Gorth

Try "large" fortune. Didn't count, but between my alts, it's millions of credits. The archive was a good idea, but too buggy. My armourmech and synthweavers had more or less complete collections of the moddable armour from the Underworld Trading crits. 9 out of 10 are in the heavy/medium/light armour sections and the remaining straggler is now amongst a gazillion green and blue schematics in the archive. Completely hopeless to get an overview of what you got now. I hope they enhance that particular interface to either let people create their own "folders" and send schematics to or at least get the items fixed so they show up in the correct folders. A number of classes keep dropping their power converter from their star ships after each and every area transition. All pub toons have lost their ship droids. Not only is he not there for crafting, hes not even on the ship (not complaining about the latter actually). My starship grade 7 component schematics requires 12 "obsolete crafting material" (iirc the number). I only got 2 in my inventory Still not sure what I'm going to do with the Isotope 5 i got in my inventory right now. haven't seen a schematic for it in ages (the fleet vendor still sells it for 35 basic coms) But those or hopefully bugs that gets fixed within the next year. Worse are the tactical flashpoints.... You can no longer queue for "real" flashpoints when leveling up. Tried Mandalorian Raiders and False Emperor as random picks. Both were unmitigated disasters. The latter took more than 2 hours and 25 wipes. Most flashpoints are completely unsuited for the task, when you got multiple golds, several silvers and a horde of trash swarming your lowbie team with no healers/tanks. Safe to say, I'm completely cured, not going to queue again ever for a flashpoint until end game where you get the "trinity" organisation back in the hard modes. Only redeeming factor so far is... ta da!... the story in the expansion is actually nice (only just arrived in chapter 4, not going to give spoilers yet) But jeebus, combat and group content took a nosedive.

I'll one up you. I was like "Okay." when they announced the fourth movie (the first prequel movie) because Return of the Jedi was such a let down. Muppets and Ewoks... my fanboyism turned to "don't care" that night in the Cinema

Corellia is deliberately designed to be as obnoxious as possible with completely unnecessary detours and roundabout ways. Probably part of the "grind" doctrine where everything had to take as long as possible to make the game last longer. A darn shame too, because the ruined city scape is one of my favourite backgrounds for questing. Should just have had more taxis and quick travel points to get around locally on each sector. My favourite hate class is Jedi Knight. Yegads it just drags out forever and forever with pointless mob killing. Completely anti-climactic, slowing the class story to a crawling stop. As for 4.0, looks like they had second thoughts about letting powertech/vanguard being the only melee tank class with no gap closer at all during the leveling up. Really trying to understand their "logic" here. First they bloat the level range with extra, completely unneeded levels, then they mess up the combat system to accommodate those unneeded levels, then they compound the problem by adding even more levels. As the crowning achievement, they then decide to introduce level scaling, taking away any point in leveling up in the first place (if there is anything level scaling is known for, it's removing the feeling of progress in a game). So, a lot of extra pointless levels making the game harder to fine tune, all for nothing?

I hate the finding group parts, but I must admit the most fun I've had the last 4-5 weeks were lowbie heroics (4 person) on places like Balmorra, Tattooine and Taris. High level combat turned boring (no idea what they were thinking with the changes in 3.0 and 4.0 looks like a bad situation getting worse), so haven't really done much ops or HM since 12x xp started. In my completely biased and uninformed opinion, things went downhill fast with the level increases and the roller coaster is gaining momentum

And people kept moaning about everything coming with a "Made in China" label these days. When the manufacturing process then get relocated to the US, then it's apparently also a problem

Considering that I'm leveling up no less than two alts with Artifice (on two different servers, otherwise I would just stick to my current maxed out artifice guy), it was nice to know that I don't have to invest 200 man hours and enough credits to pay off the Greek national debt to spam those enhancements. Once upon a time in a bout of morbid curiosity, I actually registered the numbers in Excel and registered 1000 sample reverse-enginerings of enhancements (including all the "garbage" ones with shield/surge etc.) and the success rate was 83. I.e. 8.3% and not 20% as per the tool tip I also saw that they are going to remove fully half the mats from game and most exotic elements that I know of. Are the going to be replaced with equivalent grade mats or is it like a fort knox heist where they rob our storage bays with us having no say (off to sell mats to stim vendors or craft as much junk as possible to get at least something in return). Also, what about current schematics that relies heavily on those mats? Grade 7 space mission gear, Dark Projects etc. It still pisses me off that it sounds like they intend to completely remove all the schematics you've learned without any "compensation". Yes, my rear anatomy feels rather sore from feeling Biowares giant "Rod" doing some Invasive things to my lower intestines. Not that this is the first time. Apart from that, it sounds like an allocation of schematics that should have been there 3 years ago (i.e. armourings for the armour crafters, tech enhancements for the cybertechs etc.) edit: Although, IMHO it would make sense if Cybertech then got an augment or two, like Accuracy and Mastery.

yeah, "The Aurora Cannon". Such a joy killer. Honourable mention goes to "The Shrouds Last Stand". With a bit of work and patience, you can at least solo "All the Pieces" now. Operatives and Assassins can also solo the last of the Seeker Droid missions on Ilum (thanks to revive in place, stealth and cc during that turret/zombie swarm place).

Not "hand drawn" per se (and unfortunately no screenshot), but I would add Trine (and Trine 2) to the list of absolutely gorgeous non-realisc gfx games.

A missed opportunity... he should just have stuck with "If it walks like a terrorist and it quacks like a terrorist..."

It's a rather complicated situation, not unlike Europe before WWI... The Turks are cheering ISIS and trying not to get in their way because they are helping them to eliminate the Kurds as a unified force, the Americans are cheering for the Kurds, being their "boots on the ground" fighting ISIS. For both parties, Assad is the almost forgotten third part. I would put my bets on Russia seeing Assad as their "boots on the ground" fighting ISIS too, it being the bigger threat and wanting to keep their influence out of the Muslim parts of the Caucasus region.

As Gromnir said, augments are your friend when boosting crafting skills. Regardless of Synthweaving, Armstech or Armourmech. Find some on GTN if necessary under crafting schematics. There should be a wide variety of augments. Check out something like Absorb Augment 23, 26 and 28 (sorry can't remember any more which is which crafting skill, but should cover that range) Edit: Heh, ninjaed while I booted up the game to check.

If you craft items shown as green in your schematics list, you get 0.5 skill point, if you craft yellow items you get 1 skill point and if you craft orange difficulty items you get 2 skill points. That is, if i remember correctly. Make sure you craft something that isn't "grey"

Yeah, 16 was also my original goal. One for each advanced class. Of course, things got complicated by the different skill trees (now called "disciplines") as I also wanted to try different specializations for each advanced class Since I skipped a few pictures the last few days. A duo from Jedi Covenant. My big, burly twilek (I suppose that word is related to two lekkus) Jedi guardian tank promoting Tython as a tourist resort for Twileks. One of the perks of being a Jedi, dominating the weak mind of the steak beast. Force Persuade: "Tell me friend Uxibeast, why stay out here in the cold wind? It's such a chilly day, come... I have a nice warm fireplace prepared for you" ...and a cyborg mercenary trying to survive on Nar Shaddaa That Stims Vendor should've known better than setting up shop here and not pay his "Health and Accident Insurance ©" fee. It's dirty, it's rotten and it's deadly, but it's Nar Shaddaa and it's home. Anyone hiring? In hindsight, I probably should relocate all those posts to the images thread. It might kill the thread loading speed for those not on fast net connections.

«It would be well for your government to consider that having your ships and ours, your aircraft and ours, in such proximity... is inherently DANGEROUS. Wars have begun that way, Mr. Ambassador.» (lol @ "moderate rebels" btw. Yeah, the whole three of them need protecting!) You have to hand it to the Russians, they are good at this sleight of hand stuff. How many are currently thinking about the Ukrainian conflict?

It should be mentioned that no cats were hurt in this quantum experiment.

That's twentieth century colonial power thinking No. But you can't always force a cultural change at gunpoint. Sure, it would be nice to accelerate the process, but cultural changes sometimes takes generations. And without a cultural change and the embracing of new ideas, outside intervention will most likely have no positive long term effect. I.e. point in case the 3 above examples. Would you say the world is a better place now than it was before the west encouraged (and in some cases outright supported militarily) the destabilizing of the ruling regimes in the countries above? All of those conflicts had one thing in common, it was never about accepting "Western ideas", it was about religious differences, old grudges and tribal/clan affiliations.

Bonus question (sine I'm too lazy to read through the entire lore), is Darth Marr related to Visas Marr? I'm sure he could be a Miralukka under that helmet. Or in the case of a half-Miralukka, maybe wear a patch over one eye ....

Western intervention... didn't someone say something about being doomed to repeat history? Libya, helping one tribe overthrowing the ruling tribe and settle old grudges. Heading towards becoming a failed state. Iraq, helping the Shias overthrow the Sunnis. Country destabilized to the point of becoming a failed state. Syria, helping a one minority trying to overthrow the other (ruling) minority, making it a defacto failed state in it's current condition. Practically a playground for every regional powers proxy war and settling of scores. Sometimes you just can't rush things by pointing a gun at people and tell them to be "be happy". A desire among the locals for a change of balance of power is not the same as a desire for a different kind of society.

I think the last two achievements that I pursued actively were the "Jump the Rockshark" and whatsitsname killing 500 kolto barrels in the Manaan flashpoint. The former simply because i found the idea funny and the latter because of the title, which I've plans for ("All Natural"). I would have loved the Grave Robber title too for a scoundrel (finding the appropriate relics while having the "ghost buffs" from the ghosts on Yavin), but I read that it's rather buggy and you are likely to go through all the steps without getting the title. Read up on the dulfy page on the 4.0 changes. A mixed bag, but looking forward to datacrons becoming legacy wide and that retro actively no less. Time to find the last 3 Rakata power cubes on Belsavis so I can get a complete collection (found 1 on my very first play through of the game and put in my storage bay, not figuring out what it was for until 2 years later). Edit: Nope. It was a previous gfx "upgrade" from a while ago. According to the patch notes, they added those filters to emphasize the ambience of planets. Think Photoshop correction layers Everything got a bit of bloom, Tattooine got extra bright, everything on Hoth turns blue and the screenshots with my Sith Warrior uses some kind of "Ash cloud" overlay to make everything appear dark and sooty. I think some people have posted fixes to ini files, so you can remove those effects and the rendering underneath those layers are relatively normal.

Is that from a dev stream or did you get in on a closed beta??? Just so weird seeing "mastery" instead of Aim, Cunning etc.

*Sigh*... sometimes I'm really tired of Bioware lying to your face. Not talking about them using the "classes should have skills important to their role sooner" excuse to remove skill trees (and then announcing that one of the single most important tank skills, the gap closer wont be available until level 61), but their latest stunt with the graphics changes being marketed as an "improvement". Sure, low end machines may experience better frame rates, but lowering the overall gfx fidelity is not an improvement. Reduced number of frames for background animations, creating a rather noticeable "slideshow" effect, from anything more than 30 meter away. Level of detail that is now way too low. Texture and object pop ins now happening waaaay too late. Heck, I wiped to a trash mob yesterday because I got butchered by "something(s)", which didn't appear until five seconds after I was dead (and you can't target them either until they are done popping in). Whats the point of having high and ultra high settings if the game completely ignores the settings. Never had performance problems before. Still don't have that, but now the quality just went down the drain. Anyway, todays character, Female chiss agent A'zz'ure from the Harbinger. Specialist in all things toxic and venomous (Lethality Operative) It actually started out as an idea where I just wanted to use those boots. Love the little dagger and pistol tucked away in them No, Kaliyo is not about to keel over from sunstroke, it's a weird fish eye perspective happening when things gets close to the side of the camera lens.

I know, I said it was time for new toons, not old ones. Plans... never bother with them Nothing "special" about this guy, just a bit of nostalgia. When I started playing, it was when f2p was brand new. I actually blame this very thread (earlier incarnation of it) for luring me into trying the game in the first place. You could create 2 characters and chose between 3 races, human, cyborg and zabrak. I liked the game enough to get the RotHC expansion pre-order the day after and became a preferred status player for a few weeks. The first two characters, which i still have were a human (my current "main" guy) powertech tank and the archetypical trooper guy, complete with cyborg implants. The fellow below was my third attempt at creating a toon and of course had to be the third available race. Being a bit of a conservative Sith, his only concession to the cartel market gear is his lightsaber, which is from the old space pirates pack. Everything else, right down to his red saber crystal is crafted or looted. Of countless alts, he's one of two who got named by the random name generator (the other being a chiss sniper) Prowling a dead world, hunting for glory, credits and monolith kills... Yelling to Vitiate: "Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow bastard! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!"

Removed a handful posts that looked like a nervous octopus had all hands on deck... or keyboard, or whatever

I know. That's what caused my frustration, I got it once before, like 2 years ago on my old Powertech tank. Ok, enough old characters, time to introduce a few of the new ones. Say "Hello" to Rodriquez the Gunslinger on Harbinger --- "Wut? No Nuka Cola???... *sigh* Diet Somthing it is then" "... Bar Keeper, one of my Rishas has abandoned me, need to restore my double vision... Quite a few more coming over the rest of the week.

Must be Gorth's new improved algorithm at work! Heh, yeah. **** doesn't happen if I have something to say about it!