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Eimi posted:There is a big difference to me in becoming a galaxy saving hero vs starting as one. I think the former is infinitely preferable. Yeah, you're right. It's not like there is a precedent in Star Wars for some scrub suddenly just appearing out of nowhere to destroy a super weapon a short time after discovering the force. Bait and Swatch fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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I take it one of the Operative moves involves the absolutely ludicrous blades my sniper pulls out when I /agent?
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Nov 4, 2015 16:54
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Kurieg posted:I take it one of the Operative moves involves the absolutely ludicrous blades my sniper pulls out when I /agent? https://youtu.be/M2ZjNKiPzds?t=23 Vieled Strike and Crippling Slice are my favorite animations in the game.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:00
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DrunkenGarbageCan posted:https://youtu.be/M2ZjNKiPzds?t=23 VS is awesome yeah. That said, I find operative kind of unsatisfying against enemies with lots of HP. It's cool to be Jason Bourne, knifing and backstabbing your way through hordes of scrubs but chipping away at huge bosses with a knife just feels kind of silly. Thematically I like ranged classes for boss fights, it feels more right to blast at them frantically with lasers. I know virulence spec uses the gun more, but I just don't like that playstyle at all
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Nov 4, 2015 17:05
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Eimi posted:I guess Pierce does get way better when you do his companion quest vs the quest where you first meet him. Because his companion quest should've been a playable mission with this as the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyz_2DEah4o I like that Pierce's story dovetails nicely into the Trooper's Corellia story.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:09
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Ainsley McTree posted:VS is awesome yeah. That said, I find operative kind of unsatisfying against enemies with lots of HP. It's cool to be Jason Bourne, knifing and backstabbing your way through hordes of scrubs but chipping away at huge bosses with a knife just feels kind of silly. Thematically I like ranged classes for boss fights, it feels more right to blast at them frantically with lasers. Virulance is loving awesome, you pleb. It's also a sniper spec so I suspect you meant lethality.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:10
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Medullah posted:Virulance is loving awesome, you pleb. It's also a sniper spec so I suspect you meant lethality. Oh right, I forgot which was which. It just feels like work to play, like there's a checklist of preliminary stuff you have to do before you're ready to start using your strong abilities.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:14
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Ainsley McTree posted:VS is awesome yeah. That said, I find operative kind of unsatisfying against enemies with lots of HP. It's cool to be Jason Bourne, knifing and backstabbing your way through hordes of scrubs but chipping away at huge bosses with a knife just feels kind of silly. Thematically I like ranged classes for boss fights, it feels more right to blast at them frantically with lasers. My one complaint about the Sniper is the animation for Series of Shots and it's upgrade. You fire about 8 bolts into the guy, then eject a single cartridge from a bolt action mechanism. Suppressive Fire is just as guilty of the "Ha ha ha fully automatic sniper rifle" thing, but at least it doesn't do the bolt-action thing afterwards.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:16
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Also, though nobody cares, I realized I did my math wrong yesterday on my sperg lord gift post. I recalculated today. To get from 1 to 40 using only Rank 1 Green Love gifts, with the 30% influence boost perk, it takes 6,080 gifts at 200 credits each, for a total of 1,216,006 credits. Using Rank 2 Green takes 3,319 gifts at 600 credits each for a total of 1,915,824 credits. To go from 40 to 50 - Rank 5 blue gifts - 450 gifts at 5 crystals for a total of 2,250 crystals. Rank 5 artifact gifts - 226 gifts at 10 crystals for a total of 2,260 crystals. Rank 6 Legendary gifts - 68 gifts at 30 crystals each for a total of 2,040 crystals. And for Jawa scrap hoarders, 698 green scrap will get your Akk Dog to 50 influence. 
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Nov 4, 2015 17:19
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Bait and Swatch posted:Yeah, you're right. It's not like there is a precedent in Star Wars for some scrub suddenly just appearing out of nowhere to destroy a super weapon a short time after discovering the force. If Star Wars was written like the Knight storyline it would have opened with Uncle Owen saying " you need to go to the Academy Luke because you are the best at everything and you are so cool and good" and he would clown Obi-Wan and Vader in Force stuff from the moment he meets them because the key to having an interesting heroic arc is to have the hero just start out with everyone saying they are the best.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:19
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Kurieg posted:My one complaint about the Sniper is the animation for Series of Shots and it's upgrade. You fire about 8 bolts into the guy, then eject a single cartridge from a bolt action mechanism. Maybe they have octo-cartridges, did you ever think of that?
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Nov 4, 2015 17:19
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Sniper rifles are an amazing feat of engineering. There's a touch sensitive pad somewhere in the grip that lets you change firing modes between bolt action, fully automatic, poisoned bolts, single shot (semi auto) with variable stopping power, and "big glowy ball that flies slowly"
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Nov 4, 2015 17:20
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Medullah posted:And for Jawa scrap hoarders, 698 green scrap will get your Akk Dog to 50 influence. This reminds me. UI guy, can we please get a way to suppress the confirmation pop-up on some purchases?
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Gasoline posted:Sniper rifles are an amazing feat of engineering. There's a touch sensitive pad somewhere in the grip that lets you change firing modes between bolt action, fully automatic, poisoned bolts, single shot (semi auto), and "big glowy ball that flies slowly" I love that about the Trooper cannons, though. I wonder how many switches and knobs there are that you have to twiddle to get the various different lasers to shoot out. And then you smash people in the face with it if they get too close, so it's got to be incredibly sturdy.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:22
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prefect posted:I love that about the Trooper cannons, though. I wonder how many switches and knobs there are that you have to twiddle to get the various different lasers to shoot out. And then you smash people in the face with it if they get too close, so it's got to be incredibly sturdy. I'm pretty sure the Trooper gun is just the one from 5th Element. Still looking for that red button...
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Nov 4, 2015 17:23
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Ainsley McTree posted:Oh right, I forgot which was which. Honestly I think lethality is easier than concealment. Yeah you have to maintain dots but it's a pretty basic rotation that has no positional requirements. Lethal strike, Corrosive dart, corrosive grenade, toxic blast (if not at 2 tactical advantage), corrosive Assault, corrosive Assault, shiv, corrosive Assault, corrosive Assault, repeat. Basically use shiv and toxic blast on cool down any time you don't have 2 TAs. Concealments rotation seems to be trickier to me.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:24
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Respecced my powertech to Pyrotech and omg. It's amazing. making GBS threads fire on everyone and everything is incredibly satisfying.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:26
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I sorted through the list of haiku submissions this morning and forwarded them on to our panel of judges, so watch this space for results to be announced shortly. Also, some of you either can't count up to seven or have no idea how syllables work.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:34
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What's the best way to get a fresh 65 geared up relatively quickly?
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Nov 4, 2015 17:37
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Crindee posted:Oh and speaking of tooltips, More UI whining: holy poo poo is it a crazy resource hog. Last night in guild chat someone was complaining that they had finally pegged the UI as the source of their bottlenecking. Out of curiosity I turned on the FPS meter and CTRL+U'd and sure enough, I immediately shot up like 15 fps. That's how much I get from turning off bloom or shadows.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:44
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StashAugustine posted:What's the best way to get a fresh 65 geared up relatively quickly? Story Mode raiding. Even if you lose every single roll on the token loot you'll walk away with 1-5 pieces of 216 assigned drops (each boss has a chance of dropping a piece for just you)
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Nov 4, 2015 17:45
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Nipponophile posted:I sorted through the list of haiku submissions this morning and forwarded them on to our panel of judges, so watch this space for results to be announced shortly. Maybe they (or you) just have a weird accent.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:45
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So I don't know if I'm just dumb or if they changed this, but I used my free instant 60 thing today to grab the legacy gear and then deleted it to make a different one. But it says I have to purchase an instant 60 token now. I thought you could delete them up until they got to 61? Or was the free one always just one time use?
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Nov 4, 2015 17:48
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Turbl posted:So I don't know if I'm just dumb or if they changed this, but I used my free instant 60 thing today to grab the legacy gear and then deleted it to make a different one. But it says I have to purchase an instant 60 token now. I thought you could delete them up until they got to 61? Or was the free one always just one time use? Perhaps they patched out out today. Alot of people were making free 60s, stealing gear, then making a new one for more great, which is technically an exploit. I'd open a ticket.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:54
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Turbl posted:So I don't know if I'm just dumb or if they changed this, but I used my free instant 60 thing today to grab the legacy gear and then deleted it to make a different one. But it says I have to purchase an instant 60 token now. I thought you could delete them up until they got to 61? Or was the free one always just one time use? Straight from the helpdesk: quote:If you’ve created a new level 60 character and find that the playstyle of that Advanced Class does not suit you, you may delete that character before they reach level 61 and create another without having to buy a token from the Cartel Market.
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Nov 4, 2015 18:03
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Aphrodite posted:Are you still a subscriber? Yep. I just opened a ticket so I guess I'll see what they say.
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Nov 4, 2015 18:05
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So, a reminder to anyone who's beginning to augment their stuff and needs to make augment kits. The grade 8 assembly kits can be reverse engineered a stack of 99 at a time and will give you 99 augment kit components. Much easier than reverse engineering 99 implants or earpieces. Might want to only do 50 at a time though - I reverse engineered 99 of the biochem kits and got 99 each back of the biochem components, I have a feeling you can't get more than 99 if you RE them.
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Nov 4, 2015 18:18
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Medullah posted:Story Mode raiding. Even if you lose every single roll on the token loot you'll walk away with 1-5 pieces of 216 assigned drops (each boss has a chance of dropping a piece for just you) Okay so can I safely tank story mode ops with gear ten levels out of date?
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Nov 4, 2015 18:22
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StashAugustine posted:Okay so can I safely tank story mode ops with gear ten levels out of date? Yes, honestly I think you're better off. Bolster seems to seriously overpower people undergeared. If you're in TNG just speak up when there's lots of people on and try to get something going.
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Nov 4, 2015 18:25
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Medullah posted:Yes, honestly I think you're better off. Bolster seems to seriously overpower people undergeared. Well that character is rep side so off to LFG it is!
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Nov 4, 2015 18:28
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I decided to burn down my old sniper and make a new one so I could a) redo the Agent story, which I love and b) have a Sniper with more comms than I know what to do with so I can buy 208/216 gear instantly upon hitting Odessen. I think I might have a problem. I don't regret leveling another alt, though. The leveling experience is so drastically different that it feels like a different game--and it's ridiculously, blindingly fast. I landed on Balmorra last night at 22, did the heroics, and was at 27 before doing a single story mission.
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Nov 4, 2015 18:34
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On my Operative, I've been hitting just the personal and planet stories and running the 'story' flashpoints as they come up. Finished Nar Shaddaa last night at level 30, will be running Boarding Party/The Foundry tonight because I don't remember actually hitting them before, or if I did, it was once and also ages ago.
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Nov 4, 2015 19:00
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Medullah posted:Honestly I think lethality is easier than concealment. Yeah you have to maintain dots but it's a pretty basic rotation that has no positional requirements. Lethal strike, Corrosive dart, corrosive grenade, toxic blast (if not at 2 tactical advantage), corrosive Assault, corrosive Assault, shiv, corrosive Assault, corrosive Assault, repeat. Basically use shiv and toxic blast on cool down any time you don't have 2 TAs. Concealment is crazy easy, though. VS - filler - filler - repeat. Then it's just a priority system. stealthed backstab (with zero TA and using cloaking screen) > VS > BS > lacerate w/ TA bonus > CD > lacerate > rifle shot
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Serf posted:The class balance is great because taking down Sith NPCs with my Smuggler will never not feel awesome. I try to imagine the seething hatred Vette builds up when I have her spend an hour crafting only for me to reverse engineer it all and hand it back to her to craft, again.
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Nov 4, 2015 19:07
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go3 posted:I try to imagine the seething hatred Vette builds up when I have her spend an hour crafting only for me to reverse engineer it all and hand it back to her to craft, again. Much the same way Khem Val feels when he's sent to do light side diplomacy missions.
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Nov 4, 2015 19:10
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go3 posted:I try to imagine the seething hatred Vette builds up when I have her spend an hour crafting only for me to reverse engineer it all and hand it back to her to craft, again. Oh yeah, everyone but Bowdaar probably hates my Smuggler's guts for constantly sending them out on Slicing, Treasure Hunting and Underworld Trading (just hit 500 on all of them!). Those guys barely have a moment's rest.
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Earlier there was someone wondering if the cleanse ability was unique to the akk dog companion: it is not. I'm working through heroics and one of my companion's abilities in heal mode is Mending, a combination heal over time and cleanse over time.
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Now I want to make an alt named Cathy so I can have an Ack dog companion
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Medullah posted:Also, though nobody cares, I realized I did my math wrong yesterday on my sperg lord gift post. I recalculated today. Someone put this in a spreadsheet where you input your current GTN gift prices and find out if it's worth it to use other gifts.  I'm staring too much at spreadsheets at work so I try not to spend any private time on them.
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