Star Wars - The Old Republic - Page 224

On March 07 2012 05:16 MaGariShun wrote:
First and foremost you need to understand, that in MMOs leveling is just a thing you do before getting to the real game. Sure, star wars does a great job at making that experience as interesting as possible, but in the end leveling is quite short and only a small part of the game which doesn't really have any impact on the endgame (except that you have to do it to get there)


They really don't. You can do whatever you want while leveling, it does not have an impact on endgame (you can switch between dark and light side or change professions at any time if you put some time into it).


You don't keep anything really that you don't use as an equipment while leveling. Everything you will need in endgame you will get in endgame. Feel free to sell everything you don't use to vendors and if its a purple (artifact quality) item, you probably will get some money off it in the galactic trade network, but you can also just vendor it. For the stats on gear, you will be looking primarily for your mainstat (strength as warrior, aim as bounty hunter, cunning as agent and willpower as inquisitor - same for mirrored republic classes) and then secondary stats that boost you in the role you chose. e.g. a tank will look for absorption rating, endurance or defense, while a healer or damage dealer will prioritize crit, surge and power. Alacrity is overall a pretty useless stat, as is presence. As a rule of thumb: you can weigh the useful stats on items 1:1 and this way choose your gear:
if an item has 20 cunning (assuming you are an agent and thus want to have cunning), 10 crit and 10 surge, value it as 40 stat points.
Another item has 10 cunning, 20 crit and 20 power, which equals to 50 stat points. The second item would be superior and the item of your choice.
Later onr(lv.50) the weighting of the stats will differ according to what your spec is and what you are already wearing, but the method stays the same: calculate the total amount of (weighted) stat points and choose the item with more on it.

how the stats are weighted is found out through theorycrafting. You can find a lot of material of on sithwarrior.com or in the official forums. There are also discussions about talent choices, skill usage (rotations) and much more.


PvP or PvE only means by which rules you can engage a member of the opposing faction if you meet one. On PvP server you are generally not safe while on a planet and can be attacked at any time, on PvE server you have to specifically enable PvP to be attackable by other players.
Nothing really happens when being killed in pvp. It's the same as dying to an NPC. You can be resurrected at the nearest medical service or you can use your probe (free self revive). Open PvP, which is essentially if you casually meet a member of the opposing faction while say questing and you fight, has no specific objective other than killing the other guy for whatever reason you have. It doesn't really gain you anything except maybe the fulfillment of having owned up some random noob. You will most likely be ganked (killed) back for revenge or he will call his guildmates to spawncamp you and annoy you.
PvP in warzones is different; You queue up for a 10 on 10 fight with objectives. There are currently three different warzones, one being Battlefield style where you have to capture points (there are three of them) and try to defend them as long as possible until no team has respawn tickets anymore. The other warzone is kinda like battlefield rush or Enemy territory where the attacking team has to plant explosives and the defenders try to prevent that, attacker and defender roles are then switched for another round. Lastly, there is huttball which is kinda like football. There is a ball you can hold and your goal is to bring it to the opposing teams finishing line (touchdown zone or whatever it is called). You may also pass the ball to teammates or even enemies and lose it upon dying.


Multiple servers are just really there to handle the masses of players. Every server is the same (apart from being PvE or PvP, which only affects when you can attack opposing players), just with different players. Characters are currently bound to the server they are created on, You cannot play with people from another server unless you create a character on that server. Content wise there is no difference between the servers, if you don't have friends to join on a specific server, just choose one you like (preferably high population, PvP, PvE, however you fancy it).

On March 14 2012 02:14 Rah wrote:
I play a BM level operative and I did some streaming of my solo Qs this morning. Anyone interested in how the pvp plays out can check it out. http://www.twitch.tv/rahsun86/b/311548514

On March 14 2012 03:05 justinpal wrote:


Jesus operatives do so much damage.

On March 14 2012 07:19 Infernal_dream wrote:


Eh. I had an operative and honestly didn't find the damage output to be that satisfying. Sentinel on the other hand....

On March 14 2012 09:25 Executor1 wrote:
They dropped the NDA for the day 2 press conference at the guild summit. Lots of new info is available. One of the most interesting to me was a very challenging 16 man world boss on Voss, not only should that strengthen world pvp, it will also be a nice challenge for guilds ^^

Also they are changing the way gear drops work across all operations especially story mode. Ill post some links of the new info that got released, including a very very good interview on darth hater with georg zoller and also a decent one with James Ohlen (lol swtor esports)

Links:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03...ic-update-1-2/
http://www.darthhater.com/articles/s...-on-highlights
http://www.darthhater.com/articles/s...nt-impressions
http://www.darthhater.com/articles/s...-georg-zoeller

Podcast on the guild summit: http://www.darthhater.com/articles/podcast/19990-episode-115-guild-summit the NDA also got lifted for this podcast today

Also georg says that Melee dps in ops isnt as bad as it seems, and that sithwarrior.com theories arent always sounds, i think he goes out to say alot of them are "completely wrong" or something like that lol.

On March 14 2012 10:15 blade55555 wrote:


None of your links worked :/ except the really last one.