Nero's Neptune
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I forget the full name, but it's something-Champion Greaves. Should be able to find them searching "Champion Greaves" under adaptive armor.
Hah, I bet.
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I forget the full name, but it's something-Champion Greaves. Should be able to find them searching "Champion Greaves" under adaptive armor.
Hah, I bet.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Hopefully we get the expansion unveil before friday or next tuesday. Hope it didn't get pushed back.
The healer/shooter at lvl 21 is good. Finally a worthy companion. Edit: Oh it's Balmorra completion, not just lvl 21...
Does taking out the parts in gear make it bound to me?
I found an orange vest going for 25k-45k on the market but it said it was bound to me after I had taken out the parts. Didn't read what it said while doing so, only looked at the cost.
Another Nar Shadaa screenie and the new vest + lightsaber:
Does taking out the parts in gear make it bound to me?
I found an orange vest going for 25k-45k on the market but it said it was bound to me after I had taken out the parts. Didn't read what it said while doing so, only looked at the cost.
Another Nar Shadaa screenie and the new vest + lightsaber:
CmdrShepard
Member
I don't think the unveil will get pushed back. Very likely to be tomorrow on Friday.
SixMachine
Member
On a whim I decided to try this game out. I am on the west coast pvp server and I'm only a level 14 powertech. Which server do you guys roll on? I haven't ran into any open world pvp yet since I haven't seen I haven't gone far enough to see any republic running around but I was hoping it would be like DCUO where if you were a hero/villain and you see the other side running around it would be open season. Do you even get anything for ganking anyone like a bounty or something?
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
You're not yet on a planet that both factions can visit. The first will be Nar Shaddaa. Both factions do go to Balmorra/Taris but at different times so there is no interaction between them.
There's not much open world PVP left in this game. Like most MMOs, it was around a good bit in the early daysand then slowly folks stopped going/it got nerfed/etc til it's non existent now unless there's an event going on. You'll see folks occasionally as you level up, and even more rarely they might be flagged so you can attack, but the planets are so big it's hard to run into others honestly.
You used to get valor points for ganking people in open world PVP which add up and eventually give you titles, but there is no reward anymore. Valor points are strictly through warzones now.
If you want to PVP, just queue for warzones. I think one thing that most people agree on who played this game extensively is that SWTOR PVP is some of the best and more balanced you'll find in an MMO. You can level up solely through it if that's what you're into.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
No expansion news this week 
Apparently they are planning something special for subs that they want to lock down before announcing everything. We'll get the announcement in the next couple of weeks but he said it doesn't affect the release date at all and it's still coming this year.
Apparently they are planning something special for subs that they want to lock down before announcing everything. We'll get the announcement in the next couple of weeks but he said it doesn't affect the release date at all and it's still coming this year.
Moff
Member
honestly even if it does still release this year, this has been easily the worst year for SWTOR so far. and things looked so good last year, with oricon, starfighter and the tactical flashpoints had hard modes. but this year? next to nothing.
no operations, no hardmore flashpoints, 1 warzone, thats the only thing I can really count.
housing is great, but useless until I have actualy new content i want to play and can contribute to the housing with it.
so yeah, thats why i hardly played this game this year although I actually really like it.
no operations, no hardmore flashpoints, 1 warzone, thats the only thing I can really count.
housing is great, but useless until I have actualy new content i want to play and can contribute to the housing with it.
so yeah, thats why i hardly played this game this year although I actually really like it.
HarryDemeanor
Member
I don't see how a special pet or vehicle for subs would impact the announcement. Now they've got me feeling that it's going to be underwhelming.
People want information not extra fluff for being loyal.
People want information not extra fluff for being loyal.
Nero's Neptune
Member
I like both.
Shame about the announcement being pushed back though. Was really looking forward to it. Guess I'll keep working on my scoundrel in the mean time...
BattleMonkey
Member
It will probably be special incentives for subscribers to preorder the expansion by a certain date
I agree it's pretty sparse, don't get me wrong...but the worst one had to be the first one, don't you think? Where we had dead servers and no new content forever and lost a million plus players?
I'm still ticking away at it. PVPing as usual. Destiny on the side...and now Shadow of Mordor. Too much stuff.
CmdrShepard
Member
Look at mounts on GTN first... Sometimes you see some common cartel mounts up there for as little as 2k.
Cool, there are some for 10k which is way less than I expected.
Moff
Member
well I personally enjoyed the first year a lot. I think the content was fine for launch and witthin the first month there was lots of new operation content and another hardmode flashpoint.
CmdrShepard
Member
The content drought between 1.2 and 1.3 and then again between 1.3 and 1.4 (with 1.3 a QoL update rather then content) it was easily the largest content drought by far and away. While in terms of operations this is now the longest drought (which for me is important), in terms of just content though the first year after 1.2 was sparse at best.
That's pretty much what I was getting at. It was a dry time indeed.
I enjoyed the first year a lot too, but there's no escaping the fact that the vast majority of people quit and those of us that didn't were on very dead servers for a good chunk of time. Even with regular content, it would've been near unbearable with the populations we had, which is why so many flooded servers like The Harbinger and Fatman back then.
For me, this and any future year would have a hard time being worse just based on the fact there are many ops, warzones, space pvp, flashpoints, etc to do and a decent number of people to do them with.
Pre-orders are up for Shadow Of Revan, starting today. $20.
http://www.swtor.com/info/news/press-release/20141006
Glad they held off on the press release to announce they are giving us a statue and some x12 xp. Amazing, Bioware!
I'm really curious on this discipline system.
Here's the blog on discipline:
http://www.swtor.com/blog/developer-update-introduction-disciplines
Holy.
http://www.swtor.com/info/news/press-release/20141006
Glad they held off on the press release to announce they are giving us a statue and some x12 xp. Amazing, Bioware!
I'm really curious on this discipline system.
Here's the blog on discipline:
http://www.swtor.com/blog/developer-update-introduction-disciplines
Holy.
BattleMonkey
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Not sure how well Disciplines will work obviously till it's launched, but hopefully they let us save configs? If they say they want us to be able to easily reset and choose new ones while not in combat, I hope they give us a save option for our builds so we finally have a multispec system. As the whole skill reset was always available, and just a pain.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Actually, looking at it again the xp boost is actually really cool, it lets you get from 1-55 just doing your class quests. That's perfect for me.
EDIT: Oh shit, the XP boost is right for between now and the launch, available immediately. Nice!
Yep, you can go all the way to 50 as a f2p. Your limited in stuff like how much money you can have available and which gear you can wear but all the story stuff is open.
EDIT: Oh shit, the XP boost is right for between now and the launch, available immediately. Nice!
Yep, you can go all the way to 50 as a f2p. Your limited in stuff like how much money you can have available and which gear you can wear but all the story stuff is open.
So my wife and I are pretty burnt on Destiny, figured I would pick up SWTOR again for a little while till a few more releases hit.
How far does the F2P go? Can we finish our storyline missions? We are both pretty high level as it stands, I think we were actually on the last parts of both, hah.
How far does the F2P go? Can we finish our storyline missions? We are both pretty high level as it stands, I think we were actually on the last parts of both, hah.
BattleMonkey
Member
You can finish all the class stories via f2p
BattleMonkey
Member
I'm sure they aren't. They specifically say new to the two new tactical flashpoints, but don't label the 4 hardmodes as new. Surely it will be like ROTHC where they just put hardmodes for current story flashpoints. Imagine the 4 last FP's which tie into this new expansion will be the ones made into HM's.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Expansion sounds great so far. Loving what I'm reading about Disciplines.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Yeah, discipline is sounding exactly like the change WoW made with Cataclysm, which is a great thing for leveling but tends to have less impact at endgame when you would have your full spec available anyway.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Is that a good thing? I don't play WoW.
They are supposed to be doing a stream tomorrow to show how it works.
CmdrShepard
Member
The cinematics in the trailer looked phenomenal.... Great to see 2 planets confirmed, level 60 confirmed etc...
There is a live stream tomorrow of the Disciplines system at 2pm CDT. Not staying up for that but am very interested in giving it a look.
There is a live stream tomorrow of the Disciplines system at 2pm CDT. Not staying up for that but am very interested in giving it a look.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Hmmm, interesting. If you pre-order to get the XP buff all your skill upgrades are free. That makes sense considering you wouldn't make enough credits from the class quests alone to pay for them. Cool perk though.
I didn't play enough to really see if it made a difference or not. It gives you more freedom for sure, but most of the top pvpers generally use the same builds anyway, switching one or two talents or glyphs occasionally.
Nero's Neptune
Member
Aw shit, this looks awesome. My 180s are ready.
I take it this won't be free for people with subs?
I take it this won't be free for people with subs?
Might have to buy it just to get that class mission xp boost; that's all I care about in SWTOR these days, I just wanna experience all the class stories without having to do all the planet quests and other things.
Kind of funny reading that discipline blog, read like an exact copy of the WoW dev blog in MoP explaining the removal of skill trees and the new "choose X, Y, or Z" ability system every once in awhile. I'm a fan of what blizzard did though, and agree with both blogs, skill trees with 1 point per level are a thing of the past.
Kind of funny reading that discipline blog, read like an exact copy of the WoW dev blog in MoP explaining the removal of skill trees and the new "choose X, Y, or Z" ability system every once in awhile. I'm a fan of what blizzard did though, and agree with both blogs, skill trees with 1 point per level are a thing of the past.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
20 bucks.
Nero's Neptune
Member
I knew it was $20, but thought it might have been free for subs. I remember getting Hutt Cartel for free, but that was a while after it came out, I think.
Whateves. Pre-ordered, so gonna do some leveling.
I thought subs paid $5 or $10 for ROTHC pre-order, but I may be wrong on that...I am fairly certain we had to pay something otherwise it wouldn't have been a "pre-order".
EDIT: Yeah I found it. From the help FAQ:
This Digital Expansion is available for the following pre-order prices:
$9.99 for all active subscribers.
$19.99 for all Free-to-Play and Preferred Status players.
If you pre-order the Digital Expansion by January 7, 2013 11:59PM CT // 5:59AM GMT, your account will be immediately granted with five (5) days Early Access prior to the Digital Expansion release date.
This 12X EXP boost isn't getting enough love, IMO. You can basically level off of two class quest turn ins at any level, and get a boatload off any of the mission quests on Makeb. Folks in fleet are saying they leveled to 30ish in a matter of 4-5 hours. That is awesome. I always wanted a sniper...and a powertech...and a....
Here's the Dulfy writeup on 12x EXP.
I would gladly have paid $10 for this kind of thing a year ago, agreed.
The double EXP is sweet...but all it really did for me was cause me to rarely ever level unless it was going on at that time.
Same here, the double exp weekends spoiled me and I didn't want to go back to leveling the normal way and got busy doing other stuff and let my sub expire.
12 times xp is a really strong incentive for me to resub for 2 months and just blast thought the game to finish the storylines I hadn't before and it'll end in December which is perfect for me since I'm too busy that month to play anyhow