[Tuskin]

Anyone else crash when using a companion on Cademimu? Happened three times last night with me and my two buddies, it only happens near the really tall elevator at the beginning.

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I think Naboo would be an excellent planet add in the future, it was only Discovered 300 years before so it will still be a mostly wild planet, and the Gungans lived on surface cities and were in separated tribes and will probably be hostile so there is a plus there.. murdering Gungans.

[dumbidiotretard]

appearntly they're adding    varl, the original hutt homeworld    and    rakata prime, the rakata homeworld (it was in KOTOR i beleive    in the near future

Edited:

in other news, this weeks Q&A thing is up
http://www.swtor.com/blog/community-qa-feb-17th-2012

Edited:

Remember how last week was mostly "It's coming in 1.2" responses? Were you displeased? Well good news!

Relayinabox: Are there any plans for a show/hide companion headgear option?

Damion Schubert: Yep, we have plans. It won't be in Game Update 1.2, but is currently in the works.

NiklasWB: When will you make it possible for Force-using characters to pull up/down their hoods on their robes?

Damion Schubert: This is in the works now. It won't be in Game Update 1.2, but should get done in the next major update after that. And yes, we will extend this functionality to your Force-slinging companions as well.

"it won't be in 1.2" week

Finally, the perception of a specific class being not desirable can also be affected by the desirability of other classes. For example, Sage/Inquisitor healers are currently able to exceed our intended healing performance at times by affecting multiple heals with the same Conveyance/Force Bending buff. Game Update 1.2 will remove the ability to do so.

suck it

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In Game Update 1.2 we will be making changes to the Warzone rewards system, which will de-incentivize this type of behavior. This will include the removal of the interim bag/quest system, the introduction of the direct purchase of gear from Warzone and Ranked Warzone commendations, 14 new objective-based medals and participation scaling the rewards. Additionally, players will have the option to vote kick idlers. Kicked players will not be able to re-queue for several minutes.

vote-kick griefing is gonna be fun!

[Tuskin]

dumbidiotretard posted:

appearntly they're adding    varl, the original hutt homeworld    and    rakata prime, the rakata homeworld (it was in KOTOR i beleive    in the near future

Known that for weeks, was on TORHead

http://www.torhead.com/guide/leaks

[dumbidiotretard]

Tuskin posted:

Known that for weeks, was on TORHead

http://www.torhead.com/guide/leaks

whoa calm down budd

[Tuskin]

dumbidiotretard posted:

whoa calm down budd

Calm down? I was just pointing it out. I wasn't angry.

[Deac]

dumbidiotretard posted:

i've had my character stuck in the lightsaber throw animation with a saber spinning infinitely at the edge of my hand

My friend had that one once, it's hilarious.

[Pinut]

I almost died when I opened my bags and got a commendation in each today.

fuck rng
.


also dumbidiot, how exactly are operative healers? I don't know much of how they work but I'm considering rolling one because we got a weird community on this server where our guild and an imp guild have members in eachothers guild and stuff and they're looking for healers and I've already played a sage to 50 healing and mercenary doesn't interest me at all.

Don't know how you can compare them, all I see is that people say they're bad but with like almost the entire playerbase being bad I doubt anything they say holds much merit.

I'm mainly looking at a PVE perspective btw. If you got any vids of your point of view in a raid that be pretty cool to look at too.

[Deac]

Pinut posted:

I almost died when I opened my bags and got a commendation in each today.

fuck rng

It's so exciting once you finally get that one commendation, or the one to complete the piece you are working for.

[dumbidiotretard]

Pinut posted:

I almost died when I opened my bags and got a commendation in each today.

fuck rng
.


also dumbidiot, how exactly are operative healers? I don't know much of how they work but I'm considering rolling one because we got a weird community on this server where our guild and an imp guild have members in eachothers guild and stuff and they're looking for healers and I've already played a sage to 50 healing and mercenary doesn't interest me at all.

Don't know how you can compare them, all I see is that people say they're bad but with like almost the entire playerbase being bad I doubt anything they say holds much merit.

I'm mainly looking at a PVE perspective btw. If you got any vids of your point of view in a raid that be pretty cool to look at too.

I've seen people say operative healers suck. I'm not seeing it, sure we have a broken talent and the aoe heal is lackluster by itself, but those are all getting addressed. I've never had an issue healing hm/nightmare ops but I'm also also usually paired with a sorc healer, last week I ran with a merc healer, and I think annhilation droid is a good wakeup call to how OP a sorc healer is. Without that super healing circle you actually have to TRY to survive since both the merc and op aoes have a player limit. I've kept the tank alive on jarg and sorno fight by spamming my free tactical advantage heal that gives tactical advantage back if target is below 30%.

I don't really have any videos recorded, it would probably look like a mess from my PoV, but there's a method I have down and it works for me. If our tank is on this week and we get a good run going I'll record. Being he's a new dad I don't think we'll see him in a while and I refuse to run with any less of a tank.

[Pinut]

dumbidiotretard posted:

I've seen people say operative healers suck. I'm not seeing it, sure we have a broken talent and the aoe heal is lackluster by itself, but those are all getting addressed. I've never had an issue healing hm/nightmare ops but I'm also also usually paired with a sorc healer, last week I ran with a merc healer, and I think annhilation droid is a good wakeup call to how OP a sorc healer is. Without that super healing circle you actually have to TRY to survive since both the merc and op aoes have a player limit. I've kept the tank alive on jarg and sorno fight by spamming my free tactical advantage heal that gives tactical advantage back if target is below 30%.

I don't really have any videos recorded, it would probably look like a mess from my PoV, but there's a method I have down and it works for me. If our tank is on this week and we get a good run going I'll record. Being he's a new dad I don't think we'll see him in a while and I refuse to run with any less of a tank.

is it more reactive instead of doing a rotation? with sage its like hot-bigheal-channeled heal, use 8% force regen and repeat whilst spamming bubble whenever its up. I know sage + merc is a strong combo, as that's what we run with, just wondering where does an operative stand.

[dumbidiotretard]

Pinut posted:

is it more reactive instead of doing a rotation? with sage its like hot-bigheal-channeled heal, use 8% force regen and repeat whilst spamming bubble whenever its up.

I don't use a convential rotation, I work it around building at least 1 stack of tactical advantage so I can always spam a surgical probe if it's needed. Kolto probe crit's proc a tac advantage so I usually spam them on most of the group before and during fights when healing isn't as needed. You can literally keep the aoe heal up forever as the cooldown is shorter than it's duration. I use my big activated heal more than I should be, usually just to be proactive (i'm not even sure I'm using these terms correctly, sorry).

I would have to say as it stands it's better to mix merc or op with a sorc and not merc + op as healers because just of how OP sorc healing is

[Pinut]

dumbidiotretard posted:

I don't use a convential rotation, I work it around building at least 1 stack of tactical advantage so I can always spam a surgical probe if it's needed. Kolto probe crit's proc a tac advantage so I usually spam them on most of the group before and during fights when healing isn't as needed. You can literally keep the aoe heal up forever as the cooldown is shorter than it's duration. I use my big activated heal more than I should be, usually just to be proactive (i'm not even sure I'm using these terms correctly, sorry).

is the kolto probe crit the laugh by chance?

[dumbidiotretard]

Pinut posted:

is the kolto probe crit the laugh by chance?

yes
operative healers have the greatest sense of humor in the game

[Pinut]

dumbidiotretard posted:

yes

sold, the laughing on my vanguard just makes everything so much better. now I can laugh while healing

[GetBent]

That laugh is so annoying on my smuggler, I really hate it.

[Deac]

GetBent posted:

That laugh is so annoying on my smuggler, I really hate it.

Pretty annoying in warzones, especially when there's multiple running around.

[Pinut]

Smugglers and IA are rare on this server, there's actually no active PVP snipers, gunslingers or scoundrels and there's like 1 operative in the level 50 brackets. All we face is juggernauts, marauders and sorcerers. Really underplayed on here so not really heard the laugh that much to get annoyed myself.

[Atlascore]

Pinut posted:

Smugglers and IA are rare on this server, there's actually no active PVP snipers, gunslingers or scoundrels and there's like 1 operative in the level 50 brackets. All we face is juggernauts, marauders and sorcerers. Really underplayed on here so not really heard the laugh that much to get annoyed myself.

On my server it's the complete opposite, there's gunslingers/scoundrels all over the place, I'm constantly getting destroyed by snipers in PVP, their burst is insane.

In my 16man raid group there's 6 smugglers, 3 gunslingers and 3 scoundrels (2 of which are healers).

[rilez]

dumbidiotretard posted:

in other news, this weeks Q&A thing is up
http://www.swtor.com/blog/community-qa-feb-17th-2012

I may have misread, but does that say they're getting rid of bags/dailies for pvp gear?

Isn't that a really good thing? No more RNG, buy everything with WZ comms?

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Tuskin posted:

I think Naboo would be an excellent planet add in the future, it was only Discovered 300 years before so it will still be a mostly wild planet, and the Gungans lived on surface cities and were in separated tribes and will probably be hostile so there is a plus there.. murdering Gungans.

Would only support this IF the Gungans were enemy NPCs.



BOOM

[dumbidiotretard]

i could get behind gungans if the empire's sole purpose on naboo was to exterminate the entire gungan race

[Pinut]

tank shadow/assassin new fotm in pvp

more dps than dps spec and absurd survivability

[dumbidiotretard]

you sure they're tanks and not in the shared tree w/ tank stance? because the shared tree got insane buffs a week or 3 ago

[Pinut]

dumbidiotretard posted:

you sure they're tanks and not in the shared tree w/ tank stance? because the shared tree got insane buffs a week or 3 ago

have force pull, not too sure of specs but p sure that's a moderate amount in tank.

[Cakebatyr]

I joined a game of huttball yesterday. Some assassin told me to get out because I don't help the team at all. He went on to idle in a corner and I scored three points.

[Deac]

Pinut posted:

have force pull, not too sure of specs but p sure that's a moderate amount in tank.

That's quite far into the tank tree.

[dumbidiotretard]

yea pull is a 20 pt talent so yeah nevermind what I said then

Edited:

balance/madness DID get some good buffs though

[Pinut]

made an imp to lvl with someone..

get to fleet, check all pvp/pve gear

oh god it's all horrid looking

[Atlascore]

Pinut posted:

made an imp to lvl with someone..

get to fleet, check all pvp/pve gear

oh god it's all horrid looking

Republic gear is infinitely worse looking.

Seriously what drugs were they on when making the JK pvp gear?

[Pinut]

I dunno the only sets that seem tolerable are the PVP sith warrior and PVE powertech for me.

rolled an operative and was instantly disappointed when I looked at the tier gear.

[Raidyr]

Imperial Agent PVE gear looks alright, not very agenty though.
PVP set is awful.

[Cakebatyr]

My mouse's batteries died in the middle of huttball.

I madly rushed to get the broken mouse the wireless one replaced from behind my monitor and proceeded to play the game without a right mouse button and terrible tracking.

[Myt0l1st]

Due to Trask Ulgo EU being such a boring server. full of backroom deals and betrayals im currently looking for a new server to call my home.

Any suggestion where my "rebirth" should occur?

[Atlascore]

Myt0l1st posted:

Due to Trask Ulgo EU being such a boring server. full of backroom deals and betrayals im currently looking for a new server to call my home.

Any suggestion where my "rebirth" should occur?

The Fatman US

[dumbidiotretard]

Raidyr posted:

Imperial Agent PVE gear looks alright, not very agenty though.
PVP set is awful.

imperial agent pve gear sets look awesome, i wish they kept the peacewalker set that was in beta which was an all white version of their now tiered pve gear

[Tuskin]

Woo I hit Dark 5 last night on my Warrior. Pure 10k SD points, no light in there at all.

[dumbidiotretard]

because darkside removes lightside after a certain point

[Pinut]

10k at 37? heck do the throw darkside points at you every minute or what. Doing every quest I was like 9k light on both trooper/sage at 50


also influx of loads of fresh 50 sages are making pvp hell right now. they just die by anything.

[dumbidiotretard]

diplomacy, one of my alts had 10k ds by 33

[HazeFyer23]

Pinut posted:

10k at 37? heck do the throw darkside points at you every minute or what. Doing every quest I was like 9k light on both trooper/sage at 50


also influx of loads of fresh 50 sages are making pvp hell right now. they just die by anything.

There's always flashpoints you know

[Pinut]

fuck finally.