Hints for Opening Meridian Gates

icycoffeebreaks
icycoffeebreaks Posts: 37 Arc User
edited November 2014 in General Discussion
A faction member mentioned that when ever you open a gate and it fails, there will be text that says "DEATH gate" or "death Gate" or "DEATH GATE" or "death GATE" From these 4 texts, the capitalized word will help you locate where the death and life gates are.

But the thing is, this feature doesn't exist for everyone, depending on what kind of computer they are playing on. For me, opening a failed gate will always have teh text "Death Gate"...no fully capitalized words as a hint. A friend told me it once worked for him when playing on his old laptop, but these hints don't appear for him when playing on his desktop. I was wondering if anyone know why this is? What settings can you change on your pc to make these hints appear?

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  • scruncy
    scruncy Posts: 458 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    someone told me drinking warm milk while doing handstand helps....
  • plusonepostcount
    plusonepostcount Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I don't know about that whole scenario BUT I do know for me one thing that has worked is on the ones that take 2 life gates the life gates will always be in the same spot so even if you only find one record its position it'll still be there when you find another one.
  • zoner112012
    zoner112012 Posts: 943 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    inb4 this is trolled.....this is completely random. There is nothing you can do to trick or have a better chance at opening a gate. It's entirely luck.
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  • Lolgasmic - Raging Tide
    Lolgasmic - Raging Tide Posts: 1,315 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    plusonepostcount wrote: »
    I don't know about that whole scenario BUT I do know for me one thing that has worked is on the ones that take 2 life gates the life gates will always be in the same spot so even if you only find one record its position it'll still be there when you find another one.
    Wrong.
    zoner112012 wrote: »
    inb4 this is trolled.....this is completely random. There is nothing you can do to trick or have a better chance at opening a gate. It's entirely luck.

    This.



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  • MageMERC - Harshlands
    MageMERC - Harshlands Posts: 1,600 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    plusonepostcount wrote: »
    I don't know about that whole scenario BUT I do know for me one thing that has worked is on the ones that take 2 life gates the life gates will always be in the same spot so even if you only find one record its position it'll still be there when you find another one.

    I haven't been organized enough to monitor this closely, but I'm sure that my double life gates cycle during the same meridian. So if I get one life gate then miss the second one, that same first life gate become active about 2 tries later, and this does seem to occur regularly.
  • Asterelle - Sanctuary
    Asterelle - Sanctuary Posts: 930 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    The weird sizes on that text is just an animation bug. The positions are random. I was able to finish all 80 meridians back in February without any picking strategy and was among the first to do so on my server among those that didn't buy any boutique pills. Just make sure you are maximizing your number of attempts per week. You can get 2 holy pills per day from Morai with 6k prestige, 10 holy pills every wednesday from CoA, and occasionally 2 more holy pills from BH2.

    That's around 60 attempts a week. On average it takes 2,500 pills to finish and that's 10 months of time. That's around how long it took me. No strategy to it.
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  • Cotillion - Dreamweaver
    Cotillion - Dreamweaver Posts: 671 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »
    The weird sizes on that text is just an animation bug. The positions are random. I was able to finish all 80 meridians back in February without any picking strategy and was among the first to do so on my server among those that didn't buy any boutique pills. Just make sure you are maximizing your number of attempts per week. You can get 2 holy pills per day from Morai with 6k prestige, 10 holy pills every wednesday from CoA, and occasionally 2 more holy pills from BH2.

    That's around 60 attempts a week. On average it takes 2,500 pills to finish and that's 10 months of time. That's around how long it took me. No strategy to it.
    Good tips on maximizing attempts, many people don't realize the free holy pills you can get in a week. b:victory
    Unfortunately, you'll never convince some that it's a random system. Some will always believe that there is superstition behind a randomized system, much like how people are convinced there is with packs and refining. b:surrender
  • Azura - Lost City
    Azura - Lost City Posts: 2,281 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I finished my meridian like 2 weeks ago, and I was only getting the pills from daily log in and sometimes from bh.

    What worked to me was to press nighboring meridians. I would open column by column. For me the double and triple live gates were always together.

    I started with this strategy after being stuck on gv1 for 2 months. When I finally opened gv1, it took me just 2 more weeks to finish meridian. The last 3 meridians were all close to each other.
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  • SephronX - Sanctuary
    SephronX - Sanctuary Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    The different sizes of the words is the ghost in the machine. It's telling you where the next life gate is. For example, I opened the 3rd to last meridian tonight using the system of guessing I use, where I find small large words, I go one to the side, and it's usually a life gate, when it's small small, the life gate is usually two gates away.

    It may be random, because it certainly doesn't work all the time, but it's been good for over 50% of the time, and that's 50% I prefer to 0%. Random or not, I've opened a lot of gates using this quirk.

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  • Evryn - Morai
    Evryn - Morai Posts: 1,437 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    The animation bug will happen if your computer is slow to load the graphics for the text - it'll only happen on the first point you open. It's a graphics glitch, not a hint.
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  • zoner112012
    zoner112012 Posts: 943 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I once was told that using spirit to level a genie reduces lucky points and that when you kill the random mobs inside of towns that dont attack and are low level that it reduces ur luck when you open packs. Oh and there is the rumor that you can refine better at an elder with less people around.....b:laugh
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  • Ahira - Lost City
    Ahira - Lost City Posts: 791 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Another one is you have to let the person with the lowest level in squad get last hit on fb boss to increase chance of mold dropping.
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  • PVM_only - Sanctuary
    PVM_only - Sanctuary Posts: 121 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Ahira - Lost City wrote: »
    Another one is you have to let the person with the lowest level in squad get last hit on fb boss to increase chance of mold dropping.

    that no longer applys and only worked if the other members left squad so the dmg count on boss would "reset" so low lvl would be top dd.... kind like other game like W**** of W****** has a dmg log on screen that shows top DD

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