wazu posted:

So now that I'm 80 and finally played enough GSF to have decent gear I just started trying to re-learn to do regular PvP. Holy poo poo, this game basically requires me to get a master's degree in SWTOR to be at all competitive, and I'm not sure that will be enough even if I devote my life to it. I feel like I need 2 more arms and a couple of different keyboards, plus a few hours spent mapping keybindings and overhauling UI to optimize my brain function/eye-hand coordination and merely accomplish what is recommended in the basic YouTube videos.

wazu posted:

So now that I'm 80 and finally played enough GSF to have decent gear I just started trying to re-learn to do regular PvP. Holy poo poo, this game basically requires me to get a master's degree in SWTOR to be at all competitive, and I'm not sure that will be enough even if I devote my life to it. I feel like I need 2 more arms and a couple of different keyboards, plus a few hours spent mapping keybindings and overhauling UI to optimize my brain function/eye-hand coordination and merely accomplish what is recommended in the basic YouTube videos.

Medullah posted:

Nah don't over think it. At most I'd recommend following Swtorista's guide to level 80 gearing.

https://swtorista.com/articles/swtor-level-80-gearing-guide/


From there maybe spend a little time understanding your abilities and what they do, especially your defensive abilities. At that point you'll be better than 75% of the level 80 players.

Can always pop in discord and ask for tips too. What combat style are you using?

wazu posted:

Immortal Jugg. Had been doing rage, but decided to switch. I was doing decent in battlegrounds, but just felt like I got embarrassed repeatedly in arenas. I did use SWTORista's guide to get gear to a basically acceptable level. I do think one thing I need to improve my focus on defensive abilities. Now that I'm playing a tank trying to figure out an approach to mixing in Guard will be added to that.

DrunkenGarbageCan posted:

First of all I recommend an MMO mouse...I've used several and the Corsair Scimitar is my favorite.

This is my set-up and what I always recommend to people looking to get into NiM raiding or top-tier PvP...



A couple of things here, first the vertical hotbar is my basic rotation. It's right in your face and easy to keep track of. Pretty much every single spec in ToR is priority based so this hotbar goes from most to least priority. For example this is a Lethality Operative and in PvP keeping your Probes up is priority #1 so that's the first button. Apart from keeping your dots up, Toxic Blast uptime is the most important so that's second. I don't have dots on this bar cause they have no CD, your watching your opponents debuff bar not your hotbar for when you need to recast. The last 3 buttons (R, F, C) are offensive utilities, heals, and taunts.

The other main point here is that I always map similar abilities to the same slot across multiple characters i.e. my interrupt is always X, my trinket is always Z, any gap closers (Force Speed, Exfiltration, etc) are =. DCD's always start with Shift+7 and go to Shift+= based on the priority in which they should be used.

You've only got so many buttons so don't waste hotkeys on abilities that don't need to be hotkeyed like stims, the fleet travel button, and Sprint.

It's all about muscle memory...time spent thinking is time spent dying. Also remember the golden rule ABC, always be casting. APM is just as important as your rotation, if nothing else just spam your basic attack.

PvP is about situational awareness...zoom your camera out so you can see as much of the action as you can. Make your teammate that is guarding your off-node your focus target so you know when they're in combat or mezzed. Relying on chat to know where you need to be is for losers. Respond to situations (i.e. use DCD's or rotate to another node or click on bombs/consoles) <before> the situation happens, for example a Sorc who bubbles at 5% health is basically dead whereas a Sorc who bubbles at 90% as soon as they become the focus has options.

The best way to learn to beat a spec is to play that spec yourself.

Queue dodge if you need to...if there are premades or really bad players ruining your good time put them on your friends list if possible and don't queue unless they're in a WZ and/or Arena.

Medullah posted:

Tanks in PVP are a tricky thing. You have two options. True tanking is gearing appropriately with defensive and mitigation stats. You won't be doing much damage, but your goal in regular warzones is to protect nodes and guard swapping to keep your team alive.

Skank Tank is tank spec but using DPS mods with a shield. Immortal can do some brutal AOE damage. You won't have the same level of tankiness but you'll stay alive longer than Vengeance.

For defensive abilities the key is knowing what type of damage they protect against and when to use them. This is an older post but it's still applicable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comm...1&utm_content=1

Medullah posted:

It's an older post but it checks out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comm...1&utm_content=1

FreeWifi!! posted:

I started playing this again as a subscriber and they charge for quick travel now?

Is this a way to get the economy a little more in line or something?

Medullah posted:

https://twitter.com/SWTOR/status/1697321868980527586?s=20

DrunkenGarbageCan posted:

Galactic Season Five news as well.

Medullah posted:

People are raising hell about the Flashpoint change. "Before I could do whatever Flashpoints I wanted! Now I'm forced to do specific ones!" and I'm over here like "uhhh when I do galactic seasons I always do one of the highlighted ones with a bonus boss anyway rather than 4 random ones".

Assuming you can still get the objective by doing the bonus boss and finishing one, it makes no difference to me

quote:

In previous seasons, players embarked on their storyline missions with a new companion. Season 5 introduces a new way to engage with the story told in Galactic Seasons, with story progression now a part of the Galactic Seasons rewards. Players will unlock new story missions as they progress through the reward track, with the final mission granted at Season Level 40.

We are also adding new objectives that will involve companions being set to specific roles, Space Missions, and Operations. There are more objectives available for players who are Subscribers or have Preferred accounts.

quote:

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Corrected typo in the Amplified set bonus description.

Moreau posted:

Has anyone had an opportunity to check out the new way Kai Zykken sells the old armor sets? And, more importantly, do they still give out titles? I was this close to getting Notorious, dangit

Medullah posted:

Yep he sells every one of the 6.0 armor sets. It's 10,000 tech fragments and 1 million credits. Pieces aren't sold separately, it's all in one box.

Also all of the various schematics for the crafted Onslaught gear.

You'll pop the achievement title when you wear all 7 pieces.

Edit - There's a hilarious conversation with the droid about Kai with the swtor devs making fun of themselves

Double Agent posted:

A few other things I noticed so far:

The cost for unlocking items from the GS track is now 80 cartel coins, which is up from 60 in GS 4
It costs 1 GS Token to get the GS mission item to do on another character
The catchup option for the PVP track has been reset. No levels are currently available to unlock with credits. You could unlock up to level 11 as of yesterday. Hopefully this will get fixed
The level from the GS track that gives you the two items to increase Dark Spores drop rates only gave me one. I immediately got mail with the other item in it, but could not claim it.

DrunkenGarbageCan posted:

lmao at needing 4 Ops to complete one GS objective.

Also adding a Heroic space mission objective...if you held my family at gunpoint and told me I could only save them by doing Heroic space missions I'd have to really think about it.

Medullah posted:

My personal anger is towards Master Mode chapters. I don't know if scaling is off or what but my BiS 336 geared Operative that I've been playing for literally a decade can't even get past the first boss fight in MM kotet 16. I understand that they should be a challenge but they're impossible sometimes.

DrunkenGarbageCan posted:

Yeah I'm glad I did all those cheevos before 7.0, even in 6.0 at the peak of player power there were a handful of fights you basically had to get lucky for.

The frustrating part is is that that they aren't hard because they require tactics and know how they're hard because your dumbass companion is very content to stand in the fire. Follow me and/or stand here and don't move commands would make these far easier.

Artadius posted:

So this game is a warm blanket for me that I go back to here and there over the last couple of years very casually. I subbed up front for a month to get preferred status and played through the entire Jedi Knight storyline until I finished up Eternal Throne. Really enjoyed it.

Then started up a few months ago a Sith Warrior to play through that one and I'm liking it (but not really as much as JK).... I'm up into Act III for that storyline now.

I played quite a bit over the weekend and what I noticed was I'm seeing some neat fringe parallels on the story points that seems like it would be neat to have that JK playthrough more fresh on my mind. Stuff like "Oh I remember that guy or I remember this place / conflict".

So since I play so casually I thought what might make those parallels and ties more interesting / rewarding would be to play through all of the classes in parallel to experience those connections / story points in a smaller vacuum. I know the classes aren't always on the same planet at the same point in their playthroughs, but they are this way more often than not (pre expansions).

Has anyone played through them in this way and can speak on this to see if it a more interesting way to play through all the stories? Is there an accepted order to do these on and does it potentially differ by planet. For example, on Corellia, start with Bounty Hunter then Agent, then Trooper, etc.

Thanks.

Medullah posted:

The stories swap order during the course of their stories so there's no real linear path, but I saw this a few months ago and it seems to be pretty close -

Bounty Hunter
Sith Warrior
Sith Inquisitor
Jedi Knight
Republic Trooper
Jedi Consular
Smuggler
Imperial Agent

Edit -

There's also this if you really want detailed order.

Crancherry posted:

LotSVizla

Code from stream to get decos. Redeem by 11/1 they said.