Last boss of the new Karagga's Palace, 16 man normal. Is actually not too bad.
Though one of the bosses leading up to it was lame. You know how pylons is a puzzle boss? There's another puzzle boss. I like that Bioware are trying to mix up encounter design, but I dislike these puzzle bosses as a personal preference
I find the loot bug hilarious. 3 of my guildies got the PT offhand and they weren't BH. I got the Operative offhand as a PT.
On January 19 2012 16:50 Cytokinesis wrote: So I was a 50 sith marauder and my friend was a 50 sith assassin. We have extensive mmo experience with WoW. Both of us pvp'ed a ton in WoW, and I was a hardcore raider in a world ranked guild. So, we both cancelled our subs after this patch even though we were enjoying it prior to the patch. We both were always, ALWAYS top dmg on the warzones we played, and enjoyed pvping together. So why did we cancel?
Because this patch royally fucked pvp. It is literally impossible for us to pvp on our server. We waited in queue for 7 hours for a warzone today and never got into one. There is a grand total of about 50 level 50's on our server imperial side and over 200 on republic side. Out of those 50 on imperial side only 10 pvp. So for us to even get into a queue 6 of those 10 have to be online and queuing. Now we could sit here and wait and hope more people hit 50, but we aren't waiting months and paying money for nothing.
Not to mention ilum is totally fucked. But everyone knows about that.
Then there is the whole valor shit. I am really disappointed. This truly was the TORtanic.
BTW if your an assassin 31/0/10 is by far the best pvp specialization. And marauder is definitively Rage spec as well. But GLHF to anyone staying with it. I'm jealous of the servers you guys decided to play on
why not pick a new server to pvp.
because we don't want to spend weeks leveling new guys to get to something we enjoy. I mean, we admit leveling was way funner than any other MMO but it still sucked dick compared to playing an actual game. Kind of ridiculous that they fucked shit up so bad for our server (there is literally 0 warzones going on now, ever) that we have to spend weeks leveling again.
Glad they released a patch already to fix some illum issues. Hope its not as laggy as it says improved performance. I had a blast on illum even with lag so hopefully if its better i will have even more fun :D
Last boss of the new Karagga's Palace, 16 man normal. Is actually not too bad.
Though one of the bosses leading up to it was lame. You know how pylons is a puzzle boss? There's another puzzle boss. I like that Bioware are trying to mix up encounter design, but I dislike these puzzle bosses as a personal preference
I find the loot bug hilarious. 3 of my guildies got the PT offhand and they weren't BH. I got the Operative offhand as a PT.
i also play powertech 4/5 nightmare, i'd advise you to keybind all your spells. it's not very practical clicking your stim, unload and vent heat. also focus on jetjump, rail shot, flamethrower and you will never get above 50 (getting above 50 will significantly reduce your dmg output).
On January 19 2012 16:50 Cytokinesis wrote: So I was a 50 sith marauder and my friend was a 50 sith assassin. We have extensive mmo experience with WoW. Both of us pvp'ed a ton in WoW, and I was a hardcore raider in a world ranked guild. So, we both cancelled our subs after this patch even though we were enjoying it prior to the patch. We both were always, ALWAYS top dmg on the warzones we played, and enjoyed pvping together. So why did we cancel?
Because this patch royally fucked pvp. It is literally impossible for us to pvp on our server. We waited in queue for 7 hours for a warzone today and never got into one. There is a grand total of about 50 level 50's on our server imperial side and over 200 on republic side. Out of those 50 on imperial side only 10 pvp. So for us to even get into a queue 6 of those 10 have to be online and queuing. Now we could sit here and wait and hope more people hit 50, but we aren't waiting months and paying money for nothing.
Not to mention ilum is totally fucked. But everyone knows about that.
Then there is the whole valor shit. I am really disappointed. This truly was the TORtanic.
BTW if your an assassin 31/0/10 is by far the best pvp specialization. And marauder is definitively Rage spec as well. But GLHF to anyone staying with it. I'm jealous of the servers you guys decided to play on
why not pick a new server to pvp.
because we don't want to spend weeks leveling new guys to get to something we enjoy. I mean, we admit leveling was way funner than any other MMO but it still sucked dick compared to playing an actual game. Kind of ridiculous that they fucked shit up so bad for our server (there is literally 0 warzones going on now, ever) that we have to spend weeks leveling again.
How can there be 0 warzones? Isn't that what huttball is for - for getting people into a warzone when there isn't enough people from both factions?
On January 19 2012 16:50 Cytokinesis wrote: So I was a 50 sith marauder and my friend was a 50 sith assassin. We have extensive mmo experience with WoW. Both of us pvp'ed a ton in WoW, and I was a hardcore raider in a world ranked guild. So, we both cancelled our subs after this patch even though we were enjoying it prior to the patch. We both were always, ALWAYS top dmg on the warzones we played, and enjoyed pvping together. So why did we cancel?
Because this patch royally fucked pvp. It is literally impossible for us to pvp on our server. We waited in queue for 7 hours for a warzone today and never got into one. There is a grand total of about 50 level 50's on our server imperial side and over 200 on republic side. Out of those 50 on imperial side only 10 pvp. So for us to even get into a queue 6 of those 10 have to be online and queuing. Now we could sit here and wait and hope more people hit 50, but we aren't waiting months and paying money for nothing.
Not to mention ilum is totally fucked. But everyone knows about that.
Then there is the whole valor shit. I am really disappointed. This truly was the TORtanic.
BTW if your an assassin 31/0/10 is by far the best pvp specialization. And marauder is definitively Rage spec as well. But GLHF to anyone staying with it. I'm jealous of the servers you guys decided to play on
why not pick a new server to pvp.
because we don't want to spend weeks leveling new guys to get to something we enjoy. I mean, we admit leveling was way funner than any other MMO but it still sucked dick compared to playing an actual game. Kind of ridiculous that they fucked shit up so bad for our server (there is literally 0 warzones going on now, ever) that we have to spend weeks leveling again.
you waited 7 hours in que?? why wouldn't you just get off after like an hour, at most... i honestly don't beleieve that you waited in que for 7 hours lol, and by the way it's more fun not funner.
Last boss of the new Karagga's Palace, 16 man normal. Is actually not too bad.
Though one of the bosses leading up to it was lame. You know how pylons is a puzzle boss? There's another puzzle boss. I like that Bioware are trying to mix up encounter design, but I dislike these puzzle bosses as a personal preference
I find the loot bug hilarious. 3 of my guildies got the PT offhand and they weren't BH. I got the Operative offhand as a PT.
i also play powertech 4/5 nightmare, i'd advise you to keybind all your spells. it's not very practical clicking your stim, unload and vent heat. also focus on jetjump, rail shot, flamethrower and you will never get above 50 (getting above 50 will significantly reduce your dmg output).
Yeah that video in particular I'm playing like balls. Vent Heat is keybound along with a few other things, but thanks to that stupid ability delay most of the stuff not on my main bar takes like 4 seconds of spamming the button for it to actually work, it seems to be a bit quicker clicking. My main rotation abilities are all keybound, but I got fed up of mashing my medpack 70 times for it to work when I can click it as fast. I normally have EVERYTHING keybound, but this ability delay crap is too annoying.
On January 19 2012 16:50 Cytokinesis wrote: So I was a 50 sith marauder and my friend was a 50 sith assassin. We have extensive mmo experience with WoW. Both of us pvp'ed a ton in WoW, and I was a hardcore raider in a world ranked guild. So, we both cancelled our subs after this patch even though we were enjoying it prior to the patch. We both were always, ALWAYS top dmg on the warzones we played, and enjoyed pvping together. So why did we cancel?
Because this patch royally fucked pvp. It is literally impossible for us to pvp on our server. We waited in queue for 7 hours for a warzone today and never got into one. There is a grand total of about 50 level 50's on our server imperial side and over 200 on republic side. Out of those 50 on imperial side only 10 pvp. So for us to even get into a queue 6 of those 10 have to be online and queuing. Now we could sit here and wait and hope more people hit 50, but we aren't waiting months and paying money for nothing.
Not to mention ilum is totally fucked. But everyone knows about that.
Then there is the whole valor shit. I am really disappointed. This truly was the TORtanic.
BTW if your an assassin 31/0/10 is by far the best pvp specialization. And marauder is definitively Rage spec as well. But GLHF to anyone staying with it. I'm jealous of the servers you guys decided to play on
why not pick a new server to pvp.
because we don't want to spend weeks leveling new guys to get to something we enjoy. I mean, we admit leveling was way funner than any other MMO but it still sucked dick compared to playing an actual game. Kind of ridiculous that they fucked shit up so bad for our server (there is literally 0 warzones going on now, ever) that we have to spend weeks leveling again.
you waited 7 hours in que?? why wouldn't you just get off after like an hour, at most... i honestly don't beleieve that you waited in que for 7 hours lol, and by the way it's more fun not funner.
I realize it's more fun, thanks. Yes, we waited in queue for 7 hours. We played other games while we waited, just left it in the background to see if we even got a queue, and we didn't.
Also I guess republic can play huttball against each other, forgot about that. So that's the only thing going on until like 40 more people hit level 50 And when we only have ~50 people on the fleet at peak hours that is
Had a blast playing through Kaon Under siege these past 2 days, its so hectic. Mobs running everywhere.
Also i really like the dailies they arent nearly as boring as dailies in wow, especially with heroic 2+ and 4 missions that you can do with your friends for better loot/ more commendations. They fixed ilum really fast as well which im happy about, it was really hectic yesterday.
On January 19 2012 16:50 Cytokinesis wrote: So I was a 50 sith marauder and my friend was a 50 sith assassin. We have extensive mmo experience with WoW. Both of us pvp'ed a ton in WoW, and I was a hardcore raider in a world ranked guild. So, we both cancelled our subs after this patch even though we were enjoying it prior to the patch. We both were always, ALWAYS top dmg on the warzones we played, and enjoyed pvping together. So why did we cancel?
Because this patch royally fucked pvp. It is literally impossible for us to pvp on our server. We waited in queue for 7 hours for a warzone today and never got into one. There is a grand total of about 50 level 50's on our server imperial side and over 200 on republic side. Out of those 50 on imperial side only 10 pvp. So for us to even get into a queue 6 of those 10 have to be online and queuing. Now we could sit here and wait and hope more people hit 50, but we aren't waiting months and paying money for nothing.
Not to mention ilum is totally fucked. But everyone knows about that.
Then there is the whole valor shit. I am really disappointed. This truly was the TORtanic.
BTW if your an assassin 31/0/10 is by far the best pvp specialization. And marauder is definitively Rage spec as well. But GLHF to anyone staying with it. I'm jealous of the servers you guys decided to play on
why not pick a new server to pvp.
because we don't want to spend weeks leveling new guys to get to something we enjoy. I mean, we admit leveling was way funner than any other MMO but it still sucked dick compared to playing an actual game. Kind of ridiculous that they fucked shit up so bad for our server (there is literally 0 warzones going on now, ever) that we have to spend weeks leveling again.
How can there be 0 warzones? Isn't that what huttball is for - for getting people into a warzone when there isn't enough people from both factions?
They made lvl50 characters to have their own pvp bracket, so problem is low population server with ppl unintrested of pvp.
Its a shame some servers suffer the issue of low numbers of 50's who want to pvp but on the whole the 50 bracket really fixed everyones problems.
I now have the same fun i had ~2 weeks ago before everyone hit 50 and got full pvp gear.
Server merges will probably start taking place soon, which will fix the problems with low populated servers i would imagine, and then they will likely start to open up server transfer in case that server doesnt offer you what you want / need. (No raiding guilds, lack of PvP etc.)
One thing i hope they stick to their guns about is no cross-server pvp / FP..seriously it can work without those and really helps promote a community. Server merging / transfers (free, or extremely low cost with time restraints. something like rift would be good.) is the way to go about it if you ask me.
Who wants to have it like WoW where the only people you know on your server are 1) your guild 2) some random alt's name you bump into often as your levelling at around the same pace as. 3) the fucking trolls in trade chat.
On January 19 2012 21:05 cozzE wrote: PvP is great considering its so early in the development phase. I know a shit ton of top ex-WoW pvpers that're also enjoying the shit out of it.
I really hope they rollback valor after this exploit in ilum otherwise there's gonna be a lot of angry players that won't forgive bioware - even though this game really is a blast.
The game is a lot of fun, but there are some serious problems with the game. I'm not sure if it's the rendering engine or server-client communication protocol but the game lags/framerate goes to shit anytime there are more than 20 or so players/NPCs around. Also the loading screen times are pretty long and annoying (especially the open world planets like Alderaan and Tatooine).
I'm sure they'll eventually fix all these problems and the game will become a lot of fun. I just hope their entire player base abandons them and goes back to Panda-land...
i thought i was the only one having problems with slow loading screens i tried everything i even reinstalled windows and i still get it and my pc more than handles the game =/ i hope they fix it
On January 20 2012 17:48 Executor1 wrote: Had a blast playing through Kaon Under siege these past 2 days, its so hectic. Mobs running everywhere.
Also i really like the dailies they arent nearly as boring as dailies in wow, especially with heroic 2+ and 4 missions that you can do with your friends for better loot/ more commendations. They fixed ilum really fast as well which im happy about, it was really hectic yesterday.
Really? You had a blast killing trash for 2 hours?
They have probably registered that I played A LOT during christmas, but at max one hour every day now. This is because of school(and also because I don't find the game THAT fun anymore), but for them it might seem that it's only because I don't want to play anymore and want to cancel.
Well I just hit 50 2 days ago and PvP isn't fun, like AT ALL for me now. 90% of the players have a lot of PvP gear, and I only have 2 implants, and I keep not being able to finish the daily because my wins won't count for some reason, and as a tank-sin I literally get crit for over 3k multiples times (which just doesn't seem right) and I do complete shit damage to everyone.
I was Deception build before, but I literally would die in <5 seconds against someone. I play on The Maw and there are a good amount of 50s (1-2 min queues) but it's just not fun for me now.
Probably going to cancel, got like a week left though.
On January 20 2012 17:48 Executor1 wrote: Had a blast playing through Kaon Under siege these past 2 days, its so hectic. Mobs running everywhere.
Also i really like the dailies they arent nearly as boring as dailies in wow, especially with heroic 2+ and 4 missions that you can do with your friends for better loot/ more commendations. They fixed ilum really fast as well which im happy about, it was really hectic yesterday.
Really? You had a blast killing trash for 2 hours?
Really?
Really? You were cleaning trash for 2 hours?
Really? What are you? Full greenie?
It takes slightly over an hour to complete the whole FP on hard if you wipe. Less than an hour if you 1shot everything.
On January 20 2012 17:48 Executor1 wrote: Had a blast playing through Kaon Under siege these past 2 days, its so hectic. Mobs running everywhere.
Also i really like the dailies they arent nearly as boring as dailies in wow, especially with heroic 2+ and 4 missions that you can do with your friends for better loot/ more commendations. They fixed ilum really fast as well which im happy about, it was really hectic yesterday.
Really? You had a blast killing trash for 2 hours?
Really?
Really? You were cleaning trash for 2 hours?
Really? What are you? Full greenie?
It takes slightly over an hour to complete the whole FP on hard if you wipe. Less than an hour if you 1shot everything.
Also zombies are all about killing waves of zombies! Bosses are irrelevent.
That bonus boss was a nice level of difficulty at least
On January 20 2012 23:00 Silidons wrote: Well I just hit 50 2 days ago and PvP isn't fun, like AT ALL for me now. 90% of the players have a lot of PvP gear, and I only have 2 implants, and I keep not being able to finish the daily because my wins won't count for some reason, and as a tank-sin I literally get crit for over 3k multiples times (which just doesn't seem right) and I do complete shit damage to everyone.
I was Deception build before, but I literally would die in <5 seconds against someone. I play on The Maw and there are a good amount of 50s (1-2 min queues) but it's just not fun for me now.
Probably going to cancel, got like a week left though.
Yeah its kind of annoying, because they didnt roll back pvp gear for people who exploited Ilum dailies and honor. So now weve got a set of 50s who have full sets of pvp gear and everyone else has to do weeks and months of grinding to get it.
On January 20 2012 23:00 Silidons wrote: Well I just hit 50 2 days ago and PvP isn't fun, like AT ALL for me now. 90% of the players have a lot of PvP gear, and I only have 2 implants, and I keep not being able to finish the daily because my wins won't count for some reason, and as a tank-sin I literally get crit for over 3k multiples times (which just doesn't seem right) and I do complete shit damage to everyone.
I was Deception build before, but I literally would die in <5 seconds against someone. I play on The Maw and there are a good amount of 50s (1-2 min queues) but it's just not fun for me now.
Probably going to cancel, got like a week left though.
Yeah its kind of annoying, because they didnt roll back pvp gear for people who exploited Ilum dailies and honor. So now weve got a set of 50s who have full sets of pvp gear and everyone else has to do weeks and months of grinding to get it.
The Ilum situation only gave people valor though, not gear or anything like that so the people who didn't have gear and took advantage of the 1.1 patch still have to grind their gear like everyone else.
Soa nightmare mode if anyone is interested;
Too bad there are so few differences between normal/hard/nightmare, it's basically just additional hitpoints, more damage on abilities and sometimes an additional add or two.
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