Questions on TR

sombra55

I'm trying to get a feel for TR.

 

I see you get points that you then use to level up whatever skills you wish to choose in your line of profession. With this said, do you use the same number of skill points on crafting or are the crafting points seperate from the skill points you get ?

 

Which profession you see more of then any other? And why is everyone chosing that profession?

I saw it said MInd, Spirit, Body as attributes. What do these do? Is body suppose to be health? Then what are the other two?

Do you make decent money in TR or is it like WoW where you made peanuts? How good is loot and rare loot as far as drops?

 

Which server is best right now as far as it being newbie helpful and friendly? I recall Vanguard and a server which no one wanted a part of.

Thanks for taking time out to answer.

 

 

 edit: Think I put this in the wrong section but nonetheless.

 

 

Reklaw

Originally posted by sombra55


I'm trying to get a feel for TR.
 
I see you get points that you then use to level up whatever skills you wish to choose in your line of profession. With this said, do you use the same number of skill points on crafting or are the crafting points seperate from the skill points you get ? Each time you lvl you get a few points to spend freely but they are NOT seperate, meaning it's YOU that will decide if you want to put in some points into crafting. I think a pvp'r might use a CLONE at max lvl to make that a full crafters and put all skill points into crafting only, for a pve'r it totaly depence on your playstyle and likes, myself currently more into pve then pvp and gotta say the game is fairly easy that i can live without a few extra points spend in the combat area and i have spend a few points in several crafting skills, and still doing okay. I just enjoy a mix of things and seek my own challenge, as for me getting the best gear/weapons brings down the pve challenge the game offers and making the game abit to easy at times, i sure like to mowdown several Thrax in a flash but i also like it when it's getting hard, for me this means using less to get that challenge.....but that is just personal
 
Which profession you see more of then any other? And why is everyone chosing that profession?
I saw it said MInd, Spirit, Body as attributes. What do these do? Is body suppose to be health? Then what are the other two?
http://tabularasavault.ign.com/View.php?view=Editorials.Detail&id=7 see below for text or click link
Note about all stats - All stats refer solely to level 50 bonuses. These bonuses also only apply to each point above 108. If you are below 108, you don't suffer a penalty on the new bonuses such as armor, crit and logos damage, but until you get back above it, you won't gain a bonus, either. For example: you're a Thrax hybrid and have 59 mind. You boost mind by 10 with a piece of armor. You will not gain logos damage, as you are still below the base 108 value.
A clean human clone, with no attributes spent, has the following stats:

108 mind

108 spirit

108 body

20,000 health

250 power

200 regen


Body, Thrax Hybrid:





Body
157
181
206
230
255
279
304




Health
26049
29012
32098
35061
38148
41111
44197




Power
212
230
250
268
287
306
325




Armor – 30
9950
11150
12400
13600
14850
16050
17300




Armor – 40
23666
26580
29493
32348
35321
38175
41148




Armor – 50
39800
44600
49600
54400
59400
64200
69200




Armor - +%
33
49
65
81
98
114
131




Health per body: 123.5

Power per body: 0.75

Armor per body: 0.667% (2/3rds)


Body analysis:
Body is likely the most powerful stat. It scales the best with gear and offers incredible bonuses to your survivability. Two out of the three hybrids don't have base body, though: the Brann, and Forean. If you happen to be one of these, and you want to boost your armor, you will need to look for items that boost armor directly. If you add body and are below that 108 threshold, then you won't gain any bonus, so it's a wasted stat slot on whatever item you're wearing. The same is true of the other stats and their new bonuses (mind's logos damage and spirit's crit rating).
If you go purely body, however, your use of logos abilities will suffer. Though in-combat regen has been boosted, with full body, you will only have roughly 13 power/second regen in combat. While this isn't as abysmal as it used to be, the logos abilities have been boosted and are much more tempting to use now. Still, you'll have a decent pool of power thanks to the bonus body gives, and being a walking wall has its benefits.
Mind, Forean Hybrid:





Mind Bonus
Regen
Power
Lightning 1
Lightning 3
Shrapnel 1
Shrapnel 3
Shrapnel 5
Scourge 1
Scourge 3
Scourge 5
RB 1
RB 3
RB 5
FB 1
Scatter 1
Scatter 2
Scatter 3
Scatter 4
Scatter 5
TS 1
TS 3
TS 5




157
230
287
14500
24000
15000
16500
20000
1500
2200
3250
7000
11000
15000
19000
14000
17000
19000
20000
21000
13000
20000
25500




181
245
324
16000
26000
16300
18000
21000
1650
2425
3300
7500
12000
16250
21000
15000
18500
20000
21500
22500
14500
21000
27000




206
260
363
17500
28000
17000
19500
22500
1600
2350
3150
8000
13000
17750
22500
16000
19500
21000
23000
24000
15250
22000
28500




230
275
400
18000
30000
18000
21000
23000
1500
2500
3500
8500
14000
19000
23500
17000
20500
22000
24500
25500
16000
23000
30000




255
290
439
19000
32000
19000
22000
23750
1700
2300
3300
9000
15000
20000
25000
18000
21000
23000
26500
27000
17000
24000
31500




279
305
476
20500
34000
20000
23000
24500
1400
2500
3250
9500
16000
20750
26000
19250
22500
25500
28000
29000
18000
26000
33500




304
320
514
22000
36000
21000
24000
25000
1600
2450
3100
10000
17000
21500
27000
21000
24000
27500
29500
31000
19500
28500
36000




Power per mind: 1.56

Regen per mind: 0.6

Bonus logos damage per mind: 0.375%
Mind analysis:
Mind is a hit and miss stat - it really depends on how much you find yourself using logos abilities. Commandos benefit hugely from this, as so many of their logos abilities are direct damage. However, most of the other classes don't benefit. For rangers, only lightning, carpet bombing and shrapnel are affected. For demolitionists, only lightning, decay and controlled fission. For engineers, only lightning and decay. For both of the biotechs, only lightning, decay and reconstruction (exo's might also gain on cadaver immolation).
Your regen, at its highest level, offers you about 20 power/second, and your power pool is so huge you can liberally use your abilities. But since so few of your abilities have any gain, it's questionable. Looking at it, only the commandos (Guardians, Grenadiers) hugely benefit from it. You could potentially go heavy mind as a biotech, but the abilities aren't so powerful as to make this a clear choice.
Spirit, Brann Hybrid:





Spirit
Regen
HP
Trial 1 %
Trial 2 %
Trial 3 %
Trial 4 %
Trial 5 %
Trial 6 %
Overall %




206
290
20000
15
13
14
15
20
14
15.17




230
320
21481
21
20
15
15
14
16
16.83




255
351
23024
17
19
16
15
16
15
16.33




279
380
24506
24
21
16
18
24
24
21.17




304
411
26049
19
17
23
24
17
27
21.17




328
441
27530
29
20
25
39
19
23
25.83




353
472
29074
28
25
25
26
27
25
26




Regen per spirit: 1.25

Health per spirit: 61.72

Crit per spirit: 0.065%
Spirit analysis:
You'll note that the numbers above seem fudged on the crit... if I'd have shot at things more, I'm pretty sure it'd be more clear, but unfortunately, firing 600 shots 8 times (counting out the crits over nearly 5000 rounds spent) was about all my patience could bear. There's only 7 columns shown here, but I did another trial at 108 spirit, which got me just around a 10% crit rate. Given how nice and round that number is, like all the other level 50 base stat numbers, I'd imagine it's accurate.
That aside, for those classes that don't benefit all that much from mind, but still use lots of logos abilities, spirit will be a good friend of yours. Spirit will give you the regen necessary to spam these abilities, provided you back it up with some mind or body to give you an adequate power pool (you could also just get gear with lots of +power on it). On the Brann hybrid, you're looking at a total power of 136 if you don't put anything into mind/body.
All told, you get around 26% crit if you sink everything you have into spirit on a Brann hybrid. A lot of folks will go, "That's amazing!" and sink everything into crit. Before you do, here's some preliminary math:
108 spirit, 10% crit - 1.05x damage (.90 + 1.5(.1))

353 spirit, 26% crit - 1.13x damage (.74 + 1.5(.26))

26% crit means 7.6% more damage than 10% crit
I'm not discouraging crit, though. The real, true benefit of all of this crit is the secondary effects certain damage types do. Physical now adds a bleed effect, doing 1/5th the damage of the crit 5 times over 5 seconds, directly to health. Just bear in mind it doesn't stack, so physical machine guns are not the stuff of nightmares. Expect to see this in PvP anyway, though, as big damage physical weapons and skills will be nasty when they crit. Also, think of other useful secondary effects, such as sonic's knockback (a sonic shotgun will be extraordinary with this much crit).
Do you make decent money in TR or is it like WoW where you made peanuts? How good is loot and rare loot as far as drops? Credits in TR are EASY, it might seem ruf at 0/10 but after that money keeps rolling in....that is if you play the quest, grind (which is for me is mer a mindset some people have when they speak about GRIND) will not get you far or rich in TR , there's plenty of  LOOT (actualy in my opinion at times FAR to much ....hehe), Rare loots i don't REALLY think ( sure might be some things that could be seen as rare) but in time everyone CAN get everything. Only thing that could be seen as being rare would be veteran rewards http://www.rgtr.com/community/veteran_rewards/index.html
Which server is best right now as far as it being newbie helpful and friendly? I recall Vanguard and a server which no one wanted a part of. I'm EU so only one choose really as far the US servers go best someone playing on one of them answer this one for you  @, just see it as one game that hold many MANY different type/nationality's, knowing this you can easely filter out what you don't want to hear/read, i have yet to find this one game/mmo where 100% of the population was cool it's just a reflection of real life and for me in reall life i also do not get along with each and every person i pas by on the street. So i expect no diverence from a online game, you have the bad and the good everywhere.
Thanks for taking time out to answer.
 
 
 edit: Think I put this in the wrong section but nonetheless.