Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

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I did know about droid - it was on every forum - but did not realize they changed the station. They did look kind of PvP style but I did not see the effect and decided they are simply off. Temple is good enough as a healer even at lvl 1 (at least my Balance JC was fine) and now that I know stations are working correctly, do not see why solo mod would be called difficult. 

Yeah, it is pretty convenient. Ended up running all the dailies on my main sent which netted a nice mil or so. Took my time, turned out pretty fun.

I would've thought (and hoped) healers would be more in demand (and thus get the role in need bonus) for FPs. But anytime I do see that pop up, it's always gone by the time I queue.

He doesn't want another pawn from the protagonist. He wants a more powerful base body.

But on the subject of pawns, of course he wants more pawns. The entire Eternal Empire and the Sith Empire were his pawns. Without pawns he has no empire to speak of.

However, it is the power of the new body that matters. He ultimately wants a more powerful body; an upgrade. Not a weaker one. There is a reason he chose Valkorian's body. Valkorian was stronger than all the rest. Valkorian's leadership skill are meaningless as Valkorian was hollowed out and destroyed.

The non-force users are useless to him. It would be like trading in a 50cal for a musket. Their force potential is nigh zero. Again, Their hypothetical "leadership" skills is irrelevant. Their minds are to be destroyed. He just cares about the body. And, yes, is it odd that they then depower the force-users so they need Tenebrae's power, but when you consider it's lazy writing/implementation and every class is pigeonholed into the same situations because they did not bother to make anything class specific it's cancelled out as an argument. The entire structure of the story is fundamentally messed up. which is why, outside of declaring it Elseworld and continuing on as if it never happened, there is no fixing this game's story. It is forever tarnish and can never recover as long as they include this as part of their SWTOR canon.

I'm willing to believe that, even though it was not their destinies to do so, any of the force using classes could have defeated him at the end of Chapter 3. On the merits of power alone they are all candidates, but only the Knight is immune to the mind control. The fact remains that he would not need to ask anyone else to kneel. The Knight is the only one that makes any sense. It's HIS destiny. It is a logical continuation of HIS story. You don't have to like it--I certainly don't--but that's how it is. I would prefer that all the heroes collectively (if you finished their classes stories) be the OutlanderS instead of it being one guy. The Scorpio parts I'd rather do with the agent, the Mandalorian parts with the BH, etc. When you meet Jorgan, for instance, he introduces you to the Trooper (if You're not playing the Trooper). And you collect the other heroes similarly along the way and have a choice as to who you play with. You can choose to just be your main or you can swap out heroes and play a different one depending on the chapter. That's how I would have done it.

Isn't this actually a BioWare game?  Curious about its placement here.

I've been subbed since the game released in 2011 except for a break I took briefly about a year after it came out.  Imo, it's worth it to sub because I play often enough that the preferred restriction irritate me to no end.  I do know people who are preferred and it doesn't seem to bother them.  I like the freedom subbing gives me.

Here is a link with some info that you might find helpful: link 

I play pretty often, so if you ever need any help don't hesitate to send me a tell.....if you are on Star Forge.  If not, you can msg me here

I subscribed once and it was not bad; I may subscribe again. Preferred status is many times better than Free-to-Play status; however, Subscriber status is many times better than Preferred status. The limitations of a Free-to-Play status will leave A LOT to be desired. Preferred gives one... some... breathing room, but one still feels the restrictions.

I do not know of every restriction, but off the top of my head, a Free-to-Play status means one credit currency cap is only 200 thousand; for Preferred it is 350 thousand credits. Subscribers do not have any sort of credit cap.

A Free-to-Play status means one cannot use most forms of communication in the in-game chat until around level 25 to 30. Even then, once one reaches it, they can only send a single message every one minute. I believe Preferred status allows one to use chat a little sooner, but do not quote me on that. As of this post, I am Preferred status, and the only time the minute restriction appears is on General chat. All others -- from what I can tell -- seem unrestricted.

I cannot recall the name of violet/purple colored/tier gear -- I believe it is called "artifact gear" -- but MOST of it I cannot use. Some pieces I can use and equip , but most are restricted.

Free-to-Play and Preferred can still fight in Warzone, but only five times a week. Uprisings and Operations are restricted to Subscribers only.

Free-to-Play status means one cannot gain any CXP. Preferred status also prevents one from gaining CXP, but if a Preferred already acquired some when they were subscribed, they can keep their level, they just cannot level up until they subscribe again.

I know Preferred status receives an Escrow. Once a Preferred status player reaches their credit cap, all extra funds go into their Escrow. They can pull credits out of it whenever they like, for a one-time bonus, but that cost Cartel Coins. I believe most Preferred players pull credits out of their Escrow for the GTN. That is what I think; what else would they be pulling funds out of their Escrow for?

Anyway, that is off the top of my head. There is a lot more, but I cannot recall the rest.

This is going off of my memory, but I think that there at least used to be some consumable items for the holidays in years past that let you "infect" people with those snowflakes for a time, much like how the Rakghoul infection works during that event. I can't remember if they were given for free to subs like those anniversary fireworks you get, or if they came in Cartel packs. But most likely you happened to be standing among a ton of other people, like at the GTN terminals on the fleet, and someone "got" the lot of you. You should probably see an icon down with the rest of your buffs indicating the snowflake effect, mouse over it to see how long you're "cursed" with it.

It's not lively enough to merit its own section and is not really a legacy game. SWTOR had a thread in Off-Topic on the old BSN as well.

When I made the topic I had people questioning why I made it. So it's a bit of an oddball.

It also has it's own forum which is still in existence.

aoibhealfae, you certainly know how to make the most out of being a Preferred status player, ha. I like it, and I agree with all of it. I did not know about the account-wide Artifact Authorization, though. Please tell me more.

Even their website is swtor.com. Don't know why there was such a need to change the thread title. To each their own.

Polls are always fun! I greatly prefer solo play, I guess that makes me a bad MMO player. Oh well.