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[Aklyon]

I just started playing a few days ago and HOLY FUCK THIS IS AWESOME I'M A SPACE NINJA IN SPACE!

Who'd you pick to start with?

[Cthulufaic]

I just started playing a few days ago and HOLY FUCK THIS IS AWESOME I'M A SPACE NINJA IN SPACE!

Who'd you pick to start with?

Excalabur, since I wanted to go with a more up-front fighty kinda dude since the others seemed more caster and utility.

[Aklyon]

He is definitely the fighterdood. Slash dash is alright, radial blind is all of the useful utility, super jump...has very limited aerial invisibility, I guess?, and radial javelin stabs things that need to be stabbed quickly.

Volt is more about zapping things and wooshing away quickly afaik, and Mag (besides pull, which is always useful for knocking them all down and sometimes blowing up ospreys, as well as crush) is better off fighting the Corpus and stealing their shields.

[NullForceOmega]

Mag is also adorable, she's so tiny.

[Aklyon]

So I found out this was a thing today. Pretty neato, though from where I'd found it apparently its not perfect because phonetics.

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This thing works pretty well.
Not perfectly but good enough.
Apparently the period is a dash.

[nenjin]

An entire written language based on swords. Tenno, you do not disappoint.

[Nighthawk]

Damn, this is way cooler than cursive. Why don't they teach this in elementary school?

[jocan2003]

Soooo another game i will never understand why i never played this game before, anyway any B12 cave/kingdom around? Kinda would lie to stick with ninja dwarf to be honest.

[Retropunch]

Soooo another game i will never understand why i never played this game before, anyway any B12 cave/kingdom around? Kinda would lie to stick with ninja dwarf to be honest.

I'm around and started a new game quite recently, I've been playing quite a bit - my name on it is: Retropuchout

I have to say, whilst I enjoy it a lot, the grinding does get a bit much at times - especially as the drop rate for rare stuff seems to have been massively nerfed. It used to be that pretty much every defence (15) or survival I played through I'd have a couple of good rare mods/items, whereas now I've gone through a good 10-20 and not seen anything useful. I've never got into the whole dojo thing though, and I hear there's a lot going on with that so I'll check it out soon

[Flying Dice]

I just started playing a few days ago and HOLY FUCK THIS IS AWESOME I'M A SPACE NINJA IN SPACE!

Who'd you pick to start with?

Excalabur, since I wanted to go with a more up-front fighty kinda dude since the others seemed more caster and utility.

Good choice, yeah. Now that Loki's not a starter any more, there's a pretty strong argument to be made that Excalibur is far and away the best of the starters. He's simple to learn for new players, solid up through mid-level play even running solo as long as you're careful and mod for survivability, and can even hold his own in the late-game with a certain sort of build (i.e. oriented around maximizing Radial Blind first, not dying second, and everything else can eat it).

The main thing to keep in mind is that DPS-oriented builds will slowly but steadily fall off as you advance up to high-level content, while CC only gets better by comparison. Radial Blind isn't the best CC out there, but when you're modding with it in mind Excalibur's a solid frame because you've got a bit of beef to back it up.

That said, what I'm planning on doing (and what is generally good advice for just about everyone) is to wait for your daily reward to give you a decent discount on plat and pick up a bit (you only need 25 on top of the starter 50 you get for free) so that you can buy a Loki from the market. It's only 75 plat (compared to newer frames which are ~375ish), comes with a slot and a potato (each normally 20 plat), so you're basically getting a fully kitted out frame for 35 plat, and the Loki is one of the best for endgame content thanks to Radial Disarm (and his other abilities, mainly the invisibility, are still useful at that level, unlike Excalibur's two damaging abilities). There are other frames with better CC, but none come as cheap as that. 

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On an unrelated note: RIP my Dual Ethers. I love them but I'm going to have to shove them in a locker labeled 'Infestation Invasions only' once I finish the last couple levels on them, since they're becoming increasingly useless. Guess I'll have to find something else to copter with until I hit my 8th mastery rank. Any suggestions?

[Aklyon]

Its not my favorite weapon (Tempo Royale most fun stance), but the Tipedo's alright for going woosh. Personally I could care less about the coptering ability of my melee, directional melee tends to be more useful and the scindo prime has a nice solid-feeling one.

[Flying Dice]

Heh, it's mostly for the sake of keeping up with the pace on usual pubstomp runs, and for speedrunning solo missions that I don't want to try fighting through (seriously, finally bothered to do those Archwing quest missions and I lost three of my revives to those fucking Orokin surprise-stunlock-instadeath lasers, and resolved the situation by coptering over the entire platforming area).

[Aklyon]

Meanwhile apparently U16 is out, which means Chroma(tic dragon) frame, the new relay bits & pvp, the raid thing, and some other misc things. Update notes here.

[Flying Dice]

Thanks for the tips.

[marples]

Is there a bay12 clan?