Star Wars: The Old Republic

[Amadis]

Hey Amadis,

Can you link your Marauder Spec? I was thinking of looking into one as well... Force regeneration for Sorc is sorta harsh (especially for flashpoints and PVP) - maybe it'll change in the end game level...

Enraged Slash 3
Quick Recovery 2
Hungering 2
Juyo Mastery 3
Deadly Saber 1
Bleedout 2
Blurred Speed 2
Deep Wound 1
Short Fuse 1
Close Quarters 2
Subjugation 2
Pulverize 3
Hemmorhage 3
Empowerment 2
Annihilate 1
Dual Wield Mastery 3
Defensive Forms 2
Narrowed Hatred 3
Enraged Charge 2

It's a slightly modified version of something I found on the net.

You will be meh until level 20 at which point you get Deadly Saber and all the pieces of the puzzle start coming together.

Once you get Annihilate you get the pretty sick combo of Force Charge, Deadly Saber, Rupture, Annihilate, Rupture, Vicious Slash, Rupture, with Assault and Battering Assault sprinkled in for extra rage. I pretty much use Berserk any time it's up and Cloak of Pain any time it's up and something is hitting me. I save Saber Ward and Call on the Force for when sh*t is getting real. Against casters, you have Disrupt and also Force Choke, Force Charge (specially once you get Close Quarters), and even Smash will interrupt weaker enemies. Stuff really shouldn't be casting on you, and on dangerous casting mobs you might want to focus on disruption and letting Vette take them down. Mobs will often peel to Vette, which is fine as she ends up with more hitpoints than you if you gear her right (you NEED to take care of her gear for this build to work because you don't really have a reliable taunt and early on in fights she can easily outaggro you--also, you will often want her to pull elites for you so she will get pummeled).

[Amadis]

Ok, so I'm feeling pretty dumb right now...

How on earth am I supposed to apply to the guild? The guild window in game just tells me I'm not in a guild. The guild section of the SWTOR website seems to have been taken down to some extent, you can't really search for anything there any more. And the guild officer in Coruscant apparently is only for guild creation, not joining.

So...how do I do this?

EDIT: Lonskils rescued me from my slum of unhossness. It's good to be back.

[Rhedd]

Ask one of us when we are online for an invite. If your going republic side, I'm on as Rhedd.

[Zeyla]

Is this for PVP or for everything? My Sith Marauder (Annihilation spec) mows through PVE content like a blender on crack. I don't even use a healer--just my best DPS companion (Vette), and all I need to do for harder content is make sure she's always hitting my target and keep all of my DOTs stacked. I had assumed that Sentinels would be similarly powerful.

Well, good thing I didn't go with a JK in Space Slug. I ended up going with a Consular (will spec Sage) instead of a tank for two reasons: I won't have the playtime/attendance to get the kind of gear that'd let me be a good PVE tank, and much more importantly I put together an absolutely bitching character look that I think looks best on a Jedi. I should be able to apply to the guild tonight at some point.

I have set it so most Hoss folks on Space Slug/Republic can invite, so if you see someone on just shoot them a whisper.

[Wresh]

Not sure if there is one out yet for iPhone users....

For Android users you can now dload this. The cost is $2.99

From their website....

Have you ever wished you could control your SWTOR companions while away from the computer? Do you long to keep up your crafting skills during your lunch break? Well now you can, Companion Remote Desktop (CRD) allows you to control your SWTOR Companion characters from the convenience of your mobile phone or tablet.

CRD is designed for low-bandwidth mobile networks so that you can effectively give your companions orders even when you aren't on WiFi. Although we designed CRD to control companions, it can also be used for other activities in the game such as reverse engineering, inventory management, etc.

[Zeyla]

Oooh that is cool, did a quick search and it isn't available on iOS yet. Hope they port it over soon!

[Beelzebubs]

I've only seen one Phank member in PvP and I violated them, who else shall challenge the mighty Bubs?

[Trem]

So I got SwTOR 2 days ago and its a lot like wow was. I was not sure how i would like waiting for the quest givers to do all thier talking, but I find that i'm enjoying the coversation style of the quests. I think i really like the no reading part the most.

The Map is amazing, its so helpful, all your mission objective are right there on the map.
I really like that you can select what things on it you want to be displayed. I also like that it fade while you move so you can see when running.

The combat was and still is hard for me to get used to there not being an auto attack.
Sometimes i look away and for a second , look back and my guy is just standing there.
Cannelled attacks for a melee are strange.

I can seem to figure out how to heal myself in combat, what are med packs good for? I die offen from for getting to use
my heal after ripping around a handfull of dudes. But thats normal for me i guess. I think i just got a combat heal not sure though.
I really like that out of combat heal every class gets it also heals you companion too! with no cooldown!

Im really digging the crew crafting right now, i dont have to do any of the hard work, just click on what i want and send a companion out to do
all the work for me, how sweet is that?

I have not tryed PvP yet but the videos make it look fun so I want to try that soon.

Money seems easy to get right now and things are cheap but that could just be because im low in level.

I have a Jedi knight sentinal lv 17 and a trooper commando at 11

[Loniel Bonewalker]

So I got SwTOR 2 days ago and its a lot like wow was. I was not sure how i would like waiting for the quest givers to do all thier talking, but I find that i'm enjoying the coversation style of the quests. I think i really like the no reading part the most.

The Map is amazing, its so helpful, all your mission objective are right there on the map.
I really like that you can select what things on it you want to be displayed. I also like that it fade while you move so you can see when running.

The combat was and still is hard for me to get used to there not being an auto attack.
Sometimes i look away and for a second , look back and my guy is just standing there.
Cannelled attacks for a melee are strange.

I can seem to figure out how to heal myself in combat, what are med packs good for? I die offen from for getting to use
my heal after ripping around a handfull of dudes. But thats normal for me i guess. I think i just got a combat heal not sure though.
I really like that out of combat heal every class gets it also heals you companion too! with no cooldown!

Im really digging the crew crafting right now, i dont have to do any of the hard work, just click on what i want and send a companion out to do
all the work for me, how sweet is that?

I have not tryed PvP yet but the videos make it look fun so I want to try that soon.

Money seems easy to get right now and things are cheap but that could just be because im low in level.

I have a Jedi knight sentinal lv 17 and a trooper commando at 11

No reading at first yes, but just wait. When the Jawas and the the huttese speaking chiss etc. It is not that common though

[Lonskils]

Yeah the speaking in their native tongue thing gets old.

[Beelzebubs]

Managed to get in a random raid boss kill video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivXdd-0K3F8

[Elkwood]

Nice work !! Looked like a fun fight

[Beelzebubs]

Nice work !! Looked like a fun fight

All the raid bosses are suprisingly fun.

[Kurbi]

just picked it up like a week or so ago. I dig it, but its not as revolutionary as I was hoping for. Other than the voice overs and light/dark decision trees, its pretty much WoW in a lucasarts skin.

Playing dark side on the razor at the moment. can't decide between powertech or juggernaut, i keep flipflopping them both up to lvl14.

Will roll up some light side chars on spaceslug at some point with y'all to see that sides storylines.

[Wresh]

Well...

Patch 1.1 went in and the forums blew up over it for a couple of reasons...

1. They increased the damage of Inquis. and Sage...Why would you INCREASE the damage output for the most powerful class in the game?

2. In my opinion...this was the worst thing they did. They are now giving Valor to open world PvP. In theory it will work, but for most servers that are 80%+ Sith this is a disaster. On Illum last night we had 29 Republic and 360+ Sith. Now, I know they put in an emergency patch not not allow opposing factions to enter the base and they will be putting in caps for the amount of players in that zone.....but they also allowed Sith to farm the base which meant they got to Battlemaster within 2-4 hours.....not weeks of hardcore grinding it (which pissed off ALOT of people).

The Dev's really need to think about big patches like this before implementing them. There are MANY classes that need tweaks to help improve their dps/threat/healing.....and to do what they did to the PvP w/o fully thinking it through will kill this game in 2 months if they don't listen to "reasonable" QQ from the masses.

What did you all think of the patch so far?

[Maegwin]

The WoW devs are probably nodding their heads knowingly, or laughing maniacally depending on what you think of them.

[Zeyla]

Beyond the PvP fiasco, I like the patch changes so far. Lots of bug fixes and minor enhancements that I have noticed. I am still leveling, just made 48 last night, so I haven't dug in to the end-game content yet.

I'll wait to visit the open world PvP areas until they get this whole fiasco figured out. Bubs was saying the situation on our server is much the same, huge groups of Empire players camping a small Republic force, picking up crazy amounts of Valor in a short amount of time. Hopefully they fix this problem soon. I am assuming the forums are still blowing up today, I tried to look up some info about the Founders title thing and got put into the "Waiting Room" for the SWTOR site.

[Zeyla]

Here is an article about the PvP issues in 1.1:

http://www.tentonhammer.com/swtor/ne...utm_medium=rss

Just tried to logon to the game and the Servers are down currently (which is prob why the website is down too). They are scheduled to be up at 2:30PM CST. It looks like they did jump on the Ilum PvP issues, modifying valor gains, preventing spawn camping, etc (at least I assume that is what they are fixing).

[Beelzebubs]

Here is an article about the PvP issues in 1.1:

http://www.tentonhammer.com/swtor/ne...utm_medium=rss

Just tried to logon to the game and the Servers are down currently (which is prob why the website is down too). They are scheduled to be up at 2:30PM CST. It looks like they did jump on the Ilum PvP issues, modifying valor gains, preventing spawn camping, etc (at least I assume that is what they are fixing).

They need to do a bloody valor rollback. Bioware are just morons on their PTR. They won't allow you to copy over a character or have a premade 50 and then wonder why there are such a huge amount of bugs in high end content.

The Ilum fiasco was blatantly obvious to anyone as soon as they announced it would require kills for the dailies. It's just common sense.

[Wresh]

They need to do a bloody valor rollback.

The Ilum fiasco was blatantly obvious to anyone as soon as they announced it would require kills for the dailies. It's just common sense.

Completely agree...