Przemo_No Posted October 30, 2015 Posted October 30, 2015 I have been playing this game for long time and so far had no issues with adjusting to implemented changes. However the start of KofTE made me completely confused even if I read all the patch notes, etc. Here are couple of issues I currently face and hope someone has the knowledge to explain. 1. All my 8 lvl 60 “mains” had at least 1 companion story finished. After 4.0 all those that DID not have the stories completed shown conversation options, so I naturally used them. It seems that all conversations yield different influence for different companions. So I ended up with one having influence 7 and another with 5. There are no further convo options, thus I assume I have finished given “companion story”. So, is it possible to “finish” them and still not reach influence level 10? Asking because I am not sure if there’s any point to buy them gifts or not. 2. Companion 192 gear from Yavin. All my “mains” companions had the Yavin gear. After 4.0 every empty slot in my storage or mailbox has been blocked by removed and mailed back companion gear. I am still in the process of sorting out the situation and such actually prevents me from playing KofTE. (I have like 1 hr daily to do it). I am fully aware that the companion gear now is just cosmetic, but there’s always a catch: in my case it is all the “alts” companions. Once my alts reach 55, I can basically equip their companions in Yavin gear. Nice but not nice in terms of “storage space”. Or perhaps I should just vendor everything and don’t bother? 3. Lvl 55 blue gear vendor. He used to be placed on the fleet, so once I reached lvl 55 on one of my “alts”- and had massed some comms – I equipped blue 172 mods, allowing to go to SoR and not bothering with the greens it drops during the story. Now those mods are unavailable and I REALLY do not feel like going thru Makeb/Oricon for the 20th time. Is there any other place/method you can actually acquire such gear? 4. KofTE story. I tried it only with 1 character so far and barely finished Chapter 3 (arrived to some swamps) due to couple of reasons. (one described above) I usually try what’s “in the store” with some less “preferred” character, just to familiarize myself with the content. What I noticed is that KofTE (so far) is actually very long cut-scene, separated by few occasional fights. Even during that small part, I was shocked that no mob (or groups of mobs) pose any challenge. I played with Scoundrel (in purple 186) and Lana was basically destroying everything + healing me. Was that supposed to be?? No challenge at all? It is still possible that at later stages, it changes? Also, during those 3 chapters, there was no chance either to find any outpost with vendors/mail or to buy any upgraded gear. How do you acquire the 216 stuff? 5. Aliance. People talk about it but so far I haven’t noticed anything that would led me to this quest. How do you start it? And when? Thanks!
SteveTheCynic Posted October 30, 2015 Posted October 30, 2015 I have been playing this game for long time and so far had no issues with adjusting to implemented changes. However the start of KofTE made me completely confused even if I read all the patch notes, etc. Here are couple of issues I currently face and hope someone has the knowledge to explain. 1. All my 8 lvl 60 “mains” had at least 1 companion story finished. After 4.0 all those that DID not have the stories completed shown conversation options, so I naturally used them. It seems that all conversations yield different influence for different companions. So I ended up with one having influence 7 and another with 5. There are no further convo options, thus I assume I have finished given “companion story”. So, is it possible to “finish” them and still not reach influence level 10? Asking because I am not sure if there’s any point to buy them gifts or not. They changed the progression criterion for unlocking the next part of a companion's story from "affection is X" to "class story progression is Y". Also, level 10 influence isn't even close to the max. You can go up to 50. 2. Companion 192 gear from Yavin. All my “mains” companions had the Yavin gear. After 4.0 every empty slot in my storage or mailbox has been blocked by removed and mailed back companion gear. I am still in the process of sorting out the situation and such actually prevents me from playing KofTE. (I have like 1 hr daily to do it). I am fully aware that the companion gear now is just cosmetic, but there’s always a catch: in my case it is all the “alts” companions. Once my alts reach 55, I can basically equip their companions in Yavin gear. Nice but not nice in terms of “storage space”. Or perhaps I should just vendor everything and don’t bother? Except for the droids and the parts of meatbag companions that don't take armour shapes (Qyzen's head and hands, for example) you can put the stuff back on the companions if you want to keep the look. Or because it is legacy bound, you can save it for alts. Or you can vendor it, whatever you want. 3. Lvl 55 blue gear vendor. He used to be placed on the fleet, so once I reached lvl 55 on one of my “alts”- and had massed some comms – I equipped blue 172 mods, allowing to go to SoR and not bothering with the greens it drops during the story. Now those mods are unavailable and I REALLY do not feel like going thru Makeb/Oricon for the 20th time. Is there any other place/method you can actually acquire such gear? I don't think so, but I will leave it for others to offer input. 4. KofTE story. I tried it only with 1 character so far and barely finished Chapter 3 (arrived to some swamps) due to couple of reasons. (one described above) I usually try what’s “in the store” with some less “preferred” character, just to familiarize myself with the content. What I noticed is that KofTE (so far) is actually very long cut-scene, separated by few occasional fights. Even during that small part, I was shocked that no mob (or groups of mobs) pose any challenge. I played with Scoundrel (in purple 186) and Lana was basically destroying everything + healing me. Was that supposed to be?? No challenge at all? It is still possible that at later stages, it changes? Also, during those 3 chapters, there was no chance either to find any outpost with vendors/mail or to buy any upgraded gear. How do you acquire the 216 stuff? Companions are like that now, because they scale up percentage-wise not add-wise, so presence gives high level accounts a huge boost in their high-level companions. 216 stuff comes two (ish) ways: Gather from Ops drops, or buy with Ultimate comms from the vendors on fleet. Ops drops can be REd for schematics then crafted. 5. Aliance. People talk about it but so far I haven’t noticed anything that would led me to this quest. How do you start it? And when? Chapter 9 of KotFE, although traces of it are visible a bit earlier.
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