Colryn Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I am curious as to how other players are gaining social points to be able to use the social vendors? So far it has been like pulling teeth trying to get a group with any guild members.I try general chat of course nut it nearly never works for me especially when I am the only person in the "who" list that has a LFG tag on any planet. It is really blowing my mind how few people group together it seems when; A) It's an RP server, B)Players get increased XP in a group versus soloing, and C)Only way to get access to social vendor items is via social points gained from grouping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chessack Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Well I have not really paid much attention to the social vendors, but I would say if you feel that getting a group together from your guild is like pulling teeth, something is wrong. Our guild has regular mission nights once a week and we get together lots of other times on an impromptu basis. I have done probably 6 or 7 flashpoints with guildies and I dunno how many heroics. Now, I don't have a huge # of social points on any one character because I'm a flaming alt-aholic, but if you added all my alts together I'd have a decent social score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinfulness Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 That's because most of the social point rewards are pretty lame, and there really is no major incentive to group while leveling. Heroics quests and flash points can be totally skipped while leveling. As to the RP grouping, really in MMO's the RP community is mostly dead or very well hidden due to it being turned into such a taboo. Even on RP servers the amount of RP taking place is limited. There will be scheduled events, but outside of that there is very little and people will simply not group for random RP most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwitplanz Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 dont even try to get to get these points yet... why you ask? cause they are bugged out you will freeze points right before social 2 is reached. anthor great bugged. I should be social 8 by now, sent in ticket is no fix . buggy buggy buggy , just like everything else in this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzrknight Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 if you are empire , and assuming you are lvl 50 after farming social points , just call few lvl 10 and run BT , low lvl always think it awesome and you get social pts easy this away , works on my server at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inarai Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Wouldn't happen to be on Ajunta Pall, would you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iResist Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Personally, while leveling, I don't care much for grouping because I level far faster without grouping and I just skip the tough group missions, sometimes I try to solo those as well. I'm willing to bet a lot of players feel the same way. Now when I reach 50, that's when I'll be doing all my grouping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inarai Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Personally, while leveling, I don't care much for grouping because I level far faster without grouping and I just skip the tough group missions, sometimes I try to solo those as well. I'm willing to bet a lot of players feel the same way. Now when I reach 50, that's when I'll be doing all my grouping. ... You level faster in a group. Unless you and/or your group sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aryzyra Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Normal content is ridiculously easy. +2 heroics are still too easy for 2 players with 2 pets. So basically you end up probably needing to group if you care about doing a +4 heroic. Otherwise it's the faceroll of facerolls, with the added bonus of sharding problems. Also, since planets have narrow level bands, people you know probably aren't going to be there. Since travel is kind of annoying, they probably won't want to spend more time traveling than doing the quest. Shrugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imtrick Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I am curious as to how other players are gaining social points to be able to use the social vendors? I married a gamer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vydor_HC Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I am curious as to how other players are gaining social points to be able to use the social vendors? So far it has been like pulling teeth trying to get a group with any guild members.I try general chat of course nut it nearly never works for me especially when I am the only person in the "who" list that has a LFG tag on any planet. It is really blowing my mind how few people group together it seems when; A) It's an RP server, B)Players get increased XP in a group versus soloing, and C)Only way to get access to social vendor items is via social points gained from grouping. Most people in my guild have their heads down going thru the solo quests. Does make it hard to coordinate for grouping...tying to sync up quest lines. We usually just do Flash Points. But yeah, social points are hard to come by, but I don't think that's a bad thing all together. Just takes a bit longer and requires more grouping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colryn Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Sorry I didn't post which server I'm on. I'm on Sanctum of the Exalted. A RP server but seemingly a poor one at that so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iResist Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 (edited) ... You level faster in a group. Unless you and/or your group sucks. Eh, I don't think so. So far I'm level 33 and I've only grouped up once so far for a heroic 4 player quest. I didn't get nearly as good XP during the time it took for all the players to get there and even from the mob kills I wasn't getting as good xp. Considering how many normal quests I could have done in the meantime. Edited January 24, 2012 by iResist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colryn Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Eh, I don't think so. So far I'm level 33 and I've only grouped up once so far for a heroic 4 player quest. I didn't get nearly as good XP during the time it took for all the players to get there and even from the mob kills I wasn't getting as good xp. Considering how many normal quests I could have done in the meantime. It's been officially stated that you do get more xp in a group. It's not a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inarai Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Eh, I don't think so. So far I'm level 33 and I've only grouped up once so far for a heroic 4 player quest. I didn't get nearly as good XP during the time it took for all the players to get there and even from the mob kills I wasn't getting as good xp. Considering how many normal quests I could have done in the meantime. You get bonuses for being grouped. And you shouldn't have been waiting doing nothing - you've have been better off doing stuff in the area until they got there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malus_Rex Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Come join my server and do quests with me I really looked foward to playing this as a co-op game with my friends but we are all scattered across different servers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathDiciple Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 ... You level faster in a group. Unless you and/or your group sucks. Yes you do, if you have static group. If you wait for groups to fill/everyone to come to quest spot etc it definitely is not. And then there's PUG... Guess its just me but I tend not to care outside of FPs if I feel like it. The class story motivates me to go further, the 'new next level stuff' the same, and I found heroics in general pretty uninteresting to wait or look for group for. I like flashpoints design for the most part. If I have friends online then yeah but otherwise I just can't be bothered. And there's another problem with when certain quests become available - need to pass certain story phase or planet 'main story' phase... so once you lose the coordination with friends its a royal PITA to sync again. Its either you run static all the time or you solo everything leaving heroics until you're done with planet which means overlevel. IMO they should've made it so all zones are accessible and all heroics are accessible the moment you step onto the planet, which I'm pretty certain is not the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colryn Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Another thing that makes it hard to gain social points is half of the time when I do manage to get into a group, they disband after completion without bothering to wait and do the group turn-in for the social points I was after to start with. I have even seen some join a group; then on the way to the meet-up they pass by a mission npc, grab an additional new mission and space-bar through it without waiting for anyone to join the conversation even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannic Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 ... You level faster in a group. Unless you and/or your group sucks. You get more experience points in a group. That doesn't mean you level faster. Spamming LFG for 20 minutes isn't exactly time-efficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTijger Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I married a gamer. My wife did the same and as a result we're Social 5 at lv 42 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inarai Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 You get more experience points in a group. That doesn't mean you level faster. Spamming LFG for 20 minutes isn't exactly time-efficient. Which is why you don't just stand still and do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taelin Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 (edited) Simple: I don't use the social vendors. I don't do PUGs, period. I've also skipped 90%+ of the Heroics after Level 20, simply because there wasn't enough of my guildies around in order to do them when I was ready to. and it's just easier to level solo most of the time. I just hit level 50 yesterday, and I'm not even Social Rank 2. Edited January 24, 2012 by Taelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTijger Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 You get more experience points in a group. That doesn't mean you level faster. Spamming LFG for 20 minutes isn't exactly time-efficient. Yes but its not that much, my toon levelling with my wife, doing the same number of quests is less than a level behind and thats probably because I did all the Heroic 2's and most of the 4's while playing together and not all on my other toon. Mind you, I do notice far more Prototype and Artifact level drops when playing together, might be just dumb luck though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Personally, while leveling, I don't care much for grouping because I level far faster without grouping and I just skip the tough group missions, sometimes I try to solo those as well. I'm willing to bet a lot of players feel the same way. Now when I reach 50, that's when I'll be doing all my grouping. Whole point of levelling in any MMO is so you can team up for TOUGH missions, the general stance of any MMO is to group up, otherwise you may as well play soemthing like Skyrim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Gao_Gao Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 i'm just approaching social 5. my guild is constantly doing operations and flashpoints, though i haven't participated because i'm not level 50 yet. a buddy and myself decided to level bounty hunters together, and it has been fun! sounds like you need a better guild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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