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Ego Trip posted:A bar existing and giving rewards when you fill it is pretty much the perfect example of the video game skinner box.
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And all they would need to do to make conquest for not max level characters feel better is let you do it multiple times a a week until you get to max level. Not a major problem, but it'd be nice if there wasn't this tension between fun and optimal.
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Tired of posting on a dead forum? How about posting on another dead but at least technologically up-to-date forum?? Why not go to the renewed SWTOR forums !! In marginally more interesting news, the screenshot contest returns. Take a screenshot of a nice place in the game and maybe the devs will turn it into an official decoration. See the link for all the rules and whether you're even allowed to participate (for whatever reason, if you happen to live anywhere in South/Middle America, Africa or Asia you're most likely sorely out of luck).
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Sombrerotron posted:Tired of posting on a dead forum? How about posting on another dead but at least technologically up-to-date forum?? Why not go to the renewed SWTOR forums !! 
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Regretfully, the Space Bar is excluded from this contest's list of nice places.
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Anybody aware of goons on Satele Shan? Saw a guy last night flying a <The Goon Squad> tag imp side. Sent a tell asking if they were from SA but didn’t hear back.
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wazu posted:Anybody aware of goons on Satele Shan? Saw a guy last night flying a <The Goon Squad> tag imp side. Sent a tell asking if they were from SA but didn’t hear back. I am but I haven't seen any other goon guilds here
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Update 7.1.1 is coming tomorrow! Full patch notes are here. The highlights (in my opinion, anyway):quote:
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Welp, there goes my plan to login and get the season 2 companion before season 3 dropped. Oh well!
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Arquinsiel posted:Welp, there goes my plan to login and get the season 2 companion before season 3 dropped. Oh well! I mean, you missed that boat months ago when GS2 ended
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I missed the boat to miss that boat 
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I'm guessing you will (eventually?) be able to buy Fen Zeil with GS tokens anyway. Anyway apparently "an issue was discovered" with GS3 so they decided not to initiate it yet (boo hiss boo). 7.1.1 is up now, though, so at least the other stuff should be active!
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  Oh and the Feast of Prosperity hasn't started yet, but the vendor remains available and is already offering the new items (among which a fairly flippin' rad skiff) so if you still have tokens over from last time you can already get some.
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i have whats maybe a rude questions about the quality of the story writing. i'm only like... level 12? so who knows. i'm sure these origin stories were incredibly detailed and motivating compared to other MMO games in 2011. fully voiced!! your character has response lines!! but now it's FFXIV's era and they just dont hold up anymore. do the stories get.... better.......... as you get into newer content?
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Jinnigan posted:but now it's FFXIV's era and they just dont hold up anymore. do the stories get.... better.......... as you get into newer content? I’m sorry to report that none of the origin stories features your character silently nodding while an NPC has a 40-minute monologue about crystals.
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Jinnigan posted:i have whats maybe a rude questions about the quality of the story writing. i'm only like... level 12? so who knows. i'm sure these origin stories were incredibly detailed and motivating compared to other MMO games in 2011. fully voiced!! your character has response lines!! but now it's FFXIV's era and they just dont hold up anymore. do the stories get.... better.......... as you get into newer content? Part of that depends on which origin story you're doing - along with the normal "different people like different things." Imperial Agent and Sith Warrior are generally considered pretty strong storylines, Trooper is viewed as having a solid first act and then falls off, and then you have Jedi Consular which some people love and lots of people find incredibly boring. Which origin story are you going through?
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As someone who's played both FFXIV and SWtOR (every class story, actually), I will say the stories do indeed vary wildly in quality, and do so at different parts. I found the Jedi Knight and Commando to be a bit dull, IIRC, whereas Smuggler and Agent were  So it depends on which class story you're going through.
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ok nice. i did a bit of republic trooper and that was alright. im gonna make a empire agent though, heard that's superb
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Jinnigan posted:ok nice. i did a bit of republic trooper and that was alright. im gonna make a empire agent though, heard that's superb Anyway, Galactic Seasons 3 is finally active! Get all the deets and ogle the fancy new rewards (or just, you know, open up the rewards panel in the game and preview all the items) here!
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I've played through all of the class stories. They are all good; some have their ups and down. Some chapters have a lot going on, some chapters get grindy, others are super fun. I think they're all fun and worth playing for the story alone. I'm currently revisiting the Bounty Hunter, which was my first, and then Smuggler, which I sped through to get legendary status (for whatever that's worth) and I want to go back and actually enjoy the story.
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So...there is a Jedi Shadow ability where a bunch of rocks float and circle around the waist of the Jedi. It's something in the ability tree of one of them that has to be selected, kinda high in the tree. But it looks awesome. I think it's some kind of buff ability. Anybody know what that is?
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wazu posted:So...there is a Jedi Shadow ability where a bunch of rocks float and circle around the waist of the Jedi. It's something in the ability tree of one of them that has to be selected, kinda high in the tree. But it looks awesome. I think it's some kind of buff ability. Anybody know what that is? Kinetic Ward
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Just to see if I understand the concept correctly: Galactic Seasons is essentially a valid excuse to redo all different kinds of content and earn gear along the way? I've been meaning to have a good excuse to play some more with my main character, and this could hold my interest to pick him up again.
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wazu posted:So...there is a Jedi Shadow ability where a bunch of rocks float and circle around the waist of the Jedi. It's something in the ability tree of one of them that has to be selected, kinda high in the tree. But it looks awesome. I think it's some kind of buff ability. Anybody know what that is? Kinetic Ward in the Kinetic Combat tree, the tank spec. It boosts your Shield %. Baron von der Loon posted:Just to see if I understand the concept correctly: Galactic Seasons is essentially a valid excuse to redo all different kinds of content and earn gear along the way? I've been meaning to have a good excuse to play some more with my main character, and this could hold my interest to pick him up again. Yep it's a battle pass system to get people to do various types of content. But don't worry you'll still see people bitching that they're FORCED to do content they don't want to.
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Baron von der Loon posted:Just to see if I understand the concept correctly: Galactic Seasons is essentially a valid excuse to redo all different kinds of content and earn gear along the way? I've been meaning to have a good excuse to play some more with my main character, and this could hold my interest to pick him up again.
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Sombrerotron posted:Just so you know, the gear you can get through GS is purely cosmetic. However, you can earn both items unique to whichever iteration of GS's going on (some of which are really really nice) and a bunch of free Cartel Market packs. And also up to 2000 Cartel Coins for you to spend on yet more CM stuff. And also several GS-unique mounts. And tokens that you can spend at two vendors on the fleet, one of whom has a rotating stock of items and unlocks that are otherwise no longer available anymore. If you're a bit methodical about it, you can get all the rewards by spending just a few hours playing each week for the next few months. Today was the first day I've logged on since GS started, I did all 7 weekly objectives in around 2-3 hours, and that was a lot of exploring. It's really not hard to do (just doing the daily 25k Conquest points is simple, especially if you have reputation tokens to use - build up a stack of 5 of them, one per day and that's 25k points.)
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Thanks, fellas. I'm going to have to learn how to tank now just so I can use Kinetic Ward all the time.
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wazu posted:Thanks, fellas. I'm going to have to learn how to tank now just so I can use Kinetic Ward all the time. Well good news one very important part of Shadow tanking is making sure you have Kinetic Ward up at all times. edit: The following guides aren't at all necessary for anything but the hardest of content but some of the less technical parts about where your attention should be and how taunts and threat interact can be useful at any level. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XUmmYBIwTN9i6d6DbCx6IFtJqhGGZ8ZviSUVzR9Jkc0/edit https://vulkk.com/2022/02/18/swtor-7-0-kinetic-combat-shadow-pve-guide-and-best-builds/ grah fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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wazu posted:Thanks, fellas. I'm going to have to learn how to tank now just so I can use Kinetic Ward all the time. skank tank and do pvp. you can use a legendary and skills to get (functionally) infinite cloaks and you have infinite CC so you just run around making everyone really mad and never dying and then send them straight to hell when your damage cooldowns are up
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I'm considering coming back to casually play. I originally played at launch, and have come back on and off over the years. I was working my way through the different stories in order to max out the buffs for my main characters. Is it worth finishing the stories outside of just the content now that classes aren't a thing? If I've had a Dark V character, will I able able to just log in, select my knight and give him lightning and other inquisitor powers?
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its all nice on rice posted:I'm considering coming back to casually play. I originally played at launch, and have come back on and off over the years. I was working my way through the different stories in order to max out the buffs for my main characters. Is it worth finishing the stories outside of just the content now that classes aren't a thing? Classes are still a thing. You'll be able to create a Knight, but you don't pick and choose abilities. You'll be able to make that Knight a Sorcerer if you like lightning, but you won't be able to, say, Force Leap like the old days as those are Guardian/Sentinel skills
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To elaborate/clarify a teensy weensy bit: 1. You used to have classes and each class would be split into two advanced classes. Classes have been renamed to origin stories and determine storyline, your character's voice and whether you're a Force or tech user. Advanced classes are now known as combat styles and have been disconnected from classes/origin stories, to the extent that any Force user can potentially have any Force combat style and any tech user can have any tech combat style. As Medullah explained, you can't freely mix-and-match different combat styles' abilities (yet). 2. Origin stories still count for achievements and certain unlocks, like the buffs (which once unlocked now always apply automatically to each character, by the way) and - perhaps more importantly - the ability to choose two combat styles for a single character. Unless they changed that when I wasn't looking, that ability is dependent on you completing Chapter 3 of the applicable origin story. Completing it on one character won't be enough to get two combat styles for each alt therefore, just for any with the same origin story. Do note that you won't be able to use both styles simultaneously, regardless: you can only switch between them.
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I dunno if they fixed this, but at one point if you tried to select a second Force combat style and weren't subscribed the mission would break and you'd be able to roam around freely in that lightside/darkside void. Well, 'fall off the platform' is really all you can do, but it's there?
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Neat shout-out to SWTOR in this week's episode of Andor: Belsavis gets name-dropped as an Imperial prison planet.
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Cythereal posted:Neat shout-out to SWTOR in this week's episode of Andor: Belsavis gets name-dropped as an Imperial prison planet. If you wanna get real nerdy here, Belsavis is technically from one of the old books (Children of the Jedi), long before any of the Old Republic stuff.
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Pryce posted:If you wanna get real nerdy here, Belsavis is technically from one of the old books (Children of the Jedi), long before any of the Old Republic stuff. and going a level beyond this. Belsavis does appear in a video game before TOR. As a cheat code in the ROTS tie in game.
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Hey, so uhh, I guess I'm gonna try this thing out. I signed up to the discord, I'll say hi there at some point. I'll probably play mostly republic but maybe have 1 or 2 sith mofos just to try them out. E: apparently the launcher doesnt actually launch anything. Yaaay. Error 404 fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Error 404 posted:Hey, so uhh, I guess I'm gonna try this thing out. I signed up to the discord, I'll say hi there at some point.
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https://twitter.com/swtorista/status/1589702214389751809?s=20&t=gm30RJOfgkKvgOVfg9NdzQ Might want to link this in the OP Sombrerotron. These are pretty decent "Just playing the game" guides that don't go too much into endgame stuff or optimizing.
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