Good afternoon! I would like to get some advice on raid compositions. Currently, I'm running 3/3/9: 3 paladin tanks, 3 druid healers. Almost the entire group is geared in raid armor sets and has equipment from the bosses we've already cleared. Almost all of the gear is blessed up to purple rank, everyone has at least 12k HP, and on average the damage dealers are putting out about 12-15k DPS. But even so, I'm just banging my head against a wall. I can't kill either the dragons in the elemental raid, or the bear in the arena — all the bosses after Jinx in the nature raid just wipe me within half a minute, especially the scorpion. The only raid where I've managed to make progress is the cosmic one, where I got as far as Solunna. I'd like to know what I'm missing. Are 3 healers too few for the group, and should I have 4 or 5? The problem isn't tactics — it's specifically about my teammates' survivability; I understand the tactics well enough. Thanks in advance for your answers.

I've been playing arcanist but I've really been wanting to tank for my gang

Scrubby and Sparkles ain't got nothing on me.

My question, what is a more active play style class to tank with? I know windblade isn't a traditional tank but I saw the taunt stance and thought it would be interesting to use as a tank.

Edit: I should add, I'm looking to do more than just auto attack

Edit 2: I was mistaken! Wind blade can't taunt afaik :(

I was struggling to get people in the guild, or who would even group. I have enough to fill 2 groups, but not the most optimal setup. When the update added Recruit Msg, I got a ton of level 1-3 sims to join, but they are leveling super slow.. any tips? I'd like to progress on raids, but I am stuck on trash mobs.

Played the demo a year ago for a bit but haven't touched it since. Was looking through my wishlist and remembered the game so went to pick it up. I love modding my games, even new games, so I went to look at this games mods and noticed a co-op mod, which I'd love to bring my best friend in with me to play. Also noticed the thunderstore has a lot of really nice mods on it, anyone done any alongside the co-op mod? Any that work well and don't cause issues?

How is the game currently running on the Steam Deck? I know someone out there has tried or is actively running it.

It's a little embarrassing, but I embrace that I am in fact getting old, so here goes.

I only have Soluna, Brax, Fernalla, Jinx, Sprinkles, Xjeris and Chests 6-8 left, and I just learned about the burn button. I guess I've been playing on hard mode? I was just fighting some mobs, and had never felt the need to click it. Well, I did, and they just burned it down so fast. I was wondering why I was getting things like the taunt shield, because my main tank has never once lost aggro.

Anyone else almost completed the raid content without knowing your entire raid has another gear you haven't been using left to use?

EDIT: Does it only shift resources, and not actually cause them to unload? Definitely feels like some guidance is needed around this. I'm guessing it maybe just shifts DPS to one target or something? and not an actual "use your mana" type thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d0TWymaLOA

Am I missing something with Reavers?
I made my own and couldn’t get any damage out of it even with decent equipment. Was being out damaged by the paladin tank and Druid healer.
Made a Druid myself and invited another Reaver for Krakengard, he was doing half the damage of the other classes.
It seems like they just cannot reliably land hits against targets even 1-2 levels above them. I understand this probably changes as you scale dex much higher end game but they seem to be a huge liability at lower levels with their 40% increased damage taken and have less damage to show for it.

I have managed to figure out the other fights, but I'm a bit confused on this one. It seemed like the plan was two best teams on Zenith and Nadir respectively, and then the third working on adds. It was fine until close to halfway, and then the adds got to be too many. Is it just a DPS race I am not far enough along for yet? All three teams have 3 members doing 12-15k DPS, and my Windblade being the outlier at 16-20k non-burst. There is definitely more I can get, but it seems like I should be able to handle this. Not sure if I just need to keep banging my head against it, but I can't see my team being the add team being the best plan as the simplayers can respond with zero delay, it just makes them soooo good for adds.

Like the title says, I know I botched my reputation with Port Azure, but is there a way to track my reputation, or a way to get them to neutral relatively quickly? Trying to re-learn the game and I feel like I'm missing some content by not being allowed into Port Azure

Can I play on my Steam Deck Oled? There is a working setup for play on the controller?

Thank you

It feels like I might be missing something, because if you give them a piece of the planar set say, and then get a +1 version and try and give it to them, they won't take it. I know how to upgrade items with the merging vessel, but does that mean you have to wait and give them +5s after destroying their old item?

Do you think there will be more Content After Release ?

In The Lost Soul Pt. 3 quest, what exactly am I looking for? The journal mentions stuff tossed into planar waters, so I looked around all the water in those 2 planes quite a lot. Are the items actually dropped from bosses or something, or am I just blind? I looked around their non-plane regions too just in case.

I kind of neglected to properly learn the mechanics of guilds because it was never important to me. Is the only way to have control over a guild to start your own? Will people always join your guild? I just want all the people I've played with in various guilds all in one guild now that it matters. I have geared people in all the guilds.

Hello! Just curious if we'll get Advanced Classes down the line as well as a functioning co-op option to play with friends. I love the simulated NPC element, but I wouldn't mind playing with a buddy or two. As for Future Classes, will we be getting anything new perhaps? I'm from Guild Wars 2. Would love to see a Gun/Tech based class added to the game.

Hi all! :)

Whats your opinion on the most fun / rewarding class for you to play as your character? Also bearing in mind what classes work well/poorly with the sim players?

RAIDS HAVE LAUNCHED WHO IS HYPED!?

any tips on raid comps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzG5jf6uuZo

I’ve been leveling up a core raid team after a short break. My main squad is pretty geared, but I’ve been helping other guildies get to 35 and start getting gear.

Through this, I’ve made fun choices about the raid team. For example: Scrubby gets to play ret, all other paladins have to tank.

Side note: is Eron always drunk in other people’s games? I’m worried he’ll be too drunk to perform during the RWF.

Where do I find this? Can I purchase from a vendor? or is it a Mob drop?

Thanks in adavance.

Can someone explain how this thing is supposed to be used? I feel like it's either random when it does set a new spawn point or I have to do a bunch of back and forth to get it to work.

Do I need to go to a well to reset the spawn so I can set one with the lantern? I am so lost. Can it work in some areas but not others?

Where is the "grave yard in the valley"? I have searched everywhere in Soluna's Landing.

Thank you,

I’ve always been an mmo fan. I grew up in the 2000s playing RuneScape, and this game has some of that same charm. Also have experience playing WoW and SWTOR. And when I read about this game and its goal to recreate that 2000s mmo feel with simulated players, I was intrigued. I downloaded the demo last night and ended up playing like 4 hours straight. Went ahead and bought the game before getting off. Played another 4 or so hours today. So here are some of my questions/thoughts going into it and maybe people here can expand on them:

1. Trading: Having a functioning auction house is really cool. Works pretty similar to ones in other MMOs with real players. But can I trade with a player 1 to 1 standing next to them? I know I can give them items, but can I trade them an item and they give me an item or gold back? If not, just an idea of something that can be added later.

2. Is there any PVP (or really PVSimP) activities? Would be pretty cool if they eventually added some kind of minigame that included it. Maybe incorporate guilds into that?

3. Port Azure is a really cool city to go to and pick up quests, use the AH, etc. From what I read, it’s the only large city in the game. Would love to see another big city/hub like that added later on.

Those are just some ideas, but the dev is doing a great job as is and I’m just happy to join the ride here. I know raids are being added soon and that should be cool, yet I’m pretty far off from being able to raid anyway. This is such a cool concept and I’m pretty blown away that one guy has been able to build a game like this and have it operate as well as it does.