BattleMonkey
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Making sure we only have one Minister of Misinformation, otherwise it will get confusing in here.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT2| In a F2Play galaxy far, far away
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This is very true, and I do appreciate your effort on that. I'm surprised we didn't hear
world event tomorrow*
BattleMonkey
Member
Sounds like if you invited a friend in the past and they paid for a month you already get the mount in your mail today. Folks already running around with the new speeder. Also has pod racer sounds apparently.
BattleMonkey
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Yea they are disabling character creation on the old origin servers! http://www.swtor.com/blog/character-transfer-server-populations-and-you-part-ii
Also sounds from that they are going to likely do forced transfer/merge later this summer.
Also sounds from that they are going to likely do forced transfer/merge later this summer.
Wow, that's pretty crazy. I like that decision. My new server has been great so far.
Looks like Georg Zoeller left Bioware as well (voluntarily it seems). I am not sure what he did behind the scenes, but I do not miss his abrasive posting pattern on the boards at all.
Also void star changes inc.
1) Yes, right now, if neither team breaches the first set of doors, the winner is determined randomly (in case anyone wasn't sure).
2) We have a change coming that will determine the winner in this case by taking each team's number of kills into account.
HarryDemeanor
Member
He was in charge of class balancing. I'm not sure if his departure will end up being good or bad.
Judging by the comments on Reddit, they seem to be liking this.
Oh yeah, "ops stunlocking making people wanting to quit the game". It was kinda amusing (since my op is only level 24 and doesn't pvp) seeing a dps op nerf every patch note.
This is the MMOI can think of where I actually benched my main raiding toon (level 50 BH) to roll another character (Sorc) because it out healed it in every way shape or form plus added a shit ton of utility.
I was in the beta's and it was widely posted about the discrepency between sorcs/bh/IA but noting was done.
Even after the nerfs Sorc's are still the ultimate PVE healers
Nope, they're going to get nerfed every patch for no apparent reason while marauders get buffed.
Scoundrels/Ops are quite viable healers as well in pve, and the best in pvp. Let's not talk about commando/merc healers.
That was with 1.2, they were the worst healers before that. The healing discrepancy should not have been that severe when the game launched
BattleMonkey
Member
Meh leave em as is. But nerf the shit outa marauders
So the new "refer a friend" speeder, has 110% speed boost, and only requires speeder training 1! Never using another low level speeder on my alts ever again. Hopefully this is working as intended, and isn't just an oversight. They are going to be everywhere now, pod speeders all over.
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?
Completely expected.
BattleMonkey
Member
Not really since it requires you to have a friend sub to the game. All my friends are not interested or already are subbed to the game
Won't be surprised to see them add new faster mounts eventually also.
Not really since it requires you to have a friend sub to the game. All my friends are not interested or already are subbed to the game
Won't be surprised to see them add new faster mounts eventually also.
Yeah, I'm still at work, I was just going by what people were saying on reddit, they said they are all over the place.
Eh. I usually top the meters as an OP healer but dat circle is insanely good.
Not really since it requires you to have a friend sub to the game. All my friends are not interested or already are subbed to the game
Won't be surprised to see them add new faster mounts eventually also.
They'll probably be pretty rare. When WoW did something similar, the zebra mount that you got was pretty rare. I was like the only person that used it on my server haha.
Those meters don't count shields, which I can spam endlessly and being a former discipline priest I am shocked at how little other sorcs seem to use them.
I'm usually topping healing meter without counting that, as the game is too primitive to count overhealing as well
Hopefully that means better balancing.
Back on the discussion of Juggs/Guards tanking, I've been trying an hybrid tank spec(16/25/0 though there is quite a few variations knocking about depending on whether you want extra survivability or extra damage) in PvP today. It's definitely the way to go if your wanting to tank in PvP. It has pretty much the same survivability as full Immortal/Defence but has much better damage.
Back on the discussion of Juggs/Guards tanking, I've been trying an hybrid tank spec(16/25/0 though there is quite a few variations knocking about depending on whether you want extra survivability or extra damage) in PvP today. It's definitely the way to go if your wanting to tank in PvP. It has pretty much the same survivability as full Immortal/Defence but has much better damage.
BattleMonkey
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Wish they put in PVP spec option that you could switch too, because I rather not keep changing specs to have to jump back to pve tanking.
Funny you mention this, Zafir, cause my buddy I was referencing who plays Immortal in PVP with me daily went to this two nights ago. His damage has went way up, and he said he loves what Deafening Defense does for Enraged Defense. He was playing his sorc DPS almost exclusively the last few days til he swapped, now he's back on the horse a bit.
I played a discipline priest alt, and have only ever played my sorcerer as healing. What you just said surprises me every day.
I have a reputation as a pretty damn good sorc healer in PVP, due mainly to the fact that I can play the objective and still crush #'s healing...and it's all because of liberal use of the shield. It adds so much to healing, it saves people's lives, and when I'm sure I'm gonna die I will literally light everyone in range up with it on the way out because it's instant.
It can easily be the difference in someone surviving to protect a door in Voidstar while I'm dead and waiting on the door, or running the ball in Huttball, etc. It was no different in PVE. Lots of our sorcs never used their shields, and I was all over it. It's that disc priest thing I guess. Criminally underused ability.
That's a pretty damn big pet
Hey, there's me in the corner losing my religion!
And now that song is stuck in my head, you fiend!
Oh god lol
So guys what in this game has changed since they did that L4D flashpoint? What's the big changes?
BattleMonkey
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L4D flashpoint the one back in Jan or so? Well since then they have done a bunch of optimizations to run better, higher graphic options along with the higher textures. New warzone, flashpoint (part 2 of the l4d like one), new operation, new world boss, new gear sets and new daily area. They put in fully customizable UI, color matching to chest, new pets, ranked pvp, legacy system perks, bunch of new crafting schematics and changes, adaptive social gear, achievements that earn unique mounts, group finder system for flashpoints.
The new servers they are transferring folks to are also larger capacity with higher pop caps per instance than what game had at launch so the game world is much more populated and less empty. You have multiple instances on some planets with the cap worlds at times with over 160 players on. Theres been a bunch of little tweaks and quality of life improvements here and there as well over the months, like being to use mounts in most places, allowing players to shuttle from a planet straight to their ship, giving players sprint at lvl1 instead of waiting till lvl 14.
HarryDemeanor
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I know some of those who were on Keller's Void re-rolled on The Fatman before the transfers happened. I think there's one or two on Prophecy in this thread.
Majority of GAF is on Jedi Covenant
I got so many ranked comms that I don't know what to do with em. /swag
Buy war hero gear for your alt using the bind on legacy gear?
BattleMonkey
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He can play now free up to lvl 15 without an invite
You're missing PVP mania. Instant queues, lots of teams. Just avoid the rated.
What's the problem with rated?
Stacking 3 Assault Vanguards/Pyro Powertechs and one Sentinel/Marauder preferably specced into Fleet Footed for max speed burst = insta win.
They don't want new players moving into servers that are going to be merged sometime this summer. Wise move, imo. Keep everyone in the healthy populated servers, no need to spread the community like it was before.
Francois424
Neo Member
They offered free transfers about a month ago (or was it 3 weeks ?)
Then they disabled the creation of new characters in prevision of closing the servers down eventually.
They want people playing on more populated servers in the list
Simply ask your friend to transfer to his allowed destination server
If he does, then you can play with him.
BattleMonkey
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He should, since later this summer they are closing those servers and going to force transfer players to where they want. Take advantage and transfer now to where they allow and your friend will also get some rewards in game early next month for it