Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

legacy of the sith delayed to feb 15 2022.

what a mess.

but well, seeing the problems with the combat system and the PTS server... welp, kinda expected i suppose.

I feel bad for anybody who subbed recently expecting being able to play the expansion next week. But if past holiday releases prove anything they would have dropped a buggy mess on the players, then peaced out for the holidays lol

It's a bit scummy they announce it now, just a week before the 14th. The required delay was obvious from all the PTS testing and threads about major issues. But Bioware waited for the last possible moments, grabbing whatever new and renewed subscriptions they can get.

Never doing another Nathema Conspiracy FP with two or more first timers.

I just had a Merc and Mara healing the final boss all the time. Even after the beam mechanic was explained several times after each wipe. The Merc was ranged, so he kept at range. I had to literally chase him all over the place to keep in the green range. Then he died and we got the boss to 5%, but our Operative revived the Merc and boom, boss at 15% in seconds... I rage quit.

Anniversary sale info


From December 20, 2021 to January 3, 2022
Seasonal items will be available
75% off all Collection Unlocks

From December 20, 2021 to December 27, 2021
50% off all Armor Sets
50% off Character Slots

From December 27, 2021 to January 3, 2022
50% off all Mounts and Stronghold Decorations

The next controversial expac/patch releasing soon^tm

I've joked around with a buddy of mine that they are doing this on purpose. I'm convinced they want to move on to different projects after 10 years, but the CM keeps making too much money off whales so EA won't let them lol

That is what I am thinking as well especially after Microsoft saying there are 25 million people that are part of Gamepass.  EA might be seeing growth for the game by expanding it into the console market and have more revenue for the game that way.  I could see a lot of people trying out The Old Republic if the throw a few Cartel Coins each month to the people with an active Gamepass/EA Access account.

What is getting worse?

The last post is about removing things that won't work in 7.0. Renown is going away, the social meter is getting revamped into achievements and I know Thermonuclear Fusion is backed into the Arsenal skill tree, so most of those tacticals are probably also backed into the new trees and tus useless come 7.0. Tacticals are also sell for more than 100 credits right now...

Tacticals resell for ~6500 credits already, they won't be 100 credits next week. They just forgot to put the current price like for the boosters at 800/1000 credits. Also, that 100 credits is better than the 1 credit the stuff removed went for when 6.0 dropped. As for the 1m/3000 tech frag, most of the tacticals I have I obtained via loot/crate drops and cost me nothing...

Ah yes the pruning, characters lose access to 0 to 3 abilities, mostly because those are now role only (all the revive are healer role only now, all guard/taunt skills are tank only) and now it's the end of the world. Abilities were rebalanced, some got 6.0 passive built-in, others get the bonus from the (will be removed) tacticals or the tacticals was changed into a selectable passives in the skill tree. There are also entirely new passives to select for certain skills. There are just a few abilities you can't use at the same time because of how the skill tree works and those choices you can swap at any time out of combat (or at least you could on the PTS).

A new cinematic trailer will drop tomorrow.

The problem is more that most of the stuff meant for the expansion was pushed to 7.1. It's basically only the story and classes/origins changes now.

The new skills trees were not locked on the PTS. There was no cost to switch the choices either. 

Gearing is still "play as you want and get gear", even more than 6.0 for the real casual. No need to do GSF, join a large yield guild or farm Red Reaper to gear up in a timeline fashion. 4-5 characters all achieving Conquest in a week (with the upped 100k requirements) is enough to reach the none-raid gear cap on a character as tested by people on the PTS. The way it works reminds me a lot of FF14 when I played it 2 years ago, except casuals won't have to run dungeons/raids (FF14 force you to do dungeons for currency to upgrade your gear just to advance the story).

There is no mods for anyone until a few more patches are release. Apparently, too many players complained to BioWare about how hard it was to mod their gear at level cap or something like that. I think the real reason is more that it's one of the thing they decided to push to 7.1 before locking the features for 7.0, but now that most features for 7.0 have been pushed back to 7.1...

Tech Fragments are still Conquest rewards (including guild conquests) and they are used to buy tacticals and the legendary implants from what I understood.