for all of my characters

I'd recomend getting EVGA or MSI card, its a bit more expensive than ASUS/Gygabyte but in case of M.R.A. EVGA and MSI in my experience have a lot better customer support.

Yes if you are looking for a card that wont become completely obsolete in a couple of years. In general, 970 is ~50% more powerful than 960. But what is really limiting 960 is 2GB VRAM and 128 bit memory bus. To begin with, 970 has 4 GB VRAM and 256 bit memory bus. As ultraHD (1440p) is slowly becoming a new standard and introduction of 4k, textures in newer games will come in higher resolution requiring more VRAM. P.S. SWTOR at launch for example was running really poorly for people with 512MB/1GB VRAM graphic cards, as 1GB wasnt enough for storing all the textures from highly populated imperial/republic fleet and it was creating a huge load on HDD, starting an I/O bottleneck. (HDD just wasnt fast enough to load/unload textures and sounds at reasonable framerate). Same thing will happen eventually with newer games and 2GB VRAM cards

get 970 for gaming. Best $/performance ratio in 900 series. On my second PC it is working flawlessly even on an old i5 2500K cpu. Dont buy 980 if you have limited budget, extra 200 euros for 5-10 fps gain compared to 970. PC with 980 does render videos a lot quicker though, but it also has an i7-5930k

playable ponies plx

Only 135 packs? Keep going mate. It took me 27 hypercrates to get 1h lightsaber, and 25 hypercrates to get dualsaber.

Blackjack and ******s will always fix money piling up problem ;P Seriously though, introduction of a casino with functional slot machines that would have a chance of giving some rare items would fix things...

Why? Maybe I explained it wrong, but turns out that anarchist packs aren't that bad from GTN perspective. On average 1 HC gives you ~10m worth of stuff. Strategy packs for example on average had ~4m worth of stuff. So buying them even for 16-20m is still worth it if you are trying to complete collection.

It was more like 170 euros, 14500 CC costs 3100 russian rubles in Russia (30-35 euros). I could, but opening hypercrates to get all the items from the new collection was just an excersise to prove how "bad" the new hypercrates are for GTN economy. HC are worth 16-18m on GTN. Opening one and selling stuff from it will bring you 4.7m (lowest) and 22m (highest) in 7 days span. The only good thing out of the new pack is the"overflow" effect that occured on day 4 or 5 after anarchist packs release, when prices of some old rare items dropped down up to 400% ( I'm talking about white colour crystals selling for 4m, holostatues for 300k etc).

it took me 27 hypercrates to get both 1h and dual saber. Bought 12 hypercrates with real cash and 15 from gtn. P.S. will never buy hypercrates for real cash again

check gtn for contraband slots. Bought one for 5m maybe a month ago... Although, its not very reliable source of cartel certificates, unless you are ready to sit and click on that thingy for hours. Played ~1000 chips, got 1 certificate so far..

The end game is to milk SW fans as hard as they can. Recent reports revealed that SWTOR now is at its highest number of subscribers since 2013. Star Wars Episode VII and KOTFE hype. But they know that this is temporary effect, and in a couple of months playerbase will decline and probably will never be as high as it is now. At least this is what I would have done.

After spending 43500 CC on hypercrates/supercrates and yet missing A LOT of items from the new pack, I can say I'm done. I'll pass on purchasing packs that don't guarantee an item from new collection. Too many packs contained 1 or 2x chance cubes + jawa scrap/companion gifts and no actual items from the new pack (which is what we as customers want to buy). This business model is just stupid and is alienating your customers..

4 hypercrates, no new lightsabers...

After 3 hypercrates haven't completed a single set of the new armors ;/ Lots of old titles, pets and emotes though. 9 sets of old bronze armor...

206 mounts

I wonder if giving away codes to redeem is actually reducing amount of toxicity on forums because of the issues with game update.

Wait, what? After a lot of issues with patching after swtor launched you did set up a test server back in 2012. Where did it go?

Nah, MMORPGs were rocking long before M59 They were called MUDs though and were text based..

u wot m8?

Your country should be proud of you.

Haven't experienced BW maintenance since 2012 (when I stopped playing swtor). Glad to know that in 4 years nothing has changed.

Yeah, all classes are balanced! It's just some classes are more balanced than the others, and the most balanced(by significant margin) are the marauders/sentinels. /sarcasm off

My bet is on gore+ravage(all ticks critted)+force scream from a full wh with augments carnage mara with adrenal/relic popped.

its still a huge nerf. You see, in team fights, the people(if they know what they are doing) tend to mark, cc and focus dps operatives as soon as we open on someone. So you have to blow cc breaker, evasion and vanish or rely on your healer if you hope to survive. Trying to mantain dps op alive at least for the stun duration if he is being focused is already hard, and sometimes is impossible. So yeah, we are going to be even more squishy now in team fights and being focused as primary target even more often.