Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

Thanks again. . Are the kits for adding augments? I’ll look them up for sure when I’m on next.

Good to know! I also need to run missions for mats. I don’t have much tier 10 I think. And while the materials tab is useful in many ways, it doesn’t make it easy to see at a glance what tier everything is.

Use the crew skill panel to see how much you have a something. It display the require amount and your total (inventory/material tab combined) for everything you can craft.

Right, so hop in my artifice, pretend to craft something, make notes of the names and numbers. Hop on my armour mechanic, same deal, then arms, then cyber, then into the toon with all the money to buy stuff I need for each. Right. Piece of cake.

Anyway, thanks for the advice! When I play next I’ll look into all this.

Buying stuff is ok for a start (unless it's too expensive), but you should also look into creating your own supply of materials with gathering crew skill missions from alts. Will be much cheaper at the end and will level up your companions Influence too.

Adding to this, each crafting discipline require white components that are sold only at the crew skill vendors (they can't be harvested), but there is at least one related crew skills that have a mission per tier that return that tier white components and that mission is usually cheaper than buying them from the crew skill vendor overall (forget the GTN for them, they are way overpriced there).

For example, Bioanalysis has those missions for Biochem. So if you need "first aid kits", find that mission (it's level 2 I think) and run it until you got enough.

Yup, but I would add that the Grade 11 white mats are not available on the vendor yet. It's why they sell really well on the GTN and why I recommended earlier to run that Grade 11 mission all the time even if you are not a crafter, but want a fast and sure way to make some credits.

Oh, dear, I just figured out why I can't learn any purple schematic from deconstructing...learn chance is 5%...Five F percent... Which almost always involves deconstructing an item that you spent hundreds of mats on, including the rare Conquest mats. Fun fact - a single blue augment costs 5 of those and you get 4 out of a single toon per week on reaching Conquest goal... Not much of an issue for me, it takes about 3 FP runs to get to 50k points on a toon, but still feels ludicrous for a SINGLE blue augment...and that is before we get to the impossible purple requirements.

You know what, I am sticking to blue stuff. If Bioware intended to thin out hoarded mats and credits, they failed spectacularly. Most people will stick to blue. The rare few that get lucky on purple proc will make back their investments with HUGE interest. I already see purple augments selling for as low as 40 million per piece. Did Ops and Ranked just become the rich only playground?

I am tempted to go for purple procs, but I don't do Ops or Ranked, so it will be just for the GTN money. And I already got more than I would ever spend in this game.

TLDR: Crafting is a doodoo in 6.0.

I think I discovered where my mysterious tech fragments are coming from: you get 100 of them each time you reach a Renown level (I validated it even).

Also, level 71 to 74 can get the gear you had to buy on Ossus with crystals from Flashpoint. I sold the pieces I got for a few millions on the GTN, not sure how long that's going to last though, going level 71 to 75 is pretty fast, that gear is worthless outside cosmetic now.

Oh and I can confirm that level 71+ gear can make you worst because of the scaling system. I have a ilvl 230 lightsaber and I when I found a ilvl 276 one and tried it, I lost a lots of damage...so I'm keeping the old lightsaber for now.

sooo, now I got an Imp (my beloved Sith Assassin) and Rep toon through Onslaught and have a couple of impressions

Story: I liked the story overall - though way too short but I loved the choices (especially in the end)

Difficulty-Bump:
With my SI I didn't notice too much of a difference in difficulty... somtimes my health decreased a little more but otherwise it felt like always.
With my sage on the other hand it felt like I couldn't heal anymore anything or anyone re-spec'ed her (wanted to anyway, tired of healing) and damage output seemed horrible as well (when I had Shae on Damage as well, we both had problems... finally put her on heal and it was ok) - but alas maybe I just suck with my sage

Vertical Gearing:
If I really just play what I want and like the most (which is conquest, planetary Dailies/Weekly/Heroics, Events and story ofc) the vertical progression won't be as fast as everyone is complaining talking about for me ... ok, so far, I just finished Onslaught twice, did the Onderon Weekly 1x and one MekSha heroic and the Cantina-decoration-unlocking-datapad-quests and treasure hunted lots of lockboxes and so far I am iRating 275/276 on the above mentioned toons LOL

Horizontal Gearing: NO COMMENT but I believe that is where the grind fun truly starts

Gearing in general:
Overall the best thing about it is the everything is Bond to Legacy now which makes it so much easier to move stuff around.
The thing I really don't like though is that you should only start to work on your stats/BiS when you reached iRating 306 - which for me will take a (longer) while so I kind of have to run around with horrible stats that make me cringe everytime I look at them I want my 110% accuracy back, and viable crit & alacrity figures
But as I don't do OPs or PVP and I loathe grouping for Flashpoints (yeah I know "it is a mmo!!!!" but the majority of my FP experiences are quite bad: either totally incompetent teams and I am not strong/good enough to carry those or strong toxicity) so pugging FPs really is out of the question for me and my guild is more into master mode FPs - which I am just not good enough for.
But I guess I'll still just stick to the things that are fun for me and try to not look too closely at my miserable stats

Crafting: Oh dear ... leveled a couple of skills to 700, crafted the new dye even (love the colors), send lots of companions treasure hunting lockboxes but other than that it is truly broken right now... and I cannot grasp that some players are already completely augmented in the purple new augments... even the new blue ones sell for several millions