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CharlieBrown

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  1. You want to use a collapsible bowcaster, don't you?
  2. It would be pretty sweet to have a giant block of carbonite follow you around.
  3. I don't have the CE but seeing how long you've been ignored really, really sucks. They should have moved the white color crystals and the old giant speeders to the vendor. Hell, while they're at it they can sell orange shells of discontinued gear (rakata / battlemaster etc ..). They already sell "embargoed" items for the cartel reputations so how big of a deal would it have been to take existing assets to the CE vendor and at least have a recurring purpose for them.
  4. Have you tried the new chicken emote? Much better than the old /flap, particularly the female one since it almost looks like you're making the loser "L" on your forehead. Chee-chaw! Chee-chaw!
  5. I was using the white scalene set and a primordial sniper rifle until recently, I switched to the entire RV-03 Speedsuit set and an MR-36 sniper rifle. I like that the chest piece for that set has a metal plate and leather shoulder-band right where the rifle butt sets. I prefer the black / blue dye with this set since it matches the lights coming off the MR-36. There will be an iteration of that rifle in the next 2 / 3 cartel packs that will add a lightning arc between the needle under the scope and the muzzle. If the color there is based off of the color crystal, I'll probably go blue / white instead. I'll get some screenshots on later.
  6. Interesting that they'd make ranked warzones a subscriber privilege. Along that vein, I'd be in favor of further restricting the weekly operations pass so that you can only do story mode content. That will never happen, of course, but I didn't realize that access was split that way.
  7. Once you get to a certain level of comfort with your tanking you start using guard for the damage reduction component (as others have pointed out in various nightmare op situations) rather than the threat component. I guard my healer for Heirad nightmare since that's where the most benefit came from in my comp. There are other situations but I don't really use guard for threat any more. I have to really mess up my rotation for anyone to pull threat or I have to recover from a DPS accidentally hitting their taunt. If I'm doing a random hardmode flashpoint I might use guard on someone if they're really undergeared just to help them stay alive but threat isn't a concern. Too many tanks use it as a crutch to make up for bad rotations, imo.
  8. Because they expect to be carried through and the Czerka HM fps have the best drops and are, as a result, the best to single queue for. Best advice I can give you is join an active guild so you always have at least a few people you're comfortable with to get through them.
  9. Same here. Nothing caught my eye until this mount, figured why not.
  10. I actually like the sounds, since I was hoping it would be different than the incendia. It could definitely stand to be louder though, I had to turn off music and ambient sound just to hear the idle noise.
  11. Some of my favorites: In EC Nightmare: Zorn & Toth: "Alright guys, don't forget your medpac" Colonel Vorgath: "Who's got 2nd interrupt?" (silence) On writhing horror nightmare: "Remember to call out your cleanse when you're out of the group" On Dreadguards nightmare: "I'm at 7 stacks" There are more, but that's a good start
  12. Like the title reads, the reputation trophies from the new cartel packs have a vendor value of 0 credits. I'm assuming this wasn't intended since other rep trophies have a vendor value so you an do something with them once you've maxed the rep.
  13. If they added this, it would be a consumable that reset your lockouts per character and cost 6,000 cartel coins.
  14. There's an easy, if ham-fisted, way to balance both PVP and PVE balance since this game has a PVP stat. Use an AC based expertise modifier. Operatives under performing? They get a 1.1 expertise modifier. Snipers soloin'g entire 4 man groups? Give them a 0.8 expertise modifier. Net result would be a global change to damage, healing, and damage reduction by AC that would have zero impact on PVE. Is it pretty? No, not really but it's the only thing I could come up with short of having a 4th, PVP only tree.
  15. What I heard was that they changed they are going to change their combat system away from tab target selection, like swtor and wow, to "skill shots" like WildStar & MOBA games like Smite.
  16. The 2 new Czerka flashpoints on story mode are fun to solo, if you're somewhat decently geared and have a geared healing companion. Since you need to be in an actual group to use the courtesy kolto station, there's an added layer of difficulty. I've worked my way through both and had a great time. Naturally, the first time I did them was on my tank. Plenty of memorable moments, but the vigilant was the closest call. When I finally killed all the cores, the vigilant spawned already enraged. Ouch. I kited and taunted him like a lunatic while my healing companion took pot shots at him with his blaster. Fun was had by all! I think it might be harder on my operative since you need your companion to survive through the champ cores
  17. It would kind of awesome if they had different henchmen come out next time on different planets, sort of rotate through the ones you're hunting, that had to be purchased with a single contract after you've already done dead or alive. It would also be kind of a pain, since you'd need to get all the achievements done in a small time frame that, while doable, does not make it accessible for everyone.
  18. Thanks for the heads up! I'll be on the look out for cheap cartel market unlocks to re-list on weekends. In the meantime, understand that even if Bioware did find activity that is against their policy it may not be actionable on their part. I can't say I blame them for being overly cautious with account actions though. Remember when they accidentally banned a bunch of people after 2.1? Yeah, didn't do them any favors. All we can do is report what we observe and hope they put a stop to it. I can't tell you how many bots I've reported on Korriban, what happens after I submit the report is no longer my concern. The onus lies with Bioware. I want to take the time to decompress the myriad of ways this should be applied for better discussions here but there's no value. Taking complainers to task by complaining about their hollow complaints in their own complaint threads is a zero sum game. Good luck, I don't have that kind of patience.
  19. Wait, they let you consume that tripe it orally? I haven't been able to sit in a normal chair for 4 months!
  20. This. I'll be getting my dead or alive title today (unless I get more "help" on Tatooine -_-) and have mapped out the trophies I need to get where I want to. The moment I saw that title I knew I wanted to power through this event and get everything I need a soon as possible. I made it a point to have enough trophies to cap the Czerka rep this week without doing anything then once the event is over it's back to Czerka for me! I really love the speeders you get from the BBA and Czerka. I'm one of those people that has a specific speeder for each AC to match their theme, and my bounty hunter absolutely need the BBA speeder. Not many speeders look good on a body type 3 without making you look like a fat guy in a little coat.
  21. With 2 hypercrates, you'll get enough for at least champion if not damn near legend (that's what it took for me). On my server, hypercrates go from 4 million to 6 million. Figure 12 million credits total. Out of reach of many players? Yeah, probably. Not even close to impossible in 5 months though, if you really wanted to save yourself cartel coins. When you get down to it, even when you do nightmare raids and burn 15 - 20 adrenals a night (and I do), there's just not a whole lot to spend credits on in this game. A guildy of mine has been buying sets to complete the cartel collection. I've been augmenting companion gear and getting at least 1 decked out companion for each of my 55s. If you're a subscriber and participate in the different events and daily areas in the game, it's not difficult at all to get up to where you can learn some valuable schematics from the elite and underworld vendors and stop doing dailies all together. Then a measly 12 million for some hypercrates will be a drop in the bucket. I digress. I don't mind a new faction at all. I like seeing new items and, if you get them early enough, the small prestige they confer. I got a ton of whispers when I rolled into fleet wearing white scalene armor and riding the blue orb the first moment it was possible when the Gree event launched. That giant speeder will be no different and I expect to have it by the 2nd week. This is the kind of carrot that motivates players like me. It's definitely not for everyone.
  22. I can confirm that neither the contact nor the dialogue options have any impact on which henchman you are assigned. I've captured and killed all of them, making the exact same dialogue choices on every character every time. If dialogue choices had an impact, that would not have been possible. The one that took me the longest was Kar'wa. I reset the mission 17 times before she came up for me to capture the first time and something like 9 times when I worked to get her the 2nd time for the kill. The good thing is that I developed a route on Hutta, DK, and Ord Mantell to get the ones that I wanted in the shortest amount of time. Now I just need for people to stop "helping" me kill kingpins so I can get my title today.
  23. My go to is Ashara. She can clear a single pack of mobs by herself while I clear a 2nd pack of mobs on my sin tank. I keep her on her bleed stance, which from some old parses I did to figure out companion dps was the highest. Good times.
  24. Because they wanted to give something for min-maxers to do. It might be the vodka talking, but that's not such a bad thing. I just wish they'd stop putting accuracy and alacrity on all tanking gear. Fine, don't make the default gear best in slot but at least drop the trash stats! We will never use it, no matter what they do to buff those stats, because our job as tanks is to hold the boss and stay alive. Neither one of those stats are worth trading off for staying alive, and as long as taunt can't miss we will never lose the boss.
  25. I absolutely love Talos. In fact, after playing 2 sith warriors with Quinn I love Talos even more now! His story has surprising depth to it: Team Talos ™
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