Gladiator

[plue]

Anyone wish your shield would just stay active full time, I was gonna level GLD, but was put off by the prospect of having to manually Guard all the time.

[OWS_Tonx]

>_> Yeah. Hate that shit, but it makes the job that much more fun to me. I have to actually pay attention and think about shit. We need a timestamp for abilities already, lol.

[Darkhavans]

>_> Yeah. Hate that shit, but it makes the job that much more fun to me. I have to actually pay attention and think about shit. We need a timestamp for abilities already, lol.

Yeah, let's not make this game fucking easy mode like most other MMOs out there now. It is somewhat frustrating with the lag that I seem to get with the stamina system though.

[Ruin]

Ive reached level 20, now I can do a quest at the gladiator guild?

How hard is it and what is the reward?

[Lyramion]

Guildmarks and should be rather easy

[avelle]

Anyone wish your shield would just stay active full time, I was gonna level GLD, but was put off by the prospect of having to manually Guard all the time.

I kinda wish shield skill was just a random proc like most other MMO's but I guess this adds more to do. It really doesn't take much skill or thought to put guard up every time it goes down though, so not sure what the design decision was there. It's not particularly fun or engaging, it's just repetitive. Not to mention how slow shield levels up...

[BerenTebogo]

Anyone figure out the difference between blocking and wield rate stat?

[Darkhavans]

Anyone figure out the difference between blocking and wield rate stat?

Maybe blocking has something to do with average damaged blocked, and wield rate is the chance of blocking? I really have no fucking clue, that's just my guess. I definitely want to figure this out as well though.

[solracht]

I was under the impression that Blocking was the chance to block when the shield is up, that Wield Rate was related to the time the shield stays up after using Guard, and that blocked damage was just calculated by adding the shield's defense to your defense.

Don't quote me later though.

[Darkhavans]

I was under the impression that Blocking was the chance to block when the shield is up, that Wield Rate was related to the time the shield stays up after using Guard, and that blocked damage was just calculated by adding the shield's defense to your defense.

Don't quote me later though.

That's an interesting thought, could be it. It would be pretty easy to test if you can get two shields with significantly different wield rates.

[Ruin]

Guildmarks and should be rather easy

what you mean rather easy, I dont wanna fail it and miss out on the guild marks, or is repeatable until u win? I cant find any info on the quest

[miokomioko]

I'm almost certain you can repeat any quest you fail. 20,000gil + 2,000 guild marks

[Lyramion]

Yes you can repeat it on fail and by easy I mean - easy as soloing 1 Star Leves. SE designed this for you to do SOLO and they designed it for you to do it at the level it gets avaiable.

[BerenTebogo]

Just PM'd this to Lyra but I'll post here too since I play too infrequently to really contribute with any speed - help me out with this theory if you can Gladiators:

Also have lv11 Bronze gladius instead of the lv9 bronze dagger since I'm working on a theory about damage type + attack type + how fast your gear gets damaged. I'll let you know if it yields any results but if you wanna help me test since I'm ultra casual right now it goes as follows:

Bronze Dagger GLA 9 Piercing 80% Slashing 20%
GLA main attack = light slash -> deals slashing damage

Weathered Gladius R1->R9 60% slashing 40% piercing
Light slash only -> R1 -> R9 no need for repairs

B Dagger using light slash -> R9 -> R15 repair 7 times (below 50%)

B Gladius R15 (just bought last night, no testing) slashing 60% piercing 40%
Hopefully I'll need to repair far less using slashing affinity with slashing weapon

Helpful ways of testing would be to count number of battles from 75% to 50% with Bdagger using light slash -> repair -> count battles from 75% to 50% using light thrust

Anything like that could help put together a better picture of efficiency since our class has different weapon types and not a lot is known about the game yet.

[plue]

Yes you can repeat it on fail and by easy I mean - easy as soloing 1 Star Leves. SE designed this for you to do SOLO and they designed it for you to do it at the level it gets avaiable.

This is one thing that frustrates me. The quests and missions in this game are so easy it's stupid, how about some group work or challenge?

[Lyramion]

5 Star some leves for "challenge" aka rape.

[plue]

So I was thinking of picking up GLD again since there seems to be a shortage of tanks sometimes. Any advice as to which sub-classes to use? I was thinking Conj for Cure, Thaum for Stygian Spikes, and Maraud for Defender. Am I missing anything?

[BerenTebogo]

I've yet to ever actually use defender because there seems to be a very delicate balance between holding hate and dealing damage. If you can't put up the numbers you're kinda fucked.

Edit: It's especially iffy for soloing too

[Ruin]

How do you know where to find leves that give GLA guild marks?

Can you only find 1 per 36hrs?

[plue]

How do you know where to find leves that give GLA guild marks?

Can you only find 1 per 36hrs?

Marks are just a random reward from level +20 leves. Just run around the cities and check what rewards they offer, at least that's what I do on my Archer.