Cries in Gunnery Commando

I just browsed through the trooper vendor inventory, and everything looks.. average at best, at a glance, for PvE. Sets: Notorious set? Extra tech override charge for 6piece? Doesn't sound great but better than nothing? Stationary Grit? Flat 3% increase while standing still? Tacticals: Burning Bright? Boltstorm -> Vortex Bolt does more damage, doesn't say how much. I'm a casual scrub that uses Bolstorm only as filler. but if it's signifcant damage increase, worth using more? Overwhelming Offense? 5 stacks, applied automatically in combat, doesn't say how much. Better than rotating buffs from Krall's Accord that I got for completing story for free? 1mil credit cost per piece not exactly experimenting friendly for a casual scrub like me, any opinions?

Someone on reddit claims to have had success after 9 instance switches. I gave up after 5.

I like to think that I have a pretty high tolerance for changes that I personally don't like but I can acknowledge someone might. I can tolerate content drought followed by a 4 hour duration not worthy of being called an expansion or getting a major version number. I can tolerate my character, despite gaining 5 levels and lots of higher IP numbers, suddenly getting weaker. I can tolerate my favorite class getting nothing. 2 charges of rocket out? The ability I never use I can now never use twice as much, thanks Bioware. I can tolerate the gearing RNG fiesta. I can even tolerate the really stupid shop NPC icons. What really gives me headaches is the stupid Rep Saboteur story route I had to suffer through. It gets stupider with every new cutscene.

Ackchyually, You can get all but 2 datacrons solo. Balmorra warehouse and that other one where you need to be airlifted to a pipe. -t player who got almost all datacrons solo

Have you tried LS Trooper class story? Republic screw up original Havoc Squad with Tavus. And Dagger Wing. And lets general Rakton go for stupid politics reasons. Post-class story, Republic waits it out while Empire offers help and Acina offers alliance. Republic also opens hostilities on Iokath and there's also that thing with Saresh trying to assasinate you and taking over Alliance. And then Republic has the gall to officially condemn you for not rolling over and dying for Saresh. I mean, if you're roleplaying trooper with Forex-levels of hardwired loyalty that's fine, but with Senators being douchebags to Havoc at every opportunity, there's enough reasons to officially switch sides.

Everything? Elo matchmaking works on assumption participants are trying to win. What rating does a mat farmer get, -10?

If I could wait, I'd wait 3 days. OP didn't state the budget and typical workloads except SWTOR and wings 3D, so recommending something is a guesswork, but If it's really burning urgency and PC must be bought today, I'd go for Ryzen 2700 or 2700x. Intels are way overpriced for minimal single threaded gains. Same for AIO. There are some legit use cases, like you move case a lot so you don't want to put extra weight on socket, but under a more typical use case, Ryzens already come with decent boxed cooler, on Intel I'd slap on a 90$ Noctua NH-D15 and call it a day.

It's 3 days to AMDs Zen 2 CPU Computex keynote (27th May). I'd definitely wait for that before pulling the trigger until then. AMD has been really good on price/perf for the last couple years, and perf on last Ryzens is also not too shabby, more than enough for SWTOR. I think AIOs are overrated. Top AIOs and air tower coolers have close performance, only few degree difference. There are pros and cons to each but air is cheaper.

Moving mats from pvp to solo pve so people who don't care about winning are not forced into it could be a start.

Uh... as captain of the Red Hulls, I promise, no massacres or... cannibalism. Definitely no cannibalism.

I've run into same issues. I had to settle for playing in 2K res window. Womp womp.

Geniuses at Bioware decided you need 50! ranked solos per monumental crystal. Sorry. I have nothing against the actual PvPers trying to win. And believe me, I wouldn't touch PvP with a 10foot pole if there was another way for me.

That's some very optimistic forward thinking about Bioware having capacity to make game sweeping changes without breaking more along the way. I've played SWTOR for less than 2 months and I've encountered more things broken than functional. Every ranged companion broken and not assisting out of range, no ETA on fix. Much fun in KOTE/KOTF where you're often locked with one comp that happens to be ranged. Broken jumping, getting stuck in every tiny crack and getting teleported away, often far away. Wonderfully combined with all the datacron jumping puzzles. Disfunctional PVP matchmaking. Every time I queue to get the PVP tutorial mission out of the way on a new char, one side steamrolls the other, literally 50/50 coin flip outcome. I've been trying to solo seeker droid quest chain today. I was banging my face into brick wall that is called Corrupted Sithspawn Experiment that has boss channel ability that stuns you for all its duration, does damage to you, and heals him for 1/4 of health. It's on shorter duration than my stun break. Also he can spam it twice in a row if he feels like it. What a brilliant boss design. I finally gave up, took a break to read official forums and came to see this proposal to remake the whole base game, into something better. LOL.

Also just completed the class stories. Imperial Agent 6/10 – First you hunt evil Empire psychopath puppy kickers who are also TERRORISTS. But then, suddenly PLOT TWIST, "I'm not saying it's space jews.. but it's space jews" memes. Then you let them capture you because contrived plot reasons, then they let you go because contrived plot reasons. Then you shoot them in the face, credits roll. The plot made my head hurt, it was so stupid and illogical it made Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald look like a well written script. But at least it earns points for not being as cliched as other class stories. Smuggler 5/10 - Starts very promising, first it's "Dude, where's my car", then it's a treasure hunt. Unfortunately, halfway trough Smuggler remembers it's a SW story. Suddenly you're Republics underling, hunting down one evil Empire psychopath puppy kicker after another. Oh well, half a story better than nothing. Trooper Solid 8 Call of Duties /10 - Near perfection, just needed a little more Doritos and explosions and walking away not looking at explosions. If only other class stories could have been half this good. Sith Warrior 2/10 - There is no story. You beat down one evil Empire psychopath puppy kicker, then you move on to the next one. Only saved from complete disaster by some pretty funny Dark Side dialogue choices. I'll admit, the bickering back and forth on who is the bigger evil clown amused me. "Bow down for I am Darth Puppykicker Supreme". Jedi Consular 1/10 – There is no story. You beat down one evil Empire psychopath puppy kicker, then you move on to the next one. Bounty Hunter 2/10 – The eternal underling. First you're beating down some random targets because contrived plot reasons. After all the good work and winning the coveted underling of the year award, you move up the chain and are now some random Sith Lords underling beating down Republic targets. Ehh, okay I guess, at least they're not evil Empire psychopath puppy kickers for a change. Jedi Knight 1/10 – There is no story. You beat down one evil Empire psychopath puppy kicker, then you move on to the next one. Sith Inquisitor 5/10 – Huh. Well that was different. I'll admit Ghostbusters was one of my favorite comedies back in the day, and this captures that nonsensical feeling perfectly. Unfortunately, halfway trough Inquisitor remembers it's a SW story, hunting down evil Empire psychopath puppy kickers, yada yada. Oh well, half a story better than nothing. * no puppies were hurt in the making of this post