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When does your subscription end? It's not called being a fan boy. It's called acctually seeing the content and statistics for yourself. This game IS growing.
It's not growing, when you see a more populated server grow it is because a low pop server just lost more people. People are rerolling on high populated servers and low populated servers are becoming ghost towns!
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Agreed! Our whole guild just moved from Krayiss Obelisk to a Very High Populated server during prime time. We had several people who were BM's and Full PvE gear, but being on a server where our population on the fleet ranged from 20-35 we are loving the change (Though we do hope for transfers soon as we put a lot of work into our mains). Our new server during prime time has 250+ on the fleet and seen 150 on Dromund Kaas. It really makes the game much more enjoyable!
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ok, im gonna take a swing at explaining why alot of people dont want reduced costs on respec. i could care less on the subject, but here is the why of it.
As is the root of 90% of issues with MMO's its the same here ... GEAR. If BW for example eliminated the cost of respecs, people would be encouraged to respec quite often for whatever reasons. while there are a few cases that 2 of the 3 specs would use the same priority on stats, more often, each spec has dependencies on slightly different (secondary) stats. ie, crit vs power, altracity vs surge, defense, shield etc...
This means that to play all 3 different specs chances are you will need 3 sets of gear.
While a reasonable person can handle this fine by picking up crafted/drop/reward gear, most MMO players are not reasonable (or particularly sane for that matter) when it comes to gear drops in instances.
Already you see tons of posts on these forums about rolling on gear for pets... now tripple that for the tank that is also a respec healer and a respec DPS, and who also rolls on that (other-spec)gear.
Don't tell me it dose not happen, it does, we all know it, and the Screams of "NINJA" will echo thru the halls, fill up the forums and make an even worse community than what there is.
raising or lowering the cost of respecs, or making dual specs, on paper/theory has no real negative effects on the game it'self. This is NOT the case when that change actually makes it into the wild.
I understand what you are saying about drops and looting and it is the only reason people should want to steer away from respec.
Most AC's have 2 viable specs atm so Dual spec will solve the problem for most people and then we could care less about Respec cost.
For the person that said respec is cheap you obviously haven't tried it much first is around 800 then around 1800 then around 8k, then 25K, then 50k and cap at 98K that's 5 respecs a week (6 tops if I missed a number) before you reach the max amount. Even if you only have 1 viable spec for PvP and 1 for PvE you can't play both if you want unless you choose to suck at one because you can't switch back in forth to do both.
So to Malastare's point about lowering it will only help low pop servers but be bad on high pop (again the only reason to complain is about looting which then I agree some people will be idiots and do as the poster above said) then give us Dual Spec already and keep the prices high. BW said they are going to implement it anyways so arguing if it is bad or good is mute at this point. No one cares about you changing spec to beat a quest we are all 50 who quest outside of dailies and we can beat those on any spec!
If you are worried about someone taking your loot for their 3 specs run OPs with your guild on master loot which will even work on NM in 1.2 so this doesn't happen.
For the person that said roll a alt, do you work for BW? I don't want to roll an alt I hate leveling! The story was fun at first but got boring quick and I don't want to level multiple characters I only enjoy playing my main so horrible advise!
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Are you upset that Bioware locked down your advanced class... or your class? Maybe we should just have all characters be the same class... with abilities that can be changed without cost... without going to the fleet.... and at any time during battle.
See how hyperbole makes arguments dumb?
Most people arguing against the elimination of respec costs do so on the basis that there should be something about your character's skill set that doesn't change more often than the weather. In reality, soldiers/fighters don't retrain themselves twice a day. A marksman doesn't decide to forget how to be a marksman and become really good at tossing grenades one hour and then decide to retrain themselves as a marksman later that night.
Yes, I realize that this is a game, but half of the fun of a game is the challenge of trying to win within a set of restrictive rules. By supporting willy-nilly respecs, you are essentially arguing to make the game easier, instead of trying to improve yourself and accomplish something with the choices you've made.
Let me break this down for you on how it works on low population servers (VERY low population) I have a fully geared character for both PVP and PVE and still enjoy raiding and don't want to reroll on another server. However to raid it might require to you play a tank one day and DPS the next due to the lack of people to choose from. Now you are doing multiple raids a week both NM and HM trying to get the FEW people geared that are on your sever, but you are spending close to 1 million in credits each week to be able to raid due to lack of people to choose jobs from? Now according to your logic I shouldn't change specs and we just shouldn't raid or fail with a bad setup?
Let me take you a little farther into low pop servers. We don't need money sinks outside of repair cost. We can't craft and sell items on the AH because there is no one to buy them. We can only make money from dailies and that pays for repair bills, but now how do I pay for my respecs?
There is no reason to be against dual spec or lower respec cost!
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This used to be true. It isn´t anymore. It correctly drops rakata even with masterloot on.
This 100%, we use Master loot now and get Rakata drops often.
Please read more before you insult people!
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So basically you want people with no lives or jobs to have better gear than people who actually participate in society?
Get a job bro.
I have a full time 8-5 jobs, a wife and a life and reached all of that without exploiting so yeah try again!
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Keep up the good work on reporting traders. To show how useful you efforts are please watch this interview and listen to the 2nd to last question. Keep up the good work guys!
http://toroz.com.au/2012/03/interview-biowares-gabe-amatangelo-on-pvp-server-transfers/
Anyways Have fun in ilum!
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Zagnnor is a very good healer but i can promise you even he will be forced to tell you that when he outheals me if he does...its by like 10k, but he doesnt do Any damage and i am always over 100k. if i were healing the entire match it wouldnt even be close if you want me to prove it i will, but i'd rather get my 25 kills and 75k damage medal. Xvivarant does about the same healing and close to the same damage as me but thats it
I am stating this from a perspective of someone who has fought both you and Zag many times in warzones and ilum. I can say Zag is harder to kill!
Maybe you do more damage, but then again maybe Zag only worries about healing and not trying to get DPS medals as he just wants to keep his teammates up to help get objectives. Maybe he isn't a hybrid spec and full 31/10 spec healing spec. I have been in ilum with groups and can have 3 people focusing on Zag and he gets away and stays alive. While I will admit you are a good healer, you do go down easier than Zag.
Anyways I have expressed enough on this thread so see you in ilum.
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Relic~
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Relic you are being extremely dramatic. I have Never had a 30 min q wait time unless its like the very early morning and i knew not to even q. The q times would be a lot less if people were qing instead of kill trading.
Sorry, but you are far off there! The only time we have good Q times is around 7-10ish and if you don't get invited to that Q there isn't enough people for another warzone so you sit for 15 min or you get one and it ends in 120 sec. Sure we are getting more 50's and its getting a little better, but yeah most of the day its 30 mins!
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No we're against trading because of many reasons.
People that do this the way it was actually intended to reach valor 60 at a much slower rate, which means they get access to BM later on.
You sir our obviously not on our server or you would realize that 30+ min Q's is much slower. Took me forever of daily grinding and long time on the weekends since I work 8 to 5 to get BM through warzones!
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Get what done?
Kill trading doesnt get anything done! Everybody constantly mumbling about "success" and "what you need" with no idea where they are actually headed.
Stop playing for gear and quest completions and start playing for fun, carebears. It's no wonder you think the system is broken, you're not a pvper.
Again you keep ignoring my post towards you I would like to challenge the fact you are a actuall pvper. You are against trading so you can keep your gear advantage I say trade to give everyone the same gear to make pvp meaning full. The whole point is SWTOR pvp is based on gear so if you want to pvp you need gear plain and simple to deny that would only show ignorance on your part.
I say you are the carebear for wanting to keep you gear advantage! Me I was BM before trading and I say trade to get everyone BM so we are all on equal playing fields to make PVP fun and not the gear based dominance that it is now!
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If you actually read a full post you might not look like such a fool. Your little assumption that gear is the goal precisely proves my entire point that killtraders are carebears.
Your idea of foresight is rather shortsighted, imo.
Actually you again have no idea. So let me help you out. No gear isn't the goal good pvp is, but in this game pvp is dependent on gear so yeah for good pvp requires a gear grind. I would actually rather have everyone on my server in BM gear instead of just me and maybe 1 or 2 other people so we can have meaning full pvp and not pvp based on who has grinded the better gear.
Next!
Relic~
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They aren't meaningless if we're fighting. They mean a healthy bump in valor. If you'd rather sit on center and loot crates, rather than get some of the 30 via real kills, then you are creating the problem. :shrug:
Again you don't understand, we aren't sitting there waiting on crates, we are staying grouped waiting for you to come back. Why would we split our resources? It doesn't make sense to split the group and have people running everywhere chasing more room for people to die. If bloodline or us (because you don't count) control center that team wins because in llum center is all that matters.
And to the person who said kill traders aren't real pvpers and are carebears you have no idea. I had BM before I ever traded and I still PVP all the time, (actually that's all I do) I do llum because its fun talking to republic friends and helps my guild mates out. Also please look at the screen shot of our fleet there is 14 people! Your server forums are -------> go talk to people on a server that actually have a population.
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Relic~
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And in the interest of disclosure (and also showing the active OPS group that turned into a kill trading session based on an agreement between Relic and Banksy).
To be clear, we had a group who was outnumbered at mid. We decided to split up and take bases in the hope the Imps would chase us and we could have some nice battles at the other bases. This is pretty clearly how the map is designed to operate and is fun when both sides play (and no one organizes a kill trade session in the middle).
Right before the screenshot, after we captured north and imp base and were on the way back to central, we got the "spotted" warning for at least one Imp at northern assault. People thought we might actually have some battles. But, then...[see the screenshot]
Relic, you may only participate in one a week (or whatever), but they happen all the time. And the spillover from them makes central into the Paris Peace talks where everyone has their own expectations about what's "cool" and who is fair game. Much simpler if we just fight.
How about we try just fighting and see how that works?
If one side has huge numbers they can hold central to farm crates and then the other side will attack bases. The extras at center can then chase down the side capturing bases. THAT WOULD BE FUN.
Eventually, the side with numbers will farm out their dailies at central and presumably the other side would be able to retake center. BLAH, BLAH.....
It's funny how clueless you are about what happens on our server.
Second I always tell my people to stay mid and make you come to us so cruising around taking meaning less objectives is pointless.
Don't worry Tal I will make sure I kill you everytime I see you!
Relic~
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You and the Bloodline folks CHOOSE to kill trade rather than real PVP. You have the people, it would be easy enough to break up into a few OPS groups and have battles across the whole map. And it would be FUN!
On two occasions I have been in OPS group involved in actual PVP against the Imps and had that fighting prematurely ended because you and others decided to kill trade. Oh, and neither was on a Sunday. Both times I had to drop group and leave Ilum - or be forced to participate (or simply watch) the mass kill trading.
I know you have been a BM since before I hit Level 50 and even got to Ilum. I also know several on the Republic side who had much less valor when I first got out there. And now those folks have rocketed through the Valor 50's, and are BMs.
I'm not sure who you are, but the only two times I have trade 1 was at the spur of the moment the other was organized so not sure if you were imagining or thought I was somewhere I wasn't.
Second: Monday - Saturday we do fight there are no truces and I have brought battle to Ilum a couple times. We do fight there and it is a normal area for the most part.
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This is our server on the imperial side. Now take into consideration imps have more than the repubs. Please look at the number on the fleet.
What else are we to do.
http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv99/goodbyffxi/Screenshot_2012-02-27_11_59_33_421188.jpg
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It says they don't encourage it but then asks for player names so it sounds like it's a little more than simply discouraged.
If they did more than simply discourage it they would loose A Lot of their subs. Fine roll back my valor I still have my BM and all my gear. All the people that exploited this right after the llum patch when they were camping the republic bases never got in trouble or lost valor so how can you now?
Give us a real pvp system and this wouldn't take place anymore. Give us an incentive to protect our bases and to take the enemy base make it real world pvp! Until then you will see this happen over and over on every server!
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Seems like all of you 'Bioware sez its okay to cheat' people were wrong and that screenshot everyone claims as gospel is... er... not.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=329020&highlight=kill+trading
So they contradict themselves. Do they even know if its ok?
Also all that says is they don't encourage it.
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Nevermind, not going to bother.
PS: Hey Relic, you should whisper Kiernann and Rap some more when you plan on doing that.
I hear cool kids do that.
Send me a friend invite!
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Thanks for posting in this thread relic it's nice to hear from you and I enjoy speaking with you because you're actually intelligent as opposed to whoever that republican from our server that posted earlier real quick just to clear up what he said
1. I was invited to join the kill trading actually by both sides. Although it took me severely annoying relic here for him to invite me.
2. No I haven't kill traded
3. And this will make people think I'm arrogant and maybe I am who cares, but I Am the best healer on the server as is proven over and over again in wz's where only zagnnor and xvirrant can match my healing output, but zag doesn't even come close to being able to do the 100k-200k damage that me and xvirrant consistently do in addition to healing. I Think it's xvirrant? Relic will be able to correct me if I'm wrong...
Back to actual thread related topic:
Relic i completely understand where you're coming from it is bioware's fault and I don't blame anyone but them. I also don't want anyone banned, because without you I really would never die in a wz
. Having said that I'm a teacher and I don't agree with a lot of rules and laws and regulations I am faced with Every day; however I abide by them because I have a sense of honor not only to myself but to the people around me. Not everyone has that same moral code and if you don't then good for you there's many times I wish I didn't. But regardless it is still only fair to make everyone abide by those rules. The only sad/pathetic part about you is you claim to have gotten BM completely fairly which idk about but I do know kill trading has been going on for over a month and if you didnt organize the imperials who did? But if you say it as legit I believe you. But having said that why tarnish what you did legitimately by allowing others to get there illegitimately?His name is Xvivarant. And I think many people on our server both republic and imperial can verify I hit BM before we ever started trading. However I do organize the event for the Imperials for the most part I have no shame its a video game and I have nothing better to do in it.
Though I can respect your feelings for honor we do not all feel the same in video games so if you don't like it don't join we won't hold that against you. It's everyone's choice and most people choose to get involved it also helps build our community on our ever so small populated server.
Relic~
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Stuff like this always happens, and people normally get dealt with but if you want to do something about it, get your guild together and go kill them best way
Great advice except bringing his guild there would have just fed us more valor as we vastly out numbered any group he could have gathered.
P.S. Thanks Luked for the screenshot, it was great for the front page of our website.
Relic~
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Seems to me more like that CS rep didn't understand what was really going on. He replies as if it's simply 2 groups that arranged to go PvP on Ilum.
"Trading kills" could easily be taken as "trading punches" to a clueless CS rep that uses templates for most replies.
Can you not read? The CS rep states exactly:
"If a group of lvl 50 Imperial and Republic players coordinate to meet up on llum and FARM valor points by TRADING KILLS isn't considered as an exploit!"
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Relic~
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Official BioWare response that everyone is referring too, probably one screenshot of MANY tickets filed by players:
I did a quick search on these forums for the words 'ilum kill trade' and found this thread:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=268122&highlight=ilum+kill+trading
and I nabbed the pic from the third post.
You sir are my hero. Sorry Luked good effort though!
Relic~
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Hi Luked <3.
So anyways I am in that picture and yes I hit BM before our server ever started doing this (Both repubs and imps on our server can verify this)!
Why do I join and participate in this you might ask, simple because THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO DO! We are an extremely small server and Warzone Q's are long. We kill each other legit in llum all week except 2 times we have done this on Sunday that I have seen.
So if you get your way Luked and they ban everyone who was there you just lost 60 people and these 60 people are the most active on our server so now enjoy NEVER getting a warzone, flashpoints and running around the fleet by yourself.
Ban me there is nothing left to do on the game anyways, besides run warzones when I'm bored and a once a week operation. I enjoy the game and plan on sticking around to see it hopefully evolve into something fun, but if they ban people for this then so be it they ruined their own game.
Fact is BW has made llum this way and given us nothing better to do with our time, don't hate the players hate the system.
Relic~
shadow/assassin tank changes in 1.3
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I'm the main tank for our guild on my assassin. We normally run 2 groups, but Tuesday everyone was on so we did Zorn and Toth HM 16man. I didn't have any problems tanking them during 16 man HM. My healers said they barely noticed any change.
Last night we went back to our normal groups to finish HM EC and even with Keph I was able to tank no problem and again my healer said he didn't notice much difference though all the fights. We run 1 op and 1 sorc heals. Below is my gear and stats, but we had no problem clearing HM EC with a Sin as main tank. Sure we can see the changes, but its not enough that it should make any difference on your raid group. These changes aren't enough that it should cause any groups to not be able to clear any content.
I want to throw out there that for our second group I'm also main tank as a Powertech. I have a much easier time tanking on my sin than I do my Powertech. Sure there is a little gear difference my PT only has 3 pieces of Campaign gear and the rest is BH, but stats are very close and shouldn't be enough to matter as I pulled all the mods from the BH gear and stuck it in my Rakata gear to maintain my 4 piece set bonus.
Gear
Campaign Survivor's Headgear
Campaign Survivor's Robe
Campaign Survivor's Handwraps
Campaign Survivor's Legwraps
Black Hole Duelist MK-2 Boots
Campaign Survivor's Waistwrap
Campaign Survivor's Bracers
Weapon - Rakata Hilt, with Black Hole Absorb mods
Black Hole Duelist MK-1 Implant x 2
Black Hole Duelist MK-1 Earpiece
Experimental Shield Overcharger - Relic
Warhero Relic - Absorb
All gear is fully modded.
Armor Rating 6141
Defense - 27.52%
Shield - 67.22%
Absorb - 61.43%
Health - 25k
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