Calliope - Heavens Tear Arc User

Yup, always 1 fury. There are two ways to go with this skill: 1) high str, max out Cloud Eruption. This gives you a big one-shot chi boost, which lets you stack a lot of spark skills with each other. 2) high mag/vit, level 1 Cloud Eruption (my genie). Cheaper energy cost means you can cast it a whole lot more often, giving…

I wouldn't be in pk mode if I thought sage mages couldn't handle it (I went sage, so it's not like I think sage is a bad choice). Honestly, I'd be fine in pk even if I'd never picked a culti. It's a question of which one is better, not whether we're good enough (we are!). I didn't bring up PvE reasons because PvE is super…

I always auto-path back to my quest NPC in the middle. One time I set my elevation to the maximum, and ended up stuck under the lake somehow (right coordinates, 0 elevation). These days I just set my auto-path elevation to about 50 when I'm heading back to the platform in the middle. Works fine.

forp has made plenty of good posts in the past, I have a lot of respect for his opinion. I would love to have some of the dark skills, you get two stuns (stone rain, emberstorm), an extra freeze (pitfall), and improved freeze on hailstorm. Sage gets dragon breath for aoe stun, but that's much more of a TW skill than a…

Neither Suntear nor Gyonax charge zhen, as far as I know. Both just put a lot of time into the game (sun merchanting, gyo farming). Top CSer is whoever put in 3,000 gold in the ah at ~100k each a few weeks ago. Too bad prices were back to normal by the time I got to an auctioneer. xD

It's not even Ice Dragon. Oh and also, it took you a bit more than 53 million xp to get to level 84. Have fun earning another 220 million xp to get to 99. D:

Those packs give higher level gear if a higher level character opens them, but I forget how high they went (it's been a year). Maybe into the 6x or 7x? Not sure. Anyway, don't assume that pwdatabase is always 100% accurate. There are plenty of errors.

It's what, 10 people per page? or 11? I'm not on right now to check. Anyway, Tao has like 4-5 pages of 100-102, and we have a smaller fraction of our server's top 50 than CQ does (but those ranking pages might be out of date). So I dunno, HT and LC are probably closer together in terms of high levels than LC people think.…

400 kills on those same rams. I took off all my crit gear, so I had 1% crit and 17 dex (borrowed a dex magic ring). Here are the results: 399 normal hits (first 300 were all normal) 1 crit Can't reject my null hypothesis. Oh well.

The game uses more precision than we see in the character screen, which makes me wonder about this. Back when I tested pdef reductions, you could have a slightly different reduction with the same % displaying. If I have time, maybe I'll run a similar test with dex, see if my crit rate with 12 dex works out to more than 1%…

Hi Konari! http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=387031 is the HT TW map archive, but it doesn't have this week's results. And Tao is doing great. =)

The demon fairies for 99 and 100 are much nicer than the ugly hamburger one, so don't despair. Also, read the flavor text for going Demon. It'll explain how it's all about freedom and whatever. You'll probably feel better about it then. Then again, I still feel bad that I unleashed that demon back in the 50s, just because…

Thanks. I think my point should be clearer now. =)

But then they would have said "3% extra critical (1% per element)." It would help if we had Celia's exact question, but it seems like they're telling you your total bonus for having all 3 masteries, not the benefit from a single mastery.

It's like 2-3 weeks if I only do dailies, or less than a week if you Rebirth often. That seems fine to me, it's not like there are a lot of levels left to go. I think it's faster than some of the lower level ranges were pre-BH, too.

Sakyamuni's Light has good damage and a lot of pdef. It's a nice choice if you're Arcane. Shouldn't be too expensive either, but might depend on your server. After that you can get Wheel of Life at 80 (doesn't take any earlier TT wep) and turn that into a Wheel of Denied Fate at 90.

I read it the same way you did: Emphasis mine. They're saying that it gives a final total of 1%. Not sure if they're trustworthy enough though.

Poor Linus. I always felt sorry for him.

For everyone who wasn't around last year, here's how Jones's Blessing works: 1) the quest is available, you take it and get the Blessing. 2) the timer immediately starts ticking. In 7 days your Blessing will vanish. 3) if the quest is still available (ie for however many weeks they leave it in, probably 1-2), you can go…

I'm looking forward to this coin sink, should be a very good thing for the server.

Do you have 20/20 quests right now? Try trashing one, and see if you get your 1 mil coins then.

It's not hard to find gears with three pdef adds if you check the AH regularly. I would usually go for a mix of hp and pdef, though. Back when I was 8x and using more 3*s, I had wrists with +69 pdef x2, +5 vit, legs with +70 hp x2, +69 pdef, boots with +69 pdef, +50 hp, +0.2 speed, etc. I know a cleric who went for just…

I just run all my BHs unwined these days, it's not that hard. In 79, it might be an extra 10-15 minutes *if* you have to go kill quartermaster, take the long route, and kill the tower. Otherwise, it's pretty quick to linus/brigand. Eden is not worth wining just to save a few min, it's pretty easy unwined. Brimstone is…

4 minutes after 10pm "Servers will be shutting down in 15 seconds". 300 second warnings are one thing, but 15 seconds?? That's ridiculous. I knew because of this thread, and some people were kind enough to world chat, but is it just me or did they used to announce shutdowns like 1 hour ahead?

That's why the maximum refund a faction can have is 180 million (90% refund of 200m max bid).

I've had some pretty good success getting to +2 at the appropriate officer. Last time it only took me 3 mirages! The officers I know of are the ones in the top left of the map (the snow area). The furthest one over is the officer for +1, the middle is for +2, the one closest to Etherblade is +3. I don't bother with the +1…

Actually, those five were almost certainly waiting in line for their turn to kill the spider. I'm not trying to excuse or condone their rudeness, but if they thought you were trying to cut in line when they'd been waiting for what might have been a while, I can at least understand why they might have gotten snippy. If you…

If you're having trouble with fish, get fishing gear. Arcane gears with only water resist are cheap, and offer a huge defense boost against fish. You can find capes and hats with 2x +water def adds too. I can get over 20k water def selfbuffed with my current water gear set.

Auction house, at least for the starter skills. I routinely see sage Pyrogram and Gush for ~25k each, and even Stone Rain can be had for only about 100k if you're patient. Prices may be higher on your server, but typically more books will drop than there are sage wizards, so you should be able to find a good deal…

You can leave all three of those skills at level 1. If you go Sage, they can stay that way forever. If you go demon, you'll want to max emberstorm once you get your book (cancel chan immediately, aoe 50% stun), and possibly pitfall too (33% freeze). Don't bother levelling them until you get the books, though. Also, how do…