Star Wars: The Old Republic

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by llama64

Removing auto-attack is probably the best thing I could hope for. Yup, definitely loading this up tonight. How long did it take to download off the EA store?

I think Blizzard offering Diablo 3 for free for people who get a year subscription to WoW says volumes about where they think the marketplace is. But I doubt they have an answer - they are addicted to the cash cow atm.

I really wish the subscription cost on these games would drop to $5-$8. Or perhaps drop the initial cost of buying the client to 10-15$. More people would try more games which just seems healthier to me.

The client download was quick for me, but the first time I started it it took over an hour and a half for it to download key components and upgrades.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

The client download was quick for me, but the first time I started it it took over an hour and a half for it to download key components and upgrades.

remember it's a 28 gig download for everything, a big bulk of which is the voice work. Bioware does have some huge bandwidth though, when i downloaded mine it used up all of my 50 mbps connection

[CaramonLS]

About to start today, was thinking a sith sorcerer.

How does everyone feel about their classes?

[CaptainCrunch]

I started as a Sith Warrior and chose the Juggernaut class. I like a lot of aspects of it but there's no ranged attacks, no Lightning or anything like that, so you can tend to get cornered and beat down.

With the exception of the med packs there doesn't seem to be a in combat healing feature as Sith Rage only works outside of combat.

But its kind of cool striding into a battle and sparking up the slow extending red light saber and hitting a combo move followed by a vicious slash and hearing your enemy die.

I'm still looking for some headgear to complete the Darth look I'm going for though, but I've noticed that as I've slid towards darkness that my eyes are turning yellow and my skin is a little paler.

Over all the thing is just immersive, I'm off on a quest to infiltrate a group of heretics that I intend to slowly kill later.

[Esoteric]

The Imperial Agent storyline is REALLY GOOD!

I'm having a blast playing this - level 31 one right now, but I leave for Mexico on Saturday -trying to wrap up Act I before I leave!

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I started as a Sith Warrior and chose the Juggernaut class. I like a lot of aspects of it but there's no ranged attacks, no Lightning or anything like that, so you can tend to get cornered and beat down.

With the exception of the med packs there doesn't seem to be a in combat healing feature as Sith Rage only works outside of combat.

But its kind of cool striding into a battle and sparking up the slow extending red light saber and hitting a combo move followed by a vicious slash and hearing your enemy die.

I'm still looking for some headgear to complete the Darth look I'm going for though, but I've noticed that as I've slid towards darkness that my eyes are turning yellow and my skin is a little paler.

Over all the thing is just immersive, I'm off on a quest to infiltrate a group of heretics that I intend to slowly kill later.

you're intended to be a tank, you don't move very fast or do a crazy amount of damage, but you're a behemoth who can take a lot of punishment. my Jedi Guardian is the mirror of your class, and i have him at level 30. not sure what level you are, but somewhere between 15-20 i got a companion that isn't very tough but does a lot of damage. balances me out very well, and i've had zero issues questing by myself. PVP is also quite fun compared to most any other MMO as a tank, since you get points in warzones for guarding people and taunting enemies (making them do 30% less damage to everyone else but you). and by level 30 if you go pure defender tree, you get some nice stuns. 1v1 i can handle myself pretty well against any other class

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by llama64

Do the ranged weapon based classes function like hunters do in WoW (select target, click auto-attack, go get sandwich) or is it more interactive (click to shoot)?

While others have mentioned that there is no auto-attack, having no auto-attack also means, no auto-defense. I learned that one the hard way, too.

Killed a pack, standing proud over their corpses. Head off for a bio, come back dead because the pack respawned and even if your character is getting the *%^# kicked out of him, he won't hit back unless you (the player) tell him to...

[CaramonLS]

What race should I be or does it make a difference?

[Superfraggle]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

What race should I be or does it make a difference?

Not sure how much of a difference it makes. Imperials don't like aliens very much, and it's reflected in some of the dialogue, but I don't know if it actually changes anything.

[CaramonLS]

How about stats and such?

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

How about stats and such?

Nope. The "racial benefits" aren't described much anywhere, and can't be a whole lot, since the Twi'lek one is "a special dance". If that was all they got, folks would be up in an uproar. From what I can see, pick a visual that appeals to you. You'll be looking at it for a while (especially from the rear, which few people actually look at while in Character Creation).

[CaptainCrunch]

Got my ship and my droid

Off to blast some scum bag republicans.

[llama64]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

Nope. The "racial benefits" aren't described much anywhere, and can't be a whole lot, since the Twi'lek one is "a special dance". If that was all they got, folks would be up in an uproar. From what I can see, pick a visual that appeals to you. You'll be looking at it for a while (especially from the rear, which few people actually look at while in Character Creation).

I picked a fat ass sith inquisitor. His voice is also high and kinda nasally too.

I can't stop giggling while playing this game.

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

you're intended to be a tank, you don't move very fast or do a crazy amount of damage, but you're a behemoth who can take a lot of punishment. my Jedi Guardian is the mirror of your class, and i have him at level 30.

Guardians/Juggernauts are only intended to be tanks if they spec into the tanking tree. If you put your skill points in one of the dps trees instead, you will do relatively equivalent dps compared to any other class. Unlike WoW, there is no intended "hybrid tax" in SWTOR; any class that is properly specced for damage dealing should be able to do so effectively.

[CaptainCrunch]

So I hit level 16, got my starship and I'm going out to impose my master's will by killing his agents and going after a Jedi Padawan with a unique girt.

But as I'm leaving Drummond Kass I've left some missions unfinished and I'd like to finish those first, but they seem to be nearly impossible. And those are the hero missions, whether heroic + 2 or +4 where every enemy seems to be at an elite level and I get my butt kicked.

There's the droid transmission one, where I fight my way through the droids (incredibly tough) and then I run into mercenaries and one on one I'm no match, let alone 2 or three on one. There's also the one where you recover the ruins from the bodies and every monster is elite, my companion will blast away while I hammer on it and they won't go down. The other one is the Slave rebellion where I have to grab the explosives and plant them on drills and the Slave masters are just psycho.

I know I don't have to do those missions, but I would like to clear the planet before I leave.

Does Heroic +2 for example mean that I have to recruit a couple of people to help me out?

[Muffins]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

So I hit level 16, got my starship and I'm going out to impose my master's will by killing his agents and going after a Jedi Padawan with a unique girt.

But as I'm leaving Drummond Kass I've left some missions unfinished and I'd like to finish those first, but they seem to be nearly impossible. And those are the hero missions, whether heroic + 2 or +4 where every enemy seems to be at an elite level and I get my butt kicked.

There's the droid transmission one, where I fight my way through the droids (incredibly tough) and then I run into mercenaries and one on one I'm no match, let alone 2 or three on one. There's also the one where you recover the ruins from the bodies and every monster is elite, my companion will blast away while I hammer on it and they won't go down. The other one is the Slave rebellion where I have to grab the explosives and plant them on drills and the Slave masters are just psycho.

I know I don't have to do those missions, but I would like to clear the planet before I leave.

Does Heroic +2 for example mean that I have to recruit a couple of people to help me out?

ya those are group quests so doing it solo is hard to impossible. Anytime you see purple text pop up saying (HEROIC AREA), that's a sign that you probably need a group

you should see people in the general chat looking to group up for some of those quests.

Usually you get some pretty good rewards for doing them so i would recommend finishing them before you move on.

As for the number on the quest tracker (2, 2+, 4), that's the recommended number of people for the quest.

For some of the 4 man quests early on you can do them with 3 people and a companion. Later on that gets a lot more difficult to do.

[nik-]

I'm playing a Marauder and was getting pretty frustrated at not being able to solo pretty much anything. Then I found out that Quinn has a "healing aura" which ups his healing by 25% and that you could also disable his attacks so he pretty much just heals.

Now soloing is much better. Even two strong two normal packs are manageable.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by nik-

I'm playing a Marauder and was getting pretty frustrated at not being able to solo pretty much anything. Then I found out that Quinn has a "healing aura" which ups his healing by 25% and that you could also disable his attacks so he pretty much just heals.

Now soloing is much better. Even two strong two normal packs are manageable.

Who is this quinn person?

[Mazrim]

I really shouldn't read this thread. It keeps making me want to buy it. I just came off 3 years of a pretty steady amount of WoW (endgame raided TBC and Wrath completely, got to 85 in Cataclysm, did some heroics and quit), so I know the timesink this stuff can become. Also, I know it takes time for endgame stuff to really get moving along in new MMOs, so I'm tempted to wait. Otherwise I'm paying money per month to play what is basically an expansive single player campaign.

[CaramonLS]

What is the lvl cap?