[101 Things You NEVER Want to Hear In SWTOR]

"Pandas and Pokemon have been implemented."

[Color Crystal Reverse Engineering]

There is also a good thread stickied in this forum about reverse engineering.

 

 

Basically, any crystal schematic you can get from your trainer can be reverse engineered upward to artifact level.

[Stiff-necked/backed Companions?]

The bug is also extended to certain cutscenes, particularly when an NPC is focused on an object they were studying/looking at.

[Where's the faction loyalty?]

As far as I can tell, both sides have far more reasons to not be loyal than otherwise.

 

At least the Sith are up front about their brutality. A Republic Jedi will mind-wipe you into thinking you're happy and glad for the change.

[Investigation - still sub-par?]

did you read the patchnotes?

 

 

As I'm sure you're aware because of not only your godlike intelligence, infinite wisdom, and considerable play experience in MMOs and life in general, not everything that is changed during a patch makes it to the patch notes.

[Investigation - still sub-par?]

I heard that they would be adding more schematics and other things to make Investigation more on par with Underworld Trading. Has this taken place with this morning's patch?

[Shared storage account wide Dark N Light]

I'd like to see this as well. People are going to find ways to transfer regardless; this would just make what is going on already a bit more convenient.

[Question about Crafting/Profiteering]

Slicing, Bioanalysis, Underworld Trading.

 

Sell the missions you get from Slicing, except for the UT and Bioanalysis missions. Run those missions, sell the items you get.

 

You'll make bank.

[RE'ing at low level]

Playing an armourmech because I thought it would be neat to make my own gear. Have a question vs. the design goal of RE'ing

 

What's the "target number" for the avg number of greens to get a blue, and blue to get a purple. As it stands, trying to make gear for myself leveling up is not possible because by the time I get a blue, let alone a purple, I've out-leveled the piece

 

Any plans to tone down RE at low level? Do I really need to break down 20 level 11 greens to get a level 12 blue in order for your game to be "balanced"

 

Or should I just go Biochem so I can have useful things from the get go

 

 

Go BioChem, particularly if this is your first character. The amount of mats needed to reverse engineer schematics is fairly large; by the time you acquire the mats, you'll have outleveled whatever gear you're trying to make, unless you are *wildly* lucky.

 

You can sell off what you don't use in BioChem, and make a good profit at 50 selling stims/med stuff.

[Any benefit to reverse engineering stacks of items?]

Thank you both for the reply.

 

If you do end up with a stack, r/e them individually, then sell the rest of the stack at the auction. Make a bit of profit from the excess.

[Diplomacy vs Slicing]

If you're content to just use green stims and medkits as you go along and only worry about the reusables at 50, then, yeah, keep slicing.

 

On the other hand, if you want blue and purple stuff along the way, go with Diplomacy.

 

Also, as far as cybertech went, personally, didn't find it that hard to get mostly orange. Wrist and belt, no, but that's really no biggie. And with equipping both my main and my companions with it, well, it was handy. That said, doing so does up a nice portion of blue metals, so you'd want UT and Scavenging, leaving no room for slicing Also, quite handy for any alts you make.

 

 

There are orange wrist and belts in the game. Rare, but available.

[Q about Slicing lockbox missions]

For me, I still pick specific level missions when I'm hoping to crit for specific items (like Class 4 Ship Upgrade schematics... I assume they only come from a specific level range).

 

 

Yeah- this is pretty much the plan. Thanks for the assistance guys- much appreciated.

[Q about Slicing lockbox missions]

Quick question for those with the latest data- if I do mostly moderate/abundant yield lockbox missions (at any level/skill) will I pretty much break even if the missions are successful?

 

Thanks in advance for anyone's assistance.

[Do all the green biochem schematics]

Do all the green biochem schematics after RE them produce blue and purple schematics?

 

Yes, they can. Not every time, but yes.

[Why did you Stealth-Buff, and then Stealth-Nerf slicing again?]

It was intended to be a way to get cash to offset the insane amounts of money things cost (i.e your skills, repair costs, etc.) Now you need to grind grind grind grind grind and let your kids/pets starve to death because you're now too busy playing the game.

 

Yeah, it'd be nice to not have to grind crap to play regularly.

[Slicing re-nerfed?]

Well it is printing money != aquiring money from others. Anyways with high companion affection I find myself with a huge supply of purple mission discoveries that I can sell @ 25k/pop at least.

 

 

Yeah, I could pretty much be totally happy playing this game solo. My only interactions with other people so far have been them running in and ninja'ing resources and chests while I was clearing the mobs for them.

 

So yeah - screw other people playing this game. I'd rather have a nice little skill that will get me what I need without having to deal with the population at large.

[What makes me really sad :(]

Slicing seemed to be profitable again yesterday, but now this afternoon it's not.

 

I hate being jerked around.

[Slicing re-nerfed?]

It's not a crazy amount of gains, but it's profit.

 

Yeah it's okay for BioAnalysis and Scavenging to turn huge proft, or for Underword Trading to turn huge profit, but having Slicing do the same is a real crime. >.<

[Why did you Stealth-Buff, and then Stealth-Nerf slicing again?]

I was so excited when I saw that Slicing was actually decent again!!! It didn't make a ton, doesn't do anything on my level 50 compared to questing or mobs, but it was decent again.

 

The question is, was this an accidental buff? It was a good level, wasn't near pre-nerf for me. What happened BW?

 

*SIGH*

 

I was really excited as well, now it sucks again.

[Chest spawn camping on Hoth]

I'm seeing like 2-3 people standing at the top of the mountain just outside one of the bases on Hoth. Apparently they are all spawn camping a chest, and must be using scripts or hacks or something to autoclick.

 

Even without the hacks/scripts, is this something that will get you banned?

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Sorry wrong forum; edited.

[Cybertec: RE Droid parts]

Check http://www.torhead.com to see if there is a schematic in the first place. There are other items that can't be r/e'd for upgraded schematics, though it may be developer oversight.

[Thinking of dropping a skill for slicing]

Don't do it man. You're lucky if you get back the price of sending out the companion in the first place. Keep treasure hunting, buy mission items when they're cheap at the auction, then resell the epic gems. You'll get a bunch more profit.

 

Picking up lockboxes is okay, but you'll get more from just killing a few mobs at 50.

[Reusable biochem items]

Get someone who knows the recipe to craft you one. I don't believe they are BoP.

[Rare Missions - blues and purples - repeatable?]

Are these supposed to be repeatable without "consuming" another mission item?

 

In other words, if I "eat" a purple diplomacy (340) mission, is there a chance that it will show up again in the future as a mission choice without eating another?

 

I was not sure if the patch on the public test server was addressing this or just the fact that "regular" mission were not necessarily available right after completion.

 

Thanks,

DD

 

 

They are one time use. And yes, they can fail. So make sure they are yellow/green when you send your companion out on one to minimize chances of failure.