Yeah, you really have to stay on top of gear while leveling in this game. The gear inflates more quickly than I’d expect during the leveling process, and your companions can easily fall behind.
Jakub
5562
There’s some concern about the weakness of armor for JKs/Juggs, and the weakness of Sentinels/Marauders in PvP (think WoW Rogue, without the stun, the blind, the sap, the gouge, the poisons, or the invisibility). In general melee mobility in PvP is a concern, but this is typical of most MMOs for long stretches of their existence in my experience.
At least, that’s the latest from my good friend who is hugely into the meta of this game.
As always, tanks and healers are in short supply, but you can find groups, and often heroics (though not necessarily flashpoints) are easy enough that you can tank and heal off-spec and win. I did this as recently as level 33 or 34, healing a 4-man heroic with a sith assassin (jedi shadow) tank, and we were both dps spec, with the quest being yellow. I think everyone was around the same level, though one guy was 36 IIRC.
I’ve never tried flashpoints off-spec, mostly because I find them to be difficult enough when everyone is properly slotted.
Aszurom
5563
So, as a Sith, what’s the best healer? The Sorceror?
I’m not particularly impressed with the wimpy single heal that I’ve gotten thus far.
The Sith Sorcerer/Jedi Sage is the most efficient healer, but all healing specs are very effective.
rei
5565
I think one of the patch servers is serving up corrupted data hence me downloading 4-11gb over and over.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=89697
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=90406
No official response, this is really poor customer service. Maybe they need Paul Christoforo.
Really, now…editing HOSTS?
Despite what this official post says from 12am this morning, I’ve had this issue all day.
Bioware/EA/LucasArts seem pretty incompetent.
This is happening to me too, with the exception that I will occasionally manage to log in, see my character and be booted out with ‘Error 2005’. Then more client login failures. Logging into the account page or the forums works every time.
OK - now that some of ya’ll have played this for a bit…
How well does this work - if at all - as a single player game? I have no interest in PvP servers or playing with anyone. I just want to play by myself and AI companions, and not have to deal with other peoples schedules for playing, or random people of whom 99% would make me give up the game if I had to play with them. I’ve scoured all the reviews I can find, and everyone seems to like it, but they don’t answer this question.
Jakub
5568
This is KOTOR 3, more or less. Somewhat more grindy, but with crafting and more open worlds and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more content.
Pick a low-pop server (RP for a generally more polite if somewhat uptight crowd) and go at it.
rei
5569
Only took four fucking tries to patch/install properly with a HOSTS file fix. Fuck you, EA.
hong
5570
Excellent, looks like another place in the queue is opening up!
rei
5571
Anyone know how to enable FSAA? the ini change posted on PC Gamer just makes the game launch and quit.
Finally, rei found a game that gave him technical problems.
rei
5573
most of my games work fine. my steam catalog is 400+. i’m just extra surly when they don’t.
Dejin
5574
It works really, really great as a single player game. I’m probably doing 95% of my play solo and having a very good time. The only frustration I’ve experienced is a bit of contention for bonus quest bosses early on, and I haven’t seen this since probably the first couple days (I’ve been playing since the start of early release, so around two weeks).
It really is a classic Bioware game that happens to allow you to play multi-player and has MMORPG aspects available to you if you want to take advantage of them. The storylines are great, and you’ve got lots of variety to choose from. Plus you’ll either have to play fast, or accept a monthly fee. They do seem committed to continuing to add story for us mostly solo players, but we’ll have to see how much gets added and if it’s worth the $12-15 per month.
Do you have any specific concerns you’d like addressed?
I just tested the alignment thing and it works as one would hope thankfully.
There is a max of 10,000 in each alignment.
It requires 10,000 points in one alignment to get it to rank V.
After you get one alignment to 10,000, further points in that alignment will instead lower the other one, raising your net total until it reaches 10,000.
Basically, is there anything about the game that requires multi-person play? If I decide I want to play with others, that’s cool, but I’m more about playing/quitting on my own schedule and not worrying about others. So if it’s possible to see the entire story (or stories) w/o having to interact with anyone else out there - that’s what I’m looking for. Optional - not required - multiplayer gaming.
Nesrie
5577
Flashpoints require a group, but those aren’t necessary at all. They are my personal favorites of the game but bypassing them wouldn’t mean you are missing much other than repeatable missions with bound upon acquire gear. Should also mention these are instances in an area kind of away from it all, so to speak, and they are using, so far, the same maps for Jedi and Sith although the story for going to xyz area changes slightly between the two.
Dejin
5578
You’ll miss out on high-end Flashpoints as Nesrie says. They aren’t particularly integrated with the main story as far as I can tell so I don’t know if you’ll particularly miss out on much. Also you can solo some of the lower end flashpoints if you’re over-leveled, I’m not sure at what point that becomes impossible. But the meat of the game, I’d say 95+%, including the story quests, which are really the heart of the game are completely doable solo.
Teiman
5579
Content in mmos normally comes some order of magnitudes slower than what takes players to consume. Players burns trough months of work in hours. So for players is a bad idea to wait for new content, has it can be 4 months away, and suppose only 4 extra hours. In a mmo most patches are balance changes, nerfs on the skills the devs or the players think is too good. What is in the game now, is all players must expect.
The instances and queues have kept performance solid, especially for a launch MMO but it’s kind of a mixed blessing because it just makes it look like nobody is around. Add that to the non targetable/non intractable NPCs everywhere and it just feels kinda dead. I’m really surprised that at level 32 on a full PvP server I’ve only had two encounters with Sith players. And it isn’t that I’m ahead of the leveling curve, we’ve got tons of people my level on both sides in war zones, we just never see each other in the world.
Anyway, started a trooper tonight and that’s a lot of fun. I love long range instant cast abilities. Thinking about going Commando with this guy since I don’t have a dps dude yet and big guns are fun. I figure I’ll heal with my scoundrel.
On the same planet. And of course none of them are in the hangar with your ship, which is always three giant empty rooms away from anything else and you can’t be mounted in them. Then we can wait for the loading screen for the ship and a travel map thing and then load the destination planet and run through the three big empty rooms on that planet and then a short ride to the first camp so we can take a speeder to where we want to get. Bleerrrrrrg.
Talk to griffon master. Click on destination. Come back in a few minutes when you’re there.
