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And jet pack upper cuts!

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There are rockets in WoW!

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This FAQ contains a lot of good info - including on tradeskills, handily - and a quite complete list of the voice actors, moreso than any I’ve seen before.

On the other hand I’m guessing - not having read them - that it has considerable spoilers regarding companion plotlines, so you may want to read with care, especially if you lack spoiler willpower.

Regarding the voice cast it appears that Steve Blum is not the Male Bounty Hunter - I’d read this but had a hard time believing it - and that, to boot, Steve Valentine is not the male Sith Warrior, and Gideon Emery is not the male Imperial Agent. Conversely, the male Consular is not one of the million voices of Tom Kane, but rather Nolan North.

Cast List

[spoiler]Bounty Hunter Male
TOM SPACKMAN

Bounty Hunter Female
GREY DELISLE

Imperial Agent Male
BERTIE CARVEL

Imperial Agent Female
JO WYATT

Jedi Knight Male
DAVID HAYTER

Jedi Knight Female
KARI WAHLGREN

Jedi Consular Male
NOLAN NORTH

Jedi Consular Female
ATHENA KARKANIS

Sith Inquisitor Male
EUAN MORTON

Sith Inquisitor Female
XANTHE ELBRICK

Sith Warrior Male
MARK BAZELEY

Sith Warrior Female
NATASHA LITTLE

Smuggler Male
MAURY STERLING

Smuggler Female
KATH SOUCIE

Trooper Male
BRIAN BLOOM

Trooper Female, Master Satele Shan
JENNIFER HALE

Darth Malgus
JAMIE GLOVER

Akaavi Spar
STACY HAIDUK

Andronikos Revel, Baron Deathmark
STEVE BLUM

Aric Jorgen
TIM OMUNDSON

Ashara Zavros
AZURA SKYE

Corso Riggs
TROY HALL

Doc
ANDREW BOWEN

Doctor Lokin
ANTHONY COCHRANE

Elara Dorne
MOIRA QUIRK

Ensign Raina Temple
GEORGIA VAN CUYLENBURG

Felix Iresso
DION GRAHAM

Gault Rennow
DARAN NORRIS

Guss Tuno
GARY SCHWARTZ

HK-47, HK-51
KRIS TABORI

Jaesa Willsaam
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK

Kaliyo Djannis
TASIA VALENZA

Kira Carson
LAURA BAILEY

Lieutenant Pierce
ADAM LEADBEATER

Lord Scourge
JOSEPH GATT

Lord Zash
JEN COHN

Lt. Talos Drellik
EDWARD HIBBARD

M1-4X
TOM KANE

Mako
LACEY CHABERT

Malavi Quinn
RICHARD TEVERSON

Nadia Grell
HOLLY FIELDS

Risha
TARA STRONG

SCORPIO
DEBORAH UNGER

Sergeant Rusk
RON YUAN

Skadge
NEIL KAPLAN

Tanno Vik
DAVID ANTHONY PIZZUTO

Theran Cedrex
JAMIE ELMAN

Torian Cadera
JOHNNY YONG BOSCH

Vector Hyllus
IFRAN MEREDITH

Vette
CATHERINE TABER

Xalek
TONY ARMATRADING

Zenith
TROY BAKER

Ardun Koth
DUDE WALKER

Bengel Morr
VICTOR SLEZAK

Braden
NORM WOODELL

Commander Harron Tavus
MICHAEL GREGORY

Darth Baras
JIM MCCANCE

Darth Jadus
STEPHEN RASHBROOK

Darth Revan
JEFF BENNETT

General Garza
KATE WEIMAN

General Rakton
TIM WATSON

General Var Suthra
MAURICE LEMARCHE

Holiday
TARA STRONG

Jace Malcom
KEVIN MICHAEL RICHARDSON

Keeper
FRANCIS GUINAN

Master Orgus Din
ROBERT PINE

Master Satele Shan
JENNIFER HALE

Master Yuon Par
OLIVIA HUSSEY

Needles
JAMES URBANIAK

Overseer Harkun
TIM WATSON

Overseer Tremel
PAUL DARROW

The Voice of the Emperor
DOUG BRADLEY

Watcher Two
MARY STOCKLEY[/spoiler]

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Looking for this? :)

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Unavailable in my country.

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Seriously? Ugh. Well, for anyone in the States, I’m pretty sure that’s what you were looking for.

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So if Jennifer Hale is the female trooper, does that mean you can play Femshep, especially if you pick dark side choices?

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Thanks!

So what’s the current consensus on crafting skills. IIRC a month or two ago the consensus seemed to be crafting was just not worth it until level 50. Did they re-balance things so crafting at lower levels makes sense?

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IAs are awesome. And the IA story is very good. I’m probably going to roll an IA->Operative as my first character in the Qt3 guild.

Slicing was definitely toned down, but I wonder if they also increased cash loot. When I was crafting two pushes ago, I barely had enough cash to buy my speeder at level 25 (when it cost 40k + 4k for the speeder). This last build I started crafting but gave it up due to some harvesting bugs, and I could easily afford my speeder - I seem to recall having something like 80k at 25 - I bought the skill (40k), a speeder (8k), and trained one or two skills and had…between 16 to 20k after all that.

Even toned down though, I think slicing is still a moneymaker (of course, 3 gathering skills is very good too if you’re not a crafter!).

I enjoy crafting, and I had some success making stuff that I used. Crafting is definitely a moneysink, especially the mission skills like Diplomacy or Investigation, so if you’re sending one or more companions out on those missions you’ll be burning through your cash. As to whether you should do it while leveling or later on, I enjoy the chance to craft stuff I can use while leveling. Since Cybertech and Artifice make mods those may be some of the crafting skills that pay off. I’m taking Cybertech with one of my first characters (Republic Shadow) since I want to outfit my droid with gear to make him heal me and see how viable that is.

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My reasoning with Biochemistry/Bioanalysis/Slicing over Bioanalysis/Scavenging/Slicing is that at high level I’ll want the BoP biochem items. Might as well level the skill (and its main ingredient skill) as I go along, and the trio should still turn a profit.

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Your own space ship, companions, speeder bikes, and some spiffy skills…I’m sorry but I am giddy for this thing to come out- I figure I had 5 fun filled years of WoW so I should have at the very least a fun year of this.

Bah, I just wanted to post my excitement and basic inability to wait for next week (not just trolling)…I am hoping by then I will hit 100+ hours of Skyrim and I will be ready to play an MMO. Heh

3792

So when does this go live at retail? live for people who preordered were in beta?

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I saw a female trooper named exactly that on one of the test servers. I’d be willing to bet that there were others.

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Early access is based on when you preordered (more specifically, when you registered the code you got from the preorder with swtor.com.) It starts the 15th of December, and the general rumour is that if you preordered in the first few weeks you’ll get in then. Exactly how they’re going to stagger it for people who preordered “late” hasn’t been announced, they’re going to email everybody.

The word on the PA forums is that you can start downloading the retail client today if you have / can get the launcher .exe, but that hasn’t been announced and I’m taking it with a grain of salt.

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My account page says “We will keep you informed about early access to The Old Republic as we get closer to the game’s release.”

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I went with Biochemistry/Bioanalysis/Slicing, then switched out Slicing for Diplomacy later on. It worked out really well, being able to use the extra credits received for Slicing to fund the Diplomacy missions. Those missions get really pricey when trying to get some of the rarer mats to craft the better items.

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There is no way that the male bounty hunter isn’t voiced by Blum… sounds just like him. I was tempted to restart my BH with the name Spike or Jet.

I didn’t spend too much time on crafting but the one that seemed worth it early on was biochem/analysis. I’ve not decided if I’ll level an operative or bounty hunter first. The operative will be a dps/healer though with alch/herbs er… Oddly enough just like my wow rogue. A guildmate made a nice weapon for me early on at level 10-11 but it was replaced rather quickly.

I was really bummed that the characters I’d worked on in November weren’t there in the last beta. Only had a level 3 consular that was saved.

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That is great, looks like im going to be an artifice crafter and its complements.

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I’m going to assume that like most mmos enchanting and jewelcrafting, to use wow terms, are strong. Are there equivalents in swtor?

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Lengthy Developer Post describing their thinking behind changes to the item system – new custom items and the modding system. Probably worth at least a skim, particularly for those trying to figure out why the system changed.

Seems like a lot of the changes make sense – for example, too many players were trying to hang out to mods rather than using them, because they weren’t removable, and then they would outlevel them, so they are now removable. Workbenches are no longer necessary for modding, because people had trouble finding them when they needed them? So do workbenches server other purposes? I noticed they were still in the game as of last weekend.