Star Wars - The Old Republic - Page 178

On January 06 2012 15:24 Hoban wrote:
Thank you Manifesto7.

Anyway, now that there are more players hitting 50, I am hoping they start seperating 50's from the rest soon. I reallly had a good time in the beginning with PvP but now, someone with full champion gear will easily kill half a team of lower levels single handedly.

Does anyone know of any dps-class theory crafting? I have been putting together some sort of simulation for Operatives and hopefully I want to start on Mercenaries soon.

Level 50 Bracket Warzones: Level 50 players will have a bracket of their own, playing in separate Warzone matches to lower level players. This is something we have wanted to do for some time and now that there is an increasing number of level 50 players we will be implementing the feature in January.

On January 06 2012 17:15 Lyter wrote:
Servers down again? Wtf am i paying for

On January 06 2012 18:14 Silidons wrote:
I just personally think the game actually isn't at the "release" point yet. They're are a lot of things they need to implement (read the thread) and I have found many scenes where my companion isn't in view, and my helmet is off.

I hate how you can't just disable abilities on your companion until you enable them, because if they ever despawn from even you mounting up you have to re-disable them all. If you're running a flashpoint, every time you go up an elevator or whatever you have to re-summon them. Pretty annoying when as a powertech I rely soooo much on Mako, that when she enables her electro-stun that is channeled for like 8 seconds, I have to manually tell her to heal me because she won't until the cast time is over.

You can't fucking unbind the \ key either (below backspace). I can't FUCKING TELL YOU HOW HARD I RAGE LOL. \ brings up the bug ticket form and you have to hit 2 windows to make it go away. It's fucking annoying as shit.

Game also isn't optimized for shit, I get shit fps with a gtx470 on low settings (10 in imperial fleet). PvP is all about having 1 second delays on everything I'm doing for whatever reason, even if I have 30ms.

On January 06 2012 18:14 Silidons wrote:
I just personally think the game actually isn't at the "release" point yet. They're are a lot of things they need to implement (read the thread) and I have found many scenes where my companion isn't in view, and my helmet is off.

I hate how you can't just disable abilities on your companion until you enable them, because if they ever despawn from even you mounting up you have to re-disable them all. If you're running a flashpoint, every time you go up an elevator or whatever you have to re-summon them. Pretty annoying when as a powertech I rely soooo much on Mako, that when she enables her electro-stun that is channeled for like 8 seconds, I have to manually tell her to heal me because she won't until the cast time is over.

You can't fucking unbind the \ key either (below backspace). I can't FUCKING TELL YOU HOW HARD I RAGE LOL. \ brings up the bug ticket form and you have to hit 2 windows to make it go away. It's fucking annoying as shit.

Game also isn't optimized for shit, I get shit fps with a gtx470 on low settings (10 in imperial fleet). PvP is all about having 1 second delays on everything I'm doing for whatever reason, even if I have 30ms.

On January 06 2012 19:18 LagLovah wrote:



I feel your pain on the god damn bug report button hah, so annoying. I havent had issues with companions not remembering abilities besides kira not turning her buff on sometimes. Pvp rubber bands way to much, as a sentinel its annoying, along with if i force leap i have to step forward a few steps to be in melee range because the graphic freezes the player on my screen where i leap but it doesnt register as a stun server side until i land?(or something, its kind of weird).

Some classes feel like they have only a couple of abilities while others have like 20 they have to use. Jedi knight is supposed to be really bad for this I read. Between the *auto attack, zealous strike, leap, snare, heal reduction throw, finishing throw, slash, mercliss slash cauterize, sabre attack buff, force camo, guarded by force, trinket master strike force stasis, my aoe mini stun(forget name) regular aoe, passivity, transcendce(for huttball speed buff is nice) or the other 15sec 15% dmg buff, valorous call. I feel like im even missing something here, but half the time when im pvping im looking at my hotbar for cooldowns and abilities and not at the screen. If its a bossfight or instance i dont even look up half the time. My 2 bottom bars are full of things i use, along with half of my left hand bar.

My fps fluctuates from 80 to 15 depending on where I am at and I dont understand why, Alderaan as a world looks amazing but my framerate on it is trash, some indoor zones also (corellia inside some buildings) it will just plummet for no reason. I feel like one of the pvp zones has a memory leak because sometimes it runs great and after a while it just turns really bad.

Ilum design is horrid, people trade points for the valor buff to do warzones or their dailys, while bioware says this is bad and all that jazz, and tells me i should go around killing people, well im republic on a server with significantly more empire than republic. At late night ill go to ilum it will be all empire control, ill flip a point to get my buff, and like a damn signal flare going off 20-30 sith will show up trying to get their buff as well. When this happens ill be the only republic player in Ilum, and one of 20 online usually. You cant expect me to just force leap into 30 lvl 50s, its just stupid so I play their silly game and flip the point when my warzones end.

I helped out doing a world pvp boss on Quesh earlier today, we had a full operation of 39-50 players, we got there and there was 3 lvl 50 sith seeing us organize or what not, no big deal they attacked we killed them and engaged the boss... 2minutes later at 60~% they attack again, with about 8 lvl 50s, no big deal we kill them no wipes, we were way overleveled for the boss with a lvl 50 tank so it went fine. At around 20% ive never seen so many lvl 50s gather so fast, must have been at least 25, rolled right over us, but didnt reset the boss so we got the loot anyways. Not a huge deal, world pvp is gonna happen, but if these massive population imbalances are going to exist they need to offer an incentive to play republic. Ive seen games offer lik 30% bonus exp while overpopulated side gets 30% negative, or dmg buffs whatever.

Crafting system is terrible as well, i went thro the effort of proccing lvl 50 items to check out their stats, within about 2minutes of turning lvl 50 I was able to find better items elsewhere though. Slicing even nerfed is still a million times better than any other gathering ability, because of the mission discoveries. There are so few people doing regular crafting skills right now that the price of things like underworld metals is through the roof(probably right up until people realise that crafted items are terrible and stop making things entirely) besides ship upgrades and consumables.

All of these things are fixable, and they seem to be on the right track, lvl 50 bracket in pvp is a good step forward, although i think it will trash republic win rates, more because everyone is a jedi knight( cant complain I am too) and everyone on sith is an inquis operative or mercenary (3 best pvp classes). People already complain about gear being to important in pvp and i agree entirely. I have... 5 pieces of pvp equip i think.. mainhand sabre chest gloves implants, and a new lvl 50 ill kill in seconds without any issue, will barely even take dmg. Against higher geared players than me I can barely put a dent in their lifepools before i get tracer missle spammed to death.

Havent done any operations or heroic FPs or even the lvl 50 Fps yet, i hear they are buggy, waiting on more 50s in our guild on twin spears before we can attempt that stuff.

Space combat seems useless at 50 as well, rewards are .. weird 375 tokens for a lvl 50 arti box that drops the same thing i get from a regular lvl 50 mission on belsavis is .. weird. Oh, last problem, no customizable gear at 50, im stuck with the ugly pvp gear no reskinning or oranges etc.

I enjoy the game, I will keep playing regardless of these problems. Most of this stuff isnt hard to fix, crafting can be solved by having better schematics drop in raids, space combat just revamp the vendor. Pvp well they have a big plan for this month lets hope it works, along with Ilum changes that I think will bomb just because of population imbalance, having to kill players to get rewards means that it will just be a ghost town because of the population differences, republic just wont go there at all.

Skill bloat on Jedi Knight, well thats revamping a whole class, so im not sure what to do there, I use all of my abilities and they all have a purpose, but it kind of feels like other classes get abilities with multiple things in them, while ours are very linear. No knockback or push ability is annoying as well, as most other classes have it, seeing as we have no stun it would be nice to have.

On January 06 2012 19:43 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
Does anyone know how to find the patch notes for the Public Test Server? I've been told there are Juggernaut buffs on there and I'd like to know the details but can't find them anywhere!

Also, on a less related note here's a video of me messing around in Hutball with my 50 Juggernaut. Nothing special just something someone might watch if they're bored and looking to kill some time:
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