Yeah, definitely playing on a DPS character for solo will for sure be faster than Support chars. If I recall from what I was told from someone, when maintenance rolls around later this week, they are planning to buff the support chars a bit more for solo raids. And yes, I do agree with you. I don't have any support characters at 1540, but even at 1580 with no solo buffs, I was barely able to clear with a bit of time left soloing the raids on my Paladin and Artist. I still don't have the proper combat stats, as well as DPS tripods leveled that high on my Supports for the solo raid build purpose, and even DPS gems for my supports. Only raid I haven't tried soloing yet is Akkan since I barely ran it in general. In the end of the day, I like the fact that they finally made the earlier raids a solo version to be able to progress alone and hope to see more like this in the future. It's very nice to see others giving the game a shot again. I wish you good luck on your runs and thanks for stopping by!

@@MasterSergeantMartin Ended up clearing gate 1 when I logged on after I left that comment. It kinda feels like the support playstyle for solo is almost opposite to DPS playstyle lol. On support I have to basically spend every second DPSing to not hit enrage, but virtually none of the mechanics ever budge my HP either so I get to spam DPS. The only mechs I found that I really needed to worry about were either stuff that was gonna CC me (thus reducing my DPS) OR stuff that will eventually end the run (like puddle placement on Kayangel), but other than that I could just spam damage. Was pretty fun, though I think I'd prefer doing em on DPS to be honest

Not exactly sure about the client, but I still have the folder of "us_1.5.34849_Hero108" that contains the launcher. Besides that, never did play the game on the current PC I'm using since my very very old laptop if I recalled did used to play it way back. Not entirely accessible at the moment though, sadly. I'd be interested in hearing the progress of the game though.

@@MasterSergeantMartin that might be useful, though! What’s the size of this folder if I might know?

The folder I mentioned only has the download installer, which is about 773 MB. The other folder I found is the Gamania folder which I think contains the patch updater, client, other data files, font, etc, which is about 4.19 GB.

Hey, is there any way I may reach out for that? My comments are automatically deleted by KZfaq whenever I mention discord for some reason :/

@@MasterSergeantMartin I would be super grateful for it, as it may solve the incomplete client issue! Despite not knowing if it is fully updated, that’s still a bigger file size than the 2.01GB from the installer!

Aye, much appreciated! Yeah, this took me so many hours of attempts trying to clear this boss solo within 15 minute time limit. The scaling isn't so bad if you do the quest with a full 4 man party assuming everyone knows how to play their class at the high skill ceiling and are equipped with the BiS gearing. The scaling is pretty hard once you reduce the number of players in the party since less party synergy buffs like having a Ranger or Tech in the team. This fight is also not Gunner friendly as well since the boss doesn't give you an ample amounts of opportunity to build up chain count for the big burst of damage windows when popping chain. Sorry for long explanation since I assume you've never played this game before. Also sorry for not having done the rest of the PG3D World 4 run done yet. I've been farming this game for the time being since anniversary benefits ongoing at the moment, as well as playing another bit of time consuming game that is Lost Ark. I appreciate seeing you around again.

@@MasterSergeantMartin I've never played this game before so ty for the explanation, I think I understood like half of that and you don't have to say sorry, I've been taking a break from that game ever since I got banned =w=

Banned? How did that happen if you don’t mind me asking? Otherwise sorry to hear that.

@@MasterSergeantMartin oh it's fine I used a cheeto to give myself infinite currency and equipments :3

Ah, I don't really blame you there. Game is too P2W and isn't generous upgrading guns and all that especially over the years. I still miss the good ol' days before gems were a thing. Will see how things go from here, do plan to check out how Wuthering Waves will be like to see if I'll get into that more.

No, the generator you have to defend against the swarm of enemies in the first level does not count against you getting three stars on the first level. One star is completing the level by killing all enemies, second star is not losing a single HP (armor HP doesn't count, which makes it a whole lot easier to achieve), and last star is completing the level on Hard difficulty. Though if the generator HP reaches to zero, then it's an automatic loss resulting in resetting the level again.

I am glad to hear that Armor HP doesn't count, because I keep replaying Hell Castle because of me failing to dodge demon boss' fire. And glad to hear about generator, because if the generator hp loss counted against getting 3 stars, then it would be impossible to get all 3 stars.

Yeah, besides the bosses posing a major threat of their damage output and speed, making regular enemies way tankier against these weak stock weapons is very annoying. I tried not to cheese otherwise the run would've been a bit shorter. I will have to practice the parkour stage a lot before making the next part until then. If I somehow manage to get past it, the last two stages are completely new to me. Other than that, appreciate you stopping by once again!

Well, it was first day attempt and if I recalled, you did say you were about to hit the hay soon if we didn't clear that time. We're all rusty as heck, but in the end, a clear is a clear! Appreciate ya joining along.

Not yet, I kind of just stopped playing the game after uploading these world runs. I could probs make two different videos of doing the first half on one video and the second half of the rest of it. I haven't done Stage 5 yet, but I know I hate the parkour level one so much.

@@MasterSergeantMartin I seen that you didn't complete that one yet at 46:08 idk if it's worth coming back to play because it takes a lot of time since all of the enemies (especially boss monsters) are bullet eaters but I'd like to see the playthrough if you decide! no one really makes video for pve on this game, just the pvp 🤣

@@foxxo217 Yes, it definitely does take a long time killing enemies with the stock weapons provided for World 4. It’d be hard to do without having to cheese against enemies here, but I’ll see. Currently playing another game for the time being, no promise I’ll upload it soon, we’ll see. I just despise the parkour stage one.

@@MasterSergeantMartin I can show you my strategy for 3 star level 4 if you decide to come back and if you want to see it, it's not perfect but it makes it not so hard

Go ahead if you want then. I'll try to get a video of the first half of World 4 sooner or later in the mean time. Will probably cheese on second stage boss in World 4.