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Post by nimiria on Feb 18, 2018 16:14:12 GMT
Hey there, I just came back to the game and started multiplayer again. I normally can make decent gold runs (with teams, not solo) and for now I stick with my Human Artificer and its fine. Still I have some questions First, and I know there is plenty info in the internet for it, but still: Packs. I want desperatly the PAW. So what pack would be best to get it? Opened around 30 Arsenal packs but did not get it. And when I have it: Should I go with the 100k Prem packs or the expert packs? Some internet research is not very helpful since half seem to think expert are good, and have a pity timer, but some say no, they don´t have any more so go to Prem.. so what is it for the current state of the game? And then the Remnant VI .. it sometimes just floats around doing nothing. It does not even attack a target when I make a attack click on an enemy. What can cause this? Is there any way to make it more "intelligent"? I gave it the talent that it is more aggressive in closer range already. And one more: Do only skills increas the damage of kombos (like biotics) that say so or do skills increase that damage as well that just for example improve the damage of biotic skills? Thanks in advance
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Post by RonnieBlastoff on Feb 18, 2018 17:14:00 GMT
If your really looking to just get a P.A.W., don't buy expert packs, they do NOT have a pity timer and are better suited to filler (consumables) and gold items. Buy the 100K packs only. The most you will spend on them is 1M, so I used to save up to 1M, then spend until I got a UR, then save up to 1M again. Although others will argue my logic, DO NOT buy the 500K packs, there is nothing more rage inducing in this game then spending 500k on Ammo Capacity Mod IVs and Experience enhancer IVs. Yes you will get at least 1 UR in the next 500K pack, but that is no different then enforcing the pity timer in 500K bulk stages, which I have found to be the case, (at least for me) in over 30M worth of purchases. I have counted literally 7 cases since jumbo packs were introduced where I've gotten more than 1 UR, in a pack (I got up to 4 once, but all variants I DIDNT want...). EVERY SINGLE OTHER TIME was a 1M U.R. investment.Remnant VI are same as enemy A.I, sometimes they go full assclown mode, sometimes they set off a combo that saves your ass, all the other times they are flying in your stream of fire and reducing your damage causing you to get killed. When they "turn off," blow them by holding the "activate" button w/e it is, and just call out a new bot. 3rd question.... yes, only skills increase combos in any way, there is no item/consumable/weapon that increases combos, directly at least. You can "indirectly" increase "combo" damage by either increasing the damage of the ability (decreasing enemy resistances), or the frequency in which you set off combos. But only skills increase the actual explosion radius or damages. The glorious power of cheating will give you better input on how the game works, or doesn't. And also keep in mind, if you want a particular U.R. weapon... it is going to either be your next 100K pack, or your last 10m you'll ever spend in the game on anything. Playing gold is fine, but if you want that P.A.W. TODAY, (or this month...), work on being able to carry a platinum match. Many a people have quit because of the time required to unlock U.Rs. You can get there by gold, but your bullshyting yourself if you leave platinum outside the plan. Do those strike team missions as well, and you only have to 1 wave the day challenges to get credit. But 960 for a U.R. is better than 100K since its effortless. Enjoy
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Post by vanelsa on Feb 18, 2018 17:55:01 GMT
Personally, I buy a mix of Jumbo Premium Packs and Premium Packs today. Yes, it is disappointing to drop 500K and get nothing but consumables (this is what happens when your Rares are maxed and you’re hunting for Ultra Rares), but it does mean that the next Jumbo Premium Pack will have at least 1 UR. I’ve hit the 10 pack pity timer with Premium/Arsenal/Reserve packs a number of times and that’s a bummer too. I would skip the APEX Elite Pack for 600K. Yes, you do get an UR weapon guaranteed, but you only get 3 consumables and 5 UR XP Enhancers, which aren’t that useful unless you’re grinding for bonus stats or leveling your characters.
As for what I recommend you doing, just keep amassing Mission Funds, buying Arsenal / Jumbo Premium Packs (keep track so you know when you’ll hit the pity timer), and hope that your next pack will have the P.A.W. Try to enjoy the game while you’re grinding; otherwise, you’ll get bummed and stop playing. If you find a group that you play with consistently, also consider Platinum farming on Magma or Paradox or speed runs on Sandstorm and Zero. Your runs should be about 15-20 minutes for every 120K credits.
I’m waiting for the P.A.W. Siphon myself, one of the five remaining UR variants I have yet to unlock. Good luck to both of us!
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Post by TheThirdRace on Feb 18, 2018 18:32:07 GMT
If your really looking to just get a P.A.W., don't buy expert packs, they do NOT have a pity timer and are better suited to filler (consumables) and gold items. Buy the 100K packs only. The most you will spend on them is 1M, so I used to save up to 1M, then spend until I got a UR, then save up to 1M again. Although others will argue my logic, DO NOT buy the 500K packs, there is nothing more rage inducing in this game then spending 500k on Ammo Capacity Mod IVs and Experience enhancer IVs. Yes you will get at least 1 UR in the next 500K pack, but that is no different then enforcing the pity... Actually, Expert packs do have a pity timer for UR, it's 25 or 30 packs... don't remember which. In any case, getting a UR is much easier with Arsenal, Reserve, Premium and Jumbo packs as their pity timer is 10 packs, 2 for the Jumbo. While I understand the disappointment of buying the Jumbo pack and not get any UR, I have to disagree and suggest to buy only the 500K packs if you're not in need of consumables. The Jumbo Premium has time and again give me 1 UR multiples times in a row, often enough 2 UR in the same pack, sometimes 3 UR and even 4 UR. From my experience, the Jumbo Premium is a better investment than the APEX as they have relatively the same UR drop over millions of credits, but the Jumbo gives you tons of consumables. On top of that, when you do get multiple UR in a Jumbo, they tend to not be the same UR, which is perfect to unlock a specific UR.
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Post by Arkhne on Feb 18, 2018 19:12:24 GMT
If you find a group that you play with consistently, also consider Platinum farming on Magma or Paradox or speed runs on Sandstorm and Zero. Your runs should be about 15-20 minutes for every 120K credits. I’m waiting for the P.A.W. Siphon myself, one of the five remaining UR variants I have yet to unlock. Good luck to both of us! Wait. That's a speedrun time? I thought that was a "normal" time for a non-idiotic Platinum (Read: No more than one PUG, because PUGs will just cloak and hide, cloak and hide, forcing you to do all the work anyway).
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Post by vanelsa on Feb 18, 2018 19:32:04 GMT
On console, I have been able to do a 12 minute run with expert players. For people whose manifests and skills are not that developed, 15 minutes is reasonable (given good objectives). 18-20 minutes is average for a farming run with team.
PC times tend to be faster.
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Post by monk on Feb 18, 2018 20:25:01 GMT
If you find a group that you play with consistently, also consider Platinum farming on Magma or Paradox or speed runs on Sandstorm and Zero. Your runs should be about 15-20 minutes for every 120K credits. I’m waiting for the P.A.W. Siphon myself, one of the five remaining UR variants I have yet to unlock. Good luck to both of us! Wait. That's a speedrun time? I thought that was a "normal" time for a non-idiotic Platinum (Read: No more than one PUG, because PUGs will just cloak and hide, cloak and hide, forcing you to do all the work anyway). I'm always the PuG (I have a policy of just jumping to a new group when the run is done; drop lobby and join the next one I get assigned to; stay if same one mostly unless it was lag hell). My last run of Platinum One Life to Live, I was forced to Cloak and Hide then unload all bloody heck on one target at a time (and it was 2 Krogan, and 2 Destoryers and 1 Hydra, so it obviously took a while). Went on for two whole flippin' rounds and a fairly fast run went to 43+ minutes completion time. All because the other three couldn't or didn't know how to play well. All 40k+ players too. And to think I was booted on my Kineticist previously too on a similiar run only for me to complete (0 deaths) on the second group I joined aftewards... Meh.
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Post by nimiria on Feb 18, 2018 22:35:10 GMT
Thanks for your replied So I should stay with the 100k/500k packs, hm? I have much to complete, rare, uncommon and UR.. so then still the best to get those?
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Post by monk on Feb 18, 2018 23:16:32 GMT
Once you have a "go to" weapon at Siphon from the Uncommon or Rare set and a suitable character, yes. 100k/500k packs should be the only thing you go for, since there's no easy way to obtain the UR's otherwise. So you slow down overall (in commons, uncommons and rares), but increase your UR rate to a higher level by doing so.
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Post by nimiria on Feb 19, 2018 0:02:29 GMT
Okay thanks I can play gold good with a team so I am fine there. Have Arsenal packs the same UR chance then the normal Premium pack? And what are realky good "pet" classes who can be good with turret/Remnant abd specialize with it? So far the Artificer seems good - any alternatives?
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Post by vanelsa on Feb 19, 2018 0:35:33 GMT
Okay thanks I can play gold good with a team so I am fine there. Have Arsenal packs the same UR chance then the normal Premium pack? And what are realky good "pet" classes who can be good with turret/Remnant abd specialize with it? So far the Artificer seems good - any alternatives? What other characters do you have? All characters are viable at all difficulty levels. Depending on what you like to do, you may prefer some to others. Artificer is a very strong class. Some builds eschew the Remnant VI altogether in favor of Cryo Beam and Invasion. Others max out on the Remnant VI and skip on Invasion. I have three solos (two golds and one platinum) where I use different builds for each. Check them out here: bsn.boards.net/thread/13715/gold-platinum-chronicles-telemetry-analysisArsenal packs have same UR chance as normal Premium packs but Arsenals skew towards weapons (something like 60-40 or 66-33).
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Post by monk on Feb 19, 2018 0:52:33 GMT
Just be aware though. That even though it's skewed towards one type from specific boxes, you can still very easily get the other types too. So an Arsenal pack could easily yield 3-4 UR Character Kits instead of a UR Weapon. Same with Reserve pack only giving UR Weapons. All because of the RNG. So be aware that specific pack types (Arsenal or Reserve) is only a better chance, not necessaily actually better when there are so many UR's still unlocked though. So brace yourself for the long haul of opening 100k boxes and getting dissapointed.
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Post by Arkhne on Feb 19, 2018 1:55:15 GMT
Just be aware though. That even though it's skewed towards one type from specific boxes, you can still very easily get the other types too. So an Arsenal pack could easily yield 3-4 UR Character Kits instead of a UR Weapon. Same with Reserve pack only giving UR Weapons. All because of the RNG. So be aware that specific pack types (Arsenal or Reserve) is only a better chance, not necessaily actually better when there are so many UR's still unlocked though. So brace yourself for the long haul of opening 100k boxes and getting dissapointed. Yeah, this is idiotic. Should've stuck with ME3's Arsenal/Reserves system, at least there, an Arsenal pack would NEVER drop a Character card UNLESS all your guns/mods for that slot were maxed. I hate the current system, I don't give two hoots about veteran cards for classes I never play, I want my gun cards, if I wanted character cards, I'd buy the goddamned Reserves Pack, and if I wanted a mix of both, I'd just buy Premium. So much stupid in the decisions for ME:A that my head hurts from trying to understand why somebody could think it was a good idea.
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Post by nimiria on Feb 19, 2018 3:04:46 GMT
Thanks again Mostly I play the Artificer with skipping Invasion. I use my Shadow III with her. Sometimes the Adept with throw and annihilation and the 2 passives with maximum Combo. As Weapon she has Scattershot X. The Asari Duelist is nice as well but in gold very.. difficult to play Sometimes the Turian Soldier. Very tough, using the Isharay. Sadly, still not good enough to kill standart enemies with one bodyshot in gold, even with all set to Weapon damage. But its not Isharay 10 yet so I have hope Honestly I never was able to make gold solo... specially the hack/upload goals. How can this be done alone vs all those golden foes Oh and the AR reciever.. there is no hope it helps vs armored foes, is there? Edit: Oh my god - I just got my PAW 😍 so now my magazin mod is just rank V, how to best get it to 10? Just big packs and hope for mods or target for 20k packs?
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Post by Arkhne on Feb 19, 2018 4:14:41 GMT
Technical Mods packs are awesome, at least until you max out your uncommon mods, then they become terrible. Heavy mags are great for ARs and Pistols/SMGs, just compare which gives best boost at minimum cost (+weight is a freebie, it doesn't do much in the grand scheme, so feel free to consider those as having no downside).
If you're patient, I would recommend buying the Technical Mods pack until you max out your uncommon mods, then go back to Arsenal packs. It can get a little frustrating knowing that you wont be getting any new guns, but you really do benefit from those mods.
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Post by nimiria on Feb 19, 2018 17:24:14 GMT
Thanks I will consider that for sure. I was thinking about just going back to the jumbo premium packs (or maybe just the standart 100k ones) but not so sure about that now. Maybe I really boost mods first.
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Post by nimiria on Mar 3, 2018 9:33:20 GMT
A question: is there any way to give the shadow a magazine mod or are there any plans for that?
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Post by SassaMFG on Mar 3, 2018 12:35:14 GMT
No there isn't. Plans, what plans?
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Post by RonnieBlastoff on Mar 3, 2018 12:41:10 GMT
A question: is there any way to give the shadow a magazine mod or are there any plans for that? There are no mag mods for any sniper rifles... (at least last time I checked) Also, there are some weapons that don't have certain mods even though all the other class of weapon does. Like Soned doesn't have any accuracy mods, and "mah labzerrr" weapons don't have penetration mods. I forget as well with those mods if it doesn't have a piercing mod if or not you also can't land a headshot.
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Post by nimiria on Mar 6, 2018 14:01:22 GMT
Thanks again Its,sad piercing mods won't give bonus damage for armored targets I am very pleased with the PAW at the moment Anyone has experience with the Inferno?
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Post by vanelsa on Mar 6, 2018 14:30:22 GMT
I like the Inferno. Kits that have the Weapon Efficiency passive get 9 shots out of the Inferno instead of 7. Be sure not to fire that last shot, however, since the cooldown time when empty is long. If you do, switch to your other weapon and the Inferno will recharge in the background.
Pairs best with the barrel and a receiver mod so you can shoot through cover.
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Post by nimiria on Mar 8, 2018 8:03:44 GMT
Thanks, tested it out a bit But I must honestly say that the PAW really is my favourite And I tested the piercing mod on both Isharay and Inferno. Sadly on the Isharay a magazine upgrade is much more of a use. The piercing mod should give some bonus to damage to armored foes :/
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