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    Advice, Tips, and such for new players....

    I have noticed quite a lot of new(er) players over the past several weeks. With new players, comes a whole lot of questions and asking for advice. So I thought that I would open a post here for any and all ideas, advice, and questions to be answered by all of us for them. All I ask of this community is to keep it as straight information and not as an opportunity to keep needlessly going on about cronus, op striker, op pred, op nomad, anti-cheat, bug fixes, or ganking. Those horses are all dead from being beaten into oblivion. No sense in carrying on about things that aren't going to change at the end of our game's life cycle. Above all else, respect and decency.

    So I guess I'll start with just a handful of my own. Generally, for pve gear, it's all about enemy armor damage(ead) and damage to elites(dte). For pvp, it's usually critical hit chance(chc) and critical hit damage(chd). As for weapon talents, in pve, it's usually a mix of destructive, ferocious, predatory, determined, responsive. Pvp is usually straight up damage such as responsive, unforgiving, deadly, and competent.

    Solo vs Group play: In solo play, things that are staples for me are running revive as my signature skill, agent talents like critical save and on the move. Main gun is usually an AR for pve and for pvp I alternate between SMG and AR, depending on what the situation calls upon. In group play, the only thing that I can't stress enough, is run the agent talent of combat medic in pvp...Please. In fact, every single group member should be running combat medic. It's not going to break anybody's build to run that one useful talent. It is, after all, about the team, not about a handful of solos in a group. In group play, if you have a mic, please use it. Things usually run much smoother when the team communicates and can get their builds to synergize with each other. Oh, and in pvp, please try not to have all 4 running the same sig, it's useless.

    You will undoubtedly either hear or know by now that the top 3 sets to run are striker, nomad, and predator. And on top of that, each one of those has a cookie-cutter design that is most favored. If you wish to run those sets like that, then by all means enjoy. Just please don't let the "flavor of the month" theory discourage you from trying out other sets and builds. It gets very stale and boring either running nothing but those, and/or fighting nothing but those.

    Well, that's it for me for the time being. So let's hear from the new players and the vets with advice and ideas.
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    YodaMan 3D's Avatar Senior Member
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    Originally Posted by Paulbolt316 Go to original post
    I have noticed quite a lot of new(er) players over the past several weeks. With new players, comes a whole lot of questions and asking for advice. So I thought that I would open a post here for any and all ideas, advice, and questions to be answered by all of us for them. All I ask of this community is to keep it as straight information and not as an opportunity to keep needlessly going on about cronus, op striker, op pred, op nomad, anti-cheat, bug fixes, or ganking. Those horses are all dead from being beaten into oblivion. No sense in carrying on about things that aren't going to change at the end of our game's life cycle. Above all else, respect and decency.

    So I guess I'll start with just a handful of my own. Generally, for pve gear, it's all about enemy armor damage(ead) and damage to elites(dte). For pvp, it's usually critical hit chance(chc) and critical hit damage(chd). As for weapon talents, in pve, it's usually a mix of destructive, ferocious, predatory, determined, responsive. Pvp is usually straight up damage such as responsive, unforgiving, deadly, and competent.

    Solo vs Group play: In solo play, things that are staples for me are running revive as my signature skill, agent talents like critical save and on the move. Main gun is usually an AR for pve and for pvp I alternate between SMG and AR, depending on what the situation calls upon. In group play, the only thing that I can't stress enough, is run the agent talent of combat medic in pvp...Please. In fact, every single group member should be running combat medic. It's not going to break anybody's build to run that one useful talent. It is, after all, about the team, not about a handful of solos in a group. In group play, if you have a mic, please use it. Things usually run much smoother when the team communicates and can get their builds to synergize with each other. Oh, and in pvp, please try not to have all 4 running the same sig, it's useless.

    You will undoubtedly either hear or know by now that the top 3 sets to run are striker, nomad, and predator. And on top of that, each one of those has a cookie-cutter design that is most favored. If you wish to run those sets like that, then by all means enjoy. Just please don't let the "flavor of the month" theory discourage you from trying out other sets and builds. It gets very stale and boring either running nothing but those, and/or fighting nothing but those.

    Well, that's it for me for the time being. So let's hear from the new players and the vets with advice and ideas.
    This is cool. I'll help.

    My advice save your money and don't buy the game. Wait for TD2 which should be out soon! hahahaa

    My real advice is learn what you like and ignore the rest of the game. Learn to play solo, even though it can be more fun with others, most are far to toxic to make it fun.
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    Don't PVP in this game. The balance is complete trash. The PVE is by far the best part of this game and Massive left it to die.
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    something almost if not all classes can use is skill haste (stat to lower cool downs)

    it helps out a great deal in many builds that utilize skill power (electronic stat) over stamina or fire arms.

    as the original poster said aim for as much enemy armor damage, damage to elites that you can as thats usually all you fight at end game.



    Dont be afraid to ask questions no matter how 'stupid' they seem, and always youtube content to get a general idea of how to do mechanics before actually doing them. It'll give you 1 up on the instance and enemies
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