*WARNING - IA STORY SPOILERS* Im wondering what we can do as players to manipulate the IA story line. I tried looking for an IA story choice guide but couldnt find any. Ive completed the story on one operative and Im now lvl30 with my other one. Here is my beef: 1) I dont want keeper to be replaced by watcher 2 as keeper 2) I dont want to destroy the star cabal secret 3) I dont want Jadus and Zhorrid to interfere with Imperial Intelligence but I dont think this is possible, so Id rather have the info on how best to deal with them to have a minimum of sith interference in Imperial Agency matters 4) I dont want Imperial Intelligence disolved On point 4. If this ending with Imperial Intelligence being disovled is cannon/unchangable. This actually ruins the IA for me completely. Because it is poor writing, implausible, completely illogical and meaningless. Why? Because intelligence and information gathering is of major - if not a deciding factor in warfare. As Sun Tzu puts it in one way- "All warfare is based on deception". If the Sith are so brainless, retarded and stupid to shut down Imperial Intelligence - they are giving the republic a major advantage in the war. As I understood it in the story: The Sith shuts down Imperial Intelligence due to fear of them becomming too powerful? That is by most the worst and facepalm worthy thing Ive seen in the story. The Sith are brutal, powerful and is in NO WAY threathened by Imperial Intelligence. Imperial Intelligence and the dark council is like a symbiotic relationship in nature. From wikipedia: Symbiotic relationships are obligate, meaning that both symbionts entirely depend on each other for survival They are indeed dependant on eachother for mutual survival. Cutting off Imperial Intelligence is as if someone should cut off one of their own arms. As it stands, if this is not possible to change during the IA storyline. I will lose the respect and love for this class and for the Empire due to this horrid writing decision to the point I may aswell reroll Republic and hope their stories end in a way that isnt as ridiculous. So yeah, what exactly can we do to manipulate the story of our IA? Because if this isnt remedied IA story will go from my most loved one to the most hated one. Our choices should matter. If Imperial intelligence gets desolved nomatter what - then I feel every choice Ive made playing is completely meaningless -.- /Rant over

Hey guys. How does this heal work on high levels? At my lvl it heals practicly NADA. Using talents on it seems pointless because even with 1-2 energy regen on crits, that is such a small energy recovery that points in chem resistant and layer seems a better choice. Convince me why its good?

You can heal in cover? xD First thing I did at lvl3 with my first operative was removing cover from the bar. Never used cover in pvp or pve in any scenario ever. I wouldnt mind if they removed cover. Its probably the only ability I only ever used ONCE.

Thanks for the reply I do tend to enjoy non-force classes more so I'll go for trooper then.

Hey guys. IA story was so great... but I want to try a republican class now. Im just afraid that from the power hungry sith classes, Evil-James Bond/Jason Bourne personality of my IA, and the constant mass murder and flirting across the universe as imperial classes - I'll find the Republic classes, stories and conversation options utterly boring. I'm hoping I'm wrong ofcourse! I know you can play DS as republican classes too. But I want to play the more traditional good guy playing a republican class. I dont really like the theme of Scoundrel. I never found being a space pirate/smugler etc. appealing. So Im thinking Trooper or Consular atm. Mostly because I want to play a healer if I level the class up all the way. Based on this info, what Republican class would you reccomend me for: Story, Good romance (For males), DS/LS choice and so on? Im just afraid that after playing the IA - I'll find the republican class stories lacking.

Please explain >.< According to common sense, a high alacrity rating would make you burn away your energy faster, not slower.

I'm not 100% sure how cunning works. It says STR increases melee damage and cunning increases tech damage. Are all of the agent's skills based on cunning including heals? Or will strength make shiv , backstab and other melee abilities stronger?

Typical. There are like 10 EU servers and the ONE server I chose is ofc down

Thanks alot for taking your time to write an answer!

Yeah yeah, Im going to compare with wow - shoot me -.- But seriously, fights like Ragnaros, Illidan and the Lich King were extremely satisfying at all these points: 1) LORE 2) CHALLENGE 3) BUILD UP 4) WRITING 5) LOOT 6) VILLAIN PERSONALITIES / PRESENCE The only thing wow failed at here that SWTOR does good so far atleast is DIALOGUE. In WoW you had no oppurtunity to talk to your famous enemies and actually get a response. On the points mentioned, how well does SW:TOR execute them?

Just like to add that I too think alacrity is underwhelming. power/surge/crit is already a 3-split commitment, go for alacrity aswell and you have too small a cake for the stats to share. My main beef with alacrity is that: 1) You need alot of points for it to be noticable good 2) Faster casting = faster energy drain, its alot better for your heals to hit hard, crit often, and crit good than running out of energy after 10 seconds due to spamming tonns of lesser quality heals. Suggestions if a Dev is reading this: Increase the benefit of alacrity early on and rather give the stat several more breakage points for diminnising returns.

For some reason this made me laugh out loud He is not an ant, yet he is. It could have been an insult, but it is the truth. Simplistic yet artful. Ants arent interesting, but he is indeeed an ant. (English not my native language hard to explain fully x))

Instead of doing this in the real world! If anything this is healthy.

Thanks guys! My worries are gone I`ll continue my warrior then. On a companion basis Im glad to hear this aswell, as I love the SW companions way more than the SI.

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Seems to me that Sith warriors are more "Foot soldiers" than leaders. Doing the brute force work that sith inquisitors wont "Lower themselves" to do. If I cant reach as high a status than a Sith Inquisitor Id rather play one of those instead even though Id prefer warrior in gamestyle. Are there sith warriors on the dark council? Do they rise just as high? Or are they doomed to stop next to the top as an underling to a sith inq? Do sith warriors get the "lord" title? RP wise I prefer the deception, elitist attitude and power hungry leader type that thirsts for forbidden knowledge. Gameplaywise I like sith warrior more. Without spoilers could someone point me in the right direction? So far Im getting the feel that a sith warrior is just a tool to be used by SIs.

Been leveling with medicine since the beginning. But not before now on voss+ (lvl45 atm) am I having a really hard time. Suddenly, on voss + Corellia now that I can go these places - the enemies are into overdrive! If I pull a group of 4 normal mobs they will shoot down 35-40% of my hp in seconds. I had to abandon my first quest EVER - since I couldnt manage to kill 2 silver mobs! They simply burst me down so fast (or my tank) that even spam healing doesent help. Its like all mobs suddenly took steroids and got cheat codes. And yes, both me and my companions gear is up to date. I have 900 cunnng and 775 endurance (10k hp) My companion has all the tanking skills on and such. Is it normal for the game to become alot harder on the last planets? Ive had NO problems up to and completing Belsavis (Quiet the opposite, its been easy) Now killing a gold (elite?) mob takes ages because I dont have the energy to both heal and damage, I have to spam heal to kill elites.

"Many AOE healing over time abilities" lol ^^ Im lvl43 atm and only have Kolto probe. The other one is recuperative nanotech but that one is for the moment useless. Imagine a wow druids healing rain, only that the heal is as weak as bandage. I feel we are more of a single target burst healer/tank healer.The reason for this is our use of chaincasting 2 heal spells constantly (Kolto injection+surgical probe), each 2.1 seconds you will have about 2xKT ticks and 1 KI/1SP. With lucky crits I can top a tank from near death to full HP in only 2 "rounds"

You are right on both accounts. Both Nanotech and infusion are not only bad, they are actually so bad you are sabotaging your healing.

Leveled with full medicine all the way , 42 atm and Ive never come across an encounter that I couldnt handle. I soloed a HC quest by sleep darting an elite, slicing a droid then proceeding to kill another elite. Then finnish the second elite and reslicing the droid. Then finnishing the droid. It goes slow though. I have 4 days 20 hours played at 42.

Evi and headshot are both so underwhelming I removed them from my bar. Leveling as healer though so all in medicine. Spamming shiv and backstab is more than enough. Evi and headshot do a tiny bit more damage and then has an ages long CD.

Well... I think a top tier talent should be usefull. Recuperative nanotech seems very lackluster so far. Im only lvl42 though , not sure how it is with best gear in raiding environment but if it is only half as bad as now... -.-

pvp lol...

As an operative healer im kinda worried about energy more than overhealing. When healing lots of targets - what skills to use isnt the problem, not going beneath the "cliff" of lower energy regen is. Not being able to control crits doesent seem like a problem, its more like: "Oh hey I just critted - and hard, now I can heal that other guy instead of healing the tank one more time first" Not being able to predict crits is one thing, but as they land you can react accordingly imo. Still - will have to see in operations how it all turns out.

I wasnt stating this as facts, just as a guess from personal experience and theory crafting. When I focused crit chance - the crit chance skyrocketed, while stacking power gave only a very minor boost despite going for a good amount of it. I feel power gives little in comparison to other stats. And guessing surge is better as it gets more valuable with high crit. I am completely open for being totally wrong