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There was a best spec for each class and by making any other decision, you were actively hurting yourself.
I question this statement. Many NiM raiders I respect say that there is a "best spec" for some boss fights, and a different "best spec" for other boss fights. Compare Nephra to Corruptor-0, for example.
Hopefully the capability to adapt to each boss will be retained in Disciplines.
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So okay then, I see you guys hate amd. Here is a new config, cost about the same. not liquid cooled though.
Power Supply
SilverStone® 750 Watt Modular
Motherboard
Asus® X99 Rampage V Extreme
Processor
Intel® Core™ i7 5820K 3.3GHz
Memory
16GB - 4x4GB - 2133MHz - DDR4
Video Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980 4GB
It's not about hating AMD. It's just that they are not competitive with Intel CPUs in high-end gaming at present
They do produce some good low-end APUs.
Your latest system is still a waste of money if SWTOR performance is your goal. An X97-based Haswell system will have fewer cores but higher clocks, thereby giving higher SWTOR performance at a lower cost and a lower power dissipation. It will overclock better too. Look at some benchmarks, you will see that X97/Haswell is better for gaming than X99/Haswell-E even for games that take advantages of multiple cores, which SWTOR at present does not. Some games do a little better (very little) in an X99/Haswell-E/SLI setup than in a X97/Haswell/SLI setup, but only recent games can do so. SWTOR will not.
You seem to be operating under the delusion that more expensive = better. That just isn't the case. Haswell-E and the X99 platform are better than anything else for some applications. SWTOR is not one of them.
Try using something other than a price sheet to make your PC configuration decisions. Like maybe, benchmarks?
With the money you save, you'll be able to upgrade again next year instead of getting left behind the curve.
Also, get a fast SSD, 240GB or bigger (in SSDs, bigger usually means at least as fast). I like the Samsung 840 EVO Pro myself, but there are other good options. The difference the reduced load times make is a huge improvement in SWTOR enjoyability.
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Does BW need to retain people as hard to satisfy as the OP and his/her ilk?
I sincerely doubt it. And I would rather not game with such types, myself.
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and everyone's build can be nitpicked. [/b]
... and if a person goes online to brag about how much money they have spent on a substantially sub-optimal configuration, it richly deserves to be.
After all, we must think of the children (who might otherwise emulate such behavior)!
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I know that its a false 8 core. And yes I was comparing the $1000 intel i7 5960x
Why? That's a server/workstation chip designed for multi-threading performance. SWTOR is well-known to be single-thread CPU performance dependent.
Therefore, the i7-5960K isn't the appropriate CPU to compare the AMD chip. Instead you should have compared your AMD chip to the $390 i7-5820K or the $590 i7-5930K, and that's only if you are fixated on the X99 platform. Both those Intel chips usually have higher single-thread performance than the i7-5960K, and both of those would have provided better SWTOR performance than any AMD CPU. And with the money you would have saved on the PS and cooling system, you could have got the Intel chips.
Didn't you do any research before configuring your system? Go look at sites like Anandtech (who enjoys a sponsorship from AMD BTW) and you will find they recommend nothing but Intel chips for high-end gaming rigs. And they have the numbers to back those recommendations.
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The PC will do, but the money has been poorly spent. There are cheaper rigs that will outperform it when running SWTOR.
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In order:
- Malavai Quinn
- Kaliyo
- Dark-side Jaesa Willsaam
- Skadge
The others I either like, dislike too little to kill them, or have forgotten who they are.
Treek annoys me but is too useful to kill.
- Malavai Quinn
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So are the Makeb faction stories...practically the same as each other? (I've never seen them, my highest level character is 26.)
Every time I hear something about Makeb, I get less interested in it...
No, they are completely different.
As a Pub, you get the population off the planet before it explodes.
As an Imp, you save the planet from exploding.
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For at least some players, discovering the worlds as they travel from place to place is part of the fun. Alderaan is really very pretty, as is Voss, Makeb, and several other planets )tastes vary). Relax, take a sip from your drink, and enjoy the scenery.
In contrast, BTW, I find Nar Shadaaa ugly. As a result, I find grinding the Nar Shadaa heroics for Conquest points much less enjoyable than doing the Balmora or Belsavis ones.
An extreme alternative to having to travel would be to have all the quests occur in one room, where the mobs and NPCs just appear in the correct sequence and you never have to travel at all. I do not think most people want that. Those that do have KDY.
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My understanding is that Harbinger has the most players using it, and that may be why it crashes a lot.
It may also be something BioWare has little control over, like a problem with the Internet in California. California-located Internet hosts are the target of quite a lot of DDoS attacks, and even if they are not directed at BW, BW may experience some fallout.
Unfortunately, BioWare never tells us what the problem was when a server crashes, so we don't know.
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FYI, Illum story line counts as a class quest. About 1 level per quest.
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My L21 Jug got 90+% of a level from the final class mission turn-in on Balmora. That includes the 25% XP booster and 10% guild boost.
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...but there is hope. Revan wears a mask you can buy at the Cartel Market, so it could be everyone.
Your post makes me want to dress up all my toons in that mask and run around yelling "He's not Revan, I am!"
Well, maybe not the BT4 female Twi'lleks ...
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/anti-signed
When just not signing doesn't say enough.
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Yes, probably 6 months from now it will be...
Why don't people read? Pre-orders get access Dec. 2, all other subscribers gets access Dec. 9.
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Here is my problem - who decides what the standard build is?
The player base. BioWare knows what talents you have taken, they just needs to examine the game's database to discover the most popular build for each spec in each AC. I think it likely that they do that whenever they are looking at class balance.
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Obviously that is the drawback to this perk. You will need to gear your tune from alts or stop after every planet and do FPs till you get gear.
Fortunately for me, I saved all the gear I used to level my previous alts in the free Starfighter legacy armor I got.
And for their companions too. One set for every main stat for every 4-6 levels, plus extras sets for companions.
Obligatory QQ: But BW, how will I get all my new alt's names into my signature?
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Who's going to be making LV50 operations, at LV60?
Unless Bioware adds some new difficulty mode to them, I'm don't see that happening.
I can see doing undermanned NiM runs for the mounts, decoration drops and achievements.
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No one "needs" a luxury item any more than anyone else does. So if everyone chooses need for it, it's fair to everyone.
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No idea what goes into the 180 hilts, but I imagine it's quite a bit.
2 MMGs, 8 EEEs, 8 Iso-5.
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That many elite comms for an Arkanian MH is a major ripoff.
To many people, Elite comms are worthless. I don't even need them for my companions any more, as might be expected with the amount of time since the last gear tier was introduced. With Basics you can at least buy Iso-5.
So, hardly a rip-off.
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Thoughtlessness, maybe, but hardly incompetence.
Thoughtless treatment of the player base is incompetence. "Service industry," y'know?
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I've read a few times it was planned.
There was a planned shutdown, but they cancelled it.
Then they had an unscheduled shutdown, gave people in the Forums about 5 minutes of warning, but gave no warning to the people in-game. The excuse they offered for not warning people in-game was pretty thin, frankly. You can always post "3 minutes to shutdown" if you know 5 minutes in advance that you are going to shut down. That they did not post such a warning is a sign of incompetence.
Harbinger. Again?
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