obviously efficiency depends on people, I tend to level fairly quickly in general for the time I put in mmos, but it's still super short I find. Even shorter once you know where to go and don't read anything cause you've already done it.

And you have to do some pve to support pvp stuff, mostly hongmoon levels and skills. I think you can bypass it to an extent with pvp rewards(there's some hongmoon skill material from pvp only I think so selling that then buying the other stuff) and the pve is mostly doing the daillies, but I believe for some classes you need to run dungeons until you get a rare drop or some shit. Endgame is kinda unclear since a lot of people haven't grinded very far on the other servers.

Not sure if you can just use the hongmoon skills in arena without unlocking them though. Maybe. Then you wouldn't need any of that.
 
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it would not make sense if they launched the game without mushim tower and pirates holdout. Also good luck doing mushim (at least completing it) without pirate gear (wpn/soulshield/belt/bracelet), as it is quite challenging, (at least from 7th floor, imho ). Pretty sure it should be in from the start (if not both at least the pirate group/raid open istance, as the gear you get is lower ilvl than mushim), i mean even the basic russian version had that much.
 
Pyros

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They said they're going to be announcing release content soon so we'll know, but yeah it seems likely they'd add both. It's not like they'll be running out of content too soon, with warlock patch, lvl 50 and all the various acts stuff, and it seems that even though the game was nearly dead in korea, they're now making content again due to the chinese and japanese version working well. Like they went 2years without content from what I've read, but now they announced a new class(some sort of KFM/FM hybrid, melee caster or whatever) a few months back and said gunner comes next too so it's already planned apparently.
 
Pyros

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Seems the release date for this will be Jan 19th, based on a Gamespot article that apparently was removed after it was posted. I guess official announcement coming at the end of the week with the release content stuff.
 
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Cinge_sl said:
You realize that was basically a private server?
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i do, and they had the basic korean games file afaik, and that included mushin and pirates holdout. Actually the build we playing in beta is more recent than the one they have (at least one ive played 7 - 8 months ago).
 
Cinge

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Iirc Russian private server is using the super old Chinese beta client. Why so many things are different. They are very far behind.
 
Zindan

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So, release is Jan. 19th, with Headstart beginning on the 15th (4 days now, they will update the Founders faq soon). Release content info was given as being current lvl45 cap, with Pohwaran 4/6/24. This will be a good start, we'll just have to wait and see how fast they are able to roll out all the other content.
 
Cinge

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Not I. I've pretty much stopped playing in the betas. I tried a couple classes, think I have my main down. I'm doing some crafting to learn where the recipes are and some pvp to practice but no reason to grind/farm for beta and burn out before game is even out.
 
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