[Augment slot on all gear 1.3]

Interview with two of the devs on 1.3's crew skill changes just went up.

 

http://inquisitorsroadhouse.com/2012/05/16/patch-1-3-crew-skills-changes-qa-with-swtor-systems-designers-david-hunt-and-patrick-malott/

 

There are two costs to add an augment slot: credits and an Augmentation Kit. The current cost progression starts at 4,500 credits and ends at 50,000 credits, while the kits come in the same MKs that match the types of slots you can add to an item.

 

Kits are acquired through three crew skills: Armstech, Armormech and Synthweaving. There is no difference in the kits they make, and they can find the recipes on the trainer. In order to create a kit, you need 10 Augmentation Slot Components of the appropriate MK. You receive one component whenever you Reverse Engineer a piece of crafted gear. Note that this is a non-random addition on top of the other returns you already get from RE, meaning that every 10 consumed items will reliably give you the components for one kit. This helps counteract bad luck dealing with randomness and crafting crits, as you’re guaranteed to be able to get the primary limiting component for an augment slot after 10 crafts. Note that since you get the component for the level of the item you’re making, you don’t need to try to craft the expensive purple 10 times. Just make one, then if you don’t crit you can make cheaper items to get the components necessary to create an augment kit.

[Share the LS/DS gains that made you facepalm]

Once I read what the pattern / criteria were, I was never surprised again.

 

As it turns out, the Light side favors life.

 

So if you choose to, say, torture someone for months rather than killing them, you'd get LS points?

[Share the LS/DS gains that made you facepalm]

For me, the mission on Nar Shaddaa where you have the choice to either kill the

alien who's taken control of the Hutt network

or let him live was silly. Letting him live benefits you personally as well as the Empire, while killing him is honest and loyal to your Hutt allies. Yet the selfish action gives you LS points and the the noble one gives you DS points.

[Best credits/minute space mission?]

Topic. What are the most efficient credit-making space missions? I'm currently L45.

[Friend-to-friend Teleporting]

Make it an item you can pick up at the social vendor with a limited number of charges. Should be fairly expensive too, to prevent abuse.

[Same level same stats on multiple enhancements... why?]

The advanced versions have differing stats.

[Being charged for removing mods from Armor]

Because if they're not useful anymore, you can simply slot a new mod into the armor and destroy the old one. If they are still useful, then you shouldn't mind paying to keep them.

[marriage]

not to mention when SGR comes out, every male player rolling a female SW will dump quinn in a heartbeat

 

And every male rolling a female SI will dump Andronikos/Talos for Ashara.

[3D Space Combat?]

Go play the multiplayer portion of Revenge of the Sith for the DS. That's how space combat should be. Use mouse steering, throw in some level-up type system similar to Valor ranks to upgrade your ship, and Bob's your uncle.

[Unarmed attacks... completely pointless?]

Its for the lulz, what's the problem?

 

About what I figured. Thankfully, you get to unlock these by grinding out easy Valor ranks (highest requirement is Valor level 20) rather than pay insane amounts of credits like everything else in the Legacy system.

[Unarmed attacks... completely pointless?]

Given that they do terrible damage, require you to actually UNEQUIP your weapon(s), and in at least one case have a drawback... is there any point to this other than maybe RP or non-serious PVP?

[Mos Eisley radio breaks on potential spoiler!]

More items flooding the market, but more buyers as well.

 

I think it'll work out.

[If you had to bring one star wars character to a bar fight? Who do you bring?]

Grievous. Or Mace Windu.

[Crafted Saber Issue - Unbalanced Economy]

Solution: Give the L50 sabers a really cool cosmetic option.

 

Like... Once you equip the item and it becomes bound, you get a special item that lets you rename it once. Or give it an "appearance" item mod slot that you can drag another lightsaber into, giving the EML the skin of the lightsaber in that slot.

[Crafted Saber Issue - Unbalanced Economy]

Bu-but the level 50 sabers do a whole FIVE TO SEVEN points more damage! Surely that's worth tens of thousands of credits!

 

[Dread Masters Look Ridiculous]

The mouths moving is actually a graphical bug that exists on all mask-wearing characters. You can see it on Darth Malgus in some of the flashpoint intros when he looks up, and if you're playing a SI and keep Kallig's Countenance, you'll see the bottom portion of the mask moving when you talk.

[Remove mouth animations from characters with masks]

Seriously, BW. When they talk, you can see their mask moving, and it just looks ridiculous. Like Darth Malgus's breath mask stretches, and the bottom of Kallig's Countenance moves up and down when the SI speaks.

 

It also makes the new look of the Dread Masters even sillier than it would otherwise be.

[Dammit, Talos...]

Are you sure about this? I have Mako, Tharan, Doc and Elara and I have never seen them heal me in passive mode. In fact I died on several occasions because I left my healer on passive mode.

 

He's saying it doesn't but it ought to.

[Dammit, Talos...]

Putting him on passive should put him into Healing only mode. It's a pain in the *** to micro manage heals without mouse-overs and losing targets in the process.

 

This. So much this.

[Dammit, Talos...]

Just turn on passive mode. Problem solved.

 

Then he stops healing me.

 

I don't want him passive, I want him to stop aggroing everything in sight.

 

I'll pop a group, CC a couple with Whirlwind, then start attacking the others... Talos will break my CC by attacking, then he'll run over and aggro a completely different group, so now I'm fighting 6+ enemies that are 2-4 levels above me, getting me killed.

 

What's the point of running with a healer companion when he's causing me to take way more damage than he heals?

[Dammit, Talos...]

Stop attacking CC'd enemies and enemies who aren't aggroed on me that I'm trying to sneak past.

 

Seriously, BW, fix his AI. This is ridiculous. I've turned off his offensive powers and he still uses basic attacks on them. I'm trying to solo above-level content and he keeps attacking everything in sight.

[Rakghoul plague now persists through suicide]

It doesn't cost anything. You don't have to buy a vaccine. Just sell the DNA samples you get from dieing. Some people are willing to pay up to 10,000cr each sample.

 

Are you saying I can earn 50k credits just for letting this thing kill me?

 

Well that's a horse of a different color...

[Rakghoul plague now persists through suicide]

I don't get it, what is not to like?

Persist through suicide is necessary because it would invalidate the reason for having the vaccinations.

 

If you don't want to participate just vaccinate yourself and be done with it. Why you don't want the high-end crystals is you're own business. But stop butting into the business of people who DO want the rewards.

 

I shouldn't have to shell out 2k credits because I don't want to get sick and die.

[Rakghoul plague now persists through suicide]

Really, Bioware?

 

REALLY?

[What are the big money-makers for Artifice?]

How much are they going for?