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Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

Magmarashi posted:

I really wish we had got Devaronians instead of loving Cathars. I've never seen a catman as a player but I'd roll so many devil dudes.

I'd settle for male Togruta looking less retarded.

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Magmarashi
May 20, 2009





Alter Ego posted:

I'd settle for male Togruta looking less retarded.

Have you seen them? It isn't possible.

Big Bowie Bonanza
Dec 30, 2007

please tell me where i can date this cute boy

Alter Ego posted:

I'd settle for male Togruta looking less retarded.

Archonex
May 2, 2012

MY OPINION IS SEERS OF THE THRONE PROPAGANDA IGNORE MY GNOSIS-IMPAIRED RAMBLINGS

Hulk Smash! posted:

Marauder She Wrote was always the best guild name.

This is the saddest email I've ever seen. He keeps calling you "My Lord"? Grow a pair, Quinn.

Pretty sure you can break him of that habit if you actually tell him to grow a pair and start acting like a human being instead of a robotic parody of a military gentleman circa the 1800's. It's really kind of your fault if you romance the starchy rear end in a top hat and don't point out that you won't force choke him for using a name other than "my lord".

Doesn't really help his space racism though. I forget how, but there's a way to get him amazingly pissed off at Vette being another horribly written/obnoxious rear end in a top hat of a character. To the point where she'll push him so far that he'll venomously refer to her as an alien in that same sort of tone that a Tea Party type might have when talking about immigrants or the government.

Really, they seemed to be building him up to be that moff that inevitably gets force choked by Vader for saying the wrong thing. Then that got scratched because we can't kill companions.


Edit: To be clear, i'm actually pro Quinn though. Every good Star Wars villain needs the expendable military leader type that gets killed by his own arrogance or a fluke. See: Almost every moff from the original movies.

Archonex fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Oct 29, 2015

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Medullah posted:

This game has more people that hate every aspect of it yet continue to play, it's amazing.

Haters gonna space-hate.

Sounds like star wars to me.

Jedi
Feb 27, 2002



Sweet body type four
Your corpulence is awesome
Big man gotta eat

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


Medullah posted:

This game has more people that hate every aspect of it yet continue to play, it's amazing.

Haters gonna space-hate.

Honestly I think every MMO is like this, the official FF14 forums have no shortage of people who say "THIS RECENT CHANGE HAS RUINED THE GAME FOR ME HOW DARE YOU TREAT A LOYAL CUSTOMER THIS WAY" and then proceed to log another 1000 hours regardless

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


I read about merc healing, because I'm definitely sticking to my merc as my main (definitely this time, no chance i'm changing my mind again) and just want to make sure I understand the basics right, since the dulfy guide is slightly more advanced than my current level of comprehension.

Seems like it's basically:

1) Keep Kolto shell up on everyone if you can do it without hurting your healing
2) For single targets, cast healing scan on cooldown, use rapid scan when healing scan isn't available, use kolto shot if you're overheating
3) For multiple targets, use progressive scan & kolto missile
4) Use supercharged gas when it's up and you're sure you're actually going to be healing poo poo for the next 10 seconds straight (the guide had much more to say about this but I didn't understand it so this is my "healing 4 casuals" take on it)
5) Use emergency scan for a quick boost if someone's getting too low


Is any of that terribly off-base for story mode content? I never really healed past level 20-something on my merc, and that was years ago, so I'm jumping into the deep end.

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

Ainsley McTree posted:

I read about merc healing, because I'm definitely sticking to my merc as my main (definitely this time, no chance i'm changing my mind again) and just want to make sure I understand the basics right, since the dulfy guide is slightly more advanced than my current level of comprehension.

Seems like it's basically:

1) Keep Kolto shell up on everyone if you can do it without hurting your healing
2) For single targets, cast healing scan on cooldown, use rapid scan when healing scan isn't available, use kolto shot if you're overheating
3) For multiple targets, use progressive scan & kolto missile
4) Use supercharged gas when it's up and you're sure you're actually going to be healing poo poo for the next 10 seconds straight (the guide had much more to say about this but I didn't understand it so this is my "healing 4 casuals" take on it)
5) Use emergency scan for a quick boost if someone's getting too low


Is any of that terribly off-base for story mode content? I never really healed past level 20-something on my merc, and that was years ago, so I'm jumping into the deep end.

Pretty much. Kolto shot always being spammed. Remember rapid scan lowers the heat of healing scan, and rapid scan adds a buff to your target so they get 5% more healing.

wtftastic
Jul 24, 2006

"In private, we will be mercifully free from the opinions of imbeciles and fools."

I just wish male togruta PCs would have montrals that were similar in length to female togruta. NPC male togruta still have the longer montrals and I like the look more. WAAAAAH.

I think I made mine look ok. But my tops montrals are always offscreen because I'm loving huge.



vanbags
Dec 6, 2003

An ape.
Is there anything I can do with my common data crystals to convert them into big credits? I'm level 61 at the moment and I'm almost capped.

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

vanbags posted:

Is there anything I can do with my common data crystals to convert them into big credits? I'm level 61 at the moment and I'm almost capped.

You can buy companion gifts with them - on fleet you can get purple grade 5 ones, or if you fly to Odessan you can get the grade 6 legendary ones.

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


I would like a gonk droid companion, please. Maybe just with a blaster pistol duct taped to its side.

Beeme
Oct 7, 2013
How do I even get started with Section X? I read that there's supposed to be a "Captain Gostel" with aliens around him in the fleet introducing it, but I can't find him anywhere.

Cross-Section
Mar 18, 2009

Alter Ego posted:

loving Voss heroics, man. My Sage has PTSD after doing the one in the Nightmare Lands.

There is literally nothing about Voss that is redeeming, even its group content is painful and sucks.

The Reputation rewards blow too: A lame robe that's just a recolor of an existing Consular set, some titles that are practically useless unless you're role-playing a mystic, and a couple of decorations plus some dye schematics that are useless to me cause I ain't no crafter or even know any. Okay, that last one may be a bit subjective, but my point stands.

Casyl
Feb 19, 2012

Cross-Section posted:

The Reputation rewards blow too: A lame robe that's just a recolor of an existing Consular set, some titles that are practically useless unless you're role-playing a mystic, and a couple of decorations plus some dye schematics that are useless to me cause I ain't no crafter or even know any. Okay, that last one may be a bit subjective, but my point stands.

The decorations are pretty cool, especially the centerpiece.

Hulk Smash!
Jul 14, 2004

wtftastic posted:

I just wish male togruta PCs would have montrals that were similar in length to female togruta. NPC male togruta still have the longer montrals and I like the look more. WAAAAAH.

I think I made mine look ok. But my tops montrals are always offscreen because I'm loving huge.
One thing that I found out the hard way -if that's where you're going with this character - is that Togruta's don't get the full range of dark side looks. It stops at the red eyes, even at dark V :/

Archonex
May 2, 2012

MY OPINION IS SEERS OF THE THRONE PROPAGANDA IGNORE MY GNOSIS-IMPAIRED RAMBLINGS

Casyl posted:

The decorations are pretty cool, especially the centerpiece.

Because when I think of Voss I think of a series of progressively smaller squares stacked together into a vaguely phallic shape that juts up towards the sky.

The Voss are dicks is what i'm trying to say.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

*wheeze**gasp**wheeze*

".....hhhhhham."

i poop fire
Feb 21, 2011
The class icons on the character select screen not all being across from their counterparts is triggering my OCD.

phosdex
Dec 16, 2005

someone post their refer a friend code and I'll use it

nonentity
Dec 19, 2005

If I were small & bird shaped, I could fly.

Nipponophile posted:


So here's the part where we solicit funny names from everyone. One of them may or may not be chosen as the alt guild name.


My old favorite...



Your Companion

DrunkenGarbageCan
Nov 4, 2009
http://www.swtor.com/r/cdVrpC

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Hulk Smash! posted:

One thing that I found out the hard way -if that's where you're going with this character - is that Togruta's don't get the full range of dark side looks. It stops at the red eyes, even at dark V :/

I figured a dark red pure Sith wouldn't show much dark-side corruption, but at dark IV, I looked like Kaliyo. At dark V, I looked like Kaliyo after a rough night at the bar.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005
Hey, I don't remember if it's waffledoodle or nonentity that deals with this, but if it's not your department, pass it along to the people who do fix them: spelling errors. They're not gamebreaking, obviously, but when I see myself getting transported by means of "Heoric Transport" my eye twitches involuntarily.

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

nonentity posted:

My old favorite...



Your Companion

Too Old for this Sith

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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<Common Crystal Exchange>

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


nonentity posted:

My old favorite...



Your Companion

My favorite is still "The Walt Disney Corporation"

I haven't seen it in a while, I suspect it did not last


Unrelated: Can someone who heals post a screenshot of their raid frames for 16-man raids? I did one for the first time tonight with default frames and squinting at the itty-bitty healthbars just felt wrong, I'm wondering how better people do it.

On the upside, I bumbled through it with very few occasions of healer-preventable deaths, especially after I remembered to equip my combat support cylinder after the second boss

Ainsley McTree fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Oct 30, 2015

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Please make the alt guild "Kylo Ren is Luke"

Turtlicious
Sep 17, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Whats the story mode of this like, is a lot of it shared? Is there divergent plot, or is it more like a telltale game where it's the same plot, but character's reactions are different. Or is that also the same? How does it compare to say... ME3 or KotoR2?

Magmarashi
May 20, 2009





What's the go-to DPS Assassin spec these days? Still Hatred?

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

Magmarashi posted:

What's the go-to DPS Assassin spec these days? Still Hatred?

Hatred is in a bad place right now. It's more fun than Deception, but Deception is pulling in better numbers AND has better passive defensive bonuses. :(

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Turtlicious posted:

Whats the story mode of this like, is a lot of it shared? Is there divergent plot, or is it more like a telltale game where it's the same plot, but character's reactions are different. Or is that also the same? How does it compare to say... ME3 or KotoR2?

Better, worse.

Each character has a unique plot up to level 50, which has a limited amount of character choice- some classes are basically on rails with the choice of being angry about things or not, others like the Agent have reasonably branching storylines. Past 50 it's mostly shared although there's a fair amount of diversity depending on faction and a little bit of class choice.

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


StashAugustine posted:

Better, worse.

Each character has a unique plot up to level 50, which has a limited amount of character choice- some classes are basically on rails with the choice of being angry about things or not, others like the Agent have reasonably branching storylines. Past 50 it's mostly shared although there's a fair amount of diversity depending on faction and a little bit of class choice.

Eh I wouldn't even say it varies much by faction post-50. Makeb is wholly different for Republic/Empire, but the rest of the post-50 content as far as I can recall is the same for both sides, with the exception that you have satele shan/saresh talking in your ear instead of Darth Marr.

I haven't touched my pub characters since KOTFE since it's all even more similar now that the plot put the empire/republic war even further on the backburner.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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On the other hand the idea of that many people rallying around an Imperial is a bit odd considering that to a significant chunk of the galaxy Zakuulian rule is probably way better than Imperial rule.

Like if I was Balmorran I'd take Zakuul any day because all they'll do is put a giant space station in orbit.

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Fojar38 posted:

On the other hand the idea of that many people rallying around an Imperial is a bit odd considering that to a significant chunk of the galaxy Zakuulian rule is probably way better than Imperial rule.

Like if I was Balmorran I'd take Zakuul any day because all they'll do is put a giant space station in orbit.

I think it's implied though not really shown outside of the initial trailer that Zakuul and the twins really wrecked poo poo.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Berke Negri posted:

I think it's implied though not really shown outside of the initial trailer that Zakuul and the twins really wrecked poo poo.

Edit: Putting in spoilers.

You're explicitly told what happened during chapter 3. Zakuul didn't really invade anything directly other than completely wrecking Tython and Korriban, but what they did do was smash everyone's fleets and impose blockades. The Eternal Fleet is larger than every other fleet in the galaxy by a significant margin, is faster than all but the Empire's few isotope-5 powered ships, have much greater sensor range, and other advantages. Zakuul used the Eternal Fleet to choke off interstellar travel throughout the galaxy, starving the major powers into submission.

The Star Fortresses came later, as a visible reminder of Zakuul's power and to keep an eye on things. Zakuul's general MO is distant rulership backed by the might of the Eternal Fleet as the "Don't make me come down there... Or else" threat.

When you first learn about all of this, you're also told that Zakuul demands vast tribute in raw resources, but no one has any idea what Arcann is using it for - the Eternal Empire is big, but not big enough to use all of the tribute it's been collecting and no one knows where those resources are going. My guess is something to do with the Eternal Fleet.

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Maybe spoiler that

Edit: good and quick nvm

Rouncer
Jul 23, 2009

I think the design team has just trolled everyone with this belt design... once seen it can not be unseen, and yes it's a good thing it wasn't cold on the Space Bar

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clone on the phone
Aug 5, 2003

I really enjoyed kotfe, but I finally realized why was bugging me about it and that is the fact that it's just not star wars anymore. It feels like some kind of bizzarro EU story. I mean it's still good and I enjoyed it, and I understand why they went in this direction but the story and setting is now just future space knights grand adventure.

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