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Something to smash through the story line and enjoy the story dialogue instead of having to med/heal after every mob for a few mins. Solo those end game quest line ''heroics'' mobs (if that's doable). Dabble a bit in group stuff (operations?). Maaaaybe join a guild for some raids but have a class that is wanted. Melee or range is fine.
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Tai posted:Something to smash through the story line and enjoy the story dialogue instead of having to med/heal after every mob for a few mins. Solo those end game quest line ''heroics'' mobs (if that's doable). Dabble a bit in group stuff (operations?). Maaaaybe join a guild for some raids but have a class that is wanted. Melee or range is fine. I'm biased but Operative or Assassin are both great. Stealth to skip past poo poo in story, and they have great DPS. Assassin has the option to tank and Operative has the option to heal. Operative is my personal favorite class because even in DPS spec they have pretty strong self heals so you can solo a lot of things easier.
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Aug 11, 2022 14:01
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For the most part it won't even matter for story though. Even tanking your way through it means you'll just have to attack four times instead of three for most trash mobs.
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Aug 11, 2022 15:03
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Medullah posted:I'm biased but Operative or Assassin are both great. Stealth to skip past poo poo in story, and they have great DPS. Assassin has the option to tank and Operative has the option to heal. Operative is my personal favorite class because even in DPS spec they have pretty strong self heals so you can solo a lot of things easier. If you're trying to be as op as possible solo nothing is going to beat Lethality Operative. Having said that any story content should be faceroll easy with a healing comp for any class. The same for SM raiding...just go with whatever you enjoy. I like Op and Sorc since they can cleanse and heal themselves so I don't have to depend on unknown healers and tanks as much unlike a Sin who will admittedly do more DPS but is made of tissue paper and has poo poo for DCD's. If you were to get into progression raiding the class you play probably wouldn't be your choice anyways. Tai posted:Something to smash through the story line and enjoy the story dialogue instead of having to med/heal after every mob for a few mins Yeah bro this ain't WoW Classic.
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Aug 11, 2022 15:25
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DrunkenGarbageCan posted:Yeah bro this ain't WoW Classic.  Anyone play OG EverQuest where if you played a caster class you had to sit LITERALLY for 10-15 minutes looking at this screen after fights? Extra fun on a PvP server where you could have been jumped and not even realize someone was there.
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Aug 11, 2022 15:33
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The more I learn about EQ the happier I am to have never played it for a second
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Aug 11, 2022 15:35
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Bilirubin posted:The more I learn about EQ the happier I am to have never played it for a second Oh come on, imagine how much fun SWTOR would be if you ran Eternity Vault, died on Soa and then had to run back through the entire zone with no gear and hope you made it to your body before it, and all your gear, disappeared. Except now you can't get into EV because it's a level 80 zone and since you died you lost 1/2 your experience and are now level 79, so you have to hope you have a second set of gear in your bank to gear you enough to go grind for 6 hours to get that XP back so you can hopefully get to your body. Oh wait, you're playing at launch? There is no bank, you have to hope another character has gear you can borrow, and the only way you can get it to them is by finding an obscure location, dropping the gear and then changing characters and hoping you find the gear before someone else does.
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Bilirubin posted:The more I learn about EQ the happier I am to have never played it for a second Everquest is up there with Eve as one of those games I enjoy hearing stories about, but have no desire to ever play. Playing World War II Online at launch was my personal lovely game nostalgia, I had no room for others (one of my fondest memories was riding in a truck for like an hour with a bunch of randos to make a surprise attack behind enemy lines; eventually the driver flipped the truck and we had to walk, until eventually we got strafed by an airplane before we could even fire a shot--every other memory of the game is worse than this one) Also echoing the advice in the thread that for solo content at least, everything is a faceroll and you should just play whatever class sounds fun to you. Group content (especially operations, which are the raids) might be a different story, I haven't played it in several expansions, but they've very much catered the solo experience to the casual crowd so don't sweat your choices too much. They've even made a lot of the flashpoints (this game's version of dungeons) soloable with an invincible AI robot companion, so you can see quite a lot of the game's content before you start running into any real difficulty.
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For solo story content run Marksman Sniper, you'll insta delete most mobs. Or else run any dps stealth class and bypass most of them.
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Aug 11, 2022 16:02
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Does Light or Dark matter?
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Aug 11, 2022 23:34
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No. But also yes. Don't worry about it, you will end up running enough characters to use any alignment-locked gear eventually.
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Aug 11, 2022 23:59
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Thinking about maybe going through the story with another character and was wondering if just doing the class quests is a viable option?
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Whizzing Wizard posted:Thinking about maybe going through the story with another character and was wondering if just doing the class quests is a viable option? Yeah, it is. It's easier when EXP events are going but I did Agent without doing any side stuff
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Aug 12, 2022 09:49
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kirbysuperstar posted:Yeah, it is. It's easier when EXP events are going but I did Agent without doing any side stuff
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Aug 12, 2022 14:38
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Unless they've changed the XP turning since I last played (just after KOTET), you're not quite going to be able to get there with purely class quests alone, I had to supplement the XP a bit with heroics etc to fill in some gaps. But it's not too bad, and the game gives you a lot of good options for quick grinding. Heroics and planetary quests are quick and easy, and if you're doing the interstitial flashpoints along the way (esseles/black talon, etc) that'll speed you along too.
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Aug 12, 2022 14:45
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Yeah they have, it's way easier to level now. The double XP events are so frequent that you'll be getting it more often than not, and when you have the boosts piling up unused it's kind of funny.
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Aug 12, 2022 14:57
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Also make sure you get in a guild with max XP bonus, that makes a huge difference. You can absolutely level using only story if you count the planetary story, if you JUST want to do Class Story it gets a bit dicey but if you slip behind you can catch up just doing a couple heroics (which honestly I recommend doing anyway because you get some credits and gear upgrades)
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Aug 12, 2022 15:00
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Tai posted:Does Light or Dark matter? The unlockable items are distributed among altogether four vendors on the Fleet. Two for Light Side items, two for Dark Side. Unfortunately, two of those vendors are relics from a now-deprecated system where you just choosing sides would net you Light or Dark Side tokens. If you played before and actually accumulated them, then great, you may be able to exchange them at these vendors. Otherwise, you're out of luck. Quite possibly they'll make these items generally available at some point in the future, though; that's happened with other items as well. The other two vendors just sell stuff for credits. In both cases, all the items are purely cosmetic and a character has to meet the required Light or Dark rank requirement (I through V) in order to use them. In other words: they're nice to have, but not materially important at all. What really does make a difference, though, is getting to Light V and Dark V at least once. You could theoretically get to both on a single character, although that'll take quite a bit of work. Once you reach Light V, you'll be able to use Light Side combat styles on Sith characters. Reach Dark V, and Dark Side combat styles will become available to Jedi characters. Obviously this is only relevant if it appeals to you, or if possibly the X Side equivalent of a combat style happens to be a bit more effective than the Y Side version and you're really into difficult endgame content and/or PvP. If you're still pretty new to the game and just going through the story content, I wouldn't worry about it.
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Aug 12, 2022 16:45
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On rare occasions I found I had gained Light or Dark tokens without actually knowing how or why. It's kind of nice to go get a new pet for no reason.
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Arquinsiel posted:On rare occasions I found I had gained Light or Dark tokens without actually knowing how or why. It's kind of nice to go get a new pet for no reason. That had to do with your alignment toggle and the ongoing Dark vs Light challenge, if "your side" was victorious (more points), everyone got a token. That system is retired now.
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I'm glad of it. It never made much sense to me, and trivialised the actual roleplaying aspect.
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I think the only thing I noticed from that system was occasional Champion NPCs spawning around who would murder the hell out of me if I wandered past.
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So I started playing again after a long break, leveling up two or three different classes to see which one I want to stick with for now, and the game has been super buggy, much more so than I ever remember it being in the last year or two. Quest reward items simply not showing up in inventory, NPCs in conversation cutscenes staring straight at the floor during the entire dialog, weird outfit problems like cloaks hanging on the front of my character half the time rather than hanging on the back like a cape, and some other issues I don't recall immediately. The cosmetic issues are actually pretty funny, but problems like missing equipment upgrades are concerning, not so much at lower levels now but for later on at higher levels when that might be really frustrating. Should I just wipe and reinstall the whole game?
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Mushika posted:So I started playing again after a long break, leveling up two or three different classes to see which one I want to stick with for now, and the game has been super buggy, much more so than I ever remember it being in the last year or two. Quest reward items simply not showing up in inventory, NPCs in conversation cutscenes staring straight at the floor during the entire dialog, weird outfit problems like cloaks hanging on the front of my character half the time rather than hanging on the back like a cape, and some other issues I don't recall immediately. The cosmetic issues are actually pretty funny, but problems like missing equipment upgrades are concerning, not so much at lower levels now but for later on at higher levels when that might be really frustrating. Should I just wipe and reinstall the whole game? In any event, if you're doubtful whether your installation's quite in order you can always try to verify/repair before you go and delete everything altogether. If you do decided to fully uninstall and reinstall the game, be aware that any UI settings and keybindings you have are stored locally in the C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\SWTOR\swtor\settings\ path. Good idea to make a backup of them if you plan on doing a wipe.
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That's good to know, thanks. I won't worry about it too much for now and just keep enjoying the goofy glitches when they happen. It's just fun playing through the storylines again.
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There's a line by Charlton Heston's character in True Lies: "So far, this is not blowing my skirt up." He definitely did not play SWTOR. Not only because it wasn't invented yet, but because in SWTOR if you wear robes of any kind everything blows your skirt up. Always.
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True power is consigning the Sith Emperor to a final and lasting end while the bottom half of your cloak is inverted and clipping through the top of your head
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True power is your hair disappearing every time you talk with someone you might kiss because you are wearing a giant hood and your mask has conveniently vanished.
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I've just finished Corellia (and the following dungeony bits) on the agent storyline and it seems like there's unfinished business, without spoilers is there any follow up to the "there's still stuff to do" bits in side quests or later in the DLC stories? I don't recall much/any class based stuff from later on in my other playthroughs but it's been a while.
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There's a tiny bit of followup to various bits of class storyline, but not much.
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I'm aware in general there's no follow up on the class stories, but after being really good for most of it the agent storyline I thought maybe I'd just straight up missed something, or it came up later and I just didn't recognise it since I hadn't done thist story yet. Like, we identify a bunch of evil people and go "we should hunt the rest of these guys down" and then proceed to immediately forget so we can head off to Ilum and Makeb?. Glad I don't have to slog through all the DLC again to piece it together though!
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You pretty much killed all of them in the finale TBH so there's not really much to do about it 
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Arquinsiel posted:You pretty much killed all of them in the finale TBH so there's not really much to do about it The ones the Agent doesn’t the other classes do.
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DrunkenGarbageCan posted:The ones the Agent doesn’t the other classes do. Ah, got it - I've been playing the game at a pace of like a class a year, so I've probably just forgotten (or not yet seen) it all happen. The way I saw it, at least a couple scarpered while I was killing the Prince and the Creeper and then a bunch more were only there in hologram form, so two thirds of the cabal were presumably still sitting in safehouses or friendly territory with their full bank accounts and massive influence. Seemed a premature celebration, really.
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Deformed Church posted:Ah, got it - I've been playing the game at a pace of like a class a year, so I've probably just forgotten (or not yet seen) it all happen. I'm with you, I've always maintained that the Star Cabal (i.e. non-Force users tired of both Jedi and Sith loving the galaxy up) was a unique and wasted opportunity for some endgame story content.
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DrunkenGarbageCan posted:I'm with you, I've always maintained that the Star Cabal (i.e. non-Force users tired of both Jedi and Sith loving the galaxy up) was a unique and wasted opportunity for some endgame story content.
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Sooo in case anyone's interested, Swtorista's doing special events tomorrow and on Friday between 8-10 AM PDT (11 AM-1 PM EST / 3-5 PM GMT / 5-7 PM CET), these being a Manaan PvP achievement run and a costume Her events are always wholesome good fun and typically very newbie-friendly, so don't worry about it if you're not a veteran players. Even for the PvP achievement run, while of course it's helpful to be level 80 and have level-appropriate gear, the bar to entry is just that you have a character with a ship because you'll be put into a team and they'll do their best to balance things out. And even if you don't feel like participating, you might still enjoy watching her Twitch stream. Sombrerotron fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Aug 25, 2022 |
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All of my characters and bot people are Mando's and forever will be so harumph If they keep adding more flavors of Mando armor I will probably keep spending money on ways to get them 😈
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This is the way
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