I’d have to go through weeks of YouTube history to find the video. Not gonna do it. It’s right at the front though, see her face plain as day. Anything involved with those last three movies, the actors, or anything of the like I’m not touching. Instant turn off.

Wow….8 very long pages. So started playing SWTOR at launch. Heck…it was the first game I got to take part in the Beta. I was so STOKED! I loved it. Then launch came, and it was so new to everyone. Made friends, started a guild! Had some really solid members, and about 20-30 members. Not big, but we all had fun. Then….server mergers. Lost my guild, lost my friends had to make new friends. Found an old high school buddy that was playing, he was of course on a different server. Had to pay to move my main characters over to another server. He and his wife were in a guild, invited me in, and that’s when the problems started. There guild members were…easily offended. We didn’t mesh well, they weren’t like my old guildies. It stopped being fun. I quit….for five years. So I’ve been back for about 2-3 weeks. I find myself gathering materials, trying to craft better gear for my newer characters…but now I have to make bonded attachments. I don’t have access to all of my skills because now we have presets that they want us to use, and each of those presets only allows you to use the skills they think you need for those presets. Tons of inflation. No friends. New guild….I almost never see anyone from the guild on anymore. I’ve read 8 pages of complaints that don’t make me feel any better about the state of the game. I’ll probably stick around to do some of the new expansion stuff, if I can get geared up enough to do it, but…..after that I don’t know.

Yeah, like I said I spent a full day gathering those power tubes, and I probably sold maybe 4-500 total. And I was sitting there on the couch doing nothing but that, and during wait times playing my guitar. But you know….the GTN’s not a problem that’s adding to inflation. That’s what I was told over there on the inflation problem thread. It’s only the amount credits in circulation that’s the problem. 🤷‍♂️

Hmmm….9999 of any material seems to me would be a rather difficult task to achieve. Especially on a daily basis. I was selling stacks of 100, 157, etc…of power tubes not that long ago. I spent a whole day running material missions and putting them up on the GTN. I was selling them well below market value, because well….I was still making a profit at that price point. Plus it was my way of saying, “The prices are two high!”. But hell if I could get my companions to gather materials fast enough to gather 9999 of anything I’d be selling the piss out of them. Lol! I got characters that need gear man!

I saw Ray, or Rey, or however you spell her name, in one of the cut scenes. Be a hard pass for me.

Well…I have read to page 17. I don’t think I’m confused. Regardless of the amount of credits generated in the game, ALL of the items sold at vendors are sold at a set price! Almost none of them that I have seen from an in game vendor are millions, and billions of credits! The GTN on the other hand…..insane! So before you start getting nasty, and smart mouthed, and getting all up on your, “I’m smarter than you, everyone else on here is smarter than you, I’m not explaining it again, your stupid”, high horse. Understand, I have read quite a bit, and quite enough, and I disagree that the inflation problem is strictly and solely because there are too many credits in circulation. The prices on the GTN are a PROBLEM! Which is directly related to how time consuming it is to gather materials. Now, just because you’ve made and are making billions of credits on the GTN, doesn’t change the fact, that it’s a problem.

What about a Samurai style outfit? A hakama style bottom on the robes, and ronin style hat of some type, that doesn’t cover your characters face. I think it could be pretty cool.

Wouldn’t they though? If you are selling on the GTN, regardless of how long it takes wouldn’t you still be able to become a billionaire? If all you’re doing is trying to make cred’s, couldn’t you get pretty rich doing it? I mean….the prices on the Legacy stuff is still the same as it was five years ago, to my memory. Most of the third level and up stuff was into the 100k’s plus mark. And…I saw the same stuff being sold at the security key vendor as there was five years ago. Exact same stuff. I mean…..maybe there are too many credits being generated, but the materials gathering, and the special currencies for some materials is a problem as well.

The amount of credits being generated in the game isn’t as much of a problem, as the demand for certain items. If they were easy to get, you couldn’t charge millions and billions of credits, because there wouldn’t be as high of a demand. Thus the prices would not be as high. The circulating supply isn’t the problem, it’s a supply and demand problem.

No of course not, why would it? Cause nobody is charging 100’s of millions of credits, even billions of credits for materials. That wouldn’t be a reason at all.

Well Ramahar, I didn’t read through all 21 pages…but about 10-15 of them or so, and all of those posts I saw nothing about crafting.

So I have sat here and read quite a few posts. I see many, many veteran players giving their feedback. I may have a unique opinion on the subject, as I took about a five year break from this game and have only recently returned within the past two or three weeks. I must say, I was very shocked at the prices of items on the GTN. I did not remember people selling items in the hundreds of millions of credits. From my perspective, it seems like crafting, and materials gathering is a bigger culprit to the rise of inflation in the game than anything else. I’ve also noticed while chatting with others in game that most people just aren’t interested in doing it. It’s definitely cheaper to make your own gear, but then there’s of course crafting items as you go higher up in level that can only be gotten by doing certain missions, and then only if you win the roll for them, and of course they are only available in sixteen man operations. Then there’s items that require special currencies to get, and the game doesn’t tell you how you go about getting those special in-game currencies. So of course people that are in good guilds or have good in game friends that run operations, or know how to get those special currencies are going to farm those things because they can, and should. However, that’s going to push the value of those items higher and higher. Because like all things money related of any type, it’s all about supply and demand. The demand is high, and the supply hard to get. If you make it more lucrative for people to farm there own materials and craft their own gear, the cost will go down. I spent two weeks trying to get enough nova crystals to make three color crystals, and was forced to buy some because my companions were not getting them on their missions. Cost me a couple of million credits, I would not have had, had I not a) been selling a mad amount of power tubes, and b) joined a guild where one of the members just out of blue offered to give me 60million credits. When I returned to the game my most wealthy character only had about 750k, which five years ago, wasn’t too bad, but now it’s literally chump change. At that time I wasn’t big on the crafting, and making gear, I’d just pretty much buy what I needed, because even back then, it was just a pain in the ass to craft, and gather materials. It’s all RNG, so it’s all random, but invariably the higher item crafting materials then and now, are just a pain to gather. Nobody but extremely dedicated people have any desire to to spend that kind of time. It takes away from your actual play time. Of course some people really enjoy that aspect, I just have never been one, however, when it’s millions and billions of credits to for a single armoring, or augment, or enhancement of purple quality I’d rather make my own. I can’t though, because I can’t gather the materials to do it. I think, more players would start, and would start crafting and gathering their own materials to build their own gear, if it was timely, and cost effective to do so. That by necessity would cause the market to lower its prices. If I can spend 10k on a mission to get the materials I need, why would I give Johnny Joe Blow Skywalker a million credits for 5 materials I can get for 10k, and 20 minutes of waiting on a companion? I wouldn’t. But it’s not, it’s weeks sometimes to get the amount of materials needed for crafting sometimes. Some materials I can’t even get because I have no one run with. That’s your problem. It’s not the quick travel, or priority travel, which after I just spent thousands of credits to upgrade all of that, I’m not going to be happy having to pay to do it. Do you know how much more convenient it is to be able to fast travel anywhere close to where your mission turn in is, than to have traverse the entire planet back? The amount of time I have saved with ship transport is unreal. Why I didn’t get it five years ago is beyond me….wait no it’s not, because those legacy items were so expensive back then I couldn’t afford them. Anyways that’s my take on it. Make gathering materials easier, so people will want to craft their own gear, and the inflation will go down.

I just would like to know why I get an error message every time I go to the store to purchase the SOR expansion....did you guys sell all of them that you wanted to or....are you just not going to fix the error page so we can buy the expansion? Just...just asking...

Personally I think it's the Galaxies fans that are destroying this game personally. I haven't played in over a year. I loved it when it first came out...and it's just gone down, down, down....only on now because friend started playing, but if it sucks as bad as the last time I played....I'll take my sub with me and bounce again.

Yeah I have to agree with what most of the others are saying. I have a level 50 sent that I played all of the trees with and finally ended up choosing the watchmen tree. However...I have a 55 guardian on another server, and missed playing a sent so I have started over again, and have a 27 sentinel now, and I am running in the Combat Tree. Where as before I was unable to really do a good job with the combat tree, now I find that I enjoy it quite a bit. The real major thing that I notice about Combat, is....it really feels like it's ALOT of damage now! Not over a time period. Whereas in the Watchmen Tree it always felt like I was always working on getting cauterize going, with the Combat tree I don't really feel like it's that critical. I use it still, but it just doesn't feel like it's a main staple of this tree. You get some advantages with the combat tree that you don't get with the Watchmen, such as dual wield mastery, and as well, stances are there for a reason. If I need the healing affects of cauterize, I simply switch into my Juyo stance, bust zen and hit cauterize and I get that healing affect, just as if I was in the Watchmen tree. Is it as effective? I don't believe so, but some healing beats no healing. If I feel like I need to be really more guarded, I might use the Shi-Cho stance, or if I want that extra random strike I get from the combat tree, I will pop the Ataru stance. It just for me it feels like you just kill stuff so much faster in the Combat Tree. Of course the watchmen tree does have one thing I love more than any other skill, and that's the 0 meter force leap. It comes in handy. Force leap is a, (at least for me), huge focus builder. So being able to utilize that at just about any range really keeps you banging away at the bad guys. So keep in mind what is really unique about Star Wars is that a lot this game depends on your personal play style. When this game first launched a lot of sents were talking about going might armoring, and crit for everything, and they were doing really, really well. I was struggling BIG TIME! I switched to the Guardian Armoring for the added endurance and went strength and crit with my mods and enhancements, and for me that worked really well. I was able to survive long enough that I could kill the bad guys. Now after having played the guardian class as well, I find that I don't need that guardian armoring anymore, and can run more like everyone else, and I am seeing a real change in the amount of damage I am doing now as opposed to then. So your style play is going to have a huge influence on what tree you spec, how you gear....everything really. Just experiment with them. I used to play with a guy who went Focus, and ripped everything up. Saw him take a boss that was 4 levels above him, and he did it before I could get there and help out. Guy was amazing. So it really doesn't matter what tree, it just matters how good you are with it.

Just a quick point. A lot of people are bringing up they posted a notice on the forums. Great....I don't come to the forums everyday, cause most generally I'm too busy playing the game. Your point, is well taken at least in my mind. If they can spend the time to post a forum post, put a notification up in the servers. Hell even at the login screen, so you know it's coming. Not that big of a deal, and would save them and us a huge amounts of headache.

The absolute worst part of all of this is this. We all, everyone that plays the game, bought and paid for it! Yep, we did. Now here is the issue. I understand there is server upkeep, and that costs money, but you know what.....this is kind of unprofessional. No warning, you just shut stuff, down, I was in the middle of my class quest, and you just boom! Kick us all off the servers. So now, god only knows where my character will be at when I log back on. Thus I will have to go through the whole mission again. Maybe a 10 or 20 minute warning is a little more, beneficial and acceptable. It is not acceptable, that we pay you every month to play a game that we already OWN! To be booted off with no warning. Absolutely, unacceptable. Get it together Bio-ware. YOu've already lost tons of players to Diablo 3! Guild wars 2 is coming out, and your going to lose more. I guarantee it. In all the years that I played the first one, I never had them pull this crap, not even once. Way to think about your customers. Smooth, real smooth. ANd just as an aside. I do enjoy Star Wars a great deal more than I did GW, and I am sure that many others do as well. However....it may make no difference to them, if you keep doing stuff like this. A lot of people in game and on this forum are coming from other great MMO's, and they are used to being treated a certain way....I am sure. You have to think of your gamers, they are the ones paying your bills. Your not even....I mean, damn man! It ain't like you planned to restart the servers at 6 in the morning, on a whim...no you decided to do it at 4 in the afternoon? Who is the brilliant Management Dingbat that thought that idea up? Really? REALLY? Hell you could have even posted a notice on the login screen for the game last night! Yesterday! I mean come on...you can't tell me that you didn't know you were gonna do this at least a day in advance. I can't believe I am this ticked off. Seriously, unless there is a natual disaster, a storm....something out of your control....we should get at minimum a 5 minute notice, and 10 or 20 is better. Period.

This is my question. WHy does it cost me money to remover modifications from one lightsaber to my inventory? Do I not own them? Yeah I do! I purchased them, I bought them with credits, they are mine. WHy does it cost me money to take the upgrades that I put into them out of them? I bought two new sabers with augment slots, so I could take the stuff out of the old ones and put them in the new ones. Cost me 66k just for the two crystals, not to mention 44k for the hilts. This makes no sense to me. WHy? Why are you charging me money for work I am doing myself, on my own weapons. It's not like I have to take them to a special vendor and have him do the work. SO....take the charge away if you would please, it's just another way for the gam to milk us of creds. Creds that quite honestly could be spent someplace else. Thanks.

Thanks! I will keep all of that in mind and give it a try!

My question is this. I purchased the Digital Deluxe Edition of the game because I liked the way the speeder that you got looked. Then....everyone is buying newer faster speeders. Because it gets you around faster. I still like my DDE speeder. Are there any plans to make these an uprgradeable item so I can still use my speeder of choice and keep up with my guild mates? I would just prefer to not have to buy a whole new speeder when I already have purchased one, and could conceivably just upgrade it. Right? This to my way of thinking would definitely be an awesome addition to the game. I would much rather upgrade my current speeder than have to buy one that...personally I don't care for. Thanks for listening.

WOW! WOW! WOW! I never complained overly much about the PVP stuff and being underpowered or overpowered. I personally enjoyed the whole PVE thing and still do over the PVP. However....no body want to admit that they aren't good with there character, but....I am not good with my sentinel. Not yet. I'm working on it. What I have noticed is once you hit level 50 everything seems,(at least to me), to be way more evenly balanced. YOu start doing dailies and getting better mods for your gear, better armoring mods, etc, etc....and bang. Your up there with everyone else. I have never been a great PVP'er in MMO's. It's not the patch that makes you think that sucky players are kicking your butt. It's the fact that they may have learned there class better, or are now better geared. Period. I no longer feel Under Powered, but I don't feel overpowered. I am better geared now, and I have way more practice with my sent. When I lose, which is still considerable, I don't feel like I have just had my rear end handed to me on a silver platter. I had a smuggler in my guild for awhile. I stomped her, several times, and then had her do a few things differently, couldn't stop her she just mopped the floor with me, and still does, and to hear her say it, "Sentinels can't touch her!" It really is all in how you play. What gear you have, and how you have set your character up, and as more people play there Sents, and get better with them, and figure out what they need to do, those players that you thought just sucked! Are going to be way better. THe difference is night and day when a sent is properly geared. I think it is going to be pretty much the same with all of the classes. As you learn your class, and learn how to defeat the other character classes when they are properly geared, you are going to see people crying about classes being OP, and it's going to range from all over the spectrum. Today people are crying about the Sent, the shadow, tomorrow it will be the Guardian, and the Commando or the Smuggler/bounty hunter, then the Snipers! It's going to get sick and real fast! Cause people are learning and they are getting better! It's just awesome!

Alright. So one of my guildies is a Guardian. He goes through the Balmorra bonus series, and recieves a set of Tan colored robes. Look to be 'Desert Tan' to me. Just to be a little more specific. I want them for my sentinel! Is there a set that looks like that for the Sentinel? If so what quests do I gotta do to get them? Oh, and yes I did do the Balmorran bonus series to see if I could get a Sentinel robe drop. I did recieve one...but I was less than thrilled with those nasty looking things. They weren't tan at all for number one and they just looked like garbage. Anyways, if anyone knows I would appreciate knowing where to get them. Thanks.

Yeah. I do, play a lot PVE a lot more than the PVP. It just gets really laggy for me. I don't mind PVP, and have found it to be rather enjoyable,as of late, but it's not my favorite aspect of the game. And thanks for the well wishes as well. It's been a lot better once I hit 50, a lot! I still get into trouble every now and again, but nowhere near like I did on my journey up. As for the guys talking about me pulling 11 mobs or something like that. That's not the case at all. What I was refering to were the occasions when your playing by yourself, and you get pulled off of your speeder, even by a small group of say 4 or 5 in your same level. A push back would have been really nice. I have noticed when playing with my shadow the few times that it happens, it has been immensley useful for just regrouping and getting over the initial shock. It buys you precious seconds that in some cases you do desperately need. It would have just added to my survivability at the lower levels. Even just something like a 'blackout' for 5 seconds to get out of trouble would have been tremendously useful. Again though....Sentinel is a more advanced class to play like I think you all have been saying. Even still.....I have noticed at least for myself, all of the classes use more than a few skills to survive and win a conflict. I haven't noticed any of them to be total one button masher characters. Which is good. Sentinel needs a lot more finess. It's a good class. You just have to be geared properly and really be aware of what's going on around you I think. Ok, now that all of that is said...let me bring up problem that I do have with dueling or PVP. Seems like Sentinel is a stand there and beat them to death class. How do you do continuous damage against a target that is constantly moving? Besides using leg strike, and stasis? Stasis has a long cool down period, how do you all keep track of your opponent? I find them to be annoying like a bee? All over the place!!! LOL! Stand and fight me like a man you know? Any info would be great, and I do think in the PVP area this is going to be the complaint of a lot of newer Sents as well. Feels like you just can't put out the kind of damage that you need to in order to win when they are moving all over the place. Thanks in advance.

I was just having a chat with the customer service department in game. It dawne on me, I really like my DDE speeder. I like the way it kind of looks like a futuristic Harley! Having lost mine a few years back, having one in star wars kind of brings back good memories. That and to be honest....I just don't like the look of all of the other speeders that I see. I like mine. It was one of the reasons that I upgraded to the DDE version of the game. The speeder was just nice looking. I didn't look like a moped, and it didn't look like a *** crotch rocket! So, that being said, I don't know how anyone else feels about it, but it would be nice, if instead of having to buy a speeder, I could just upgrade the one I have. Plus, since those of us that spent the money on our DDE versions, we would actually get to have that speeder that we paid for, and it would be as fast as everyone elses. I mean you could even go so far as to add a few custom paint job mods for them as well if you wanted to go all out. But seriously, I would like to keep my speeder. I like it, the looks, it just screams 'COOL!' Please for the love all that is good, give us some speeder upgrades. I don't care if they cost as much as a new speeder....well, maybe a little bit, but still the idea is sound, and I think it would appeal to a large group. Also since I'm on the subject of the DDE versioin of the game. Let's face it. The Deluxe vendor doesn't really have much that I'm interested in, and neither does the security key vendor. Maybe we could get some cooler looking armor, and some weapons...I mean yeah the dancers outfit would be cool....if you wanted that....the character customizations are alright....they aren't great or magnificent, and can be found at other vendors on other worlds......I mean, it was supposed to be a special thing. RIght? You got different looking gear....but I don't see much that would interest me. Maybe I should shell out 150 bucks for the collectors edition which I can still find on some websites...but I think I would be woefully disappointed with that purchase. So do us this one favor, give us some speeder upgrades for the speeders. It would be really nice to cruise around on my DDE speeder and keep up with my guildies. Thanks guys. Still a great game. I am enjoying immensely.

Yeah there are. I have two actually, got them on Balmorra. Your graphics settings will determine if they appear curved or not when you play. I bought two of them there for my sentinel, and they are curved. When I turn the graphics up you can see them when you unsheath them as being curved. In the picure when you buy them they are curved as well. I can't remember the name of them off hand. I will post back later, but Balmorra has them.