ArcheAge - A Sandbox MMO with Realistic Queue Action - Games

[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;45738650]I think they said they were doing 4 closed betas and an open beta before official release. Friday being the 4th closed beta, I could see a 2-3 week long open beta before release.[/QUOTE] Oh nice I didn't know there was going to be another one so soon. I'll try to get a key then.

Anyone have patch notes for the absolutely massive 8.5GB patch that was applied last night and I am just now downloading? I can't imagine what they're changing that requires such a huge download... Also, Drasar, how do you not have a clipper by now? At level 37 you ought to have finished the story quests and have 50 Gilda Stars. Go buy a clipper blueprint at Mirage Isle, man. You would have evaded the seabugs fairly easily with one. [sp]Get the harpoon clipper, not the adventurer's clipper[/sp]

[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;45738650]I think they said they were doing 4 closed betas and an open beta before official release. Friday being the 4th closed beta, I could see a 2-3 week long open beta before release.[/QUOTE] I'm not quite sure about your assumed open beta time. From what I've seen in nearly every mmo till now, open betas last from about 2 to 5 months at least. Don't know if that applies here, since the closed betas are just 4-5 days aswell.

[QUOTE=Telepethi;45739167]Anyone have patch notes for the absolutely massive 8.5GB patch that was applied last night and I am just now downloading? I can't imagine what they're changing that requires such a huge download... Also, Drasar, how do you not have a clipper by now? At level 37 you ought to have finished the story quests and have 50 Gilda Stars. Go buy a clipper blueprint at Mirage Isle, man. You would have evaded the seabugs fairly easily with one. [sp]Get the harpoon clipper, not the adventurer's clipper[/sp][/QUOTE] I did the Nui starting zone, Dewstone Plains, and part of White Arden and I only had 3 Gilda Stars. What did I do wrong? I skipped Lilyut.

[QUOTE=seano12;45739307]I did the Nui starting zone, Dewstone Plains, and part of White Arden and I only had 3 Gilda Stars. What did I do wrong? I skipped Lilyut.[/QUOTE] I guess you didn't continue the mainquest then. You have one questline with green symbols, each complete quest of it will give you 1 Gilda Star but you can only take the further quests if you complete the previously ones of it. If you skipped lilyut you will have most likely skipped one of the main quests aswell.

[QUOTE=Camper99;45739320]I guess you didn't continue the mainquest then. You have one questline with green symbols, each complete quest of it will give you 1 Gilda Star but you can only take the further quests if you complete the previously ones of it. If you skipped lilyut you will have most likely skipped one of the main quests aswell.[/QUOTE] Was it the leafy green symbol? The last time I saw one of those was in Lilyut, and it was the Blue Salt Brotherhood and they wanted me to do a trade run, which I couldn't do due to a lack of grapes, and a lack of a public nursery.

[QUOTE=seano12;45739385]Was it the leafy green symbol? The last time I saw one of those was in Lilyut, and it was the Blue Salt Brotherhood and they wanted me to do a trade run, which I couldn't do due to a lack of grapes, and a lack of a public nursery.[/QUOTE] It's a bright green diamond with a dot in the middle.

[QUOTE=Chickens!;45739409]It's a bright green diamond with a dot in the middle.[/QUOTE] Skipped 'em and I didn't even get a glider haha. Oh well, it's okay since everything is wiped at release.

[QUOTE=seano12;45739307]I did the Nui starting zone, Dewstone Plains, and part of White Arden and I only had 3 Gilda Stars. What did I do wrong? I skipped Lilyut.[/QUOTE] Every quest that has a green diamond are your 'story' quests and give you 1 or 2 Gilda stars each upon completion. They'll guide you through up until around level 30 and you'll have 50 if you've done them all. There are a LOT of them in Lilyut Hills, so that's where you fucked up. [editline]19th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=seano12;45739385]Was it the leafy green symbol? The last time I saw one of those was in Lilyut, and it was the Blue Salt Brotherhood and they wanted me to do a trade run, which I couldn't do due to a lack of grapes, and a lack of a public nursery.[/QUOTE] No. Leafy green is the Blue Salt Brotherhood profession quests. You'll want to do the Trade quests for sure because that's how you get your donkey and your 16x16 farm. The rest are optional but give you gear and titles that improve your proficiency in various crafts. [editline]19th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=seano12;45739568]Skipped 'em and I didn't even get a glider haha. Oh well, it's okay since everything is wiped at release.[/QUOTE] You can get an Experimental Glider on the hill in North-East Lilyut Hills from a quest. Up in the Bear Mountain area or w/e it's called. Then if you're level 20 or higher go to Mirage Isle and spend 1g75s to buy the 3 different upgrades (Upgraded, Improved, and Ultimate) and build them at a carpentry bench. Each upgrade only requires the previous glider and the blueprint that you got from Mirage Isle and it vastly improves the glider. Gives it a nitro boost and some attacks and increases speed and stuff.

I was sent an invite for closed beta 3. Does anyone know if that means I will also be accepted for closed beta 4 automatically?

[QUOTE=Hanney;45740285]I was sent an invite for closed beta 3. Does anyone know if that means I will also be accepted for closed beta 4 automatically?[/QUOTE] It does not. I don't think invites have actually gone out for CBE4 yet. If you're an alpha tester or archeum founder, however, you will be in CBE4

[QUOTE=Hanney;45740285]I was sent an invite for closed beta 3. Does anyone know if that means I will also be accepted for closed beta 4 automatically?[/QUOTE] I think not, but you're very likely to have one sent, anyway

[QUOTE=seano12;45739568]Skipped 'em and I didn't even get a glider haha. Oh well, it's okay since everything is wiped at release.[/QUOTE] just use credits to buy the ally wings when you get a chance to again

[QUOTE=Camper99;45739285]I'm not quite sure about your assumed open beta time. From what I've seen in nearly every mmo till now, open betas last from about 2 to 5 months at least. Don't know if that applies here, since the closed betas are just 4-5 days aswell.[/QUOTE] my reasoning behind a short open beta, it's just to gain more players before release. This game is already on patch 1.7 in korea so they don't have radical changes to do to the game.

Really looking forward to start playing the game once it goes into open beta!

[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;45740701]my reasoning behind a short open beta, it's just to gain more players before release. This game is already on patch 1.7 in korea so they don't have radical changes to do to the game.[/QUOTE] Well that actually makes sense. Not that I wouldn't like an early full-release, of course. I just hope the Archeum is still available till 01.09 when I get my money and can buy it.

[QUOTE=Kuddie;45740752]Really looking forward to start playing the game once it goes into open beta![/QUOTE] Looking forward to the release really. Then everything in the beta won't be for nothing, and there won't be a ton of houses in construction everywhere like when I started on the third beta. Seriously it's quite ugly. The game is F2P, but I heard of an optional subscription. Do you have to have this sub to have a house, similar to you have to have some sort of payed status in the beta to own land?

So planted 2k trees with a friend over the course of two days, got a few thunderstruck, and a huge logging expedition happened. Moved spots, planted 1.5k trees, a guy comes up here and my friend talks to him, he says he won't tell anyone, blah blah. as soon as I'm planting 500 more trees near by, I see one of his guildies run up and he just says "oops im in a party". next thing you know, 6 people are up here uprooting, too bad 3/4th of the trees are in non pvp zone. and they know they cant fight us, because only two of them are 50, they're all wanted, and we already sent one of them who tried uprooting the trees that were in a pvp zone.

Maybe find better hiding spots for your trees Like those islands out in the middle of the ocean Hardly anyone goes there and people that do sail by them aren't looking for trees On the flip side you could just let someone uproot all 1500 trees, report all of their footsteps, and instantly make them a pirate. Then you can attack them wherever.

[QUOTE=Telepethi;45742536]Maybe find better hiding spots for your trees Like those islands out in the middle of the ocean Hardly anyone goes there and people that do sail by them aren't looking for trees On the flip side you could just let someone uproot all 1500 trees, report all of their footsteps, and instantly make them a pirate. Then you can attack them wherever.[/QUOTE] the islands in the middle of the ocean are housing areas :>

Just theoretically, how hard is it to completely change around your class in this game when you're right before level 40? Simply changing your skills is quite easy. Even if you change all your skillsets, the skills will still be scaled to your level when you choose them. The problem is that if you change your skillsets, you're back down to level 10 in those skillsets and may therefore be quite limited in the skills you can choose. However, I'm not sure if it's too big of a problem, considering I managed to get past level 20 only using my first skill back in CB2. The thing I'm wondering about is if the skillsets level up separately from your level. I see the skillsets have each their separate experience bar, but as far as I've experimented, they only seem to level up when my character does. This raises the question if they will slowly catch up to you eventually or if they are actually tied to your level and changing them at level 50 will just cause them to stay at level 10 forever. Apart from the skills, if you want to completely change around your build, you may want to change your gear. In the most extreme cases, this includes stuff like changing your armor class and weapon type. Changing this might be easy as you are leveling, as you can just choose to get different gear as quest rewards. However, changing this at higher levels when those kinds of quest rewards become a lot less frequent is a lot more difficult, especially if you haven't used any of the appropriate proficiencies or if you don't have required materials to build equipment suitable for your level. I would however believe that it is doable, but requires a lot of patience. Fortunately, archeum (or however it is spelled) is a lot easier to come by at higher levels. I for example killed a giant griffin in Halcyona and it dropped 5 sunlight shards, which I could use to make all sorts of weaponry if I wanted to, but that particular enemy seems to have been a rare spawn and I guess I just got lucky.

[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;45742553]the islands in the middle of the ocean are housing areas :>[/QUOTE] Not all of them. We sailed past a few north of the East continent that were barren. [editline]19th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=DrasarSalman;45742633]Just theoretically, how hard is it to completely change around your class in this game when you're right before level 40? Simply changing your skills is quite easy. Even if you change all your skillsets, the skills will still be scaled to your level when you choose them. The problem is that if you change your skillsets, you're back down to level 10 in those skillsets and may therefore be quite limited in the skills you can choose. However, I'm not sure if it's too big of a problem, considering I managed to get past level 20 only using my first skill back in CB2. The thing I'm wondering about is if the skillsets level up separately from your level. I see the skillsets have each their separate experience bar, but as far as I've experimented, they only seem to level up when my character does. This raises the question if they will slowly catch up to you eventually or if they are actually tied to your level and changing them at level 50 will just cause them to stay at level 10 forever. Apart from the skills, if you want to completely change around your build, you may want to change your gear. In the most extreme cases, this includes stuff like changing your armor class and weapon type. Changing this might be easy as you are leveling, as you can just choose to get different gear as quest rewards. However, changing this at higher levels when those kinds of quest rewards become a lot less frequent is a lot more difficult, especially if you haven't used any of the appropriate proficiencies or if you don't have required materials to build equipment suitable for your level. I would however believe that it is doable, but requires a lot of patience. Fortunately, archeum (or however it is spelled) is a lot easier to come by at higher levels. I for example killed a giant griffin in Halcyona and it dropped 5 sunlight shards, which I could use to make all sorts of weaponry if I wanted to, but that particular enemy seems to have been a rare spawn and I guess I just got lucky.[/QUOTE] It can be really difficult, especially the higher level you get. When you take a new skill you take it at level 10. It, and the subskills within the set, do NOT scale to your level. You can be level 50 and a new skillset WILL be level 10. You need to get experience points to level it and rank each individual ability up. So for example if you're level 50 and you switch out all 3 of your skillsets you're going to be at a distinct disadvantage because you'll only have access to 6 abilities and 3 passive upgrades. Your skillsets WILL catch up to you eventually but it takes a long time because the amount of XP needed to get to the next level gets bigger as each level goes by. A good example is this: At level 25, I switched from Demonologist (Occultism, Sorcery, and Witchcraft) to Bloodreaver (Occultism, Battlerage, and Auramancy) I'm now level 37. My Occultism is level 37, but my Battlerage is level 32 and my Auramancy is level 31 It takes a lot of time.

However, once you hit 50 you can do quests in Auroria and in the Library which give you 80-100k xp, so you can level other skills really fast.

Wasn't someone supposed to be getting a Merchant Vessel? Has that happened yet?

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;45744819]Wasn't someone supposed to be getting a Merchant Vessel? Has that happened yet?[/QUOTE] I don't think it's happening. Nobody really cares enough about the alpha at this point with the impending wipe.

[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;45742164]So planted 2k trees with a friend over the course of two days, got a few thunderstruck, and a huge logging expedition happened. Moved spots, planted 1.5k trees, a guy comes up here and my friend talks to him, he says he won't tell anyone, blah blah. as soon as I'm planting 500 more trees near by, I see one of his guildies run up and he just says "oops im in a party". next thing you know, 6 people are up here uprooting, too bad 3/4th of the trees are in non pvp zone. and they know they cant fight us, because only two of them are 50, they're all wanted, and we already sent one of them who tried uprooting the trees that were in a pvp zone.[/QUOTE] Can you explain more about this? Since it sounds pretty interesting Why were you planting trees Why didn't you want people to know Why'd they want to kill you anyway

[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;45742164]So planted 2k trees with a friend over the course of two days, got a few thunderstruck, and a huge logging expedition happened. Moved spots, planted 1.5k trees, a guy comes up here and my friend talks to him, he says he won't tell anyone, blah blah. as soon as I'm planting 500 more trees near by, I see one of his guildies run up and he just says "oops im in a party". next thing you know, 6 people are up here uprooting, too bad 3/4th of the trees are in non pvp zone. and they know they cant fight us, because only two of them are 50, they're all wanted, and we already sent one of them who tried uprooting the trees that were in a pvp zone.[/QUOTE] How the hell did you find a spot to put thousands of trees without having tons of people show up to chop it all down the second they mature?

[QUOTE=Telepethi;45742663]lots of text[/QUOTE] On the contrary, it's incredibly easy to level new skills, and it only gets easier as time goes on. As you progress, you get larger and larger XP gains, you're gaining what would be xp designed to give you maybe 1% xp as a lvl 40 skill, but that's going towards a level 10 skill. This allows for you to get within a 5-8 level discrepancy INSANELY quickly with any fresh skills, which is no big deal. Once you get into the 40+ levels, shit becomes trivial and a day of work could get you a new class at least to 40 :v:

Has there been any talks about starting a new thread? The OP of this one is a tiny bit outdated

If you PM a GGD mod with a better one they might change it for you.