Star Wars: The Old Republic Random Question/Discussion thread - F2P

[Ezek]

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...ew-Final-Build

Hard mode FPs - need a tuning overpass also. Most of the bosses have a pretty strict enrage timers that can be difficult to meet with fresh 50s. I ran as healer (there weren’t many at all on Darth Malak apparently) with a group a well geared level 50s in a mix of artifacts and blue level 49-50 gear and we hit the enrage on almost every boss that had one. Without parsing or combat log ability this could be very frustrating to new players. Each boss drops crystals which are a currency for level 50 artifact gear and last boss drops a BoP high end crafting item. Each HM FP awards a commendation that is another currency that can be traded for gear.

TL;DR- The hard mode FPs and gear currency system reminded me of WoW BC heroics and badge system in a way. I have decided I like this aspect of the game and gearing up will definitely take time. The currency’s and the cost on vendors look to be a 7-10 instance cost per item (roughly).

Operations – I was able to get into a raid group for EV as heals. We went and tried this boss on 16 man normal mode and it was insanely overtuned, damage going out was insane and undoable so we split into two 8 man groups to try to get some attempts in. The people I was running with had done it in the previous build and said it was faceroll easy then, however it was not faceroll when I was in the raid. The pull took some coordination between the 2 tanks to pick up adds and CCs to hit the turrets, the first 10 seconds was pretty crucial and tanks/heals and cc had to be on their toes. The boss itself has straightforward mechanics that were very clear and it was obvious what to do at what moment. We did several attempts and progressed to get him down to ~10% when he started doing an overtuned aoe rocket ability that wiped the raid. Other folks cheesed the mechanic by LOS’ing the entire enrage portion and having a tank with CDs and spam heals burn through the final health.

TL;DR – The raiding felt comfortable and enjoyable. The challenge level of this encounter was good for a group of 8 folks coordinated in voice chat. My guess was the previous build was testing the bottom tier difficulty (that can be pugged w no gear) and what we were testing was the next tier up that requires more coordination. I have watched videos of the other fights and mechanics look similar to what we have seen elsewhere and their implementation looks good (outside of bugs of course) I think they have some work to do on operations before the first guilds hit 50, hopefully this will happen.

Endgame sounds exactly what I want it to be from that review~

[Zerocool]

It's good to hear how difficult they are. Hopefully they don't end up dumbing it down too much like Rift did.

[Greedouw]

Just curious if anyone else is seeing this. I downloaded the pre-load via the email I received, ran the installer, ran the patcher, etc. After all the patching is done, I see a "There is currently no active subscription on this account. Activate your account here." Well, I click "here", login, but get no subscription window. I assume they will add this after the early access actually launches? (or close to it?)

[Calina]

Just curious if anyone else is seeing this. I downloaded the pre-load via the email I received, ran the installer, ran the patcher, etc. After all the patching is done, I see a "There is currently no active subscription on this account. Activate your account here." Well, I click "here", login, but get no subscription window. I assume they will add this after the early access actually launches? (or close to it?)

Everyone is getting this error and will until early access it will change soon as you are able to play. Personally ill be trying to login every few hrs till I get my email telling me am able to play just to be safe seeing as how a lot of there email's seem to end up in my spam folder on gmail even after I mark them not spam found both my first full time beta invite back in august and all the weekend test invites all in my spam folder.

[Arelian]

Hrm... I preordered but I haven't received any emails about the early access or preloading. On the account page I can download the client, though.

I'm confused.

[Calina]

Hrm... I preordered but I haven't received any emails about the early access or preloading. On the account page I can download the client, though.

I'm confused.

Go into "My Account" on official site then under Account management first thing there click on "Pre-Order" you should be able to download the installer from there. The early access email's start going out on the 13th when early access starts. The emails are going out over the 7 days based on the date you entered you're pre-order code under "Code Redemption" in account management. So you wont know when you will be able to start early access till you receive your email. Basicly there just telling everyone to "Constantly refresh you're email all day every day starting 7am cst on the 13th till it shows up cause where asses like that" kinda sweet of them don't you think?

[Arelian]

Yeah, I can download the client and everything. I just didn't get any emails telling me about the early access or anything.

[Calina]

Yeah, I can download the client and everything. I just didn't get any emails telling me about the early access or anything.

Oops sorry must have miss read thought you couldn't find the download. That's what I get for reading to quick^^;

[Zerocool]

Yeah, I mean it does kind of suck that they won't be telling us when we can start early access ahead of time, but I understand why they aren't. Can you imagine the shit storm if they told people they could get in on a certain day and then something happens like one of the servers breaks or something and they have to move people's early access back a day or two. Some people would commit suicide.

[Ohemgee]

So. Any speculation who gets early access priority for tuesday? Pre-order went live July 21 at (noon EST?) and I ordered and redeemed within 10 minutes.

I want a week head start.

Bitch.

[samalis]

If I pre order now will I still be able to get early access? Or was it limited time only?

[Zerocool]

You might, but at this point it might only be like a day or two. It also depends on how well servers hold up as they'll be letting people in on that basis.

[Ezek]

So. Any speculation who gets early access priority for tuesday? Pre-order went live July 21 at (noon EST?) and I ordered and redeemed within 10 minutes.

I want a week head start.

Bitch.

Yeah I pre-ordered at like 4am EST on July 21st. Not sure when it opened up but I doubt it was very long from when I registered my pre-order code. I recall reading a dev twitter (someone dig it up since I'm lazy, it was 1-2 days ago so pretty recent) that all the first day early access slots were taken within 2 weeks of pre-orders opening up, so if that's even remotely true then we're both good to go.

[samalis]

GF pre ordered and tried redeeming her code and it's not showing up on her account. She tried again and said code has been used. It's been about an hour, shes pissed. Also their support seems ass.

[izembo]

kinda interested in playing, question about bounty hunter, are you ever given players to hunt as marks kinda mechanic?

[vrumpt]

kinda interested in playing, question about bounty hunter, are you ever given players to hunt as marks kinda mechanic?

No, Bounty Hunter doesn't get anything special like that, or any of the classes really. Would be cool, but with the way they set up the game here its not really possible, BH is just another class like the others.


On early access, we really can't be certain how they are going to handle the staggered waves anymore. It could be daily, or it could be a shorter/longer time period depending how their servers handle. If everything goes super well we could theoretically see everybody in at the end of the 2nd or 3rd day. Not saying its gonna happen, but because they changed the rules on us we don't know what their plan is other than getting everybody in as fast as they reasonably can. They've said that Thanksgiving weekend they had well over more people playing then they have pre-orders, so we know they can handle the load. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

[Ohemgee]

Well it would be pretty cool to add it to PvP servers / areas. It would be something similar to Dark Souls, put a bounty on players for capping objectives or something on non warzone related areas (like quest planets) and gank them once

[Rulke]

^APB did something like that. When a player reached threat level 5 a bounty went out on them and any player in the map could take them down for a reward. Was pretty cool.

[Ohemgee]

Oh that game...what a disaster

[Zetanio]

They don't even have a waiting list on their call center. Or a greeting. It just tells me they are too fucking busy and hangs up.

Bad Bad Bad.