Star Wars: The Old Republic will kill WoW - outsourced to Broadsword

[Mangoose]

Attempting to go from the class stories to highest difficulty kotet will complete wreck you, no contest. The difficulty jump is yuge. Can't even remember if they allow you to play the hard mode first time around.
I played a well-geared combat medic commando and had no issues healing the hardest veteran flashpoints, I struggled with it a good bit. Especially anytime they threw me a companion I didn't have ranked up. You have to be able to CC, play defensively, interrupt, abuse line of sight, have quick reactions, etc.,
And it wasn't because I played a healer, companions are actually really powerful in SWTOR, especially if you wear gear that gives them boosts. The other way around and the healer companion would probably struggle a lot to keep you alive trying to react to all the burst damage/stuns/etc., whereas companions can get near to a real player's DPS and they aren't required to predict big incoming damage.

Definitely one of the few times a modern MMO has done difficult singleplayer content.


oh, I completely forgot, the star base assaults. On the higher difficulty those were hard as shit to solo, but I can't remember if it was bugged or not.

Yeah, companions are paramount for level 70 and under content since Mastery, Power, and Endurance are capped. Only command/presence stims matter for stims. Get your companion to influence 50 and it'll be fine for heals (and probably rape even harder). Besides that, only accuracy/alacrity/critical are not capped so those are the stats to look for in terms of mods/enhancements. (Or rather, hit the accuracy/alacrity break-points and dump everything else into crit)

That being said, item rating matters. Because the gear that drops is based on your item rating. I "grinded" my item rating up to 306 by using the Spoils of War vendor to incrementally replacing my equipment with slightly higher item rating equipment. Had a lot of tech fragments so I was able to do that on one afternoon. Now, I don't have to do it again because now only 306 irating will drop if I wear said fully 306 equipment. And I can extract armoring/mods/enhancements and throw them in my legacy bank for my alts.

Sometimes Tacticals matter. For example, Deception Assassin does not have much AOE. But with "May Cause Injury," Severing Slash causes my next Discharge to hit up to 8 targets. Not sure how I could've put up dealing with content without that. Though this isn't the case for every class/discipline.

And in terms of the Star Fortresses on Heroic 2+, the most beneficial were (1) a high influence companion and (2) high influence with the NPCs you give supplies because they'll give you stat boosts at the Fortress. Even a turret if you've got Steve Blum high.

 

[Mangoose]

Question: Does Theron know he's related to Revan?

 

[Bliblablubb]

I don't remember him saying "bye dad" when we chopped Revan into tiny little chunks. So I would go with: "probably not".

He calls him his "secret ancestor." All signs point to: "yesh".

 

[Tyrr]

I bought the collectors edition back in the day and started playing during early access. But I haven't played it for many years now.
So when did nu-Bioware start to infect this game?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

So when did nu-Bioware start to infect this game?

after kotet/kotfe

The way they choose to insert black women into video games is fucking hilarious. Because they have the idea that "all black people are beautiful" -> they have no concept that perhaps Leslie Jones is one ugly bigfoot looking fucker. Doesn't help that most of the people pushing this shit are women and gays, which is how you end up with so many women that look like men to begin with.

 

[Zariusz]

So when did nu-Bioware start to infect this game?

after kotet/kotfe

The way they choose to insert black women into video games is fucking hilarious. Because they have the idea that "all black people are beautiful" -> they have no concept that perhaps Leslie Jones is one ugly bigfoot looking fucker. Doesn't help that most of the people pushing this shit are women and gays, which is how you end up with so many women that look like men to begin with.

From what i remember faggots were inserted to game during or near that expansion set on planet with earthquakes.

 

[Tyrr]

So when did nu-Bioware start to infect this game?

after kotet/kotfe

The way they choose to insert black women into video games is fucking hilarious. Because they have the idea that "all black people are beautiful" -> they have no concept that perhaps Leslie Jones is one ugly bigfoot looking fucker. Doesn't help that most of the people pushing this shit are women and gays, which is how you end up with so many women that look like men to begin with.

From what i remember faggots were inserted to game during or near that expansion set on planet with earthquakes.

Yes I remember. There was a controversy with "people" complaining about the lack of gay romances in the original SWTOR. And based old Bioware told them to fuck off because: "There are no gays in the SW universe".

So when did nu-Bioware start to infect this game?

after kotet/kotfe

The way they choose to insert black women into video games is fucking hilarious. Because they have the idea that "all black people are beautiful" -> they have no concept that perhaps Leslie Jones is one ugly bigfoot looking fucker. Doesn't help that most of the people pushing this shit are women and gays, which is how you end up with so many women that look like men to begin with.

It's not only that. There isn't even a (human) male in the picture.

 

[Storyfag]

It's not only that. There isn't even a (human) male in the picture.

The stormtrooper in the upper right is human. All of them are.

 

[Tyrr]

It's not only that. There isn't even a (human) male in the picture.

The stormtrooper in the upper right is human. All of them are.

Knowing Bioware, that one could still be a woman.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

And based old Bioware told them to fuck off because: "There are no gays in the SW universe".

Didn't KOTOR have that homocat thing though?

 

[Hellion]

I was frequently posting in the SWTOR forums at launch and for some time afterwards, and since day one a group of self-proclaimed "GAYMERS" (they had that tag in their forum signatures) began starting threads that actively called for 1) the inclusion of same-sex romances, 2) the option for a "gender switch" which would allow your character to change xis/xer gender at will. They literally spammed the forums with messages that "the game is unplayable for them because of the above features not being there". I still don't know if they were trolls or not.

Whatever the case, BioWare's official position became that "we had to get the game out first, we will support it with content, same-sex romances will be introduced further down the line" and eventually, a short time after the game went F2P BioWare decided to remove gender restrictions for romances and everyone could romance everyone.

Which lead us to instances like:

So my Dark Side V Male Sith Assassin is joining forces with the legendary DARTH CHADGUS himself, and right before our final assault on our main objective, this is the dialogue option I have:

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Middle option aside, fighting... Tau?

 

[Storyfag]

And based old Bioware told them to fuck off because: "There are no gays in the SW universe".

Didn't KOTOR have that homocat thing though?

It did. Suprisingly, I haven't been able to grill Juhani and/or the Jedi at the Enclave for info on that during my recent replay.

 

[Hellion]

Middle option aside, fighting... Tau?

I think that's the name of the black, brave and beautiful woman from the splash screens.


https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tau_Idair

 

[Mangoose]

Good times. Was talking on chat on A'napkin. Everybody's calling me Napkin

I'm like.. no... I'm A'napkin Flystalker. Yep, I'm the Flystalker Legacy on Malgus lolo

Edit: Wait. Someone said "oh so you're THE a'napkin flystalker" and I have no idea what that means unless it's a joke related to Star Wars. Because I haven't played A'napkin for at least half a decade.

and I didn't hang out with anyone besides the guild. Not to mention he's an Operative and I don't really do FPs on my Ops.

 

[Mangoose]

So when did nu-Bioware start to infect this game?

after kotet/kotfe

The way they choose to insert black women into video games is fucking hilarious. Because they have the idea that "all black people are beautiful" -> they have no concept that perhaps Leslie Jones is one ugly bigfoot looking fucker. Doesn't help that most of the people pushing this shit are women and gays, which is how you end up with so many women that look like men to begin with.

I dunno. I'm Empire and I already view Pubs as SJWs. So I see no reason that a major boss is pinnacle of SJW.

I mean, a lot of this stuff I don't mind if you're allowed to kill them off. Which is surprisingly easy during/after Kotet/Kotfe.

Or, if you don't like Koth, you can just kick him out of the Alliance. Funny and grateful they give us the option to get rid of those we dislike. (except for fuckign Jakarrro)

(Edit: Also, those really are side/background characters. They don't really do anything except side-comment or boss, so very likely the characters were designed FOR marketing purposes. Well, I dunno how the black chick is on the Pub side, Jorjelu Kes is still a bit far from there)

 

[Xelocix]

Middle option aside, fighting... Tau?

I think that's the name of the black, brave and beautiful woman from the splash screens.


https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tau_Idair

bruh.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Middle option aside, fighting... Tau?

I think that's the name of the black, brave and beautiful woman from the splash screens.


https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tau_Idair

bruh.

google leslie jones

 

[Bliblablubb]

It's not only that. There isn't even a (human) male in the picture.

The stormtrooper in the upper right is human. All of them are.

Reminds me of the original hillarious art when the expansion was announced. Here's shamelessly stolen a link of an already fixed version of that 5 min rushjob an intern apparently produced back in 2018-ish:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s...st/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20200511151813
Even on that one you can still make out that they badly copy/pasted Tau's face into an existing model and that one bow legged storm sith trooper copy-mirror-stamped all over the background. But hey, there were actually only 2 wymyn on it, and at least 1 white human CIS male scum, you got to give them that.

 

[Bliblablubb]

Or, if you don't like Koth, you can just kick him out of the Alliance.

Heh, you gotta love how they had the balls to even go further. After realizing nobody liked that character, who they apparently thought was the best thing since sliced bread, they didn't just cover their ears and used him even more, like writers today would do. Nope, you could kill him off. Which also served well to show what an emotionless killer Lana actually is.

"Where's Koth?"
"Koth won't be joining us on the bridge. Ever again."

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the problem with making characters able to be excluded is that afterwards the character is almost entirely assumed to be gone by the writers because they're lazy hacks
most annoying shit ever, only two characters get any development(until you're able to get rid of one) then it's just Lana.

 

[Mangoose]

the problem with making characters able to be excluded is that afterwards the character is almost entirely assumed to be gone by the writers because they're lazy hacks
most annoying shit ever, only two characters get any development(until you're able to get rid of one) then it's just Lana.

The lack of ability to seduce Arcann to the Dark Side was sad.

Though always it's fun nudging other characters to give in to their anger. This must be why Palpy has the best laughs in the whole franchise.

Edit: Oh shit, it's like being a father lmao.

 

[Zariusz]

My playthrough with LS Sith Warrior goes well, until Nar Shadda i cleaned every planet from all quests that were available for that completion feel but then i noticed that my character was so much overleveled that since then my level is always nerfed on every next planet. Because of that im now doing only planet arcs and story missions, im now on Taris with level 43 so its not going to change probably until the next planet if not even later.
All items that arent from heroics are useless, but since im so overleveled and i have custom armor (Dark Marauder, its looks awesome btw) heroic sets are just for collecting.

Also about custom items, years ago you could buy blue mods from vendors every 4 levels, these were decent and currency used for them was payment from heroic mission as far as i remember. Probably those were best items available for people who didnt have that gay artifact authorisation, you did heroics -> you could turn your custom eq into nice stuff. But now vendors sell plebian green mods, blue mods are only possible from different crafting crew skills (too much grind for my taste) and players put them on GTN in insufficient quantities for quite high prices (i mean for those who have that preffered 1 mil limit) so by the time when more will be available you will probably need mods from higher levels anyway.
There is also problem with artifact mods, earlier if you had that artifact authorisation/subscription you could dismantle artifact eq and take mods from it for your custom armor but now i dont see this option, maybe its because i have preffered account or maybe im just blind, i dont know.

And about story part of this playthrough, i just love those Jedi reaction on my LS choices, that mind wipe on Tatooine was best so far. And about Tatooine i liked that Czerka storyline about rakatan artifact, that Sith seemed like a cool guy, whole arc had that cool adventure mystery atmosphere.

 

[Storyfag]

i noticed that my character was so much overleveled that since then my level is always nerfed on every next planet.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that. You could never find danger anyway, perhaps outside of soloing heroic missions. You still get XP. Each new level means just more skills without the added hp bloat, so that also is good.

But now vendors sell plebian green mods

Those aren't terrible for doing planetary quests, tbh.

Have you tried flashpoints? What do they drop these days?

And about Tatooine i liked that Czerka storyline about rakatan artifact, that Sith seemed like a cool guy

Yeah, it was cool. Furthermore, I believe the Rakata is the one whose mind prison you bring to Tatooine in KotOR1.

 

[Zariusz]

i noticed that my character was so much overleveled that since then my level is always nerfed on every next planet.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that. You could never find danger anyway, perhaps outside of soloing heroic missions. You still get XP. Each new level means just more skills without the added hp bloat, so that also is good.

But now vendors sell plebian green mods

Those aren't terrible for doing planetary quests, tbh.

Have you tried flashpoints? What do they drop these days?

And about Tatooine i liked that Czerka storyline about rakatan artifact, that Sith seemed like a cool guy

Yeah, it was cool. Furthermore, I believe the Rakata is the one whose mind prison you bring to Tatooine in KotOR1.

Well i got few artifact items from veteran flashpoints, i didnt look on green and blue items. Those items have the same style as heroic sets but stronger and purple, 2 version for each specialisation of your class.