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How is healing #2 said to be 2.58M when the screenshot only says 2.1M?
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My wife and I were just talking about how this "expansion" would be a "content patch" in any other game. It is way too small to be a expansion.
This expansion obsoleted more end game content than it added.
It is about a months worth of content, 2 for casual players, then we are left with no endgame to speak of.
Spot on.
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What exactly does WoW have to do with anything? Your original post stated that this game is a failure now you justify that by saying it is just an opinion? Really? If you reread what you wrote you would see how negative and hostile your remarks were so please do not try to hide the fact that your negative feelings about the game is "just an opinion" because from the op it clearly is not
WoW has to do with it because it's the best game in this category so it's a good marker.
Negative feelings and opinions are mutually exclusive why? My feelings toward this game are what form my opinion of it. Without feelings toward it, I wouldn't have an opinion about it.
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There is a difference between SWTOR 2.0 (The Patch) and Rise of the Hutt Cartel (The Expansion). So I'm curious to know why you think the expansion is a patch?
Rise of the Hutt Cartel was only $10. So I'd also be interested to know what you would expect for your $10? I got about 20 hours of gameplay out of Makeb and other things that were added which is more than I got out of my other games that I played over the last month being Starcraft 2, Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite. All perhaps 10-15 hours long and about $50.
Also, if you have time to play for five hours a day and think that's the minimum time required for all gamers to consider this worthwhile then my recommendation is to look at contributing to society a bit more. I get the chance to play perhaps 1-2 hours a day and that's heaps for me with the everything else I have to do, not to mention other games I play.
I wasn't talking about the patch. I was talking about the "expansion" which was really just a patch miss labeled as an expansion. Woo, you got to level up 5 levels. So what? That took less than 10 hours and didn't replace a single piece of gear while doing it. It added a couple ops, releasing some higher levels of some flashpoints and releasing a tiny new zone. That's what passes as an expansion? They've done the exact same thing with patches without the level upgrade, so that's all it takes to be an expansion now? 5 levels that take **** all time to get?
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No. You did not just simply state your opinion, you made a whinge post about how the game is a failure and how it could be better than wow and some nonsense about the expansion. All the while saying that this is how the "majority" feels with absolutely no evidence to back up that claim.
No. I did just simply state my opinion, you must have just failed to recognize that. No matter how good they make swtor there will be people that like WoW better and now matter how good they make WoW there will be people that like swtor better. That is all opinion. There is no factual way of working out which is better so which one people like more is nothing more than opinion.
You may be right about me miss using 'majority'. I was simply replying to a post that said my critiques had been done to death, so I probably could have used a better word, but whatever, if lots of people are complaining about it, then they should listen.
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so another "IMMA GONNA QQ" thread
i never understand why ppl post these on the forum, when you unsub, there is a feedback box you can type this "critique " in.
That's like saying people shouldn't voice their opinions about their government, they should just move to another country and send a letter saying why they're leaving.
I enjoy this game enough to pay to play. But I also see how this game could be a lot better, so I'm voicing my opinion about it in the hope that if enough people do so, they'll listen.
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Translates: blah blah blah game is a failure blah blah blah Expansion and blah blah could have been better than Wow. I for one think the game is doing much better than it was before.Sure it is still bug ridden and the devs have made bad decisions but I think it is getting back onto the right track. And I also quite enjoyed the new content. But if you are going to critique the game could you perhaps try to be original as these critiques have been done to death.
If the critiques have been "done to death" it's a pretty good indicator that the majority of people want this **** changed. So if we keep posting about it; hopefully they'll change it.
"I for one" is great for you, but believe it or not, people make games for profit and the open market is a democracy. So while you can stand up against the majority all you want, the game will go under and cease to exist when you're the only one playing it.
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First of all, lets not get it twisted, this is a patch disguised as an expansion to get players back on. Hats off to ya, you got me back, though that'll be short lived. Last ditch effort to make a bit of cash before going under?
Anyway, *** is with these tiny commendation and rep caps? Rather than making the game more difficult they opted to just make you play less for a longer duration? It's like BioWare has no idea what kind of audience MMORPGs attract.
To be a successful MMORPG you need the content to keep people playing 5+ hours a day at the very minimum. I shouldn't be able to reach my weekly cap in a day. That's ridicules.
This is the only failure MMORPG I have ever cared about. It had to potential to be better than WoW, but came just short on in so many areas and they all added up to it being ****.
Anyway, thanks for trying BioWare, better luck next time.
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But what you harp on, over and over and over, is that anyone who isn't doing HM EC can, right now, get gear that's roughly equivalent, though over a far longer timeframe. How the "bads" (not sure if you've used the term or not, but someone trying to lend support to you has, at least) shouldn't be getting the same gear. How THIS specifically has taken away the reason to do HM EC.
As if your only real goal is to get the gear. So what I'm suggesting to you is that maybe you're in it for the wrong reasons. Shouldn't you be fully geared up by now anyway, what with HM EC being out for as long as it is? So how does the fact that you can get full BH gear in a few months impact your reason to do HM EC after EC has been out long enough to be fully geared anyway. Ignore what BH comms you've gotten, or only use it to gear up companions. Or shelve that character and bring out another one. If you haven't figured out that the quantity and quality of content is only good for someone with a ton of time by doing it with multiple alts, then you should probably take a good hard look at the overall game design.
Admittedly, you might not require a ton of time, but generally people who don't, are part of long term hardcore raid forces that have been together for years, and you can't design raiding in a game's early life to be challenging for those folks.
Yeah, this post went on a lot about the whole gear thing, I was mainly just replying to people and that's what they were talking about....
But anyway, at this point it's just the same points being made, just worded differently. So no point continuing.
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This is what I don't get: who PvEs just for gear? I PvE to beat the content. I don't care if some people have gear that's almost as good as what comes from HM EC. I'm doing HM EC for my own personal benefit. Should I care that someone is decked out in level 61 mods but haven't done HM EC or Nightmare Pilgrim?
It's their loss, not mine.You people seem to be making this purely about what other people are wearing, that's only a tiny part of the issue. The key reason I'm pissed off is cause now there is no point in running HM EC. I still needed gear from there, then over night they removed any any need for me to run it.
Sure it was a hell of a lot of fun running the place for the first few weeks, but once you have it on farm the fun that comes from it is getting gear and talking **** on Vent with your mates. Remove the getting gear and you're left with something you can do on any other game and no reason to play this one.
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Yes, you have. Many of them. You just disagree. You do realize that it's highly likely that by the time anybody who doesn't fit your very narrow definition of deserving of this stuff can get it, NiM EC will be out, and it will no longer be BiS. Your personal benefit to doing HM EC is that you get two things. First, you get it way, WAY sooner, so you have that much more time to feel superior. Second, you have more choices by having access to that Campaign gear. Enjoy it instead of raging that somebody you don't feel lives up to your standard might eventually be able to get gear that is equivalent.
If NM EC is out in the next 6 weeks I will retract everything I have said on this post. But having cleared HM EC in rakata gear, I'm sure you'd be able to clear NM EC in BH gear which you could get without doing HM EC prior to 1.3.
HM EC was the first time they made PvE challenging in this game, but they still didn't make it anywhere near challenging enough. 4 bosses? And most of them learnable in less than a night? Ridicules.
I don't know if my definition of deserving is narrow, clearing the hardest content to get the best gear only seems logical. Do you disagree with this? If so, why?
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If people around me are bad its because i have fail to help them improve,if your out of stuff to do in game that not other fault that's your own as for time and effort well not every one has the time so should they miss out or be left behind as for effort your right its nice to see other put in the effort u do so surround yourself with those that do. your complaints are just the fact your bitter that not every one has to do what you did (and many others your not special there) to get your gear. facts are fact this is a game if your this upset about a game RL must be hard for you
God this is incoherent, let me try to decode what you're saying.
"If people around me are bad its because i have fail to help them improve" I'm guess here you're trying to say I should waste my time carrying people and teaching them how to play?... I don't play games to hold noobs hands.
"if your out of stuff to do in game that not other fault that's your own" Ummm, are you trying to say me running out of content to run and gear to acquire is my fault?... I don't work for BioWare and they're the only ones in charge of content and gear, so it's 100% on them. If I had a say over what happens in the game, trust me, no one would be out of things to do.
"as for time and effort well not every one has the time so should they miss out or be left behind" No, but they shouldn't be equally rewarded either. In 1.2 they could get pretty damn near BiS gear, but they couldn't get actual BiS gear. That's the way it should be.
"as for effort your right its nice to see other put in the effort u do so surround yourself with those that do" I do... But there is no point in it any more.
" your complaints are just the fact your bitter that not every one has to do what you did (and many others your not special there) to get your gear." Wow it is actually a lot easier to ready your **** when I break it up. You know, like '.' and ',' would if you spent 5 minutes paying attention in class and learnt about them. Also learning the difference between 'your' and 'you're' would help you out a lot. Your (hahahaha I make me laugh) kind of right here, that is one of the things that is bugging me; but as I stated before, my main complaint is the fact that they removed any reason for me to play the game.
" facts are fact this is a game if your this upset about a game RL must be hard for you" Fact are facts? Really?!?!?!? This is a game, your facts are facts are spot on there. I don't know if RL is hard for me though, I haven't bothered with it in many years.
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MMO'S Don't just cater to "hardcore" raiders without a "causal" player base most of these games would die in the as> and since where trowing labels around most of your problems come form your "elitism" attitude what do you really care you have your gear get over yourself
You do realise it's extremely easy to cater to both yeah? In fact pre 1.3 swtor did cater to both.
I can't really understand your horrible grammar, but I'll assume you were attempting to insult me for being an elitist. The truth of the matter is, I'm not actually an elitist, I just think everyone should be rewarded on their merits. Giving everyone the same reward no matter their skill/time/effort level is ridicules and I'm pretty sure if you had ever been good at something and the lazy/bads around you had been rewarded the same for it you wouldn't be happy about it either.
But that isn't even my main problem, I wouldn't care less if bads around me were wearing the same gear as me, as long as I still had something to do in the game. I'm upset by this patch because it eliminated any need for me to play it. I have cleared everything and have all BiS gear. I was fairly close to this before the patch, but I still had a 2-8 weeks to go, depending on how good my rolls were.
Sure, as a person that actually put the effort in to becoming a good player, it annoys me that bads get equally rewarded to me, why wouldn't it? But, like I said, it's not the main reason I'm upset.
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I disagree with this in a general sense, though maybe it was true for specific classes (I have no problem believing this was true for tanks).
Basically if your set bonus isn't tied to the right kind of armoring (high main stat vs high end) then the gain you got from the augment was at best very minor compared to the one you got from sticking a better main stat armoring in Rakata.
But ok fair enough. Technically you could call that a BiS situation, but then the issue ISN'T that people can get BH comms and buy gear with the same level mods. It's that people can get augment kits and make their rakata gear augmented.
The issue is a combination of the fact that they can get 61 mods and augment rakata gear.
Either of these alone isn't a big deal. Being able to augment rakata gear but only having 58 mods in it would be fine or being able to put 61 mods in rakata gear but not being able to augment it too would be fine. Both these leave a situation where you can't get BiS gear without running the hardest content, which is how it should be. But when you combine being able to augment rakata gear with being able to get 61 mods for it, it leaves you with a situation where you can get BiS gear without setting foot in the hardest content. It's just stupid.
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You keep coming back and stating over and over your original assertion. And in a sense, sure, it's true. But what you are apparently failing to fairly consider is the required time investment a person would have to make for it to be perfectly true. 2 months doing DF randoms every single day + 2 DF operations per week. Add in NiM KP and the Rakhgoul weekly and you can do it faster, but face it, at that point, you're not looking at some "casual scrub" anymore. You're looking at someone who would probably be a very real asset to your highfaultin' HM EC clearin' raid team.
And if you need to replace a loss to your raid team with someone new, wouldn't you prefer to have them in good gear? Because let's face it, you DO need good gear for HM EC. Or do you truly want your little elitist end game raiding club to become super inbred like happens in so many other games?
You can easily clear HM EC in rakata gear and as such I'm more than happy to recruit people in rakata for my elitist guild. In fact I'm happy to recruit people wearing greens, as long as they have skill, cause BioWare keep ruining the game and all the good players quit, so it's worth putting the effort in to gearing up that 1 in a thousand good player you come across.
Why do people get so upset about good players being proud of being good and wanting to be properly rewarded for it? Is it envy? Jealousy? Do you just want a pat on the back and told you're good too? Well you're not and you don't deserve to lied to like that.
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If the issue is that some people, depending on their class and spec, can get BiS or very near to BiS gear without setting foot in HM EC, then HM EC was obsolete the second it came out. Getting BH comms outside of HM EC has been possible since they released the content. The only issue now is the rate at which non raiders can get that gear, which is why the 5 BH comms should be changed to 6 BH comms and it should be changed to a weekly, except lets be honest that many of us would never queue for group finder if those 5 BH comms weren't the low hanging fruit that they are.
So lets be honest about the real issue here. Campaign was itemized badly.
As a gunnery commando anyway I feel absolutely confident in saying that I can get best in slot gear on everything but my mainhand, just by getting the pieces I need and doing some stat balancing. Ironically the only enhancement I can't get from BH is the high crit high accuracy enhancements, but I can get them for power/accuracy so I'll just get my accuracy from there and the implants, and then put power/surge or crit/surge everywhere else.
Otherwise I can get the high crit and high power mods from BH gear which are better than the 68 Aim/12 Power or 68 Aim/12 Crit mods in some of the campaign gear, and I can put high aim armorings in all but the body piece but even campaign can't help me there since I have to screw with set bonuses to get the 68 aim armoring from Combat Tech body.
This is just bad itemization on the part of BW, and so it turns out the only advantage there ever was to HM EC was getting that gear a bit quicker.
Yes they did a terrible job itemising the gear and you've had to buy BH gear to strip for mods from day 1 (personally I kinda liked this cause it gave me more to do, but that's just me).
But HM EC only became obsolete with 1.3 because you couldn't get BiS gear without running it prior to that. You had to run it for the armorings so you can chuck them in orange critted gear so you could get the set bonus and an augment. Now you can just chuck an augment kit on to T/C/R sets to get the set bonus and an augment.
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Honestly it wouldn't be so hard for bioware to change the stats on the BH and Campaign armor to make it more of a difference at least I assume it wouldn't be that big of a problem since they have done it with pvp gear before. Honestly I'd love to be doing HM EC to get campaign gear if only for social armors and other unique looking gear to dress my characters however.
Exactly. Reduce every stat on BH gear by a couple, then there is still a point to getting Campaign. Although they'd have to itemise the Champaign a bit better for this to work.... But I guess if I had to get 8 Campaign helms to get the mods I wanted it would keep me busy for quite a while.
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I love it when the bad players band together, exactly like madis gras, only they find each other online.
Give em hell shifty these bads no nothing of end game, clearly.
Trying to justify having the same gear as the elite? Face it, you don't deserve it bads thats why you love it
Hahahahahaha!!! <3
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Okay maybe I responded in a huff, sorry about that. While I do get that you want to be awarded for your effort (of course everyone does) it's still a game that changes and evolves. Your example of being paid the same as someone else simply by showing up may piss you off, but it does occur in the real world. Following along that analogy, I think you should feel comfortable knowing that, even though these other folks can get their gear with less committed effort as you had put in, they will not have gained the experience you had. Which ultimately means, you should be better off then them when new (hopefully harder) content arrives.
MMOs aren't supposed to be stagnant things. You're on top because you got there first and beat the content, everyone else is playing catch up. BW just made it easier for folks to catch up.
There's a positive to this too. It means that when new content rolls out, you'll have many more geared players to do that content with, as opposed to having to do this "LFM HM:EC must be geared, blahblah" for an hour. The other positive is obviously for folks that are gearing up a second (or more) alt with campaign gear. It makes the whole legacy thing with alts viable without making people feel like it's an impossible grind to get their secondary characters up to snuff.
All I can say is, chill, try to enjoy the game and perhaps even help some of these folks get into EC since their gear will be better.
You raise some good points, but it is too early to make it easier to get and it still feels like a f***ing slap in the face to those of us that put the time and effort in.
As for gearing up alts, HM EC can be cleared in s*** gear, it's just a matter of learning the mechanics. If you have put the effort into doing this on your main, gearing up your alt is going to be easy.
It is fine to make good gear easy to get in preparation for new content, but don't make it the best gear in the game, that just leaves us fully geared with nothing to do for months, as if we're not going to move on to a different game when that happens.
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I don't think you really mean that. Unless you think crafting should be rendered obsolete by saying nobody should be able to craft end game material. Heck, as far as I know augmentation is available ONLY through crafting .. you don't have to set foot anywhere. Do you think that's fair to raiders? Isn't the extremely high pricetag enough of a barrier to entry.
Different paths to elite quality equipment is fine by me, I just think that the harder the difficulty, the greater the reward and the faster you gear up. Right now, that balance is WAY out of whack.
I'm sorry but I have no idea what you mean. When did crafting come into this? You're going to have to explain that a little bit clearer.
I'm against being able to craft augmentation kits, that's what this entire post is about.... You've really lost me.
Being able to pay for something that should take skill? Why would I support that?
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Some people care about social armor. Not everyone wants to look the same.
And I respect that. If you want to look different then sweet, run HM EC to get the armorings you need.
What I'm saying is you shouldn't be able to get the same stats (or close to) without setting foot in the hardest content (which you can currently do)
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But it's not actually BiS, statistically they are the same but unless you actually do HM EC or NP, you can't get the set bonuses that give the campaign set the edge, and even then the people gearing up because of the GF are stuck with the rakata primary / secondary. The fact that anyone, raider or not, can obtain black hole armor without actually having to do EC doesn't bother me in the slightest, and I like to raid, but I also like to have more chances to gear up than running the same instance every single time.
Ummmm... The Tionese/Columi/Rakata shells all hold the set bonus. You can just get any of this gear, chuck an augment kit on it and chuck full 61 mods in it. This can all be done without setting foot in HM EC. Sure you might miss a hilt for you MH/OH but that's only a couple stats. You can still fully mod your MH/OH with black hole gear, the only thing you need from the campaign gear is the hilt.
Sure there might be a few mods/enhancements that you can't get from black hole gear, but so far, from what I've seen, people that actually know what they're doing wouldn't want them.
At the end of the day, apart from a very very few mods, you can get pretty much all BiS without setting foot in HM EC.
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The problem isn't that it's possible to earn BiS or near BiS gear from easier content. The problem is you get more than twice as many BH comms from doing BT HM than defeating jarg/sorno on nightmare or zorn and toth on story mode!
The OPs may be okay at 5 (still seems like a lot), but the FPs should award 2 and then have another weekly .. maybe if you do five of them in a week you get an extra six comms, or something like that.
I respect your position but disagree. The problem is definitely that you can earn BiS gear without running the hardest content. Yes, if they made it harder to get BM comms it would be less of a problem, but it would still be THE problem.
They have made it possible to get pretty much all BiS gear without setting foot in the hardest content (with a few exceptions) and then made it pretty easy to do so.
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Interesting, you seem to be right, the only non-campaign place you can get this from is the bulwark mk-3 headgear, which can't be bought with commendations (though it can be a lucky drop from Kephess in story EC - but the chances are slim so we'll discount that as a viable source).
However, would you definately put that mod into a BiS piece? Would you prefer it over the Resilient Mod 26, which has more absorb at the cost of endurance?
Good tanks would do that. This dude seems to be one of those tanks that thinks it's better to have more hp than to prevent dmg in the first place. Glad I always healed smart tanks that realised preventing dmg is key.
But at the end of the day he is correct. The only way he can really get his s*** mods is by running HM EC.
It's their loss, not mine.
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This thread is ****ed. Top 4 heals on the first healing screen shot should be top 4 heals on the board.
3.6M, 2.8M, 2.6M, 2.4M.
Also the top 2 dmg should be on the board.
1.8M and 1.7M