Elder Scrolls

Elder Scrolls Online: Battlegrounds

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Player versus player combat can be a fun (or frustrating) way to break up the process of levelling a character, or be a fast paced alternative to dungeons and trials at endgame. Battlegrounds: These are available to any character of level 10 or above, have a separate bracket for players below level 50 and disable the use of champion points. Three teams of four players are randomly generated from all those queuing, and matches last until 500 points or 15 minutes have accumulated, whichever comes first. Each match takes place on a randomly chosen map, most of which have environmental … Continue reading Elder Scrolls Online: Battlegrounds

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Warden

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Want to throw oversized prehistoric chickens at foes? Heal your friends with the power of mushrooms? Blow incapacitating snow at everyone nearby? Warden has all of this and more! Skill Lines: Warden possesses three unique skill lines that can be supplemented with guild, world and equipment lines. Animal Companions: Deploy all kinds of beasties to distract and destroy your foes – including a semi-permanent bear companion! Thanks to Betty Netch and Falcon’s Swiftness this line can also provide speed buffs, restore resources and clear debilitating effects. Passives include restoring health every time an Animal Companions ability ends, bonus resource generation … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Warden

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Necromancer

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Do you like poking corpses with a stick? Do you like throwing bits of corpse at people? If so, you might want to consider Necromancer! Skill Lines: Like all classes in ESO, Necromancer comes with three unique skill lines that you can base your build around. Note: Many of these skills will draw the ire of guards if cast in towns, since necromancy has something of an… image problem. Bone Tyrant: Shrug off damage with your undead flesh, reap a harvest of stolen life with an arcane scythe or pin foes with skeletal hands. Functioning as the tanking and crowd-control … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Necromancer

Star Trek Online

Ships in Star Trek Online

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Star Trek Online has a lot of ships to choose from, and getting them can cost time or real-life cash (though in fairness, they are pretty good about handing out the odd freebie here and there.) Let’s have a look at what ships do what, cheap ship options and how to upgrade… Ship Type: Ships in STO come in a variety of different forms, but they can be broadly split into the following types: Raiders: Fast, agile and fragile, these ships deal bonus damage when behind the enemy. They usually have flexible bridge officer seating and can mount an experimental … Continue reading Ships in Star Trek Online

Miscellaneous Reviews

Pathfinder 2nd Edition

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In the darkness of the forest, a group of brigands splits the booty of another bloody ambush – but their crime spree has drawn the ire of the local merchants guild, who have in turn, hired a group of Pathfinders – oddball mercenary adventurers with a diverse set of skills. An elf runs one pale hand don the length of his arrow, imbuing it with lightning before taking aim. A human reaches out with senses no mortal creature should have, touching the seeping darkness between the stars and calling it forth to tear his foes apart at the atomic level. … Continue reading Pathfinder 2nd Edition

Miscellaneous Reviews

SLA Industries – 2nd Edition

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Rain drips through streets above you, carrying pollutants from the upper level on their journey to the very depths of Mort City. A pile of steaming viscera tells you the killer is close, something confirmed as you check for movement on your TRACK OPTICS motion scanner. A discrete button shoots a dose of SLA Industries pharmaceuticals into your bloodstream, as you engage the power pack on your DPB vibro-sabre. Checking the camera is following, you swing into the alley to dispense the SLA‘s justice for the watching, bloodthirsty masses. Just another day in the World of Progress. SLA is best … Continue reading SLA Industries – 2nd Edition

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonknight

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Dragonknights draw upon draconic essence to conjure flame and poison, dominating the battlefield with primordial force. Skill Lines: Like the other classes, Dragonknight comes with three unique skill lines that can be supplemented with equipment, guild and world skills. Ardent Flame: Focusing on damage over time and debuffs, this line also provides boosts to poison and flame effects, resource regain and passive snares. It’s also where you get the ability to breath flame or poison, increasing the flame damage victims take or corroding their armour with major breech. Rounding out this line is the ability to drag enemies to you … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonknight

Warframe, Warframes

Rhino

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Overview: Bowl enemies over, plate yourself in iron, boost squad damage with your roars and stomp the ground so hard you slow time – if this sounds good to you, try out Rhino. You can get Rhino components by killing the Jackal on Venus, and the main blueprint from the marketplace. Prime: Rhino prime does exist, but the relics containing his parts are currently “vaulted” and will not drop from any source. Try asking friends and clanmates if they have any relics, keep an eye on the trading channel or wait for an “unvaulting” event if you want this Orokin … Continue reading Rhino

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Gara

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Overview: Clad in crystal armour, Gara forms molten glass rings then shatters them for massive area damage, while protecting herself and her allies with clouds of razor-sharp crystal. Try Gara if you want a tough, high damage frame with built in crowd-control – you can pick up the blueprint from the Saya’s Vigil quest and parts from bounties on the Plains of Eidolon. Prime: The primed version of Gara gains additional health and armour. Relics containing her components can be found in most mission types, but I recommend: Blueprint: Xini (Eris) interception with a 14.29% chance on round 3 and … Continue reading Gara

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Lavos

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Overview: Infused with elemental essence, Lavos launches deadly cocktails of energy to eradicate his foes. You can buy his components from the Entrati Family in the Deimos Necralisk. Special: When collecting an energy or universal orb, clear any ongoing status effects and become immune to further effects for 10 seconds. In addition, ability duration mods apply their bonuses to all status effects caused by Lavos and his weapons. The powers used by Lavos do not consume energy, using a cooldown mechanic instead. This has an additional benefit in Railjack, since any battle intrinsic will also use a cooldown – meaning … Continue reading Lavos