SWTOR Launch

[Rogean]

It was surprising to actually chill out and talk to some of the imps I had been targetting in warzones and cursing at when they killed me (especially the chain tracer missile spamming assholes), and they turned out to be pretty cool about everything (and some even had a good sense of humor).

[Gwence]

pvp rewards suck, the columni and rakata stuff is miles better.

which u get from PVE


ergo PVE is far superior in mmo's of all kind!

[Gwence]

plus they're going to change mechanics to those ilum daily/weeklys

my server right now all people do is drive around and snipe the boxes as they spawn, they dont even fight each other lol, and it's usually only 4-5 people in the central base at any given time.


standard server pop which apparently is full of incredibly slow level'ers

[Wenai]

So hooked to this game. I am currently playing on Krayt Dragon, dunno if any peoples here are playing there or not.

Currently have:

50 Sorcerer - Basically my main. Has near full set of Champion (Missing 2x Relics, Boots, and a Hat).
37 Mercenary - Started and planned as my main. I really wanted to be able to play a healer and I felt that the Mercenary Healing system was just not as easy at the Sorcerer's healing system. The non-linear regeneration rate for the Bounty Hunter works fine for DPS but can get annoying as a Mercenary. Maybe I should have stuck it out further to get further up the healing tree but I just didn't enjoy it.
23 Assassin - I started this character as a PVP only type of character. I leveled up to level 15 and got my ship so I could do space combat AND PvP to level it up. I then found out that your Valor Rank can't be higher than your actual Level and stopped playing the character. I couldn't bear the thought of doing Balmorra again.
17 Vanguard - I just wanted a character on the Republic side and Vanguard/Powertech really interests me. It has been fun but I am busy with other characters at the moment.
15 Operative - Two friends and I all made Imperial Agents and we all chose Operative as our advanced class. We are leveling these characters only together. It has been pretty funny and a blast thus far. We just run the flashpoints three or so times in a row to get gear hah.


Overall I didn't expect to enjoy PvP but it has been a ton of fun. When you play a class that is useful at Huttball (ie. Not Tracer Missile n00bs, Not Operative Stealth BS n00bs, etc) it is actually a blast. As a Sorc I can bubble and heal as well as sprint to open areas to accept passes, sprint to open areas to pull ball carriers to safety when they aren't smart enough to see a pass etc.

My only real complaints at the moment are that new Ilum is no better than old Ilum. The new ilum (at least on my server) still has no fighting, and it makes the daily incredibly tedious to get. The old ilum had no fighting, but the daily was too easy. Neither were the right solution, but lets hope they find something soon so that Ilum just doesn't die out. On my server, the republic are so badly outnumbered, that basically no one on the republic side even tries to complete their daily. The Empire is basically left to collect these stupid boxes all day, or hope a few unknowing Republic players stroll into Ilum unaware of the faction imbalance.

A lot of the things I didn't like are actually being changed in upcoming patches such as the change to top end gear mods. They advertised this "Orange Armor" system to allow you to look like whatever you want and still have great stats, but the part they left out is where you are gimped because you have to use 51 grade armorings instead of the 56 or 58 armorings that your PVP/PVE Raid gear has. Apparently from what I have heard, they are going to allow you to take out item armorings from these PVP and Raid gear and allow you to slot them into any orange items you want.

[Flunklesnarkin]

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[Sorrow*qc]

Shadow FTW , i think we are the best dps so far [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] only at 24 and i am in the top 3 dmg dealer most of the times in the warzones.

[Nedala]

Sorry to disappoint you but shadow is nowhere near top dps. Soldiers own us big time, any ranged dd really. But shadow rocks for pvp.

[Gwence]

my experience in warzones is sentinel/maurader are top damage 90% of the time. This is contrary to all the bitching about how the class is underpowered (something I've never noticed as a 50 sentinel combat spec'd from level 10)

I rarely do warzones, but when I do I've never been outside top 3 damage.

could just be the server though

[Gwence]

Originally Posted by Wenai [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A lot of the things I didn't like are actually being changed in upcoming patches such as the change to top end gear mods. They advertised this "Orange Armor" system to allow you to look like whatever you want and still have great stats, but the part they left out is where you are gimped because you have to use 51 grade armorings instead of the 56 or 58 armorings that your PVP/PVE Raid gear has. Apparently from what I have heard, they are going to allow you to take out item armorings from these PVP and Raid gear and allow you to slot them into any orange items you want.

You can take out the 56 mods right now anytime you want, same way as any other mod. I do it alot because I prefer +critical over +power, and sentinel only gets 1 choice with columni/rakata/tionese, and they are switched in which pieces are spec'd for critical or power.

so for instance, my columni legs have power mod/enchancement where as tionese/rakata has critical - I can't get rakata yet, but I took out the mods in the columni and replaced with the ones I had in my tionese (bit of a stat drop but meh, not too bad). Alternatively the columni helm already has critical same as boots, and gloves are power again..


it's pretty fucking stupid actually but whatever

[The Revanchist]

My faith in the Guardian was restored when I tried focus. 3-5k AOE crits.


Dispatch is way better than Quickdraw for execution moves