Star Wars - The Old Republic - Page 22

On June 28 2011 11:56 neohero9 wrote:


Impossible to tell right now, for a few reasons.

First, few/no one in the NA test has bothered to hit lvl 50. This means the pool of people who are able to test which tanks are most raid-ready, even in certain situations, is very small. The only thing we do know is that there are at least two divisions of two types of tanks: Ranged/Melee, and Damage Soaker/Avoidance. Gun classes would be ranged, saber classes are melee. Juggernauts and Guardians are soakers, Shadows and Assassins are avoidance tanks.

Secondly, anyone who has hit 50 and started testing this stuff isn't talking about it publicly.

Thirdly, it's still a testing phase, and even as late in the game as it is, things are still changing. Abilities are being tweaked, removed, revised, and invented.

Lastly, we don't even know what the trees look like, completely. No tester has posted full trees, so we can't examine them and get theorycraft which talents work well together, and which trees look stronger. Part of this is due to the third issue: talents are still evolving.



No clue. The only thing we do know is that in PVP characters have a long Time-to-Kill, and that everyone who's played any of the PVP has said it was freaking awesome. Particularly Huttball.

Re: your worries about Sniper and other ranged classes-- it has been confirmed by the devs that such classes will have range-keeping and range-creating abilities. One of the classes (not sure which) has a kind of knockback AOE that helps it get away from targets which have managed to close on it.

On June 28 2011 12:14 Rah wrote:
I noticed on the talents released so far juggernaut has an ability to reduce all forms of damage while the power tech seems to focus on only laser fire. So it's safe to assume bioware intends power tech to be the more situational tank with more utility? ...

Powertech is looking nice to me in pvp right now with their abilities to rope players in, and fly up on the jetpack. Depends how well they stand up in a fight against jedis.

On June 28 2011 18:01 blade55555 wrote:
So how many people on TL got into the beta? And can you go to levle 50 if you played enough? If so I'm so jealous that I only got to play as a bounty hunter or imperial agent T_T.

On June 29 2011 00:42 trainRiderJ wrote:
So what's the best way to get into the beta?

On June 28 2011 23:07 B00ts wrote:


So someone that go into the beta is jealous?... I hate you. At least you got to play

On June 29 2011 00:42 trainRiderJ wrote:
So what's the best way to get into the beta?

On June 28 2011 12:14 Rah wrote:


I noticed on the talents released so far juggernaut has an ability to reduce all forms of damage while the power tech seems to focus on only laser fire. So it's safe to assume bioware intends power tech to be the more situational tank with more utility? Also I think longer time-to-kill is bad for a range class. Sniper seems to be all about the set up and dropping their target quickly. Longer fight means more time to close in. I hope sniper can be good outside of situations where they use terrain well, or big battles, but I'm skeptical.

Powertech is looking nice to me in pvp right now with their abilities to rope players in, and fly up on the jetpack. Depends how well they stand up in a fight against jedis.

On June 29 2011 05:40 sad.wish wrote:
PM me if u want to buy my beta... 100$$

On June 29 2011 07:52 smallerk wrote:


Wouldn't work because once they detect a different ip logging in they close the account, its in the game testing faq

On June 29 2011 08:38 blade55555 wrote:
Hmm when I had the beta for a week I let 2 of my friends use it and it didn't get locked or anything (by friends in different states one in florida and one in another one while i'm in idaho). :p