Re: Official Crew Skill Tracker
LoS
Justjon - Synthweaving
Devilina - Armstech
I know these haven't been added to the list yet but I also have Teknotic who has Armormech
Justjon
I know these haven't been added to the list yet but I also have Teknotic who has Armormech
Samhain
Re: Free month?
It is common practice. Has been done to all the major MMO games for years. Nothing new. Input your card. set your phone to remind you 3 days prior or so. and cancel if you do not like it. problem solved. if the card is not real/active whatever, you will not be able to log on, when it is processed.
Elikal
Re: Things I wish I knew before (tips)
Personal addition:
Consider activate "player nametags". I so often have guildmates run by me and ignore me, so I assume many have the player nametags off.
Consider activate "player nametags". I so often have guildmates run by me and ignore me, so I assume many have the player nametags off.
Elikal
Things I wish I knew before (tips)
A few forum guys wrote this tip selection, and I thought it was quite useful:
SWTOR Knowledge
Economy and Gear
Orange items can be kept untill level 50 and still be viable by keeping the mods up to date.
You dont need modifying station to mod your gear!
Modable gear including weapons can be worn indefinitely. You can just keep swapping out current level modifications and the stats will always be level appropriate for you.
It gets super-expensive to pull item enhancements out of your gear (upwards of 3k to pull out a lvl 30 purple item).
You can just over-write it, but it destroys the current enhancement in the slot.
When you craft superior quality items (at least, implants and earpieces) they will gain an augment item modification slot.
This is probably a repost but USE the Galactic Trade Market to sell all the random blue/purple items you find can make a nice cash out of it.
Selling things on the auction house is always nice, but if you dont sell your item, you get your deposit back !
If you cancel the item (because you accidentially put it up for 1499 instead of 499 (damn "1" bug thing)), you will lose the deposit
The higher your buyout price is, the higher the deposit also
If you PvP before 20, enough to get at least a thousand commendations, get pvp gear from the fleet, its that good.
Mounts
Mount costs 48k credit t level 25 (skill 40k, mount 8k)
The mount vendor on your Fleet sells 2 level 25 mounts.
The mount vendors on Tatooine sell 6 different level 25 mounts that generally look nicer.
There's a speeder vendor at the first flightpath on tatooine. Make sure you buy a speeder before you start Tatooine, trust me... Tatooine is hot and big... and big
Ship
As soon as you get your ship, get all the upgrades you can and do all the missions asap, you should complete all of all of them, and the xp is good.
Space missions (quests) give fast experience, and are easy with inexpensive Tier 1 ship upgrades available at any spacedock. It's a good way to add variety to leveling when you get tired of missions on a given planet.
Companion
You can get your companions to go sell all your "Gray items" saves bag space while questing and instant creds
You can enable an option that allows you to compare gear not only to your own, but to that of your active companion's when you hover over the item.
If your companion comes with multiple stances like healing/dps, double-check a stance is actually active! My companions frequently lose their stance. Click the companion bar + plus sign to expand it and view stances. Unfortunately, companion abilities cannot be rearranged to put stances on the "short bar." The long bar clutters the screen so I close it again after checking the stance.
You can reassign your companions abilities to the left action bar which seems more natural. It makes it very easy to keep an eye on what is active or not.
Your companions can craft up to five items at a time, simply click the craft button over and over.
Companion that comes together with your first ship is actually a healer and can be summoned. (Your first dialog with him suggests his not suitable for combat.)
You can set some of your companion spell on an automatic use. You can only do that by using the extended companion bar and right clicking on the spell you want to "auto-use" (dos not work in the spellbook or the little companion bar)
Flashpoints and Parties
At the end a Flashpoint, you can exit the area by clicking the "Exit Area" button above the mini-map.
If everyone in your party picks the same speech option you actually get more social points.
Group bug: the tab that says: "Area Phases" and click "Reset Area Phase". Your problem will then be fixed and you can ask for a new invite. Winning.
When in a group, each person gets to make the choice how the conversation will progress. The game simply determines by random roll whose choice is used.
Your light side and dark side points are rewarded based on YOUR choice, not the winning choice. However the results of the encounter will progress along the path of the winning roll. This may grant you a title you would never willingly have chosen to get.
Was happy to find out you can create a comment in the LFG page.. This is an AMAZING feature IMO. Pick up a heroic area quest or a flashpoint quest.. hit the LFG and find out who is looking for that exact thing. No more spamming channels or finding people in a general LFG that are looking for entirely different groups, find exactly what you want and when you need.
Yes, this is info that more and more people seem to be figuring out. I'm seeing fewer and fewer people asking in general chat, and seeing more and more people running around flagged for LFG. Very handy feature! The first time I used it, it took me over an hour to get a group for a heroic...no biggie, I was busy questing anyway. The second and future times I used it, it took me less than 5 minutes.
Travel
Everyone has an ability in their "spellbook" general tab called EMERGENCY FLEET PASS.
the Emergency fleet pass, IS an emergency pass, you have an 18h cooldown on it
You do not have to return at your ship every time you leave a planet, your ship will follow you everywhere
You can bound yourself to unlimited locations, unlike WoW. You can't however, teleport yourself from planet to planet.
Jumping while moving results in you moving slower.
Alignment
You can also activate an option which allows you to see any light or dark gains during discussions.
Pick an option in a cut-scene which you hate, or was not quite what you expected your character to say? Press ESC to exit the convo, nothing is saved and you can start it again and pick another option without any consequences.
Misc
Character names can include 2 apostrophes, 1 dash and there is a 15 character limit
When your UI is frozen and you can't press any functions on it just press ctrl-u twice and it will fix it.
Being a completionist puts you 5 levels over content.
In SWTOR, you should not feel obligated to complete all the quests. Experience comes easily.
You can also change the music in the cantina by purchasing a jukebox token from the bartender and clicking on the jukebox.
You can turn on an option called "loot area" - this will loot all corpses in the near area when you loot the first one. So good.
Pressing ctrl + shift + f (I think) shows you your FPS in the lower left corner.
PVP
When playing Huttball, you can throw it. Really. Didn't take me long to figure out but it seems like no one knows.
Beware if you do Pvp a lot, you will be quickly capped with pvp marks (1000 maximum, at a rate of 50-60 per game)
There is no hot key for battleground ques, you need to click your faction icon on your mini-map on the bottom right side.
Combat
NPC enemies bumped from high heights will die, unlike wow
If you knock down an enemy from heights and it does not die, it tends to use pathing to get back to you instead of magically climbing the cliff - and also bring the nearby friends with it.
SWTOR Knowledge
Economy and Gear
Orange items can be kept untill level 50 and still be viable by keeping the mods up to date.
You dont need modifying station to mod your gear!
Modable gear including weapons can be worn indefinitely. You can just keep swapping out current level modifications and the stats will always be level appropriate for you.
It gets super-expensive to pull item enhancements out of your gear (upwards of 3k to pull out a lvl 30 purple item).
You can just over-write it, but it destroys the current enhancement in the slot.
When you craft superior quality items (at least, implants and earpieces) they will gain an augment item modification slot.
This is probably a repost but USE the Galactic Trade Market to sell all the random blue/purple items you find can make a nice cash out of it.
Selling things on the auction house is always nice, but if you dont sell your item, you get your deposit back !
If you cancel the item (because you accidentially put it up for 1499 instead of 499 (damn "1" bug thing)), you will lose the deposit
The higher your buyout price is, the higher the deposit also
If you PvP before 20, enough to get at least a thousand commendations, get pvp gear from the fleet, its that good.
Mounts
Mount costs 48k credit t level 25 (skill 40k, mount 8k)
The mount vendor on your Fleet sells 2 level 25 mounts.
The mount vendors on Tatooine sell 6 different level 25 mounts that generally look nicer.
There's a speeder vendor at the first flightpath on tatooine. Make sure you buy a speeder before you start Tatooine, trust me... Tatooine is hot and big... and big
Ship
As soon as you get your ship, get all the upgrades you can and do all the missions asap, you should complete all of all of them, and the xp is good.
Space missions (quests) give fast experience, and are easy with inexpensive Tier 1 ship upgrades available at any spacedock. It's a good way to add variety to leveling when you get tired of missions on a given planet.
Companion
You can get your companions to go sell all your "Gray items" saves bag space while questing and instant creds
You can enable an option that allows you to compare gear not only to your own, but to that of your active companion's when you hover over the item.
If your companion comes with multiple stances like healing/dps, double-check a stance is actually active! My companions frequently lose their stance. Click the companion bar + plus sign to expand it and view stances. Unfortunately, companion abilities cannot be rearranged to put stances on the "short bar." The long bar clutters the screen so I close it again after checking the stance.
You can reassign your companions abilities to the left action bar which seems more natural. It makes it very easy to keep an eye on what is active or not.
Your companions can craft up to five items at a time, simply click the craft button over and over.
Companion that comes together with your first ship is actually a healer and can be summoned. (Your first dialog with him suggests his not suitable for combat.)
You can set some of your companion spell on an automatic use. You can only do that by using the extended companion bar and right clicking on the spell you want to "auto-use" (dos not work in the spellbook or the little companion bar)
Flashpoints and Parties
At the end a Flashpoint, you can exit the area by clicking the "Exit Area" button above the mini-map.
If everyone in your party picks the same speech option you actually get more social points.
Group bug: the tab that says: "Area Phases" and click "Reset Area Phase". Your problem will then be fixed and you can ask for a new invite. Winning.
When in a group, each person gets to make the choice how the conversation will progress. The game simply determines by random roll whose choice is used.
Your light side and dark side points are rewarded based on YOUR choice, not the winning choice. However the results of the encounter will progress along the path of the winning roll. This may grant you a title you would never willingly have chosen to get.
Was happy to find out you can create a comment in the LFG page.. This is an AMAZING feature IMO. Pick up a heroic area quest or a flashpoint quest.. hit the LFG and find out who is looking for that exact thing. No more spamming channels or finding people in a general LFG that are looking for entirely different groups, find exactly what you want and when you need.
Yes, this is info that more and more people seem to be figuring out. I'm seeing fewer and fewer people asking in general chat, and seeing more and more people running around flagged for LFG. Very handy feature! The first time I used it, it took me over an hour to get a group for a heroic...no biggie, I was busy questing anyway. The second and future times I used it, it took me less than 5 minutes.
Travel
Everyone has an ability in their "spellbook" general tab called EMERGENCY FLEET PASS.
the Emergency fleet pass, IS an emergency pass, you have an 18h cooldown on it
You do not have to return at your ship every time you leave a planet, your ship will follow you everywhere
You can bound yourself to unlimited locations, unlike WoW. You can't however, teleport yourself from planet to planet.
Jumping while moving results in you moving slower.
Alignment
You can also activate an option which allows you to see any light or dark gains during discussions.
Pick an option in a cut-scene which you hate, or was not quite what you expected your character to say? Press ESC to exit the convo, nothing is saved and you can start it again and pick another option without any consequences.
Misc
Character names can include 2 apostrophes, 1 dash and there is a 15 character limit
When your UI is frozen and you can't press any functions on it just press ctrl-u twice and it will fix it.
Being a completionist puts you 5 levels over content.
In SWTOR, you should not feel obligated to complete all the quests. Experience comes easily.
You can also change the music in the cantina by purchasing a jukebox token from the bartender and clicking on the jukebox.
You can turn on an option called "loot area" - this will loot all corpses in the near area when you loot the first one. So good.
Pressing ctrl + shift + f (I think) shows you your FPS in the lower left corner.
PVP
When playing Huttball, you can throw it. Really. Didn't take me long to figure out but it seems like no one knows.
Beware if you do Pvp a lot, you will be quickly capped with pvp marks (1000 maximum, at a rate of 50-60 per game)
There is no hot key for battleground ques, you need to click your faction icon on your mini-map on the bottom right side.
Combat
NPC enemies bumped from high heights will die, unlike wow
If you knock down an enemy from heights and it does not die, it tends to use pathing to get back to you instead of magically climbing the cliff - and also bring the nearby friends with it.
Justjon
Re: Our new server
Surprisingly, the wait time was actually less for me on launch day. Instead of the 30 minute queues in early access, it was more like 10-15 minutes. Just enough time for me to grab a snack, start laundry, catch up on email, etc.
I think they added more instances for our server because I used to only have 2 in the options now I have 4. Which would have doubled our capacity of players. It definitely shows hope that they are fixing the issue I just wish they would have shared in the plans it would have helped the nerd rage of some players.
Van
Re: Free month?
While irritating, I thought this was standard business practice for MMOs. Most of the ones I've played have done the same thing (WoW, CoH, CO, EQ2).
I've done the same in all other mmo's I've played...WoW, Aion, Warhammer, Rift
I'm not worried at all cause I love the game.
Van
Re: Cross-Guild Pride Channel
We really shouldn't be joining other guilds guild chat, especially without official invitation (leader to leader not just from a member).
It could cause a whole lot drama. For example, what happens when they advertise they need a forth for a group and you volunteer. You have just taken that place in their guild group from a member of their guild. If they realise that I can't imagine they'd be too happy.
Also it can be very messy with chat content and one guild allowing something and the other not.
I would recommend everyone try and get to know the members in stonewall. A real alliance system will come along eventually and we can move forward.
This is just my view and isn't a rule from the officers. I'm not sure how the rest of them see it :)
Posted from my Android.
Good points. So far the only universal chat channel that I know of is Pride. This one Prismatic Order and KoS use, not sure who set it up but I understand it's okay to join.
For me I find it very hard keeping up with guild chat let alone other chat channels. I'm to immersed in the story line or what the NPC's are chatting about. But in the same breath I do want to stay connected with the LGBT community.
Unknown Person
Re: Cross-Guild Pride Channel
We really shouldn't be joining other guilds guild chat, especially without official invitation (leader to leader not just from a member).
It could cause a whole lot drama. For example, what happens when they advertise they need a forth for a group and you volunteer. You have just taken that place in their guild group from a member of their guild. If they realise that I can't imagine they'd be too happy.
Also it can be very messy with chat content and one guild allowing something and the other not.
I would recommend everyone try and get to know the members in stonewall. A real alliance system will come along eventually and we can move forward.
This is just my view and isn't a rule from the officers. I'm not sure how the rest of them see it :)
Posted from my Android.
It could cause a whole lot drama. For example, what happens when they advertise they need a forth for a group and you volunteer. You have just taken that place in their guild group from a member of their guild. If they realise that I can't imagine they'd be too happy.
Also it can be very messy with chat content and one guild allowing something and the other not.
I would recommend everyone try and get to know the members in stonewall. A real alliance system will come along eventually and we can move forward.
This is just my view and isn't a rule from the officers. I'm not sure how the rest of them see it :)
Posted from my Android.
Tommy
Re: Free month?
While irritating, I thought this was standard business practice for MMOs. Most of the ones I've played have done the same thing (WoW, CoH, CO, EQ2).
Van
Re: Cross-Guild Pride Channel
Sir Zac posted a msg on the Rift forums looking for the channel on the empire side. Anyone know if there is a LGBT chat channel created on the dark evil side....err...I mean over on the Empire side? :)
You mean for SWTOR for Stonewall? Then yes, it's Stonewall just like on the do-gooder, er...I mean Republic side. :whistle:
Yeeps, sorry I see my post was unclear. So we have a Pride chat channel on the Empire side? The stonewall channel was opened for alts to get invited to the guild, I didn't think it was a LGBT chat channel. If I have it wrong let me know as I'm currently in the Pride channel on Republic side and only join the Stonewall channel for my alts to get invited into the guild.
Vutton
Angelsilhouette
The Black Talon Flashpoint [Spoilers]
So far I've run this only 5 or 6 times, once with my Assassin and 4-5 times with my Juggernaut; and while I know it well enough to do it without a hitch every time (and maximise my affection gain with Vette), I still can't find the information I want.
As an example, there is a way to achieve the Merciless title via the Black Talon, but it is not always guaranteed. I didn't get it with my Assassin, but did with my Juggernaut.
When I completed it with my assassin, we killed the captain, and when we returned to the Black Talon's bridge the second time, the crew was not dead. When I completed it with my Juggernaut, though, every single time we return to the bridge; the entire crew is dead save two.
I figured out how to get an extra item box via dialogue (though I couldn't tell you unless I was looking at the dialogue options), but I can't find any information to tell me whether or not there is an orange chest for juggernauts.
The wikis all have a woeful lack of information about the black talon, though some of them at least have some information.
My questions are: What sequence of conversation options must be taken to both gain the darkside points for "relieving the captain of duty" and yet come back to a bridge full of living crew members? (Unless I'm misremembering the time I did it with my Assassin).
I know that there are blue Juggernaut gloves, boots and shield drops, but do Juggernaut chest and legs drop? Does an orange quality chest (or legs) drop? Does a Str/End lightsaber drop?
Are all classes / ACs provided for in the loot tables? ie: There is an orange chest drop for both BH and Inquisitor, is there also one for Agent (and as asked previously, for Warrior)? There are specific Juggernaut boots and gloves, are there specific Assassin / Powertech / Sniper / etc boots and gloves?
As an example, there is a way to achieve the Merciless title via the Black Talon, but it is not always guaranteed. I didn't get it with my Assassin, but did with my Juggernaut.
When I completed it with my assassin, we killed the captain, and when we returned to the Black Talon's bridge the second time, the crew was not dead. When I completed it with my Juggernaut, though, every single time we return to the bridge; the entire crew is dead save two.
I figured out how to get an extra item box via dialogue (though I couldn't tell you unless I was looking at the dialogue options), but I can't find any information to tell me whether or not there is an orange chest for juggernauts.
The wikis all have a woeful lack of information about the black talon, though some of them at least have some information.
My questions are: What sequence of conversation options must be taken to both gain the darkside points for "relieving the captain of duty" and yet come back to a bridge full of living crew members? (Unless I'm misremembering the time I did it with my Assassin).
I know that there are blue Juggernaut gloves, boots and shield drops, but do Juggernaut chest and legs drop? Does an orange quality chest (or legs) drop? Does a Str/End lightsaber drop?
Are all classes / ACs provided for in the loot tables? ie: There is an orange chest drop for both BH and Inquisitor, is there also one for Agent (and as asked previously, for Warrior)? There are specific Juggernaut boots and gloves, are there specific Assassin / Powertech / Sniper / etc boots and gloves?
Varel
kiddkasper
Re: Cross-Guild Pride Channel
Sir Zac posted a msg on the Rift forums looking for the channel on the empire side. Anyone know if there is a LGBT chat channel created on the dark evil side....err...I mean over on the Empire side? :)
You mean for SWTOR for Stonewall? Then yes, it's Stonewall just like on the do-gooder, er...I mean Republic side. :whistle:
Van
Re: Cross-Guild Pride Channel
Sir Zac posted a msg on the Rift forums looking for the channel on the empire side. Anyone know if there is a LGBT chat channel created on the dark evil side....err...I mean over on the Empire side? :)
Van
Re: Regarding Queue Times
Actually at launch I think there was Onyxia but MC did not get fully populated until a few months after launch. I vagually remember some guildies going into MC and there only being a few bosses. We hit MC after about 6 months and ugh what a nightmare. The only thing that saved me was my friends and how much we would drink during raid. LOL The stories we have!!!!
Also this is why I love a West Coast Server. Being on the East coast we never have queue logging in. :)
Also this is why I love a West Coast Server. Being on the East coast we never have queue logging in. :)
kiddkasper
Android Mobile Authenticator is here!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ea.SWTORSK_na
Once you have it installed, navigate to www.swtor.com and login. From there, click on My Account in the upper right and then on Security Key on the right menu.
From there, just follow the prompts and it will give you the product code and serial number needed to setup the app.
Also note, that once this is setup, you'll have to use the authenticator to even log into swtor.com
Once you have it installed, navigate to www.swtor.com and login. From there, click on My Account in the upper right and then on Security Key on the right menu.
From there, just follow the prompts and it will give you the product code and serial number needed to setup the app.
Also note, that once this is setup, you'll have to use the authenticator to even log into swtor.com
kiddkasper
Re: Free month?
Really? They didn't on mine :s
Posted from my Android.
It's still somewhat early in the business day. They still have time to do it. :side:
Unknown Person
kiddkasper
Re: Good guild members . . .
Are all of you having problems adding characters?
From the menu up top, when you mouseover PROFILE, you should get a short menu and the second option should be Characters. After you click on that, you should get a Character Manager section. When you click on the Add button, there should be an Add Character section displayed immediately below the Character Manager section.
If you're not getting the Add Character section, does it display anything at all?
From the menu up top, when you mouseover PROFILE, you should get a short menu and the second option should be Characters. After you click on that, you should get a Character Manager section. When you click on the Add button, there should be an Add Character section displayed immediately below the Character Manager section.
If you're not getting the Add Character section, does it display anything at all?