About 3 common quests to every unique one that takes you to a new area on the planet. There may be a few fedex quests or such for your class that happen right off the bat, but the instant you get sent by your class to a new area, you’ll find 2-3 quest givers along the way for common ones.
Hmm, was the
Spoilers for a ~11-13 mission on Coruscant
Mission where you expose or protect a Senator who took donations from gangsters
Smuggler-specific? I didn’t think it was, but I don’t think I did that one on my JC.
Senjak
3563
Flashpoint missions (repeatable, group oriented missions) also happen in mission-specific instances with mobs who don’t respawn. Some of the mission specific zones are quite large.
At any given time I’d usually have 1 (or sometimes 2) class quests, and about 2-5 common quests. I completed most of the common ones on the way to the class quest locations.
Marcin
3564
Keep in mind that the unique areas are indicated as such by big glowing red and green portals across every quest doorway/cave entrance/arch. Very gamey; you can enter the green stuff and you’re in your own instance, the red door is verboten to you.
A small thing, but I found it clumsy.
Dejin
3565
I got something that was similar on my Jedi Knight, can’t quite recall all the details, so I’m not sure if it’s the one you’re talking about.
Possibly the Same
There was something where you found out that a female senator had dealings with the gangsters, I can’t recall the exact details. I know that the police/militia officer I was working with spoke highly of the senator. Not sure if that’s the same quest you are talking about, but that one definitely did not seem like a Jedi Knight-specific quest.
That’s the one. I dunno, maybe my JC didn’t get to it before I switched characters.
Keep in mind that they really are class quests and not advanced class quests. So if you play a Jedi Guardian and then decide to try out a Jedi Sentinel later on: same exact class quests. You could pick different LS/DS options, though.
I suppose that’s kind of obvious but I didn’t realize it until today.
Oh, fairly huge mechanic thing I noticed; refreshing a stackable HOT keeps the whole stack refreshed. Given the GCD-intensiveness of trying to heal and DPS at the same time with a scoundrel, that made a big difference to me, turning the HoT into a must-use as opposed to a use-as-able.
Incidentally - what class/level can kill elites 5 levels higher than you? At 27-28 I was finding the 28-29 Elite Sith War Apprentices on Aldaraan pretty beastly even with (what I think was) pretty optimal play.
idrisz
3569
Incidentally - what class/level can kill elites 5 levels higher than you? At 27-28 I was finding the 28-29 Elite Sith War Apprentices on Aldaraan pretty beastly even with (what I think was) pretty optimal play.
I have no problem killing gold elite at +5 level as sith assassin, I was using the smuggler companion(dps) while using my tank stance with all talent point in force skill. I kept all my gear pretty much up to date, I did notice most of people that are similar level to me have missing gear, most of them doesn’t have both relic slot equipped or missing implants. I know for sure at lvl 32-33 I had over 7500 hp…
I was going pure dps at first, then I realized as I get higher level is that the dps difference between tanking and dps stance is a merely 5% bonus damage drop for 100% armor bonus. the damage reduction is huge. in tank stance, I almost increase my damage reduction to 40% vs merely 15% in dps stance.
My first companion is a tank but he is really bad at tanking, the dps companion is actually very good when comes to damage output.
most likely Bounty hunter who goes mercenary will end up even easier soloing, because they can heal/dps and wear heavy armor which gives them the same armor bonus as my sith assassin in tank stance(SA use light armor).
I kept both my gear and that of my tank pretty up to date, although I don’t know that he had any implants, which could contribute a fair amount of End. I guess add to that the advantages of a talent-boosted player tank vs. a companion tank, and it adds up. +5 levels elite, though… maybe something’s a bit off kilter with that, it didn’t seem like I saw anyone else pulling shenanigans of that magnitude.
I also found people were super stingy with buffs this weekend, compared to last. Partly it may have been fewer people on the higher level worlds. Plus if you accidentally buff or heal some genius with PvP toggled it’s a pain in the ass to go sit in a cantina for 5 minutes just to unflag it. But even so… Man, people are oblivious. “Hey, here’s an awesome free buff. Can I have your awesome free buff? After I give you mine and stand there / politely ask? 95% of the time no? Awesome!”
idrisz
3571
the only reason I was doing it because I want to finish my 4th companion quest since I really enjoy twisting this poor jedi padawan in to my personal sith slave!!!
more shocks…
the quest for her start at lvl 31 then ends at lvl 35 with a fight vs a lvl 35 gold elite and lvl 35 silver elite, I complete the quest at lvl 30…
right before that fight, there is a lvl 36 silver elite droid which basically kick the shit out of me. do you use any long cd skills? because I use channel the force skills which is a 20 minute skill, regen my health 3% a second for a minute, I use stim as well.
both relic adds big temp boost to stat as well. one adds alacrity and one add damage I believe.
Scoundrel’s got an energy regen ability on a 2m cooldown, an ability that instantly refreshes that cooldown which itself has a 20m cooldown. Both the humanoid and droid CCs have no cooldown, and the humanoid one doesn’t break stealth. There’s also a 3-second 100% dodge, but I generally only had threat in pulls-gone-wrong, where it was more of a convenience factor than a lifesaver.
Honestly, I felt “powerful,” but powerful amounted to being able to maybe, blowing cooldowns, kill an elite 2 levels higher and then not always. I think the difference was in the tanking; Corso, as far as I know the tankiest of the companions, keeps threat well but isn’t astoundingly survivable and has lousy DPS. So I had to pretty much divide my efforts equally keeping him alive and doing the majority of the damage vs. elites. Strongs and large groups I laughed at for the most part.
Aye, WoW only got it with the profile system from addons. Unlesss you wanted to just copy the files from the wtf/accounts folder.
In SWTOR I actually had to redo it every day, cause crashes wiped out my settings, every time.
I’m calling bullshit on this, or major exaggeration at the very least.
The beta weekend i played, the game was crashing somewhat regularly until they put in some fix. My settings were never wiped out, not once. Now of course this was only a few days of time played, but i never once had my settings wiped out and if it was wiping them out anywhere near as often as you suggest i would have experienced it.
Edit: Ok, to be fair you could have played at a beta weekend ahead of me where this was an issue and if that is the case, nothing i said applies.
Well, I played two characters up to 20 and one to 8 during the beta weekend. I used the two center rows + left and right, I changed my keybinds for movement to be RDFG and used QWASZXBTE for hotkeys in addition to 1-0 on the first actionbar.
I had to redo this for all 3 characters (for as many buttons as they required, obviouslt the level 8 character wouldn’t need all of this) (as you had per-character profiles, and no way of importing from the others).
When the game would crash; Most often when I got to that space-ship fight in PVP after the “intro” that had you flying everywhere, or when I /camp’ed out of the game and it didn’t exit properly. Upon returning to the game, I would find my actionbuttons (side, 2nd center) missing, and when activating them, they would be without the keybindings, in addition to movement keys being reset.
Additionally, the | keybind (to the left of 1) that automatically opens the ‘Customer Help’ interface, I tried to keybind to something else, as I kept accidentaly pressing it in pvp causing me to die, since you couldn’t “esc” to close the interface, without having to use the mouse to press “yes” on the interface. would reset itself to that key every so often.
I’d say I redid this every… 5 hours or so of gaming.
I did notice it had the (not uncommon) problem where it didn’t seem to like overwriting certain keybinds. I wanted mouse-3 to be my free DPS ability since I was out of easily accessible hotkeys, but it seemed “stuck” as autorun.
Still, seemed stable and had higher performance than the weekend of the 11th-13th. I did have a new problem with neon green “walls” and “beams” sometimes flickering into existence; they disappeared when I either minimized and restored, or moved far enough that the textures presumably reloaded. I’m running ATI of course, so, shit happens.
My E8400 @ 3ghz, 4gb RAM, Radeon 5770 ran it at 1680x1050 with settings backed a bit off high here and there, shadow detail fairly low, at 60+ FPS most of the time, frequently hovering around 100. The reason I didn’t crank the settings higher is that it’d sometimes semi-randomly swoop down to the 30s, and I’d rather have ~60+ swooping to the 30s than 50+ swooping to the 20s. It’s encouraging to think I can probably chisel a bit more out as they optimise without losing fluidity.
Nesrie
3577
The problem isn’t that you can fix “it”, but the idea you should need a fix at all.
rei
3578
So uh…after reading the Revan ebook, for any fans of KOTOR1+2 the series lore gets messed up…
Don’t click here if you want don’t want it spoiled
Basically even after the canon light-side ending of KOTOR1, most everything in KOTOR2 is retconned and he’s going to just serve the function of a loot pinata raid boss in TOR…like how Arthas/Lich King was used in Wrath WoW…so basically everything turns into fanfic…major spoiler link at: http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=202146
Slightly off topic, about the revan book as well…
The Revan book is basically a transition between kotor and swtor. It does loosely include kotor 2 but changes a number of things.
Don’t read this book if you have not played kotor 1 & kotor 2. You will not have any idea what is going on. It heavily assumes you know what happened in these two games (light side ending for each of course).
If you played kotor 1 & kotor 2, realize that you will not like the ending.
Even though this book is named Revan, 2/3 of the book is about some random person not present in either kotor games.
This is not a novel, it is an introduction to swtor and an excuse to mold the lore to support adding certain bosses.
spoilers
This book is just a way to explain the certain appearance of revan and the exile in swtor.
I was severely disappointed in this book. As a huge fan of kotor, i came in to it expecting it to be about revan, but it was almost entirely about scourge.
To see the protagonists of two of my favorite games killed by being stabbed in the back in some extremely anti-climatic fight is a huge rip off that left me feeling deeply unsatisfied. It didn’t help that revan was easily defeated MULTIPLE times in the book. He managed to topple malek and some super army almost by himself and yet he is SO weak.
The emperor bit also makes very little sense. If the emperor can easily dominate even the republic’s greatest champion, it doesn’t make a ton of sense that his forces lost the war against the jedi previously, much less that he can’t just easily take over the republic right now (but i guess this is the story of swtor).
The emperor reminded me a hell of a lot of the main bad guy in kotor 2 with his ability to devour the force of others for power and create a force dead zone. That bad guy VERY nearly takes over the galaxy and is only stopped by the exile. The exile is shown to be an insect compared to the emperor so again, i don’t see how the emperor wouldn’t be able to EASILY take over the republic, with or without his sith followers. He could probably even just take a ship right to the capital and dominate jedi a few at a time until nobody could stop him.
rei
3580
Yeah…basically if you enjoyed KOTOR1 or KOTOR2…don’t read the book or don’t go into SWTOR expecting it to be any sort of meaningful continuation, even though Bioware/LucasArts has repeatedly stated that the MMO is now “KOTOR3, 4, 5, etc.”
Fuck, Drew Karpyshyn is such a terrible fucking writer. Even for pulp. I enjoy the Mass Effect and KOTOR universes greatly but buying + reading the first 2 ME books made me angry.
At least I didn’t pay for Revan (Library ebook) grrr. The upside is reading Revan has nearly killed my desire to play SWTOR.
