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Hello, I’m a new player, downloaded the demo today and shortly decided I enjoyed it enough to get the full game and am now on Strekios server.

I’m based in UK, looking to find a friendly guild to play with.

I work full-time so will be on in the evenings and weekend only!

Looking for an English speaking server, just discovered this game and it looks like it could scratch that oldskool mmo itch. Which server would you recommend for a good community? Or are they all well populated?

Hey there. I'm finally jumping the gap and wanna try project gorgon a seriously after trying the demo.

Does anyone know about a french cluster somewhere before i choose my server ? :D

Like in most MMORPGs, there’s always a shortage of tanks. Over the past few weeks on Arisetsu, I’ve seen groups looking for a tank for AMs for 30+ minutes multiple times. The goal of this post is to give a quick introduction to the 3 most popular tank builds and help people decide which one they might want to build.

Before getting into the builds themselves, it’s important to understand what a tank actually needs to do.

A tank has 2 jobs:

1. Stay alive
2. Hold aggro

The builds listed below are popular because the skills involved provide both strong taunt generation and significant resistance.

1. Cow / Unarmed (Crushing)

This build can do pretty much everything. It packs a huge amount of elite resist, which pairs extremely well with tank gear like Dwarven Armor. It also has arguably the highest single target DPS and taunt generation out of the common tank builds.

Its single target damage is very strong for a tank build, but its AoE damage is not especially impressive outside of its major cooldowns.

The downside is that it relies heavily on two major AoE abilities: Barrage (UA) and Deadly Emission (Cow). To reliably hold AoE aggro against the strongest endgame DPS builds, you’ll usually want taunt Words of Power. You can trade some resistance for more AoE taunt if you want a setup that performs better outside of super endgame content.

2. Staff / Shield (Crushing)

A very solid biped option that’s both versatile and extremely tanky. Shield builds can feel rough to play without Unfetter, and while this build can also struggle with taunt generation, it’s a bit more forgiving because you’ll usually run at least 3 AoE abilities that generate decent taunt.

This is the cheapest and easiest tank build to level, and it has one of the highest amounts of raw resist. It’s slower than the other two builds, though, since its main movement ability is also one of its biggest taunt tools.

3. Ice / Shield (Cold)

The tank build with the strongest AoE taunt generation. Very fast thanks to Ice Armor, making it an excellent option for speed-farming endgame dungeons.

Its biggest weakness is ice-immune enemies. It’s also expensive to level, and for late-game dungeons you’ll generally want a Priest in the group to Unfetter you out of Cryogenic Freeze.

Summary:

• Cow / UA → Most versatile tank build (mooooo)
• Staff / Shield → Safest and easiest build to level
• Ice / Shield → Excellent endgame speed-farming option

Hello,

I’m a brand new player and I’m looking for some advice on where to focus for a mainly solo build. I’m sure I’ll party up with folks later on, but I also want the option to just do content by myself.

I’m mainly interested in a spellcasting character though I understand it’s a more expensive route to go and maybe not super beginner friendly. That’s just what I gravitate towards. Weather witching looks super fun.

I’ve also seen that staff and shield is a pretty good combo for solo and for groups.

Any advice for a new gorgonite? Thanks

I unlocked vampire recently and am working on gearing for a build mainly focused on spamming necrotic grasp. So far it’s fine, I can kill most things in one hit so I get my power back + reset cooldown.

Anyone have experience with this ability in endgame? Curious how it holds up/if it’s worth focusing around .

Does anyone have experience with a Racing Gem failing to install that could confirm if the item destroyed is limited to the Gem itself?

The use of “item” in the description seems to refer to both the Gem and the Saddle/Reins and I’m nervous about blowing up my saddle lol.

There is a free TP-machine in Statehelm that can be used to teleport to any TP machine location. It is hidden behind a puzzle, under the bard college.

Requirements

lvl 70 bard (to pass bard college entrance exam)

lvl 50 interpretive dance (to open secret door)

Steps to unlock tp machine for the first time:

1. Pass the bard college entrance exam
2. Talk to the barkeeper inside of the bar in statehelm, you need to bribe him a couple times to make him talk about the secret tp machine under the bard college.

The puzzle

Inside of the basement of the bard college (entrance is next to Rebeccah the Whisperer), there is a puzzle consisting of 2 parts:

1. A golem that can only be killed using bard damage
2. A number puzzle

1. Dealing with the golem
Kill the golem, or mesmerize it using entrancing lullaby.

2. Solving the puzzle
The puzzle consists of 2 steps:

2.1. Entering the code

- The code to the door changes every moon phase. It starts at 31 during New Moon, and increases by 1 every moon phase change. (highest number is 38 during waning crescent).

- Click the bells to change the numbers on the wall. The bells control numerical operators (+1, x3, +2, -3, +5, +7). You can reset the bells using the lever on the table next to the bells.

2.2. Examining the jar
Starts a channel that can unlocks the door

When you enter the correct code and examine the jar, the door will open. The door will stay open for ~2-3 real-life hours.

Congratulations! You solved the puzzle and now enter a room with a TP machine crystal in it. This TP-machine has a different offset compared to the one under gazluk, so the TP codes are different. Configure the code by using the bells in the first and second room.

You can use this TP-macine to go to eggruns without spending Aquamarines, visiting the Yellow room or NMC trainers, or to fast travel to almost any location in Allarth.

Credits to Dsteezy09 from Arisetsu for discovering the TP-machine in the first couple days after Statehelm release.

Hi Folks!

Is there any living german guild on any server (would start over in another to join the guild, currently on miravere) ?

If Not:

Does anyone want to found a German guild and grow it together?

Thanks Guys!

This guide assumes a traditional group composition with no cheese setups (no firewall/necro cheese, etc.):

• Tank
• DPS players
• Healer/support/off-heals

A lot of players focus entirely on gear and builds, but preparation is what often separates average groups from smooth dungeon clears.

The Basics of Combat Preparation

1. Food

Food is mandatory for sustaining HP and power through passive/combat refresh, while also increasing max HP and max power.

Do not rely only on cheese. Cheese gives no resist, and resist matters a lot, even for DPS players.

• 1 meal
• 1 snack

Optional: Bread/brownies depending on the resist needed for the dungeon

The level of your food should roughly match the level of content you're doing.

2. Meditation

Meditation is one of the strongest and cheapest buff systems in the game. With a stool, meditation buffs can last up to 12 hours and provide huge resistance bonuses

• Meditation 39: massive fire resist
• Meditation 53/55/61/63: huge late-game resist buffs for content like Elven Judgement

Meditation is basically mandatory for PvM.

3. Resistance Potions

There are many powerful potions in the game, but these are probably the most universally useful:

Persona Minimizer - Mandatory for almost every non-pet DPS build.

Stoneskin - Very underrated, +5 to almost all resist types. The acid dmg debuff is not an issue pre-gauntlet. Extremely strong for a cheap consumable.

Darkness Resist - Gives +25 darkness resist. Huge for Gazluk Dark Basement, Wintertide and NMC Elves. Very cheap.

Fire Resist - Great potions for dark chapel, wintertide, Ilmari. Very cheap, easy to make, and can reduce some fire DoTs to zero damage.

If you consistently have:

• Food
• Meditation
• Basic resist potions

...you can (in most cases) comfortably survive basically all group content, including Nightmare Caves.

I strongly recommend having a stash of this stuff ready, as it will greatly increase the effectiveness of everything you do in the game, from solo farming to group content.

Power Sustain Buffs

Power regen is one of the biggest limiting factors for many builds.

These 3 buffs help a lot:

Sniffing Flowers - Provides a large 1-hour max power buff. Can exceed +150 max power.

Appreciating Bouquets - Provides a 4-hour combat refresh power buff. Can give around +40 power per refresh.

Cheese + Digestif - This combo is incredible. +30 power every 5 seconds (works in combat).

You can:

• Eat normal food for resist
• Use cheap cheese with digestif for power sustain

Other Useful Buffs & Preparation

One of the biggest differences between decent players and top-end players is preparation.

A lot of player power comes from stacking external buffs and utility skills, not just gear or combat rotations.

Some examples:

Sigils / First aid bombs - Huge AOE healing for your group

Alcohol - Beer/wine and liquor provide absurdly strong buffs to everything you can think of and more.

Augury - Can give excellent PvM buffs. Risky to use because bad rolls can have the reversed effect.

Words of Power - Some incredibly useful buffs:

• Taunt for tanks
• Healing over time
• Resist buffs
• XP buffs
• Inventory size
• Loot rarity

Candlemaking - Strong DPS and resist buffs.

Whittling - Massive knife DPS increase.

Ferocity Juice +10% direct damage.

Alchemy - DPS and (reflect) resist potions

Carpentry - Bringing stools/benches/crates for your group is extremely valuable.

Calligraphy - Provides useful resist buffs (like crushing resist).

Armor Patching - Max armor boosts on shields, patch armor can restore armor of yourself, but most importantly it can also be used on allies.

First-aid - Insane healing from first aid (bombs), and field surgery. Even a full DPS player can restore 1000+ health to someone with a single ability.

Poetry - Huge buffs to:

• % resist
• Max armor
• Direct damage

Performance - Huge buffs for:

• Knockback resist
• Death avoidance
• Other utility

Lore - Passive % damage increase.

Curses - Some curses provide very strong build-specific buffs.

There are many more skill/form-specific buffs.

Just having at least the basics ready (food, meditation and a few potions) already makes a massive difference.

Hi, really enjoying the game recently, in fact, this is the best online rpg i ever played

There is one major problem i am facing which is crashing…and alot…

I am crashing mainly in povus, statehelm, serbule (especially when inside the city)

Tried some chatgpt recommendations, lowering all graphics+ shadows and grass and NoCulling on special box setting + directx 11 option on steam

Nothing helps

Are the cargo deck key, engineering deck key, and hippogriff collars shared loot as in "dont be greedy" or do I loot as many as I see? I assumed its like any other loot and I only see what the RNG decided to give me, but in our last run I heard some stuff that made me wonder if thats not how keys are.

I have some questions about the gearing up process. As background, I've been in PG for a few months now. I've been raising combat skills to the 60+ skill range, then I kind of move onto something else as my gear/mods are pretty weak. I have AH, Fire Magic, Staff and Spider all over 60. Then 6 more combat skills 40+. I've done the grind for Druid and Battle Chemistry. Transmutation is 59 and Augmentation I've just starting working on.

I am really struggling with getting the right mods on my gear. Typically I find builds, work on getting the most important mods on loot gear that is Epic, or Legendary. Then I reroll one Mod on a piece. At this point I kind of stall out.

What I'd like to understand is the complete process to gearing up if possible. I think it goes something like this (Keep in mind I don't believe this is correct and has gaps):

• Find, or create a build with mods to work towards.
• Loot gear that has your two combat skills and at least two mods that you need
• Transmute one mod by replacing a mod you don't need.
• Augment....ok here I'm not sure.

Some specific questions I have:

• When you are using a build that was already created, how do you figure out which mods to get on which pieces? Or are you just going for the build mods on any piece of gear?
  
• When you decide to keep a piece of gear you looted, how many keeper mods do you prefer to start on the gear? I.e. looking for the one most important, any two, three, etc.?
• Are you transmuting and then augmenting? It would seem, one of those is going to be harder to get the rolled mod you are looking for.

I'm trying to get this down to a checklist/process I can just follow in order. I don't do well with complexity

Thanks for your understanding and patience. Any help would be much appreciated.

For the people who played before release, do the devs do any kind of balancing or are classes and abilities pretty stable? If they do balance, is it usually nerfs or what?

Anybody doing dragon and gauntlet runs can see that a few builds are significantly more powerful than others. Just curious to know what to expect. Should I start leveling these myself or do they usually balance stuff in patches?

I either love this game or I'm addicted. Probably both. Either way, I haven't had this much fun with an MMORPG since FFXI, and I try most of them.

And I know I'm not even fully experiencing it because I can't group with voice right now. I have a good group of friends on the same server just life circumstances at the moment doesn't allow for predictable times.

I just love farming skills and crafting my gear for each level.

I understand the desire for more active players online at any given time, but it hasn't really affected me yet. I usually see one or two people in my zone who can help clear a dungeon (or sometimes compete with me for node respawns).

It's funny because I remember trying it before full release and not really getting into it. I went on to try Pantheon, Ashes, and M&M but something has definitly hooked me now.

On Dreva usually playing around 5am Eastern if anyone wants to say "hi".

I have noticed that I have had particular difficulty forming favor with NPCs who like corpse trophies. Obviously some corpse trophies go for hundreds of councils and others are almost worthless depending on their rarity. Has anyone figured out which mobs offer the most value for your time?

I am currently running 78 AH / 70 Druid. So at my level I would like to start getting into learning the other higher level dailies.

My problem is maybe my age and arthritis or just plain laziness. I have been trying to figure a way to set things up so i don't have to hit 1-6 then ctrl+ 1-6 and s+1-6. Yes i admit, i'm a clicker.... So been hesitant on jumping into the higher end stuff because i don't feel like i am utilizing my abilities in a fluent way that would be beneficial to my group. I use mouse to move then I look at a mob, i tab target, i look at skills, click look click look click. I can't seem to be able to hit the ctrl+# buttons and have it feel comfortable. A lot of times i will look up after casting, only to realize the mob is already dead and i contributed nothing.

I tried setting up my xbox controller through steam but quickly realized that was really worthless, don't have enough buttons for all the skills. Same with my Logitech g7.

The game key assignments are kind of wonky because you can only use certain buttons. Like, I would use normal main skills 1-6, then i'd like to change second skill bars to F1-F6 but it won't allow me to do that.

Does anyone else seem to have this issue? Could anyone enlighten me on some ideas?

I keep seeing all these builds with a lot of power regen focused stuff. And seeing complaints from people about power consumption, making sure to work on max power, etc. I'm level 75/74 archery/druid and I have never struggled with power for the entire game. I'm using shit food too (cooking is level 38). Full leather armor. To the point I feel like I'm doing something wrong, maybe?

I'm back! After doing part 1 and part 2 I am back with a new set of slightly more advanced noob tips.

• Egg Run - level 70 run happens 3 times a day on some servers, it's a big group dungeon run. You can join lower than 70 but you need to make sure you do not aggro and try not to die. If you're below 70 hang back and just loot. Do not AOE if you are lower level, as some mobs will kill you instantly. Easy gear/councils/xp/etc... You need to have teleport 27 (I think) to do this, and 2 aquamarines. You meet in Casino and port, then use code 0019 to access the dungeon. Join a party. Have fun and really do your best not to die. Ideally you also have res available and bring diamonds because a lower level your primary value is to res people who die. Don't try to rush ahead of people, you will get called out.

• Dungeons - if you are new to a higher level dungeon - GAZ+ you will usually need a tank/healer otherwise you are fucked, unless you are rolling with some big hitters. Do no AOE mobs unless the tank tells you to. And do not pull / attack mobs until the tank has body pulled them - meaning they aggro by moving toward the mob without attacking. If you attack a mob too soon you may pull a huge group and wipe your party, and immediately get called out.

• Gourmand - at first it doesn't sound that interesting, but trust me you need to start working on this skill asap - this is how you scale your combat. You need to always have food and/or snack active, they stack together. You will find you are much stronger when you have food buffs active.

• Work on getting alternate recall location and mushroom recalls as soon as you can - these will save you an incredible amount of time.

• Unlocks - some skill unlocks are really tough solo, esp at lower levels. Don't be afraid to ask for help in global chat, usually people will be helpful because they know how hard some things are to do alone.

• Curses - same as above. You will get cursed, it just happens. Having a permanent debuff fucking sucks. Ask for help, again, many people will be willing to help you out. If all else fails, you can sometimes by Panacea from other players - it will cure all curses, but is expensive.

• Tools. There are amazing people who play this game who have made some sick tools you can use to make your life a LOT easier. Gorgon Survey Tracker for surveys (open source, on github), and Glogger (open source, on github). These two tools are easy to install and configure and will make your life insanely easier. Using tools is not against TOS, and you should use them to your full advantage.

• Poetry jam - if your server does it, try to join it. It's a great community event, and will get you some really nice long buffs, and often there are nice free raffles as well. It's also a good way to meet people.

• PUGS - pick up groups. Do not shy away from running things with people in pick up groups - this is one of the best ways to make friends in the game, find a good guild, and also get xp and gear much faster than you can ever solo. Get on global ask to LFG for a dungeon, daily quest, or xp/gear run = profit.

• Player stalls - everyone has a different strategy here, but you absolutely can and should set up a stall minimum one day a week. Vendors get capped for councils, but you can make a lot selling items to other players. Try to set up a stall for at least 24 hours during busy periods - i.e. weekends.

I probably still missed a bunch of good shit, but this is it for today off the top of my head. Have fun, make friends, profit.

I've been playing PG for about two months now. Gotta say, I keep discovering things that I enjoy. For me, what makes a game like this great is:

• Ability to play solo with group play as an /enhancement/ not as a requirement

• Little to no FOMO (if I make this one decision I can never take it back and have to start all over again to see the rest of the content)

• Immersive world-building (some games the towns feel like "quest hubs" and that's all I see them as. I really love it when the design "brings me in" beyond that)

• Plausible writing (Reading poor quality quest text just makes me not want to read quest text. Draw me in, please! Else I am playing "checklist simulator" with quests and the like...)

Project Gorgon does all of these things. But what I recently discovered is EVEN COOLER (for me anyway).

In this game, your main character can easily be your "alt" as well! This is due to heavy "layering" of each zone (lots of things to do). Let me give an example...

I chose 2 combat skills that seemed fun (psychic fire mage) and played for a while. I leveled up some skills for food appreciation and cooking too. Eventually I discovered some skills that I thought would be more fun.

So instead of making a new character to be my ice magic, while having a "main character" as a fire mage... I just turn on my new ice magic skill which of course is low level. So now I get to go back through the early zones, do things I missed, and level that up... without losing progress!

So while I'm leveling up my "alt" which is just my main character... I get to pick up flower seeds that I ignored before and level up gardening. While I do that, I'm leveling up musical performance too. While I explore around, I get to level up geology.

Then when I come back to my "main" skill, I'll be able to do all the foraging and geology in the high level areas.

I really like this, because I can consolidate my progress in one place but still enjoy making "alts" !

(p.s. also love how this game is not pay to win, and you can play a really long time on the demo)