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

[Trichocyst]

I'm 43 Sage, 23 Scoundrel right now. I know nothing about Ilum and what people are talking about when they're yelling about it. What happens on Ilum (if it makes a difference I'm on a PvE server) and what's the big deal?

When the game launched Ilum was a contested planet with it's own battlefield. You got a daily and weekly quest that mostly involved a lot of PVE objectives. You often had Empire and Republic players sitting on either side of an area trading PVE objectives. They'd break a republic walker, you'd break an imperial walker, repeat. Bioware didn't like this and decided to change it. So the PVE dailies and weeklies became PVP based dailies and weeklies. Instead of helping in the war effort you need to kill 30 people (you have to deal damage to get credit in a party) or pick up 30 armament boxes (which don't get shared in a party at all). To sweeten the pot Bioware decided to give valor bonuses for the PVP kills. As soon as they made that change a lot of servers were completely dominated by the Empire spawn camping the Republic because they vastly outnumber them. To make matters worse, people were going from 30-60 valor in a matter of hours. This means they have access to the best tier of PVP gear in the game. So Bioware patched in a quick hotfix and lowered the valor per kill a bit. Now on many servers, like my own, you have players on both sides standing around farming each other for valor. Bioware is apparently okay with this.

[Ezek]

Things to do when you're bored at 50:

Roll an alt
Gear your companions:

Spoiler: show

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Lol. My Kira is 4/5 Columi, Rusk is 5/5 Columi, and Doc is 3/5 Columi. On a side note, HM Karagga bugged for us again and didn't drop any loot. It's pretty disheartening when people hate doing an encounter because of how buggy it is (Soa) rather than how difficult it is.

[BadKarma]

First guild on the server to clear HM EV and HM KP.

Feels good man. Nightmares start next week.

[Ezek]

Grats but be prepared to be disappointed. Nightmare mode isn't really all that different from HM in terms of difficulty and loot. I'm pretty sure the only difference in terms of loot was Soa dropping Rakata weapons/body rather than Columi. They're buffing the droid boss in Karagga's Palace in the next patch though (one of his abilities didn't scale appropriately when you toggled HM/NM difficulties) so maybe it'll be a bit more difficult then.

[BadKarma]

Grats but be prepared to be disappointed. Nightmare mode isn't really all that different from HM in terms of difficulty and loot. I'm pretty sure the only difference in terms of loot was Soa dropping Rakata weapons/body rather than Columi. They're buffing the droid boss in Karagga's Palace in the next patch though (one of his abilities didn't scale appropriately when you toggled HM/NM difficulties) so maybe it'll be a bit more difficult then.

Only fight that was moderately challenging was the slug himself because of the sheer amount of fucking fire he throws down.

[Spliffy]

Man I really wanna jump on this game. Which class would be the healer/support?

[Trichocyst]

Three different options there. Consular/Inquisitor, Smuggler/Operative, Trooper/Bounty Hunter all have different healing class paths. Light, medium, heavy armor respectively and each has different advantages, drawbacks, being a healer main.

[BadKarma]

Man I really wanna jump on this game. Which class would be the healer/support?

Mercenary/Commando, Operative/Scoundrel, Sage/Sorcerer

[Dantrag]

Was watching some of the romance arcs on youtube for the male characters. Makes me wish I could make out with Mako QQ.

[Zetanio]

Was watching some of the romance arcs on youtube for the male characters. Makes me wish I could make out with Mako QQ.

I've banged every chick possible so far. Totally worth it.

[Dantrag]

I've banged every chick possible so far. Totally worth it.

I want to bang chicks with my chick =( They said they were going to allow it but they canceled it at some point.

[Trinsie]

Man I really wanna jump on this game. Which class would be the healer/support?

There is actually only 1 choice regardless of what the other people said. Sage/Sorc. It is far superior to the other healing classes in both PvP and PvE. Most End game groups on my server including my guilds groups won't take healers to anything who are not Sage/Sorc because they are so much better. The bubble alone is like a 30% health bonus to the tank, not to mention superior resource management.

[Elvis]

Things to do when you're bored at 50:

Roll an alt
Gear your companions:

Spoiler: show

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/4...2012609030.jpg

Lol. My Kira is 4/5 Columi, Rusk is 5/5 Columi, and Doc is 3/5 Columi. On a side note, HM Karagga bugged for us again and didn't drop any loot. It's pretty disheartening when people hate doing an encounter because of how buggy it is (Soa) rather than how difficult it is.

Damn, I'm jelly. Iron Citadel sucks. My guild is boring and the server in general sucks + Sith outnumber Repubs so Illum pvp is strictly us v them at their base.

all I do is WZ (which is still fun anyway)

I have vette in centurion pvp set atm lol

[Spliffy]

There is actually only 1 choice regardless of what the other people said. Sage/Sorc. It is far superior to the other healing classes in both PvP and PvE. Most End game groups on my server including my guilds groups won't take healers to anything who are not Sage/Sorc because they are so much better. The bubble alone is like a 30% health bonus to the tank, not to mention superior resource management.

So that's an advance class to Jedi consular?

[Trinsie]

So that's an advance class to Jedi consular?

Sage is and Sorcerer is the Empire version. If you want the best experience possible in the game you should go Sorcerer because there are more of them. Empire outnumbers Republic on every server That isn't RP. There are one or two RP servers where there are estimated to be more Republic. Some servers are estimated as badly as 15 to 1. Now you may think you want to be on the lower populated side, but that is a bad idea. Having a large player base on your side has all the advantages and no downsides since there are same faction BGs in this game you don't even get a queue for a long time. In fact on some servers there are so few Republic that they can't get enough queueing to get in a BG during certain times of day.

TL;DR Roll Sith Inquisitor and chose Sorcerer. You will have a great time playing the game.

[Noobta]

Does anyone know if buying time cards on Origin just adds it to your account, or if it gives you a code to redeem? Trying to buy some time with WoW gold from a guildie.

[Trinsie]

Does anyone know if buying time cards on Origin just adds it to your account, or if it gives you a code to redeem? Trying to buy some time with WoW gold from a guildie.

You get a code to redeem.

[Spliffy]

Sage is and Sorcerer is the Empire version. If you want the best experience possible in the game you should go Sorcerer because there are more of them. Empire outnumbers Republic on every server That isn't RP. There are one or two RP servers where there are estimated to be more Republic. Some servers are estimated as badly as 15 to 1. Now you may think you want to be on the lower populated side, but that is a bad idea. Having a large player base on your side has all the advantages and no downsides since there are same faction BGs in this game you don't even get a queue for a long time. In fact on some servers there are so few Republic that they can't get enough queueing to get in a BG during certain times of day.

TL;DR Roll Sith Inquisitor and chose Sorcerer. You will have a great time playing the game.

DANG! thats crazy! Does that bad of a player ratio between empire vs republic ever effect pvp's? or missions? or anything? Sorry idk what BG stands for lol. Does having too many Inquisitor's or any Class on one side effect endgame at all? I see you have played ffxi? Is it anything like having 20 tanks when you are trying to setup a party? FFXI is the only MMORPG I've ever played lol. Thanks for the info/help! Really appreciate it.
TL;DR Roll Sith Inquisitor and chose Sorcerer. You will have a great time playing the game.[/QUOTE]

[samalis]

DANG! thats crazy! Does that bad of a player ratio between empire vs republic ever effect pvp's? or missions? or anything? Sorry idk what BG stands for lol. Does having too many Inquisitor's or any Class on one side effect endgame at all? I see you have played ffxi? Is it anything like having 20 tanks when you are trying to setup a party? FFXI is the only MMORPG I've ever played lol. Thanks for the info/help! Really appreciate it.
TL;DR Roll Sith Inquisitor and chose Sorcerer. You will have a great time playing the game.

Kind of. If there's a lot of people who rolled the class, then theres a good chance they might want a different class. However since Sorc are healers that's really not a problem. Also more empire then republic on the server means they will dominate world pvp. Also about the 15:1 on some servers that is true, however if you really want to roll republic a good republic server is The Harbringer. High population and pretty good republic ratio to empire. It's a pve server and not pvp though. I'm not sure about a pvp server. I have an alt there and even in the mornings there's 200+ people at the fleet (main city). But I agree with Trinsie, stick with a really high population server and you will enjoy the game so much more. Won't seem empty, always see shouts for stuff.

[Trichocyst]

Player ratio meant that I had absolutely no regrets about playing on a PVE server. The only places that it becomes an issue are War Zones and Ilum. It was actually nice before the PVP changes. The Empire needed us way more than they do now. They still have a major gear and player advantage.