Just hit 5k with my human female. Can give advice with places to level up weapons, what to grind for lots of experience and keycodes etc.
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Just hit 5k with my human female. Can give advice with places to level up weapons, what to grind for lots of experience and keycodes etc.
I'm ego 1300 something and it's starting to feel like i'm not getting anywhere. What should i do now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dracontius
Gratz! (I think)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dracontius
Gratz... I just hit 1000 and it feels like i'm never going to get to 5k.
I'm like 4500 around and i think sieges are the best place for leveling weapons.
Well, safest at least ^^
Honestly as 1.3k, I sujest just working on your pursuits and mixing it up with your weapons when leveling. Remember when a weapon has maxed out, swap it out for a different one. You don't have to trash it if you like it but I recommend always using new weapons so you can level them up while you progress.Quote:
Originally Posted by phen0meenal
Sieges are crazy good weapon leveling for BMGs. Grab a stingray and chain damage up to 9 (10 with +1 link trait) and just go to town. Also you can switch it up and heal allies when low, you don't even have to see them to heal them, just be near and it will auto lock on them and chain it up for healing. When it runs out and you don't have another, swap to other gun then quickly swap back and it will be near full, if not fully charged back up and ready to go again. Also when the cap points are taken over with growth, any gun at the blisters will deal loads of damage to level them up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mladenov
Also healing at any major arkfalls is a great source of BMG leveling and a good grind for just basic xp and keycodes. You get full reward when you heal allies. Don't even have to be there long, 5 seconds of healing basically guarantees you max rewards from any and all major arkfalls.
Keep naturally playing. Maybe work towards your pursuits and/or weapon leveling.Quote:
Originally Posted by c4l1d3n
Have you ever try to use Ground Pounder at siege? You can MELT like 10 mobs in seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dracontius
Or may be FRC Matchlock Boomer.
I leveled mine at Big Stone Reach before sieges were in the game. But yet, ground pounder is great there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mladenov
Go outside, get some sun.
Best area that I found for single target weapons, Single shot AR, burst weapons, sniper, etc. Was when doing the Nim quest at Checkpoint Alpha.
I killed nim for my first time yesterday. I was at EGO 369. I feel like a boss! :) mostly because I heave heard a lot that he is super hard and you should be at EGO 1000 or something. he was relatively easy for me, and I was super low EGO. all that I used was the GL shotty and the defender BGM.
Find yourself a scrapper forge. Those guy's eye has an extreme crit multiplier.Quote:
Originally Posted by FlippyCake
How about ways to get decent gear? In the last 260-270 hours or so of gameplay the only thing I have to show for drop wise is a legendary bolter that had no element. I thought Diablo III and Borderlands II had terrible drop rates. This game is 1,000 times worse. I use a controller so in PvP it's already tough enough, not to mention with hex editing going around the way it is lately. But yeah, any tricks? No, I will not spend real money for lock boxes. I get plenty of them from doing arkfalls, sieges, etc. I switch up between 3's and 4's but it never makes a difference. I always get terrible greens and blues. Rarely even purples. If so, it's never close to decent. Yes, it's me from your friends list. Just found this thread actually, lol.
I have difficulty leveling weapon skills like SMG, Pump Shotguns, Infectors, Pistols, and of course BMGs.
Northstar Flare Pistol? Forget about it. I havent even fully maxed out a pistol yet. It's nice because it sets people on fire and works great with the Pumped Up perk, but its a B*tch to level.
from your avatar point look: are you looking for a life?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dracontius
EGO doesn't really make the game any easier, weapons barely scale from ego 1 to ego 5000 and the perks don't really add a massive amount, so really if you are good enough at the game you could most likely do it at ego level 1 if you could actually get there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xvyiin Belikrmaul
To be fair it's a much better situation as there's a much much much slimmer margin between best and worst items. I thought BL2 was fine on the drop front tbh, rare is rare, as it should be. Diablo 3 though....oh my :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Saizen
I don't worry too much about getting "decent" gear, it is what you make it - hell, I'm currently using a green fire VOT pulser most of the time as it's cheap to reset mastery and still chews through anything.
Just make sure you get an 8/12 mag mod and slap that in, incredibly easy to level. Pretty much any hit (especially on larger enemies) will be a nice juicy crit and damage = xp. And of course it's aoe. It's what I'm using on the Tremblers at Sieges, 3 or 4 shots and they're toast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whippersnapper
Ok, I'll test your knowledge. 5000 bolt action sniper rifle kills, how to get them? I'm a good shot, but still only at 600 or so. Seems like a real grind.
"Hotshot: Bolinas Sniper" helps a lot :)Quote:
Originally Posted by 3rdpig
Well, reason I use the flare is because of the Pumped Up perk & it DOTs w/o having to wait on the fire nade.
You cant use your perks while doing Bolinas though. When you can, go use cloak and the cloak damage buffs. That will increase your damage, and kills.
Dude...what's up Saizen. Been a bit since I actually played with ya. Normally I port to you so I can check your phase for arkfalls. But yeah man, for gear, you kind of just gotta keep trucking with lockboxes. Right now I think they are the only way to get legendaries even I've heard stories of people getting for vendors and/or arkfalls. I highly doubt b/c as for arkfalls, if I'm at one from the get go, I will be number one on the results. And sometimes I spend my whole gaming session grinding arkfalls. As for vendors.. I simply don't think so. Could be possible but I doubt it. All of my legendaries, besides one of my reparks, I don't even use b/c they're not my play style. I do have some rockets and detonators that are fun to mess around with or use with the right loot find perks at sieges. Now that I am 5k though and I've been saving up lots of scrip and ark salvage, sometime soon, I will be spending it all on keycodes and then into tier 4 lockboxes and mod caches.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saizen
Yes, grab the correct perks and run Bolinas Sniper. 55 kills per round with a semi auto sniper rifle that actually counts towards your bolt action kills. You couldn't ask for a faster way to grind these. But if you are truly looking for a way to not only grind kills but weapon leveling too, I recommend that nest and/or crash sight just northeast of Bug N' Chug. Lots of skitterlings that practically respawn faster than you can kill them. Just perch yourself on top of something where you are not in threat's reach of warriors.Quote:
Originally Posted by 3rdpig
I maxed sniper weapon and completed sniper from shadows 3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Linamaria
When asked, I always tell people not to take short cuts like Bolinas.
You eventually have to level the sniper to 20 and it will still take forever anyway. Why not do both at the same time?
My answer is: Sutro Tower for infinite DM spawn. You can OHKO with a bolt action as long as you are alone and you modded the sniper with critical damage and use the right perks (Hunter's stance). You also get a lot of white and greens (Just Rewards) as I believe DM have some of the highest drop chances in game. During the loot weekend, I sat down and started grind those kills. Ended up with almost half a million in scrip over two days (because I have a huge inventory and 6 clicks per salvage was just too much with all the loot.)
What's the point of completing all the pursuits and getting 5000 when you get your last perk slot at 4000
Oh, right....epeen, and a title to go with it
1. Ark Pedator suit. Reaching 4000 ego is the easy part of that pursuit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quickhatch
2. Higher ego opens are strange new properties on weapons/shields. Shield charges also scales to your EGO level. I think rhinos hit 2K only after 4500+ I of remember correctly.
3. After around 1600+ ego, items you find stops coming with four slots unlocked. You have to work your way up the mod slots again. You need to be 4500+ ego to consistently get all four mod slots already unlocked at pickup, or pay 120k+ ark salvage to unlock the slot.
4. See 3
5. Freaking see 3 again.
6. 3!
7. 333333333333!
8. 120K+ ark salvage is two T4 lockbox, in case you are not sure.
I hope is answers your question.
(PS: see reason 3 again)
Well to be quite honest. I still don't have every perk fully upgraded. I focused on pursuits rather than actual experience grinding so when I hit 5k, I still had three more perks to fully level. Actually kept me quite busy and not bored. Sure I didn't hit 5k as fast as some others but I did it in a way that I still had goals to complete along the way rather than simply grinding which in my opinion is boring. Setting goals and completing them really kept me busy all the time and on top of this, I was always helping members of my clan do whatever they needed to complete. I didn't care b/c it was just another way I could level up a weapon or get required kills needed or just shot the **** with friends.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quickhatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie69fHLyFxU
This is me running Sutro, so you get an idea of where to look for Dark Matter spawns. 4-6 Dark Matter troops spawn each generator you shut down. As long as you don't restart them all, they spawn infinitely.
Drac... Where was I for all the social contracts.. 15 clan mates in a pvp? ... lol... I think you hacked! :)
1. I don't care about outfits/titles, only functionalityQuote:
Originally Posted by Wtflag
2. I am only 3400 and I got a Rhino IV with 2020 capacity. Yes, I am aware that at a higher level there will most likely be resistance/bonus upgrades on shields of this level (mine is just the basic).
3. I only mod the very good weapons, particularly the ones I use in PVP, and ark salvage is not so hard to get. I also don't buy many weapon lockboxes because usually garbage comes out. If I was going to get boxes, I would get tier 3 since the chances of a legendary are only slightly less. Per keycode, the output is better. The drop rate of the legendaries is way too low either way considering that there are so many different types of weapons. There's a much better chance of getting an epic that suits your needs.
In summation, you have a valid point. I am not questioning the perks of level 5000, but simply stating that if it requires spending frustrating hours completing pursuits that I don't care about (in particular, the racing challenges), then I'll be okay with hanging at level 4000. Or as high as I can get without completing certain pursuits.
@Quickhatch. Actually for number two, I'm referring to rare properties I have never seen on a lower ego shields and weapons before. It could be that they are super rare and I just didn't get them earlier, but I do think ego level unlocks some of them. A couple of examples off my head:
Shield: 15% Genade recharge on shield break
Shield: +5% critical damage on shield break
Weapon: -50% health charges for 5 second after kill (ie healing takes less charges)
Weapon: 45% run speed for 3 seconds after kill
Weapon: 8% more damage (for x seconds? Can't see the full text) after kill
Weapon: 10% HP recover on reload (don't need to be full reload!)
@Dracoutius. Sorry about hijacking your thread all over the place. I have a valid question for you.
Do you save pursuits? We know 5000 is the cap. Do you expect DLCs to raise that cap and hold off completing certain pursuits once you hit exactly 5000? For all we know once the level cap is raised, you could automatically become 5030 or whatever the excess is. But it could also simply eat up the excess and while you can still hit the new cap with new pursuits, you have to take longer and may be forced to do the more annoying pursuits.
Didn't read whole thread so I apologize if this was asked. I thought in order to reach EGO 5k you have to do all pursuits/car/weapon leveling no?
Since EGO goes really nothing for us it makes no sense rush to the max. The game has gotten very stale and repetitive with no real re-playability. There are so many bugs and instabilities in this game I don't see it lasting.
Oh you troll. Enjoying your Officer rank now? And we can easily run another clan event to make this a thing for all clan members. We did so a very long time ago when the clan only had about 50 members or so. Should be no problem to do it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by SirParadox
You'll still make it to 5000. There are enough pursuits that you wont even notice that you're completing that will get you there. It's not a big deal unless you're a completionist as I am. I still log on that toon for the dailies so I can get enough rep for the titles to buy from the faction vendors. I still need the Van Boch one and Echelon vendor titles. So I run the dailies on that toon and then low and behold, I am already working on my other toon (actually my main funny enough).Quote:
Originally Posted by Quickhatch
I have completed every single pursuit as well as got all weapon skills to 20. Technically if 5k wasn't the cap'd out EGO, I'd be sitting at around 5070-5090 most likely. I'd assume that if they ever did raise the cap on EGO, that I would get it automatically. If this isn't the case, I'll open up a live chat with customer service and have it done for me. They've been so helpful with all my previous grievances that I am sure they will be more than happy and capable to "make it so" (boom star trek).Quote:
Originally Posted by Wtflag
Another quick tip for players who like to run major arkfalls and might not be getting full rewards when it's completed. The fastest way to get full reward is to use BMGs for healing other players or revive an ally. This is perfect for those situations where you see 3 or 4 major arkfalls on the map and you're worried you wont make it to them all in time and if you do, you don't get full rewards. Simply port to ones that are either the close to be finished or ones that go by quickly (i.e. scrapper and ones with immature hellion or matron). Go to them, heal someone else real quick or revive an ally that is down, then go to the next major arkfall.
Quick note that the arkfalls do NOT have to be in the final phase for this to work. One could literally just started and you healed someone or revived and then you moved onto the next one. Your rewards so far unless changed in upcoming patches will not get reduced like they would if you were to use normal means of completing the arkfall (i.e. destroying crystals and/or waves of enemies).
Another quick note, if you leave your world phase to port to a friend that happens to be in a different world phase, you lose all reward from that current world phase. To check if your friend, group leader or clan mate is in a different world phase, open up your social menu page and check your friends list. If they have an icon that is green and with a checkmark through it, they are in your current world phase. If the icon is red and has a X through it, this player is currently in a different world phase. This comes in handy when you're grind arkfalls for experience and keycodes. Simply clear your world map and then check your friends list and port to a friend then hunt more arkfalls.
Hope this helps out. I have more hints and tips if needed. Just ask away.
frist of all reach ego 5k doesnt mean ur good... that means u got not real life XD and second when they raise the level cap u will be automatically ego rating 508X if u complete all pursuits and all stuff.... u will get it when the level cap raise... i know this from tech support.
Al, you know I love you man but ya gotta learn to spell sometime. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by AlKpOne
For those who have looked at their profile on Defiance.com and seen what their EGO shows, mine is currently 5081 so if they ever do raise it, yes it will already be at that EGO by default. Being 5k EGO doesn't mean someone has no life. I mean the game has been out now for 3-4 months. I know a few people who were stuck just a few hundred shy of 5k EGO within the first few weeks. Those are the people who have no lives. Reaching 5k in 3-4 months just means I've had a little more time to play this game than others. And on top of that, most still don't play with goals in mind like completing pursuits and challenges. They simply log on for a few hours and do their thing then log off and play something else or watch tv etc.
I'm not even trying to level as far as my total EGO rating goes. My only point of struggle right now is raising BMGs. **** me are they .. not even hard to level just mind numbingly boring. Stand around BZZZZZZZZZing for hours to not even get half a level.
Heal allies during Major Arkfalls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shada Mori
As far as BMG leveling goes, I believe the secondary links do not add to your exp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shada Mori
The test is simple. I have tried to level up both via SQ hulker and Big Stone Reach.
In all theory, hitting x10 skitterlings should level me a lot faster than a hulker which is x3 (when hitting the face).
That is NOT the case.
Therefore stingrays are terrible at this despite how fun they are in sieges. Tele-spanner and plain old VOT spanner with -0.06 damage charge is probably best for the job.