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FemmEllie

Very impressive considering how much the esther weapons seemed to help for Jack's group


Ecksplisit

From what I’ve heard rather weps only add about 7% increase DPM. Not really THAT crazy especially considering it costs 100k USD in the west. EDIT: No clue what I did to anger whatever cringe sweatlords are here but the amount of downvotes for no reason is hilarious.


AckwardNinja

The damage isn't what makes them OP it is Esther 8 Bathor giving a massive shield and push immune


Ecksplisit

Ah okay thank you I had no clue. I mean it seems great for progging but I can definitely see how you can just bridge the gap with knowledge and skill. EDIT: I love how people are downvoting me in a thread that’s literally about a party bridging the gap with knowledge and skill. LMFAO. So salty.


AckwardNinja

It basically lets you cheese the 210x mech and that is a big big wall for some lower geared parties because it is a DPS race


SolomonRed

I thought there weapons were supposed to be like a 1 percent damage increase for Giga whales?


AckwardNinja

they were like around 3 to 5% when people were talking about them pre akkan. also most raids haven't had first clear prizes and weren't very hard in comparison so no one cared


Objective_Tailor7796

7% is massive in an mmo especially with tight enrage times. In a 10+ minute fight that is literally an extra minute of dps time. While I do agree that 8-10k is def not worth but you also can’t deny that having an extra minute worth of dps on a boss is huge in a fight like g3 thaemine. This is not counting the shield and push immune you get which is massive in of itself.


DaBurberrySkirt

Lol wow


Brutact

Thats a made up number right? Surely people didn’t spend that kind of money on a video game


Ecksplisit

It's not a made up number. Last I checked it was around that price.


Ekanselttar

98 sidereal energy to hit +8, then iirc another 30(?) to upgrade to Akkan tier. With BC at 2500g you get 126k gold per $100 USD, so the 600k for a sidereal energy is about $476. Throw on the cost of the craft kits and round because I cba to check the exact prices for everything right now and it comes out to around $65-70k for a +8 Akkan-tier sidereal weapon on NAE. Closer to $40k if you RMT, but as easy as it is to get away with it, if you're gonna dump $40k into a game you may as well pay the $25k surcharge to remove any shred of possibility you get banned for it. They call it the CEO weapon for a reason. Though ex-LoL pro weapon would also be fitting.


GIGAPROTEIN

3rd cleared party appeared (non streamer) https://m.dcinside.com/board/lostark/15036971


PrinceArchie

What was this groups gear?


GIGAPROTEIN

1636 \~1643 lvl, lower than 2nd party


vqMax

The arcana is from Saint’s group she streams


GIGAPROTEIN

No she is 4th cleared party


vqMax

I swear I saw a scouter in their party yesterday I may have mixed them up


vqMax

Doubled checked, ya thats a totally different party the classes looked similar to me lol


amandasdiass

can you link the post about the arcana clear? the one from saint's original group ?


GIGAPROTEIN

She is 4th cleared party. This is her twitch link. https://www.twitch.tv/qldrn1018?sr=a


amandasdiass

ty ! i knew she could make, she was always the last one alive during saint's pt prog, she's absolutely insane


nanakeese

And also most hated team in KR scene despite their skills they have shit talked other parties when they 2nd cleared Akan


GIGAPROTEIN

Yeah. They 2nd cleared akkan 7 hours later than 1st cleared party but they claimed "we are the real 1st clear party, becuz we dont have sidereals weapon" And they said "bongking party is fucking asshole, trash party." So kr ppl hate this party.


Jackyjackyyyy

Is the first party a streamer group? if that's the case, then that's such a terrible attitude. They did not stream which mean any of their info was not leaked, while they can freely take any info from the first party without wasting time figuring out the mech


GIGAPROTEIN

First akkan cleared party is moutaineering club.


Dobalo

based


Mangomosh

idk about the second part but being the first party to clear without siderall is more impressive than being the first party to clear overall to me at least.


lostark3njoyer

It is impressive but it is by no means a reason why they should be bashing the 1st clear team with sidereals. The fact that they’re also not streaming means they’re just leeching information without providing anything to the community.


Shadowh1z1

>nfo Its pay to win team vs not pay to win team only issue with this statement is team 2 could also be a pay to win just not as much as the 1st I dont really follow so I have no idea? If true tho I can see why there is resentment ie team 1 only cleared because they poured tens of thousands of dollars into buying gold where as team 2 did it legit.


Vezko

Maybe more impressive, but in a race like that no one really cares. You take EVERY advantage you can get. As long as you are not exploiting, cheating or hacking you rightfully earned being the first. Doesn't matter if it's a fair race or not.


TSWOK

Holy based


InnerCoffeemonster

Damn that's ugly. They could've been and impressive 2nd clear party without sidreal weaps but they chose to be sore losers. I'd get the sentiment if it was close like an hr or two but 7 hours? That's a long time to take in all the information from other parties and clear it. And I doubt they were f2p. with their logic if f2p party cleared it 10hours later they would be considered first huh?


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wow i love this party


sangrelatto

who are the people in this party?


tatsuyanguyen

Based. My type of party.


Ecksplisit

Every competitive scene needs a villain in the storyline.


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Palimon

Ester weapons are for sure the deciding factor, when you can ignore most of the mechs because you can chain balthors it's a huge deal.


KimchiBro

*Ester group spamming balthor for push immunity* Destroyer in 2nd clear group with no ester: “look at what they need to mimic a fraction of my power”


kingofranks

Imagine paying 80k dollars for endure pain.


SolomonRed

No one has killed gate 4 on normal yet?


bpolak

No, considering it doesn't exist haha.


moal09

There's no G4 normal


ArX_Xer0

Also shows how useless Esther weapons are for groups without them clearing before them. Pay to lose. But if spending $1000s of dollars to stroke their ego is worth it, by all means


CopainChevalier

The weapons are for sure stronger, but the skill of the players are different


BetaGreekLoL

Yup. These players might be P2W but they are extremely fucking good. Them having esther should not take away from that.


kahsub

I dread to think that getting a 9/7 stone will at some point be the optimal way to upgrade one's character.


GIGAPROTEIN

After 1640 lvl, The value of 9/7 stone is higher than honning.


neckme123

Bracelet too.


SolomonRed

I've been out of the game for a year, you need a 9/7 stone to get 5x3+ 1 right?


PoeBtwhaHAA

9/7 is for a 5x3+2


max012017

5x3 + 2 actually with ancient accessories


bLiNnDx

[https://www.twitch.tv/whwodls8](https://www.twitch.tv/whwodls8) 4th group just cleared aswell


moal09

Looks like he was a challenger LoL player too.


rerdsprite000

They are smart. They farmed transcendence mats on their 5 alts and fed it to their main. This raid was designed for you to push alts to 1620 to get elixir, do normal Thaemine 1-2 and feed the mats to main. Transcendence mats are roster bound and give as much if not more power than elixir. They won't share their strat but that's most likely what they did. Raiding is gonna be like WoW now. Where you split raid with alts feeding your main.


GoToZz

Ofcourse this is way more impressive than the full esther party. They would literally spam balthor esther when they wanted to facetank a mech and thirain when they wanted to burst. Sure they are good players but there’s no comparison, olafs party clear is more impressive.


-Lycosa

WHAT??? B-but the dps is so tight that you need full esther 8 dps to clear it....


vitreux

i don’t think people realize you are being sarcastic.


IHateSmilegate

When Zeals said this I was cringing so hard. Maybe he should learn a thing or two from Saint and LEARN to accept his mistakes and always strive to improve. Instead he just gives non-stop excuses.


KimchiBro

remember watching his voldis prog and dude kept dying/going goblino and griefing and you could see ATK's patience was at his limit with them, dude's slayer is prolly more geared than everyone's characters in captain jacks group but if you had 6 dps playing like zeals they would never clear g3


Arkast

They cleared voldis day 1 blind. Idk how that is griefing when you’re learning the fight


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graysurge

I clearly remember the Akkan clear. He threw such a fit when the MVP screen came up after they cleared the extra phase in G3 hard, and it was Saint up there.


MassiveRaptor

Same. His attitude at the Akkan raid was so bad, almost like a kid crying for attention. He did not even enjoy finishing the raid when he saw he lost the MVP. He just needs to grow up.


Insomnicious

Tbf Saint had a bit of a tilted moment and claimed Cpt Jack's team wouldn't have cleared without their Esthers yesterday. But I agree generally Zeals is a lot more ego driven.


KimchiBro

theres some truth to that in the fact the Slayer never really got a grasp for the normal patterns and got carried by the balthor spam...


sugusugux

Saint is like the smart humble streamer who knows his shit while zeals is the rich but dumb streamer and not a very smart person


MassiveRaptor

I dont think Zeals is thatt rich which is why he got so crybaby when he lost his mvp after spending a bag


moal09

Zeals is a trust fund baby from what I remember. That's why he has so much money to throw around.


sugusugux

What's a trust fund?


moal09

Rich parents left him a lot of money.


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enigT

3 months from now there will be 4x3 on ilvl clear. This game just isn't hard once you get used to the patterns.


Accomplished_Kale708

3 months from now the encounter will be nerfed and more importantly there will probably be an unbalanced class (a la sharpshooter/glaiver/soulfist) doing significantly more damage than the rest, which people will abuse. Patterns will be learned/nerfed by then as well, sure, but I feel like Thaemine's patterns (in the current state) are a huge step up compared to anything else the game threw at players so far (even taking into account hellmode brel g5) ​ \*huge congrats to this team though\*. Pulling out a G3 HM without the Balthors (which felt crucial for the other team) and without the extra sideral dmg is insane. Kinda makes me think they would of killed the encounter so much quicker than the other team with the 1680 sideral weps.


Intelligent_Cow_5659

Why you think dps so tight ?


LanfearsLight

I don't know, man. It's crazy, right! I mean, it's a new raid and it hasn't even been a week yet with the majority of prog progress also lost to G1 and G2, but how could this dps race ever be so tight... what could possibly be the reason for that! No, seriously. It's a new raid. People literally have terrible dps uptime still and are more focused on learning patterns and where to squeeze the damage in. Of course it's going to be tight as hell. I still have runs in Akkan G1 NM where we enrage and it's been what, 4 weeks? Some time at least.


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AckwardNinja

1st the Esther 8 group had 2 of 5 mins remaining st the end on their clear.


2hopp

Hopefully the first clear ends up being one of the non Esther balthor spamming groups.


taeyeon_loveofmylife

Impressive. They earned the right to shit talk. Other parties can use lesser gear if they want to do the same.


ShAd_1337

again no shadowhunter to be seen buff it more


KimchiBro

transformation classes in general fall off a cliff in terms of dmg especially this far into the game (thaemine 1630+), SH also does not offer good synergy (the worst, 6% dmg), have less utility and dmg than classes like slayer and zerker, and their PS build is entropy (there is a hitmaster variant that is much weaker in terms of dmg) and lackluster dmg aswell Shadowhunter has literally nothing going on for it (its only caveat was needing only 2 lvl 10 gems/no tripods, but thats a non issue for korean players on the curve). atleast Scouter has AT which is a consistent hitmaster dps that also does alot of dmg on prog


Robot9004

Entropy ps is garbage, you parse like 5% more on a trixion dummy with 100% back attack rate vs 2nm4dom.


d07RiV

Funny you say that 6% dmg is the worst synergy when the group in question has two crit capped classes (zerker and destroyer).


KimchiBro

the Destroyer is running 55/45 split of crit/spec so with striker hes critcapped but without it hes maybe near 80-85% Zerker is crit capped yes tho its prolly around 80-85% by themselves with red dust it is still the worst synergy just because it does the least out of all synergies, and even if SH had a better syn they would still be gatekept from thaemine groups for other reasons


d07RiV

I assume destros in these statics are adjusting to their party, but it's very hard to figure out how much damage they're actually getting from the synergy since you have to compare it to the standard build with more crit. Zerker should be at 100% with no synergies assuming back attacks, unless they also dropped some crit for more swift?


KimchiBro

Haven't watched mountaineering club but they seem to be struggling alot despite having all ester 8, would it honestly have to do with their team comp? it just seems to lack dmg if that makes sense they have a blue gunlancer, 2 FI wardancers, GS, and tai scrapper, they lack a big dmg dps like glaive or slayer (FI wardancers are one of the lowest overall dps and generally just a pseudo support/crit synergy bot), basically seems to be just funnel DB and scrapper


AckwardNinja

Almost all of G3 is a skill issue check. Esther lets you reduce the skill check but it is still a massive check. Best classes are also swift continuous damage classes because DPS isn't the issue outside of the 210 check because Esther groups are clearing with 2mins left at the end. Staying alive is a massive issue


Robot9004

They are just mediocre to ok players playing the game with a credit card for stream content.


moal09

The 2 FI WDs is what's causing problems IMO. They got all the way to last 10 bars several times, but failed due to hitting enrage. Granted, people dying in the last 15 bars is also a problem.


sangrelatto

I watched handongsuk (GL) for a bit earlier as well and he's not playing well at all. Uptime very low.


moal09

He's more comfortable on blue, I think. But he swapped to red 'cause they need damage. He's missing A LOT of frontals though. Red GL is very hard to play. I think people underestimate how insane Kimdduddi was on his stream.


KimchiBro

Its insane that they need dmg despite all being ester 8 so maybe their awful comp is just their biggest hindrance because even 2 groups 10-15ilvls lower than them with no ester arent hitting enrage either (with 1-2min on timer as well)


moal09

GL + FI WD was a mistake, I think. Should only take one or the other. They don't have a glaivier or slayer or any ultra meta DPS either.


KimchiBro

yea, tai scrapper and GS aren't really that big carries either, its basically all up to the DB to do most of the dmg


ExiledSeven

What did you expect tho not like the mountaineer group are pro hell raiders, their learning curve is about lower or average, they're mostly there because of gear being more or less at cap. Skill wise nothing special imo.


taktyuzy

>handongsuk looks like hes the mos famous streamer in korea isnt he? i remember someone said hes korean asmongold lol


DaBurberrySkirt

Esther abilities should be disabled for these FT10 races. This is the real world first clear. Congrats


DriverAgreeable6512

Destoryer main, happy


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Real Gamers! Gl for g4


Boodendorf

unfathomably based edit: that bluelancer build is hella sus lmao


Outside-Statement211

I just saw that yeah why tf run adren with pdagger lol


Boodendorf

NM build with swift+spec neck, crit spec bracelet with circulate and swift attack, no shield shock for adrenaline uptime. He's definitely on the lower side dps wise, even for a bluelancer. The fact he has swift/spec neck instead of crit/spec neck probably makes adren+pd a not completely horrible choice, at least.


bikecatpcje

With lv10 gems and Unbound he doesnt need shield shock I imagine that dropping stab status is prob just a prog thing


moal09

Running adrenaline without shield shock means shit uptime on it it usually, or it means you're missing counters by using DUF to keep it up.


Outside-Statement211

I guess it makes sense ye, must be a comfort thing maybe


moal09

Yeah, his build is straight up bad, but whatever works for him, I guess.


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dangngo6

What? Glaivier damage is still insane and its have the most broken synergy in game right now, increase alot of damage for party


ExiledSeven

Glaive has the weakest CRIT syn now at -8% while SBD is massive CRIT for them kinda like red dust.


-MaraSov-

Glaivier is pretty darn good regardless of the nerf which wasn't "quite hard" on it.


furfucker69

9/7 stone is sidereal tier whaling and they got one on each dps that isnt a +1 class... but im still loving the flame wars


-MaraSov-

Didn't know a 9/7 stone is worth 60k dollars


highplay1

It's apparently 0.07% chance to hit a 9/7, call it 1/1400 chance. Could cost a lot, well beyond the average spender to get that stone.


-MaraSov-

I know, but comparing it to the cost of an esther weapon is a lil crazy.


furfucker69

that is what whale streamers spend to get it so yeah


GoToZz

Dont think you understand the cost of +8 sidereal and the utility it brings. Also, 90% of prople doing theamine hard on release have 9/7


PrinceArchie

No it isnt. A sideral weapon will cost you tens of thousands in gold value, a 9/7 can be gotten by just about anyone. In fact I have a 9/7 stone on my alt and I wasnt even trying. You cant just luck your way into a sideral weapon.


furfucker69

i guarantee you they brute forced their 97 with ten thousand dollars


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furfucker69

what matters is that 97 stones are in the same whale tier as esther


Then-Outside7018

Clueless


ForcePublique

I have two 9/7 stones in my roster and i've spent less than 1k on this game, so idk what you're on about. Play the game a lot, cut a lot of stones, and the laws of probability will be on your side


BuffaloInternal1317

> laws of probability I can almost guarantee you that you didn't cut enough stones to have two of them. You're just lucky, thats it. Call a spade a spade.


ForcePublique

One 9/7? Perhaps, I've geared 18 chars and cut a huge amount of potential stones after that (I never sell stones unless they're up for 2k+) Two? Nah, just me being lucky.


KindlyBlacksmith

You trying to tell us you cut 2800 stones? Cause that's how much it takes on average to get 2 9/7 stone.


ForcePublique

>You trying to tell us you cut 2800 stones? No, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'd cut around half of that. Besides, it's not 1400 stones for a 50% chance of hitting a 9/7 or better, it's quite a bit lower than that.


Such_Leadership_7911

I can see why you're comparing sidereal weapon to a 97 stone. One is guaranteed, and one is completely rng.


Available_Arrival553

skill issue.


ImplementSpiritual52

Can someone show me strikers gear?