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    FTM bugged (maybe by alacrity)?

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    FTM stopped working for me altogether since when new keybind import feature was added so IDK.

     

    If it's not working at all for you, I suggest you looking into preferences, under control, and see if you actually toggled on "Enable Focus Target"

    FTM bugged (maybe by alacrity)?

    in PvP

    Posted · Edited by Azurestone

    FTM = Focus Target Modifier, where it allows you to press a keybind to hit a target without actually targeting or looking at it. I seem to observed that when using FTM, your GCD is not properly reduced by alacrity, and this could cost huge problems, if true, when a team is running FTM to burst. Here are ways to test it.

     

    Set your friend as focus target, and then manually target yourself or looking at yourself, by clicking on your portrait:

     

     

    1. AP PT MB spam method (with 10% alacrity)

     

     

    Play as an AP PT, stack 10% alacrity, and spam 10 mag blast on your friend using FTM. I noticed that:

    • When I directly target my friend, and spam 10 MB, all MBs hit my friend with a properly faster GCD (alacrity and everything else working as intended)
    • When I target myself, and FTM to MB my friend, the GCD seems to be slower (according to parser it is 0.1 sec slower or maybe more), and somewhere in the 10 MBs, you would notice a significant delay where no matter how fast you spam MB, the ability won't go out. It's as if over the span of 10 MBs, you used 10 abilities with a regular 1.5 GCD (alacrity not working properly for FTM?)

     

     

     

    2. GCD Heal spam method (with 10% alacrity)

    This can be done by either using operative to spam Kolto Probes, or Merc to spam Kolto Shots, or any other class that has a heal move on GCD.

     

     

    • For example if you run operative with 10% alacrity, manually target yourself and focus target your friend, and spam Kolto Probes as fast as possible, while holding down FTM, you would notice this: not all probes are on your friend.
    • If FTM is working properly, when you hold on FTM continuously, all abilities activated land on your focus target, in this case all kolto proves should be on your friend.
    • But in this case, if you spam as fast as possible, you would notice that some of the kolto probes are activated on yourself. Similar things happen with Merc Kolto Shot spam.

     

     

     

    It seems to me that this is a result of alacrity not reducing FTM system GCD properly, it's like your real GCD has finished due to 10% alacrity but your FTM GCD has not, hence the probes/kolto shot on your self. It gets very weird when it comes to damaging ability (refer to the PT testing method mentioned above), and I have not tested this on casting abilities.

     

     

    I PvP'd long enough to know this isn't lag or FPS issues, and I normally do not have ability delays like these (consistent 90 or less ms). The delay during 10 MB spam on PT is very obvious, it's almost as if your mag gun is stuck. To make sure that it is not my net problem, I asked multiple friends with similar or better connection to run the same tests, and they observed the same result.

     

     

    This could be really harmful in ranked 4s play. You can easily mess up a burst or flashing/WW the wrong target using FTM, and if my guess is true it makes alacrity build utterly useless for FTM plays.

     

     

    So can we get more players to give this a test, to see if it is just me not doing things properly or is this indeed a bug? And can we get some devs response regarding this issue? Many thanks ahead for people who are going to test upon reading this thread.

    Best Player World

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    Posted · Edited by Azurestone

    Hello guys, allow me to humbly introduce myself. I am simply known as the best player in the world (NA > EU). I have always wanted to share my knowledge with the community as my wisdom is beyond the grasp of peasants.

     

    I main a PT, and I am an Elite Warlord. Through never-seen-before hard practice day and night, I have come to a conclusion: PT is not a 4-button spam class. It requires a lot of skills to do a highly advanced 3-button rotation. Its entire rotation consists of:

     

    • Explosive Dart
    • Thermal Detonator
    • Allahu Akabur

     

    I feel sad that the majority of community are not as good as me, i.e. not good enough to realize that PT actually needs a buff. The reasons are twofold:

     

    • Occasionally I notice that my Allahu Akabur fails to one-shot a target in 2 GCD, and I am very sure this is not intended, and Bioware must have already been working a fix ASAP.
       
    • Current meta does not favor AP PT in tank tunnel, which to be honest is the most skill-demanding and advanced strategy. Therefore, I petition the community to ask for more operative nerfs, and change Rail Shot, Mag Blast and Energy Burst to internal damage.

    <----------The Best Sniper / Gunslinger PvP Guide ---------->

    in Gunslinger / Sniper

    Posted · Edited by Azurestone

    Also just asking honest questions not arguing:

     

    On gearing:

     

    • Why not alacrity? I ain't talking about regs or damage farm, but hard swap burst damage. I've heard a lot about the magic of 10% alacrity, which allows you to squeeze in one extra GCD during a 4 sec hard swap, hence dramatically increasing your burst damage.
       
    • Why power over crit? I am currently trying your power heavy build, but I couldn't help but sense doubt in the Force. MM snipe is one of the very few specs that have massive increased crit chance and crit multiplier tied to your rotations, wouldn't crit help more with that? I understand there is a diminishing return on crit after around 1400 points, but is it not worth pursuing even though sniper has so many crit buff?

     

    On utility points:

     

    • Why Deployed Shields over Evacuate? I ask this because I see mercs have heavy armor, and still get blown up all the time without a tank. When tank guard swap comes into picture, that 5% hardly matters (merc being proof), and a lower cooldown on an insta CC becomes massively powerful.

    Still a new sniper under a lot of practice. Please help me understand, thanks.

    Swtor 5.0: Dread Master Revan

    in PvP

    Posted · Edited by Azurestone

    Disclaimer:

     

     

    As a sequel to the vanilla version, this is also fake and purely for shets and giggles. For any real information, please refer to dev blogs and reliable resources.

     

     

    Turned out Reven absorbed dread masters' mana and is, in fact, the emperor himself.

     

    • Uber TB: Thundering blast will now travel endlessly between all enemy targets within 200 m of the first target until it kills a player. A player killed by Uber TB will be left with a debuff called "Sorc is not OP". "Sorc is not OP" lasts 5 minutes, and instantly kills the player next time the Sorc start casting Thundering Blast, no matter where the player is, and whether or not the player is in warzones.
    • Creepy CT: Creeping Terror now roots the target for the entirety of its duration, and this root effect is not broken upon damage.
    • Omni-Guard: Since player has reported that Guard Swap is very hard, we have decided to implement a whole new automatic guard swap system "Omni-Guard". Omni-Guard automatically swap guard to the target that's about to take loads of damage.
    • Hyper Laze Target: Laze Target will now make your next ability, no matter what, automatically crits. In addition, popping Laze target prior to using an Ambush, Explosive Probe, and/or Cull will automatically casts "Megatron Shot". Megatron shot merges every single ability you have into one ability.
    • Kolto Reset: If AP Powertech fails to instantly global a target, all its offensive cooldowns will be reset to 0. In addition, AP flame sweep is now off GCD and spread Thermal Detonator to all targets hit.
    • Desperate DB: Carnage Marauder now stores energy lodes for Devastating Blast. Every time marauder takes damage, it charges 1 energy lode that increases the damage of next DB by 50%, up to 5 charges. At 5 charges, DB becomes an AOE effect that stuns all targets, player or non player alike.
    • Ravager: Ravage is now off GCD.
    • Devoted Ganker: Activating this ability will teleport concealment operative and marked targets to a different universe, where they have to 1v1. If concealment operative lose, it will be banned for 24 hours, If concealment operative wins, there will be a thread posted on forum automatically asking to nerf concealment immediately. 30 sec cooldown.
    • Skank Tank: Vengeance juggernaut will now gain every single perks of tank tree and full tanking utilities upon switching to tank stance.

     

    Mercs are fine. They are balanced and working as intended™.

     

    Finally, "better than cross-server" is here. The purpose of cross-server is to ensure comp variety and constant queue pops. To achieve this, players can now take their companions into group ranked.

    Bring back single target DPS To Sorcs.

    in Sage / Sorcerer

    Posted

    Keep force storm as it is now, but bring back the old single target dps.

     

    I wish it were less RNG dependent. It would be the dream if we could migrate the double proc damage into normal hits and just eliminate the double proc. And LF feels like it's crit, or it might as well be a chain shock

    Windows 10 Support

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I have the same question OP...I'd like to upgrade to Win10...but not if the game won't run

     

    /shakehands

     

    Hope a dev could respond. I am probably not the only one who's wondering how soon is Win 10 support coming in.

    Sents/Maras in PvP

    in Sage / Sorcerer

    Posted · Edited by Azurestone

    I hear a lot of soundbite about how these classes are dogmeat for a sorc/sage.

     

    Not seeing it myself. I simply have less tools to keep them off me than they have to stay in melee range, or get in melee range should I get some distance.

     

    As madness, I have very little burst damage to call on so I'm relying on sustained, which is crap. Should I try to set up my limited burst window with Lightning/Leech/Proc, they have defensive cd's to blow it off while they get back to smashing my face in.

     

    What am I doing wrong? Force slow is useless, I'm perma-snared and rooted by Master Strike when it's off cd. I can't create distance as they just Force Leap back in my face.

     

    Electrocute during big burst window, 1 root ability after predation. Don't speed right away during ravage:

     

    1. Mara ravage is not that strong anymore. Not even carnage gore ravage.

    2. Sprinting right as warriors start rvg will rubber band you back.

     

    And don't take bubble stun.

    Windows 10 Support

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    No - because Windows 10 has not been officially released.

    Come back and ask once it has been.

     

    It's gonna be released in less than 9 days, now. I've been reading all sorts of game forums, many of which have a dev thread answering the state of their games' win 10 support. So I am just wondering, what's it like for SWTOR, out of curiosity.

    lol WoW is adding cross faction.

    in Off-Topic

    Posted

    I'm not comparing it to WoW. I just find the irony in the fact that we have been asking for cross faction for awhile now(over a year at least) and now WoW is implementing it. Its just funny to me.

     

     

     

    This made me laugh more than it probably should have lol.

     

    10/10 came here to find this right after I saw PvP mercenary mode

    Anyone else feeling hopeless?

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    Posted

    Honestly I quit. I took out my sketch book started drawing again. Ordered some DVDs off the internet so i can learn Japanese. I'm also hitting the gym a lot more then usual and eating right. So far dropping video games in general (which is not the first time of done it but it gets addicting tbh) is the best thing for me.

     

    And SWTOR forum is the one thing you can't resist coming back to

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