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It's actually hilarious, no change that, it's a little pathetic, that by bringing loadouts it got MORE restricted. They really need actual MMO players to guide this ridiculous decision making
Basically. SWTOR has basically taken something they were originally doing right and made it worse when they had the perfect opportunity to make it slightly better.
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Suggestion is exactly what the title would imply: a bag where gear goes.
Specifically, I'm referring to gear sets that are tied to loadouts (think like the armory chest that FFXIV uses along with their class swapping mechanism that loadouts and combat styles were a fantastic copy of, btw).
Reasoning: If you play multiple roles on a character, it's reasonable to need multiple gear sets to do such. A tank needs certain gear. A healer needs other stats. DPS needs something else entirely. PVP might call for another set as well so one can min-max accordingly for that content. Meanwhile, bag space gets eaten up fairly quickly (ex: I carry a heals/DPS [DPS focused] and tank set on my Agent (Operative/Vanguard), and that second set of gear easily eats up several slots, plus a couple extra for differing legendary implants, plus a couple extra for tacticals, and that's without even considering different stat priorities by spec/role. With that gear sitting in my bag, it allows the possibility that, if I were not paying attention (especially given how gear moves to the beginning like fresh dropped gear if you change combat style) could easily lead to accidentally selling or deconstructing gear that I actually use. A 'gear bag' solves this.
Potential Limitation: could be limited to subscribers, giving us another reason to give you our money, similar to how ESO does with a craft bag.
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It cannot be parkour, both casinos are not connected by anything else but the houses below. No trick in the book works, also they are floating like 400m above those houses.
This is how far I got, but again I don't know any way to get up to it: https://gyazo.com/9ea142c6d05bf1f1b7e87a3c051e44b8
Couldn't say for sure...that was guildies that did it, and they're way more knowledgable about parkour than I am in this game. Only real trick I know is the logout one.
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It's probably a specific parkour. I have a couple guildmates who are CONSTANTLY trying to find new ways to parkour around the game, get way beyond the bounds of the map, etc.
I've seen them get to off-map locations on Coruscant, get to the other factions starting area on Corellia, and I believe they mentioned something specific about Nar Shaddaa as well, although I haven't seen that one.
If not parkour, then it's probably something against ToS and can be reported.
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There is still the mount and 3 pets that are BOL. But if you were playing for the weapons you can pop over to the GTN and pick them up easily. This seems to defeat the purpose of the event being a credit sink
It's still a credit sink even if you're not sinking credits buying them on the GTN, b/c most likely the people selling them got them by buying chips and THEY sunk the credits to get them on the GTN (even if they're profiting).
Example: I personally played for cartel certs and the companion for my Agent, spent about 500million credits. Got all the cartel certs I wanted, and enough golden certs for the companion...and a few high roller weapons, which I ended up selling for somewhere around 700-800million credits (this was on the first couple days of the event).
*Personally,* I made money, and ended up about 200-300million credits richer, but that doesn't change the fact that 500 million credits were still removed from the game.
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R4 Anomaly is fun. Lots of fun. I really enjoy the mechanics.
However, as OP noted, at least on SM, it's really not properly tuned. Does it make sense for it to be harder than prior SM ops? Sure. I especially don't want to sleep through the op like KP, EV, DF, or DP SM.
As noted earlier, the DPS checks are a bit too high. For example, to get through IP-CPT (granted, this is with some players newer to ops) we had to go 1T, 2H, 5D, and then have the tank basically skank tank in DPS gear+shield. (Could probalby get the same result with a DwT with a shield to hold the droids until they're destroyed.) With all that, it's still extremely close. Best answer is probably to add another 5-10s to the enrage cast. Nothing too forgiving, just something that makes it workable for PUGs, etc.
For those saying "it's the current tier, it should be harder"...I'm presuming you're thinking like other games, such as WoW or FFXIV. In WoW, it's correct: the current tier IS harder than the previous tier. It also drops better gear without needing to jump into HM. As is, the R4 SM drops the same (or worse) gear as easier content, so the challenge should be the same (or easier). Note that I'm not talking about R4 HM. It's perfectly fine for that to be harder content: it truly is the current tier, drops the best gear in the game, and has every right to be a challenge. (It may potentially also be overtuned, I couldn't say, but I'm not saying that difficulty is. I'm saying SM is.) A better comparison for SM, based on the fact that it IS thrown in group finder, is that it should be more like normal raids in XIV or LFR in WoW. XIV has pretty easy normal raids, and puts the challenge in their Savage raids (the equivalent of HM or NiM, depending). WoW gives LFR players a stacking buff (5% bonus damage, healing, and HP every wipe) that eventually makes it so even the most casual of casuals can clear the content.
I think the mechanics on the add phase for IP-CPT are a bit too unforgiving, but not severely so. I'd recommend slightly adjusting spawn times (have the droids in the 2nd add phase spawn after the first set of bombs, like they do in the first add phase, or maybe one droid each set if they want to preserve the urgency of killing faster).
That said, overall, as I noted at the beginning: the new Op is fun. Just a bit overtuned is all.
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This bug is popping up today after I completed a vet FP. Can't reset phases, FP was complete, can't even log out and back in to fix it.
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Only one boss into the new raid (only dabbled with it a bit), but it seems pretty fun.
New story: haven't tried yet, will judge later. I heard there's only about 15m of it, so I'll save it for when I'm done with other stuff.
Manaan dailies...I'm a little irritated that they ONLY drop reputation tokens and NOTHING else. Not even the aquatic...er, daily fragments. It's literally better for progression to go to starter planets than it is the new content. That's...sad.
Nar Shadaa nightlife is a decent credit sink, although we'll see how well it holds up for doing that.
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Don't claim to speak for everyone. I hated the 6.0 gearing system with a passion. 7.0's system may not be perfect, but it's a lot better then what we had in 6.0.
I do wish we had access to mods/enhancements already, but other then that I have enjoyed 7.0's system a heck of a lot better. If I want specific stats for my characters, I know exactly what piece I need to get, and how to get it. There is no RNG in getting the exact item I need like 6.0. The RNG mess that was 6.0's system can burn in **** for all I care.
Says the player that joined less than a year ago, lol. Tell me, please, how you ensure getting the right Rakata relic to upgrade to 330 on a DPS Juggernaut. I mean, since RNG "isn't a thing."
Or, for the player that doesn't have every class leveled up, tell me how you get the appropriate accuracy pieces if you only have say Marauder and Jugg as combat specializations?
Oh, wait, I know the answer to both of those questions already! "You can't."
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When does it come out of beta?
"At the end of the month."
Note that I'm not specifying which month. Could be this month, could be July, could be 2047.
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Hi everyone,
I have a small update on 7.1 PTS. The team ran into a couple of blockers when they tested the build late last week so PTS was not ready to go live. I just got out of the check in meeting, and this is where we stand today.
We will be going through the build today and verifying that the blockers are gone so everything is playable. Currently, we are targeting to deploy the build this week. As always, if that schedule shifts, I will be informing you all.
Thanks!
Appreciate the information. Now we just need to get EA/BioWare to, y'know, properly staff y'all and make it so you can do things.
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This makes no sense, you couldn't use the first piece anyway, doesn't matter which slot you throw away, boss never drop upgrades. You know that, you grind out your slots - force the last idk 3 to 4 drops. There is very little RNG involved if you do it right.
That's not entirely true. Drops are never iRating upgrades, sure, but OP was talking about Rakata gear (which can be upgraded to 330, unlike all other non-legendary gear in the game). Bosses in NiM ops drop Rakata gear equal to your iRating, and HM occasionally drops Rakata accessories. I've gotten some good drops that way...I've also had friends get Rakata implants (which are completely useless b/c you'll always use the legendary).
How would this ever happen? It's not like most people clear NiM OPs without BiS gear so the crate doesn't matter, and when you do nefra farm for that offhand I really don't know what to tell but just to use another piece that doesn't involve RNG maybe? If you try this example it's just straight up your own fault.While OP could do better here, why should people need to game the system to be able to get a chance at drops they need? I get that it can be done (that's how I did it), but that doesn't make it not ridiculous. OP has some fault here, for sure, but this is mainly on BioWare for bad design, full stop.
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If you know your class well I have seen people 320-326 gear pulling 15-20 DPS. You can easily pull off the required DPS for NIM in full 326 pvp gear with purple 74 augments if you streamline your rotations. My suggestion is download something like Starparse and test your rotations to see how efficient you are.
While this is absolutely true, I think OP was making the point that there's a huge disconnect between obtaining and using gear.
First, let's start with conquest/daily gear, which is actually probably one of the few areas where gear drops are just fine. Conquest gives you up to 326 greens, no better. That's fine: it's (mostly) easy content (some buggy areas aside if solo).
Using that as a baseline, we move to flashpoints. First, you have SM flashpoints, which don't drop gear at all. I get that it's easy content (it really is), but it's also on par (roughly) with conquest, so a reasonable approach would be for it to give the same ger as conquest...instead: nothing. Vet flashpoints become the baseline for group content, giving up to 324 greens. In a vacuum (i.e. ignoring the rest of the game), this would be fine. However, by and large this is still roughly on par with SM flashpoints and conquest in difficulty, and as such should reasonably give the same gear. If Conquest gives 326 greens, so should vet FPs. Next, you get to MM FPs: they give up to 326 blues. Step up in difficulty, step up in gear: check. Problem here is erratic tuning. Queue for a MM, and you could get Hammer Station, which shouldn't get any more than 326 blues for the difficulty (and arguably might not deserve better than 326 greens b/c it's not really any more difficult than vet FPs)...or you could get something like Nathema Conspiracy or Battle of Rishi where the content appears to be designed around a group in 326 purples...or you could get something like Assault on Korriban or Ruins of Nul where tuning issues and/or bugs make the content literally impossible to complete without a group in full 330 NiM gear. Those latter two are an issue when the 'reward' is only 326 blues, at best.
Next, let's look at Ops. First off, SM ops are about on par with (perhaps slightly more involved then) vet FPs or some MM FPs, yet they only give 322 green gear. That's a problem. Next, HM ops are tuned a step higher than that, easily more involved than any base-game MM FP, yet give 324 blue gear as their upper end. Again, a problem. NiM ops give gear, but are currently tuned in such a way that there are likely less than 50 players on the entirety of the Satele Shan server actually completing the content. Instead, it's borked in such a way that most groups do the first boss of ONE operation (NiM Nefra), or two when one had a workaround to avoid mechanics (NiM Dashrode). That's an obvious over-tuning issue.
Lastly, let's get to PvP. If all things are equal, then perhaps the goal was just to make gearing harder, right? Except in GSF, I can go in and lose my way to 326 purples (and since the latest patch, and do so in warzones as well, albeit at a slower pace than GSF).
Basically, as things are, there is one viable path to gear in this game: PvP to 326, then NiM Nefra to 330. Add to that the RNG and lack of modifiable gear (which didn't stop optimization, it just changed it so you choose which class you farm a gear drop as to get the stats optimized), and it's a massive step in the wrong direction.
I hope this gets fixed in 7.1....if Bioware ever gets around to releasing 7.1.
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Friendly reminder that this is the final day of the current month...
Technically, they didn't say *WHICH* month they'd have this up by. I know you, me, and everybody else reasonable took "the end of the month" to mean May 2022, but they could have meant June, or July, or even sometime in 2027...
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With the huge influx of tech frags why on earth wasn't the limit increased from 11k ?
Probably intentional, so you can't bank up enough frags to buy a full set of leggos for an alt (even though you could buy them individually and store them).
That said, the tech frags limit is, compared to all the other problems with the game, a non-isue.
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I recognize that opinions are subjective, but BOBF is definitely the red-headed step-child, compared to Mandalorian. And the PT had at least one good movie (ROTS), whereas the ST had zero good films.
So, you were saying?
You do realize that both BOBF AND the Mandalorian were made by the same company, right?
Also, definitely opinions are subjective. All 3 trilogies had good movies, but the PT had Jar Jar Bink.
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Uhm, OPs were always for subs only. And no level 60s coulsn't kill xeno because they can't enter the phase.
Try to make your group on the fleet instead of on ilum and you will find people.
While ops have (for the past few years) been for subs only, people used to be able to enter them before the level cap (in fact, it was a great way to level from 70-75 in 6.0).
If OP is coming back from a big enough break, they might be remembering when there was a CM item that let non-subs take part in ops as well (and you might be too much of a newbie to be aware that it once existed).
here's a link for you, newbie: https://swtor.fandom.com/wiki/Weekly_Pass:_Operations
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So after being a full subscriber since launch, I have now sadly cancelled my subscription
I don't know exactly why but i do not enjoy the gameplay since the recent changes in 7,0.
Gear being an issue (with no arm/mods/enhance anymore) and also the daily resets of missions etc..
I wish everybody who is still here all the best as i have thoroughly enjoyed this game since beta until now
I feel your pain. Game mostly sucks since 7.0. (They did make some good changes, but took away far more than they gave.)
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Throwing the match in GSF is far too easy with absolutely no repercussions.
Problem is, they probably can't. Not enough people still playing the game to risk losing even those folks. Side effect of calling less than a normal MMO's "update" an "expansion" and expecting us to be happy with it.
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Bingo ^
See ya next month for yet another "game is dead" thread lol 10 years & counting....
I wouldn't go quite so far to say the "game is dead," but when they call an "expansion" more than other (successful) MMOs call an "update," there's a problem.
That said, they at least appear to be managing SWTOR at least as well as New World is being managed. Hopefully with better results (since NW is actually dying)...or maybe not, because maybe then we can get a better game than Bioware is telling us to deal with.
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Yeah that's what we want. Disney - the company that basically destroyed the Star Wars movie franchise - to make decisions about SWTOR's future. 😂😂
Disney that made Rogue One. Disney that made the Mandalorian. Disney that made Book of Boba Fett.
And, the latest trilogy, while not as great as the original, was still better than the prequels.
As opposed to "a sense of pride and accomplishment" SW Battlefront from EA.
Also, even if it was as bad as the prequels, Jar Jar Binks is still better than no story at all.
You were saying?
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I disagree, it's a bit mind boggling that IMPROVING your character by getting more levels makes it harder to do old content. If BW is going for firsts, that's a pretty bold one.
I mean, it's silly when I think of it. I've spent hours getting 326 gear and doing old heroics takes about as long now as it did before. Makes me wonder what the point of leveling and gearing up is if all I'm ever going to do is being able to kill stuff the same way I was before 7.0.
Kudos to BW for making us grind over and over to get to the same point I guess?
Other games do make it so you need to re-gear to do new content (WoW, FFXIV, GW2, etc.), and other games still keep old content as being 'current' for gear purposes when new content is released (ESO).
The problem is that (1) Bioware is taking the "reset your gear" aspect of the former (that the latter does not use), (2) trying to apply the "keep the old current for gearing in drops" (that the former doesn't really use), and (3) NOT RELEASING NEW CONTENT (that NEITHER does). Saying "but it'll be in 7.1" doesn't matter. In ESO, you can expect new zones and trials (their version of operations) on release day, not a 30 minute story and a promise of "maybe some group content in a few months." In FFXIV, you get new dungeons, zones, hours of story...on release day. In WoW, same thing. In GW2, same thing. In fact, in ANY major MMO, you get all of this. In SWTOR, we get...a sense of pride and accomplishment?
Now, in all fairness, this needs to be tempered: these other games charge for actual expansions. Except in ESO, they also give you access to almost all of this new content just by subscribing (including at least a new hours-long story zone and multiple dungeons (their version of flashpoints)) each year. In SWTOR, we sometimes get what...one flashpoint a year, maybe? If we're lucky? (By comparison, in the same time that we got 30m of story and one FP in SWTOR for a sub, in ESO I've gotten 2 dungeons and about 3 hours worth of story....for the same cost.)
Maybe the problem is that Bioware is greedy (or EA is greedy, idk), and maybe Disney needs to go ahead and strip them of the license to produce Star Wars products. I don't particularly want SWTOR to die, but if this is what SWTOR is to become, it's better for it to die than to continue limping along.
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Why do you answer this stuff but nothing about exploit questions and you remove comments that say you guys are not great at the job you do ?
Because all they care about is taking your money.
(That's not to say a company shouldn't care about being profitable, that is a part of business...but if you only care about your customer's wallets to the detriment of your customers, well...)
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Yep, this has been happening. I've had this happening for about a month, reported it, got copypasta where they didn't understand the issue, pressed back, and then got "it's a bug we can't do anything."
GL.
R4 Anomaly Needs a Nerf
in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
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While this is great for you, this is also why your entire post should be not considered as typical of the average SM experience.
Let's bring in some data:
Ruffian/Lethality is currently the top parsing on IPCPT. Per your group with 19-34k DPS, we can presume an average of somewhere around 26.5k DPS from a given DPS in your group. If constrained to the typical 2/4/2 setup, similar total DPS would require an average of 33.1k DPS from a given DPS in the group. As the top parsing DPS on average, Ruffian/Lethality averages a median of 13.6k DPS, or about half of what your average group member put out, or about 2/3 of what your WORST group member put out. Again, that's the median for the best spec in the game for that boss on SM (per Parsely). Interesting side fact, the highest 99th percentile parse for that boss on Parsely is around 22k. You said your group had an high of 34k on that boss.
On Watchdog, the highest parsing spec is Watchman/Annihilation, at a median of 25.2k DPS. At least that almost matches the average for your group, but still falls short of the required DPS overall to match your group. The highest 99th percentile parse went to Serenity/Hatred, at 42.7k.
On Kanoth, the highest parsing spec is again Watchman/Annihilation, at a median of 18.4k DPS. The highest 99th percentile parse went to Vigilance/Vengeance, at 27.8k.
Lastly, on Dom, the highest parsing spec was Saboteur/Engineering, at a median of 27.2k DPS. The highest 99th percentile parse went to Vigilance/Vengeance, at 39.6k.
All of these have the same common factor: the median parse among the TOP PERFORMING SPEC for each boss was typically LOWER than the average dps among your "pug group" that STILL needed to go 1/5/2 instead of the 2/4/2 the fight was supposedly designed around (and had your group gone 2/4/2, to have the same total DPS, you would have needed to increase even your group's average DPS by about 25% to have the same results).
The op is definitely clearable, nobody's saying it's not, but it is mis-tuned. Quite frankly, the DPS requirements in R-4 SM are higher than HM SNV's last boss (which is usually a sign of the first 'true' HM). Mechanics are equally unforgiving. Doable, yes, but current R4 SM is a HM raid pretending to be a SM (and I'd presume that HM R4 is probably a NiM pretending to be a HM).