Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

I have found the SWTOR community to be fairly average tbh, although 50% of that is based on pvp which brings out the worst in people.

For me what makes an MMO interesting is having little activities to do each day that give some reward. Whilst there are a few single player games I love, once I've played them a few times I'm done, I can't go back and replay them anymore.

I don't know about large pvp battles but it's certainly possible for some developers to make balanced pvp. Not BWA though.

Yeah, the trouble is when a little bit of different things each day turns into doing a lot of the same thing each day, some of which you do not enjoy. SWTOR for a while was pretty neat for me, but those other games were way too boring in that respect. Which MMO has a more interesting pvp you think? I liked SWTOR objective-based very much. Huttball and capture the flag games the most. Did not like the arenas.

With the larger battles, the OW just feels messy and pointless. Even In BnS, where it was really important, and they had objectives to capture, once the gearing gap got large and people started gaming the system, it became utterlly unrewarding and felt like a waste of time because I stopped getting the moonstones.

As for community, in BnS folks were snappy and in a rush, and the only thing that they talked about in a game was gearing up and avatars features. In revelation it was just crude, but I did not do much there, I just disliked the game so much I left after a week.

Eh, well....

Yeah it's a shitshow over there on more than one level. I'm replaying all class stories (the only part worth it tbh) and recording them so I never have to go back. I enjoy healing flashpoints as well but not enough to put up with this crap. I haven't set foot in an HM FP whereas in 4.0 I used to do them regularly. Even in tacticals I feel the sting of not even having this level's basic starter gear. I used to take pride in healing well enough so the tac heal stations are never needed/used unless there's lag or something. Now I almost need them in some cases to keep us going. I refuse to get on their damn hamster wheel grind so I suppose this is the end of the line.

As for the forums, there's a reason I made this thread here. The doom and gloom over there I can deal with but the self-righteous entitlement of some people on there where if you aren't shelling out the money, smiling and loving everything BioWare throws at you, you must be the worst piece of shit in the universe. So you can imagine how much of a fuck up this RNG grind really is if no one's defending it.

PvP gear was like that actually when I started to PvP. The bolster was not a full bolster (but it changed to favor me literally as I was starting). The PvP sets took forever though. I still remember those names... Brutalizer and Dark Reaver (they were not the first sets, heh). I actually ground out that Dark Reaver set about two weeks before they have announced the relaxation of the acquisition rules, because they stats showed that only some ridiculously low % of the player base had the full tier 2 PvP set. It took me a few months, swapping my two mirror characters to max out the Daily Comms rewards... oh, and on my leveling character, OMG, I had to buy and sell those PvP weapons to not hit the cap of the comms they had back then, to trick the binding timer that bound the weapons in 2 hours of play time.

I thought it was a great change, when they removed the comm cap, and reduced the costs of the sets dramatically. So sad they reverted it, to create the sense of 'earning' again. What I hear though, it's just one set now & no Expertise, though you probably still customize the set in favor of burst over sustained... so still need to sets prob.

The balance was getting progressively worse as we were going from level 50 cap to 55 and then to 60, and 65. I blame the high level abilities for it. :)

Well, as I said, I am really glad I played tons & tons of it when I did, as I made good friends and had tons of fun :) The PvP folks were a fabulous crowd.

Errr, wish I could say “it isn’t”… But if we have to sum up Bioware’s behavior in the past couple of months:

“5.0 is coming. Uprisings are cool. Uprisings are new. Uprisings rock! You can play any way you want and earn CXP. Btw, Uprisings give CXP.”

“Ok, 5.0 launched. Uprisings are here! And we said you can do anything you want to earn CXP…but not that (nerf) and not that (nerf). P.S. Uprisings are awesome!!!”

"We heard your complaints about CXP. So we buff the CXP gains for Uprisings."

“5.0 is over a month old. FFS, get the memo and go play the ******* Uprisings, you little *****!”

They had a developer live stream today on Twitch and it was pretty decent. Lots of new stuff coming in April, including new story content actually. A few returning companions aswell. I'll probably just resub then, after i am tired of Mass Effect Andromeda.

I'm a ho hum for those two. One I can't abide, the other because my toon is one of the least played char.

New story. What story? General or class story? I'd prolly return for the story but I might as well let them accumulate more of them before I return. The rest interest me not at all.

Hmmm...

I am pleased about the returning comps, though the 2 listed were pretty far down on my want-back list. Story is always good. (Except when it isn't...ha)

I'd love to see them do some new events. We've had the same events with the same rewards for years. Come ON already.
Give me something totally mindless to waste my time on for pixel loots!! Really. I like fun events.

I noticed they partially restored the achievements for the DvL event, only the the main achievement for completing each tier though, not all the components you had to work hard for to complete each tier.

As you may expect I'm not thrilled by the latest announcement. If it turns out to be another SoR, then I'll eat my words and praise them. But I have zero concern about having to do that. It's clear that EA just isn't investing in the game any more. The only goal is to milk as much revenue out of it with as little investment as possible.

I'm gonna disagree with not investing in the game since their most recent announcement includes content for everyone. But, as I said, until I see it/play I'll only be cautiously optimisitic