The Secret World

That's probably a good decision on Funcom's part. Mind you, things only really get rough around Transylvania where you're basically boned unless you have some healing capabilities if you play solo so this will be a welcome change.

 

mob density in the game has always been problematic, especially because one spends so much time soloing and running back and forth because of the shitty quest number limitation.

 

GAME DIRECTOR LETTER – FEBRUARY 2015

I wonder if they're ever giving the UI an overhaul. That alone would increase my enjoyment of the game a lot. From the amount of UI mods for the game it seems like modding the UI is either such a pain it's not worth it or it just can not be extensively modded. Flash based UI, such a great idea.

 

Not to be a dick, but Scaleform is pretty much industry standard. http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform

It's a pain the ass to use, but implying that using the most common UI middleware in the industry is somehow a misstep seems a bit derp. (Blame Autodesk for making it flash based)

 

It might be an industry standard, and it is able to do some real purdy shit, but in a genre that is fairly well known to give players extensive freedom to change their UI it's a stupid decision to use middleware that is well known for bad player customizability. It's in no way Autodesks fault if a developer decides to use their tool for a job it's not well suited for. I could've phrased my words better earlier though.

 

git gud

 

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I'm too old for MMOs but I'm a sucker for anything Lovecraftian
Expect me bitching a lot itt now, since I have no fookin Idea what I'm doing.

DAWNLADIN NAO!

Edit: Question number 1, wich Dimension should I choose? Leviathan is described as "a very quiet environment" for Roleplaying... Seems an obvious choice since I intend to solo 99% of the game

 

What's a dimension? That like a shard? Is the game split up into multiple unrelated shards? Or is this more like a starting zone?

 

Dimension is like a default instance for your character. Normally you'll meet only people from your dimension, BUT you will be able to see people from other dimensions on chat and through that you will be able to group up and travel to them. This allows for questing, dungeons, raids. Minigames (CTF, domination) and trading are also game-wide.

The only one thing chosen dimension is restricting is the persistent PvP map.

Here's some more info - http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=81738

Travelling is super easy, as you can just click "meet up" on your friend and be teleported to a rezz pad nearest to him (including dungeons). Normally he gets a popup and has to agree, but lots of people are using Auto Meet-Up nowadays (when there's an event with world bosses, there are spotters who are also beacons for other players).

 

Can your default instance be changed, or are you stuck there forever?

 

You can pay to change it, but it's like 20 euro or something.

 

Wow, I'm having fun actually... Really well made world, nice dialogues and writing, lots of it. By choosing a low population RP server I rarely see bunnyhopping tools and I found a single Mary-StOnEd4x-Jane

I'm going with blade + blood because it sounds cool, following loosely some builds on the forum but I already understood that you need to change and adapt. If I understand correctly you need each skill in a tier to unlock the next one?
Browsing some interface mods atm, but I haven't installed any

 

Good for you! It gets even better later on, darker, less fable-y.

IIRC you have to complete the inner wheel before you can buy any tier 2. After that you can buy whatever you want, though you have to progress through all skills in particular school.

Good choice on weapons, sword is perfect for most content (except maybe dungeon dps and healing).

If you install Curse client, checking top 10 most popular mods can be helpful (most of them are straight QOL).

 

See what I was talking about in my above post? Never heard of this... Thanks!

 

I suspected this

Curse makes installing mods a one-click thing, lets you avoid editing xml to merge mods. I was reinstalling the game last week and just picked like first 8 mods

You might want to check out SweetFX - works great with Dreamworld games and can actually improve performance and quality at the same time.

 

Do you know of any nice preset for TSW?

 

http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/28/

I didn't play much with different settings, for me it's only important to get SMAA, shaper textures and that few fps increase. Running this now - http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/2569/ - gets the job done, but I might turn the darkness down a notch.

 

Should I use my Sequins of Solomon Island to get a better weapon in Kingsmouth, or I can spend those in other locations too? It's better to do so in this case?

I ask mainly because I got a gliyph toolkit and enough rune to build a ql3 penetration glyph. Also, can I slot that in a ql2 weapon, eventually?

(I warned you about me whining itt )

 

I think you can get better gear in Blue Mountain for those, and iirc there's nothing keeping you from going there (except stuff trying to kill you). It's another part of Solomon Island.

 

It's better to gather them and buy a blue QL4 set in Blue Mountain (last Solomon Island location). All excessive tokens you can spend then on mystery bags.

You can get to the CoV vendors in BM by sticking to the main road, which will let you avoid enemies - just run and don't stop for anything. You can go there as soon as you'll level any weapon/talisman skill to 4 - buy stuff and go back to questing.

BTW - try focusing on one skill for each weapon first and rather stick to your main weapons. Try to have talisman skills at the same level as your main weapons. Those skills work a bit like character levels - until you reach 10, there will be penalties applied to your stats vs more powerful mobs (mainly hit rating).

The same rule works for Egypt and Transylvania - always buy the highest QL possible - you get good gear earlier and keep more tokens for mystery bags.

 

Thanks and yes, I understood you should also level up your talismans. I learned it the hard way, since I spent 2hours roaming asking myself "wtf there are only hard missions around... ?"
Atm I have everything except blood at 2, focusing on the blade for my abilities... I already unlocked the 2nd tier, but I'm undecided if I should stick to blade only, starting to develop blood or go for the sweet sweet bloodsport in the fist tree (maybe I should first focus on getting gross anatomy)
Decisions, decisions...

I'll hoard some more seq and head for the blue mountain


"On the tip of the pyramid your fate shall be revealed"- Heading there now. Refreshing, a game that considers me intelligent enough to get a metaphor and look it up on the map


Edit: Got 1200 points for completing 30 missions... Nice! I suppose I should buy an issue with those... Any advice?

 

That's only the beginning

 

Outer tier skills are so much more expensive than inner tier that you really shouldn't approach them half-assed. Have a plan. Of course, in the long run in won't matter, but for Solomon Island deviating from your target synergies too much can lead to (more) frustrating situations. (I don't have a clue about Blade though, so I can't offer any specific suggestions.)

 

Yep, Solomon Island investigations are relatively easy.

Matalarata By weapon skills I meant the stuff you buy with SP. Each weapon has 2 lines (offensive and defensive), but at the beginning stick to one of them.

I don't know which Issues you already have, but starting from Last Train you get purple gear as rewards. If you plan to buy all, then stick to the order - if you're low on cash, start with Last Train (but it's in Egypt!).

 

Thanks for the advices guys! I'll go in order, if they're good I intend to play all the content...