What? I watched it on youtube and
that is definitely not how it goes...
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT| EA: "Let's blow this thing and go home!"
- Thread starter Emitan
- Start date
When I did he
went invincible as he was about to die, said some lines about joining the force, then he exploded
That's what I watched. Totally disappointing if you ask me...
Pretty sure he's going to come back for an operation at some point. It was the first fight that actually convinced me bioware has people that might be able to design a serious boss fight. Wish the meteor part happened for longer, was really fun. Would have first attempted it except he bugged out the first time and wouldn't die; had to reset it.
I loved it, every time there was dialogue in that dungeon I had a huge grin on my face
Going to do it again tonight and confirm what he saysI'm mostly talking story-wise, not the whole encounter itself.I loved it, every time there was dialogue in that dungeon I had a huge grin on my face
Azwethinkweiz
Member
Haha, that's my bad.
He went invincible so I just figured bioware was going to pull a blizzard and just have him run away so I stopped paying attention.
Not us healers
The one thing I absolutely love about this game vs every other MMO I have played is you can actually play the entire content as your desired role.
I am full Bodyguard spec and I use my tank companion and attack every mob as if I was in a instance with a group. I absolutely plow through content.
It teaches you how to use your abilities properly, learn to aggro dump ect.
normally in a MMO people level as DPS to speed through the content and then you end up with the most useless tanks and healers at end game
Sorry, all I see is an endless Zerg because spawn is way to close and interrupting is way too easy. Zero strategy. Not fun.
That can't actually happen. If you are on the first attacking team, if you get to the data terminal, the second attacking team has the amount of time available to them reduced by whatever the remaining time was on your attempt. So, if there was still time on the clock when they got to the data terminal, that means they did it faster.
Castor Krieg
Banned
People are still learning I guess - it is sometimes painful to go Flashpoints or Heroic Areas, and see someone pulling all the mobs, not waiting for CC, breaking stuns, etc.
Hope it improves at level 50.
Hope it improves at level 50.
BattleMonkey
Member
Voidstar is a real mess, and it's confusing as heck with that shitty map in the corner. Huttball got so much better now that players seem to have an idea how to play it and people actually are using tactics on it, feels more like a real game. Alderaan is simple as heck, but it works. Voidstar.... is just messy
Big Chungus
Member
WOW.
Man what's with all the exploits hahaha
Video was removed. What was it?
It's an exploit regarding mail you can get from NPCs. That one will definitely get some people banned.
While technically it is something you might trip on accident, you probably wouldn't notice and neither would they. You'd definitely have to intentionally be exploiting this to get their attention.
Big Chungus
Member
Hmm, I think I'm ok with this. That means he can show up again just not
in his physical form
so I assumed smuggler act 1 ended on alderran (since people said ~level 30) so I decided to blitz through it and just do class quests.... alderran finishes and act 1 keeps going
now i'm no longer overlevelled and my quest log is full lol.... ffffffuuuuuuuuuuu!
It is just about to end. There's only a couple steps involved beyond Alderaan.
Yeah, it goes through the environment a lot lol
BattleMonkey
Member
so I assumed smuggler act 1 ended on alderran (since people said ~level 30) so I decided to blitz through it and just do class quests.... alderran finishes and act 1 keeps going
now i'm no longer overlevelled and my quest log is full lol.... ffffffuuuuuuuuuuu!
If you blitzed through your class quests, how are you over leveled? You should be under leveled unless you been doing alot of other things.
Fix buggy commendations. Break the game!
So I have a quick question for all of you currently playing, if you'll indulge me.
How much can be achieved in this game playing by yourself?
I unfortunately don't have the schedule I'd like to have to commit to this game, but I unfortunately have an awfully addicting personality, so it wouldn't be hard to see myself pissing off obligations/life in general to play. However, I feel like if I can get all the great quests and not miss out on great loot playing by myself, I won't feel pressured to grind it out hard and party hard to attain the aforementioned goodies.
tl;dr Can I play by myself and still get to max lvl and still get great equips
How much can be achieved in this game playing by yourself?
I unfortunately don't have the schedule I'd like to have to commit to this game, but I unfortunately have an awfully addicting personality, so it wouldn't be hard to see myself pissing off obligations/life in general to play. However, I feel like if I can get all the great quests and not miss out on great loot playing by myself, I won't feel pressured to grind it out hard and party hard to attain the aforementioned goodies.
tl;dr Can I play by myself and still get to max lvl and still get great equips
BattleMonkey
Member
You can solo most of the game, including all class story content. Not get the best gear, but just the money you make in game and quest rewards should get you decent gear and buying stuff off the online auction market.
Did the Mandalorian FP for the first time last night. I play a hybrid healing/DPS operative, usually never have trouble healing.
I don't know if it was my group's negligence or if my hybrid build is starting to hit a "healing wall" but a few encounters in there were impossible to heal through without our off-healing BH.
Specifically
Maybe what seemed like near impossible odds were just poor pulls by our tank, but it was rough in there.
I'm level 26 for reference.
I don't know if it was my group's negligence or if my hybrid build is starting to hit a "healing wall" but a few encounters in there were impossible to heal through without our off-healing BH.
Specifically
the area you cross a small platform and 4 - 6 "dogs" jump up and rape you, too many mobs at once and the first boss who randomly targets party members. It felt like the boss' dogs would stick to me most of the time.
Maybe what seemed like near impossible odds were just poor pulls by our tank, but it was rough in there.
I'm level 26 for reference.
Its a great thing to spend 1.5 million on if you want to sit at the GTM and look like a tool.
Hell ya!
I blitzed through Alderran... did most stuff on other planets + pvp/space
I don't think I had any serious issues healing (though I am a pure healing operative spec) until I did Boarding Party with two tanks (one dpsing) and we fought a boss that needed some speedy DPS to deal with. Took us several tries but did it by the skin of our teeth. Going back there with the proper comp made it much easier though.
Thanks, you just sold a copy of the game. I suppose I didn't consider just buying gear, I can do that.
Crazymoogle
Member
I concur on solo play. It's very solo friendly. I love the GAF guild but my available time to play has been pretty minimal lately. Nonetheless I'm lv25
As a repeat of what people were saying earlier - Guardians/Juggs are kinda weird.
Yes, they are unkillables machines, but they do jack dps. And by that I mean it's so damn low it's ridiculous.
This is a problem because the game relies on dpsing to tank effectively since there are very few "high threat" abilities. Not to mention the complete lack of AoE which is frankly ridiculous.
Meanwhile, I fuck around with a Vanguard, which while has less survivability (I almost never died while leveling with my Guardian while I die often with my Vanguard) is a fucking DPS monster. You can clear a pack of 8 normal mobs with a single attack (mortar volley). It's absolutely RIDICULOUS! Their resource system also works a bit better and encourages you to swap attacks (doing the same one over and over will decrease the 4-ammo count much faster) so you need to be smart about what you're doing, but at least you can open up nicely with a lot of aggro instead of having to build up a resource then becoming resource-starved. If you manage your resource well as a Vanguard, you won't ever become resource-starved, while a Guardian can easily run out of resources if he has to run around too much.
Seriously, it's just... fucked. Their only clear advantage is that they just can't seem to die. They have the best defensive cooldown, the best defense in the game, but they just can't hold aggro it seems (or do any sort of decent damage).
Yes, they are unkillables machines, but they do jack dps. And by that I mean it's so damn low it's ridiculous.
This is a problem because the game relies on dpsing to tank effectively since there are very few "high threat" abilities. Not to mention the complete lack of AoE which is frankly ridiculous.
Meanwhile, I fuck around with a Vanguard, which while has less survivability (I almost never died while leveling with my Guardian while I die often with my Vanguard) is a fucking DPS monster. You can clear a pack of 8 normal mobs with a single attack (mortar volley). It's absolutely RIDICULOUS! Their resource system also works a bit better and encourages you to swap attacks (doing the same one over and over will decrease the 4-ammo count much faster) so you need to be smart about what you're doing, but at least you can open up nicely with a lot of aggro instead of having to build up a resource then becoming resource-starved. If you manage your resource well as a Vanguard, you won't ever become resource-starved, while a Guardian can easily run out of resources if he has to run around too much.
Seriously, it's just... fucked. Their only clear advantage is that they just can't seem to die. They have the best defensive cooldown, the best defense in the game, but they just can't hold aggro it seems (or do any sort of decent damage).
Angelus Errare
Banned
So you want to be unkillable AND do great DPS....and don't see a problem with that?
Yea it would be great if we had more high threat AOE attacks, because grabbing a group of mobs as a Van/Jug is fucking dumb as shit. But I honestly wouldn't trade my ability to take more damage than basically anyone else for a huge DPS boost.
I think the best bet is to add some AOE skills to the baseline class, and high threat skills to the higher tier of the defense tree; then boost the DPS tree a bit. This way we don't have Juggs running around doing more DPS than DPS specced classes all the while taking a year to kill.
Yea it would be great if we had more high threat AOE attacks, because grabbing a group of mobs as a Van/Jug is fucking dumb as shit. But I honestly wouldn't trade my ability to take more damage than basically anyone else for a huge DPS boost.
I think the best bet is to add some AOE skills to the baseline class, and high threat skills to the higher tier of the defense tree; then boost the DPS tree a bit. This way we don't have Juggs running around doing more DPS than DPS specced classes all the while taking a year to kill.
Yeah, I'm level 16 and the only time I haven't solo'd was when I grouped with a random for Black Talon. I'd love to do more stuff with the guild but it's going to be awhile before I'm a useful level.
BattleMonkey
Member
Jugs are tanks, it's what they do and they do it well. Don't see how that is a problem. How are you not holding aggro? The AOE taunt has a ridiculously fast CD. As a tank you should not be worrying about killing shit, thats what others are for, you are there to be a sponge and Jugs are damn good at it. There clear advantage is they are more defensive, that is a huge advantage. In PVP geared jugs are monsters that take usually team work to bring down, making them more offensive capable is just going to break them.
I can hear the cries from bannings already
Not worth getting banned over.