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Medullah posted:Though really, look at Makeb. Who was the hero of that storyline? The Republic story is actually significantly more heroic on Makeb.
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Ainsley McTree posted:If you think about it, the empire is actually the good side in this story, if you ignore the part about slavery and how it's ruled by a council of evil wizards It's not slavery, it's a work to get to live program. One of the most successful programs in the history of the Empire I might add.
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Oct 22, 2015 19:33
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The new cartel pack setup is pretty crappy. Prices on the rare stuff are stupidly high.
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Oct 22, 2015 19:55
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Aphrodite posted:The new cartel pack setup is pretty crappy. Prices on the rare stuff are stupidly high. Working as intended jabro posted:It's not slavery, it's a work to get to live program. One of the most successful programs in the history of the Empire I might add. Need to work on your marketing. It's our "Right to live" policies.
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Oct 22, 2015 19:59
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I can't really play until Saturday evening so FE will have to wait until then, but in the meantime I'm entertaining myself with all the tears on the official forums. So many bitter, salty tears about their precious companions. 
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Oct 22, 2015 20:05
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Dexo posted:Need to work on your marketing. .@continetti @DouthatNYT Needless to say, I was rooting for the Empire from the first moment. It was a benevolent liberal empire, after all. — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 20, 2015 .@adesnik @DouthatNYT No objective evidence Empire was "evil." A liberal regime w meritocracy, upward mobility. Neocon/reformicon in spirit. — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 20, 2015
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Oct 22, 2015 20:07
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Dexo posted:Working as intended It's nice that they're upgraded the rarities. It's just that this particular pack put the only good stuff (except the log) as rares. Also I'm mad that they hosed up the old companion terminal (and didn't fix it today) so I can't get my god drat Akk Dog 
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Oct 22, 2015 20:09
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The Akk dog is the ultimate example of the game going single player. Cosmetics have always been popular and expensive but this one is amazing. Unlike mounts, pets and armor, this one can literally only be used alone or in a very small group, yet the only one I saw was 50 million on the GTN. Crazy.
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Oct 22, 2015 20:12
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I used mine immediately because I knew if I saw the prices first, I would have a serious dilemma.
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Re: running heroics solo... I'm sure it's possible and not even hard, but if you CAN bring a friend, you SHOULD bring a friend, because the increased rewards for grouping are significant. Also, I want to reiterate that they're just as worthwhile when you're at level 65, because for each turn-in you get a pile of different data crystals AND one of those purple boxes that you turn in on Odessen for influence and a random box of legacy gear. Also, if you like the handful of recruitment missions you get at the end of chapter 9, go and run the Star Fortress flashpoint! Doing it once unlocks a BUNCH more recruitment missions, each with a unique new alien companion as a reward. I did the one on Alderaan and got an Ithorian Jedi buddy. My friend did Nar Shaddaa (I think) and got a Nautolan.
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Oct 22, 2015 20:18
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The Star Fortress achievements and rewards are so freaking complex my mind exploded trying to read up on it. DEFINITELY not an alt friendly system, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. People may be more inclined to pick a main and run with it and group with others.
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Oct 22, 2015 20:22
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Speaking of incentives to stick to a main: I'd literally murder a baby for the ability to save quickbar/utility setups within a class, so I could easily swap between tank & dps specs on my jugg without having to move buttons around every time. As it is, it's easier to just swap to a different character. It's miles above how things were back in the days of skill trees, but I'd still love it if it were even more friendly. Waffledoodle, a baby's life is in your hands
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Medullah posted:The Star Fortress achievements and rewards are so freaking complex my mind exploded trying to read up on it. DEFINITELY not an alt friendly system, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. People may be more inclined to pick a main and run with it and group with others. I meant to say, I've really been enjoying having one main character being the big drat hero and doing everything. I have a ridiculous number of alts, but I don't really plan to do the new story on all of them. Seems like there are a million other ways to get XP now. It really seems like the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior have by far the biggest personal stake in confronting the Emperor. For most other classes I feel like it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to become THE HIGHLANDER.
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I've found it best to just get used to certain keybinds being special moves so there's only a little rearranging to do. For example, when my assassin is in Hatred 3 is Creeping Terror, 8 is Death Field, then it becomes 3 is Dark Ward and 8 is Wither in Darkness spec. Easier with some classes than others (going from Lethality to Medicine is a nightmare) but works well for the moment. One of these days I'll redo my AHK respec scripts. That way they'll introduce it onto the game right when I've wasted hours.
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Nerd Of Prey posted:I meant to say, I've really been enjoying having one main character being the big drat hero and doing everything. I have a ridiculous number of alts, but I don't really plan to do the new story on all of them. Seems like there are a million other ways to get XP now.
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Nerd Of Prey posted:It really seems like the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior have by far the biggest personal stake in confronting the Emperor. For most other classes I feel like it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to become THE HIGHLANDER. I ran through the story first with my Bounty Hunter figuring it would be the best way to get ready for raiding again, but so far from the sounds of it I should have gone with my jugg. The story is good, but the BH doesn't really seem to mesh with the drama of the plot.
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Smuggler still owns to play through it by the way, they retain their ability to make a snarky comment about everything.
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Are datacrons the little pickups dotted around the map you have to platform to?
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Ok guys so there's an Alliance quest to recruit Doctor Lokin and it requires a loving shitload of Grade 8 medical stuff unless you're an Agent. What you want is:
Stock up now, sell for big profits next week. Be warned that the second phase of the quest requires the Rakghoul Resurgence event no matter what so don't blow your cash if someone else has cornered the market, you can farm them up casually until November 10.
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I did Inquisitor and it makes me a bit sad that they didn't do (Inquisitor and KOTFE story spoilers) any references to him having experience with ghosts in his head. I DID love that they called me Darth Imperious though. I chose light side and released the ghosts are the end of his story, I imagine if I'd done dark side and kept them Valykorian might be a bit crowded in my head
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Keshik posted:Ok guys so there's an Alliance quest to recruit Doctor Lokin and it requires a loving shitload of Grade 8 medical stuff unless you're an Agent. You also can use the rare drops from the Eyeless and Elites (Barnacle of the Eyeless and Symbiotic Fungal Bloom) for a ton of points. Bummed that I vendored literally 15 stacks of the blue medical supplies last week ha-ha.
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Medullah posted:I did Inquisitor and it makes me a bit sad that they didn't do (Inquisitor and KOTFE story spoilers) any references to him having experience with ghosts in his head. I DID love that they called me Darth Imperious though. I chose light side and released the ghosts are the end of his story, I imagine if I'd done dark side and kept them Valykorian might be a bit crowded in my head There actually is a quick line about it. I don't remember the details and it might only be with a specific conversation option, but you do say something about having planned to absorb him.
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Aphrodite posted:There actually is a quick line about it. Nice, must have missed it. What I get for burning through it all in one day. :poopsocker:
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Nerd Of Prey posted:It really seems like the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior have by far the biggest personal stake in confronting the Emperor. For most other classes I feel like it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to become THE HIGHLANDER. It's also good to hear that there's lots of other ways to get experience than doing the story because I doubt I'll want to do it more than a couple of times per faction but I'd still like to be able to use my other alts for stuff.
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I've been trying to use the 12x bonus to get all the different stories done. I was able to get 3 down and was working on a 4th. Now that's it's gone I noticed that there was a sort of new leveling system. Can anyone explain how it works or if it's different? I like the game a lot, but always felt like it became a slog after a while because it took so long to kill anything, but that was gone with the 12x thing. Is it easier to kill things now?
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Spikeguy posted:I've been trying to use the 12x bonus to get all the different stories done. I was able to get 3 down and was working on a 4th. Now that's it's gone I noticed that there was a sort of new leveling system. Can anyone explain how it works or if it's different? I like the game a lot, but always felt like it became a slog after a while because it took so long to kill anything, but that was gone with the 12x thing. Is it easier to kill things now? According to the 4.0 patch notes, you should be able to level to 50 just by doing your class quests for each planet along with the planetary quest line, each of which will apparently have its own icon so you can distinguish it from other quests. Also, level scaling will make it so that you can revisit bonus series quests on previous planets AND get level-appropriate XP for doing them.
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I wouldn't be surprised if you could hit 65 before wrapping up Chapter 1 the way exp rolls in now.
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Hey if I take my agent into KOTFE once it opens up will I be able to get all my companions back yet?
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Great. I am one of those lowly folks who wants to play the game by themselves. I used to dream of maybe one day when the servers get shutdown, they just convert the game to a singleplayer thing as a farewell. But if they make leveling easier, me able to make every companion a heal bot and enemies less of bullet spunges then it sounds like I'll be playing more.
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StashAugustine posted:Hey if I take my agent into KOTFE once it opens up will I be able to get all my companions back yet? KOTFE spoilers nope. Bigger end of KOTFE chapter 9 spoilers if you really must know You'll encounter one companion and recruit them during the course of the story, and another you'll recruit after.
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Another question, I've been watching some LPs of the new expansion and was wondering if the sense change much for Trooper/Bounty Hunter classes. They seem so specific to Jedi/Sith players.
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The Core World Changes dev blog explains it in detail, but basically you are expected to stay on level when doing the "critical path", which is your class quests, the main planetary questline (note that the starter planets and the capital world of each faction don't have a main questline so the critical path there will be more sidequest-heavy), and possibly some other important sidequests. All other quests are marked as "exploratory". By default you will not see or be able to pick up exploratory missions unless you activate a checkbox on the upper right of the world map panel. These quests you can do for additional experience/rewards if you choose. Combat itself should be pretty easy with the companion changes.
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Cyron posted:I really like playing republic but no one plays it If playing a LS Jedi was anywhere near as engaging as LS war, I'd have never dared try Imp side. (This is before I joined up with TNG) Honestly LS War is the good guy story I wanted in a Star Wars game and it did everything I wanted from a typical Jedi story, better than the Jedi. Basically sure the Republic might be 'objectively' the good guy, but you don't feel like a good guy playing. Meanwhile being a good guy on the Imperial side is way more rewarding and engaging. 
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Spikeguy posted:Great. I am one of those lowly folks who wants to play the game by themselves. I used to dream of maybe one day when the servers get shutdown, they just convert the game to a singleplayer thing as a farewell. But if they make leveling easier, me able to make every companion a heal bot and enemies less of bullet spunges then it sounds like I'll be playing more. Companion affection is giving a really massive bonus to Presence, and Presence itself is already pretty strong. Make sure on the stories you completed that you also go ahead and complete the companion conversations, each companion is more Presence. Hopefully you've got a human up to level 50 as well for the presence boost. I went through a companion flashpoint with a friend's companion tanking, and it was nuts. Comp could tank anything and wasn't getting hurt too bad while also doing a bunch of damage.
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My main RP character, a badass outlaw swoop biker, has a shiny new speeder today! Here he is attempting a difficult jump on his homemade racing track:  You can see that a previous rider did not have the best luck on this course. Here he is trying to figure out where it should go in his custom speeder showroom:  For real though, the stuff in the new pack is awesome. I've been littering Tatooine with junk and wrecked machines, just like I always wanted to. I really do wish the log "mount" unlocked a decoration like other mounts. Actually having it sitting in my swoop garage or custom speeder showroom would be such a thing of beauty...
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Yeah I like the stuff in the new pack except that, right now, it's all way too expensive on the GTN. Let me complete my Zildrog set for less than 10 million, dammit! 
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Spikeguy posted:Another question, I've been watching some LPs of the new expansion and was wondering if the sense change much for Trooper/Bounty Hunter classes. They seem so specific to Jedi/Sith players. Discounting the Emperor, you always have the "defend your faction from invaders" plot. Smuggler and Bounty Hunter are kinda iffy depending on their relationship, since there are always jobs for them outside Empire or Republic.
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I don't doubt the Zildrog set is going for beaucoup bucks. It's a great set. I've been buying these other things on the GTN - the log, emergency response astromech and assorted wreckage - for prices ranging from 75-300 k, which is really not bad considering this stuff is so new. I'm sure the prices will drop further over the weekend, and I'll probably pick up a lot more. The smoking "blaster mark" that goes on a small wall hook is another favorite. I really love the wrecked republic ATV, but it only goes on a starship hook, which is a dealbreaker. I hope it gets bumped down to centerpiece at some point.
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Medullah posted:I did Inquisitor and it makes me a bit sad that they didn't do (Inquisitor and KOTFE story spoilers) any references to him having experience with ghosts in his head. I DID love that they called me Darth Imperious though. I chose light side and released the ghosts are the end of his story, I imagine if I'd done dark side and kept them Valykorian might be a bit crowded in my head I think my biggest "missed opportunity from class quest material" feeling was that when you go to an off-the-grid open port, it's not Port Nowhere, but an entirely new place. I always wanted Port Nowhere to be emphasized more in the Smuggler story.
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