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The Chamber of Tears / Re: How much armour needed to nullify ranged?
« on: January 22, 2014, 03:46:32 pm »
I wear my plate armor mainly because it looks awesome, the only other armor I rly like is the skutatos, but then you get shot by every archer. I think I am around 70 body armor, a little bit more i guess, and I can say horse archers without bodkins do no damage at all to me, headshots deal like 5-10%. Normal archers without bodkins only do serious damage on me when they use a longbow, but horn & tatar bow are basicly ineffective aswell.
So to a certain degree plate armor is quite useful, especially when most of the HA's are too greedy to get bodkins, but against pierce damage armor is just useless, all it does is slowing you down which makes you an easy target.
Oh yeah, before i forget this, mendro can oneshot both me and my horse with a jarid for each of us...
So to a certain degree plate armor is quite useful, especially when most of the HA's are too greedy to get bodkins, but against pierce damage armor is just useless, all it does is slowing you down which makes you an easy target.
Oh yeah, before i forget this, mendro can oneshot both me and my horse with a jarid for each of us...
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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: hints for playing PLANETSIDE 2
« on: January 17, 2014, 09:58:31 pm »
Double XP? i know i should study, but i rly want that 1000 cert sniper rifle...
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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: hints for playing PLANETSIDE 2
« on: January 17, 2014, 04:42:44 pm »
Algarn, if i were you I'd get a shotgun and double C4, last one takes a while, but its definitly worth it.
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Game Balance Discussion / Re: Armored horses
« on: January 15, 2014, 02:36:32 pm »
I think the horses Upkeep needs to be fixed. The upkeep of a cataphract/eastern Warhorse is only slightly lower than the one of a Mamluk/Charger while they are far superior horses. If you use a 3k+ upkeep horse this 600/700 gold won't make much of a difference. Would be nice if cata/eastern either got lower upkeep or some HP buff, because they die very fast when the get shot by ranged, while charger/mamluk only have to fear Arbalesters and throwers.
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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: hints for playing PLANETSIDE 2
« on: January 12, 2014, 11:32:14 pm »
NC? Screw you, loyalty until death!
You should start as Medic, it's the best cert grinding class unless you get a good pilot and play as gunner in a liberator. First of all upgrade your healing tool to lvl 3-4, this is what gives you most points. You want to increase your armor aswell, so either get anti-exsplosion or anti-projectil armor (only 1 or 2 lvl for a start, while its still cheap).
With a skilled healing tool you are basicly ready to grind an infinite amount of certs. Always watch around, heal your mates and revive them, thats important, especially revive Max units, they are good assets.
The start weapons are good, but you want to upgrade your weapon. As TR i prefer the TAR as assault rifle. Simple reason for the upgrade is that you cannot get enhanced ammunition for the starter rifles. Check the rifles you can unlock and look that the one you want to buy has an ammunition upgrade, best check some forums which is the best for your class, but since planetside is 90% close combat you want something with a high rate of fire.
Ps: TR minigun rocks!
You should start as Medic, it's the best cert grinding class unless you get a good pilot and play as gunner in a liberator. First of all upgrade your healing tool to lvl 3-4, this is what gives you most points. You want to increase your armor aswell, so either get anti-exsplosion or anti-projectil armor (only 1 or 2 lvl for a start, while its still cheap).
With a skilled healing tool you are basicly ready to grind an infinite amount of certs. Always watch around, heal your mates and revive them, thats important, especially revive Max units, they are good assets.
The start weapons are good, but you want to upgrade your weapon. As TR i prefer the TAR as assault rifle. Simple reason for the upgrade is that you cannot get enhanced ammunition for the starter rifles. Check the rifles you can unlock and look that the one you want to buy has an ammunition upgrade, best check some forums which is the best for your class, but since planetside is 90% close combat you want something with a high rate of fire.
Ps: TR minigun rocks!
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General Discussion / Re: [Applications] Item balancers
« on: January 02, 2014, 03:17:32 pm »
I am not as much interested as I used to be, but still some Ideas I have:
- Fix bows:
Longbow should have the fastest missile speed, Short Bow the slowest, current balance is stupid. Though leave the Longbow at 40, maybe increase it to 41/42, and afterwards scale all missile speeds with this so Longbow stays the one with the highest. Weapon speed just the other way around, Short bow the fastest, Long Bow the slowest.
Because of HA balance Yumi should get a slightly higher missile speed than Hornbow, while Hornbow gets the faster reload speed.
Alternative: Reduce the amount of Arrows per stack by ~30% (loomed arrows will get very useful again), remove pierce damage from Bodkin Arrows and give the Longbow back its pierce damage as it used to be
The more arrows you want to carry with you/shot the cheaper arrows you need to use, so you do less damage. To do high damage you want bodkins, which will have 10 arrows per stack at +0. Moreover Longbow will be the only bow with pierce damage, meaning that it will be very effective against plate armor, but due to its high reload time it will be a waste to shot peasants, cheaper & faster bows will be suited for this job.
Bodkins should be at 9 or 10 cut dmg.
- Xbows:
Make Arbalest 3 Slot. Arbalesters will keep the ability to 1 shot targets, but lose their melee capability because they are limited to 0 slot weapons. This will give the Heavy Crossbow a place aswell. It can 2 shot targets on the body and 1 shot on headshots like the Arbalests, but you will be able to carry a better melee weapon with you, therefore this will just increase the learning curve for Xbowers, and once they manage to do enough headshots there won't be much of a difference in using Arbalest or Heavy Crossbows for them.
- Daggers:
Increase the damage of Daggers slightly, but remove the ability to use a Dagger with a Shield. There always used to be ppl using Daggers as weapon, but most of them needed a bit skill in order to chamber attacks. Now there is too many running around with a Dagger/Shield which makes it way too easy to use.
When you cannot use a Shield anymore there should be no problem in buffing the Daggers damage, because then ppl will have to start chambering again if they want to do more than quick backstabbing.
- Horse Ranged:
When the pierce damage goes to the Longbow only few HA's will be able to do decent against tincans (landing headshots still does damage if you use Arrows and Horn Bow, but only the good ones can do that). Therefore Horse Xbowers should be the ones focusing the heavy armored opponents and leave light targets to HA's.
HX needs to be balanced with the HAs. The heavies Combo Horsearchers can use will be Yumi and bodkins (which should have about 9-10 cut dmg), making less damage than Light xbow + Steel bolts (the missile speed makes a huge difference), even against light armored targets. Light Crossbows must either get their reload speed increased by ~30% or lose the same amount of damage. Reducing the Damage will reduce their effictivity against light armored targets aswell, so it would make more sense to reduce the reload speed which leads to the same situation the Longbow users will have: it is not worth their time to shot a peasant while they could be shoting a tincan.
They will still do more damage against heavy armored targets thanks to their pierce damage, but won't be as effective against light/medium as Horsearchers.
- Cav:
Lancers are fine imo, if the ride around on Arabian Warhorses they are very annoying, but can be countered by downblocking. 1h cav needs to get nerfed. The swords damage scales way too much with your movement speed, enabling 1h cav to everything except for Str crutching tincans if they land a proper hit on the head. Just reduce the bonus damage they get from their movement speed on horse by a third, light armored targets (aka Archers) will still die from a hit to the head, but melee will survive.
- 2h swords:
Nodachi: 43 Cut, 91 Speed, 122 Length
Miaodao: 42 Cut, 96 Speed, 115 Length
Highland Claymore: 43 Cut, 92 Speed, 117 Length
Really, do this 7 points in length and 1 point in damage compensate for the 5 less in speed the Nodachi has compared to Miaodao? Or having 5 length more than the Highland Claymore, but who cares, Claymore can stab which will outreach Nodachi anytime. It can stun 1hers with an overhead, but the Claymore can do the same with .5 weight less while being cheaper and superior. Nodachi should get like 1 or 2 points more in damage.
- Fix bows:
Longbow should have the fastest missile speed, Short Bow the slowest, current balance is stupid. Though leave the Longbow at 40, maybe increase it to 41/42, and afterwards scale all missile speeds with this so Longbow stays the one with the highest. Weapon speed just the other way around, Short bow the fastest, Long Bow the slowest.
Because of HA balance Yumi should get a slightly higher missile speed than Hornbow, while Hornbow gets the faster reload speed.
Alternative: Reduce the amount of Arrows per stack by ~30% (loomed arrows will get very useful again), remove pierce damage from Bodkin Arrows and give the Longbow back its pierce damage as it used to be
The more arrows you want to carry with you/shot the cheaper arrows you need to use, so you do less damage. To do high damage you want bodkins, which will have 10 arrows per stack at +0. Moreover Longbow will be the only bow with pierce damage, meaning that it will be very effective against plate armor, but due to its high reload time it will be a waste to shot peasants, cheaper & faster bows will be suited for this job.Bodkins should be at 9 or 10 cut dmg.
- Xbows:
Make Arbalest 3 Slot. Arbalesters will keep the ability to 1 shot targets, but lose their melee capability because they are limited to 0 slot weapons. This will give the Heavy Crossbow a place aswell. It can 2 shot targets on the body and 1 shot on headshots like the Arbalests, but you will be able to carry a better melee weapon with you, therefore this will just increase the learning curve for Xbowers, and once they manage to do enough headshots there won't be much of a difference in using Arbalest or Heavy Crossbows for them.
- Daggers:
Increase the damage of Daggers slightly, but remove the ability to use a Dagger with a Shield. There always used to be ppl using Daggers as weapon, but most of them needed a bit skill in order to chamber attacks. Now there is too many running around with a Dagger/Shield which makes it way too easy to use.
When you cannot use a Shield anymore there should be no problem in buffing the Daggers damage, because then ppl will have to start chambering again if they want to do more than quick backstabbing.
- Horse Ranged:
When the pierce damage goes to the Longbow only few HA's will be able to do decent against tincans (landing headshots still does damage if you use Arrows and Horn Bow, but only the good ones can do that). Therefore Horse Xbowers should be the ones focusing the heavy armored opponents and leave light targets to HA's.
HX needs to be balanced with the HAs. The heavies Combo Horsearchers can use will be Yumi and bodkins (which should have about 9-10 cut dmg), making less damage than Light xbow + Steel bolts (the missile speed makes a huge difference), even against light armored targets. Light Crossbows must either get their reload speed increased by ~30% or lose the same amount of damage. Reducing the Damage will reduce their effictivity against light armored targets aswell, so it would make more sense to reduce the reload speed which leads to the same situation the Longbow users will have: it is not worth their time to shot a peasant while they could be shoting a tincan.
They will still do more damage against heavy armored targets thanks to their pierce damage, but won't be as effective against light/medium as Horsearchers.
- Cav:
Lancers are fine imo, if the ride around on Arabian Warhorses they are very annoying, but can be countered by downblocking. 1h cav needs to get nerfed. The swords damage scales way too much with your movement speed, enabling 1h cav to everything except for Str crutching tincans if they land a proper hit on the head. Just reduce the bonus damage they get from their movement speed on horse by a third, light armored targets (aka Archers) will still die from a hit to the head, but melee will survive.
- 2h swords:
Nodachi: 43 Cut, 91 Speed, 122 Length
Miaodao: 42 Cut, 96 Speed, 115 Length
Highland Claymore: 43 Cut, 92 Speed, 117 Length
Really, do this 7 points in length and 1 point in damage compensate for the 5 less in speed the Nodachi has compared to Miaodao? Or having 5 length more than the Highland Claymore, but who cares, Claymore can stab which will outreach Nodachi anytime. It can stun 1hers with an overhead, but the Claymore can do the same with .5 weight less while being cheaper and superior. Nodachi should get like 1 or 2 points more in damage.
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General Discussion / Re: Serious decission about ranged(might contain qq stuff)
« on: December 28, 2013, 01:20:06 am »
Same amount of ranged players, just 80% less melee players 
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Last time I played there were 8 melee players in my team, 30 in total, rest was some sort of ranged or playing cav like me. If the walls would be accessible for my horse I could play on Eu2 aswell to avoid all the ranged
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Even though it might seem unfair - just nerf them. If there are too many players using one class, there is sth wrong with it. Nerfing it is the easiest way of reducing the amount of ranged, whilst good players will stick to the class they always played so it only affects the "class hoppers" that made a stf/new character because of this ridicoulus wpf buff.
Reduce their ammo, damage, accuracy or the capability to fight against melee/cav - for example limit zero slot weapons to hammer, pickaxe and this stuff again or change all 0 slot weapons that have a stab back to one slot (no matter if i run around on a mamluk or fight an archer while i am dismounted, the stabs are hitting way too heavy due to the speed bonus you get out of all the athletics).
For Xbows you could change the arbalest to 3 slots, so they lose their good melee abilities in order to keep the possibility to one shot ppl - this would finally make the Heavy Crossbow more attractive, as it gives you a high damage output, enough to kill damaged enemies or oneshot if you hit the head, and still allows you to carry a decent melee weapon.
Once they are nerfed there will be less of them, and in case ranged became too weak and nearly nobody plays it, well, give it a slight buff again which makes it better, though not as good as it used to be, everyone who played an online game should be used to this optimizing cycle by now, there are enough suggestions that can be used, but just do something, because right now eu1 is dying day by day.
.Last time I played there were 8 melee players in my team, 30 in total, rest was some sort of ranged or playing cav like me. If the walls would be accessible for my horse I could play on Eu2 aswell to avoid all the ranged
.Even though it might seem unfair - just nerf them. If there are too many players using one class, there is sth wrong with it. Nerfing it is the easiest way of reducing the amount of ranged, whilst good players will stick to the class they always played so it only affects the "class hoppers" that made a stf/new character because of this ridicoulus wpf buff.
Reduce their ammo, damage, accuracy or the capability to fight against melee/cav - for example limit zero slot weapons to hammer, pickaxe and this stuff again or change all 0 slot weapons that have a stab back to one slot (no matter if i run around on a mamluk or fight an archer while i am dismounted, the stabs are hitting way too heavy due to the speed bonus you get out of all the athletics).
For Xbows you could change the arbalest to 3 slots, so they lose their good melee abilities in order to keep the possibility to one shot ppl - this would finally make the Heavy Crossbow more attractive, as it gives you a high damage output, enough to kill damaged enemies or oneshot if you hit the head, and still allows you to carry a decent melee weapon.
Once they are nerfed there will be less of them, and in case ranged became too weak and nearly nobody plays it, well, give it a slight buff again which makes it better, though not as good as it used to be, everyone who played an online game should be used to this optimizing cycle by now, there are enough suggestions that can be used, but just do something, because right now eu1 is dying day by day.
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General Off Topic / Re: Believe in God...
« on: December 27, 2013, 04:43:50 pm »I heard the God myself and had prophesies
I have them too every now and then, though i get some help in order to do so
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Now excuse me, i need to find that lamp in some online store.
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Diplomacy / Re: Coalition-Druzhina battle agreement aka Gentelmens War
« on: December 17, 2013, 05:33:52 pm »I had this idea of Fallen being wayward mercenaries, being paid to intercept trade runs or army movements.That seat is already taken!
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General Discussion / Re: Ranged, what counters you best?
« on: December 17, 2013, 05:31:34 pm »(click to show/hide)
With 24/15 I use a shield, but still, I rather charge into a piker than into an archer that is aware of me, it is ridiculous. I am using a champ mamluk and have 70 body armor myself, but an archer can take up to 30% of my own HP and the one of my horse with a stab from some cheap 1h or take ~50% of the mamluks HP with a headshot (not to mention mendro 1 shoting it with a jarid, but well, at least he has 10 pt), just using my speed against me. Anyone with more than 5 ath can easily dodge heavy horses whilst the light ones like destrier die withing 2 or 3 shots, so there is no chance getting close enough once they see you.
Also half of the archers i manage to get close to survive a slash in the had by my arab cav sword (8ps).
ps: I dont think 1h cav is too weak against archers or any other class, it is one of the most op classes around, especially playing with heavy gear, but it is retarded that polearmers & two handers offer easier/less-risky kills than archers.
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Events & Tournaments / Re: Poor Man`s Dojo, Infantry Duel Tournament.(loompoints+gold as a prize)
« on: December 17, 2013, 02:41:53 pm »
Panos, if you don't want to see any hits on knocked down ppl you may want to disallow kicking sb after he stood up aswell,it's basicly the same, giving you a free hit.
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Diplomacy / Re: Ode Declares war on Wessex! (make EU drama here)
« on: December 12, 2013, 07:49:09 pm »Eh, it's no longer the same as it was before. Fake hate is like sex in condom... There is no more true mercsand now I regret "jebać merców" time. What have I done
please forgive me and come back please
Its not your fault, you did all you could, i mean, hetman isn't even playing as archer anymore
but the amount of ranged on eu1 is way too high to keep playing this game, and why do strat if crpg itself gets annoying?Anyway, you have my horse osiris! (as long as you purchase some for the battle)
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Sell/Trade / Re: The 2 Handed Hero - Trading +3 Destrier, GGS & more
« on: December 04, 2013, 10:26:16 pm »
bump
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General Discussion / Re: Win Or Leave - Duel Challenge to Merc_Tyr
« on: December 02, 2013, 06:57:37 pm »
So many grammar chocolate chip cookies around here, yet non of them is german!
"Then" - I went home, then i made myself some coffee and then I ate a biscuit - doing things.
"Than" - I drank a coffee which is much better than the one you get served in Starbucks - comparing things.
Your, you're, let's, etc should be obvious by now.
People can be proud of speaking more languages than their native one - americans can be proud if they speak proper english - and personally I believe that everybody should be able to speak english in a globalized world.
I don't know about you, but some of us - for example me - are sitting in lectures from 7 in the morning to 6 or 8 in the evening, I have better things to do than writing a reply with my mobile phone, though reading through this thread was funny enough to make me laugh (not loud, I don't think my professors would appreciate that).
Now for the duelling part:
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I really see no reason why I need to prove myself, I joined enough duel tournaments when it was fun for me, and when there was some serious xp and gold to gain on Eu3 that server became my 2nd home, same when the duelling ladder got introduced, butI lost interest in both and so my score dropped again :| . You are mad because I killed you in a duel? Deal with it. I had to do so aswell when I started playing again and realized how rusty I was.
Maybe I will be there, maybe I will not, 18:00 is pretty early in the evening, which means that I will propably still be out drinking at that time - I am not getting paid for playing this game, I rather plan my weekend and see when I have time to play than planning when I will play and go out when it fits into the schedule.
Still no answer from Tyr, at least write me a pm or comment that you don't have the guts for this.
Or tell me which conditions have to be changed, so that you would face me in a duel challenge.
And to all you guys correcting every mistake I do, I'm not a native english speaker and I speak it better than I write it. I try to correct it with edits as much as I can.
But do you have no other sources of getting attention other than correcting other peoples messages? Other, other, other, there is other words for other in english than other, try to use some other ones are you proud of being better in english than me and want to show yourenglish skill superioritysuperior english skills?
You know what, I am not sure if that comma is necessary, but I prefer using it I dont give a shit,probably while u read this u lookwhile you are reading this you are propably looking out for other mistakes again
Anyway, let's stay on topic , Tyr don't be a bundle of sticks and say smth.
"Then" - I went home, then i made myself some coffee and then I ate a biscuit - doing things.
"Than" - I drank a coffee which is much better than the one you get served in Starbucks - comparing things.
Your, you're, let's, etc should be obvious by now.
People can be proud of speaking more languages than their native one - americans can be proud if they speak proper english - and personally I believe that everybody should be able to speak english in a globalized world.
I don't know about you, but some of us - for example me - are sitting in lectures from 7 in the morning to 6 or 8 in the evening, I have better things to do than writing a reply with my mobile phone, though reading through this thread was funny enough to make me laugh (not loud, I don't think my professors would appreciate that).
Now for the duelling part:
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I really see no reason why I need to prove myself, I joined enough duel tournaments when it was fun for me, and when there was some serious xp and gold to gain on Eu3 that server became my 2nd home, same when the duelling ladder got introduced, butI lost interest in both and so my score dropped again :| . You are mad because I killed you in a duel? Deal with it. I had to do so aswell when I started playing again and realized how rusty I was.
Maybe I will be there, maybe I will not, 18:00 is pretty early in the evening, which means that I will propably still be out drinking at that time - I am not getting paid for playing this game, I rather plan my weekend and see when I have time to play than planning when I will play and go out when it fits into the schedule.