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Anthem |OT| GaaS Effect
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Any advice on an Interceptor build? Taking a break from Colossus but I'm kind of all over the place gear wise.
To be honest, I've never really paid attention. I'll look into it, thanks!
Weapons wise, I use the Thunderbolt of Yvenia, to do electrical damage and shred shields. Supplement that with Conductive Lattice component (or whatever the epic version is called, that increases electrical damage). Currently, my other weapon is a sniper rifle - Siege Breaker, that freezes targets after three consecutive hits from the rifle. Currently only using it, as it's a legendary. I'll swap it out for a legendary Elemental Rage (if I ever get one lol).
If you only have epic components, or not a full set of mw yet, go for epic melee, epic armor, epic shields, blade inscription, and maybe ultimate inscription.
If you have mw, go for Talisman of Power, Way of the Bold, Way of the Swift, and any other decent mw.
If you want a glass cannon (I.e pure dps), try to equip/roll melee damage bonus stats.
For survivability, equip/roll armor and/or shields.
For great all round, aim for a mix of the above + gear speed.
For gear, assault system: I use Absolute Zero (cryo glaive), although I know people recommend Serpent's Veil (venom bomb). For Strike system: use Sudden Death (Tempest Strike), or plasma star if you want a ranged attack.
Conductive Lattice, (and the epic version), enhances your melee with an electrical explosion (upon a three hit streak).
Absolute Zero (and cryo glaive) freeze supposedly lock on and freeze five targets (although mine has never frozen more than one, and doesn't always lock on lol). It's also a primer.
Sudden Death (and Tempest Strike) is a detonator, and your melee is a detonator too.
Int has to always stay on the move, so keep dashing or jumping or flying.
Best approach for me is to throw in Absolute Zero (cryo glaive), and then jump in with either Sudden Death (Tempest Strike) or straight melee.
You also have a passive ability called an aura, that transfers any status effects on to another target, once you melee the affected target. E.g. melee frozen target, and then melee another target and it will also freeze (unless it has shields).
Mw components mentioned above:
Way of the Bold: increases aura combo and also restores 20% armor after you defeat an enemy with melee.
Way of the Swift: increases assault system damage by 5%, and any LB hit increases RB damage by 50% for five seconds.
Conductive Lattice: increases electricity damage and electricity resistance, and increases gear cool down speed, and a three hit melee streak detonates an electric explosion.
Talisman of power: increases strike system damage by 10%, and any RB hit increases LB damage by 50% for five seconds.
Btw, be wary of the Vengeance Matrix component, its worded funny, as the wording says that it increases all damage by 50% and reduces damage taken by -25%. According to a dev on reddit, it decreases damage resistance by 25%.
Last two slots are for whatever you have.
Assault system: Absolute Zero apparently locks onto five targets and freezes them, and hitting an enemy from above detonates an ice explosion.
Strike system: Sudden Death, hitting an enemy detonates a fire explosion.
Or for ranged:
Plasma star is a throwing star that "melts through armor".
Support system: go for Target Beacon; it locks onto a target and reduces their resistances by 33%. If that enemy is defeated, the effect jumps to another enemy.
For consumables, I go for the gear sigil (speeds up gear recharge speed) , armor sigil, and melee sigil.
Oh yeah, Int also has triple jump and triple dash.
I think that pretty much covers everything lol. All the descriptions are 99% word for word for the description on the items.
Btw, logged 129 hours, over 120 of which are on Int, and I was maining gm1, before it was nerfed. Currently sitting with a 704 mw int javelin.
Let me know if you want to know anything else!
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Awesome! Thanks for the help. I've been using the vengeance matrix (the epic version) so I will have to get rid of that. I have a MW version of all three guns you mentioned so I will play around with those. Components and abilities are my lacking areas so I look out for what you listed. Thanks again!
If you don't think Vengeance Matrix is affecting your survivability, then maybe stick with it. See how you feel.
Btw, imo, don't get rid of mw components, if you don't have to, or decent epics. You never know what combo you'll want, and you can stack a mw component, with an epic version of the same.
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Yeah, you can use epic versions of equipped MW components.
Of course, it's hard to know what exactly is happening without a damned Stat page.
Of course, it's hard to know what exactly is happening without a damned Stat page.
Anyone know why my assault launcher pulse blast does two times more damage by itself than when I use it as a denitator in a combo strike for half the damage. This is even with a component that allows my combo strikes to have 50% more damage when I do a combo. Not sure what's happening.
Don't you just love it when the way loot drops makes it look like you've got a yellow, but it's just a blue in front of an orange or something...
Raneri's Charge (Spark Dash mw). Recharges spark dash.
Cariff's Talon (Detonating Strike mw). Instantly restores 35% health on kill. Does not affect Shields though so i'm stacking armor instead.
Conductive Lattice - Electric explosion on 3 melee hits. Also boost Electric Resistances and Electric damage.
Talisman of Power - Any E hit increases Q damage by 50% for 5 seconds.
Way of the Swift - Any Q hit increases E damage by 50% for 5 seconds.
Way of the bold - Defeating enemy with a melee hit restores 20% Armor.
Way of integration - Gear hit streaks increases all damage by 30% for five seconds. Also boosts Acid resistances and Acid damage.
Way of Resolve - Dashing increases melee damage by 40% for 10 seconds.
I currently am missing Way of Resolve and am using a Legendary Vengeance Matrix instead.
For weapons i'm biased towards Machine pistols and shotties.
Vassa's Surprise - On a melee hit, gain 25% ammo in the magazine. (Hailstorm)
Rolling Carnage - Dashing increases this weapon's damage by 50% for 20 seconds. Stacks to 3. (Vengeance)
Papa pump is also great.
Divine Vengeance should also be good.
Ralner's Blaze too maybe.
Unending Battle is good as well.
I almost never use my weapons though. Constantly spark dashing from target to target. Gotta go fast!
Stack Purple Armor, Purple Shield and Green Armor for consumables just cause dps is already high enough so survivability is nicer.
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Oh and with a battle cry or rally cry or whatever it's called. The status clearing one, but i've been tempted to switch to the dps one... but clearing status effects is just so good.
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Oh, i just copied info from a site cause i can't remember everything, Thanks for the correction!
Also i posted in the performance thread but perhaps this is more active and was wondering if there's any way to get 85% resolution scale to stick after restart? Read-only ini file doesn't work.
Fire up the game for first time since last Friday.
Hard crash...
Sok probably had to fix some server side handshake stuff. Try again
Connection problem, loading screen, reset, press x, loading screen, reset, Anthem servers are down, connecting to online services, loading screen, reset, Anthem is currently unavailable, connecting...
Welp. I honestly forgot how bad just getting the game to start was. Cya next month I guess.
Hard crash...
Sok probably had to fix some server side handshake stuff. Try again
Connection problem, loading screen, reset, press x, loading screen, reset, Anthem servers are down, connecting to online services, loading screen, reset, Anthem is currently unavailable, connecting...
Welp. I honestly forgot how bad just getting the game to start was. Cya next month I guess.
Yesterday and today I had some weird connection/session issues.
I was running GM2 Freeplay and hit my loot limit. As I was losing back to base, the game crashed. I figured my items would arrive later and so I do a GM2 QP mission. Got some great drops but, what the, it's acting like my loot is still full...from Freeplay??
Well, we beat the mission but I die RIGHT at the end and it respawns me...back into the mission, without a team, with all enemies back. And all the drops still uncollected, INCLUDING a legendary.
Still haven't received that legendary. Got all the loot from the Freeplay session, but the QP mission loot was lost :(
Did Bioware "fix" another loot bug? I"m running my legendary contracts on GM2 today and the drops feel pre-patch again.
As any of you been successful requesting a refund from EA?
I am currently in a battle to get this refunded (EA Wallet) seeing the game is broken, however they are not budging.
The biggest issue i have is that the game is not even 30 days old and as its currently broken i am "entitled" to a refund under EU law.
EA seems to think that because they are a US company, their refund policy supersedes EU government regulations and as such they will not do anything.
Surely what they are doing is illegal?
I am currently in a battle to get this refunded (EA Wallet) seeing the game is broken, however they are not budging.
The biggest issue i have is that the game is not even 30 days old and as its currently broken i am "entitled" to a refund under EU law.
EA seems to think that because they are a US company, their refund policy supersedes EU government regulations and as such they will not do anything.
Surely what they are doing is illegal?
Combo Master Ranger Build:
Tip of the Spear and Rejuvenating Ammo makes me pretty much unkillable on GM2.
Tip of the Spear and Rejuvenating Ammo makes me pretty much unkillable on GM2.
not a single legendary today. my god.
doesnt help that i have killed like 20 bosses today.
MWs have been raining though.
doesnt help that i have killed like 20 bosses today.
MWs have been raining though.
Got a Legendary drop from a normal Scar while solo farming a dungeon in GM2. Don't think that's ever happened before. Also, I got a bunch of MWs so far.
yeah, legendaries can drop from anything. got one to drop from a GM3 contract (regular) last night without me killing a single thing. they just dropped it while spawning an enemy. i am pretty sure the loot in this game is bugged right now.
GM2. Spent an hour on GM3 playing a legendary contract. no legendaries. only two MWs. One from finishing it.
Then on GM2, did a legendary contract that had SIX drops during the mission and another guaranteed upon finishing it. completed three strikes from start to finish and killed like five bosses. luck ranged from 65-90.
must have gotten over 40 MWs today without getting a legendary.
BW says matchmaking into in-progress matches (when launching a Stronghold, not QP Stronghold) is bugged and shouldn't be happening: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheG...e_change_if_i_wanted_to_join_stronghold_half/
Makes sense, I didn't matchmake into nearly as many in-progress Strongholds prior to this past week. Sounds like the Stronghold options will separate new vs in-progress sessions.
Makes sense, I didn't matchmake into nearly as many in-progress Strongholds prior to this past week. Sounds like the Stronghold options will separate new vs in-progress sessions.
Gave it a God's honest hour later tonight, same exact thing. Spent about 6 minutes in a game, then kicked back to loading screen and reset loop that won't end.
Fuck this.
Add me on Origin: TheEarvinMagic
I'll help ya out with missions, then we can grind out GM1/GM2 when you get there! Anyone here can add me as well, hit me up any time I'm on for some sessions.
I don't think so.
But, since universal MW have been introduced, keep an eye on that. The javelin specific components do a lot for your shields and armor.
Stilly lousy loot luck for me. Ran the three legendary contracts on GM2 and got 6 MWs (counting the 3 guaranteed) and no legendaries.
I've had the best luck with GM2 dungeons. Just run through the various dungeons on the map + World Events mixed in. It's the best way to farm right now with Heart of Rage busted through matchmaking.
I got 4, counting the 3 guaranteed, all components I already had.
I'm done. I've heard nothing but praise for the division 2, so I'm moving to that.
Bosses don't drop legendaries, that's why people bail on SHs. Well, it's one of the reasons.
They're going to fix that real soon. The developers acknowledged the HoR issue and are looking into it, as well as adding Legendary drops to the boss loot table to keep people playing.
Yeah, I haven't had any luck with the contracts. Got about 9 MW earlier today running them but that's it. I got my legendaries last night on World Events and QP mission.
Given how much downtime you have between strongholds and contracts, running dungeons and events might be best for farming.
12 MW in 2.5 hours of GM2 Freeplay. World Events and Dungeons. No legendaries so far, though.
12 MW in 2.5 hours of GM2 Freeplay. World Events and Dungeons. No legendaries so far, though.
Yeah I moved there and the game is very rewarding. It appreciates your time and work :)
Wish you could launch a mission again after finishing one instead of having to go back to town/forge. Would speed things up considerably.
Still enjoying the core combat loop but the repetition is getting to me a bit. I must admit, i seemed to get some more varied missions but silencing relics is just damn boring/can be super hard on GM+. I am happy that BW keep trying to fix stuff but we need that content.
