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So SWTOR is offering purple/black weapon crystals to all subscribers at the end of March, it seems. I would be really excited, if it wasn't for the fact that my characters already have weapon crystals that fit their style/personality. Oh well, maybe they will forget to make them bind on pickup and I'll be able to sell them to the F2P crowd...

I haven't played this game since 4th quarter 2013.

I had enough since the servers were ghost towns and recruiting people for raids was more difficult than any other MMO I have ever played.

Getting people on any VoIP program was like pulling teeth.

I had a 55 Merc, 53 Op, and a 50 Sorc.

Is the new expansion any good?

I would like to chime in and ask this: is the game worth playing if you don't have a subscription? My issue is that I have varying amounts of time available to play in a given month and a subscription would be a waste some months.

 Havok210 wrote:
I would like to chime in and ask this: is the game worth playing if you don't have a subscription? My issue is that I have varying amounts of time available to play in a given month and a subscription would be a waste some months.

I think it largely depends on how you play and how much you play.... at the very least you'll want to get "preferred status" so that you can wear basically all gear (pure f2p players cannot wear Artifact level gear). IIRC, some things like "flash points", space missions and the like are limited for f2p players, in that you're only allowed to do X amount per day/week.

 Havok210 wrote:
I would like to chime in and ask this: is the game worth playing if you don't have a subscription? My issue is that I have varying amounts of time available to play in a given month and a subscription would be a waste some months.

You can sub once then after your sub runs out you will have preferred status which allows you to use oranges and blue mods which is all you need to lvl.

You gain more exp when subbed as well, so to lvl up in the ranges for a given planet if your unsubbed you will likely be doing almost every single quest on that planet to lvl up unless you do a lot of warzones or flashpoints which you have a limit on how many you can do when your unsubbed.

You can also level via Galactic Starfighter (GSF), which is the space-based PVP game within SWTOR. Unlike regular Warzones, you are not limited to the number of these you can run in a day, but the amount of Requisition (points spent to upgrade and purchase ships) is not as high as it is for subscribers.

However, if all you want to do is level and make money? GSF is the way to go.

Semi-necroing, but since there was a thread already, didn't seem like another was needed.

New expansion pack announced for Star Wars: The Old Republic! "Knights of the Fallen Empire" is to be available to subscribers in October 2015.

Cinematic trailer!

www.swtor.com/Fallen-Empire

16 Chapters total, with the first 9 available at launch, according to reports. New Companion(s), new weapons and attire, a new player-driven faction (rumors abound on this), new planets, new locations, new enemies.

Is it okay if I necro a thread that I started?

Anyone still playing? I'm on Harbinger still, mostly Empire. Working on getting all 8 primary classes to 65 currently.

I'm tentatively still playing but on BC. Without new ops content though there's not much to do. The storyline was laughably easy. Like a movie that made me push buttons occasionally.

I started playing again recently; it does seem much easier than I remember. But I never finished the Agent storyline so I'll do that, and I'm checking out the Hutt Cartel, Revan, and new Fallen Empire expansion on my lightside Sith Juggernaut.

 Kojiro wrote:
Without new ops content though there's not much to do.

Have you finished all the HM and Nightmare versions? They are quite a bit different in their complexity; Story Mode versions of Ops are really easy.

 Kojiro wrote:
The storyline was laughably easy. Like a movie that made me push buttons occasionally.

Well it isn't designed to be hard, just interesting. If you want a challenge you have to do the above.

 Ahtman wrote:
Have you finished all the HM and Nightmare versions? They are quite a bit different in their complexity; Story Mode versions of Ops are really easy.

With the exception of HM Revan, yes. Which I'm still keen for but my team disbanded and finding competent replacements (to match my Australian timezone) is difficult. Also HM Revan is a pain in the ass. Our first pull we tried him without reading a guide or anything and discovered he instant kills the tank if you approach him from the wrong angle. Hilarious but short lived.

 Ahtman wrote:
Well it isn't designed to be hard, just interesting. If you want a challenge you have to do the above.

I've done the above. We used to do NiM DF/DP at level in under 2 hours. But that's the problem. If you started your new story in full 198 optimized gear (like I did) the story was so easy I'd prefer it just be a movie. Do you get my meaning? Useless retrieval quests and fights that require a single TK wave to end are just pointless. Yeah the 30 seconds of story is interesting but it's tarnished by the fact it takes me 5 minutes of travel and mechanical, non challenging fighting to get it.

Well if you have all that done then yeah, there isn't much left to do. I can understand as I have done most of the HM(s) but if it weren't for the friends playing I probably would have stopped from boredom.

We just lost an excellent player the other day. And another good one. One went back to WoW and the other just got bored. Every person we lose gets us closer to that tipping point of just walking away.

The way they're simplifying stuff annoys me as well. They need to go back to the Dread style of ops and yes, include Nightmare mode. When ToS came out we walked through it with only a few wipes. Ravagers was the same. It became such a joke to us we'd challenge ourselves when we didn't have enough people on.

One tank, one healer and four DPS. Smashing out ToS because we can. So when an expansion comes around and buffs us to stupid levels but adds no challenges? I get bored real fast.

Well I am just starting and enjoying the story so far. I want to do all the empire stories. However it is really easy.

We have just been grinding away at achievements lately, waiting for the rest of newest story to come out. Moved all my Republic and Empire onto one server to take advantage of joint stronghold access and legacy perks.

Anyone still playing? I'm getting back into it. Mainly just to PvP as Anni Marauder/Watchmen Sentinel. I have several other classes geared out in 204/208 PvP gear, but they don't hold my interest nearly as much. I still need to level my 26 Sniper up to complete the Agent quest line properly, but I'd rather wait for another 12x boost to do that...


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Currently have a 65 Marauder, Sentinel, Sorcerer, Powertech, Guardian, and I think every other class at 60, but I can't be buggered to play anything outside of my Marauder and occasionally the Guardian.

I am. With the raising of everything to 65 and making NiM content viable again we're now redoing the ops in order. Just got EC done in NiM. Missed the speed run by 12 minutes.

 Kojiro wrote:
I am. With the raising of everything to 65 and making NiM content viable again we're now redoing the ops in order. Just got EC done in NiM. Missed the speed run by 12 minutes.

What server do you play on? I get too much latency for most NiM. I've only done a few HMs I think. My gear and DPS are too mediocre. I think I was topping out 6300-6400 on my Marauder and Sentinel.

I'm on Beregen Colony, in the Paragons guild.

Is that 6,400 on the dummy or in a fight? Either way it's very respectable. Certainly beyond my ability, but I'm a healer/tank primarily.

Ah, I'm on Harbinger. I can't find a lot of my old logs but I think my high on a 1.5mil dummy was 6.5k and in a fight a low 6k. I've done something like 7.2k on a 500k dummy which was good for top 50 worldwide, but that's not an oft used metric. I'm sure I'd break 7k with min maxed gear, but I don't think I have a single 224 piece left.

Contemplating buying an EV and KP HM run once they're back on as priority targets, but that'll drain literally all of my credits to do so...


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I really, REALLY hate the fact that the only WZ that pops now is the newest one. I need some diversity in my life.

Harby is a whole other beast to BC. It's my understanding it's much easier to find runs there.

Are they selling runs over there? What's the cost for one of those? We six manned KP HM the other day to stress test a new prog member so we could probably do that sort of thing. I'm personally keen to break the 100 million mark.

Oh and I feel you with the new warzone. I loathe it. I so dearly wish I could just do 4v4 all day.

KP and EV SM go for 5 mil, HM for 10 mil, and priority would be 20 mil. Other ops vary more in pricing based on relative difficulty and the guild offering it. I have 3 full sets of tier that I all purchased from doing runs. I can't be fethed to grind out all that getting 0-1 item per run :-/.

You're kidding me? Our group regularly does those and just hands down 224s to whoever filled the gaps. We'll even farm NiM EC Drouks for the left side stuff.

That's crazy. We should go make some money!

Nope. I'm serious. Well, some guilds don't sell Priority Runs, but one in the past did.

I've purchased about 40 (maybe 50) of the latest 3 packs via credits and for the life of many can't get anything other than Gold Mounts. I want a damn Arbiter's lightsaber damn it...

If you were on BC I could help you out. My partner got lucky with a GTN sale and made a little over a billion credits. We've opened like 16 packs.

Whelp, I'm currently guildless and have at least one free xfer available...

Edit: Well, today I discovered that they finally updated the damage medals and I got one for breaking 1.5 mil. Wish I got a medal for 25 KBs though...