Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

A new release wouldn't exist without known issues.

Must be the shortest expansion with the least content this game ever received. Took just about 3 years... Don't know why I expected more... But it does have separate Imp/Rep sections, so at least it's not "one story fits all" anymore. Overall I am disappointed. No reason to get back to regularly playing endgame. Which sucks, because I love the game, but in the past few years I just do story runs.

I always found Nautolan creepy looking personally. Never understood why people like that race so much in the EU.

I haven't started Onslaught yet (I'm not in a MMO mood right now), but I stashed all my crafting materials in the new pane last night. Now I got more free space for cosmetic gear in my legacy cargo. Woot!

I was surprised by the amount of new UI too.

I never had to find a specific material by tier before so that doesn't appear to be an issue for me.

I do two things with mats in SWTOR:
- stash for crafting and with the crafting dialogue autopicking materials from storage and telling me how much I have left, I rarely interact with the stashed materials outside adding more to the stash.
- gather to sell, in this case the material stays in the character's inventory until moved to the GN.

Saying that, I do find the crafting pane a bit barebone, but going by character/outfit pane redesign, item popup,  the new icon border that tells you which mod slots are filled or not...they might have run out of time to do something more elaborate.

With all the changes, I kinda feel like I should start a new character...again.

I’m the same way. My only agent is a sabateur. I have no other imp characters even in SOR yet.

I started a new JK last night. Lots of people starting new Jedi, I guess I'm not the only one who can't get back into their old characters (even if they are less than a year old).

They changed some of the cooldown notifier animations, I'm not sure I like them.
Gold sellers are going to gain in popularity with the change to item value and item cost.

Tython is still good old Tython...with more gold sellers spam.   I also find Tython JK super boring or I just played through it too many times.

Finally, I had to disable chat. Too many spoilers and people trolling.

With a lot more cyberparts and totally different personalities.

I admit I'd love to have that eye...



...for my own cyborg characters!

Something happen to tanks? My companions are always on heal.

Ohh, yikes, well hopefully they fix that before I have to do it again. I have a bunch of characters in KOT**

Gold Spammers never really went away, but it's been ages since I've seen them spam general chat like that.

Jawa vendors are in the Bazaar section of the fleet, unless they moved them this update.

You are losing stats at level 75 because of the level sync (the game is all mostly level capped at 70 still). It's easier if you have trash gear and are under level 70, harder if you are level 70+ with no maxed gear. And from my Dantoine experience, this was how the algo worked before 6.0 as my level 70 Vengeance Juggy in 238 gear had an hard time on Dantoine, while my upscaled level 20ish defense Guardian in trash gear was killing stuff faster. Also, they reduced planet level cap, Tython used to max you at 12, now it max you at 10. Someone noted the changes on the PTS from Live before 6.0 released.

There seems to be a bunch of bugs associated with gear drop right now. There is a few in the known issues list and from the looks of it, probably more exist. But someone found out that treasure hunting crates return level 276 gear at level 75 regardless of your current gear. It's so getting patched .

I haven't tried gearing any character yet, didn't touch my Onslaught ready chars, but outside the exorbitant crafting cost, too many ilevels (or too fast leveling up to 75) and them thinking the whole system should only work at 100% for level 75, I like the concept over galactic command personally. I have even seen someone say it take about 2 days to gear one character and a week for casual. I can't say if that's accurate or not, but this suggest those estimates are probably correct....as the fastest method takes about 4 hours apparently.

Personally, I got confused at some point last night on my newbie (well teenager now, new JK is level 17). I had an icon saying "alpha strike" and I had no idea what that was. Turns out, low level gear can have amplifiers and alpha strike was a +1% damage increase. Kinda cool and totally pointless at the same time.

Looks like the Walker issue is going to be patched next week too.

Spamming Red Reaper with all stealthers can take as low as 4 hours according to the Reddit post I linked. Doing it using Hammer Stations takes 15-20 hours according to the same post.

Boring to do, but for anyone with no life that needs to be top ilvl in less than a week to continue doing the same stuff they did before in lower ilvl, the option is there.

I haven't seen a 6.0 minmaxing guide yet and going by the size of the community, I expect guides to take weeks if not months to be released. I'm not sure why anyone would try to minmax before the expac is even a week old.

I have always been amazed by the SWTOR communities going apeshit over how long it takes them to get BIS gear though. When CG released hardcore players complained it was taking more than the week it used to take them to gear up...now those hardcore players are complaining that a few days is too much. At this point, I have to conclude that they just want bis gear the moment they ding max level so they can complain they have nothing left to do in the game faster...

The current system is technically alt friendly with "everything" being bind to legacy no? Also, isn't it technically as solo friendly as it was before? (which means not much, lol, the moment I looked at Ossus crystals requirements and how to get them I went with "won't bother").

They really screwed the pooch with crafting though, someone on the officially forum suggested it was "by design" and I agree. My guess is that the game have insanely rich players BioWare is targeting at the expanse of everyone else or they just want more data about item drops and are funneling players toward content that drops items. Maybe both.

I expect a lots of "grievances" to be attended in the next few months and I consider the expac a good base to start with though. Saying that, I think one of the biggest problem with the game is that the most fun content, class/planet stories, can't be replayed outside of restarting a char and KOTXX. If there was some sort of new game+, the gameplay loop would be a lot more fun.

edit: People on the official forum are unsubbing because killing bosses on starter planets now takes 10 seconds instead of 5 seconds (effect of the level sync cap change)...