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Why don't you start actually reading the replies before making a comment like that?
Kinda hard to aim around on on targets without having figured out how to aim, eh?
Fact is, for quite a few of us, the turrets handle like crap and seemingly shoot random places compared to where you aim. This makes the turret section plain horrible and an exercise in frustration.
Naturally I assumed "could not turn the turret" meant literally, and not an exaggeration.
That said, I've done it twice, with myself, a friend, and 4 other people, and none of us had problems.
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Not counting Jar Jar Binks (who is a shoe in for every thing he says, and isn't fair in this "contest"), any dialogue spoken in scenes where Hayden Christiansen and Natalie Portman were alone together.
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Sitting on Imperial fleet with my healer friend and a pug DPS spamming "LF tank for x" for an hour or more doesn't do anything for the community, and not allowing players to do content ruins the community more than an automated group tool ever could.
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Not scared, but will say it was a pretty creatively made dungeon. Never thought I'd see lighting used in an MMORPG like it's used in KuS.
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+1 to HM FE, one of our party got knocked off and couldn't roll on items or get the crystals at the end.
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We had no problems with it, 4 people who never did it before. Wiped once because our tank and one DPS got knocked off during the "puzzle" part but that's it. You know you have to turn the turret with RMB, right?
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Only use knockback to prevent those mobs from hitting me after I tear aggro off the tank. Tank better
-your DPS.
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I think the problem is that people dont really notice the cc effect. I mean....Yeah that guy is floating but is he being force choked or cc'd? or that droid is shaking violently is he stunned or has he been force lightninged?
Which is why we need to change for sleep to turn them into banthas and slice droid to turn them into a box and the cc from stealth to knock them on the ground with a big "DO NOT DISTURB" sign on the head.
If it's not performing actions than it's controlled, not that hard really.
Also seconding tanks breaking CC. Slice a droid, they walk up and hit it with their light stick. Cut it out guys
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The forum minority has lead me to believe that this never happens when no LFG tool is available, and that everything is rainbows and sprinkles. I think I've been lied to
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IMO, dugneon finder made WoW boring. Now, you have a bunch of people doing nothing except waiting around for the next dungeon instance. It made lvling to easy and gear to easy to get.
I consider the FP or heroics just part of the game... NOT THE GAME. I have a funny feeling the people that continue to complain about this issue really don't have a problem picking up a group for 1 instance of an FP, but they want to do mulitple instances of the same FP the same night.
Uhhhhh. What?
It didn't change the content at all. What are you on about?
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Honestly this is only a DPS problem and you only hear DPS complaining about it, just like in a certain other game. Guess what? You're still going to wait if it ever is implemented. As a healer I completed every single heroic quest, flashpoint, and raid.
Bottom line is, you don't HAVE to complete all the flashopints. You don't HAVE to complete every dungeon. You really knew that when you chose a DPS Advanced Class. Most classes have the option to switch over to tank or healing spec, save Snipers and they're republic equivalent. If you're so set on completing this content, perhaps you should market yourself a little better or make yourself a bit more useful.
So DPS just shouldn't be able to clear content as fast as tanks or heals?
That is the stupidest excuse not to have an LFG tool that I have ever read, and I've been around for awhile.
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companions
Simple need/companion need/greed/pass system that has been suggested dozens of times.
Restrict classes that get nothing out of the gear from rolling need. Agents can't need Aim gear, Warriors can't need Willpower gear, etc. Everyone can companion need/greed/pass.
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I'm just curious. Aren't fresh 85 players in WoW forced to go through this exact same gear grind? They obviously aren't going to have anywhere near as much as Resilience (the Expertise equivalent stat) as other 85s do so aren't they going through the same process of getting destroyed BG after BG until they slowly get gear and gain resilience? I realize that with Arena being available in WoW, full PvP geared 85s may not do BGs as much as full PvP geared players in SWToR (since there's no rated WZ or Arena) but nonetheless, fresh 85s will, for the most part, be playing against PvP geared opponents.
Are WoW players complaining about this as well? I'm honestly curious.
And yes, I am aware of the differences of Resilience and Expertise and understand that Expertise is far more "potent" than Resilience due to the increase in damage and healing as well. I know that this makes the grind in SWToR even worse.
It gets complained about, but it's different in a couple of ways.
First off, resilience doesn't scale as well as expertise does. This, combined with the fact that expertise increases the damage and healing as well as decreasing damage taken from other players means that the gap between a fresh character and a geared character is much larger
Secondly, getting the gear is easier. Not only can you get a crafted set as soon as you hit 85, but your can get the previous season set after about a week of honor grinding, and that's if you are doing it casually. I've rushed it in 3 days after coming back to the game. Meanwhile in SWTOR you have to hope for lucky item drops.
Finally, as you mention, WoW has arenas, another path to PVP progression. SWTOR doesn't have this. It simply has the same 3 BG's and no other way to acquire gear than grind them (or Ilum *shudder*) and roll the dice. This makes the feeling of the grind longer than it actually is.
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The problem isn't the length of the instances (for the most part, some FPs are longer than preferred), but how long it takes to find players. Even DPS on my server takes 20 minutes to find some nights.
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On my Sniper because the quest flow was awful. Can someone sum up the story for me?
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It's not easy or hard, it's simply random. Terms like easy or hard predetermine some kind of scale by which to measure difficulty. There is no difficulty in completing fairly mundane tasks and receiving a random reward for those tasks.
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Who do you think you're kidding?
Grouping random people up automatically did nothing but encourage the Jerks. No, people can't Ninja when they don't get to Master Loot themselves, but the amount of off spec rolling was ridiculous. Not just off specs, but just needing because they can. They don't care because they'll get another random group just like everyone else. They don't have to be nice to others to get invited to a group.
Admit you are just too lazy and stubborn to set a LFG comment.
90% of the off spec rolls are made after asking, with the remaining just needing because they can. Which is fine with me. Heroics aren't raids, and you can do them once a day until your eyes bleed. That's how you get geared on your offspecs: By doing content on your main spec. I'd imagine the same thing would happen in SWTOR and don't really see the problem.
As far as being jerks and accountability in general, the dungeon finder in WoW delivers perfect accountability. Any player can /ignore any other player and never group with that player ever again. This has the added bonus of lowering the pool of players the ignored person can pull from next time he wants to do a dungeon. This takes accountability out of the hands of human beings who are flawed, jealous, spiteful creatures by nature and into the individual to decide who they want to group with.
I don't understand your parting comment; I used the LFG window last night. But it's a flat-out inferior system and should be replaced, even if it felt like working, which right now is sporadic at best.
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Have done heroics up to Belsavis, 3 manning most of them, we never needed our tank or the healer to be specifically specced and we still tore through them. Good call on the CC though.
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The turret part was far easier than I imagined it would be. We did it (me, friend, 2 pugs) easily.
The puzzle part was frustrating. Communicating via text only and not even being able to ping the map was really bad. On top of that it wasn't really a logic puzzle; it's just simply going to terminals and keeping them open for the next one. Seemed like an obnoxious way to extend an already decent instance.
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Anyway...
Said much more eloquently and flat out better than I could have ever put it, thanks for your contribution!
I fully expect it to be shot down by ridiculous hyperbole about Joe Bob's WoW server which died overnight.
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It is not poor design! The ability to mark yourself as LFG is there. I can find you on the list if I'm looking for more. You and others are so spoiled from playing WoW that you want to to copy the auto grouping feature. BioWare developers don't like that feature and what it did to their community. I don't want it either. What I want is for people to quit being lazy and set their LFG comment. It isn't hard, nor time consuming.
Yes, we were so spoiled by that feature that worked marvelously and resulted in an immediate and sudden subscriber jump as everyone could now do casual PVE content at their own pace, in groups where they didn't have to worry about jerks or ninjas.
That's it. There ARE tools available. There's a guide detailing its use in my signature. I mentioned it in general last night and someone was like "There's something like that in the game?" So I explained how to use it and he was happy. He even found someone on another planet who was lfging for the same flashpoint he's been advertising for.The problem is some don't know and some refuse to use because they want something else and chooses not to use it out of some misguided validation that by not using it they are a right. God forbid people use it and it works out well. That would crush them.
Check out my sig. Read the guide. Spread the word.
I use this system as well as spam chat. It's hard to tell if it's actually helping. Also, it's fairly buggy; it routinely resets me every few minutes and removes the LFG tag. I'm not using it because I don't want to; I'm using it and it's not effective enough.
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Play a sniper then get back to me.
I do play a sniper.
My point was LOS is flat out broken in this game. Enemies slightly above or below your position bug out and give you the "Cannot see enemy" error, and the game lets you shoot through actual LOS blocks like pillars for awhile before it catches up with itself.
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It hasn't killed WoW, even if they lost a MILLION players because of their LFG, they still have 9 million more that have been playing that game for almost 10 years.
What's funny is that people saw the headlines then just used it as an excuse to try to push any agenda they want without really reading the story. WoW has lost a couple million subs over the last year or so, but over 800,000 of those were Chinese, which were lost for two very important factors that have NOTHING to do with the dungeon finder: Chinese gaming market, and the state of the game.
In China (and Asia/SEA specifically) the market for competing games is MUCH larger than in the west. This is combined with the fact that the Chinese version of WoW is a gimped version of WOTLK, which isn't even connected with the current version of WoW Blizzard has been making and working on.
As I said, it's people seeing a headline, thinking about how much they personally don't like LFG, and trying to connect the dots. The fact is that after the LFG tool was added WoW subscriptions went up and continued to go up until a few months after Cataclysm, where they have been on the decline.
It has NOTHING to do with the LFG tool, and is simply people trying to place correlation with causation.
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To answer the rhetorical question: you should care. Game developers can and do get things wrong quite often. When they come to the conclusion that they were wrong (and they will sooner or later), they'll add cross server LFD without even a backward glance.
Oh for sure, it's definitely going to come to the game. The fact that they left the possibility open makes it a guarantee. As soon as people on the lower-end servers are quitting in droves do to not being able to run content (ie, play the game) it will come.
Just a question of how much money Bioware wants to lose
I am not vindictive or mean spirited, it's quite the opposite actually, i see much more of that type of behavior from people who are pro lfg on these pages.I haven't seen any attacks from pro-LFG. Anti-LFG posts reek of ad hominem character assassinations.
Sooo....why no heroic/fp queuing?
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Not counting a few instances of boss strat talk (largely unnecessary, but still communication), one out of ~30 unique FP/Op groups. You nailed it with your analysis. People whisper you, show up, go into the instance, do their thing, then say "thx 4 group" and drop as soon as you are done. I'd really like for someone to point to me at how no LFG tool creates a paragon of community, because being at the endgame for 2 weeks now? I ain't seein it.