Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

I think the reasoning behind it is: Renown really is the cherry on top and by far not the MAIN gearing road... and azarhal is correct - if you just play whatever you like you gain renown levels faster than the 160k would suggest.

I honestly think about re-speccing yet again to put the healing sets I am constantly getting to good use

and here are the patchnotes for the maintenance later today

I did more GSF last night and I got 296/298 armoring/mods from the crates despite being 276. Now I just need something to slot them in...I will have to picked a set soon I guess.

Looks like I'm going to do more GSF dailies from now on. If it popped faster, it would be the fastest way to grind conquest, tech fragments, gearing and renown. I also die less often now, still can't get more than 4 assits per matches though.

how often does GSF pop? and what server?

No. I might if I could afford them regularly.

I’ve been mostly leveling my dozen or so 70s to 75 so haven’t really played much beyond 75 on most characters. That said, when I reached 70 pre Onslaught, on any character, Command crates dropped like candy.

I did one GSF. Got nothing. Maybe the first one is meant as an intro?

All XP boost works with Renown (Guild XP, the XP boost consumable from planet questlines, legacy boost, etc).

FP bosses and PvP crates have a chance to drop Renown points consumables (I haven't seen them elsewhere, they are auto-consumed).

what really royally sucks though - and there is nothing about it in the notes:

reputation tokens are auto-consumed as well - so you kind of have to stop doing stuff when you reach the weekly cap and cannot hord them for the next week and when you already have a max rep you cannot even sell those any longer

I hadn’t thought of that, but yeah that sucks.

lol, I tried RR Veteran on my Shadow and I totally didn't remember how that boss worked (it's been aged since I did RR) and I died there and decided to leave the FP.

that's the thing though: for me on Veteran the red and blue beams ALWAYS STAY AT 3/3 ... I don't have to worry about those at all ... does that mean, the imps have an unfair advantage?! or is this my own personal pity bug?

The only not shared flashpoints are the low level story ones:
- Esseles vs Black Talon
- Taral V/Maelstrom Prison vs Boarding Party/The Foundry

The rest are all shared (with some dialogue differences). They are all scaled to level 70, so you should be fine in 230/250 gear as level 75 get downscaled anyway. Veteran requires at least a level 20+ healer companion though.

The complexity is more on the boss mechanics and Collicoid Wargame can't be soloed because of switches. You can access them in an area of the fleet via the elevator that leads to fleet taxi, one of the floor is for those old FPs, I think it's the second entry in the menu. 

Note that the story FPs also grant level 75 gear and Maelstrom Prison/The Foundry can be done in like 20 minutes with a stealth character.

It was at 3/3, I believed I had to change them and make them all the same color! I totally forgot how that boss worked actually and couldn't be bothered to retry it after dying.