No one works on the west coast. Buncha lazy Californian party animals ;P
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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT| EA: "Let's blow this thing and go home!"
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No one works on the west coast. Buncha lazy Californian party animals ;P
We'll go for an hour or two.
RadicalRad
Member
Are we still complaining about slicing? The lvl 50 Dailys literally have you swimming in credits in just a few days of doing them.
Well, yeah. Slicing is awful now.
Well he wasn't last... Oh.
It's for casuals who don't wish to bother with crew skills.
That's what I'm saying. Have it be a training scenario, if you will, where people can "spar" against each other - which makes same-side matches possible.
I want republic vs republic on Kellers because I think, as a healer, I can take out half of our faction because ALL OF THEM ARE STUPID OH MY GOD SO STUID
There.
Nerf coming in 1.1, but still looks worth it. That's what I'm doing.
cpp_is_king
Member
JMO, but I don't think switching because it's the flavor of the day is necessarily a good long term investment. Imagine what happens once it's more balanced and you wasted your time and money getting a skill to 400 that really doesn't have that much of an advantage anymore.
I don't even have a crafting skill right now. I still have high scavenging due to Armstech, but Armstech is pretty useful.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Wait... lol, maybe I'm dumb.
I stuck with slicing through the last nerf. No, it's FAR from as profitible as it once was; but to me, it still seems worth it. I'd say I'm about +5K credits just from slicing every hour. Means in a 4hr play session, I typically log off $20,000 credits richer. And I'm still getting creds from mobs, bosses, PvP, slicing on computers, etc that I can use on meds/stims/equipment.
I figured that was decent. Should I be switching?
I stuck with slicing through the last nerf. No, it's FAR from as profitible as it once was; but to me, it still seems worth it. I'd say I'm about +5K credits just from slicing every hour. Means in a 4hr play session, I typically log off $20,000 credits richer. And I'm still getting creds from mobs, bosses, PvP, slicing on computers, etc that I can use on meds/stims/equipment.
I figured that was decent. Should I be switching?
It takes roughly a week to level all three skills from 0 to 400. Even if Biochem only retaints the reusable aspect of the consumables it'll still be a powerful profession.
LumpOfCole
Member
With inflation in full swing, Slicing breaks even on the lockboxes but makes loads of money on the critted mission discoveries. So it's basically 0 cost to roll the proverbial slots on 340 mission discoveries that can sell on the GTN for about 30k depending on the profession it ties into.
BattleMonkey
Member
Yea crafting is great here, they just need to balance it and make many of the professions actually viable for end game and in the future and not forget about it
Lol @ them forcing even more people into Biochem.
Is this a joke?
Is this a joke?
Are you cap? 20k credits in 4 hours is an extremely low money-to-time ratio at cap, where there are tons of easy dailies that can give you hundreds of thousands of credits in an hour or two.
I know that feel. Pubs on my server are fucking dumb.
Are the nerfs known yet? Like any real numbers?
Supposedly the level 48 Ultimate medpac blue/purple heals slightly more than the Rakata one, but the Rakata increases maximum health by 15% as well for a brief duration.
I'd give you the exact details, but there seems to be no way to copy a character to the PTR. I guess you'd have to take a new character through their starter zone to be able to access the fleet? It wouldn't let me on the shuttle when I ran a new character directly over there.
3.4k-4.5k, 15% max HP increase, HoT removed.
cpp_is_king
Member
I guess, I'm still only in my mid 20s so the problem I run into is just running out of credits to keep doing missions. But I guess if you don't care about the credit loss or the time investment then go for it.
I think the best medpack I had while leveling healed me for about 3600hp or something. That stll seems pretty good (1 medal instead of 2, but still), even more if they're not touching the cooldown of the medpack when compared to, say, the cybertech grenades.
Gotcha, thanks.
I know, but being a huge nerd I don't like to be dealt in vague terms. 'Slightly improved', 'brought down to' tells me nothing. Going from 4800-5800hp to 3600-4800hp and removing the 1200hp hot without touching the cooldown is the info that I need.
The money loss is laughable from leveling a profession. The most you'll spend on will be the high skill trainer schematics. If I hadn't finished expanding my inventory, I'd have hit 2 million credits today...
Meh, it wasn't even the medpacs that most people were moaning about. It was the fact they aren't on the same CD as warzone packs, and also it was the reusable adrenals which allowed ridiculous crits when stacked with relics/exp increase potion etc.
Typical they nerf it instead of buffing other professions. The medpac is invaluable as a tank in HMs and Operations. So is the Fort Stim and armor adrenal too.
Typical they nerf it instead of buffing other professions. The medpac is invaluable as a tank in HMs and Operations. So is the Fort Stim and armor adrenal too.
The dumb thing to me is that they fixed all of the Warzone issues by making them share cooldowns and not stack with each other. The changing of Energized and Exotech consumables was totally unnecessary and literally does nothing but undermine their own effort to try and bring Biochem in line with the other crew skills. Really bizarre.
It makes sense if you view it through the lens of "bioware is not so good at mmos."
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Biochem is way, way, way too powerful. The reusuable medkits heal for too much too often. i would put those at 75% the heal they are right now and a 5 minute cooldown instead of 90 seconds.
5k an hour is pretty poor at 50. You can make 200,000 credits just doing dailies, let alone the 150k MORE you make selling the stuff. I also easily can make tons more just doing diplo or UWT relatice to slicing, which is the real issue. Slicing is ONLY there to make money, and it doesn't do it as well as other mission skills.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Yup, for over 6 years, raided every other day for 5 hours.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Exactly. Its completely useless. i havent run any slicing missions since the nerf. i can kill enough mobs in 5 minutes of work to make 5k that would take me 30 minutes with Slicing now.
There's your problem, you were in a crappy guild that raided for 5 hours 7 days a week. 35 hours of raiding a week, you probably didn't get to run a single dungeon. Any guild that needs 35 hours a week for raiding has issues.
edit: woops, every other day. that's still 15 hours a week!
35 is a lot more than normal, 15 not so much.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
How do I only have 4 days of game time left if the game came out on the 20th? 
Even 15 sounds way too much to me. The most I've raided is 10 hours a week, and that's only when we had to push it if we had issues. It was usually 4 hours a day twice a week. And if we had to we added a sunday\monday for 2 hours.
I'm not sure what you were doing but that's pretty low compared to the schedules of guilds I've been in 4x3 or 3x4 with a couple 3x5's. No 5x3s, thank goodness.
If money comes so easy for you send me some please! Sn gatti-man.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
No we did just fine thank you and I'm sorry but the 5 man stuff in wow was borring as fuck. I never played the game longer than I was on for the raids. I actually enjoyed them. My life in wow was, log in get some flask mats, raid. Log off, log on raid. Repeat. Soon as the raid was over I was turning that shit off to go play real games. We had about 35 people that raided so we constantly did everything til everyone was decked out with the stuff they needed to push them to the next area they could go to. I was one of the highest dps in the guild so I offered to always help.
chickdigger802
Banned
Because they technically use them during cutscenes?
Either that or make the other skills actually matter like biochem
id prefer they buff other skills.
