6161

IB, your posts in this thread do make me laugh…and on a more serious note, I recall you mentioning about your wife, and I am sure that is very difficult for you. As for me, please know my ribbing is in jest…that said you ARE funny. :)

6162

So if I choose slicing instead of one of the two gathering skills I need to compliment mt chosen crafting skill I can buy the missing components from vendors and other players right? Does it work out ahead for you cash and time wise?

I can get why you would choose to slice if not interested in crafting but not to do both otherwise.,

6163

right now I’m placing treasure hunting ahead of slicing. simply because you get green/blue/purple item from the lock box from treasure hunting. you can always sell the green item for money too.

the real money from slicing now is from unlocking lockbox in the field.

6164

I still have slicing, along with scavenging and cybertech. You don’t strictly need any of the underworld trading items to level cybertech, and I imagine this is true for all of the crafting skills. However, to craft anything worthwhile (blue items and up) you would need items from that third skill. You can buy them on the GTN, but they’re extremely pricey.

If I was starting over right now, I don’t think I’d take slicing.

6165

I finally got a good taste of how important it is to reverse engineer the things you craft.

I have a Might 11 item I crafted (green). Disassembled it and learned how to make a blue one. Dissambled that when I made it and got purple.

6166

Ya, but has your sad devotion to that ancient Jedi religion helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you enough clairvoyance to find the rebels’ hidden fortress?

6167

One thing i couldnt believe, is that Spike TV was running a star wars marathon at least one day last weekend, and i was a little surprised that TOR didnt have an advertisement…really?! They didnt see the possible connection?! really?

6168

I find your lack of faith…disturbing.

6169

I started with Slicing, Underworld Trading, and Cybertech. Slicing made me a ton of bank before the nerf, enough to bankroll the buying of the Scavenging mats I need for Cybertech. Now Cybertech is at the point where it’s pretty self-sufficient - I can make enough selling high-end ship parts to cover the cost of the mats and then some.

So Slicing worked out at least as well as taking Scavenging would have, but if starting fresh I don’t think I’d do it now because the missions themselves are pretty crap in terms of returns, and the ability to get Augments is like some sad joke (considering purp max level augs are abundant and selling for all of 2k on my server). The money is only decent now when you open world lockboxes, and those are tied to the level of the zone you’re in, so until you get into your 40s all the lockboxes you find will have only a few hundred credits in them which is a big whoopty-doo.

I do think Underworld was a better deal than Scavenging would have been. I’ve made a ton off of selling extra metals I didn’t need, and once you hit max level it’s the metals that are much rarer and more expensive to get than the Scavenging supplies. A single Promethium (Grade 5 purp metal) sells for 12k - nothing Scavenging provides even comes close to that and I much rather buy my Scavenged mats for 100-200 apiece than have to pony up tens of thousands for the Underworld stuff.

6170

I think there must be some definite reason why they’re not doing it, as I’m pretty sure I’m remembering correctly that in one of the earlier betas I was in, they had something like a cosmetic cozzie tab much like LOTRO’s.

6171

You got it all wrong. It’s a hidden fortrACK…GRG…AK…

6172

Someone in SWTOR’s general put on their pretend i-banker hat to bash the game. That forum has some real flakes. He goes on to give “investment advice”. He is the first i-banker to find time in his 18+ hour work day to make a level 50 in two weeks.

The game overall is really good. The Star Wars feel is very immersive. I love some of these flashpoints. I love Huttball. We had some people try to spawn camp and we scored twice on them.

6173

I love SWTOR. It has that awesome Bioware flair for storytelling. It is the best MMO I have played since the original WoW vanilla release.

6174

critics against wow removed to not attract the ire of the wow hivemind

6175

At a basic level you could describe WoW as that. For me though it was my first MMO and coupled with the world building and the social aspects of guilds it was an amazing experience. I met some of my best friends via WoW and even travelled to Canada for a friends wedding whom I met through WoW.

I think the social aspect of WoW is a very important factor for why people continue to play the game.

6176

It’s always interesting when people try to categorise other people based on nothing but their own subjective tastes.

I’m as dedicated/passionate/enthusiastic a gamer as can be, and I’ve played nearly all MMOs since UO and a ton of MUDs before that. I’ve played games intensely for 30 years, and yet I think WoW vanilla was a masterpiece.

It doesn’t mean that people who didn’t “get it” or didn’t “like it” are bad players or they don’t know how to play and enjoy games.

They probably just like different things, and they probably wanted something else from WoW. If you think raiding Molten Core with 40 players didn’t take “MMO skill” or if you think competing with the best players in PvP with the best and most responsive combat system in any MMO didn’t take “MMO skill” - then that’s your business.

Can’t say I agree, though.

6177

I don’t know how you guys do it.
To me was too terrible simple.

But… he!, more power to you!.

One nice feature of wow is that with soo much people, and good LFG tools, seems easy to create a group for a dungeon.

6178

Teiman did you raid the original BWL? :)

6179

How much of WoW vanilla did you play?

Be honest now.

6180

Not much, I got bored. Thats is not a indication of the game being bad. But I never find anything interesting in the game and was too simple and sameish everywhere. Also changing “race” fixed nothing, as the races and experience was a clone.