[If an MMO ever did arenas right...]

The idea that MMO's and gear progression systems are somehow linked together is laughable. Gear progression systems is a desinger's model to keep players playing. It has nothing to do with MMO's.

 

true, but mmoRPG's do

[Will Republic *ever* get Purple crystals?]

SINCE WHEN was this game based on star wars lore? pretty sure its 300 years after the KOTOR games so they should be basing all they can off the KOTOR games not MACE WINDU who was not EVEN in KOTOR. get your facts right go watch the movies if you want movie lore.

 

I think he's trying to say that a lot can change in the 3000 years between kotor and sw ep 1. maybe back then purple was sith only?

[Only 1 Matrix Cube can be crafted.]

it's called consequences to making your choice. you call it "lack of flexibility" which translates into "i can't do whatever i want whenever i want."

 

this isn't school- choices have consequences, and you can fail.

 

the consequence of your advance class hoping is a higher respec cost and the necessity of remaking your matrix.

 

you want to respec for everything you do? consequence. you can do it, it just costs something. big whoop.

 

What's wrong with just making them unique-equipped, how does that imbalance the game? if the game is not imbalanced by a quality-of-life change, then why not change it?

[Please flip the map for Imperials in Civil War]

That would just shift your issue to the republic side and they're already disadvantaged enough as is.

 

Also,

 

Cardinal directions are hard bro!

 

I think the OP's intent was for the map to be oriented differently depending on wether your imp or pub so that no matter the faction left is always west.

[So because slicing doesn't get rich at 400]

I dont think anybody's clarified yet: a slicing 340 mission will ALWAYS return a purple lvl 49 augment along with a lockbox. once i had it crit and it came back with 2 purple lvl 49 augments, a lockbox and a ut 340 mission.

[viewing the forums on a mobile browser]

cmon, i'm not saying i dont read/post on the forums from my phone, but couldn't you agree it could be better?

[viewing the forums on a mobile browser]

Any chance of formatting the forums so they wrap better on smaller screens? or just making a mobile version of the forums?

 

In order to not have to scroll right and left i have to read the text nearly too small for my eyes, and then i dont see who posted what...

 

Am I the only one on my phone checking the forums while on break at work?

[How to make money off of Artifice]

I was just wondering what is some good ways to make money off of artifice. It seems like all the blue light saber parts that I can make and build only sell for very little atm. I was just wondering what items sell really good on the GTN. And what about the super rare white and magenta crystals? All the threads that I see on them have around 50 pages of replies and there is no way im reading all of that.

 

Any help is much appreciated!!

 

green mid level enhancements sell pretty well, lotta work tho to keep a decent supply on the gtn for only 3k profit each. my favorite is the battle enhancements between lvls 31-41.

 

green quality crit color crystals also sell failry well, and it's easier to keep them up on the gtn cause there's a smaller variety.

 

green quality hilts sell very poorly tho, i wouldn't bother.

 

I haven't tried much with the blue quality items tho, I never picked up treasure hunting so my availablity of mats is pretty limited.

[Artifice - Magenta Monopolization?]

agreed, it's a monopoly. i say they restrict the use to only those that have a 400 in artifice

 

because you dont want artificers to make money?

[Slicing fine as is!!!]

One of my slicing missions came back with 340 slicing mission, ran that one and my guy came back with an 8k lock box, a 340 underworld trading mission and 2 artifact lvl49 augments: alacrity and shield. The 340ut mission sold for 25k, the alacrity augment sold for 70k, and I'll probably have to vendor the shield augment

[Level 340 Epic Slicing Mission: 2400 Credit Reward]

I did a 340 slicing mission, came back with a 28 alacrity augment. Sold quickly for 70k. So I went and bought out the gtn of all the 340 slicing missions for 30k each. It's a gamble, but in the long run I think it'll pay off nicely

[World bosses on pvp servers]

If you did it that many times, and still unable to kill him due to interference, you should've all taken a break for a while (pvp, different world boss, quest, whatever) and returned an hour or two later. You could still be griefed but only the most dedicated of skirmishers would camp a spot you all left for that long.

 

Most world boss locations also put them out of the main traffick areas. Assemble in small groups around their spawn sites if you feel a need to be covert. Generally a mass gathering of opposite faction members raises attention in general chat channels vs seeing a single group of enemies.

 

We only made 3 attempts, they would res 6-7 times each during an attempt. I think my phones swype mucked up my wording.

 

They didn't wipe us, but they caused enough of a distraction that the boss enraged each attempt. That's my only point. I get that pvp happens on a pvp server, I get that we need to keep our eyes open for enemy faction. It just irks me a little bit that they can just keep rezzing at the medical droid, ruin back and cause more trouble while individually being so ineffective.

 

To be clear: it sucks that by repeatedly throwing themselves to an assured death they were able to make us take so long that we hit the enrage timer

[World bosses on pvp servers]

Well, I wasn't complaining about it the first 20 times they rezzed on us, and they weren't abusing game mechanics to wipe us, all they did was distract us from the bosses enough for us to hit the enrage timer. it's just frustrating that even killing them repeatedly every time res isn't enough. Meh, qq, I know.

 

Edit: posted from the phone, auto-fill fix

[World bosses on pvp servers]

Should a group of 3-4 players of the opposite faction be able to repeatedly ruin your attempts at a world boss? I'm not qqing, just wondering if the res timers should be structured to ensure that after you've been killed 20 times, maybe you should be forced to sit it out and watch for a while.

 

admittedly, we only barely had enough dps to kill the boss before he enrages under perfect conditions. Should have had another 3-4 to take care of the pvp. Meh.

[Artifice crafting spreadsheet]

I'm kind of a google docs noob, but here's the link. I just hope that this allows people to use their own copy and not just view it or something dumb like that.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ahl2XxkQllN7dEJEeUE5TE1kcVk3YVE1eE5uVUZZckE

[Artifice worth it?]

be the first person with the magenta gem recipe and then complain about income.

[Artifice crafting spreadsheet]

Google docs removed my pretty color coding in the mats column

 

I'll throw it up on google docs when I get home

[Artifice crafting spreadsheet]

Looks really thorough. I'm only at about 100 Artifice at this point and still trying to figure out some things. I'm going to give your .xls a second look when I get back from lunch. Is the point to put in your own values in the columns you've designed?

 

Thanks for providing a free resource and for your hard work.

 

The point is to fill in the first tab with average cost (or what you paid) of each mat, then when you look at the finished goods on the other tabs you can see how much they cost to produce so you can see if there's a profit to be made selling them on the gtn.

 

I'd really like to finish filing in the mats and cost columns, but it gets real tedious :/

[Artifice crafting spreadsheet]

anybody had a chance to check it out?

[mission discovery: diplomacy]

why are there 14 pages of mission discovery: diplomacy's on the gtn with 340's selling for 4k and 3 pages of mission discovery: underwold training with 340's selling for 25k?

 

also, on average, how much mats drop from mission discovery: diplomacy?

[Artifice crafting spreadsheet]

bumpitty

[Can I ask all the pro-slicing nerfers something?]

slicing nerf is fine. if the only missions you run are The Fly on the Wall, and Taking Back Control you will make plenty of cash. I do. run those two misisons, sell the occasional 340 mission for 10-25k, loot lockboxes out in the world, make tons of cash while questing. Slicing is STILL easy money.

[Artifice crafting spreadsheet]

http://www.mediafire.com/?tj44m81169ttg3n

 

It's incomplete, but mostly there. With exception to the off-hand's tab, I'll be filling in the stats/mats when I get time.

 

As for the off-hand's tab, torhead and the couple other database websites I found dont have any of the blue/purple items that use the tiered overkill/redoubt/critical system, so I dont have a consistent list of stats/mats. If anybody wants to contribute I would really appreciate it

 

Any feedback?

[My slicing study]

I've been running slicing missions constantly since the nerf, and it keeps getting more and more profitable. The only 2 missions you should care about are the lvl 42-48 missions that reward rich lvl 5 lock boxes. They usually return a small profit, and 10ish% of the time they crit and give you a lvl340 crafting mission that will sell for 10-25k on the gtn depending on the crew skill. thats where the big money is.

[mats requirements for lvl 48 shields]

cmon, anybody got the mats list handy?