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grah posted:I don't know if 105% accuracy is still recommended, i know you definitely don't go 110% like you would in pve. 110% was always recommended in 6.0 because you had such a wealth of tertiary stats you could hit the 1.4 alacrity threshold and hard diminishing returns on critical rating and still hit 110% accuracy. With 7.0 the tertiary stat pool has been diminished to the point where you're not going to be able to hit all three. In PvP you sacrifice accuracy, in PvE you sacrifice crit. At endgame you're Bolstered up to a minimum gear rating and Bolstered down for any gear with an ilevel greater than 326...if you're getting rolled your gear is not the problem. Optimized gearing for PvE DPS for all specs except Lightning and Arsenal at 326 would be: 4 Enhancements + 3 Augments + Stim for Accuracy 4 Enhancements for Alacrity Everything else (including Crystals) is Crit. For PvP you would swap two of the Accuracy Enhancements for Crit. Heals (all 3 specs) would replace all the Accuracy Enhancements with Crit, all Augments to Mastery, and switch to a Mastery stim.
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DrunkenGarbageCan posted:At endgame you're Bolstered up to a minimum gear rating and Bolstered down for any gear with an ilevel greater than 326...if you're getting rolled your gear is not the problem. i'll keep in mind the specifics of gearing but i'm so far away from any of that, was mostly just wondering if i'd find a brick wall at the end if i stuck with it.
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DrunkenGarbageCan posted:110% was always recommended in 6.0 because you had such a wealth of tertiary stats you could hit the 1.4 alacrity threshold and hard diminishing returns on critical rating and still hit 110% accuracy. Mastery augments? What a time to be alive. Last I recall crit pools were still low enough that Crit augs and often even Crit Relics were the best option once you hit a comfortable Alacrity for channel time and energy regen. Or at least were close enough that going Mastery Crit vs Mastery Power on your relics was a negligible difference. I think I was running about 3800 alac in pve for my heals and coming in around 3400 crit like that in full 330/augs.
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help my speeder is broken
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May 23, 2022 00:48
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Please tell me that's a reproducible bug because you did something like "turned anti-aliasing to something other than Low"
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CLAM DOWN posted:help my speeder is broken 
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kirbysuperstar posted:Please tell me that's a reproducible bug because you did something like "turned anti-aliasing to something other than Low" I've made it happen a few times! If I'm in fullscreen mode, summon the mount, but tab out of the game right away forcing it to minimize before the casting of the mount is done, then tab back in, it seems to reload some textures or something to some degree? It's quite funny. Apparently it's only visible to me like that, another player couldn't see the weird invisible speeder.
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first thing i wanted to do coming back to the game was finish up my legendary player status. had 5 already done with a trooper already at the last planet. finished that, then did my light side inquisitor run which was fun as heck. i saved agent for last because so many people said it was the best. just starting chapter 2, my thoughts below. |i'm bored this is boring. i'm having a hard time finding my character's perspective and i am hoping the actual story picks up a bit. additionally, a question. when i finished my trooper's story, i immediately got everything off the character then deleted it. what i realized after was that i hadn't done the last conversations with my companions after finishing chapter 3, so i don't get the +10 useless stat for each. i know this doesn't matter for the legendary status, but if i really wanted to make sure i had them for completionism, could i get them via a boosted character? or would i fully need to play through the (insanely boring) trooper main story again to max them out?
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Nope, boosting won't give you any achievements. Most conversations end during Act 3 though so technically you could likely just get to it. The nice thing is you can now play Trooper story as whatever Tech class you like. You can be a Republic Sniper if you want.
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cams posted:first thing i wanted to do coming back to the game was finish up my legendary player status. had 5 already done with a trooper already at the last planet. finished that, then did my light side inquisitor run which was fun as heck. i saved agent for last because so many people said it was the best. just starting chapter 2, my thoughts below. The character stat boosts are one per type per account, so as long as you have one ranged DPS character unlocked you've got that stat done. If you really feel like ticking all the boxes the best thing to do is probably just going to be setting up a stealthing Trooper and skip most of the story that way.
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I think the reason people like agent is that it's the most reactive to your choices. It can go a whole lot of directions based on what you pick. When I played through it I largely had the same reaction. It was neat, but it didn't emotionally grab me and make me care about it compared to Sith Warrior.
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Arquinsiel posted:I felt similar to you about the Agent at that point, but then it gets worse.. Eimi posted:I think the reason people like agent is that it's the most reactive to your choices. It can go a whole lot of directions based on what you pick. When I played through it I largely had the same reaction. It was neat, but it didn't emotionally grab me and make me care about it compared to Sith Warrior.
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cams posted:really though, the core problem is that the only thing in the star wars universe that comes close to being as interesting as jedi are fighter pilots, and you can't have a story origin for that.
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cams posted:to be honest, if i can't just skip it by boosting, i'll just wait until i'm ready and do another story run. the stats i'm talking about are actually the +10 presence you get for maxing out each companion. it only matters for the part of my brain that cares about seeing those filled in on my legacy screen. the good thing is is that i did the first 90% of the story at least 5 years ago so i barely remember the details. I'd worry about it even less than pre 7.0, Presence is now a capped stat so that +10 presence is literally useless.
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I really came to like Kaliyo when I realized that she's doing to you what you do to everyone else. Not being able to abandon or kill companions in the 1-50 story is something many of the stories suffer from in one way or another. I suspect they'd do it differently today, but a lot of it is tied up in the original design having companions be specialized to a role and not wanting to leave you without one, as I understood it.
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Medullah posted:I'd worry about it even less than pre 7.0, Presence is now a capped stat so that +10 presence is literally useless.  cause i can't!
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cams posted:could you live with this? Well no, of course not, mines been full since 2013 heh.
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Still mad I couldn't immediately execute Skadge at the conclusion of our first encounter
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Every story has at least one character I'd love to be able to say 'get the hell off my ship' to earlier. Doc, Theron, Kaliyo, Scorpio, Corso, Akaavi, Skadge, Tanno Vik. I can't remember a single Inquisitor companion besides Khem. I think most of the Warrior ones are fine though I loathe Dark Jaesa for being too edgy. But she is actually optional. KittyEmpress fucked around with this message at 00:10 on May 25, 2022 |
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Quinn is famously someone that gamers would like to murder. But I’m one of his few defenders, every darth Vader type needs a sniveling officer to choke now and then, and if you’re surprised by him trying to assassinate you then you obviously haven’t read the sith constitution
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Oh wow I forgot Quinn existed, so my bad. Definitely should have been killable post betrayal.
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Good news then when you hit Iokath (5.0)
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Oh yeah I know he's killable now. I just meant more that every companion had ones to be killed during the original stories. That you couldn't. I still have yet to recruit skadge to any alliance.
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I liked Kaliyo, at least for the entire agent storyline. Don't remember her post-vanilla SWtOR but I remember she plays an important role in one of the Zakuul bits IIRC
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kaliyo on zakuul is good because it lets the agent sheepishly tell theon 'that's... my wife' as shes doing insane crime poo poo
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Kaliyo was Keeper's challenge for you to make good use of a difficult and volatile asset, and if you can't find a way to do that then you're basically admitting failure.
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Brumark is one of those weird companions if you're playing LS. I entirely forget why you even recruit the psycho in the first place, but he's like begrudgingly work with and then leave. Though I don't regret picking to kill him when he shows up again.
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dmboogie posted:kaliyo on zakuul is good because it lets the agent sheepishly tell theon 'that's... my wife' as shes doing insane crime poo poo I should play again just to do Zakuul with an Agent. I did a BH on my first play through a thousand years ago and Inquisitor most recently (which was still like three years ago)
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dmboogie posted:kaliyo on zakuul is good because it lets the agent sheepishly tell theon 'that's... my wife' as shes doing insane crime poo poo I've never played a male Agent that far, but that sounds amazing.
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Ironslave posted:I really came to like Kaliyo when I realized that she's doing to you what you do to everyone else. cams posted:could you live with this?
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Arquinsiel posted:You mean she's being mildly snarky and maybe going off-script around the edges but still essentially doing exactly what she's told?
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That's weird. I had mine unlock without completing stories.
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Arquinsiel posted:You mean she's being mildly snarky and maybe going off-script around the edges but still essentially doing exactly what she's told? Kaliyo is a habitual liar who regularly creates new identities and fabricates new stories about who she is and her history as is convenient for her goals. She uses the people around her, playing every angle and refusing to commit to any one until the chips are down. She has no fidelity either to the causes she joins or to the people she partners with, up until she finally sees the Agent is worth a drat. The Agent does all these things. Maybe a specific playthrough doesn't do all of them (maybe your agent isn't sleeping with every character they come across like a space James Bond), and maybe a specific player feels that their loyalties are more solid, but most of them are stuff all players engage in--the cover identities, feigning investment in a faction, playing both sides up until you're forced to make a choice. Kaliyo does to them what they are doing to everyone else, and she's suddenly the worst person ever. She is a mirror that many players refuse to look into. Honestly there's also a lot that can be said about several of the Imperial Agent's companions. It's a storyline that grasps the kind of story it's trying to tell--a spy story--and does a lot of thematic reinforcement of that via its elements, with identity and loyalty the two it explores the most.
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Arquinsiel posted:That's weird. I had mine unlock without completing stories. You get the BUFF if you only complete one mirror,but the converstations are tied to each origin story. There's an Imperial and Republic tab.
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I remember being really confused at the Agent characters being unlocked but without me ever having played as one. I'm guessing "expansion bugs" did it at some point even though I never unlocked Doctor Loken on my Smuggler until way after finishing the Agent storyline  Ironslave posted:Kaliyo is a habitual liar who regularly creates new identities and fabricates new stories about who she is and her history as is convenient for her goals. She uses the people around her, playing every angle and refusing to commit to any one until the chips are down. She has no fidelity either to the causes she joins or to the people she partners with, up until she finally sees the Agent is worth a drat.
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I can only speak for the 1-50 story, not for Makeb or anything past that. I've not played any of the origins beyond Chapter 3, primarily because I've been told they all become the same story with a few different lines of dialogue and that doesn't interest me as much and also seems like it'd make a few of the more character-driven stories get weird. The way I've had is described is needing to consider the post 1-50 story as the TOR story while the 1-50 is the class story, but I can't yet say how accurate that is.
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Ironslave posted:I can only speak for the 1-50 story, not for Makeb or anything past that. I've not played any of the origins beyond Chapter 3, primarily because I've been told they all become the same story with a few different lines of dialogue and that doesn't interest me as much and also seems like it'd make a few of the more character-driven stories get weird. The way I've had is described is needing to consider the post 1-50 story as the TOR story while the 1-50 is the class story, but I can't yet say how accurate that is. Pretty close. 1.0 - Class stories, all separate 2.0 - Rise of the Hutt Cartel, two faction based main storylines. 3.0 - Shadow of Revan, planetary storylines are identical, the factions have some different cut scenes 4.0-5.0 - Knights of the Fallen Empire and Eternal Throne, identical storylines for all classes 6.0-7.0 - Onslaught and Legacy of the Sith, back to two storylines that are faction based
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Arquinsiel posted:I think your read is solid for what they were aiming for, but in the end the structure of the medium means you are never really playing both sides. You never really make a choice. You always work for the Empire and can't change that. I think the core problem for me is my loyalties were *not* solid, so to use your mirror metaphor I looked in as the Agent, didn't like what I saw, and was powerless to change that beyond quitting. It'd work better in a game that let things actually be different at the end rather than finding a reason to bring you back into the fold to go to Makeb, in the same way the SpecOps: The Line devs were saying "You can just put the controller down anytime" and considering that a valid ending to the game. I mean, I do understand your point to some extent; I will always maintain that Planescape: Torment very much failed to live up to its promise by forcing you to end your existence one way or another, rather than permit any bargain with TTO, which I think is a similar gripe to the one you have with the Agent's story. But Torment is a single-player game with a fixed ending, and as you say the structure of the MMO medium does not allow for the same freedoms. If the player cannot accept the restrictions on agency imposed on the Agent, I don't really see how the restrictions on any other class/origin would be any less objectionable.
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