i liked xalek until i heard this one line that he says. Now I am the student, but one day I will be the master. I was like wth, no you wont cause I would kill you before you got to that point to overthrow me. Now im scared to gear him out anymore in case bioware decides at some point to make me fight him.

best looking ive found for sorcers is the foundry gear from bp and foundry with the kalligs helmet. looked very nice to me. i agree with columi gear although i can live with every piece but the helmet. looks like i got a dunce cap or a towel on my head. absolutely hate the helmet. i would like the shoulders to be scaled back some but i can live with that piece actually but not that freaking ugly dunce cap they call a helmet.

well lets see, what im doing is running dailies and will be for a bit, i run a hardmode or two for badges. work on datacrons. working on getting every single level 49 purple implant from biochem. working on getting my columi gear. working on getting my companion tionese gear and eventually columi gear.

run karaggas palace spend 150k on repairs for the night without getting a single loot drop from the entire dungeon and tell me credits are worthless.

well how do you mean how to make it better. funtionality wise or items for sale wise. bioware cant do much about what people decide to put up for sale but functionality they can do alot better. for starters: 1. make it so you can search for a item, just put the item in the search field and voila the items comes up. currently you have to go through each dropdown menu and must know which particular menu the item should be in. just allow us to search for the item we need. 2. fix the level range finder in the gtn. so im looking for a piece of armor for the headpiece for light armor level 15 to 20. i fill out all the boxes, for armor, what slot and rarity and then put level range 15 to 20 i still get every item listed for every level. i didnt want that i wanted level 15 to 20. 3. when you put a item up for sale and clear out the price window, get rid of that stupid 1 that always shows up, drives me nuts. it automatically puts a 1 in there so i guess if you dont list a price it will show it for sale for one credit. id rather it just tell me if i try to list the item for no credits that i have to put a value amount in. those three things would help a lot to make the gtn much better.

to me a game fails if it doesnt recoup the initial investment and has to shut down because of it. any thing else is a success. if it made a profit it is a success, period. if it didnt it failed. then you get into degress of success or degrees of failure. wow was hugely successful, other games not so much. only games i think that failed in the past was auto assault and tabula rasa and maybe a few others that i didnt pay any attention to but those were two of the bigger ones that i can remember. and tabula rasa might of actually turned a profit before ncsoft shut it down, i dont even know but i would assume it didnt since it got shut down.

8400 people out of nearly 2 million box sales does not a sufficient sample size make. besides all that means is out of those nearly 8400 people they played less after their first month. all the server data means is people are playing less than they did in the first month. not that they arent playing at all, just less. im sure some have left, but many hit the level cap and now are not playing as many hours as they were while leveling. they log on do dailies or pvp for a bit, maybe do some raiding but they are not for the long periods of time to level. not to mention the game was released over the holidays where many people had 1 to 3 weeks of time off from work, school or whatever and now that they are in a normal routine they cant play the same amount of time.

actually its not ruining my game at all, i think i saw one republic person while leveling and he couldnt touch me, i waved at him and went on my way. so its not ruining the game for everyone. exactly what do you want bioware to do, tell people they cant make empire characters on certain servers. yeah im sure that will go over well.

the rakata implants also for sorcerers, the force master ones have a ton of crit and surge i think 51 pts of each. you can get them from doing daily quests i know, no idea where they drop though.

it increases the damage by giving your more ticks of damage, it doesnt decrease each tick.

im dark 5 and still havent seen my cookies. you know i never even thought the dark side might lie to me. oohh that dastardly dark side. now im so ugly with all the veins and crap popping out of my face that no woman will ever want me and for what, not even some cookies. thats it, im gonna go murder the emporer now.

man your hard to please, how about this one and dont tell me it aint good enough just give me my COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

has anyone seen a budget breakdown of swtor. like where each and every dime went and what it was spent on. because I havent but im assuming alot of people has since they keep mentioning that the voice acting is what made this game cost so much. i think people are assuming the voice acting cost 150 million dollars so they had to cut other features for it. voice acting was probably a very small portion of that budget. not really directed specifically at you op, im just curious why everyone mentions voice acting and how much it costs every time they bring the cost of the game up. it just made me wonder if the released a detailed budget for this game or not, because i would be interested in seeing it if they have.

yeh you can get mods for your orange gear, i meant you cant get the tionese, columi or rakata set pieces.

oh no, im gonna get my cookies. im a DARK LORD OF THE SITH, I demand my cookies.

thats not my goodwill sticking out.

you know Ive heard this line forever, come to the dark side, we have cookies. well i came to the darkside and i still havent found any dang cookies. I want my cookies and maybe a nice cookie eater title also bioware.

no you can get a rakata implant and a rakata earpieces for the dailies also at 120 dialy commendations apiece. plus the mods but honestly i started running hardmode bt about 5 minutes after i hit 50 with my gear i got while questing with updated blue mods for level 48 or so. completed it, got the columi bracers and made my crafted implants from biochem. a few days later did a normal mode 8 man ev got a few more pieces and just starting running dailies and hardmodes every night to get gear. its not all that hard, you can get the bracers from bt pretty easily. and use some commendations or other purple drops from the instance till you can get geared enough to run some of the other hardmodes. hell i know one guy in my guild hit 50, ran bt with us, then he ran boarding party with another group and never did have a problem healing either one.

well you cant really get equipment from dailies. you can get a speeder, level 50 mods, an earpiece and your augments but no endgame lightsaber or any other weapon, and no tionese, columi or rakata gear. i hate making definitive statements but I dont think you can get any of that stuff, i havent found a vendor for it yet anyway. if im wrong someone will correct me here shortly but i think im right.

no the problem is your on ilum doing pvp and hating it and everyone else is in raids and hardmodes enjoying themselves.

this forum is already subscriber only. apparantly some folks in this world are so miserable and full of hate they will pay 15 bucks a month to complain about something they hate. sounds like a business opportunity to me, I will gladly get paid for people to call me up and complain about how sucky their life is. oh wait that is called a psychologist, mmos are just cheaper.

the only problem i find with xalek is he cant hold aggro from me very well, but my guild tanks cant exactly do that either. i have to constantly use cloud mind im about to put it into my rotation.

http://db.darthhater.com/skill_calc/sith_inquisitor/sorcerer/#::efe4f2e6fefef22df3efef3e6f: you talking somethign like this. what i would do with this build is not really worry about crushing darkness and spam force lightning for wrath, use chain lightning on wrath procs and if chain lightning is down use lightning strike to try to proc lightning storm for more chain lightning. or right after you wrath a chain lightning do a lightning strike to try to get another chain lightning right behind it. a friend of mine has a build sort of like this and i run alot of heroics with him and his damage output is about the same as mine from what i can tell. im running the 13/28 build mostly although i do switch around to try different stuff, i might try that 25/16 build. although its hard to tell if one is better than the other without some metrics i just go by how well the build meshes together, the 13/28 build flows real well, the lightning build doesnt flow that well to me. thundering blast is always coming off cooldown either .5 second too early or .5 second too late for me, drives me nuts.

surge is very good, makes allyour crits higher and the lightning build will crit alot. however alacrity is also needed imo. you have to get those cast times down as low as possible. lightning strike for me is on a 1.3 to 1.4 second cast, when i blow my alacrity cooldown its like 1 second, and tb is lower than 1.5 with that cooldown. optimally i want to get both of those spells under the 1.5 second gcd but i dont know how much alacrity that is realistically gonna take. current stats for me with that build is 28 percent crit, 80 percent crit mulitplier and 8.5 percent alacrity. I havent really modded in any specific way i just took whatever was on the gear. once i get all my columi gear then ill look at remodding the way i want. razcul which build are you talking about exactly lightning or lightning/madness hybrid. surge is way more important for the hybrid than alacrity but alacrity is pretty important for the pure lightning build but i still wouldnt rate it over surge.

there are only two fixes bioware can do. you can decide which is worst 1. they can stop people from making new characters on a faction that has more people than the other faction. 2. they can change pvp warzones like huttball to actually be republic vs empire so if one faction has way more people than another faction the more popolous faction can never pvp so some will have to roll republic to get pvp fights. you tell me which will kill the game faster. wow had the same issues at launch, some servers horder outweighted the alliance, others alliance outweighed the horde, over time this will balance out.