War, Chapter 4, Day 1

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A few initial thoughts on my day one play.

The Sacred Hunt
The ambushes are quick. It’s an easy kill that yields 3-6 fangs in my 6 or 7 times.

The Bloody Tongue specifically says that we have to be away from the walls of men, or something like that, for the beasts to attack. I guess that means away from our own walls, because another player was in my base when she was ambushed. My dancer was pummeled before the offender was dispatched. That brings me to this important point. Thralls will not attack our nocturnal hirsute guests. If they are going to be inside the walls, guards should at least be able to defend themselves.

Also, one per night is low. I wish it were more, since you need a ton of fangs to buy the better items. So, that’s a tad grindy.

The boss battles are not as difficult as the would appear. The rhino is the easiest. The panther is a rather quick fight. The mammoth is a mammoth, and I hate it. I hate fighting regular ones, so the boss is the worst of the fights, including the final werebear.
Otherwise, I have completed the hunt 4 times. I have not done the corrupted lure thing yet, because the lure itself hasn’t finished whatever it is doing. It doesn’t seem to advance the timer when I am not online, even though it is in a chest.

At this point, it is gathering the fangs that is my focus. I need 1000(!) for the Regalia. I have also been wearing the same paint since I started, so that’s welcome.

Grade - B+ for the grindiness only

Thrall Commands (Sorry not sorry, they are thralls, not followers)

I was concerned that the elimination of the stop command would be a problem. The Defend Here is an improvement. I do like the commands on their screen. I am less enthused that the cursor moves into those commands by default every time I open the screen. It’s not a deal breaker.

EDIT - The leash has been shortened on Defend Here vs Stop. Not really a bad thing, since you can’t run across the map anymore.

Also, a better explanation of what the first line does is needed. I have sort of figured it out, but the whole “Hold, Chase, Withdraw” thing is pretty vague.

Edit - Ahh, this a combo of two sections of the old commands. Guard me, Stand and Defend, etc. I see.

Grade - A

Sorting and ONLY the sorting

I am indifferent to some of the sorting methods. I am not even that opposed to the No Sort option. I preferred the Custom, and that is what I used 100% of the time. However, No Sort would be fine…
EXCEPT - the fact that it reverts to sort by Type (WTH does that mean?) every time I log in is an issue. I had better pick a storage unit and workstation where the sorting is already done the way I want it per type, so that I can move it to No Sort, or it’s going to make a mess. My personal inventory gets re-sorted every time I log in.

I do not like this, Sam I am.

Grade - D

Inventory Movement

The move all, split, and move similar are great.
Take all going to the trigger is just a “get used to it” thing.
I cannot remove a single item of clothing from the thralls anymore. I have to take all - not good.
Precise stacking gone - not good

Grade - B-

Workstation Organization

OK, this thing. What the actual $%#@ is this? The armor bench is in sections split by, what exactly? I can’t find anything easily. There is this new thing call the Alphabet. Perhaps someone has heard of it. Essentially, things are listed by the first few letters in the name. It makes listing and finding things simple. I have even proposed to the local school board that we teach it in schools.

Seriously, can we get some sort of explanation as why the sections?

Grade - D-

All things considered, this is a good update. I like it in principle, and the hunt is way more interesting than the raid fortress that has no value whatsover (I am not saying this simply because it gives me an excuse to run naked everywhere. I never need an excuse for that). Many of the QOL aspects are vastly improved. There are few tweaks needed, but other than that, nice work.

I have seen threads where there are nothing but complaints, and the “THAT"S IT! I’M DONE!” nonsense. Please, be done. Stop posting. Go away. No one cares.

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It’s nice that there are still people who can look at things separately.
I can only agree. I also think the update as a whole is good. Of course, there are bugs and design decisions that we don’t have to be happy about. The fact that some basic functions have been eliminated with the new UI is a problem. I think the event, the fatalities, the ballista and the new exp-system for the Battle Pass (now that it works!) are very nice. I haven’t looked at the new Purge features yet.

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The fatalities. I forgot the fatalities. I wish we could turn them off on officials.

They just aren’t something I care about.

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True. We will adjust to the new system whatsoever, but this doesn’t mean that before it wasn’t better.
I really liked the fact that black keep is guarded by relic hunters now to the inner gate and on volcano ALL the npcs are agroing now, there’s not a walk in the park anymore. Exile lands have become more hostile now and i kinda like it more.
I joined a friend and started a new character (again) in his server and it wasn’t as easy as it use to be. Ok the server was LatAm so i was lagging a lot, yet this was not the reason i felt it more difficult than it use to be.
I agree with your scores more or less, but if i would give an A it would be to the effort of making these lands harder.
It’s too soon for me to speak for more, even if i played over 12 hours from yesterday, it’s too soon. I haven’t seen all you seen and i haven’t done all you done, congrats. I am a “slow” player apparently.

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I can think of many things you are my friend. Slow is not one of them. Once you have 11 or 12 fangs, you can go on the first hunt. Ambushers give 3-6. Bosses 15-20. and the final bear is 40-50.

It takes 10 to buy a lure. I buy them 4-5 at a time, and I keep a couple of body paints in inventory, just in case. The paint has a pretty good amount of durability, so I haven’t used a second one. If you take a thrall, the same rules apply. They have to be naked with the paint, so plan accordingly.

MOST IMPORTANT POINT - Naked and painted only works on the hunt. Do not try it with the Rockslide.

Or do, I forgot who I was talking to.

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I can’t promise anything here :laughing:.
And like @Wak4863 said, it will be interesting to do these new bosses with armor.
There’s many to learn, thanks a million for sharing :metal:.

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I tried the mammoth, gave up after half an hour. I had went through 10 heal potions and it was still at full HP.
Yes I did it right, but every time I rolled out to take a potion it ran back to spawn in and fully healed.
But I see this as a lot of work for little more the a bass cup to put on a shelf; the werebear ain’t all that. Seems little more then a reskinned frost giant.

And wrong. I’ve gotten 3 in a night. If people could accessorize with moderation I’d like the new content, but I can already see laggy fields of tiny mushrooms all over the PVE servers. And I have the perfect spot for my field.

The leash has been shortened on Defend Here vs Stop. Learning that cost me a thrall.

:angry: When we are in our set priest outfits they are my followers :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

:100:

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Very good review. I agree with most of your points, even though I would probably give some of them slightly worse grades. Probably due to differences in playstyle and personal preferences, though.

Yeah. If there’s one player I’d bet on to succeed at this, it’d be @stelagel.

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It’s done already :rofl:. And the rockslide had x10 dmg outcome. But i would definitely try a new session tattoo only, lol. Yet i wouldn’t do it x10 neither keep your back pack. There are places that if you die and loose everything it’s not easy to go back and retrieve. Then again durability loss must be triggered and xp gain x1. The madness challenge of @SpherisCore was really good, but not difficult.
Yet it was highly valuable for me because i learn how to dodge the snake, Rotbranch and rockslide.

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This is weird. I have never had that happen. Killed him this morning before I left for work in about 3 minutes. I have found that if I’m going to do this grindy thing to get the fangs, I will forego the whole “Me great warrior” nonsense and take a Berserker with paint to end these fights fast. I did it solo for a couple of rounds. I have nothing left to prove. She has a Momentum. It ends quickly.

I wish. One shot for a couple of fangs is easy work. Never gotten more than one .

Although no one will confirm it, I suspect the whole level thralls in one shot at the fort is what led to the shorter leash.

And, thralls dude. A good argument could be made about the relationship between priests and the flock in this era.

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Same thing happens for me fighting world bosses. If I can keep them off their spawn in point I do fine, but if they disengage the fight and run back to their spawn in they practically instantly heal back to full HP.

May try with a thrall next time, maybe the thrall will keep it off it’s spawn in while I heal up. That is usually how I fight world bosses, but thralls are even squishier now. That is why I didn’t try with one.

Usually my thrall is just backup while I roll out to heal.

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@stelagel @Kapoteeni @DeaconElie

I noticed something last night. I did have to put on new paint after about 24 hours. Also, I noticed that while you are naked, there’s a timer icon, similar to the buff timer icon, next to the CHALLENGER on your status. I don’t know if that timer is in effect when you are naked, or if it is a set timer. I just put on some boots, or, boots illusioned as Slaveforged anklets to be precise, when I was not fighting a boss.

After a straight run, it took me 30 minutes to travel and kill the entire hunt. That does not include the fort cave. Did that once, and it’s too much trouble to repeat too many times. When I was done, I bought 4 more lures, 40 fangs, for the next hunt. I was left with 65 fangs. At that rate, it will take around 17 hunts at 8.5 hrs to get 1000 fangs for the Beast Regalia armor. It will take another 9 hrs to get everything else. That’s pretty grindy.

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The volcano boys have a 2.51 modifier these days. They hit hard.

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