2012-08-11, 10:54 PM
Man, that farming update made for some server problems here in West. Lag when talking to NPCs and so on.
As farming is now, it seems to involve a lot of work to get to Level 9+ farming and cooking, which is where you are finally able to access recipes that work for level 33-40 characters. But once you get to that point, the whole system becomes very low maintenance, because all the plants that yield ingredients for said level 9+ cooking recipes take a full day or two to grow, compared to the 2 minutes - 3 hour plants that yield ingredients for all of the earlier level recipes.
Unfortunately, because of these 1-2 day plants, it's hard to find any farming space in the public areas. And for some stupid reason, the developers only let us plant one plant at a time in our private space, even though there's clearly 3 plots in there.
(I have level 10 cooking and level 11 farming.)
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I tried to solo apoc hell without dying on my Priest earlier today. Getting past Bolty is an achievement in itself thanks to his massive light resist and healing at the last bar (not to mention that he has an instakill attack - I had to balance offense while making sure I would position myself correctly so that his hug of death targets relics instead of me).
But I died at Apocalypse when he had 1.5x bar left. I do not think it is possible for a Priest to solo Apocalypse Hell at our current cap without having level 6+ block, because Apocalypse's multi-hit map-wide judgment attack (basically instant kill to every non-Cleric class, he starts using it if you take longer than 12 or 13 minutes to kill him) comes off cooldown before my Grand Sigil comes off cooldown. While I can still survive it with Level 3 block alone, I lose about half of my HP in the process (I have 83k max), and I can only restore like 25k a minute, so it'd be better to just block the whole darned thing so that you have one less thing to worry about. And you can use Grand Sigil against the tentacles that he starts using at 2x bar instead.
I forgot to take a screenshot, but I think my last attempt took me about 1 hour to reach the point where I finally died. :/
As farming is now, it seems to involve a lot of work to get to Level 9+ farming and cooking, which is where you are finally able to access recipes that work for level 33-40 characters. But once you get to that point, the whole system becomes very low maintenance, because all the plants that yield ingredients for said level 9+ cooking recipes take a full day or two to grow, compared to the 2 minutes - 3 hour plants that yield ingredients for all of the earlier level recipes.
Unfortunately, because of these 1-2 day plants, it's hard to find any farming space in the public areas. And for some stupid reason, the developers only let us plant one plant at a time in our private space, even though there's clearly 3 plots in there.
(I have level 10 cooking and level 11 farming.)
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I tried to solo apoc hell without dying on my Priest earlier today. Getting past Bolty is an achievement in itself thanks to his massive light resist and healing at the last bar (not to mention that he has an instakill attack - I had to balance offense while making sure I would position myself correctly so that his hug of death targets relics instead of me).
But I died at Apocalypse when he had 1.5x bar left. I do not think it is possible for a Priest to solo Apocalypse Hell at our current cap without having level 6+ block, because Apocalypse's multi-hit map-wide judgment attack (basically instant kill to every non-Cleric class, he starts using it if you take longer than 12 or 13 minutes to kill him) comes off cooldown before my Grand Sigil comes off cooldown. While I can still survive it with Level 3 block alone, I lose about half of my HP in the process (I have 83k max), and I can only restore like 25k a minute, so it'd be better to just block the whole darned thing so that you have one less thing to worry about. And you can use Grand Sigil against the tentacles that he starts using at 2x bar instead.
I forgot to take a screenshot, but I think my last attempt took me about 1 hour to reach the point where I finally died. :/