Force Awakens renewed my interested in Star Wars and I was thinking of trying this game. I've done some reading and it looks like Bounty Hunter or Trooper are the classes I want to play as my main but which one would you guys recommend first?
Think the crowd favorite in terms of story would be Imperial Agent. It also has a nice play style depending on the spec and subclass you go for. I generally found the Sith stories to be more entertaining then Republic, though that's just my opinion.
Oh... oh Jeeze what happened to PVP framerate?
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;49440153]Force Awakens renewed my interested in Star Wars and I was thinking of trying this game. I've done some reading and it looks like Bounty Hunter or Trooper are the classes I want to play as my main but which one would you guys recommend first?[/QUOTE]
I honestly found the trooper a little dull, story wise, apart from one amazing patriotic robot. BH is solid though
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;49440153]Force Awakens renewed my interested in Star Wars and I was thinking of trying this game. I've done some reading and it looks like Bounty Hunter or Trooper are the classes I want to play as my main but which one would you guys recommend first?[/QUOTE]
I played BH for a while, fun to play and the story's okay.
Trooper plays the same for the most part, but their story was my least favorite in the game.
[QUOTE=Zeos;49442071]Oh... oh Jeeze what happened to PVP framerate?[/QUOTE]
That's the million dollar question
How bad are the F2P restrictions on this game?
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;49447446]How bad are the F2P restrictions on this game?[/QUOTE]
For one you only get one skill bar. That's quite laughable.
[QUOTE=O'Neil;49447600]For one you only get one skill bar. That's quite laughable.[/QUOTE]
That hasn't been true for almost 3 years. You get 2 bars as a F2P player. They changed it shortly after launch of F2P.
If you spend any amount of money in the market or if you subscribed in the past you become a "Preferred Player" and get 4 action bars.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;49447646]That hasn't been true for almost 3 years. You get 2 bars as a F2P player. They changed it shortly after launch of F2P.
If you spend any amount of money in the market or if you subscribed in the past you become a "Preferred Player" and get 4 action bars.[/QUOTE]
Oh that doesn't sound too bad then. Is it just the -25% xp that's the main disadvantage then?
Also, I think I might roll a Jedi Knight on my first try, but how easy is it to make your character look like a Jedi similar to Revan with armoured robes and a mask?
Armoured robes are a mid to end game peice of gear unless you buy a set off the Cartel Market.
You can get Mandalorian masks from drops, crafting or off the Galactic Trade Network.
Check this website
[url]http://tor-fashion.com/[/url]
Revan's entire outfit was a Random Chance Box gear, it sells for a lot on the GTN, but above the F2P credit cap.
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;49447768]Oh that doesn't sound too bad then. Is it just the -25% xp that's the main disadvantage then?
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I'm not actually sure the -25% is a thing anymore, if it is, given how they restructured the entire leveling 1-50 -25% wouldnt really be an issue, it's so much faster, at worst you'd just have to do some side quests.
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;49447446]How bad are the F2P restrictions on this game?[/QUOTE]
They're BAD
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250k credit cap, 350k if preferred. Either way not enough to buy any paid stuff off the trade network (All real money items can be sold on the market). You can only sell 2 things at a time. There's restrictions on how many crew skills you can have (3 as subscriber). You can't equip purple quality items. You can't hide head slot, you can't display a title over your character. You can't do more than 5 PvP warzones, or PvE flashpoints per week. You get reduced XP (But this doesn't matter anymore). You can't mail people, you can't chat off the starter worlds, respeccing your character costs credits, You get shit all for space missions, You get a mount after you buy it at like level 25 which will be a bit painful but for your first playthrough you won't care that much. You won't get item rewards from quests, only XP/credits. You can't augment your gear with an additional slot. And worst of all, you only get two quickbars instead of 4. You WILL need more than 2 if you plan on playing a lot.
You also don't get Shadow of Reven or Knights of the Fallen Empire. There's some shit I'm leaving out surely, but these are the ones you notice
You can unlock any of these features individually for money, some of them only temporarily, some permanent on your character, some account based, or just subscribe which lifts ALLLLLLL of these restrictions and you get everything, which is totally worth it
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;49447768]Oh that doesn't sound too bad then. Is it just the -25% xp that's the main disadvantage then?
Also, I think I might roll a Jedi Knight on my first try, but how easy is it to make your character look like a Jedi similar to Revan with armoured robes and a mask?[/QUOTE]
-25% XP doesn't exist anymore, instead subs gets +25% or something I think.
They may have scrapped that entirely with the new levelling experience.
End of the day, if you like it enough to continue playing, you're going to sub
Oh okay nice. I'm not really an MMO guy but I liked Guild Wars 2 enough to get one character to max level. How is SWTOR compared to GW2?
"[B]Farmhand[/B] Blue Color Crystal"
I'm guessing that is meant to be "Luke/Anakin Blue" lol
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;49456092]Oh okay nice. I'm not really an MMO guy but I liked Guild Wars 2 enough to get one character to max level. How is SWTOR compared to GW2?[/QUOTE]
Fairly different beasts.
Leveling in TOR is all about the quests. They did recently streamline it however so the game is designed for you to go through and hit level cap by just doing the Class Quests and each Planetary Story Quests, everything else is just gravy.
Also TOR follows the WoW philosophy of "We gave you 6 toolbars we expect you to fill them all with skills." as opposed to GW2s much more limited action set. Also what weapons you use are dictated by class, and they weapons have no effect on what skills you have like in GW2.
Long story short TOR is WoW with story driven leveling, Star Wars, and a serious lack of end game content after you finish all the story stuff.
February 9 for people who are a subscriber by February 1st.
I swear, I fucking hate Kaliyo Djannis
[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;49450394]End of the day, if you like it enough to continue playing, you're going to sub[/QUOTE]
Unless you're totally broke :cry:
I think what's interesting is that despite SWTORs relatively more harsh F2P tiering it works a lot better than MMO's who have seen F2P conversions that use more fair restrictions. Games like Rift, Wildstar, and Guild Wars 2 see a sudden influx of players then almost immediately start stagnating again where as SWTOR has either maintained or gained players and revenue has shot up as well. I'm not sure if this is the Star Wars brand at play or just really ingenious exploitation of player psychology.
For several weeks now two friends and I have been playing The Old Republic together on some evenings. They are both F2P, while I'm preferred (I stopped subbing around November and refuse to do so again till all the chapters of Knights of the Fallen Empire will be released)
We are around Tatooine and doing purple quests only and I'm baffled about how fast we are levelling up (as I'm writing this, we are all level 32, which would be the range at which you should go to Taris, two planets ahead)
Also, playing with three people is a really entertaining experience, althought it also provides some problems (we agreed upon not doing the companions planetary quests, since it would mean more travelling, and, should one class quests bring one of us on a temporary space location, it's not garanteed we can join too and will recive the "invalid location" error)
Resubbed and been playing on my bounty hunter. Played through Ilum & Makeb and got to lvl 60 just by doing that (was 53 before), man they really upped the XP gain (which I love, since i hated the grind with sidequests).
Got to some volcanic planet with some dread lords or something but got stuck when I had to do an op to progress, shame.
Going to start Shadow of Revan now, actually having fun.
[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49483187]For several weeks now two friends and I have been playing The Old Republic together on some evenings. They are both F2P, while I'm preferred (I stopped subbing around November and refuse to do so again till all the chapters of Knights of the Fallen Empire will be released)
We are around Tatooine and doing purple quests only and I'm baffled about how fast we are levelling up (as I'm writing this, we are all level 32, which would be the range at which you should go to Taris, two planets ahead)
Also, playing with three people is a really entertaining experience, althought it also provides some problems (we agreed upon not doing the companions planetary quests, since it would mean more travelling, and, should one class quests bring one of us on a temporary space location, it's not garanteed we can join too and will recive the "invalid location" error)[/QUOTE]
I think there is an XP boost if you're teamed up.
I'm probably wrong.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;49487302]I think there is an XP boost if you're teamed up.
I'm probably wrong.[/QUOTE]
You get bonus XP for completing stuff like bonus quests with teammates. Like if you finish a bonus quest for 1000xp and 500 credits and your buddy does as well, then you get 2000xp and 1000 credits. Its why its worth it to do all the weekly heroic quests with bonuses in group because you make a shit ton of dosh.
[QUOTE=Starship;49484088]Resubbed and been playing on my bounty hunter. Played through Ilum & Makeb and got to lvl 60 just by doing that (was 53 before), man they really upped the XP gain (which I love, since i hated the grind with sidequests).
Got to some volcanic planet with some dread lords or something but got stuck when I had to do an op to progress, shame.
Going to start Shadow of Revan now, actually having fun.[/QUOTE]
SoR sucks, IMO. KotFE was great, though
Yeah Shadow of Revan made me quit for a while, but KOTFE got me back in really strong for a while. The jump in quality there was huge.
[QUOTE=Skyward;49489139]Yeah Shadow of Revan made me quit for a while, but KOTFE got me back in really strong for a while. The jump in quality there was huge.[/QUOTE]
That before the endgame sets in
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