Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

"Stronghold Directory : Zakuul" is definitive enough.

I guess I'm gonna grind for more Zakuul theme decorations and choose whichever SH that I need to dump. I never use Tatooine SH but the amount I spend to unlock it starts to come back at me.

Damnit ... they fixed my favorite exploit (Nar Shadaa Planetary Mission auto complete

here are the Patch notes:

patch notes 5.1.3

Yeah, they "fixed" it.

It still works though.

Dulfy's summary for 5.2 livestream

Unassembled Components and Legacy – Something we are interested in doing, haven’t decided if that is something we are doing. Most commonly requested feature.
Class changes – No class changes in 5.2. One of the class designers just had a kid but once he is back they will dive into that. He is not the only one working on the class changes.
Command XP after the event – Command XP boost will stay after 5.2 launches. Base XP will be lower but they are giving CXP back to enemies.
Spending tokens, unassembled pieces, and unassembled components – Changes coming to vendor. They are adding tier 1 gear from CXP crates to the vendors so you can buy with them with tokens (this is coming after 5.2). Vendors will show gear for your discipline by default but you can switch it to show all for alts etc.


Game Update 5.2 – War for Iokath
Everyone is on Iokath for the Superweapon and resources they need to continue the war with each other. You need to support either Republic or the Empire on Iokath.
Returning companions – Quinn and Elara. They will side with you depending on if you side with Empire/Republic. Sith Warriors may have another way to get Quinn back. There are still choices you can make that determines if you get them or not.
Season 8 PvP will go on a bit longer, no date on end date.
You just need to be level 70 to access Patch 5.2 content. Which means you must have been a subscriber in the past but don’t need to be a current subscriber.
New Daily Area
Opens up once you finish the story, which is not repeatable.
You can collect currency in the daily area and use them to command walkers, stationary turrets, Iokath monitor droids, and mouse droids.
Player vs Player – even though you make a choice in the story to support Empire/Republic, everyday you can log back in and pick a side to support for daily activities. This allow you to work on both the Empire and the Republic Iokath reputation tracks.
Unfortunately you cannot team up with players of the opposite faction that picked the same faction to support but they will be friendly to you.
When you kill players on Iokath, they will drop Iokath currency like the regular NPCs but you are not stealing their Iokath currency.
New Galaxy Map
Wanted to improve the experience of the Galaxy map. Old map was pretty but clunky.
You can access this galaxy from anywhere now via the UI, as long you got your ship. This allow you to quick travel from any planet to another planet via this new galaxy map.
imgur.com/a/7BLSy

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I used a referral link and currently a sub until next Wednesday. Glad that the cxp boost staying since its still grindy as fuck and the RNG is still terrible. I'm still missing Force-Master glove and lower body armor and after a couple of days of grinding cxp rank on four Sorc/Sage toons... I'm not even in the mood of grinding for the rest of DPS sets. Command token is useless and Operations/PVP route is even more useless with patchy server connections.

Glad to see that my Sith Warrior could side with Jace Malcolm and still get Quinn. 

Did you expect to play during the Holidays? "Get a life" - a Bioware sponsored message.

I am actually glad of the delay because I can focus more on Andromeda.

Yes, he moved onto other things at BioWare.  I just hope those things are not ME or DA. 

Let him at the new IP.  I do not care what happens with that.  

Likely not since what's done is done. But the new patch notes seems interesting particularly relates to gearing.

• As a player increases their Tier 1 Command Rank (1-89) they will gain higher drop rates of Prototype and Artifact quality gear, while their Premium drop rates will go down. This is to encourage the player getting more consistent set-bonus gear as they level.
• As a player increases their Tier 2 and 3 Command Rank (90-299) they will gain higher drop rates of Artifact and Legendary quality gear, while their Premium and Prototype drop rates will go down. This is to encourage the player getting more consistent set-bonus gear as they level.
• Command Rank 300 is now Tier 4 of Galactic Command. Tier 3 will now be Command Ranks 181 – 299. Any Command Crates earned at rank 300 will now contain Tier 4 gear.
• New Tier 4 vendors have been added to the fleet.
• All Operation bosses will now drop one Unassembled Gear Piece; the final boss will drop two. This number is doubled for 16-player Operations.
• Tier 1 Unassembled Gear Pieces no longer drop in Operations.
• Bosses will now drop the following Unassembled Gear Pieces in existing Operations:
  Tier 3 Legendary Unassembled Gear Pieces – Veteran Mode
  Tier 4 Prototype and Artifact Unassembled Gear Pieces – Master Mode (Non-final bosses)
  Tier 4 Legendary Unassembled Gear Pieces – Master Mode (Final bosses)
  
• Gods From the Machine bosses will drop:
  
  Tier 3 Legendary Unassembled Gear Pieces – Story Mode
  
  Tier 4 Legendary Unassembled Gear Pieces – Veteran Mode
  
  Tier 2 Unassembled Gear no longer has a Tier 1 gear requirement to purchase from the Unassembled Component vendor. 
  
• Gear vendors will now only show your Disciplines gear by default. If there isn’t Discipline-specific gear, all items will be shown.
  
• A dropdown menu has been added to gear vendors allowing you to switch to other Discipline’s gear, or to show all available items on that vendor.
  
• Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 25% Command XP boosts are no longer available for purchase. Existing boosts will remain in your inventory and can still be used.
  
• A new 25% Command XP boost has been added to the Command Token vendor, it works at all Command Ranks.
  
• Gear vendors will now only show your Disciplines gear by default. If there isn’t Discipline-specific gear, all items will be shown.
  
• A dropdown menu has been added to gear vendors allowing you to switch to other Discipline’s gear, or to show all available items on that vendor.
  
• Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 25% Command XP boosts are no longer available for purchase. Existing boosts will remain in your inventory and can still be used. 
  
• A new 25% Command XP boost has been added to the Command Token vendor, it works at all Command Ranks.
  
  
  
  
  

Welp back in the saddle for a bit. Replaying and recording agent story, so awesome. I will never not love Jo Wyatt's voice or the writing for that character.

It's not that grindy. I managed to get almost full T4 in ~9 days.

I saw a bit of the new story content. I'll wait till they have more before dropping back in.

'A bit' is all there is, really.  I was super disappointed in that aspect of things.  Blink and you miss it.  Also annoyed that once again Lana/Theron are the only ones we see and talk to of all the possible companions.  My warrior was happy to get her hubby back though, even if the reunion was extremely lackluster.   Still, it's better than nothing.  I feel like all of this is them trying to set up for something bigger (beyond the ops bosses).   

I have yet to do any of the dailies, because I'd much rather play MEA than do dailies of any kind, but I'm sure they'll still be there if I break down and decide to give them a shot.  At some point I might decide I want stuff from the vendors.