Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

Well....pretty much never left SWTOR after I joined it...in a way it is the best mmo I joined even if it is also the first one I joined.

The characters I created made their journey in the game and evolved during it which made me want to keep them alive. (while typing this makes me want to reconsider what I wrote but then yeah, what the heck, that is the truth) Just check it out and play the storylines to find out what I blabbered about

Getting into it, I'll say yes.

Saying that, the next expansion 7.0 (due at the end of the year) will make big changes to the class gameplay (pruning abilities, allowing you to play any force using classes across the Sith/Jedi storylines and all tech classes for the Smuggler/Trooper/Agent/Bounty Hunter storyline) and I believe a UI revamp as well. So depending when you start, you might end up in the middle of a big changes.

As for what is free, everything up to KoTFE (excluded). So that's all 8 class stories (takes about 20-30 hours each to do), the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expac (different storyline on Imp/Pub sides, about 10 hours total, i.e. 5 hours each side), plus everything leading and including Shadow of Revan expac (about 10 hours I think). 

Note that subbing for one month gives you access to all available content even once you return to preferred status. In other word, subbing one month once 7.0 is released will give you access to everything in the game from 0 to 7.x.

7.0 is bringing in Legendary Items to replace sets and they can be obtained at lower levels and be upgraded. The write up sound great for a casual player like me. The current set acquisition is a bit daunting unless the set is acquired from conquest boxes to me.

On other news 7.0 will bring:
- Shared tagging aka open tapping (about time!!!!)
- Weapons in the outfit designer (about time!!!!)
- the rest is some economy/balance stuff...

With the level increase and big class shuffle it was either that or grind 6 new pieces.

As for the weapon's sound, I know. I wish more MMOs had LoTRO feature to mute specific sound effects.

More itemization blog by BioWare for 7.0. It basically read like a wayback machine page...10th anniversary indeed.

Renown is being removed from the game. Bye, bye secondary leveling.

Lots of solo players complaining they won't be able to get top BIS operation gears not playing operation is expected after 6.0 easy-mode. But 6.0 is the only time I had a character at max iRating. The only issue here is that the downleveling in 6.0 is terrible. So hopefully 7.0 isn't that bad (reading posts it was changed thought). The only bad choice I can see if that the only customizable gear is at 334. I don't really see the point about that, probably some people complained about mods in 6.0 or something...

And another post on the forum about removed stuff:
- Renown booster will become useless (you'll be able to sell them once 7.0 release, this has happened before, they will be worth 1 credits so use them...).
- Social reward system is being changed (they haven't touched that since launched), now tied to the group activity finders
- Dark vs Light system is being removed (the thing I keep complaining about, yes). Character alignment remains and will brought back to how it worked pre-4.0 from the looks of it.
- some Legacy unlocks are now 1 cartel coin because they are being removed, so don't unlock. 

I get the feeling 7.0 will be super mitigated in responses with all the gameplay changes. A lots of 5.0 and 6.0 changes are being stripped from the game...but people are clearly not happy, despite people not liking how 5.0/6.0 were doing things. 

I actually haven't played in a while and only checked the class changes of 7.0. It looks like a lot of other things are being changed and will have to get used to again. Especially gearing. I actually like the current gearing, but well, no more I guess. I will have to do a read up before the expansion launches.

Makes me want to play the game again!

They will loose many players with the Release of 7.0 and will not gain enough new player to compensate the loss.

Even 5.0 had not such a negativ feedback like 7.0 has at the moment.

So I made a comment last week in the "What did you do today in..." thread that there was a lot more newbies in-game and that server performance has dropped a bit. Tonight on Alderaan, someone mentioned in chat that there was an 21% increase in population...and going by the same chat, many New World refugee.

I just have no idea why people who were into New World moved to SWTOR afterward. It's like cucumbers and apples.

Clarification post about 7.0 Itemization.

As a note, two people did try the new gearing system on the PTS over the weekend in term of Solo only player. One of the testers got a character to 306 in 4-5 hours via 4-5 alts of just doing solo Conquest stuff. The other spent less time on it per day (~30 minutes) only doing one or two Character per day for the conquest, he had a fully geared character after 4 days...

And now we also know why Conquest went from 50k to 100k point requirement...