Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Don't believe there's a dedicated thread, and since they're starting to release information now, I figure it's time for one.

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You actually can see when people have been online. Hit the show offline members tab on the top left, then select last online (or whatever it is) off the dropdown menu all the way to the right.

Originally Posted by thecoffeeguy

Any tips for someone working on crafting?
Currently have two characters that I am playing (time is very limited right now).

Have an IA with Cybertech, level 22. Cybertech is right around 70ish.
Have a BH with Armortech, level 20. Armortech is 60ish.

Seem to be having a PITA on reverse engineering stuff.
Also, I seem to be that items I can currently craft are not as good as what I an get on drops. Almost like I am leveling to fast or not leveling my crafting fast enough.

Thx

Speaking in general high-level endgame terms (i.e. not necessarily to answer your particular question yet...) crafting is fairly useless at this point if you can either PvP or run HM fps or ops. Which I cannot at this point in time. I mainly use it to craft orange moddable gear (hence synthweave and armormech...) and to create level 49 artifact (purple) armor, mods and enhancements. You can get better mods from the level 50 dailies on Ilum and Belsavis, but I'll take a slight (very slight, we're talking (50) for crafted gear and (51) for dailies) drop in stats in exchange for not having to grind the same quests over and over and over. I've always felt that was the fastest way possible to burn yourself out and make a good game boring, so I decided back before launch that I was going to use crafting to avoid it, since in this game I can craft while I'm doing other things. Which makes that crafting grind seem much less grindy-feeling.

Looking at your question specifically, it seems at a glance like your crafting is maybe a bit behind where you might want it to be. Which can be remedied really, really quickly. My advice for you would be to spend a day (however much time your on) just doing scavenging on whichever toon scavenges (if they both don't) to build up a stock. That means sending all your available characters out on scavenging missions, in addition to actually scavenging robots and nodes in the game world. You'll want to make sure you scavenge everything available, with particular note on things like fluxes (you can save tons of cash by getting those through missions rather than purchasing them at the crew skills venders). But get everything, metals, compounds, fluxes. Then after you have some stock, you can batch craft items for cybertch and armormech. The best way to level is to find an orange (difficulty) level recipe (the latest one you can get - if you're at 60 armormech, then that's where you're going to start, with one of the 60 armormech recipes - I say orange because in your crew skills menu it will be marked as orange difficulty, I don't mean an orange recipe in terms of moddable gear - hope that's not too confusing) and craft 10 of them. That will gain you 20 points (you always gain 2 skill points with an orange difficulty item) and put you on the next tier. Buy a new recipe and craft 10 of those. And reverse engineer everything you make, not for RE'd recipes as much as to help keep you stocked with materials.

To work on your own gear, my advice would be to stick with orange moddable gear, whether you get it through quests or buy recipes for your armormech (the purchased recipes are generally better-looking than drops IMO, although that may not actually be true until 30+ thinking back), and then focus on using your cybertech to keep yourself up to date with your mods. Basically you want new armoring and mods, every 3 or 4 levels. Decide what you want to use, and then reverse engineer that recipe until you have the prototype (blue) version. IMO don't bother with artifact (purple) RE'd stuff until you're making level 48-50 gear. You don't have an artificer so you can't make your own barrels or enhancements, but that's fine, you can use your planetary commendations to fill out those slots.

I actually ground my amormech up earlier in the week, and that's exactly how I did it. I would set her making 10 of an item, log for a half hour, get back on, and then pick another item and make 10 of that. Lather, rinse and repeat. I went from about 160 to 400 in a day. Of course I had the benefit of a high level scavenger collecting mats for week, but you can do exactly the same thing, albeit at a slower pace.

[Setsuna]

Does playing on a router affect my gameplay? Because I get to phases and stuff and it's like playing atari. Sooo slow and unresponsive.

[Valiant]

Are you going wireless through the router?? Never game wirelessly.. It will get you killed..

[Setsuna]

Originally Posted by Valiant

Are you going wireless through the router?? Never game wirelessly.. It will get you killed..

Yes I am. My bad. LOL. I'll change it.

[Pants]

Brim (and other TR53 members), we are switching over to The Righteous (a raiding guild). Whisper Silox or Bankey for invites and mention that you're from the TR53, just make sure you /gquit first. If you'd rather not join, I understand, but from what I gather, everyone from TR53 is welcome. Celia'bhar and Mayhem already made the switch along with me.

[thecoffeeguy]

So here is a question for the "mobile" gamers.

I am contemplating taking a new job where I would do a little bit of travelling. Basically, once or twice a month, I would fly or drive to a clients location on Monday, then head back home on Thursday.

With that being said, when I am back at my hotel, what are some suggestions for getting a decent line speed so I could log onto TOR? I would definitely want a hard line, nothing wireless.

I am guessing, I would need to go through the hotel.
Anyone have experience with this? Any suggestions or feedback you can give me?

Thx

[Pants]

Originally Posted by thecoffeeguy

So here is a question for the "mobile" gamers.

I am contemplating taking a new job where I would do a little bit of travelling. Basically, once or twice a month, I would fly or drive to a clients location on Monday, then head back home on Thursday.

With that being said, when I am back at my hotel, what are some suggestions for getting a decent line speed so I could log onto TOR? I would definitely want a hard line, nothing wireless.

I am guessing, I would need to go through the hotel.
Anyone have experience with this? Any suggestions or feedback you can give me?

Thx

I used to play WoW with a lady who was an insurance adjuster or whatever and she was always on the road. I thinks she just played on her laptop wirelessly and never had any issues. I don't think MMOs are very bandwidth intensive.

[Huffmeister]

Originally Posted by Pants

Brim (and other TR53 members), we are switching over to The Righteous (a raiding guild). Whisper Silox or Bankey for invites and mention that you're from the TR53, just make sure you /gquit first. If you'd rather not join, I understand, but from what I gather, everyone from TR53 is welcome. Celia'bhar and Mayhem already made the switch along with me.

Cool, glad you guys found a more permanent guild. I hope it's a good fit for you! I'll stick with TR53 for now (raiding doesn't really interest me at this point). It may end up being my own private guild.

[AndChiefs]

Originally Posted by Pants

Brim (and other TR53 members), we are switching over to The Righteous (a raiding guild). Whisper Silox or Bankey for invites and mention that you're from the TR53, just make sure you /gquit first. If you'd rather not join, I understand, but from what I gather, everyone from TR53 is welcome. Celia'bhar and Mayhem already made the switch along with me.

Don't know how much I'll raid but I'll switch over. Won't be on til the weekend as usual though.

[keg in kc]

Finally got my gunslinger to 50. I think I'm going to do my trooper next.

I haven't started to burn out at all on the game, which is pretty amazing, and I still haven't played any empire yet.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Huffmeister

Cool, glad you guys found a more permanent guild. I hope it's a good fit for you! I'll stick with TR53 for now (raiding doesn't really interest me at this point). It may end up being my own private guild.

You should switch over. There are like 100 members listed (I'm sure at least half are alts) and only a few people are even talking about raiding. Most of the time, they're just PvPing and doing dailies. There's really no pressure to do anything, it's just nice to be able to talk to someone while you play and have the ability to get on Vent for a better PvP/group experience.

[Huffmeister]

Originally Posted by Pants

You should switch over. There are like 100 members listed (I'm sure at least half are alts) and only a few people are even talking about raiding. Most of the time, they're just PvPing and doing dailies. There's really no pressure to do anything, it's just nice to be able to talk to someone while you play and have the ability to get on Vent for a better PvP/group experience.

Cool, I may do that. It is nice having guild chat to ask questions and to listen in on people talking about various things like crafting, classes, skill trees, planets, etc. Great way to learn more about the game. I'll give it a week or so and see who is still left in TR53. Then I can either hand over the Guildleader title to someone else or just disband it altogether.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Huffmeister

Cool, I may do that. It is nice having guild chat to ask questions and to listen in on people talking about various things like crafting, classes, skill trees, planets, etc. Great way to learn more about the game. I'll give it a week or so and see who is still left in TR53. Then I can either hand over the Guildleader title to someone else or just disband it altogether.

The only active members left in TR53 are you and Brimian, I'm pretty sure. I'm not sure what happened to Barret (Kthar), but he hasn't been on in weeks. I'm sure he will be welcome to join The Righteous whenever he comes back (if he wants).

[Setsuna]

Originally Posted by Pants

The only active members left in TR53 are you and Brimian, I'm pretty sure. I'm not sure what happened to Barret (Kthar), but he hasn't been on in weeks. I'm sure he will be welcome to join The Righteous whenever he comes back (if he wants).

Invite Wesen and Grim-Vol to TR53! Please!

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Setsuna

Invite Wesen and Grim-Vol to TR53! Please!

I'm not in TR53 anymore and I don't have the power to invite. You can whisper Huffmeister for an invite to TR53 or maybe try and whisper Silox or Blankey for an invite to The Righteous.