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Secret World Legends |OT| The Return of Cthulhu ft. Soviet Space Vampires
- Thread starter His Majesty
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jamsethoth
Member
Haha, those quests are the reason I loved TSW so much. Such a novel experience in an mmo where quests are usually go here and kill x things, or find n macguffins.
That and the deck building from the ability wheel. The loss of the passive synergies is my greatest complaint with SWL.
His Majesty
Banned
1. I suggest creating a character on TSW and play a minimal amount. After that, link your account to your new SWL account and you should receive some bonuses.
- 3 free character slots instead of 1
- all weapons unlocked from the start
- vanity items (if you have them)
2. The Park, yes. It provides endgame talismans which do not transfer over to SWL afaik. The Chipmunk killer costume does transfer over I think.
Hah, I was thinking of The Path the other day so I know why it came to mind, but I still can't believe I made that switch, whoops.
So in theory what I want to do is: make a TSW account, run (I think I don't have to beat it now?) The Park and link my account for rewards, go back into TSW and redeem them, then I'm free to go into SWL?
Is there a known time limit on that? I'm not itching to dive in immediately, but I'll get that done ASAP if there is one.
His Majesty
Banned
Funcom mentioned something about August when they would stop with linking accounts.
So yeah first create your TSW account and get all your items on there and only then link up with SWL. All items you get on TSW after linking with SWL will not carry over.
So yeah first create your TSW account and get all your items on there and only then link up with SWL. All items you get on TSW after linking with SWL will not carry over.
I had few characters but I didnt log in in a while to tsw, when i wanted to it updated to legends but now i can only make 1 new character :| i linked the accounts
You should have 3 slots if you linked accounts, hm.
yeah got nothing
Nothing here as well. I've read somewhere the mails will be sent on July 1st? No idea if that's true tho.
His Majesty
Banned
In the ARG it said 'when the waxing moon crescents'.
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/moon-phases-calendar
which should be anywhere from the 26th of June to the 1st of July.
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/moon-phases-calendar
which should be anywhere from the 26th of June to the 1st of July.
ChemicalCutthroat
Member
It'll be good to get the Cabal back together, only to descend into bickering and whatnot while trying to run dungeons.
Ahhh... the good ole' days. Never run a guild, it's like herding antisocial cats on meth.
Ahhh... the good ole' days. Never run a guild, it's like herding antisocial cats on meth.
making some new chars to try out weapons, Made a punisher to try out Shotgun, and its fun... shotguns are always fun I guess. I dont care for Hammer tho. I dont like the grenade mechanic in rifle when I made a Merc (I had already kinda tried rifle on my warlock), guess Ill make a trickster to try out chaos. Now that I know chaos is more of a close combat thing, im thinking chaos / sword or something.
Really wish they didnt force the secondary weapons on you
Really wish they didnt force the secondary weapons on you
ChemicalCutthroat
Member
I haven't been able to dive into how the combat works now, but I plan on getting into it more tonight. But in the original Sword/Chaos had some great stuff, my brother's build was insane for that.
His Majesty
Banned
I'm running chaos/shotgun, works well for tanking and chaos has some good self-healing.
It seems to be:
Tank: Hammer, chaos, shotgun
Heal: Fists, blood, rifle
DPS: Pistol, blade, elemental
Only combat downside so far is that there are no more passive synergies from different weapon trees.
It seems to be:
Tank: Hammer, chaos, shotgun
Heal: Fists, blood, rifle
DPS: Pistol, blade, elemental
Only combat downside so far is that there are no more passive synergies from different weapon trees.
So it appears I'm playing Heal/Tank and things drop like flies regardless : P
Welp, that sounds ominous ¬_¬Wait for Blue Mountain
I hope my Blood/Chaos build stays solo-viable throughout. I really don't give a shit about the combat in this game, sorry. I don't like MMO combat in general, but TSW has that awesome setting, writing and questing.
His Majesty
Banned
I won't be making a GAF guild as I'm back in my TSW guild.
Feel free to add me in-game by the way, name is 'Astore'.
Feel free to add me in-game by the way, name is 'Astore'.
ChemicalCutthroat
Member
Wait for Blue Mountain
Yeah, that's accurate. Blue Mountain is where builds get tested.
I used to run a rolling crit Gunslinger with Pistols/Elem and could dish out some ludicrous damage when I got up to speed. The problem was I pulled aggro like a Trump Supporter. My brother tended to tank, so I might have pulled more aggro then necessary to make his life difficult.
It's my brother, don't judge me.
I'm looking forward to grinding through, even if it is just because of how much I miss Kingsmouth. Honestly the best zone I have ever dealt with in an MMO... everything is perfectly creepy.
but Kingsmouth is awful compared to Savage Coast?
Anyway, Chaos is cool but dmg seems quite low at first, seems like its very dependant on proccing the special effect, since there's a lot of passives and shit that make that chance higher. Hell my highest dps skill is by far...the gun skill from the secondary >_>
The problem is doing this fucking zone again tho, since my Warlock is like 22 in Savage Coast. Really wish you could respec :/
His Majesty
Banned
Just invest your AP/SP in a new skill tree? You can redo some missions if you need more XP. I don't recommend creating a new character.
Also Kingsmouth is a bit slow but that's partly why I love it so much. You are gradually introduced to various factions (Orochi, Morninglight, Phoenicians, Illuminati). It gets even better on second playthroughs when you start understanding all parts of the story.
Also Kingsmouth is a bit slow but that's partly why I love it so much. You are gradually introduced to various factions (Orochi, Morninglight, Phoenicians, Illuminati). It gets even better on second playthroughs when you start understanding all parts of the story.
Blue Mountain certainly USED to be where the game got hard/showed you how builds really worked. idk about now. But yeah Solomon island is the entire first 3 zones, Kingsmouth is easy rhak. The old TSW got extremely hard by the time you got to the last half of the questing experience in the game, like...Blue Mountain (third zone) would start making you realize you had to strongly consider how you used your skills and how they interacted with one another, mostly regarding status effects. Then Egypt 1 would be kind of similarly hard still, egypt 2 would be harder, and finally in the 3 transylvania zones you would start coming accross shit that really made you realize that this game wasn't fucking around and you would STRONGLY need to alter your builds depending on the types of mobs you were fighting.
But that was all TSW, SWL I have no idea how hard it gets, but the changes they've made SHOULD make it a little more forgiving in terms of being able to use any weapon fromw hat I can tell.
Also Chaos is fantastic, but I use my secondary all the time too, I find it exceptionally easy to run out of primary energy, and the secondary spenders do much more than primary non-spenders.
But that was all TSW, SWL I have no idea how hard it gets, but the changes they've made SHOULD make it a little more forgiving in terms of being able to use any weapon fromw hat I can tell.
Also Chaos is fantastic, but I use my secondary all the time too, I find it exceptionally easy to run out of primary energy, and the secondary spenders do much more than primary non-spenders.
His Majesty
Banned
god those Nightmare Zones in Transylvania kill me plz
also can't wait to go for the unseen achievement in The Cost of Magic, what a time to be alive
ChemicalCutthroat
Member
but Kingsmouth is awful compared to Savage Coast?
Anyway, Chaos is cool but dmg seems quite low at first, seems like its very dependant on proccing the special effect, since there's a lot of passives and shit that make that chance higher. Hell my highest dps skill is by far...the gun skill from the secondary >_>
The problem is doing this fucking zone again tho, since my Warlock is like 22 in Savage Coast. Really wish you could respec :/
I view Kingsmouth/Savage Coast/Blue Mountain as one big chunk of zones, and I love all of them. I love the zombies, the ghosts, the deep ones... all of it is just perfect New England fuckery of fog and seeping terror.
Upper-left menu -> Daily Deliveries or how it's called -> claim vanity items
ChemicalCutthroat
Member
From what I understand there is two different versions now. You have the original TSW, and then you have Legends.
The Original is done, and Legends will be updated and modified as the 'go to' game from now on. I just downloaded the launcher straight from their website rather than going through Steam.
I loaded up my Classic TSW character this morning to note down my skills from four years ago, and I was reminded of what a great set-up I had. Getting Critical Hits to cause Afflictions, which in turn upped my damage and Critical Hit rate. I only had two ranged combat skills because that was all I needed.
I havent tried them because, well, APs are in short supply early on, but looking at both the shotgun and the chao trees, it seems the coolest spells are in the fucking tank tier lol
edit: Are pistols the highest dps at early game or something? That skill you get as a secondary on the trickster does stupid damage, and its just one skill on a secondary
edit: Are pistols the highest dps at early game or something? That skill you get as a secondary on the trickster does stupid damage, and its just one skill on a secondary
HappyPuppy
Member
I tried to launch TSW to get some clothes and it's saying I need 47 gigs of free space to update ... wtf. Does that update include the new SWL? Updating from steam.
No idea. I can't get Steam to "switch" to Legends, but it also updated TSW and it still was the regular TSW and not Legends. Not installing Legends outside of Steam. Confusing...
Stiler
Member
No, but according to the arg it says it'll be sent by the waxing crescent moon, which is July 1st, so they'll probably send them around there.
His Majesty
Banned
I really hope Funcom will make adjustments to the current f2p model. Being restricted to 3 dungeons a day as a patron is complete bonkers. It feels like the current game is rewarding for short playing sessions only. Collect your daily login reward, do your daily missions (only way to gain MoF) and use your daily dungeon keys.
Also the RNG on dungeon keys and caches seems pretty bad.
Also the RNG on dungeon keys and caches seems pretty bad.
you dont make a new one, you just log in and in the account page select the transfer option
ChemicalCutthroat
Member
I did one and a half Polaris runs since I had leftover keys for the night before going to bed, all I got was Distilled stuff. Same with my brother and same with my wife, who are both Patrons and have more keys than I do.
The RNG system is bad, and the timers are rather brutal on rerunning missions for non-patrons. Part of the reason I didn't mind hanging out in Kingsmouth and helping my newbie friends when they joined in was because I could still pick up the missions and replay them with them, so unless I want to pony up that's not happening. It is tempting to be a Patron, if only for a little bit, but the rewards seem rather lackluster.
I think a Patron gets more credits, and more keys? That's it? I'll have to go look it up.
ChemicalCutthroat
Member
These daily login rewards and daily challenges is going to steal so much time, I hate it
SWL, TERA, BDO all do dailies :'/
Dailies really help for players who are at endgame. Less useful for a lot of the newbies, at least in most of the games. TSW's I had done in no time though, didn't take long at all.
Mithos
Member
I know TSW, maxed out 100% of all wheels there, hade tank/dps/healing gear all 10.4+
Thing is, free is good and I'm addicted when it comes to free stuff in mmo's I play ;p
ChemicalCutthroat
Member
Likewise, though I didn't have a full set of maxed out gear when I stopped. But it continues to be one of my favorite MMO's of all time. I just wish the proper faction gear switched over, not just the generic outfits. I liked my Gunslinger and my Mercenary Illuminati gear.