Star Wars: The Old Republic

DKDArtagnan · 2012-01-04T02:09:53.000Z

Dejin:

It’s a free ability all characters get at some point relatively early in the game – maybe low teens (?). If you don’t see it on your toolbar, check for it in the Abilities window under the “General” tab.

The main downside is it has an incredibly long cooldown, however, if you’ve got a security key (either physical or smartphone) you can buy consumable Fleet Passes at the Security Key vendor. They are fairly expensive until you get high level though, IIRC they run for 1k a pop. I try to use my free long cooldown Transport to the Fleet first, but have a few consumable passes in case I need them.

I might be getting all these names a bit wrong, so search around a bit. I’d fire up the game and double check, but it’s down for maintenance.

Thanks for info!

Wish I’d known about that before ;)

I’ll check once I login sometime tonight… I’ve been wondering why they didn’t make that an option somehow…

Ultrazen · 2012-01-04T02:38:14.000Z

MrPerson:

I didn’t see a followup on this (I may have missed it) but apparently the suspensions for farming nodes on Ilum was a real thing:

“Second, a smaller number of accounts were warned or temporarily suspended for exploiting loot containers on Ilum. To be completely clear, while players may choose to travel to Ilum earlier than the recommended level (40+) and may loot containers if they can get to them, in the cases of those customers that were warned or temporarily suspended, they were systematically and repeatedly looting containers in very high numbers resulting in the game economy becoming unbalanced.”

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=120099

So, yeah, I guess their customer service really is just that awful. Remember folks, you can loot chests, but loot too many and you’ll be suspended…

This is quite possibly the single dumbest thing I have ever seen customer service do in an MMO, and that is saying a lot. In a game where you can sit on the fleet, at character level 10, and farm level 50 missions that net you 200k+ per day, with zero danger, risk, or even being at the keyboard, they are going to ban people for farming loot? /boggle.

This is just…unbelievable…

Dejin · 2012-01-04T03:02:19.000Z

Servers are back up! I guess they scheduled 8 hours just in case, so they didn’t have a repeat of the last maintenance time where it took much longer than expected.

Cal · 2012-01-04T04:40:22.000Z

Razgon:

Oh? So Chapter 2 is already there? I could have sworn it wasnt, but nice! thanks!

…and there is a chapter 3.

Chapter 2 is much longer and more interesting than Chapter 1 on the classes i have played.

Chapter 3 continues on well after you will hit level 50. Or did in my case. Yep i have had a month of work and have played way too much. I started Chapter 3 at about level 43 i believe.

Teiman · 2012-01-04T05:18:31.000Z

Cal:

…and there is a chapter 3.

Chapter 2 is much longer and more interesting than Chapter 1 on the classes i have played.

Chapter 3 continues on well after you will hit level 50. Or did in my case. Yep i have had a month of work and have played way too much. I started Chapter 3 at about level 43 i believe.

If this is true, the game is monstrously huge.

Thesper · 2012-01-04T06:24:26.000Z

Well I believe Bioware did say each chapter is supposed to be longer than KOTOR.

8*3 = 24 KOTORs. I guess $135 million buys you quite a lot of content. Although most of the content by playtime is the planet quests not class quests so with the Empire/Republic splits its more like a mere 6-12 KOTORs probably.

rei · 2012-01-04T07:11:49.000Z

Thesper:

Well I believe Bioware did say each chapter is supposed to be longer than KOTOR.

8*3 = 24 KOTORs. I guess $135 million buys you quite a lot of content. Although most of the content by playtime is the planet quests not class quests so with the Empire/Republic splits its more like a mere 6-12 KOTORs probably.

Unique storyline class missions aside, if you reroll characters for each class, you will still have to grind through the shared planet quests over 8 times.

Soapyfrog · 2012-01-04T07:15:34.000Z

On the other hand you can pick and choose your quests. Doing every single quest resulted in me being 6 levels ahead of the curve going into Alderaan.

Soapyfrog · 2012-01-04T07:16:16.000Z

Double post!

The_Mad_Hatter · 2012-01-04T07:22:17.000Z

Razgon:

Nah, on my server it takes 10-15 minutes to get a group together at max, and most people can get there pretty easily.

We don’t need no stinkin’ dungeon teleporter gimmick in the game.

It really does need it, and it’s going to be a severe problem once the initial flood of users mostly progressing at the same level subsides. It’ll be like WoW was before the LFG patch - lots of empty content that no one ever does, alongside a few easily ground instances with useful gear.

Thesper · 2012-01-04T07:24:37.000Z

rei:

Unique storyline class missions aside, if you reroll characters for each class, you will still have to grind through the shared planet quests over 8 times.

Yeah that’s what I meant, the actual amount of unique content for each playthrough isn’t that high due to the overlapping planet quests. That said all flashpoint, heroic, pvp, planet, space and class quest content for one faction is probably enough to get through 2 different class stories without repeating much content. I just got to Nar Shadaa on my Operative at the top of its level range (24) after having done almost everything on Balmorra but still skipping 2 flashpoints.

rei · 2012-01-04T07:36:02.000Z

Soapyfrog:

On the other hand you can pick and choose your quests. Doing every single quest resulted in me being 6 levels ahead of the curve going into Alderaan.

3 here, but it sounds like you must have done way more flashpoints than i.

Brad_Wardell · 2012-01-04T08:01:11.000Z

I just got told off by an npc for stinking of the light. (light 2 sith maurader).

Soapyfrog · 2012-01-04T08:06:14.000Z

rei:

3 here, but it sounds like you must have done way more flashpoints than i.

I’ve done all the flashpoints once (except I think Cademimu which I have done twice), plus a number of space battles (I’ve probably done the lower level daily operations twice each). I’ve never had more than a bubble or so of rest xp per play session, I imagine a more rested character could skip huge swathes of content on each world if they so desired.

Oh I have noticed also that overlevelling content is actually a bad thing; grey quests give you only 5xp on turn in; so if you are going to do a quest, make sure you do it before it turns grey; if it turns grey it is essentially no longer worth doing unless you are desperate for credits.

Money is also not really a problem; I have about 100k credits and thats with levelling synthweaving/archaeology/underworld to 300ish each, buying a bunch of stuff on the AH, getting my speeder, bag expansion, etc etc. Practically no sales on the AH either; I find most gear simply doesnt sell.

Jason_Townsend · 2012-01-04T08:13:53.000Z

I’m sitting on ~350k at 38 or so. The economics of selling loot and buying repairs/skills do pretty drastically outweigh the 100s-of-credits profitability of the best slicing missions as currently implemented, but it does still also reward mission discovery, cybertech schematics, and allows the looting of slicing nodes, so I’m not unhappy with it.

Murbella · 2012-01-04T08:33:20.000Z

Both of my characters, 19 operative (cybertech) and 36 sith warrior (biochem), use money as fast as it comes in :(

nomaar · 2012-01-04T08:45:34.000Z

rei:

Unique storyline class missions aside, if you reroll characters for each class, you will still have to grind through the shared planet quests over 8 times.

Empire and Republic have different sets of planet quests, so it would be more like 4 times–unless you roll a character for each of the 16 different Advanced Classes.

rei · 2012-01-04T09:07:20.000Z

Soapyfrog:

I’ve done all the flashpoints once (except I think Cademimu which I have done twice), plus a number of space battles (I’ve probably done the lower level daily operations twice each). I’ve never had more than a bubble or so of rest xp per play session, I imagine a more rested character could skip huge swathes of content on each world if they so desired.

Oh I have noticed also that overlevelling content is actually a bad thing; grey quests give you only 5xp on turn in; so if you are going to do a quest, make sure you do it before it turns grey; if it turns grey it is essentially no longer worth doing unless you are desperate for credits.

Money is also not really a problem; I have about 100k credits and thats with levelling synthweaving/archaeology/underworld to 300ish each, buying a bunch of stuff on the AH, getting my speeder, bag expansion, etc etc. Practically no sales on the AH either; I find most gear simply doesnt sell.

i haven’t done any space battles and at 34, my entire 25/25 backlog is all heroic missions.

Soapyfrog · 2012-01-04T09:08:06.000Z

Good money in heroics, I’ll say.

Additonal: I do most of the bonuses (bonii?) too so that probably pads my xp and cash a bit.

Nephrinn · 2012-01-04T09:11:13.000Z

So, what’s this about players getting banned for dancing in non-designated “dance zones” to exploit bosses? :D