I did have another epic kill the other night where I got jumped by a bounty hunter, and I noticed an elite monster just around the corner. So I stunned the Bounty hunter, repositioned myself and hit him with a force push that put him at the feet of the monster and then sat back while he got beaten to death.
The best part was that his healing companion who had been in attack mode stopped his attack on me and went running by me to help his master, so K took my time in killilng him so his master would get no help.
One of the things that people forget about in this game is the use of your environment.
If you can force push a enemy into a crowd of friendly troops it becomes awesome.
When I was in the prison yard, I get attacked by a republic non playable, and I shoved him into a crowd of inmates who promptly killed him.
A good force push off of a bridge can get you a healing break or create instant death though you won't get their property.
A sold force push into monsters, or into a wall cause massive damage.
I lot of people also don't seem to use the explosive barrels in their environment, but they do major makjor damage.
Also in PVP attacks if you force shove your opponent at another enemy PVP player, they'll panice and attack each other and forget about you.
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To the person on here many pages ago that recommended that I load up on the Immortal skills for my Sith Juggernaut, thank you.
It came in handy as I was sitting at level 44/45 and did a level 47 story line and cut through it like butter, I managed to absorb a ton of damage without dying and used that time to kill multiple enemies, even elite level characters at level 47 did little in the way of danger.
I faced Darth Baras' new apprentice, and had to fight him three times, and basically peeled his skin off and sent him screaming to hell.
I'm almost sad that I'm at level 46 and the end looks like its in sight for this story line.
I've probably invested well over 40 or 50 hours into one story line and its kept its interest.
I think this game with 8 story lines even if it was stand alone is an amazing value.
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I almost wish a stand alone single player was optional, no monthly subscription
if you stick to the main storyline, that's at least 40-50 hours played right there. times that by 8, and you have 200 hours + when you factor in the storylines for each planet (which can be very damn good as well). that's ignoring the hundreds of hours worth of side quests, flashpoints, operations, etc. considering most new games cost $60 and have about 15-20 hours worth of content, you could subscribe to TOR for a year and still pay less than getting that much content out of regular single player games
i did my first 8-man operation last night, The Eternity Vault. they really crank up the difficulty for these things, but in a smart way, not just enemies with higher hit points and lots of damage. every boss encounter requires a different tactic (5 encounters for this op total), and everyone in your group needs to do their part and work together. it can be a little frustrating at first when you're not sure what to do and you wipe a couple of times, but once you know the mechanic and everyone clicks, damn that is rewarding (in a metaphorical and literal sense, with awesome loot drops)
and for anyone questioning the staying power of SWTOR, EA just released their quarterly results
over 2 million copies sold and over 1.7 million active subscribers as of Feb 3. Bioware is also stepping up their game of adding new content and fixing issues (the upcoming 1.2 patch will be awesome for PVP gearing). i'm more optimistic about TOR's future than any other MMO to be launched since WoW
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Went through and did two warzones today, the Darth Malgus take back the ship war zone and Huttball.
Adds a whole other element to the game even though it was a little bit chaotic, and team mates didn't work too well together.
I gained about 200 pvp commendations because I used my jug sith Lord as a one man killing machine and used the environment to shove people to their deaths.
Why didn't I do this sooner, it was so much fun to see 20 people going grape ape on each other.
I know now that I need to gather a couple of thousand commendations because of the armor that I saw at the PVP vendor.
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To add to that, when these dofuses attack me mid mission the combination of force push, force charge, back hand and back elbow pretty much kills almost anyone. If not you followup by force choke and crushing blow while your holding them and its death and they can't react fast enough to block it.
I don't go around attacking people, but I killed about 10 of these people today.
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over 2 million copies sold and over 1.7 million active subscribers as of Feb 3. Bioware is also stepping up their game of adding new content and fixing issues (the upcoming 1.2 patch will be awesome for PVP gearing). i'm more optimistic about TOR's future than any other MMO to be launched since WoW
So 300k subscribers lost in the first month and many of those "active" subscriptions are still on their free trial month, I would wait before I base anything off of the amount of active subscribers.
They created too many servers to begin with, probably was needed in the beginning but if they consolodated a bit it would address the grave yards some servers are right now.
Basically how you get PvP endgame gear is through "Dailies". Quests which are repeatable once per day.
One of the dailies is to kill 30 people or farm 30 boxes @ Ilum.
If Republics logged in, it would be easy to too, but most of the time it is people sitting in the middle of the map, farming these stupid boxes for their daily quest. It is painful and takes forever.
Today is the first day I could do my daily in the past 5 with PvP instead of box farming. Quite a few republics on.
I played a round of hutt ball today and man my team completely sucked, the other team pretty well had their way with us on the scoreboard. Half way through I decided to go for the murder spree and killed everything in my path. we had one idiot on our side who had the ball, so I put on my speed boast and made a beeline for the end zone, and there was no one around me, and the idiot looked right at me and decided to run through a bunch of enemies instead.
At least I got 60 pvp commendations so I'm up to about 300 now, if I keep playing these things I should be able to grab some enhanced armor when I hit the imperial space station.
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