AFollowerNotALeader
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Urgh.
So basically my tanking powertech has no way to attack snipers/gunslingers on the ledges of Alderaan now that the electro-dart + jump combination has been screwed.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT2| In a F2Play galaxy far, far away
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Urgh.
So basically my tanking powertech has no way to attack snipers/gunslingers on the ledges of Alderaan now that the electro-dart + jump combination has been screwed.
BattleMonkey
Member
Dont think powertechs are going to get much sympathy at the moment from the other classes
BattleMonkey
Member
Wait what? When did this happen?
That is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard. I don't even understand what possessed them to make this change. It basically renders the entire use of legacy names completely meaningless. The whole point was to identify players on their alts! I'm at a loss here, it's madness.
BattleMonkey
Member
I don't even turn on my Legacy name on most my characters alts *shrug*
AFollowerNotALeader
Member
The operative word here is "tanking". Unlike Pyrotechs who don't need to gap close nearly as much.
BattleMonkey
Member
Tank shouldn't be jumping off to attack snipers and gunslingers on some ledge, they pretty much are supposed to be guarding the other players the entire time in pvp.
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?
What possessed them is that people want to share legacy names, for example couples. Also some people lost their legacy names in the transfers.
I completely forgot about the people roleplaying they were married, that is a very logical reason that undercuts my entire rant. But it should be implemented where the person who currently has the name has to approve the other person using it also. That way, the people it's designed for can have the ability without other people making random impersonation characters. I just picture people with the first name spelled one letter differently and the same legacy. For people who lost their legacy, I say who the hell cares. I think just about everyone lost names for at least a couple of their characters on transfer, but I wouldn't want the solution to be having three Trevins running around the game.
They never really were, they just took much more skill to play at a comparative level.
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?
Yeah, my first thought when I heard the news was "awesome, now my girlfriend and I can share a last name!" but I didn't think about the other side where people who don't know each other will be sharing names.
They should have done it where you can choose to allow another person to use your legacy name.
Still, I don't think it'll be that bad, people have the same last name in RL, it's not a big deal. If you choose to use the Legacy Skywalker and there are hundreds of people with that name it's your own damned fault
BattleMonkey
Member
Hopefully you're not Hispanic with the last name Rodriguez. Rage!
WHAT
Giolon
Member
The "merges" are the forced relocation of the people who opted to stay behind (or were unsubscribed) during the previous voluntary server merges. At some point, probably before F2P happens, all of the characters on those servers will be forcibly moved to the "destination" servers, and all other servers will be deactivated.
It's not further merging of the existing, currently populated servers.
Makes more sense that way, but I thought toons were moved already around the beginning of August??
Edit:
That is a more logical reason :lol
His wording could have been more specific though!
That is a more logical reason :lol
His wording could have been more specific though!
BattleMonkey
Member
They didn't do them yet. Was supposed to be at end of summer but that didn't happen, still no ETA when the forced transfers and closure of the old servers is happening
Well they are closing all those old servers. Game had way too many and they are just clearing house. No idea how they are going to handle the influx of players for F2P though, unless it's true that they are going to be upgrading the hardware for larger capacities.
graywolf323
Member
weird my performance has taken a hit after the latest patch, previously I would get close to 60 fps (except at the fleet) but now I'm only getting ~30 fps
edit: it's also crashed twice now while using the taxi on Alderaan
edit: it's also crashed twice now while using the taxi on Alderaan
graywolf323
Member
GeForce GTX 560M
yeah the voice acting in gw2 is BAD compared to swtor. Everything else though......
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?
I think it's more the presentation. They have some good voice actors but the side-by-side dialogue scenes just makes it all seem so cheesy.
It's hilarious when a scene is supposed to be dramatic like someone important dying. The side-by-side view is hilarious.
AFollowerNotALeader
Member
I am. I'm also taunting all the time.
I'd be a pretty useless tank if I just stood there guarding though...
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?
I don't know if someone mentioned it but the last patch also made the event outfits Bind to Legacy. They forgot to include it in the original patch notes and have added it now.
BattleMonkey
Member
Assume it's going to be an auto buff to help the newbies. But not sure I see the point when shouldn't recruit gear mk2 take care of that?
It's nice to hear about Illum coming back again. I assume they are going to do something similar to what worked with the Rakghoul event and mix PVE in an open PVP area to create something players to fight over since they are talking about the alien invasion stuff.
Not if you spec Vigilance/Vengeance. They're some of the top DPS in PvE and still have a lot of effective CC for PvP.
Focus/Rage Guardians/Juggs are still powerhouses in pvp. The only downside is that we still don't have very many good defensive cd's. Full augmented war hero gear and I usually get 6-7k focus bombs off. It's always a rush seeing people try to flee when you charge in and get that 10% increased damage from the 4 piece set and they know the bomb is going to drop
4 healers as opposed to our 2. DPS that didn't know WTF to do. My only kill was against 1/4 healers. The other 3 died 0 times, while their DPS wrecked the shit out of us. Sure was fun. Thought VM was supposed to be a decent PVP guild, but fuck they totally proved me wrong.
Not saying we really had a shot at winning, but at least killing healers should have been a must. The only healer I really saw drop was Barbie and that's after I called it out many times.
Told you you should have stayed Marksman for our pvp session! Although even then you would have only had an extra kill or two with all those healers! It was kinda funny, I only died 3 times, it was like I got a reprieve for that game or something. And it never ceases to amaze me how much Tyranticus sucks at playing his main, Mal almost out dpsed him as an undergeared tank for crying at loud.
BattleMonkey
Member
He should do the Six Flags music and dance when you summon him.
You should get on vent with him, especially in the few rated games we did. He definitely doesn't see himself that way, and feels that all DPS on the other team focus fire him just as hard as they do any healer. A few of us tried to explain why it seemed like he died so often, but well...