Hey guys I think I want to start playing SWTOR, but I wanted to try a trial first. If someone had a friend invite that they weren't going to use I'd really appropriate it. Thank you!
On April 11 2012 13:27 Executor1 wrote: 1.2 is out this thursday , Its Official!!
Cant wait for actually challenging raid content to be honest.
And they scrapped ranked warzones.......
I dont PVP but that is a huge fail on BW's part. They handt even announced that they where scrapping WZ's when i made that post a few days ago.
At the same time, would you prefer that they release it all buggy and then complain even more? Which is exactly what would happen if they released a buggy mess, people would complain even more then they are now. From the sounds of it , ranked WZ's are still going to be out before 1.3 and they said the time between 1.2 and 1.3 is going to be alot less than the time between 1.1 and 1.2. So realistically we should see ranked wz's in the next month, in full working fashion rather than a buggy mess.
I know it sucks, and really they should have realized that it wasnt ready sooner, but the fact that they pulled the emergency plug just days before means they tried their hardest to get it out with 1.2 but it just didnt work out i guess. Its still hugely dissapointing but i dont really think it will affect subs in any meaningful way , hardcore PVP'ers represent a small portion of the community, most will just be happy with the new WZ and have no problem waiting a month (even if they are dissapointed) to see a better more polished and less buggy ranking system.
I honestly disagree. There was basically no PTS feedback for ranked warzones, because - to my knowledge - prefered to transfer PvE guilds over. Also the feedback threads for ranked warzones didnt mention any bugs (iirc) - just "well almost no warzone opened, when it did open the rank adjusted accordingly".
The big problem though (imho) is: server population. Everyone on low-medium server would have a hard time for queuing for ranked warzones. My server (standard-heavy, but PvE) would probably field 4 8man teams. Add some random guys, small groups for maybe 3-4 more teams. That's just not enough for a good ranked system. I think only servers like Fatman would be able to have a good competition. So I say ranked warzones will not happen until we have crossserver warzones. (since I doubt they will merge servers looking at their "30 days for free for everyone!" promotion now). Maybe I'm just too pessimistic now.
But since you mentioned PvE, did your guild do the new operation already? How is it compared to the old ones?
FieryBalrog United States. April 13 2012 08:40. Posts 1306
I don't see anyone mentioning this, but along with patch 1.2:
-anyone who's subbed as of today gets a free pet -anyone who's subbed as of today and has a level 50 char gets a free month -anyone who has unsubbed gets 7 free days
All I can say is, they really, really don't want to merge those servers, eh.
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Vessel United States. April 13 2012 10:18. Posts 212
On April 13 2012 08:40 FieryBalrog wrote: I don't see anyone mentioning this, but along with patch 1.2:
-anyone who's subbed as of today gets a free pet -anyone who's subbed as of today and has a level 50 char gets a free month -anyone who has unsubbed gets 7 free days
All I can say is, they really, really don't want to merge those servers, eh.
lol 7 free days for unsubbed peeps. not nearly enough to make me wanna come back.
blade55555 United States. April 13 2012 10:19. Posts 14069
On April 13 2012 08:40 FieryBalrog wrote: I don't see anyone mentioning this, but along with patch 1.2:
-anyone who's subbed as of today gets a free pet -anyone who's subbed as of today and has a level 50 char gets a free month -anyone who has unsubbed gets 7 free days
All I can say is, they really, really don't want to merge those servers, eh.
Wait are you serious? So that means I get a free month since I have a 50? :D
Badass just got the e-mail telling me a free 30 days balling ^_^
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justinpal United States. April 13 2012 11:14. Posts 3233
On April 13 2012 08:40 FieryBalrog wrote: I don't see anyone mentioning this, but along with patch 1.2:
-anyone who's subbed as of today gets a free pet -anyone who's subbed as of today and has a level 50 char gets a free month -anyone who has unsubbed gets 7 free days
All I can say is, they really, really don't want to merge those servers, eh.
Wait are you serious? So that means I get a free month since I have a 50? :D
Badass just got the e-mail telling me a free 30 days balling ^_^
Lol, I'll be unsubbed in 7 days. I told them in the feedback that I was kind of sick of doing nothing, but PvP and that 1.2 is about 1 month too late. I think this is their attempt to keep current subscribers, while we wait the extra month for 1.2. I'm sorry to say, but unless they are adding more content then I can imagine I can't see myself staying after the free 30 days.
The game plays a lot better now after 1.2 was deployed. It's still impossible to find people for flashpoints though, and BioWare has announced that they will NOT implement a cross-server group tool, so I will definitely not subscribe anymore.
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Thingdo United States. April 16 2012 06:35. Posts 184
How many subscribers are there with top level characters? At 15 dollars a month giving all of them a free month could actually be a ton of money. Sounds like they really want people to try out the new patch.
They launched some weird event today. Rakghoul plague spreading to Tatooine. Spent all morning doing the quests, it was awesome! Ended up with a little rakghoul pet. Stuff like this is awesome, will definitely keep people playing! Hopefully there's more in the near future.
IMABUNNEH United Kingdom. April 16 2012 07:13. Posts 860
Been raiding in the new raid on hardmode tonight, and I'm glad to see it's a decent step up in difficulty over the laughable first tier, it might even keep me interested for the time being. Unfortunately I was forced into tanking tonight (I'm not a fan of tanking in SWTOR) instead of DPS so I got an excrutiating night of mechanics that really don't favour tanks (debuffs that force tank swaps lasting 12 seconds longer than when you swap = lots of deaths).
It's a good raid, and I still think SWTOR is a perfectly good game. Its only trouble is it's not AS good as the games it is effectively cloning. WoW and Rift have better raiding, and EVERYONE has better pvp. I got a free month though so I'll hang around til GW2 most likely.
"I think...now? No rival. Me world champion. Yeah. None rival." - oGsMC
Firebolt145 United Kingdom. April 16 2012 09:11. Posts 12289
On April 13 2012 08:40 FieryBalrog wrote: I don't see anyone mentioning this, but along with patch 1.2:
-anyone who's subbed as of today gets a free pet -anyone who's subbed as of today and has a level 50 char gets a free month -anyone who has unsubbed gets 7 free days
All I can say is, they really, really don't want to merge those servers, eh.
Wow, to me this just screams 'desperate'. But oh well, 7 free days? I might give it a go...
Did anyone else do the new tatooine missions? I really liked this thing, and hope they will do more! It's 3 missions and 3 new world bosses. We were about 20 people doing world bosses yesterday, it was awesome!
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On April 17 2012 14:32 Arnstein wrote: Did anyone else do the new tatooine missions? I really liked this thing, and hope they will do more! It's 3 missions and 3 new world bosses. We were about 20 people doing world bosses yesterday, it was awesome!
It seems like they add a new daily quest everyday for the Containment Custom gear. And yes, lots of open world pvp
Our first kill of the first boss of the new raid, on hardmode. The POV is from one of our Powertech DPS, you see me on Lord Pylons doing Body Type 4 somersaults while tanking
I actually quite like the new raid. It IS a step up in difficulty (finally), and the fights on hardmode seem to be a lot based on execution.
We actually kept wiping on this fight for a full night before getting it the next day because our DPS was too much. We originally ran 4 healers (so an extra DPS) and were hitting those bossjump phase changes too early, meaning we couldn't get the boss you see melee on hit by a big rock (you wipe if you don't). We actually mess it up in this video (yellow circle turns purple, boss needs to be in that purple circle) by pushing 30% too fast.
Fun fight though, not that my repair bills on this one think so Siege tanks hardmode video should be up soon too!
"I think...now? No rival. Me world champion. Yeah. None rival." - oGsMC
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Canada. April 13 2012 11:24. Posts 1827
