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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT| EA: "Let's blow this thing and go home!"
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Skellig Gra
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Did you do any flashpoints or heroics at the recommended level? It sure doesn't sound like it.
Speaking for myself, I can at least say that Armstech isn't really worth it, and I'm a Trooper.
The problem is that orange gear means that most of the weapons you can make are pretty useless, as your orange gear will be better. And the only mod for orange gear you can make are barrels.
I think Armortech has the same problem, in that it only produces one class of mod.
I'd drop it for Cybertech if I wasn't already at 250 in both it and Investigation.
Basically, the profs that produce lots of mods are the preferable ones.
No, so I'll bite. Are the flashpoints impossible to complete without modding your gear extensively? If they can't be completed by groups in a mix of greens and blues I'd argue that there is something wrong with them.
I've got so many things sucking credits out of my bank account (professions, skills, ship upgrades, trading missions) I'd really rather not worry about running off to buy a new set of mods everything I change out a piece of gear.
The thing is, Biochem and Cybertech are crafting professions. And the rest of the crafting professions absolutely pale in comparison. I've got Biochem on my main and in a few days I'll have the reusable adrenal (565 rating of your choice every 3mins), reusable medpack (5-6k heal with 2k HoT) and a reusable stim (136 primary stat and 56 secondary stat). I'll also be able to craft epic implants as soon as I get the reverse engineering proc.
You get mods as quest rewards too, you know.
Skellig Gra
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Not impossible. It would be very challenging though, but you said "cakewalk" which a lot of the heroics are certainly not, especially with garbage gear and at level for the content.
That's not 80 hours of constant PvP. Not even close.
Skellig Gra
Member
and from doing heroics/flashpoints...self fulfilling prophecy
Oni Link 666
Member
It doesn't sound like you get what modding gear is all about. It's not enchanting like in WoW. You're not spending money keeping the stats of the gear updated either. You can play through the whole game with a piece of orange gear you like the look of and keep the stats up to date with mods you get as quest rewards or mods that you buy with commendations. You can either do that or keep replacing quest greens with quest greens. In my experience, keeping your orange gear updated with just commendation and quest reward mods will keep your gear with better stats than most quest greens. The "point" is to look how you want to look. I got a PVP set at level 40 that looks kind of like white Bobba Fett armor so I kept using that all the way to 50. On my Assassin, I got some black robes I thought looked cool, so I just kept modding that instead of replacing it with ugly greens.
Skellig Gra
Member
Anyway, on topic of mods:
The crystal I bought, the hilt was from daily commendations, the mod from a heroic daily and the enhancement from a heroic daily.
This brought up a thought, what color lightsabers do you sith scum have? Just red?
Red, yellow and orange, republic weakling.
Skellig Gra
Member
Unless there's a piece of gear that is a big improvement, I always opt to take the Commendation as a reward instead of the gear/cashbox/mod. My reaasoning being that I can always buy the mods I refuse elsewhere, but commendations cannot be purchased.
Oni Link 666 said:
That just doesn't sound like any fun to me. Changing looks and seeing new gear is a cool part of the leveling experience. It's exciting to see a new lightsaber with better stats drop -- it's less exciting to buy a new +50 Endurance mod to keep old gear relevant.
I suppose it's a nice alternative for people that want to roleplay or have a consistent look though.
Oni Link 666
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Anyone can use any color crystal regardless of faction. Color crystals are restricted to Dark and Light side alignments. Blue and Green are Light only and Red is Dark only. Orange is neutral.
I kept upgrading most of my gear through leveling. Kallig's orange gear looks fucking cool.
Skellig Gra
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You get commendation drops in heroics...lol
Oni Link 666
Member
So if you're a Jedi and got some cool brown robes and look like Obiwan and a neon purple robe with green stripes down the back with +5 Endurance and +5 Will Power, you'll take it and be in heaven?
Getting new gear is normally a fun experience, but the vast majority of gear I get is a low res mess. I'm still using one of the very first orange chest pieces a smuggler gets because it's the best looking one that doesn't have too many low res textures on it. I've found a couple that could look better if they upped the texture resolution significantly, but who knows when they'll fix what is causing the texture bug. If it's even a bug in the first place.
The planet commendations come from quest rewards and random drops off of mobs.
What's more fun about power-leveling to 50? Running heroics or LOLOLOL-ing at the people who aren't there yet?
Oni Link 666 said:
I just want to see different gear that's out there as I level, though I largely make decisions based on stats. If something was truly hideous it might make a difference but I've yet to run into anything embarrassingly stupid.
Interesting, so us weaklings get more colors, not too shabby
Red is all a sith needs. I was disgusted when I got a nice new saber and it was freakin orange. Looked awful on my evil badass.
Skellig Gra
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I dunno, I always imagined an all black lightsaber would look pretty badass.
Plenty of people running around with body type #3 Commandos with Jedi Knight capes. Looks badass. I don't think there is anything that tops that.
I just hope they fix up the mod system quickly on level 50 gear. Too much cloning already going on.
You'll get commendations from flashpoints as well.
Not entirely sure what the argument here is on PvP Gear on WoW (yes im lazy and only read 1 page back), but I max weekly cap conquest points in less than 45 min every tuesday after reset, doing Arenas 2's. And Honor point (used to buy lesser pvp items) is really not that hard to obtain, even if you are losing constantly on BGs.
I was omw to 2.2k on my ret pally but dropped team before my sub ended on Jan 2nd.
I was omw to 2.2k on my ret pally but dropped team before my sub ended on Jan 2nd.
BattleMonkey
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I scoff when I have a Sith with blue or green sabers in my party.
the worst is when they pick the good choices in groups. I mean why did you pick a sith if you're going to be a pansy good guy? Or maybe I'm just role playing too much.
do what you want while leveling, it doesn't really matter either way. Some people like one cool piece of gear and others don't need to look like they came out of a movie. What's the big deal?
I make/had enough credits stashed from slicing so I can pick something I like and mod it every few levels to stay relevant. But I also have no problems wearing a pink cape if that is the best gear while I'm stuck on a planet
Now to the level 50s, are op gear unmoddable? or are they already socketed with better mods than you can craft/buy? Do they have empty augment slots?
I'm trying to understand if there are anyways to improve end-game op gear ala gem/enchants or if they are the best they can be already
I make/had enough credits stashed from slicing so I can pick something I like and mod it every few levels to stay relevant. But I also have no problems wearing a pink cape if that is the best gear while I'm stuck on a planet
Now to the level 50s, are op gear unmoddable? or are they already socketed with better mods than you can craft/buy? Do they have empty augment slots?
I'm trying to understand if there are anyways to improve end-game op gear ala gem/enchants or if they are the best they can be already
Oni Link 666
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So, yesterday I had a level 4 Inquisitor on the fleet and was going to go back to Korriban, but took the Hutta shuttle by mistake. Now I'm stuck on Hutta and can't take the shuttle out of there. It's been almost 24 hours now. I don't have the fleet pass spell yet. I put in a ticket last night, but still nothing.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Have someone buy a fleet pass and mail it to you?So, yesterday I had a level 4 Inquisitor on the fleet and was going to go back to Korriban, but took the Hutta shuttle by mistake. Now I'm stuck on Hutta and can't take the shuttle out of there. It's been almost 24 hours now. I don't have the fleet pass spell yet. I put in a ticket last night, but still nothing.
Haven't done any ops yet, but some of the hardmode drops are moddable.
My Sith Inquisitor has a green light saber and "the Pure" title Mr Cliche Bad Guy
So, yesterday I had a level 4 Inquisitor on the fleet and was going to go back to Korriban, but took the Hutta shuttle by mistake. Now I'm stuck on Hutta and can't take the shuttle out of there. It's been almost 24 hours now. I don't have the fleet pass spell yet. I put in a ticket last night, but still nothing.
Level 4? Can't you get to level 4 in like an hour? Reroll?
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Deleted member 17706
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Or maybe they are role playing? It's perfectly acceptable and reasonable to be a 'good guy' Sith. In fact, these guys are more real the ridiculous comical villainy of everyone else in the Sith Empire. Guys like this want power and are ruthless against people who have wronged them, but they may also have sympathy for the underdogs or the weak. The Sith Inquisitor starts out as a slave, for example, so it wouldn't be crazy to expect that he has some apathy for others that were in his situation.
You can be a nice guy, but still reject the Jedi philosophy that all emotion must be suppressed.
JK with smuggler pimp cape with lightsabers....you know you want to
yeah, i was going to suggest rerolling as well...
Well yeah, but my point is that it's more worth it to get commendations from quests than it is the mods, since the mods are more easily purchased.
Oni Link 666
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They are bound.
He also has a bunch of purple crafting missions and orange gear in the bank.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Can't you mail those bank items to your new player if you need to re-roll?
Oni Link 666
Member
There's no bank on Hutta.
vitaminwateryum
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Think I'm gonna cancel for a few months. I've finished both of the operations in both normal and nightmare modes, done all the flashpoints in hard mode multiple times, a full set of champion pvp gear, full Rakata/Columni, maxed out crew skills, and a shitload of money. As it stands there just isn't much to do in endgame and what is there, isn't very difficult.
I want to start an alt pretty bad, but I have a feeling that I'll regret it once they release the legacy stuff.
I want to start an alt pretty bad, but I have a feeling that I'll regret it once they release the legacy stuff.
get a cybertech to summon you? seems like a lot of work to get of the planet haha
why can't you get on the shuttle again? bug?
wow, yeah sounds like you might as well just stop until an expansion or content patch comes out
Oni Link 666
Member
Yeah. It says "You can't use this at this time."
It usually gives two options. One for the Imperial Fleet, and one for the Hutta Orbital Station. Can't go to either?
Yeah I would take a break for awhile. Nothing wrong in doing so. You just really burned through all they had to offer pretty quickly.
Hopefully as we approach the official "month" of launch we will get a better idea of their content update.
JetBlackPanda
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do you guys think if I add 4 gigs of Ram to my laptop it will help at all?
as it stands now I can play with about 22-30 fps and indoors it drops to 8-12 fps.
as it stands now I can play with about 22-30 fps and indoors it drops to 8-12 fps.