5281

Epic mods are pretty vicious that way, usually when I’ve had occasion to actually wince at the cost of unsocketing mods it’s been epics. On the other hand if you keep them fairly well maintained they always seem to be markedly better in stats than even blue quest rewards.

5282

I just noticed when I open up the Origin app, my SWTOR copy still says “Unreleased”. So I’m not sure I can even get a code to register at this point because the code listed there is the same as my pre-order code.

5283

Yeah that’s what gets me. When it’s upgraded with good mods orange gear really seems to be better than most anything you can get at that level, but yes it is darn expensive to maintain.

Depending on when you ordered you should have gotten an email with your serial number. If you haven’t you might try contacting Origin’s Customer Service.

5284

Pretty sure you don’t have to unslot a mod to replace it with something else. Do you really care about that rating-20 Armoring mod? No, no you do not. It’s character-bound anyway.

5285

Ooooook then, that actually makes a huge difference, given that the items are pretty invariably vendored for much less than the unsocketing cost.

At some point late in the beta I think the mods were unbound, perhaps the costs to remove (vs. destroy) them are a holdover from that.

5286

You don’t, you can just overwrite it.

5287

Last night I realized this game has accomplished something incredible: it’s actually gotten me to do some legitimate role playing in an MMORPG. In WoW, I had no emotional investment in my character whatsoever, and I just chose whichever path would provide the most optimal reward (e.g. I aligned myself with the Aldor or the Scryers solely based on their faction rewards, not because I had an affinity for either side). I remember a quest in Wrath of the Lich King that required you to torture a prisoner with a shock prod; many players refused to complete that quest and consequently prevented themselves from completing the series. I just dutifully clicked the button without a second thought like a good Skinner-conditioned hamster.

In SWTOR, though, I’m making decisions based on what I think is thematically appropriate for my smuggler. I choose dialogue options based on a moral code I’ve chosen to follow, sort of like the “mercenary who is also an idealist” archetype. I’m a pragmatist who’s mainly in it for myself and the money, but I’m strongly opposed to things like slavery and torture, and I’ll never execute anyone who has surrendered. If a quest giver wants me to rescue an innocent from an unjust fate, I won’t ask for any reward, but if I’m helping someone in a purely business-related task, I’ll always demand a bigger slice of the pie. I even chose Underworld Trading as a crew skill solely because it sounded like something a smuggler would know.

So huge kudos to the writers for making me think about these kind of things rather than just mindlessly following the crumbs to the next quest-giver.

5288

Yeah it is triggering the CRPG behavior set, not the MMO behavior set. I’ve skipped a number of quests.

5289

I’m a credit hungry bounty hunter. I don’t skip anything that will earn me a few credits.

5290

CRAP. I forgot about my whole “can’t log into the website with my password, but it works fine on the client” situation. It’s still the case, and now’s the worst possible time to frig around with it. If I manage to lock myself out with repeated failed logins/password changes I’m apt to lock myself out and wind up on hold for hours.

5291

Yes, i do. It is epic and i would have to spend a bunch of money or tokens to get better.

I just bought my speeder and have 2,000 credits.

5292

Interesting - my CRPG behavior set is to complete all quests. Even when I’m playing an “evil” run through (say, in Dragon Age) I’ll do every quest even if they don’t really make sense for that style. I find that it feels incomplete otherwise.

Otherwise I agree, it does have that feel.

5293

I never, ever skip quests, but the way I know it’s triggering single player game behavior in me is that I have an urge to save before boss fights.

5294

I tanked my first ops with my Bounty Hunter past night. It went a lot better then I expected.

5295

So… I’ve been sitting here about 12 minutes waiting for the SWTOR page to automagically refresh itself to the point where I can enter the code.

Is anyone else encountering this issue?

5296

Ha! I had the exact same thing last night before a excellent Jedi duel on Tatooine. Took me a few seconds of trying to remember what the quick save key was before I remembered there wasn’t one. :P

Seems like their whole site is overwhelmed at the moment. Definitely not just you.

5297

BH tanks are awesome. So far, this is the most fun I’ve had tanking a game (50% of which is, admittedly, opening big pulls with Death From Above!).

Of course, my IA Healer is also great to play. It’s hard to decide which one to log in with at any given time.

5298

By ops are you meaning the end game raid? Or a 4 person flashpoint?

Edit: Question’s silly, though only asking since the raids are called Operations and I wasn’t sure if there were enough 50s yet to run them.

5299

Well it was a level 22 world boss that we formed an ops for.

5300

Aha, so a flashpoint. Operations are the multigroup raids at level 50, hence my confusion when you said ‘ops’ :)