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my question is how do you maintain threat on large groups of mobs ... ?
Remember that 'taunt' isn't the be-all-and-end-all of grabbing aggro ... it is just the initial shortcut to get their attention. So, for example, if you are attacking enemy A, taunt enemy B, and carry on attacking A then B will run over and hit you for a little while but quickly return to whoever they were attacking in the first place. Taunt is to pull someone over and allows you time to hit them yourself to build up threat.
If you don't hurt an enemy you won't keep their interest.
So to answer your question, how do you maintain threat on a large group of mobs? Ideally you won't, because most of the group will be CC'd by your team mates, but if you have to then you will be using your AoE damage and AOE taunt abilities, mixed in with single target damage, single target taunt, and multiple target attacks to spread your damage around.
Anyway, welcome to the game - as you've discovered it isn't WoW, so embrace that and enjoy the challenge of learning a new way of playing rather than hoping SWTOR will turn into WoW. How dull would it be if every game had the exact same mechanics?
With all that said though, which class are you playing? Some classes are more geared towards single-target tanking while others are better at group tanking.
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Yep, good idea - nice and basic and so completely taken for granted by more experienced players.
All new players should work out their role within a group stick to the basics outlined above, and remember:
- If you're the tank and you die then it was the healers fault
- If you're the healer and you die then it was the tank's fault
- If you're DPS and you die then it was your fault
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Good post, and I mostly agree
You will be judged on the name you choose but everyone has their own judgement when it comes to name. Me - personally - hate people who can't be original, and copy a name from somewhere else. I don't care if it is Starwars or any other established fiction, if you stole it then you have no imagination. Just make up a name, anything, and it will be better than yet another fiction-rip-off.
Unlike OP though, I have no problem with a bit of humour. Darth Pancake made me smile. There are obvious limits to this though.
What I don't like is when people try and make a sentence with their name, and include a star-warsy title. I've seen more than one "JediMasterMark/John/Dave" name running around the place. I guess they won't be using the title "Jedi" or "Master" when they actually achieve it because that would look even dumber ... Jedi JediMasterMark, or Master JediMasterMark.
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If you didn't know when it was ending, this was purely your own fault. The information was available to those who clicked the launcher link about it.
There wasn't a launcher link. That's the point. There was a launcher link to the website information page about the Rakghoul event, but that gave no information on when the event was ending (and didn't cross link to other sources of information). The only place that information was provided was in a single post, in a single thread, in the general forum ... and that certainly wasn't linked to from the launcher.
To be clear, I found out the event was ending before it happened (but only with 4 days left so not long enough to focus on getting every item of gear), but there were a large number of people who didn't hear about the end date until after it had ended. I found the post by reading the 'dev posts' forum, but my point was that to expect players to come to a forum to get essential information about the game is poor communication. There are plenty of avenues for providing information, and any of these would be better than forcing players to come to a hostile and frankly bitter general forum.
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1. I'm a girl. Its Moirae, NOT Murray. Google it to actually learn something about greek mythology.
With respect, I can't imagine most people would bother googling a name when replying to a post.
4. I've played Jedi Knight. I prefer my consular and smuggler. Jedi Knight could use almost all the drops.
... and if that was in reply to my post you missed the point.
The previous poster put it more explicitly than me: you could just be suffering from perception bias. What I was saying was that if you rolled a Jedi Knight then you'd be complaining that all the drops were aim or willpower and not a single heavy strength item was dropping.
There isn't an 'obvious favouring of certain classes' with loot drops, but random numbers can certainly seem like they're out to get you.
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I have been reading - But there is nothing there that makes the diffrence when it comes to the basic flaws of the current leveling progress. And that is lack of ppl spread around in way to many 4 man content instead of having fewer so that ppl can group up better.
Lack of people has pretty much zero impact on levelling progress ... that's what people keep trying to tell you but you keep ignoring. Or rather you aren't ignoring it, you just keep reciting it as a mantra as if it is true, despite everyone in this thread trying to help you realise you are wrong!
That is also the reason the game is casual friendly - there is NO need to group to get to max level. You can quite happily play this game as a solo experience.
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Thanks for your answers guys. Like I said I do not plan to be playing any more cause I simply do not like how this game is built up for the more casual players that play 10-15 hours per week. I have yet to do a single 4 man quest cause there are no ppl around and its starting to hurt my overall gear progression very badly. It makes the rest of the game even harder to the point where its not much of a fun to play.
SWTOR is probably one of the most casual friendly MMORPG's around! Most of the complaints are from the people that want a more hard-core experience. I myself am very lucky if I get to play 10 hours a week, normally it will be more 7 or 8, so I'm not just saying it to disagree with you.
I think you probably have a very bad understanding of gear, and despite people telling you that the group quests are not necessary you carry on talking as if they are - and the sole reason for your troubles.
If your gear is falling way behind the curve then it isn't do with not doing group quests, it will be something else. Either you're not using your planetary commendations, or you're not keeping any modifiable gear up to date (also with commendations), or you're selling the decent gear you get as quest rewards, or you're just choosing gear with the wrong stat (although I think that's unlikely, because you haven't expressed any stat confusion in your posts so I will assume you know which stat is your primary stat).
Overall Im really dissapointed in my leveling experience cause I do not like to leave quests behind like the 2 man and 4 man quests. But I have zero options with my limited play time but to skip them. And when you are forced to skip all - then you fall behinhd in decent gear both for yourself and your companion. Its a vicisous cicle that leads to no progression.
No, you don't. You are wrong on this point. As already said, if you think your gear is below par then it will be for another reason and will have very little to do with not playing group quests.
So far I can not see I have been doing anything seriously wrong in terms of how Im playing based on what the game is offering without detailed leveling guide so obviously this is something that Bioware need to look at.I said it before, but I'll say it again (and others have said it too) but it is pretty hard to be below level in this game IF you accept and complete every quest (except heroics), if you follow through on the bonus 'kill-x-of-y' sections of a quest, if you do the bonus series at the end of a planet AND if you don't stealth around every group of enemies.
The only people reporting that they are under level are guilty of not doing one or more of those things. You are playing a stealth class, so I'd suggest that maybe you are sneaking past enemies rather than attacking them.
I dont like to do PVP and thats probably the main reason I have been falling this far behind. But like I said - I have desided to not bother anymore
Nope, it has nothing to do with PvP.
So, seriously OP, it obviously has no impact on me whether you stay or go but the reasons you are giving for why you are behind the curve are wrong and needed correcting. Maybe if you take that on board and read what others have suggested, and try playing a little differently, then you will start enjoying the game. Or maybe you won't. Makes no odds to me.
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While the above is accurate, it's worth noting that TAB-targetting is particularly prone to picking rubbish targets and you'll be hitting it more than once more often than you might hope.
Yep - which is why I tend to use my Q key bound to "target closest enemy" more than any other method. Tab isn't great but I still use it .
If I really don't care which target then I'll tab. At the start of a fight I'll click, and in the middle of a fight I'll Q.
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Hello. I am now a lvl 35 sorcerer and I finding my self having to go into 36+ zones to keep progressing. Since there are almost zero players leveling on my servers I can not do any of the 2 mans and 4 man content and since this is my first character I am unable to equip myself and my companions to play much higher lvl content than what I am.
For me this is gamebreaking to the point where Im sorta forced to wait for rested XP to fill up the gap needed. Even with the bonus series on lower lvl planets I have not been able to keep up and right now it has led to me unsubing and quit playing.
Any advise ppl can give for a first character player playing on server where its absolutly IMPOSSIBLE to get ppl to help doing 2 and 4 man content ?
Well, if you've un-subbed AND quit I'm not sure why you'd then ask for advice, but I'll assume you're still around and actually want to play.
Do a search, restricted to the new player help forum, to see the number of threads from people saying "I'm under-levelling" and then follow the advice given by all the replies.
In summary:
- don't stealth your way past enemies just to reach the objective. Stand and fight and do those mission bonus objectives
- accept, and do, every quest
- try and do as many of the mission bonus steps as you can ("kill X womprats")
- do the bonus series on each planet
If you do these things you will not be under level, and will be suffering from the opposite problem of being over level. At which point you can be more selective about which missions you accept, or how many of the bonus steps you complete.
None of this requires the completion of the Heroic missions, PvP, space combat or flashpoints. They do give a nice boost but are not essential.
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Bioware have only a few days to bring in cross server queuing and server merges. Diablo 3 release date is the 15th of May. Not many people will pay a months sub to sit on a dead server when you can be paying for and playing diablo 3 which will have many more players.
In your face bioware for your arogance on server merges......
You only have days to sort out cross server queuing .......... Get your bums into gear Y&£$*$(*%..
Er, no.
Diablo and SWTOR aren't the same kind of game. Some people don't like Diablo at all, some don't like SWTOR at all, and some like both. Maybe some portion of that last group will leave. Maybe.
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Whereas things like aim are neglected?
You should play a Jedi Knight, and then you'll think that all the drops are biased towards aim/cunning/willpower.
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:confused:guild remove me
They don't have to notify you, or give you a warning.
You didn't really ask a question in your post and just stated a fact, but I am assuming you had an implied question of "Why did they remove me?". If that is the case the only people that can answer you is your guild.
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What you can do is set a key in key binds to toggle nearest enemy (I usually use tab for this) and you can spam pushing that until it targets the right one and sort of position yourself closer so that it is picking up the "closest" enemy to you.Oh, and try targeting with the keyboard! It really is helpful. I use TAB to cycle through my enemies.
Click-targeting becomes impossible in PvP, with everyone hopping around in circles.
As others have said, using a click to target the enemy isn't usually the best way and there are key presses you can use instead.
By default, TAB will target a random enemy and you can keep pressing it to cycle through all enemies. Under your keybinds, in preferences, you'll find an option for 'target closest enemy' which should be fairly self explanatory. Some people bind this to TAB and so just ignore the cycle-target, but another way is to bind it to Q (or any other key of your choice).
There's also a 'target closest ally' which can be useful for healers, and I have mine bound to E.
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During & after the event, I tried to get a straight answer from Bioware -- did they really intend to just slip in non-consensual PvP flagging of players on PvE servers, with no warning?
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I finally got this message from a CSR today:
"We have investigated the error you reported, and have confirmed with our specialist team that in fact this is not a bug, and is working as designed."
So, while it's always been a given that you couldn't trust the entire playerbase, it turns out you can't trust Bioware, too. The plague event was really worth sacrificing our trust, right?
Thanks for the 30 days, but no, I won't be resubbing.
It is pretty staggering really how unaware BW seem to be about the whole PvP and PvE thing, and that for a lot of PvEers "No means NO". They seem to think (and act like) they can just allow people to be flagged against their will and it will all be ok ... as if the game is somehow fundamentally a PvP game and those that don't want to PvP are deluded and just need to be exposed more to realise the error of their ways.
"Just slip them into PvP and they'll become hooked and realise it is for their benefit"
Amazing really that they seem to keep falling for the same problem. They must have a very strong advocate of PvP on the team who just doesn't understand the PvE viewpoint. At all.
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Is it too late to acquire a Rakghoul pet? Are the missions still available? Is there another way to get one?
Yes. No. Not that I know of.
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Any hints on how to jump better. It's really damaging my enjoyment of the game.
Yes. it is very annoying.
- Turn off sprint
- When you want to jump over a gap move until you are close to the edge
- Press jump and then forward (maybe 1/2 second gap between presses)
Trying to press both at once can be haphazard, and closely following the jump with forward generally triggers it correctly.
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Not sure if this helps but my Jedi had a hard time finding the proper entrance too. There are actually 2 separate spots to find.
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Read the rest of this thread carefully.
The OP is playing Imperial, so cannot access this particular datacron which is for Republic only.
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Purple > blue > green > white > gray. Orange is unique, I'll explain that in a sec.green--blue--purple....but the best is Orange mod'able gear with an augment slot.
Sigh. OP - what these guys have written is correct to a point, but what I wrote earlier is correct all the time. One more time, with love:
The best gear is the one with the best stats (for your class). Full stop.
It is pointless you wearing level 10 orange/purple with level 10 mods if you could be wearing a green piece that is level 40.
So is blue better than green? Only if the stats are better.
Is purple better than blue? Only if the stats are better.
Obviously with modifiable gear you have the option to improve those stats so if you wear that kind of gear you need to make sure you keep it viable and better than the greens/blues that are dropping.
You get the point.
I hope.
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I am having severe difficulty beating Valis, what are the interrupts? i have tried everything I am a Jedi Knight @ lvl 24 i dont know what else to use against him any help would be great.
Read the tool-tips for your abilities. Force Kick in particular says 'interrupts current action'.
Other abilities will interrupt enemies by stunning them ... some only work on weak or standard enemies though. Other abilities don't mention interrupting but do have that affect, which means you just have to have taken notice while you are playing.
For example:
- force stasis will interrupt the enemy
- blade storm will interrupt weak/standard enemies
- force leap stuns and interrupts the enemy
So read this thread, it has lots of information repeated many times, but in essence:
- use your companion wisely
- use your interrupts wisely
- use your shield/blocking abilities wisely
- remember your heroic moment, and for dogs sake don't use it *before* you've used saber ward
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okay thanks for your help ill check this out tyvm:D
And in general, don't walk past people who have quests for you - especially if they're cunningly placed right in your path. Take the time to stop and see what they want ... if you don't want the quest then some you can decline or abandon. But at your level, and as a first time player, just accept everything and see where the journey takes you.
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Hi all
The colour coding of gear
Is purple where its at ?
So if you have exact same mods in both purple and orange, Purple is the one to go for ?
Do they have the exact same stats? If so, it doesn't matter - base your decision on appearance. If one is actually better (because of the stats) then obviously that is the one to wear.
Is there ever a time where you would ditch purple or orange for green ? higher rating ?
Yes there is. Although personally I don't ditch modifiable gear, I just stash it until I've got upgrades to modify it so that it is better than the green.
So, for example, most classes can pick up an orange chest piece with the first flashpoint. Missions on your home planet may then reward (or drop) a green/blue/purple item that isn't modifiable but is better than your orange piece: the stats are all better.
So I'd wear that new piece until I'd purchased mods to upgrade the orange gear.
tl;dr
Armour isn't innately better just because of colour ... it is better because of the statistics. Level 10 orange gear (with level 10 mods) will be worse than level 20 green gear. Compare stats and choose what to wear based on that. Don't throw away modifiable gear though because it can always be upgraded.
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I was thinking I could farm for resources for free, then make items, then sell them.
Yes, you could gather resources for crafting.
Also if it was the planet before I would be able to get some xp and legacy xp
Yeah you'd get some XP, assuming the enemies weren't grey, but you'd get more XP just by carrying on with the missions on your current planet. Some people don't mind grinding for XP against crappy enemies, but personally my time is precious and I'd rather get more XP just by playing normally.
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not sure how to turn it on... had a heck of a time creating character, but can't continue.
any suggestions?
thanks in advance.
In Windows, control panel > mouse make sure you've turned off any fancy-pants additions such as mouse-trails and whatnot.
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That video guide is for willpower +4, this thread is about the route to willpower +2 being blocked by a class restriction red barrier door... I'm a BH and have spent ages trying to find a way into the location of the +2 will power datacron without any luck..
There isn't a willpower +2 for Empire on Taris - that's your problem. There is only a willpower +4 ...
The guide linked to earlier points this out too http://www.swtor-spy.com/datacrons/taris/69/
One more time about Primary stats
in New Player Help
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Well I can't speak for Eternalnight but one reason people get upset about inaccuracies being posted in this forum is that they get picked up on and propagated. A month from now someone will say something along the lines of "But strength also increases HP, I saw it on the forum somewhere ..."
This doesn't matter so much on the general forum, where all sorts of rubbish is posted, but in the New Player Help forum the posts tend to be more factual ... well, some of the time
Anyway, good post eternalnight, because as you well know it is a massively misunderstood topic despite there being a thorough explanation including secondary stats in the sticky fleet pass. But then if people read the posts in the sticky in the first place this forum would be a lot of quieter.