[Happy birthday SWTOR and merry christmas!]

Its been a wonderful year...wasn't around for all of it but good nonetheless.

 

Happy Birthday SW:TOR and Happy Holidays All

[Revan novel question]

The book will jump ahead in time eventually to after kotor 2

[What did you name your ship?]

Sith Warrior - The Right Hand of Doom

 

Trooper - Spartan 4 (I actually had my ship blow up 4 times in space missions)

 

Consular - The Loreseeker

 

Smuggler on PTS - La Vida Loca

 

Agent - The Twilight's Silence

[What Planets are you expecting in the future and why?]

Manaan - Strong KOTOR links and Kolto connection.

 

Telos - Strong KOTOR links, Jedi/Sith holocron den (unless they've moved them since then)

 

Dantooine - Old Jedi links. Possibly the force ghosts of the old Jedi Council.

 

It'd also be nice to see Vjun, Onderon and Dxun. I really hope they don't include Endor.

 

That's pretty much my list. Manaan due to wanting to see how it all turned out there.

 

Dantooine - So much potential to explore more of it, find the jedi ruins, maybe even visit another archaeological site containing more Infinite Empire tech, The Crystal Caves.

 

Telos - Just be nice to see how things turned out.

 

Would also love to see more crystal caves in the game. Similar to to Deepholm like in WoW

[Rakghoul Event Feedback - What was good, What was bad]

Overall I really enjoyed the event I disliked the following:

 

1) Flagging for pvp - I understand Bioware's reasoning but until they implement functionality where a 50 can't atack a 30 even pvp flagged pvp just won't be that enjoyable (I pay on a pve server).

 

2) I really hated the randomness of the companion customization box from the jawa vendor. Yes this is due to not getting one for my main character (one for all my alts), but it seems like I could get 5 Andronikos Revel in a row and no Malavai. Quite infuriating...either the random code generator needs to be reviewed or remove the bound to legacy in the future.

 

3) The guided tour of tatooine - admittedly not a problem with my mount, but still...for those lowbies saving for a mount of tatooine ouch

 

4) No scaled world bosses - I know there is trapjaw but would have been nice to be able to summon the others and have them be level 30 ish or so and not one level 30 and 2 50s.

 

Overall though, good event.

[Epic event win... finally! (pant pant pant)]

Ends the 24th. Yesterday was your last day to start and still be able to get all pieces. (There are boots, legs, gloves, helmet, chest, and belt; the chest/belt are together on an either/or choice for turning, hence the extra day required to get both).

 

As for high res screenshots... yeah, yeah, yeah, when I get time AND remember that (whaddawant, it was late, I was tired!)

 

I'm a bit confused here. What's preventing someone from starting on Saturday and getting all the armour pieces if they were so inclined? I haven't seen anything to suggest its limited event at dulfy

[Looking for a good server to roll a Trooper.]

 

These guys seem to be pretty good check out their server.

[Orange moddable gear - has its own stats?]

Yes. Replacing barrel or hilt of a weapon gives you the direct stat bonuses on said barrel/hilt, increases the dmg range of the weapon and increases force/tech power on it. Similarly replacing armor mod on armoring gives you the direct stats on the armor mod and increases the armor value of the item.

 

Thank You! I owe my SO a pepsi

[Orange moddable gear - has its own stats?]

The tech power, or force power for force weapons, is based on the hilt/barrel of the weapon. Orange items don't have stats of their own, with the exception of armor type (light/medium/heavy) being a multiplier on armor value.

 

Orange items don't have stats of their own...that's what confuses me cause I do see orange guns, lightsbaers, armour, whatever with tech power, or force power on it.

 

Seems like if it is based on the barrel or the armour though it will go up when the base barrel, hilt, armour, or whatever is replaced?

[Aric Jorgan low dps]

You're trooper isn't doing 1000 DPS. There's a bug where ranged characters are showing their DPS to be about 10 times what actually is and it hasn't been fixed yet.

 

So if your DPS divided by 10 is in the same ballpark as Aric's DPS, then he's doing fine.

 

ok that makes sense to me. Otherwise I was gonna kick Jorgan out of my squad.

[Orange moddable gear - has its own stats?]

Hello,

 

Trying to wrap my head around this one. Basically I took out my first lightsaber from Korriban that I had stored in the bank and I put a couple of new mods in it. The damage and level requirement went up exceptionally. I expected that but what I'm trying to understand is this:

 

Let's say I have an orange moddable gun with +250 tech power. None of the mods, hilt, crystals say anything about impacting tech power. Let's say I got the gun from cademimu so its level 20ish.

 

If I put level 50 mods in it, (all of them, barrel, enhancement, crystal, etc...) does the +250 tech power remain constant? Does it go away? Or does it sky rocket to 400 something?

 

This is an ongoing source of confusion for me and my SO and would be greatly appreciated if resolved. Mainly since I have been tossing aside orange gear for higher level orange gear on the assumption that the base stats never changed.

[Aric Jorgan low dps]

Hello,

 

I logged back into my trooper for the first time in a while, and noticed that at level 28, my trooper does 1187 - 1300 dmg or pretty close to those stats.

 

Aric Jorgan does 301-407. What on earth? Is he not the dps companion? I went to the gtn and got him some level 20ish gear as he was previously in all level 15 gear, but his dps output didn't go up.

 

Did I miss something? I thought M1-4X was the ranged tank...

[Dailies how do you start them?]

So just the bonus series on Belsavis and be level 50?

 

For clarity what about the other planets? Do I need to complete the bonus series for Corelia?

 

For that matter where are all the dailies? Belsavis, Corelia? Korriban?

 

I just hit 50 and found this thread so was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

[<Spoilers>So on Hoth we get power?]

So I have been playing the game with my Fiancée and we just finished the main planet quest line on Hoth.

 

During this quest line we had to:

 

Do the quest Razing the Ice Fortress and killed Matser Sav. We took the option to learn from his subordinate and learn to fight the elements as they did. Except after a fade to black, nothing happened. Was there something we missed? Can I now walk through lava or something?

 

 

Otherwise Hoth was rather fun as a warrior and inquisitor duo.

[3 commandos? and does story improve?]

Well I'm glad you gave it a shot at least. I'm sorry you don't enjoy it but I guess that's another good thing about having the different classes/stories to choose from. It sounds like you would love the 4th companion, he's probably like the kind of character you want yours to be. I dunno if you were in the military or not, but if not perhaps that's why I enjoy the story so much... the dumb bs that happens is pretty accurate, lol. If you were/are, well... poop, I've got nothing. XD

 

I can totally see where you're coming from though. If I wanted my character to have a personality that the social options didn't allow me to have, I would probably not like it either. Luckily, I can make the character exactly how I imagined her, so that's probably why I really enjoy the story with her so much.

 

Thanks for not being all flamey trolly about it though. =)

 

Also to some one else who mentioned smuggler, that is the only toon I made a guy because it seems so fitting and I can't wait to have him spread his space warts to every woman he meets. MUAHAHAHAHAHAAA! <_<

 

I think you hit the nail on the head. I imagined my Trooper being very different from what was provided. I don't think Trooper is necessarily bad, just not what I was looking for unfortunately.

 

To answer your question though, nope, never been in the military in the RL.

[3 commandos? and does story improve?]

Thanks for all the replies. To answer a few points

 

1) The trooper isn't my main, I do have another class I play and enjoy (a sith warrior), but I had high hopes for the trooper...not anymore

 

2) I'll acknowledge it makes sense that the squad would all be similar armour etc...that they are all soldiers..and yet...I'm very disappointed by that. I went in not knowing much about the trooper story line, but I did know I would get a former imperial. I had hoped that meant I would get a former imperial agent so I could have either a sniper or a stealthy scout..instead I get Elara...

 

Basically I feel I could have setup a recruitment desk, and taken 4 or 5 random commandos and saved myself the trouble of running around and recruiting for the squad.

 

3) Whoever said Repulic Commando did a better job, I have to agree. Yes they were still all troopers but I got the sense they were more specialized and individual then the group of commando's I've got so far.

 

4) I really really wanted some individuality in my responses. But I played again last night, saluted no less then 3 people, and basically speak very formally. I wanted to be sarcastic and even darkside I find my character just sounds annoyed or speaks even more formally, just firmer.

 

5) A new question, where the hell does my magic blaster come from for cutscenes?

 

 

I'm going to be fair and finish of Taris...but if this doesn't change, this is one trooper whose resigning.

 

Oh well...back to the empire I guess.

[3 commandos? and does story improve?]

My main is a juggernaut but I've been playing a trooper in my downtime. I only have 2 complaints so far

 

1) I chose commando ... I'm not really enjoying it that much but my big issue is that in choosing commando, my first companion, Aric is a commando, my second companion Elara seems to be a commando in the healing tree. I really wish I had chosen vanguard instead to flesh out the team. My own fault I guess... sighs...

 

2) I am debating deleting this character as I am very very bored of the story. I was expecting character development and responses similar to how the characters were handled in halo 3: ODST. Instead I seem to be a yes sir, no sir type of trooper. I haven't said anything remotely funny, I don't care about the idiot dark general sending me to Taris... I was hoping to shout excitedly or out of breath at people to take cover, to have awesome battle situations...give me the feeling of a soldier and I just don't feel it

 

I'm currently on Taris and have one last class quest to do, so does this story get any better?

[Troopers any era vs ODST]

Just had a crazy thought for a vs and was curious what you all thought.

 

Who would win in a fight? A trooper from any era of Star Wars Lore or an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper from the Halo universe.

 

My money is actually on the ODST for now. They seemed better trained, better equipped, and I admit I like the lore behind them.

 

But I do like my Trooper in game and the lore behind it.

 

Info for those wanting to know backgrounds:

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Clone_trooper

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stormtrooper

 

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Orbital_Drop_Shock_Trooper