I almost always promote all characters at once. I just find it is something that keeps me playing all classes rather than just a few. Not efficient, or probably smart but that's Beerfish for you.
I wish I had the patience to do this, but I'm in love with crit chance. Keep telling myself I'll stop at 100 Cunning to chase some Constitution, but we'll see.
Not efficient, or probably smart but that's Beerfish for you.
Canadians...Martin Sparks does the same thing. "shakes head"
Canadians...Martin Sparks does the same thing. "shakes head"
I like playing with Martin, a good egg and obviously smart in his promotions strat as well!
I almost always promote all characters at once. I just find it is something that keeps me playing all classes rather than just a few. Not efficient, or probably smart but that's Beerfish for you.
I'd love to write something here if matchmaking would actually work
You didn't see the new feature in the options in the lobby? 'Whole world', 'Region locked', 'Anyone but the British'. Thanks BioWare!
So~ Yesterday I promoted my Keeper and then decided to play with my Lego. Not knowing where I should go, I pick Routine/Random and end up in a Lobby at FC/Inferno Dragon. I enter right into the Dragon fight, just to see how the Dragon goes down. That was short-lived.... I even got a "killed 31 enemies" achievement, even tho I didn't kill a single enemy. 
Later I enter another Routine/FC lobby, but this time I end up somewhere in Zone 2-3, just in time to protect the Inquisition Captain from a horde of demons. We make it to the dragon and beat it without problem. I stay with this party and hear them talk about going to perilous to train their charas (one switches to his Lvl 18 AW the other to his Lvl 15 Alchemist). Perilous? Omg! 
Not with my Lvl 10 Lego! So I switch to my Lvl 20 ZITHER! and off we go. I die in Zone 1 and so does the Lvl 15 Alchemist. The AW fights for some time alone, until another AW joins and they clear the Zone and resurrect us by entering the next zone. We all make it somehow to the bridge, where I'm again the first to die. The Alchemist soon follows and we watch the two AWs kill everything from the Fade. Some time later they die too.
We try again, this time the Alchemist switches to his Lvl 13 AW and the AW who joined switches to his Avvar. we actually make it to the Dragon. Again, I die and have to watch from the Fade. The Lvl 13 AW follows soon and the other AW and the Avvar beat the Dragon. I would've stayed and played another game, but it was getting late and I was tired, so I went to bed.
I never felt this useless before, when playing Virtuoso. 
All I could do to not to die was spamming barrier non-stop.
I never felt this useless before, when playing Virtuoso.
A little more practice using walls and doorways to stay out of Line of Sight could help you out a lot, especially since Zither! can barrier, buff, and AoE damage through walls. Also, AW/AW/alchemist can be a hard group to survive with starting out as Virtuoso because the AWs can facetank groups in a way that you can't and if you stay near the Alchemist instead you can suddenly find yourself facing an entire group of enemies alone when she stealths.
At least you're trying perilous, that's great 
I spent WAY too long in threatening before moving up and wish I'd tried perilous sooner.
Wanna know how to make game last about 45 minutes? Just leave fire dragon to two Keepers. This was the most insane game I´ve ever had, hands down.
I have fire staff with only static cage and frost step as offensive spells and she was stronger by the death of two team mates. We couldn´t dish enough damage to make her do her usual cycle. She wasn´t even leaving for towers. She just kept putting up guard and once we took it down, she left, made short flight around and landed again, put up guard again, etc. Then dragonglings appeared along with her, it was all in all glorious!
AND WE WON!
Virtual hug to my fellow Keeper for great work and persistance. It was great!!! 
Also hug to our dead players who actually stayed the whole time(I think they probably left for coffee or short movie even)
A little more practice using walls and doorways to stay out of Line of Sight could help you out a lot, especially since Zither! can barrier, buff, and AoE damage through walls. Also, AW/AW/alchemist can be a hard group to survive with starting out as Virtuoso because the AWs can facetank groups in a way that you can't and if you stay near the Alchemist instead you can suddenly find yourself facing an entire group of enemies alone when she stealths.
At least you're trying perilous, that's great
I'll try that the next time.
Yeah, I noticed that, especially when I tried to give the Alchemist some guard. 
True I...don't even play that much threatening, mostly only when I play with Gya 
I think atm the only ones I could send there (Perilous), would be my Lvl 15 Archer or my Zither!, but I'm also thinking about promoting Zither!. Decisions. 
The last game I was able to force myself to play today crashed...and not to a lesser extent. More of a "hard reset the computer before DA:I consumes it" kind of extent. It's like the game wants to crash but my PC throws everything it has into preventing it. No other game does this.
Guess I'll be promoting Isabela tomorrow, after taking my Alchemist for another stroll through Routine for the most difficult dragon challenge.
The last game I was able to force myself to play today crashed...and not to a lesser extent. More of a "hard reset the computer before DA:I consumes it" kind of extent. It's like the game wants to crash but my PC throws everything it has into preventing it. No other game does this.
Guess I'll be promoting Isabela tomorrow, after taking my Alchemist for another stroll through Routine for the most difficult dragon challenge.
Wanna know how to make game last about 45 minutes? Just leave fire dragon to two Keepers. This was the most insane game I´ve ever had, hands down.
I have fire staff with only static cage and frost step as offensive spells and she was stronger by the death of two team mates. We couldn´t dish enough damage to make her do her usual cycle. She wasn´t even leaving for towers. She just kept putting up guard and once we took it down, she left, made short flight around and landed again, put up guard again, etc. Then dragonglings appeared along with her, it was all in all glorious!
AND WE WON!
Virtual hug to my fellow Keeper for great work and persistance. It was great!!!
Also hug to our dead players who actually stayed the whole time(I think they probably left for coffee or short movie even)
Yeah, that was fairly... intense. I was sort of kicking myself for not having noticed we were set for the fire dragon, would have picked a different staff then. Was using the Dragon staff. Good game, but damn that fire resistance. Pretty sure my main source of damage there was Fade Cloak.
On the plus side, I *think* that was the run that finally landed me a dragon greatsword. Totally worth it.
I was gonna message you for some perilous games, but I needed to level up some characters. Not that it makes a difference. Carry me to glory, minions! (I feel like Xerxes in 300)
I try to get couple of promotions per day, so it's safe to assume I'll be around. Fair warning though, Alchemist and Duelist are my current obsessions and I like love explosions. Almost as much as I love overestimating my own survivability.
Guess I'll be promoting Isabela tomorrow, after taking my Alchemist for another stroll through Routine for the most difficult dragon challenge.
The true difficulty being how not to fall asleep during it. 
I had some excellent pugs in the morning. There was this guy in the team that I often meet and he plays a kicka** Lego on Perilous. I tried to remember his name but the goldfish memory strikes again.
Yeah, that was fairly... intense. I was sort of kicking myself for not having noticed we were set for the fire dragon, would have picked a different staff then. Was using the Dragon staff. Good game, but damn that fire resistance. Pretty sure my main source of damage there was Fade Cloak.
On the plus side, I *think* that was the run that finally landed me a dragon greatsword. Totally worth it.
Oh my, you are really here! I thought the name was familiar.
I was like "what the hell are we gonna do?!" the first ten minutes when she was constantly guarding and we were unable to do any damage and then I was just laughing. It was absurd really, because everyone could finish two games in the time we took to kill one dragon. But it was matter of pride at that point.
Dat xp though 
Yesterday I decided to try out my Ele and went to Routine/Random.
I ended in an already running game in the Elven Ruins with a Keeper and a Zither. The Venatori die with combined mage power in no time~.
I stay for another game, the Zither changes to Alchemist the Zither leaves and an Alchemist joins, loading screen aaand CTD 
I'm able to get back into the running game, didn't even miss much, because the Keeper & Alchemist are still in Zone 1. I die once in the final fight in Zone 5 from an arrow, but I get soon resurrected by the Keeper and then we proceed in roasting Templars.
I love my Ele~ 
Yesterday I got through 3 FC dragon matches in a row with the same group in a PuG. No crashes, no drop outs. I was completely shocked. It was a lot of fun.
Final run of the night, join a Perilous FC with my ELE in progress with just one player on their Duelist. Duo'd for a bit with him killing and me putting up barrier and laying down firestorm. Archer eventually joins up, same archer that called me a dumb*** on a previous threatening round. So I figured, okay lets see if he can back up all that talk. Wasn't a good round for that guy, not at all.
Yesterday I got through 3 FC dragon matches in a row with the same group in a PuG. No crashes, no drop outs. I was completely shocked. It was a lot of fun.
tried a game.
got my archer equipment just right and hit 5k longshots.
then lost connecton
I was playing with a guy that was 100% positive that BioWare was nerfing characters and making enemies harder without telling us. He thought they were lowering all characters damage and max stamina and mana. He was certain that archers had mage skills and could shoot fire mine arrows. He was convinced they had made threatening as hard as Perilous. It was great 10/10 best PuG
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