Head over to Caledor Forest – Caledon Heaven Waypoint. Walk to location as shown below, grab the boulder and throw at the hong. It opens the cave full of lowbie Hylek veterans.
I do form 4+1 groups frequently and always write down clear requirements for every person who may consider joining. We expect you to link gear and explain your build. This is a normal procedure to ensure that nobody is wasting each other’s time. We do not intend to discriminate players on class/build, this is just our way of playing. We are not forcing you, do not force us.
There are hundreds of groups available to run CoF a ‘normal’ way at any given time.
Stag cultural set sure looks memorable on a norn character, but in the end it is just another armor set.
From min-maxing standpoint if you would ever consider dropping Signet Mastery (+20% signet recharge speed, 10 pts in Radiance trait) for a superior Altruistic Healing + Master of Consecrations Fractals/Arah 0/0/30/30/10 build (for example) Prayer to Dwayna (human racial healing) is the only viable alternative.
Reaper of Grenth (human racial elite) is very helpful against Simin, High Priestess of Dwayna in Seer’s path (Arah, P4) which is considered one of the hardest/buggiest boss currently in game.
Also, majority of armor sets look just amazing on human (Orrian, Inquest, Nightmare), movement is smooth, running speed doesn’t feel like it was intentionally slowed down.
I’ve managed to complete it few hours ago. Tactic is rather simple:
1. Go through a portal.
2. Run across a bridge, then jump onto the rock ledge on the right.
3. Wait for first patrol to run by, then rush the golem.
4. Burst down the golem while ignoring all adds/patrols.
5. Wipe.
6. Get back on a ledge and wait for patrol to run by.
7. Rush barriers.
8. Pull Asura boss to the gate behind him and kill him.
Watching people like Jezath white knighting developers for spending more time on bugs/workarounds/exploits that do not benefit anyone in any way but time spent, while leaving serious flaws, amazes me. Probably i should also get reported for spending over an hour kiting Champion to Pact location in order to unbug Temple of Balthazar chain of events? Due to life commitments i have a very limited time to play this game hence saving a little bit of it for something i enjoy doing is completely reasonable. And i DO NOT enjoy fighting my way through dredge fractal at all. That place is a long, daunting, mind-numbing & uninteresting waste of time.
I’m always the one who asks party members when group forms up if everyone is ok with skipping certain sequences and most of the time i have zero disagreements. However, when it happens, it is just a matter of 2 seconds: kick and move on.
Just wanted to give my thanks to the contributors of this topic!!
I made TWILIGHT on Aurora Glade (EU) so special thanks to Morpurgo.6371
But my thanks goes to all of you who keeps us all updatekittenep up the good work!!
P.S Copy/pasted from Horheristo.3607 Cause it was a great post and i would not be able to word it better.
Huge congratulations to you. Temple is still uncontested as i type.
You’re probably missing the underwater cave northeast from Cathedral of Verdance in The Cursed Shore.
Either jump in the water northeast from the exotic karma vendor and continue swimming in that direction on the bottom of the lake/river until you swim under a white coral into the cave entrance, or just follow the story quests.
As a freshman 80 with several maxed disciplines, i’m in a process of determining what type of starter exotic gear is best bang for the buck. Here’s a small comparison Spreadsheet for crafted armor/trinkets i was working on today.
And you know, items with compassion seems to fail miserably.
That extra 615 healing power equals:
1. Virtue of Resolve (passive) +36.9
2. Virtue of Resolve (active) +461.2
3. Altruistic Healing +6.15
4. Pure of Heart +61.5
5. Writ of the Merciful +46.1
6. Regeneration +76.8
7. Selfless Daring +615 (1:1 scaling is good)
8. Orb of Light +246
9. Faithful Strike (3rd mace hit) +110
10. Monk’s Focus +61.5
11. Battle Presence +36.9
In exchange of 4640 hit points/33% critical demage (Valkyrie/Beryl) or 91 toughness/10% crit chance/2400 hit points (Knight’s/Beryl) you get +36.9 to VoR tick. Seriously ? Of course healing is way more complex then that but from my experience all that matters in places like Crucible of Eternity is an ability to sustain that insane Inquest Insurgents spike.
For freshmen 80/400 Guardians (like me) who’re having a hard time deciding what type of very first exotic armor & jewelry is the best “bang for a buck” i have created Comparsion Spreadsheet.
It doesn’t give a straight answer but at least make it a bit clearer.
It is a part of hidden “Defeat Misplaced Steam orge” event.
First of all you should find Matrix Cube Key somewhere inside power plant, it usually takes around 30 minutes. Then infuse it with different powers: Earth, Fire, Air, Water by interacting with Elemental Charger Designators one of which you’ve found. It is located in different parts of said plant. Earth, Water requires you to do some jumping while Air is covered in something and must be cleaned with Clean-o-Matic rifle which can be found in a bush next to heart inside Earth part. The hardest part is fire which requires you to interact with Golem 5000 if i’m not mistaken ONCE Fire Elemental is dead.
After it is infused, proceed to the central room where console is located, use a key and wait for energy field to go down, make sure to announce before activating a console as field goes up in ~5 seconds.
You’ll jump on a floating platform with a button, by pressing it you’ll spawn Steam Champion. Kill it, loot secret chest and to get out jump inside a portal. It’ll spawn you close to Power plant main enterance.
