|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Jan 30, 2017 10:27:56 GMT -6
Shoot. I couldn't take down deeper faint solo either. I always take boons. Saturday, I had a deeper Shadow Soldier beat me. I was a bit in shock... ...so I saved 3 SS passes and kicked his ass back to back. Made me feel a little better. ______________________ So a few guys (2 regulars that are very skilled) did the math regarding echo spots. Here's the consensus. Something else I didn't know, but you can clear 1-3 NG3 very VERY quickly with manual runs. The guy that told me about this can clear the mission in 11 seconds. Me, it takes more like 19. (echo takes like 50 seconds) Had an invader slow me down for this run, but there's gold in them thar hills. The trick is - from the start, hold down your target button (deselecting all minions) and run past them - straight UP on the map. One possible box spot will be on your run up. (right hand side) Make a hard right at the wall in front of you. The second possible box spot is right next to the boss. Target the boss - One devastate and a lvl2 lethal kills the boss for me. (you might be able to lvl3 lethal it exo since you have a physical weapon) If the box isn't next to the boss, after you kill him, run straight DOWN - the 3rd box spot will be on the right side. (easy to pick up while "Ends in 3" is showing on the screen. I'm going to do a bit of manual grinds today on this. My "Plague Sword of Vigor" is S+lvl3 so I'm hoping I'll have it to lvl4 by tomorrow morning...
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 2, 2017 18:49:45 GMT -6
Fastest lvl90 Munin run... ever. It was over in one lethal and one combo. Also, pretty proud of this. Not only is my new sword MAX, (holy smokes I love poison) but I also S'ed all my accessories. Now I'll be like some of the other longtimers and sell whatever they get from rift bosses for extra gold. As you can see though, my resistances are rather mediocre. I've got an armor swap idea in place. Gonna swap my Lyrius cuirass with a King's cuirass, and Lyrius boots with Pale boots. That should put me higher on the lightning/wind res and poise dept and it LOOKS good. Looks cooler than my current setup actually. The cuirass I've got, its C grade now, but at S it will be 6 slot. I'm set there. Can't get Pale to drop a decent pair of boots though. I've got gloves and chest and I'm set there, but no swords, and one pair of boots that will be 5 slot at S. Meh. I can do better than that, so I'm working on that cuirass first. I imagine I'll have to shift around more skill shards. I took out my gold and discovery ones to add Night attack and poison. I took out a B grade lethal cool time for something else, and REGRETTED IT. Terribly. Like, messed up my whole game mojo. So I ran out of bones getting more shards and I dislodged a "recovery" gem I'm happy now that I've made this to go in its place.
|
|
|
Post by exo on Feb 2, 2017 19:27:29 GMT -6
Three A ambers to go.........
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 2, 2017 20:16:25 GMT -6
NICE!! Are you loading it with physical skill shards? I'm making good for ambers after this last update. One 9 minute expansion run can net me 20-40 C ambers. Sometimes a handful of B ambers. Totally worth it for the price of a key. I'm pretty sure this King's Cuirass I'll be leveling will need 18 greater ambers, I'll need all of these...
|
|
|
Post by exo on Feb 3, 2017 0:58:23 GMT -6
Not sure how I'm gonna work that, my shard game is not strong. it's a question of what pops first at this point: my smelter, the raided smelter, or black market.....
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 3, 2017 9:48:52 GMT -6
What do you use your gems for? Its worth unlocking those other slots. Did you get the 600 gems in surprise rewards for the Lunar New Year? Also, the shards in your sword aren't doing anything. Wind and Lightning attack shards are ONLY for wind and lightning weapons respectively - so they're just taking up space in your weapon.
Oh yeah, you're really close with those ambers. Sounds like you'll have an S+ weapon today!!!
|
|
|
Post by Deepfriar on Feb 4, 2017 16:25:40 GMT -6
Sorry guys been away for several days, I still try to get my daily log in and run an echo session, but my time is getting shared with other games for a bit. I did run some world bosses the other night, nothing noteworthy in the gear category though. Still trying to get my first S+ Max armor piece. It's a bit of a grind.
|
|
|
Post by exo on Feb 4, 2017 18:02:31 GMT -6
Didn't get the bonus gems, I'm pretty conservative with my gem expenditures, use them primarily for extended echo sessions when I can leave my phone on a charger.
Got my S+ Rifthound sword going, workin on macing my armor suit. It's all S level, cuisses maxed, several other parts in the process. Gotta composite some other crap up to level to sacrifice tho. The grind continues.
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 6, 2017 11:23:10 GMT -6
Did you guys get the surprise 500 gems early this morning? Still trying to get my first S+ Max armor piece. It's a bit of a grind. You only need 3 greater ambers to S+ normal gloves and boots, at least for normal armor. (rift gear takes double the ambers) In echoing 1-3 NG3 for gold/shards, I also get a handful of A Ranger gloves/boots. Compositing two of those, there's your S piece to sacrifice. Got my S+ Rifthound sword going, workin on macing my armor suit. It's all S level, cuisses maxed, several other parts in the process. Gotta composite some other crap up to level to sacrifice tho. The grind continues. Dig the sword man! Oh yeah man, the grind continues for me too. I've almost got my King's Cuirass to S+. That jerk takes 18 greater ambers to go from S to S+ and I'm almost there. So glad they've added Ambers in the regular drops in the expansion. Totally worth every run. I've decided to go with Faint boots for wind-res boots instead of Pale boots (as my piece after) for 3 reasons. - 1 more slot than the Pale boots I've been able to find (6 slots at S) - Spikes coming out of the knees. Fashion win. (my wife agrees) - Lyrius sword fragments are a pain to get because not all my boons summon Lyrius. After compositing the King's cuirass, I'll have 0 Lyrius fragments. Meanwhile, I already have 55 Faint fragments just sitting in my inventory. From there, I'm going to S+ MAX all the armor I'm wearing. I've got a TON of spalls saved up, so I'll be filling the gaps in the skills and shards that I'll undoubtedly be moving around. (currently, I've got wind and lightning res shards in most of my gear. I'll be able to take those out once my armor covers those resistances.) Skills I'm hoping to re-roll these two pieces (king's cuirass, faint boots) for are: poison, dodge and lethal cooldown. If I get something else I'm already gemmed for, I'll just play swap-a-doodle with spalls. Tomorrow my $5 gem subscription runs out. Looking forward to purchasing it again because I'll get 1200 gems that first day. Totally worth the $5 in my opinion. I can't even eat at McDonalds for that much and this supports the devs and gives me a month of added fun.
|
|
|
Post by Deepfriar on Feb 6, 2017 16:59:43 GMT -6
Yeah my subscription ran out too lol I'll have to renew it eventually
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 6, 2017 20:23:52 GMT -6
Pretty close. Especially since I didn't try to grind ambers while leveling gear. Couple expansion runs and I'll be good. So excited to see what the rerolls will be...
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 7, 2017 10:01:08 GMT -6
Got my cuirass to S+. Rerolled poison attack on the 3rd pull. Pretty happy! Gonna have a spall opening party after I get my faint boots on. New gear means 3 more slots so I'm gunning for more dodge skill.
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 7, 2017 19:06:25 GMT -6
Triple post. That's how I roll. TADA!!!! On a good grind, it only takes me 1 day to go from C grade to S grade. Now it will take 2 days just to go from S to S+. Got a video recorder app for my phone and tried recording some Ire gameplay today. For one, I didn't think this was possible on my phone without rooting it so this was a treat. ...but it did ok. Kinda laggy in spots. Might have to turn down my game detail (currently play on 3 out of 4) and adjust this screen recorder app settings for better results.
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 13, 2017 11:43:34 GMT -6
Ugh. Still almost 8 hours left to go on that server maintenance. Definitely in Ire withdrawal. Those patch notes.
I'm sporting my S+ faint boots now. Cashed in all my spalls and got my poise raised considerably. Still on the hunt for one more poison res spall and I think I'll replace a recovery spall with a poise one if I can find another one of those.
Grinding timed world bosses has finally paid off. When the game comes back, and if its timed Lyrius, I'll be able to hone my weapon without using gems! (honing my plague sword will cost 135 physical, wind and night essences and 500k gold - I'm just missing a couple fight's worth of night essences, that's it!)
I've been saving some bone shards for once. Had about 1.7k of them, which I plan on cashing most of them when timed Munin comes around again. Once I fill in the spall gaps, then I'll be grinding to max my armor.
|
|
|
Post by Deepfriar on Feb 13, 2017 11:57:06 GMT -6
I've been kind of on hiatus. It was beginning to get on my nerves having to leave my phone echoing all day long lol the grind to level 70 isn't bad considering other games I've played but just don't want to dedicate that much time to my phone being unavailable to be used. Wonder if my Android TV box will run the game. If it will, that might be a solution since I usually use Roku instead of Android TV. I could just run echo on it instead. That is a great idea actually, I'll try that soon. Hope you guys are doing well!
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 16, 2017 18:16:16 GMT -6
I noticed I hadn't seen you bro. I was going to ask if you were coming back. Some of the guys on Discord haven't used a phone to echo Ire like ever. The just use like MeMu or Bluestacks (mobile emulator) and let the game run in the background on their PC while they're doing other stuff so they can have their phone free. Me, I don't mind using my phone to echo. 6 hours of it is when I'm going to bed, so I'm not using my phone anyway. The other 4 to 6 hours, I just don't have my phone in my face - which my wife likes because I focus on her or get up and do something else. I'm getting really happy about my setup and my skills. Poise is over 40% and over 6k. I can definitely tank a lot of stuff I didn't use to be able to. Finally got that damn other poison res spall I wanted, so ALL SLOTS FILLED. Now its just getting my A spalls to S and my lvl2 S+ armor to S+ MAX. I don't really see myself mixing and matching armor around, but I'll definitely recruit a few additional weapons for one-off special circumstances. Rumor is, there will be a new flame sword with the next expansion so... I'd like to be able to beat dust one day and that's my ticket. My hone didn't raise night very much for me, but I'm almost max poison. If I play my cards right, I might be able to hone again after this next timed Prowler and Lyrius.
|
|
|
Post by Deepfriar on Feb 16, 2017 18:51:49 GMT -6
I need to load up the game, haven't played in several days. Been playing Puzzle and Dragons, awesome match 3 game that actually incorporates a fair bit of strategy.
I kind of felt the addition of honing was a bit lame to be honest. Seemed like just more items to try to collect and a way to pigeon hole the player into fighting certain bosses every day. I get the need for daily 'quests' and things to do, but I don't know it just felt unimaginative. Just my humble opinion hehe.
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 17, 2017 9:22:46 GMT -6
I need to load up the game, haven't played in several days. Been playing Puzzle and Dragons, awesome match 3 game that actually incorporates a fair bit of strategy. I used to play PAD when it first came out in 2012. Spent a lot more time playing Monster Strike though, which is the same PAD characters but instead of match 3, you "shoot them" like pinballs into each other. I preferred other newer match 3 games that played like PAD (where you could drag a marble all around the board if you want) but had better graphics and gameplay. I've gotten to the point where I detest "collect the characters" games, but I'll spare my rant why... I kind of felt the addition of honing was a bit lame to be honest. Seemed like just more items to try to collect and a way to pigeon hole the player into fighting certain bosses every day. I get the need for daily 'quests' and things to do, but I don't know it just felt unimaginative. Just my humble opinion hehe. The devs have said honing was designed to help recoup from bad reinforcement/composite rolls. (since when you upgrade your weapons, they upgrade in a certain range, rather than have a fixed set of numbers like armor). Also, its completely pointless to hone unless your weapon is S+ - because the next composite has the same ranges whether you hone or not. As for hone pigeon holing the player for certain timed bosses, I disagree for these 2 reasons. - timed bosses have double spall drops, so if you give a shit about your skills, every timed boss is awesome because of extra spalls. Pretty sure rift sacrifices drop more often as well. - Munin is still my most fought world boss and I don't need flame essences to hone. Essences sell for 1.5k gold a pop and considering the 90+ level timed can drop anywhere between 4-12 of them per fight, I get plenty of extra gold on Dainn and Munin timed days. You should take the same "gold fest" strategy with Munin bro. You've got Night which absolutely destroys her...
|
|
|
Post by Deepfriar on Feb 20, 2017 6:36:42 GMT -6
Interesting I didn't know about the double spall bonus... Good point.
You can drag the marble all over the board in PAD.. Maybe it's a newer update or something.
I'm kind of antsy, a game I've been waiting two years for comes out in a week and a half (Horizon: Zero Dawn). So the games I'm playing right now are just a placeholder. I have a bunch of PTO saved up so I'm taking a couple days off work next week to have a four day weekend to play. Lol. My wife is jealous of my time off. She is at a new job so she barely has any PTO yet.
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 24, 2017 14:59:23 GMT -6
Hey, a new job though is good! I don't have PTO because I'm still on shit hours (for good reason) after my cancer shenanigans. LOL ______________________________________ Man, so much stuff to add to this thread. Patch notes for March's update will be super awesome! (I'll let you guys join discord if you want to see them [evillaugh] ) Those tweaks are definitely for players like me, who've been "capped" for a while and its other stuff we can do to further enhance our gear/character. Man, my second hone of my plague sword was SUPER AWESOME. Over 300 Night boost. Definitely notice the difference. Did a reroll for my Klaus helm. I was only using one skill from the prior reroll, but the reroll now has 3 USEFUL skills. Lifecharge and MAX HP went down a little, but in exchanging spalls and freeing slots, I got my curse res, stun res, poise and stagger up to VERY satisfactory levels. Got my skills EXACTLY where I want them now. Its just a matter of spall hunting to get my A embeds to S, for additional awesomeness. Destroyed everyone in PVP today, and I played against a lot of people... (doing that more since I'm on my last legs of how much I can improve at this point) Well, except for a few matches I threw when fighting newer players with no chance of beating me. LOL The kicker is, I haven't even formed a decent collection yet. Once I max out my current gear, then I can focus on specializing other gear to use in specific situations. Also, really lucky with a few drops from Munin yesterday. Normally, those S+ shards are so rare, I've only seen 2 drop from 3-4 months of play. Pretty exciting to get 2 of them in 1 day!!!
|
|
|
Post by Deepfriar on Feb 24, 2017 18:16:47 GMT -6
Very cool dude nice that you got two S+... Never seen one yet lol I think I may load game and give it a whirl. I'd like to get max level.
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 25, 2017 19:03:25 GMT -6
I'd like to get max level. I know I wasn't going to post the update notes here (because I'd like to see my bros on discord) ...but 70 isn't going to be the max for long.
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 27, 2017 18:46:03 GMT -6
Made this video for the Ire community today. The music was done by me of course. (some of my classical piano work)
|
|
|
Post by _ on Feb 27, 2017 20:06:57 GMT -6
I enjoyed it. (I just bought a good amount of neoclassical/ambient/piano-y stuff from a label, so this fits in nicely.)
|
|
|
Post by exo on Mar 2, 2017 22:15:11 GMT -6
So, uh.......new update.
Eastern Advocate can one hit me. I'm level 70, running all S/S+ gear. UNREAL.
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Mar 3, 2017 12:52:23 GMT -6
So, uh.......new update. Eastern Advocate can one hit me. I'm level 70, running all S/S+ gear. UNREAL. Yeah, players that don't have wind res have a hard time with the 2nd expansion. I can beat him without continues, but after 2 runs, I FINALLY found where the merchant box is, and all I've gotten so far is crap gear. That Transcend system in the forge now is CRAZY. Some of the whales that had multiple S+ pieces narrowed down to one set and their new stats are staggering. (or the pun would be NOT staggering - one of the Discord mods +8 all his armor pieces. His night res is still meh (since he's wearing Morgan's, but 12k poise. 12,000 POISE. That's almost double mine and even I don't flinch very much. Ire is being featured on the main page of the App Store worldwide in 143 countries. As thanks from the devs, we all get 350 gems per day for 6 days. (Today being the first) As long as you log in within the 24 hour period, you'll get them! I heard the devs are going to raise world boss lvls soon. They'll need to. I was able to +10 my tarnished, and I literally kill lvl96 Munin in 1 lethal and 1 devastate. (the next lvl, 103, is the max) Its also a LOT cheaper to reinforce equipment, so as soon as I get all my pieces to MAX, I'll start transcending them. One HUGE GIAGANTIC MONUMENTAL regret is disassembling the old S+ armor pieces I wasn't using anymore - before we all knew of this update. I could have made my current armor immediately stronger - just add gold... but since I turned them into shards, and used them to reinforce, I'll have to make all new S+ pieces to transcend with. Oh well. It shouldn't take THAT long. ...and the joy is in the journey, not the destination, right? LOL
|
|
|
Post by exo on Mar 3, 2017 13:54:34 GMT -6
LOL.
I rock 12.2k poise on my current loadout. You must just be skittish like a chihuahua on speed. 😝
That's gonna change, becaus I'm seeing you say I need to swap from the current look to my Einher's cuirass and Bloodwed's cuisses and expansion 2 will stop turning me into sausage. Maybe. I just WANT. THAT. SWORD.
I blew thru 1k gems on revives last time I tried it.......
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Mar 3, 2017 18:06:18 GMT -6
1k gems continuing on the expansion? OUCH bro. At least there's more gems coming! Yeah, switching gear for wind res will help. If you can afford to embed some wind resistance spalls somewhere, that would be good too. I rock 12.2k poise on my current loadout. You must just be skittish like a chihuahua on speed. 😝 You rock 12.2k "defense" bro. :B Your "poise" (right below defense) is a little over 4k. (which will hopefully better explain how crazy a 12k poise armor set is) Nice fire res by the way. Defense reduces physical damage to the player. Poise is "stagger defense", and helps that thin white meter (below your stamina) not fill up so fast. (cause when that fills, your character buckles, which lets whatever get free hits.) My poise is over 6.5k right now, but I've gemmed in over 40% in the poise skill. (50% is the max) Dude with 12k poise has full S+ morgans, every piece transcended +8 which is CRAZY... ...yeah, and transcend levels go to +30.
|
|
|
Post by exo on Mar 3, 2017 20:12:42 GMT -6
Yup. Didn't have my glasses on yet. seriously.
|
|
|
Post by Thomas Eversole on Mar 6, 2017 14:21:42 GMT -6
You get a tachi yet bro? I got a "bacon blade" one. (B grade flame tachi) Looks like a lot of people are having trouble with the expansion boss. I take for granted how "rounded" my character is... some of the guys on discord reported it taking 15 minutes just to beat the boss. Meanwhile, the 4 times I've fought him, I missed two chances to carve because.... well, my lethal is quite lethal. Also one of my favorite PVP pics. For one, that player is INCREDIBLY strong. I've fought him 5 times - won twice. (that's out of 5 battles, not 5 rounds) ....for two, I need to explain that screenshot. He had a flame tachi, I had my tarnished. He actually killed me and I was keeled over ready for him to do a fatality... but he was almost dead and poisoned. The poison got him before he could finish me off and I won the round. Literally 1 SECOND away from losing. Now THAT is an intense fight! ____________________________________ You guys having any crashes? I've been having quite a bit of them since this last update - others on discord are complaining about it as well. I could stop them by turning down textures (from high to mid) but I don't like the way that looks. I've actually figured out by adjusting some of the Developer Options in my phone that I could still keep 3/4 graphics, high textures and 100% resolution and not experience crashes. In 4 hours of echo, still had 1 crash though, but that's considerably better than what it was before. Those Developer Options, I tried just random settings, but the "Force GPU rendering" which is a hardware acceleration for 2D apps really made a difference. I know Ire isn't 2d, but it dawned on me that every time the app crashed, was when the character was loaded to the map but before the "title" of the mission appeared on the screen. (ie: the art saying Dainn, The Faint, etc. when you start a mission) ...which is 2D.
|
|