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  1. Can already see that there is a massive influx of funding for the game to create this expansion

     

    No you can't. You can assume funding has increased but there's no proof to it. Furthermore, we are yet to see them deliver this expansion (on time) and deliver enough content to warrant your assumption about funding.

     

    New class stories are confirmed in expansion

     

    Confirmed where? If you are referring to this:

    YOUR PERSONAL SAGA

    Play one of eight class stories enhanced to offer a deeper, more accessible experience purely focused on immersing you in a personal Star Wars story.

    This sentence refers to enhancing the existing class stories, not creation of new class story content: http://www.swtor.com/info/news/press-release/20150615

     

    In addition, with the launch of Knights of the Fallen Empire the original eight class stories from Star Wars: The Old Republic will be enhanced to deliver a more immersive and engaging single-player story arc for players old and new.

     

    This is one thing that evolved I think. Newgame+ will be the auto level 60 option compared to actually leveling your own character 1-60. It's likely there will be benefits to doing it naturally. Major tweaks to the leveling system include 12x XP that we are seeing now, taxis unlocking automatically and quick travel time reductions.

     

    This one could be true but we have yet to see what this "class story enhancement" will be about.

     

    Confirmed for 3.3 as long as the system doesn't explode during testing.

     

    Togruta confirmed yes, "some other ugly thing" is not. Reddit leak wrote "species" as in plural, that's yet to happen.

     

    Korriban and Tython both received FPs created as the intro to SoR.

     

    Yep, but not for the reason stated by Redditleak. Korriban and Tython were raided for Rakata tech to Revans Infinite army. Unless something new shows up out of the blue, Vitiate didn't gain much if anything from Korriban and Tython during these FPs.

     

    Basic premise of the expansion.

     

    Pieces that are alluded to in various places, or seem likely based on the direction of the game:

     

    Most of that remains to be seen. So far there's no talk about 'rebuilding the galaxy' yet and considering another Empire has stepped in we can't say for sure if the galaxy is lawless. Empire + Republic have crumbled though.

     

    In the interview with Bruce, they talk about the launch timing being around the movie release. Linking the expansion with the movie benefits both and bringing the game into canon at that point would make sense as well as attempting to introduce a new planet.

     

    It might make sense for you, but that doesn't add up with what was written in the Redditleak: " It will be upgraded to canon in the next expansion". That next expansion was Shadow of Revan. Shadow of Revan has been out for 6 months and there's no sign of SWTOR becoming canon.

     

    With the Republic and Empire seeming to disappear with the expansion, it makes way for cross faction to become likely as there is no faction.

     

    Perhaps, but the coming expansion is lvl 60-65. The lvl 60 content we got with SoR has absolutely zero cross-faction queueing, and Redditleak specifically states lvl 60 content.

     

    Yavin and Rishi are already similar to this with everyone questing together rather than by faction. It would make sense to fully link them so you can group cross faction to complete a mission or heroic.

     

    It might make sense but it's not in the game yet.

     

    Everything else in the article is still possible, this is just what I took out of it that seemed to have already happened or seems likely based on what we know now.

     

    Possible is not really the point, most of the "leaked" stuff should have been here by now. This "leak" has so many flaws in the foundation that most of it won't come to fruition, the main one being Class Stories. Apart from a few conversations here and there + 1 class mission, the latest content is 99% the same for all classes on both factions and there's no sign of that changing anytime soon.

  2. OP is right on some of it. Within the last 1-2 hours the price on Master's Shadow Pack and Crime Lord Cartel Pack Hypercrates has gone up from 5400 coins to 6480.

     

    This however is not to scam you. This is because the items and prices on Cartel Market changes weekly on Tuesdays a few hours after daily reset (or few hours after patch/maintenance). You're just unlucky you didn't buy the hypercrate before the sale ran out.

     

    Previous week: http://dulfy.net/2015/06/09/swtor-cm-weekly-sales-june-9-16/ (notice the sale on Crime Lord pack)

     

    Current week: http://dulfy.net/2015/06/16/swtor-cm-weekly-sales-june-16-23/

     

    Sales each week: http://dulfy.net/category/swtor/weekly-cm-sales/

  3. I hope

    "Repurposing it for the alliance content?" What does that mean? Will I still be able to play the level 25 Tatooine planetary arcs and side-quests, or level 40 Hoth ones, like it is today? Because I've never experienced any of those yet. And...I want to play them. I don't think of them as grinding, either. Nor do I think of them as 'MMO bits'. They're story content.

     

    I'd expect something like this, however, considering this part of the press release:

     

    Plus, end-game experiences in Star Wars: The Old Republic will be advanced, giving players the option to join with friends in a variety of multiplayer missions upgraded to Level 60+.

     

    the repurposing might be limited to Heroic Missions?

  4. Well, that has been the issue with Scourge since day one. The game treats him like Knight, not Warrior in regard of how armor look on him. But this one looks pretty "warriory" than most available to Republic outside of CM.

     

    Yeah that's true, and for a companion I'm rarely that bothered about their outfit. My own Scourge is sporting a Dark Red + Black Reaver armor set with some left-over strength pieces in them.

     

    You can still make something decent for him with Reaver, Enhanced Assailant, Fearsome Harbinger, Intimidator, Stalker, Eidolon and/or some Revanite pieces if you wish to, but I guess for most it's not worth the effort when 192 gear is so easily available.

  5. Really? He looks pretty cool in that - http://tor-fashion.com/devoted-allies-pummeler-pub/

     

    The armor itself looks fine but I really don't see it as Sith armor.

    I'd prefer the armor look he comes with when you get him over the Devoted Allies stuff, or even just the Empire side version of the Devoted Allies Strength armor: http://tor-fashion.com/devoted-allies-pummeler-imp/

     

    Daaaan. You look like one serious bad news bear. Love it. :p You are now my trooper hero.

     

    And with the new appearance editor you never have to give up that fashionably lethal look. Sweetness x2.

     

    Thanks :p It's more fun to play an elite Trooper when you also look the part :p

  6. Weekly mission on Yavin has been giving out companion gear lockboxes for some time now. Pretty useful and stylish to boot

     

    At least some of them are :p I'm not a big fan of the companion Strength armor when used on Lord Scourge.

  7. AFAIK purple crystals are solely for lvl 50 unless you make due with an almost-purple crystal. I'd recommend the Purple Outline Crystal or Derelict Purple, it's IMO as close as you'll get to the normal purple:

     

    http://dulfy.net/2012/05/07/endgame-color-crystals-post-1-2-and-how-to-obtain-them/

     

    Outline:

    http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/swtor-purple-outline-color-crystal-bloom.jpg

     

    Derelict:

    http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/swtor-derelict-purple-color-crystal-bloom.jpg

     

    Normal, lvl 50:

    http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/swtor-purple-color-crystal-bloom.jpg

  8. The screenshots, if they are accurate to actual in game footage make the graphics very different indeed from the current, more cartoony style.

     

    The screenshots are from a new CGI trailer, just like these ones from before launch:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMQ51v6Nafo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDuYZ0-NUHw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unfgV-35fPs

  9. If someone subscribes using your link and you get the reward for it, you keep it permanently, correct? Even if they eventually unsubscribe?

     

    Well, you get 100CC every time they get their Complimentary Coins from subscription so if they stop subscribing you stop getting 100CCs per month from them.

  10. As a set overall I like the look, but I prefer your original color scheme. The White+black still gives me flashbacks of the original GW where those two dyes were obnoxiously expensive so that's all anyone wore.

     

    Hmm yeah, those dye modules were a tad too popular :p

     

    I just wanted to get some more consistency on the Secondary dye which the Primary Red IMO doesn't give. With primary red the shoulders+hood are grey'ish while gloves, legs and boots are a tad brown (it's hard to see on the screenshot though).

    I have updated the Alternate Dye picture so it shows a couple dye setups and a new Belt, I really like the Deep Red + Black dye: http://imgur.com/a/0Z47W#5

  11. The black cloaks are also one of the things (I think) is an indicator, since the Jedi don't use them, the Sith do.

     

    Well, Jedis do use rather dark brown cloaks and the sandstorm & (lack of) lighting is making everything look less colourful than in the broad daylight we saw in the previous trailers.

     

    To me, the biggest indicator are the two orange lights on the gauntlets: http://i.imgur.com/dtw1yXd.png , as the Eradicator gauntlets don't have those and the Valiant Jedi gauntlets do.

  12. Looking at the two pictures side by side, the first (with the kneeling Sith). You can see the field littered with Republic commando corpses, one dead sith, and the kneeling (possibly about to be executed) sith. They are identified as sith because of their armor (look at previous CGI and videos) and the kneeling sith's lightsaber is just finishing deactivating (red glow on the ends).

     

    The armor is definitely not Sith, at least not the gloves/gauntlets: http://i.imgur.com/dtw1yXd.png

  13. I'm hyped and I don't want to be. Hype just leads to disappointment, in most cases. However I'd not be disappointed, if;

     

    - More companions + old companions (they stand on your ship like melons, offering nothing after you reach the affection cap, I'd like more conversations, etc.)

    - More class specific missions (having a load of alts and doing the same thing over and over on 10+ characters, can be pretty boring.)

    - Longer content (no more five levels, give us a full ten levels with a level cap of seventy.)

     

    That's pretty much it. That would make me more than happy and I'd totally pay for that. The game itself has been improving slowly and an epic expansion would blow my mind. Fingers crossed.

     

    I'm not a fan of level cap increases, especially not this early after an expansion. Additionally, previous lvlcap dailies/FPs/Ops lose whatever challenge they had and with the "doubling down on story content" I doubt we'll see much endgame content in the forseeable future.

  14. I'm pretty sure I can continue to ignore them. Let me check.

     

    Yup!

     

    Well, you clearly couldn't ignore this thread.

     

    That explains why I see ...... sits down.

     

    bows to ######.

     

    shows their moves.

     

    and so forth. I saw a few lines of emotes but didnt see who they belonged to. Someone I had ignored.

     

    AFAIK that happens whenever the one using /emote is stealthed from you. Not completely sure though.

  15. Someone /greets and you're forced to read and mentally acknowledge the name? :confused: I'm not saying spam is not annoying, but it's not like we can't just ignore it and /ignore it.

     

    These emotes show up so often that if you're reading or engaging in a discussion on the fleet, those emote spams will easily be 1/3 of what's going on there. Even if you don't acknowledge the name, it's still annoying.

    Furthermore, /ignore does not mute emotes.

     

    Haven't seen this, so you are telling me unchecking emotes from the chat won't hide this?

     

    It will, along with all the emotes you might want to see.

  16. The problem here is that there's already an ad-hoc system for turning real money into credits, which is buying stuff on Cartel Market and selling it on GTN. With this new Token the RLMoney->Credits players will just buy Tokens instead of Hypercrates/etc, and people who used to pay for sub will stop paying for sub and instead buy tokens.

    That just means their sub earnings will fall even more while Cartel Market income will be about the same or perhaps a small increase.

     

    A direct in-game-credits to Sub would be even worse as it would give another massive incentive to buy credits from goldfarmers unless the in-game-credits token price is extremely high. On the other hand an extremely high price will mean a product almost noone will buy anyway regards of goldfarmers or not, making the product pretty much irrelevant and a waste of developer time.

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