Didn't we have a maintenance last night? I just resubbed, is the game like this a lot? Maint all the time?

As much as I love to take every chance to talk poorly about SWTOR; the op is right. Build trees in MMOs don't really work very well anymore since ultimately people will always find the most optimized route. While some freedom does feel like it's been taken away, the same level of variance is more or less offered by the utilities. Does kind of mess with my rotation that I no longer have aimed shot as a SAB though. If you raid or PVP seriously, you were most likely using an optimized build already.

Wh-...what does this even have to do with Lightfoils?

You're not wrong, but at the same time precision still trumps wide frantic movements. The wider the cut the more you bring your weapon off point, making you less able to parry or defend and less able to strike your opponent's core. The smaller your moments, the faster you actually are. Control your weapon with your wrist and forearm, instead of your shoulder, and the blade can cover so much more so much faster. Half circle fencing is a great example of this. You can touch the tip of the weapon to your opponent's shoulder, form a full half circle up and over their head, and tap their opposite shoulder in the same time it'd take to execute a wide cut. Imagine how deadly Jedi would be with such efficient movement.

As a gay guy, i'd probably rather it be with new companions. Changing characters sexuality just to meet some kind of diversity quotient is...disturbing, I think. It felt really off in DA2 and I wouldn't want to see it here. Please give my smuggler some qt pi Jedi to romance Bioware.

Of the two RP servers, Ebon Hawk and Begren Colony, which one is the most active? I really don't want to spend 25 dollars and end up not that much better off

Only if it's a good crossguard saber http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Crossguard_lightsaber

Oh wow, really? I have been wanting to try the endgame flashpoints (I quit before I beat the game originally, for...a few reasons) but I can't at all get in to one. Instant pops would be amaze. Why is Jung Ma so unpopular? Because it's PVP?

While we're on the subject of Dooku, I know he's supposed to be using Makashi and that it's supposed to be based off of fencing but his choreography in the films was awful. Most of his cuts were wide, or carried him significantly off point and he chose to bat at the opponent's weapon instead of a guiding parry. I don't know much about the in lore style, I only know what I know from classical fencing and some competition swordplay. It is true that duelling swords are single combat weapons, but they're also far from useless. In single combat, against even a bastard sword a duelling sword is significant. Weight does not effect parry, momentum does. Especially in saber combat where, as you yourself admitted, weight is not an easy. A large saber would parry as easily as a lighter one. The jedi order as a whole would benefit from smaller, more precise movements albeit it'd be less exciting to watch I suppose. When you use a catch guard you don't leave yourself open if you've kept your point on guard. If they have an offhand weapon, perhaps, but then there's no reason to not have an offhand weapon yourself. Many spanish rapier styles kept a parrying dagger at the side for entanglement, or thrusts that made it past your primary. An angled guard, like in the crossguard saber in the wiki, is in no way a self danger. The crossguard in the trailer is dumb for a myriad of reasons, but i'm sure you don't want me to go on and on about how the trailer design is impractical at best. I hope it wasn't a final design. The concept they wanted is good and practical, you can see the idea in there, but the execution is awful. Most martial swordstyles are vulnerable to crossguards, since the hand is considered a primary target by most experiences swordsman. After all, it's always the most extended target if your posture is good (If you're back isn't straight, your head is actually your most vulnerable target. Which is why you say swordsmen with bad posture are "giving you their face")

Alright so I just returned to this game and Jung Mi or whatever is incredibly empty. It takes, literally, hours for a flashpoint queue to pop if it does at all as a DPS. I'm thinking about moving to another server, but first I need to make sure it's not a waste of money. If I go from one four hour queue server to another, then it's just throwing money in to the void you know? What are the queue times like on other servers?

It's more of a catchguard than a cross guard, the emitter brings the energy out at an angle. The opposing blade wouldn't meet contact with the emitter. For a straightguard you could also likely just bring the emitter in tight.

I have to admit, i'd be pretty hype for a duelist class of any sort. My biggest issue with the franchise has always been the ridiculous swordplay choreography, but as I discovered that the EU had more down to earth and proper styles like Makaashi i've been interested in seeing them actually put in to practice with real choregraphy and proper technique. Less flips more parries and repostes. Jedi Duelist pls.

So, one of the cool things that an MMO like SWTOR provides is the ability to really include a lot of different variations of sabers or armor in to the lore. Yet, we're lacking several variations on Lightsabers from the books, comics, or tabletop. One notable example, from the Old Republic timeline, is the LightFoil. A saber meant to be used with actual proper fencing technique rather that the flippy slashy nonsense most force sensative use (no offense to people who like that). The Elegent Lightsaber! http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightfoil Another good example is the Crossguard Saber, which is simply practical. The fact that most lightsabers don't have catchguards or crossguards is already kinda silly. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Crossguard_lightsaber

I love Revan, seriously I do, but I think a lot of people in this thread very much under-estimate Vader. I have o give the edge here to Vader.

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Unfortunately this is how it works. If your game doesn't meet expectations, people don't support it. SWTOR already got way more leniancy than most MMOs, in that a lot of people supported it out of love for either Bioware or StarWars. Unfortunately what we got and all we will ever have is an 'eh, it's okay' tier MMO.

Why do people still buy these? You have to know their reputation. They are very obviously just money sinks meant for the gullible

I'm trying to decide whether to use my complimentary coins on having a market on my ship, or waiting until they release a smuggler outfit that isn't garbage on the cartel market. Because I know when they do, it'll be 15 dollars or more.

Pretty much everybody that developed this game has been replaced or let go, none of the people that would take pride in the game are left. Given how much the game under-performed Bioware is probably less concerned about taking pride in the game and more concerned about keeping it viable business wise.

Mass effect is the better written and more immersive universe. You'd be hard pressed to find the quality and attention to detail in ME1&2 nearly anywhere in the StarWars canon, with 3 only trailing due to it's abysmal ending. That said, in an actual straight up fight Mass Effect would lose to most everything in Star Wars. Liking someone more, unfortunately, does not make it the more powerful thing. The StarWars universe, in terms of tech, is just more advanced and even discounting the huge armada's of powerful warships Jedis and other force sensitives have become super soldiers, capable of taking down entire squadrons solo.

Wont happen. They're more than recolored humans and therefore too hard for Bioware to make

I would buy the outlaw set if the "Outlaw Duster" was actually a duster, and not just a black shirt

Wow if most of these predictions are accurate (between 300k to 500k subs) than it has about as many subs as FFXI. Cheers!

I like to call it common sense Or just sense Anybody who looks at this and says "Oh yeah, worth 18 dollars" may be interested in a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell them.

I actually believe it was 50 back when I first, first started but I never got anywhere close to it, when I had my human warrior on an entirely different account than the one I have now. That was back when having a character in the high 30s was something impressive. I quit, and rejoined the game some years later where I made my Tarutaru. Right now i'm waiting for the new expansion to come out, and kind of hoping they put in paid character re customization because after a few years I get tired of the way my dude looks. Hope you join me for the new expansion. Really Aby didn't ruin the game, it just made it different and kind of hurts to think that old acheivements mean so little now. Good news is, getting 99 is still super hard due to the fight to beat Maat's teacher.