Progression for Dread Fortress ended June 10th.

It's because this game is dead. Sorry to bring you the bad news.

Nobodys said Reckoning is disbanding. Take your mediocre players and assumptions and enjoy Wildstar, kthx.

If I go in with my 180/186 gear, will I get boosted even higher?

First of all, grats to Zorz for a very fast clear. Even without TRE having issues, I doubt we would've been anywhere near beating you on Council. Second, I think this will really hurt the future of dedicated PvE in this game, especially for guilds on The Red Eclipse. It's been 10 months since last tier, and after the failure that was DF/DP, I fear this was the last nail in the coffin for many. Lack of well designed bosses (lets face it, RNG is horrible design) topped by yesterdays disaster of a patch. Meh, I'm sad.

Last day to kill Brontes! And grats to all The Red Eclipse guilds clearing this. I count 8 guilds so far, 5 imperial and 3 republic. Huge improvement from last tier!

A lot of those who left TRE to join TOFN a year ago, I see coming back to TRE these days.

There isn't anything hardcore or serious about thinking a healer should only heal. Just ignore them, they have no clue what they are talking about. Keep dps'ing as much as you can!

I originally play this game as a PvE-player, but I do PvP as well. Raiding has way more expenses than PvP. I've had up to a million credits repair cost in one week, and consumables are expensive as well. And I make nothing on it, except gold from trash and the weekly quest. When I PvP I get some credits after each match, no repair cost, and consumables are cheap in comparison. Having to grind dailies for money is just as boring for a PvE-raider as a PvP-player. Can also remind you that 1.2-2.0 was money heaven for PvP'ers. It was 10x easier to make money through PvP than PvE.

I'm curious if OP has actually cleared any hard PvE content in this game. But with statements as "PvE is about gear, not mechanics" I strongly doubt it. Edit. Oops I missed his post saying he didn't even try hard modes. So basically because daily quests are easy in this game, heroic raiding must be too. Totally.

Look at how low dmg your powertech did. Clearly needs a huge buff to be anywhere near viable.

Sure, you who thinks exploiting is okay, would probably downvote this on reddit. But thats what I wanted - opinions about someone doing this, because I think it's very wrong. Not going after getting DnT banned from progression (heck, I even think it was wrong to ban them from TFB charts, skip was fine imo), or anything like that.

Let's not let this go off-topic. This wasn't ment to start an attack on DnT, but seeing reactions that someone that participates in this progression thread, exploits to get more gear to get an advantage in the progression. Who did it irrelevant, if you got 1st or 99th on a boss is irrelevant, nor has it anything to do with butthurt. Nobodys trying to take away your 1st on first four bosses. The point is that it's unsportsmanlike and unfair towards everyone else. I find it a bit funny though, how you make up that I've been threatening you with some reddit stuff (??). But this is off-topic, so I'll leave it at that.

It's exploiting. What they did is the definition of exploiting. "Being smart" is just a pretty way of saying that.

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But that didn't stop you from using it, did it? Or do you seriously have enough geared alts to farm Nefra 16NiM ~5 times per week? Something else that looked funny, was how 3 DnT members were in a their own instance of DF just now. One of them went in with one Dread Master implant and one Dread Forged. Comes out a bit later, goes to vendor, then to fleet and to augmentation station, takes out augment of his/her Dread Forged implant, and suddenly has 2x Dread Master implants equipped. Magic!

So, whats up with Death and Taxes already having farmed 20+ implants in 3 weeks? And streaming mumble when speaking about finding out how to farm implants, when theres a known exploit to ~3man Nefra 16NiM. I'm no mathematician, but I think that amount of implants is mathematically impossible.

Why is farming such a bad thing? If they put in a lot of effort, shouldn't they be rewarded accordingly? If it's so effective; you do the same.

Only if it totally breaks the game.

We ran that with all types of different classes, never had that issue, ever.

Challenging - yes, it's pretty hard. Well designed phase? No way. Chaos and RNG all over the place.

The only part about Dragonslayer that was RNG, was Chained adds. We got our title 2 weeks later because of mass-resisted stuns (even with multiple backups) and Healer getting sent into nightmare 1sec before Dragon spawned (hotfixed after a few weeks). You can say adds being able to resist stun is possible to work around, but it's still a horrible mechanic how they can resist, and it's pathetic how it was never hotfixed. Shows how little the devs care about stuff that makes a huge difference. Just look at a huge issue with RNG on Draxus now, that interrupts can be resisted on a fight that hugely revolves around healers and tanks having to help out with interrupting. And they wonder why dedicated players leave this game... How Thrasher was RNG I don't understand either. Done that fight a million times, and it's always the same. You might've had some weird tactics for it if you think RNG decides the outcome on that fight. Seven Stuck got it 1 week after Hatred, Reckoning got it 2 weeks after. Then a week after that again, Warlords was changed. I agree with the statement that Gatecrasher is too much RNG. I actually think the whole instance is quite bad, to be honest.

Yea, I'm aware of that. But I did the exact same thing countless times last week, and not a single time did it kill me, or even do noticeable damage. Now it happened twice within a few attempts for both me and my co-marauder. Makes no sense to me.

Anyone else experiencing Undying Rage not working properly in the last phase? Only lasting 1-2 seconds instead of 4 seconds...

22:57:08.449 You activate Undying Rage 22:57:08.449 You gain Undying Rage 22:57:10.117 You lose Undying Rage effect 00:08:14.999 Disdan activates Undying Rage. 00:08:14.999 Disdan gains Undying Rage. 00:08:15.975 Disdan loses Undying Rage. This happened on Brontes 8man NiM (last phase) for me and our other mara. Anyone else experiencing this? Was -not- like this last week, popped a lot of orbs with undying then. Tried it out of combat, and it lasted 4 seconds like it's supposed to.