SW: The Old Republic - Episode VI (The Old Menace)

[Gorth]

On a completely unrelated note, finally got the datacrons on Tattooine yesterday (for my Sith Warrior). Whoever came up with those ideas has a perverse sense of humour. Shared first part of the balloon ride with a pair of jedis. At least I think they both were. Both got tired after only a few minutes (I suspect it must have been night time whereever they were). Anyway, found a relative safe "procedure" for my Sith Warrior to jump down to the strength datacron. There was much relief not having to do that one again anytime soon. Still haven't found a single one on Nar Shaddaa (I know where one is, but I just can't find a foothold on the floating thing).

[Maria Caliban]

I was on Nar Shaddaa tonight and grabbed three of them.

 

What floating thing are you talking about? The Kiosk in the Corella sector?

[Gorth]

I was on Nar Shaddaa tonight and grabbed three of them.

 

What floating thing are you talking about? The Kiosk in the Corella sector?

 

Yeah, tried it three times so far. I get up on top of it, but it seems like you have to land on the edges of it. My character lands on the little "spire/antenna" thing in the middle of the kiosk, do some weird on the spot animations and is magically teleported down to ground level. Didn't have the patience to wait for it to float by a 4th time to see if I could hit the flat parts better

 

Edit: I assume it's the kiosk I have to jump onto, but that's based on what I overheard on general chat. I think I got the Taris ones and the Balmorra ones except one. Never figured out how to get the one in the Colicoid queens nest. It just sits there and mocks me with being plainly visible and not accessible. I assume its some round about way like the one under the medical center on Taris. Some day, I'll stumble upon the start of the path it.

 

On Alderaan, I need to get to the one that looks like it's up on the dam wall. Haven't found any on Belsavis or Corellia yet (spent too little time there being the noob I am).

[Maria Caliban]

That's interesting. You shouldn't be falling through it at all. The entire thing is solid so you should be fine wherever you land. 

 

If you're talking about the Republic side Balmora for the Queen's Nest, the entrance is in the same building. There's a little gap in the wall hidden behind an alien goo pile. Next time you're there, just hug the wall as you walk around the building and you'll find it.

Edited October 28, 2013 by Maria Caliban

[Gorth]

I've landed on top of it 3 times so far. Did this weird "jittery" animation thing (like when you get stuck between rocks) for a second or two and then "poof!" was standing in a nearby location on the street again. Then I gave up

[Raithe]

Wrapped up my Consular's class storyline, finished it at 51st level..  Not going to stress about pushing along to Ilum or Makeb or the like just yet. Although as a healer, could probably start up flashpoints and potentially ops on the group waiting list. I still haven't actually run in any operations yet on any toon.

 

Think I might take some time to focus on my Imp Agent for a bit now, ready to hit Nar Shadda for that one. Although also have a Rep Trooper about to hit Taris I could work on.

[Gorth]

I'm in a slightly similar situation Raithe... no burning urge to go on to those places yet, rather finish some of the other character story lines.

 

Next time you're there, just hug the wall as you walk around the building and you'll find it.

Next time??? I think I'm going to send my trooper and my smuggler girl back on a visit. I can't remember if I need to pick up a heroic to get access to the room, but even if, it should be easy enough, being level 53 and 44 respectively

[Raithe]

Hm, as I recall you don't need to pick up any mission to get access to that room. But the final stage of a mission bonus leads you there, but you can access it at any time. The trick is that in the room with the queen there's an entrance on the left hand side (as you enter) that is pretty much a secret hideaway. Or it's a trick of perception so it's bloody hard to notice it there unless you're practically on top of it. It leads to a corridor that winds around, but it's annoying because unless you have stealth it's a gauntlet of strong colicoids ever few feet. Kind of like the Willpower datacron on Tattooine with it's series of strong Tusken Raiders along a narrow route.

[Hassat Hunter]

There's a similar trick in the Alderaan palace... not sure if you got that one.

 

For me, YouTube was my friend for all XD. Still have to do the 2 Makeb ones though...

[ShadySands]

I like the datacrons that are tucked in out in the middle of nowhere or have a puzzle to them and hate all the jumpy platform ones

 

Probably why I only have about 2/3 done and will never ever do the one on the fleet

[Gorth]

Nice. Got a little pet droid and a speeder in the mail today. The speeder actually looks like something out of a Star Wars movie

[Meshugger]

While surfing high on nostalgia and watching old KotOR and KotOR II-videos on youtube, i stumbled upon this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sfZ6NjRSrk

 

I never followed the story on ToR and gave up the moment i heard it was a MMO, but seriously what kind of hack wrote this ****? I mean jesus....was this always known in the ToR community?

[NOK222]

While surfing high on nostalgia and watching old KotOR and KotOR II-videos on youtube, i stumbled upon this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sfZ6NjRSrk

 

I never followed the story on ToR and gave up the moment i heard it was a MMO, but seriously what kind of hack wrote this ****? I mean jesus....was this always known in the ToR community?

 

What are you specifically mad about? Revan's characterization? 

[Hurlshort]

 

I never actually played through that part, but frankly the whole Revanite storyline in TOR is one of my favorite parts. 

[Spider]

The foundry bits don't tell the whole story either afaik. There's a flashpoint on the republic side, maelstrom prison I believe, that takes place before it and has more of that story. Haven't actually played that one myself though.

[NOK222]

I'm more angry at the Exile's characterization.

 

"Oh Revan! I love you so!"

 

That's hyperbolic on my part, and the devs clarified that it's not romantic love. 

[Gorth]

I know they were optional flashpoints, but yes, they did make me cringe a bit

 

A shame, as they were otherwise quite well done with some interesting encounters and "bosses" right up until the end. I guess they belong to the category "thought experiment" or better yet, "pretend it never happened".

 

I find Colonel Daksh more of a pain to fight than HK as more often than not, people are not aware of the purpose of the crates (to break LOS when he starts targeting people with laser optics). You can try to explain it to people and still wipe a few times before they grudgingly start taking cover behind the crates.

[NOK222]

HK is one of the more well down boss fights in the game. 

 

Anyway, it cost me some credits, but I got the rest of Marka Ragnos robe. 

[kirottu]

I thought the Revan part was rather well done in republic side flashpoints, even if he looked like Space Jesus. It was the Exile's part that was crap: buxom force ghost that is in love with Revan and nothing else.

[Meshugger]

 

While surfing high on nostalgia and watching old KotOR and KotOR II-videos on youtube, i stumbled upon this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sfZ6NjRSrk

 

I never followed the story on ToR and gave up the moment i heard it was a MMO, but seriously what kind of hack wrote this ****? I mean jesus....was this always known in the ToR community?

 

What are you specifically mad about? Revan's characterization? 

 

 

For someone that had trancended the dark and light side of the force, it was written as he had just read a book about the subject. But yeah, the characterization, being in statis for 300 years, the relationship with the exile, uuuuurgh. 

 

The writiing quality was more like a fan fiction than anything.

[NOK222]

Yeah it wasn't cool. 

 

They never should have put him or her in the game. 

 

Changing topics, I would like to have an operations like the caverns of time in WOW. 

Edited October 31, 2013 by NKKKK

[Gorth]

Anyway, it cost me some credits, but I got the rest of Marka Ragnos robe.

Congrats, that can't have been cheap. Not sure I would have done it if I hadn't already gotten the majority of the parts in the hypercrate (IIRC, I only needed the gloves for a complete set).

 

I would like to just try an operations some day. As usual, timezone is a major stumbling block (not something I would try first time through GF)

[Spider]

If you can transfer to the red eclipse and be up very early in the morning on a saturday, I can help you with that.

 

But yeah, got to be a pain being that far off schedule with everyone.

[Hassat Hunter]

Another Red Eclipser here... now you only need... 5 more XD

Also Ops should never be done through the GF... Sadly, Fleet general chat is the main place. Also for everything you don't want to hear.

 

Sadly, even after all this time in development, they never had the wisdom yet to seperate fleet generic chat and the ops-recruiment chat. I even made a suggestion for it to be server-wide, since that could allow people 55 just to go wherever they want, then teleport back if they have a group.

Alas, general chat it is :/

[Gorth]

I would love to take you up on your offers guys, but back when we got kicked out of our home, we could chose to move characters to any (non Apac) server. I started out with sending a low level character to a bunch of servers, US West Coast, US East Coast and Europe (including Red Eclipse). Sadly none of them had good latency (i.e. "lag"), but the west coast servers were the least bad. Even if I wanted to, I don't think the normal character transfer allows for intercontinental transfers (the Apac migration being abnormal as it allowed migration of any and all characters, even those below level 10)