Useful Information Thread.
trias_e:
Here's a pretty helpful and informational FAQ.
http://yokaiblog.wikidot.com/guides:tswfaq
It answers most of the repeated questions I see from new players. Plus I learned plenty about game mechanics as well that I didn't know before.
Falconeer:
I'll use this thread to post an interesting post from Martin Bruusgaard I just found, talking about Dungeons, Lairs, Pocket Bosses and Raids (or the lack of).
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TSW will launch without raids, but they will come in future content updates.
Let me talk a little bit about the Dungeon difficulty. Dungeons come in 3 difficulties. The names are pending atm, so let's call them 1, 2, 3, where 1 is the easiest.
Difficulty 1 is approximately the difficulty level of what the player is when playing through that playfield, where the dungeon exists, while progressing through the game. They are generally scaled to something the player would do when they have explored a zone and gotten a fair share of the gear from it. So people should be able to do The Polaris at the end of Kingsmouth, as an example.
Difficulty 2 is the difficulty level for when a player has played through all the adventure zones, and has started to get gear from Transylvania. The difficulty level of the 3 Transylvania is about the same, so the dungeons here come only in difficulty 2 and 3 (since 1 and 2 would be the same).
Difficulty 3 is... um.. Really really hard At this point we put hard blockers when it comes to what abilities to bring. A dot that might take 30% of your health in difficulty level 2, will kill you here - so you better bring someone who can remove it. We do the same thing for tanking type, damage dealing, healing type, crowd controlling, movement abilities... everything. These bosses doesn't only have more damage and hp, but new abilities, so you need to apply new tactics. You really have to work as a group and coordinate in advance in order to be successful. Compared to other mmos I've played, I would say that this would be the equivalent to a really hard raid, but in TSW it's still regarded as a 5 man dungeon.
Note: In the description of the difficulties I've focused on gear. In order to be successful you still need to bring more than good gear. You've already seen how we build our dungeons, and what skill level we demand from the players, and I hope you see that it's about more than just bringing gear. The reason I bring up the gear is that when balancing we need a starting point for player strength. From there it's pure craftsmanship from the dungeon designer.
All around in the game you will find groups of special monsters, which is the ultimate version of their race. These will be really hard to kill, unless you bring certain abilities. Let's say you go to a camp where block is required. These mobs will drop really good block gear. This is also where you can get really good item suffixes (the ones you can add to an item and may say: "Every time you block you do a pbaoe damage with increased hate"). You can either go here and face the challenge yourself, as it is doable by skilled players, but I believe we'll see a lot of players bringing their friends with a special skill set to challenges like these.
In every zone you will also find a dedicated group area, which are intended for 2-3 players. These are NOT the kind of "group play" where you're in a competition, and whoever performs best wins the best loot. The players need to cooperate in order to be successful, and lore, achievements and loot is distributed evenly. In here players can also pick up "blueprints". If they solve a puzzle they will be able to spawn and fight some of the signature monsters of TSW, which will give a nice reward.
So as you can see, no we don't have raids, but we have lots of interesting pve group play that will hopefully keep you guys busy and happy in TSW for a long long time
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Martin Bruusgaard
Lead Designer - The Secret World
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Originally Posted by Frostbeard
What exactly are blueprints? Are they crafting designs, cosmetic modifiers, or something else? Or did you mean that the blueprints will actually spawn the monster?
Also, are these "group areas" separate from the elite monster groups you mentioned above?
The blueprints combine pve combat, puzzles and crafting. And you will most likely need a group to take them down, after summoning them.
And yes, these group areas are separate from the monster camps.
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Martin Bruusgaard
Lead Designer - The Secret World
Miasma:
The closest thing we have to wowhead I can find right now is the cry gaia wiki but since the game is new and doesn't have ten million people playing it the articles are sparse.
Edit: This wiki/blog is also very good, it has a lot more detailed information and does a good job explaining the complicted systems. It is written by the two people who wrote most of the stickied explanation threads on the official forums.
In terms of "I wish I had known that" type things I could pass on to new players:
- Many inner sections of a wheel you complete will reward you with a piece of clothing but there is no notice of this.
- London seems to be the main hub regardless of your faction because it has more stores and services.
- There is a clothing store north of the Agartha portal in London, you can buy clothes there for pax romana.
- You can also buy clothing from the in game store but they cost "Funcom points", it is a micro transaction type thing.
- There is a bank in London to the west of the clothing store.
- If you are switching between abilities or have a set tank/dps type layout you like use the gear manager and save it to easily switch between them. It is called gear manager but it also saves your ability bars (check that it works when switching though, mine always drops a passive slot).
- Pressing V will AoE autoloot without having to click on anything.
- There are blue quality QL5 and QL6 weapons for sale in savage coast and blue mountain, I would suggest saving for the QL6 because the price is the same. The price is in signets which you gain by doing quests. You will need a glyph to put in the weapon, they also sell blue quality glyphs but you can use something found in your journeys too.
- Since the enemies don't ramp up as fast as other games if you play with just one other person you can easily handle a zone above what you could solo.
- If you replace a quest it "Pauses" on the tier you were at, so you can pick up where you left off. You "Unpause" by going back to the quest giver.
- Before you run off after getting a quest make sure to read the next step, a lot of quests have the first step as picking up something where it begins. You don't want to fight your way halfway across the map and then find out you forgot to pick up the whatchamacallit.
- The most useful double tap to perform a roll isn't left or right, it is forward. Many mobs have a large fast moving circle so you have to turn around and get out of the way fast.
- If you get a phone call from your faction giving you a mission just accept it and pause your current one. It is a pain in the ass trying to regain that quest since it just comes as a phone call and there is no quest giver. I have heard you might be able to pick it back up by going to your faction leader area but I don't know.
- Some solo dungeons seem a little flaky if you are in a group, I would suggest dropping group before going in. It only matters in the ones where you have to fight.
- As you gain xp you will be rewarded with faction ranks. At a certain rank (I'm not sure what) you can buy a slightly faster sprint, I would recommend doing so (especially since there isn't much to spend money on right now anyways).
- Buying enough inventory slots to go from the starting 50 to 100 costs about 100,000 pax romana and is very worth doing if you are crafting/disassembling.
- If you would like to have a potion/anima/quest item clickable bar bring up your inventory, create a new bag, size the bag as a 1x5 row or whatever you like, then click the lock button so that it remains on screen. Now just position it where you like and you have easy access to potions.
- If you are trying to jump somewhere sprint really does matter. If you need to bridge a large gap make sure it's on, if you are trying to do a delicate hop turn it off.
- Map your autorun button to something close by, you will be using it a lot.
- If you want to preview how clothing looks on you both in game and item store have preview buttons but it shows on your actual character, not a separate window. Move to undo it.
- If you want to just completely remove a piece of clothing select it in the dressing room and the button will change to "Unwear" or something like that. It won't let you do this if it would make you naked (thankfully).
- You should complete the inner circles for two weapons before further specializing in one. It is important to use two complimentary weapons.
- If you want to tank one of the small green "Misc" wheel slices is dedicated to that. Another seems good for PvP and the last seems like it would be needed for dps in high level dungeons to manage their aggro.
- If you are dropping things from a stack in the crafting window just click it and then right click each square you want to split the items into, it will let you drop one at a time without going through the split stack ui window.
- To add a glyph to your weapon you put them both in the crafting window and click assemble.
- Most quests which involve giving something to an npc just need you to be near them to trigger but for some you have to select them with the mouse.
- Doing all of the first zone even after you have outlevelled it is a fast way to rack up sp and ap.
- You can add your own markers to the map, if you plan on repeating quests put down a marker where you find each start.
I'm sure there are more but that is all I could think of off the top of my head.
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Quote from: Miasma on July 03, 2012, 08:37:55 AM
- Many inner sections of a wheel you complete will reward you with a piece of clothing but there is no notice of this.
To be exact, there's a "jacket/coat" type of clothing reward for completing both inner sections of each weapon type skillset.
Segoris:
TSW Deck builder link. Pretty simple but effective
http://thesecretsandbox.com/Deck/
Edit: Also, the bank has a mailbox. I don't know if it works I just remember seeing a mailbox type system
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