SWTOR General Discussion

[Cyberhwk]

Yeah. I tried that with existing legacy gear and decided against it. It costs anywhere from 18K-25K each to extract each piece of gear. But you have to extract each piece of gear TWICE. Once from it's shell to put it in the legacy gear. Then again from the legacy gear to put it in the gear you want. I understand why you would want to gear up an alt faster, but at 200K a shot isn't worth it I decided.

Someone did rag on my gear last run. I realize Recruit isn't the best but the Tionese upgrades are only slight improvements in Endurance, and Aim, but also involve giving up 40 points of Absorption for some useless stat like +30 Accuracy. They seem at MOST sideways. I did pick up the Tionese Shield since that seemed a sizeable upgrade to what I had. Maybe I need to start running Warzones with Shish again to pick up some more Battlemaster.

[Cyberhwk]

Well I've hit a wall at about 3.8m credits. First I had it up there then I learned you can actually get the +100 Presence from buying the race in your Legacy unlocks. Considering how costly it is to level affection, 500K isn't real bad actually for a full 100. So I bought it.

Then today I was on Cyber and it finally occurs to me how much Black Hole gear I'm getting and that it's probably time to start playing the Augment game. I have been hesitant since Augments have tended to run about 100K+ per for BiS. I refused to pay 10X the price of a blue level augment just to gain +2 Endurance and +2 Willpower. Well, I found some Resolve Augs on the GTN for only 70K. 30% off and the lowest I've ever seen so I decided to pounce. Bought five of them and decided I'm going to only augment my Black Hole gear. I'm holding off on augmenting my War Hero. 50s PvP hasn't been turning my crank lately.

Either way...back down to 3.2m.

I'm trying to get Shish into business but it's not easy. Problem is, the excess mats are selling for far more than the stims I'm making with them. So I could either make Prototype Battle Fortitude Stim and sell it for 1000, or I could just sell the 6x[Green Goo] for 500 a piece, and make 3x as much while not wasting the [Biochemical Bonding Agent]. Sure it's sick profit (~2000%), but I like the idea of a profession and didn't want him to become just a gathering toon. Oh well, the market is what it is I guess.

Because of that, if anybody wants some stims or something send me a message in game. I still don't have the mats to mass manufacture the Level 50 stuff but I've got a good stock going through level 3-4 by this point so let me know if you're leveling a toon and you want some stims.

[FlightlessBird]

Similarly I've got one toon with maxed Armstech. So if you need a vibrosword for Qyzen or Bowdaar as you level, let me know. (or any weapon for your companions) They're not great quality weapons, but if you spend all your quest rewards on yourself or a third companion, these'll help when you want to quickly UG. Especially if your companion can't wear hand-me-downs.
I have about 300k to my name on all characters. And I keep spending my money on companion affection. I just run a couple days of Ilum dailies for the $ to keep me going

[Skammer]

I haven't spent any money on gifts - just what I pick up from Underworld trading missions - but I finally maxed out Aric last night, so that's 3/5 for my trooper. Just 4X and Vik left to go. I've also got Kira maxed out on my knight, but that doesn't seem to count for the legacy bonus I'm assuming because he's not 50.

Ran my 3rd or so HM last night (another new one for me) that went pretty well, though we wiped once. Not a single upgrade although I was able to buy the Tionese shield afterward. Most of the Tionese gear, though, seem like very marginal upgrades if at all.

[Cyberhwk]

So I usually just span Greed whenever I'm rolling. I happened to just win some Trooper gear with my Sage. Great. Can't get a drop when I'm playing him. So then I jump on Shish and run my HM, spamming Greed again. Trooper gear FINALLY drops and I don't think twice...hit Greed. Lose.

But all's OK. Sold 27 Ice Jewels for a cool 250,000! So I say, "Well hey, I'm needing to farm the blues so I could make some room for more Ice Jewels if they crit." So I take another 27 off and send them to Char with a bunch of other gear for...OH GOD!!! Char?!?!?! WHY DIDN'T IT AUTO-COMPLETE?!?!?!?!

So now I've got about 350,000 in gear just hanging in the balance. Opened a ticket to see if they can do anything but I doubt it. Maybe this "Char" will be a good guy and send it back. Or hopefully he's a dead alt and it'll just time out after 30 days. I can only hope.

[Skammer]

New servers again? I was just getting used to.. whatever it was... now I'm on harbringer. Hopefully they moved the whole guild and all this time automatically.

They must not be expecting a huge influx of FTP players if they're going with 8, that are already full.

[Cyberhwk]

Originally Posted by Skammer

New servers again? I was just getting used to.. whatever it was... now I'm on harbringer. Hopefully they moved the whole guild and all this time automatically.

Good news...we're all there. Bad news...our guild is now called Burning Womp Rats @ Drooga's Pleasure Barge. We have one free guild name change I believe so you guys will have to tell me if you want it changed or just leave it as-is.

Speaking of which, WHERE THE HELL HAS EVERYONE BEEN?!?!?! My sister was in town last week so I was doing a lot of stuff there. And I often have a lot going during the fall so I may not be on as much as during the summer, but I think I've seen one Doper on period in the past week.

I had to change two toons names. Balvenie is now Limoncello and I somewhat regretted it as soon as I hit "OK." Most of my toons are named after booze but Limoncello doesn't exactly have the ring the other ones do. Maybe it'll grow on me though. On the plus side, I had to rename Ananke to Ushas when we were transferred to Drooga and I immediately HATED that name with a passion. Fortunately, Ushas was taken here so I'm back to Anan'ke. The names auto-updated in the guild list, so that is good.

Every time we change servers I have to reevaluate the marketplace though. I've already found lots of mats extremely cheap and enough people are listing them so a few times I just researched and found new listings. Will have to see how my Crystals and Stims sell here though.

[Skammer]

Yeah it looks like mat prices have plummeted. And I have to rename my toons Risel and Burro, but I don't play either of those too frequently so I'll deal with it.

I've been on a couple nights a week but I must be missing you. I've also been playing my Agent a lot, though.

ETA:
Hey! They moved my level 1 warrior from MZL, and our old Imp guild with her. Nineteen-twenties Death Star lives! I want to change it to "A 1920s Death Star", how do you do the free name change?

[Runestar]

Yeah, I've only been on once or twice in the last few weeks. My Jedi got sent to that level 50 planet with more quests, but there were so many others running around doing the same quests that I figured I'd log back in at another time when things might be quieter. The I never got around to it.

I'm on vacation ATM - we're celebrating our 20th anniversary at the Mouse House in Florida. Be back at home on Sunday; sounds as though I need to log in and see where my two toons ended up, if they did a server move on us again.

[Skammer]

They also upped the # toons you can have on a server from 8 to 12. I still haven't seen more than 250 people on the fleet at one time, so I think they're using a lot of phasing to handle the larger population. That's fine as long as it's easy to switch between phases to join friends or whatever.

[Runestar]

Well I logged on to my main on our new server, and am not impressed. Bioware doesn't seem to grasp that there's such a thing as too many people on a server. I logged in at 10:00 am eastern, and there were already over 50 players on my planet alone. The cave/tunnel where I was trying to quest felt like the Lincoln tunnel at rush hour. So many players working on that quest (which to be fair I believe is a daily quest) that the mobs were respawning almost before you could finish looting.

I played long enough to complete the quest, but logged out shortly after that as I was tired of tripping over other players every time I turned around.

[dzeiger]

Yeah, but what's it going to look like Tuesday when the Pandas come out to play?

[Cyberhwk]

1.4 Terror from Beyond dropped this morning. Unfortunately, it adds pretty much nothing useful to us. There's a new end-game raid that I'm sure the Content Locusts are going to blow through by the weekend and they slightly tweaked Resolve. They gave Sages a self-heal, but a 2000HP self heal isn't very useful with Marauders still hitting for 3000+. Plus it borked the GTN.

I did, however, hear they significantly decreased the respawn on the crates in Black Hole which we've bitched about before I know. Oh well, guess I could have a mat gathering night. With all these new peeps I'm selling crap faster than I can make them.

[Cyberhwk]

Originally Posted by Our Guild

:::Crickets Chirping:::

Originally Posted by Cyberhwk

Well I've hit a wall at about 3.8m credits...

So...ummmm...about that... And I think Shish is sitting on a few mil himself.

Unfortunately, that's about all I do anymore. About at the point with both Shish and Cyber that HM FPs and SM KP and EV aren't helping me much anymore. Had a string of shitty HM OPS groups so I've really been hesitant to do those to gear into Rakata. I've heard they nerfed Story Mode Explosive Conflict and Beyond the Terror or whatever the new OPS is named so you can do it in full Columi. This seems to make HM KP and EV pointless anyway.

Worst of all, Bioware has seemed absolutely incompetent lately. They've often followed up a big update with a quick patch to fix a lot of the bugs that occurred. Well there was no "day after" patch like usual. And after the official forums actually did something USEFUL for a change and gathered a list of over 50 bugs that occurred with the new patch, after a FULL WEEK of being able to work on it they released a fix...for TWO of them! TWO! The particular one that means a lot to me, non-crit Rich missions are yielding 50% of what they should. And NOT A PEEP about when they might get around to fixing it either.

Nor could they be less effective in fixing PvP if they TRIED. Our new self-heal means we only survive one GCD longer in PvP as long as Imps keep critting for 4000+ (and the heal makes resource management in PvE flat out Easy Button; 3x Noble Sacrifice + Self Heal, why even HAVE a Force pool at that point?).

And the future doesn't look promising either. After all the layoffs now it sounds like one of the head guys is gone too. SWTOR has disappointed shareholders, that's not secret. I'm starting to wonder if Free-2-Play is one last ditch effort to milk customers for as much as they can before it ends up thrown on the vast EA scrapheap.

[Cyberhwk]

Originally Posted by Cyberhwk

But all's OK. Sold 27 Ice Jewels for a cool 250,000! So I say, "Well hey, I'm needing to farm the blues so I could make some room for more Ice Jewels if they crit." So I take another 27 off and send them to Char with a bunch of other gear for...OH GOD!!! Char?!?!?! WHY DIDN'T IT AUTO-COMPLETE?!?!?!?!

So now I've got about 350,000 in gear just hanging in the balance. Opened a ticket to see if they can do anything but I doubt it. Maybe this "Char" will be a good guy and send it back. Or hopefully he's a dead alt and it'll just time out after 30 days. I can only hope.

FWIW, Char ended up being a dead character so I did get all this back.

[Ethilrist]

I'm thinking they're trying to get as man people as possible to re-up before they go free-to-play because they're saying people who sign back up get a much larger pile of imaginary money, which they actually won't tell us how much you can buy with. So, they'll be able to buy... more? Maybe?

I also find it somewhat disingenuous that the Free-To-Play FAQ page doesn't include the question: "When?" Even though the answer is "When we feel like it", and they freely admit that on some deeply hidden page, you'd think they could just man up, take five minutes and put that up there on the FAQ page because, really? That's gonna be asked pretty damn frequently.

[Cyberhwk]

Yeah, they are not handling this very well IMO. Almost zero details on what the Cartel Coins will get you other than a chair and a new pet. I've seen tons of "what not to do" posts from other companies regarding going F2P and it seems to me they're going to want to violate at least half of them. All we get is "We're aiming for new content every six weeks...starting at a time TBA." Over and over. If anything, the more they release about F2P, the less appealing it sounds to me.

[amanset]

Well I finally hit 50 on my first character a few days back - and I have had the game since release. So that shows you how much it hasn't sucked me in.

Pretty much resigned to keeping my sub until F2P and then taking the free option. I'll play one of the other classes (I have a Sith Inquisitor) and see how it goes. Might go check out the changes in WoW for a bit too.

[Skammer]

Originally Posted by amanset

Well I finally hit 50 on my first character a few days back - and I have had the game since release. So that shows you how much it hasn't sucked me in.

Pretty much resigned to keeping my sub until F2P and then taking the free option. I'll play one of the other classes (I have a Sith Inquisitor) and see how it goes. Might go check out the changes in WoW for a bit too.

Yeah, I'm still playing pretty frequently (but for some reason never run in to Cyberhwk anymore) -- but it's a lot easier for me to stop playing and do something else then it used to be. I have a 50 trooper and inquisitor, and I'm slowly leveling a sage, agent and knight, but I'm not sure I'll get to 50 with any of those. I'm pretty sure I'll go F2P as soon as it's ready. Meanwhile it's fairly inevitable that I'll be sucked back into WoW when the expansion price comes down a bit.

[Cyberhwk]

Originally Posted by Skammer

Yeah, I'm still playing pretty frequently (but for some reason never run in to Cyberhwk anymore) -- but it's a lot easier for me to stop playing and do something else then it used to be.

I'm actually in the same boat. In fact I've been considering trying WoW for the first time more and more lately.

Haven't seen me lately because I haven't been staying on as long as I used to. I'll give BW credit, the new operation is actually pretty dang cool. Awesome if you're a Tron fan. However, running HM FPs ad infinitum is getting really old, PvP is still a wasteland, and PUGs seem to be getting less and less tolerant of casual players. Just about every shout out now is "Need Healz, Black Hole MINIMUM, must know fights." Shit, even if I HAD full BH/Campaign gear I refuse to take it that seriously.

So really all I've been doing is logging on, playing some GTN, crafting, re-listing, going to bed. In fact, running the new OPS is the only actual content I've done in two weeks. Game's just lost it's hook. I wasn't preparing too, but if I still get GTN listings under F2P, I might strongly consider it.

[Brainiac4]

Hello, all. I've started playing SWTOR in the last week, as my next game after CoH.

I'm all the way up to 12 on a Trooper - go me - and wondering if there are good resources for me to learn how to play. I'm not used to being such a noob. It's kind of a neat feeling, but I think it'll get old.

Which server are y'all on?

[Ethilrist]

Oh, hey, have cartel coins gone live yet? How much are they worth? Can you buy a rancor pet with them?

[Skammer]

Originally Posted by Brainiac4

Hello, all. I've started playing SWTOR in the last week, as my next game after CoH.

I'm all the way up to 12 on a Trooper - go me - and wondering if there are good resources for me to learn how to play. I'm not used to being such a noob. It's kind of a neat feeling, but I think it'll get old.

Which server are y'all on?

Well the official SDMB guilds are on The Harbinger server, although they are VERY quiet. I see Cyberhawk online occasionally, but that's about it.

Ethilrist: The Cartel Coins have gone live. There is at least one pet you can buy but I've spent most of mine on XP bonuses and random packs (I got a mount, a pet, various crafting mats, some XP bonuses and sizeable cash awards).

[mlees]

Do these "grab bag" rewards scale to the character level?

Should I wait until I hit 50 before cashing in any of these?

[Quimby]

I really was enjoying the stories and had intentions of sticking around to at least play through all the classes but getting moved twice and losing almost all my names pissed me off so I quit.

[dzeiger]

I don't believe much of anything in the grab bags is level based. Armor and weapons are all moddable shells, speeders are adaptive to whatever level of speeder piloting you have, and most of the rest are toys, pets and other fluff (there is a Holo-Rancor).

And anything you don't want is sellable on the GTN after a day or two--which means you can get a lot of the stuff very cheap there rather than gamble on boxes. For example, if you just want a speeder, and aren't just dying for the new Throne model, they're going for 10K now, and it'll take you all the way from 10 to 50.

[Skammer]

The grab bags have also significantly lowered the price of certain high-level mats.

The one random item I got that is most useful is a holographic Darth Malgus that is a class trainer. So if you level up out in the field on in an FP, you can whip out your Darth Malgus and train up on your new skills - or anyone in your group for that matter. It has a 1 hour cooldown and is Imp-side only.

[Cyberhwk]

I'm not bothering with Cartel Packs. There's nothing there I can't live without. In fact the white crystal is pretty much the only thing I want. The rest is very easily acquired through the GTN and stuff is dirt cheap right now. I spent $15 on Cartel Packs trying to get a speeder and got NOTHING. Then I went to the GTN and bought one for 35K credits. Should have saved my money.

Jeez...guy selling the CC Mounts in General Chat right now for 8500.

As Skammer said, to say the SDMB guild is "quiet" is putting it mildly, but do be sure to join /SDMB if you want to chat. I'm imp-side more these days but would love to help some Doper noobs out if they needed any.

Originally Posted by Skammer

The grab bags have also significantly lowered the price of certain high-level mats.

Biometric Crystal Alloy used to be extremely coveted. Now they're 2500 a pop on the GTN.

[dzeiger]

Originally Posted by Cyberhwk

Biometric Crystal Alloy used to be extremely coveted. Now they're 2500 a pop on the GTN.

Good, cause it looks like you'll need to save up the space mission comms for the class 7 stuff coming next patch--apparently the Heroic space missions really are pretty difficult.

[Onomatopoeia]

Originally Posted by Brainiac4

Hello, all. I've started playing SWTOR in the last week, as my next game after CoH.

I'm all the way up to 12 on a Trooper - go me - and wondering if there are good resources for me to learn how to play. I'm not used to being such a noob. It's kind of a neat feeling, but I think it'll get old.

Which server are y'all on?

I started playing a little over a week ago. Although I wasn't a heavy COH player, I guess withdrawal after the game went dark has gotten to me too, so I decided to check SWTOR out.

My Consular is level 13 and I still don't really know what the heck I'm doing, or supposed to do. I'm just doing mission after mission and nothing else, which is becoming comatose-inducingly boring. I've gotten to the mission to defeat the mysterious Sith (I think that's what the game calls him), but keep getting my butt kicked after approximately 5 seconds, and that's with Qyzen (sp?) with me.

I've read quite a few posts in this thread to try to glean some helpful information. There's tons of mentions here about mats, and crafting, and GTN, and mounts, and gifting, etc... and I have no idea what anyone is talking about, and again, this is after playing off and on for over a week.

I'm doing Free to Play, which may be contributing to my confusion.

Also, it seems that every time I turn around the game is reminding me what paying players get to have and get to do that I can't, which is annoying. Every time I die, for example, which is frequent, I'm brought back to the previous med station (or whatever it's called in the game), even if it's over 500 meters away on a different level!

How do I learn new skills, and what's the process to train them up? I purchased artillery (I think that's what it's called) for my companion, but have no idea what i need to do next?

Is there help chat in-game?

Is there any reason to go Pay to Play? I don't sense much joy from other players in-game when reading the general chat.

Also, how can I increase the font size of the text components in the interface without increasing the size of the interface itself?

Impressions of the game so far (comparisons to COH).

- SWTOR feels like an MMO. Yes, yes, I know that it is an MMO, but COH never felt like it to me, and that was a plus in my book. SWTOR feels impersonal and anticeptic, even with all the filth in Coruscant (sp?)

- The animation of characters and the environment is no where near as fluid as COH. There's also a lot of clipping.

- The character creator is weak, offering limited choices for the attributes it does allow you to define.

- Level 13 and no travel power. What the heck is that about? I actually fell asleep one night as my character was jogging to its destination...slowly, because, as you know, the sprint ability is given to paying players at level 1, but not us moochers.

- The animated pro- and epilogues of every mission are long and painful.

- No capes! Heh.

Bottom line - I think I'm looking for a replacement for COH and, unless things become more interesting and fun as I level, SWTOR aint it.

[Infovore]

Originally Posted by Onomatopoeia

Bottom line - I think I'm looking for a replacement for COH and, unless things become more interesting and fun as I level, SWTOR aint it.

Won't say much because this isn't the right thread for it, but if you end up not liking SWTOR and want a different game, may I suggest The Secret World? They just recently went F2P-ish (you have to buy the game itself, but all game content is free. The only thing you buy is new content updates (if you want them) and outfits (again, if you want them)). Everything you need to play the game is free once you buy the box.

I'll get out of the SWTOR thread now and go back to the TSW one.

[dzeiger]

Originally Posted by Onomatopoeia

How do I learn new skills, and what's the process to train them up? I purchased artillery (I think that's what it's called) for my companion, but have no idea what i need to do next?

Woah, this is what confuses me the most. No companion skills are purchased, they are all granted automatically. For your skills, are you saying that you've never been to a trainer? There should have been one right near where you started on the first planet, they have a ^ over their head and on the map, with a green + if they have new/upgraded skills available.

Are you still on the first planet? If so, I can see why you may be bored, since that is designed to be finished by level 9-10, by 13 you're pretty much designed to be on the fleet, your advanced class chosen, gone through your first group instance and well through the second planet.

I believe sprint is available at level 10, though I admit I don't know how everything is distributed now between subscribers, F2P, and "Preferred" F2P people.

- The animated pro- and epilogues of every mission are long and painful.

Most people who enjoy the game see this as one of the main strengths (well, at least until you hit max level and are repeating them on dailies).

[Quimby]

In case people are curious, according to an e-mail I received today enticing me to rejoin, a paid for expansion called Rise of the Hutt Cartel is coming soon.

[Cyberhwk]

Originally Posted by Onomatopoeia

My Consular is level 13 and I still don't really know what the heck I'm doing, or supposed to do. I'm just doing mission after mission and nothing else, which is becoming comatose-inducingly boring. I've gotten to the mission to defeat the mysterious Sith (I think that's what the game calls him), but keep getting my butt kicked after approximately 5 seconds, and that's with Qyzen (sp?) with me.

Yeah, he's actually pretty tough from what I remember. It would very be impossible if you are not keeping up with your training as Dzeiger mentions. Head to the top floor of the Temple on Tython to make sure you are fully trained. Other than that I could only recommend CCing people if you have Force Lift yet or if you REALLY got desperate, just asking if someone can come help you. I'd love to, but I'm never rep-side hardly at all anymore.

Also, it seems that every time I turn around the game is reminding me what paying players get to have and get to do that I can't, which is annoying.

That's upsetting a lot of people, you're not alone. A lot of people have mentioned that it's really more of a Trial than a F2P at this point. The game is definitely in limbo. Good news is, though, is I believe all you have to do is spend $4 in the Cartel Shop and you are granted Preferred Status which I've heard makings things significantly easier on you.

How do I learn new skills, and what's the process to train them up? I purchased artillery (I think that's what it's called) for my companion, but have no idea what i need to do next?

Yeah, go to top floor of Jedi Temple of Tython. Or fleet. Or just about every world.

Is there help chat in-game?

No.

[martu]

The F2P thing has resulted in me playing SWTOR again, have to say the mere fact the worlds are very populated make this quite a joy at the moment. My new JK hit 9 last night and gets his lightsaber next, looking forward to it.

I was wondering where the go to place is on net for SWTOR discussions and news these days? Darth Hater looks like it is on it's way out and many of my other SWTOR links from launch are content free.

[Onomatopoeia]

Okay, I'm 'thisclose' to being about done with this game. I absolutely cannot play it without falling asleep. It all seems so by-the-numbers to me.

I rolled a Guardian because I wanted to get a feel for a melee-tank type character, but I found myself trudging through pretty much the same ground in the same order as my Consular: Start at Tython, kill a million flesh eaters, get my companion midway through, then my light saber, go to Rebel Fleet, then to Coruscant, kill a million Black Star, or Black Swan, or whatever the heck they're called, and a million other similarly nondescript baddies, loot crap off carcases, sell crap looted, earn XP, level up every hour or so, etc...

I'm trying to keep an open mind about it. After all, I'm not paying. My Consular is now level 25 and my Guardian is level 13, but it's all so depressingly linear, which wouldn't be so bad, except that it feels linear as I'm playing.

[H3Knuckles]

For those of you asking about a good site for help/info, I have a recommendation. Based on my positive experiences using Wowhead, I would strongly suggest trying Torhead for most research about the game. It's a database guide like Thottbot back in the day, but not retarded, and with a clean, simple layout. Can't say much about the forums since I haven't gotten SW:TOR yet myself, but assuming a decent population they should be pretty helpful.

[H3Knuckles]

Originally Posted by H3Knuckles

For those of you asking about a good site for help/info, I have a recommendation. Based on my positive experiences using Wowhead, I would strongly suggest trying Torhead for most research about the game. It's a database guide like Thottbot back in the day, but not retarded, and with a clean, simple layout. Can't say much about the forums since I haven't gotten SW:TOR yet myself, but assuming a decent population they should be pretty helpful.

On second glance, nevermind. While it uses the basic Wowhead layout which is great, I went skimming the feedback forum and it sounds like the parent company isn't giving Torhead a whole lot of support for maintenance or updates. Still a nice site, but not on par with Wowhead which was my main reason for recommending it.

[dzeiger]

I pretty much just go to the main official forums, and look things up on Torhead when I need specific information ("hey, I jut got a new companion, what gifts do they like?")

As for going back with new characters, welcome to modern MMOs where players have been conditioned that "the game begins at max level" so you're going to be repeating a lot of content to get there. What I've done to mix it up is to alternate--started with a Republic character, then an Empire character, then I went back to a Republic character, but with different choices in the dialogues, etc. Time between toons on the same faction is enough that I'm not immediately repeating content.

I also levelled 2 toons purely on space missions, 20ish minutes of arcade stuff a day and I could get them to a point where I could run through and see their unique story quests without having to send them through all the same planetary stuff.

[Cyberhwk]

Originally Posted by dzeiger

I pretty much just go to the main official forums

Not sure that's a good source. The place is legendary for it's whining and filled with posts of the...

Originally Posted by Rock

Nerf paper! Scissors is fine.

...variety.

For end-game, Dulfy.net has some good stuff. I know MMOMechanics can have some awesome stuff, if a bit nerdy at times.

[Skammer]

Originally Posted by dzeiger

I also levelled 2 toons purely on space missions, 20ish minutes of arcade stuff a day and I could get them to a point where I could run through and see their unique story quests without having to send them through all the same planetary stuff.

If you have a tank or healer, you can pretty much do this with Flashpoints instead of space missions. My Operative purchased all the legacy XP bonuses for flashpoints, but even without those you can level quickly and get good gear without all the running around except to do your planetary class missions.

With DPS toons it's not quite as efficient since the queue times can be long.

[Skammer]

I meant to ask, has anyone purchased the expansion? I hardly ever play my two 50s (Vanguard and Sorcerer) so I'm not rushing out to get it.

[mlees]

I pre-purchased.

I am a founding member, I have no 50's.

[Cyberhwk]

Originally Posted by Skammer

I meant to ask, has anyone purchased the expansion? I hardly ever play my two 50s (Vanguard and Sorcerer) so I'm not rushing out to get it.

Yeah, I got it. Can't say I really care about it all that much but I'm active enough in our new Imp guild that I figured I don't want to have to sit stuff out because I wouldn't pony up a lousy $10.

Skammer, if you're available Sunday we're doing a 16-man Eternity Vault Story Mode. I think 16-man is a tad harder than 8 but you'd be running with at least 2-3 other Rakata/Black Hole geared healers so I think there'd be room for error. Also, most of us run some HM FPs every night so we could probably have you in half Columi by then if you wanted to run on X'et a few times this week. Just think about it. Only way to guarantee a spot is to sign up on the website though.

[Skammer]

Thanks Cyber. The difficult thing about siging up in advance is that I dont' really know what my schedule will be in advance. Usually I get to play for a while on Wednesdays, but work has been absolutely brutal this month so it's hard to say when I'll get on or how much time I'll have available. That's why I've mostly just been leveling my operative or sage.