Comments on: [SWTOR] New world event rumours, LFD, and other patch related chatter

By: Oleg

Oleg — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:48:51 +0000

Great to read that they updated the game. Maybe iam going to take a look back into SWtor since its going to be Free2Play very soon anyway. Hopefully they brought new content inside this Game, because thats what made me to decide to quit SWtor.

Thanks for this Article.

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:08:35 +0000

Interestingly, only one of the male force using characters (Inquisitor) has a romance with someone who isn’t his padawan. Maybe that’s a bit overused — I could see it for Kira, and for the Warrior (because he’s not going to care about abuse of power) but you’d think the Consular would be a bit more … sensible.

Inquis/Consular is probably a tricky class to balance solo instances for. It doesn’t help when enemies appear right in front of you with no setup time, which sucks for a stealther or ranged class.

By: Simon Jones who is Blogless

Simon Jones who is Blogless — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:53:48 +0000

Something did bug in SWTOR was the awkward parts where game and story meet. The transition between the JK ending and the rest of the game, is possibly more awkward than the Consular one. And the first couple of acts of the Smuggler story involve chasing down a vast, vast fortune. Which you get to keep and have and which turns out to be 900 credits.

By: Simon Jones who is Blogless

Simon Jones who is Blogless — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:08:48 +0000

Also, your healer is your second last companion, which screws things a bit for tank levelling.

By: Simon Jones who is Blogless

Simon Jones who is Blogless — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:08:11 +0000

It’s worth keeping in mind that, even after a fairly massive difficulty nerf (There was a fight that took an hour because you had to fight three guys who each needed the 20 minute CD), the JK is still the hardest story path, so it kind of gives you a warped view of the difficulty of actually doing stuff.

By: Daraxis

Daraxis — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:25:25 +0000

Consular was my first character at launch, and I recently rerolled on another server and did the Consular again. I levelled as a Shadow tank spec using Tharan most of the time, so there was really very little that I struggled with. In fact, it was usually easy enough (although slow) to solo all the 2+ and some of the 4 heroics. It would have been nice to have a group finder available at the time, but the companion system works well for levelling tank.

The story was slow, at least during Act 1. Aside from all the previously made comments, I wonder if having Qyzen as the first companion (and the long gap until Tharan) didn’t slow it down further. I find it harder to ‘get into’ a non-English speaking companion, because you don’t get a feel for their emotional tone with all the subtitle reading.

Having said that, I enjoyed Act 2 and loved Act 3. The final scene was a huge emotional payoff, though I was actually pleased to get all those freeloaders off my ship at the end.

It’s nice that the femConsular romance is sweet, because the broConsular romance (with Nadia) is the creepiest thing ever. She’s a child, she’s your padawan, she has daddy issues, and just no. No, no, no.

By: Dril

Dril — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:37:57 +0000

Oh aye, I’ve been bringing out my old raiding skills constantly; interrupting whenever I can, moving out of everything, playing taunt tennis with T7 to spread the damage out and putting my CD up, using the heroic moment to do that over and over again and get the healing etc.

It’ll be interesting to see how the healer companion changes things, when they come around.

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:03:08 +0000

You may be better than I am because I sucked at that last boss until I switched to a dps spec (well I switched to run a flashpoint but stayed in that spec) and brought Tharan along, at which point it was easy.

By: Redbeard

Redbeard — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:36:37 +0000

What sort of size is your new guild? Large as in WoW-sized, or large as in Age of Conan sized? The AoC guilds I've seen around are positively huge with what seems to be several hundred members minimum, whereas that's the absolute max size of a WoW guild.

By: Shintar

Shintar — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:23:34 +0000

I actually levelled as healing spec with a tank companion throughout, and I wonder if that didn’t make things easier. As long as any given mob’s damage output didn’t significantly outdo my healing, I could basically take on anything. Only issue was having to make frequent switches between targeting my companion for heals and targeting the enemy for crucial interrupts.