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

**Dantrag** · 2012-01-11 09:53

Originally Posted by Ohemgee

The non-Rakata/Columi/Tionese purple stuff is mediocre compared to the purple mods you get from lv 50 heroics.

edit: for pve at least

All the purples I have now have level 56 mods in them. The only way I can upgrade the PVP stuff I have for PVE is with the Rakata(or the higher level - not sure which is the higher level tbh) other wise the one got through the commendations and crystals will be a down grade.

**Ohemgee** · 2012-01-11 09:56

Well that depends on how you're gearing yourself for PvE vs PvP. A lot of the PvP gear is really really nice. But I guess its the way I geared myself for both (and the fact that BH pvp gear looks like a suicide thing from dead island)

**Dantrag** · 2012-01-11 10:02

I have the Champion's sets going on right now(I think, not the one you get with tokens but with the items from the bags) So it's def higher tier than most the other stuff. And I'm starting to collect more PVE oriented stuff from PVE. But for a DPS the PVP gear works really well like you said. Got the relic that raises crit by 220(I think - it does 7% crit chance) which is fkn awesome. We had a similar one drop in boarding party but it had about 100 less chance.

**Ohemgee** · 2012-01-11 10:12

Luckily almost all of the gear recycles down to my companion. Hurray mobile mannequins

**Dantrag** · 2012-01-11 10:41

Which do you use? I haven't gotten away from Mako... EVER. But then again, Merc DPS spec I find I'm tankier than all my other companions.

**Ohemgee** · 2012-01-11 14:38

Originally Posted by Dantrag

Which do you use? I haven't gotten away from Mako... EVER. But then again, Merc DPS spec I find I'm tankier than all my other companions.

I use Mako 90% of the time. I have Torian fully geared with my left over stuff and Gault whenever I duo with a healer friend.

Torian isn't bad for doing illum and belsavis dailies.

Speaking of which, you can solo the heroic 2 and 4 on belsavis.

**mistmonster** · 2012-01-11 15:05

Originally Posted by Eldelphia

I'm not good with jumping >.>

Me either, it seems like a lag thing to me but every time I need to make a difficult jump like, in datacron hunting, my character just ignores it. It seems that I have to make jump way earlier that I think I should. Almost like the screen shows me on the edge of the object, but I've already fallen off. Seriously hope my neighbors don't hear my rage cussing at this.

**Greedouw** · 2012-01-11 22:36

Finally getting some "drops" from my Champion bags... like 4/15

**Alderaan** · 2012-01-12 02:39

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=162569

Not surprised.

**Hyan** · 2012-01-12 02:44

The game does look pretty taxing on your hardware as-is, they really went all the way on the visual department. Good to hear they toned it down a bit.

tol · 2012-01-12 03:50

Lifted this off reddit but I thought it might help some of you guys grinding it out for battlemaster.

I rarely see people doing this so i figured I'd pass it along...
Part of the Ilum "capture the points" is a stacking "War Effort" buff, capping out at x5. http://i.imgur.com/xdVOE.jpg
The buff does 2 things, 200% more valor from ilum kills (you get 10v per kill, 30v with a max buff) AND +200 valor on Warzone completion (Win or Lose, you still get +200). the Buff lasts 30min. You don't see the additional +200v on the scoreboard at the end of the game but i confirmed it silently adds it when you leave the finished WZ.
Naturally this works better when more people are on but i will que from Ilum after getting the max buff and play a WarZone. After the warzone is done i generally have ~10-15min left on the buff (HuttBall and VoidStar are both set times, civil war can drag on a little more, but I've never had one last longer than 20min). It is possible to stretch out 2 games in 30min if they are quick, but you run the risk of having to start the buff over if it falls off. the buff does need to be active at the end of the game to earn the bonus valor.
Once the BG is over you either have to kill someone in ilum or be a part of a point capture to refresh the buff to 30min again. After that it is rinse and repeat. During peak time at night i've never had the buff fall off because the nodes are constantly being traded. I generally lurk between south and republic base since those are generally the most active.
+200/game will average out to a very nice valor game, especially on those games when you join a losing game and only have a few min left, this makes it worth staying for.

I need to PVP moar, but I need to finish the last few levels and be 50 already :< Im bad and play alts too much~

**ringthree** · 2012-01-12 07:56

Originally Posted by Hyan

The game does look pretty taxing on your hardware as-is, they really went all the way on the visual department. Good to hear they toned it down a bit.

Huh? What?

The game has some really good environments in places, but a lot of areas look boring and drab. Character models, equipment and mobs are all really low quality.

I don't think I have ever heard anyone say they are glad that a game has "toned down" graphics. Not anyone that is being honest with themselves.

The developers post reads like something from an SE developer circa 2004.

**Ezek** · 2012-01-12 08:02

Originally Posted by Alderaan

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=162569

Not surprised.

Now that's just a goddamned shame.

**Dantrag** · 2012-01-12 08:29

Originally Posted by Hyan

The game does look pretty taxing on your hardware as-is, they really went all the way on the visual department. Good to hear they toned it down a bit.

I honestly feel like this game is running on the WAR engine. Whenever something is, I don't know, 45+ yards away, everything becomes SUPER choppy. This is really noticeable with Jedi/Sith that spin their sabers. Instead of a fluid motion you literally only see about 5-6 points where it spins. Even player characters look like game and watch running around 45+ yards away.

**Ezek** · 2012-01-12 08:51

Those of you that played WAR probably noticed that it also had the same horrendous ability delay, so I wouldn't be surprised.

**Hyan** · 2012-01-12 12:12

Originally Posted by ringthree

I don't think I have ever heard anyone say they are glad that a game has "toned down" graphics.

I wasn't entirely honest there!

**Man0warr** · 2012-01-12 14:00

Articles about Future stuff, including big patch in March. Also they already doing voice recording for a year in advance:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...of-juicy-info/

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...hlen-on-swtor/

**Norellicus** · 2012-01-12 14:05

http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/12163...source=twitter

Man, if people failed so hard at frogger/mario in WoW, I can't fuckin' wait to see the spectacular implosions that Tower of Hanoi will cause

**Synbios** · 2012-01-12 14:29

Originally Posted by ringthree

1.1 next week. Undead attack. Mostly content that wasn't released at launch. Promises that combat will be fixed but no specifics at this time. Feeling kind of ambivalent about it right now. After their "fooled you, never really meant to have high res models" and "fps drops are because of your shitty comp" answers, I am beginning to think they don't give a fuck.

I figured they would release 1.1 right before the 20th so that people would stay subscribed for another month to check it out.

**BadKarma** · 2012-01-12 14:35

Whats tower of Hanoi?

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