SWTOR

[Rasix]

 

There's a difference between trolling and flaming.  

I'm just laughing at the fact that no matter how small the player requirement is for a piece of content, people will still bitch that it's not even smaller.  

Well, if you bring the requirement down the base unit, you can't really get much lower.   The base unit here is even more forgiving since it's player + AI companion.  

[tmp]

I'm just laughing at the fact that no matter how small the player requirement is for a piece of content, people will still bitch that it's not even smaller.  

I think the ones really laughing are the Guild Wars guys.

[Draegan]

I'm just laughing at the fact that no matter how small the player requirement is for a piece of content, people will still bitch that it's not even smaller. 

I think the ones really laughing are the Guild Wars guys.

Well GW2 still has instanced dungeons that require a group to do.  I believe the max group size is 5. 

[Ingmar]

And you can no longer fill your party up with heroes and henchmen in GW2. 

[Draegan]

Yeah but you don't need to "spec" into anything to fill other "roles".  So I'm not sure which one is better.  Finding the right combination of 1-3 other players or just finding 4 other players.

[tmp]

And you can no longer fill your party up with heroes and henchmen in GW2. 

Gah, really? OK no one is laughing then, sad day at the office all around

[Ingmar]

Yeah they're gone entirely.

[Sjofn]

Which is easily their biggest mistake, imo.

[tazelbain]

The trinity is suppose to be gone.  So there should be no need to pack around a tank bot, a interrupt bot and heal bot.

[Rasix]

Yeah they're gone entirely.

Well, that's a shame.  Put one in the negative column.

[Lantyssa]

The trinity is suppose to be gone.  So there should be no need to pack around a tank bot, a interrupt bot and heal bot.

I don't care about the roles so much as the meta-game of outfitting my companions.

[Ingmar]

They have more personality than most of the GW player base, too.

[tazelbain]

I don't care about the roles so much as the meta-game of outfitting my companions.

Lucky for you that you can cyber your companions all you want in SWTOR.  

I am hoping they add them later.  A.net got burned on initial Henchies in GW.  They were just so fucking dumb it left sour taste in everyone month.  So maybe A.net are waiting until they have time to do them right post release.

[kildorn]

Henchies were dumb, but still a neat feature. Heroes are so awesome it breaks the game a bit.

[Trippy]

Rogue stealth on the other hand was always valuable.  The best (and cheapest) option for recovering corpses from whatever dark depths of a dungeon you died in was: send the rogue.  Otherwise you had to get other people to clear the way for you, or get a necro to summon the corpse which was pretty expensive.  Also valuable in a few zones for scouting (to see if anything worth killing is up, if it's out of ranger tracking radius).

Monk FD corpse dragging was better than using a Rogue at times (e.g. a lot undead could see through Rogue stealth). Multiple Monks doing a FD chain drag was hilarious to watch. Shadowknights could do it as well and they were often quicker cause they have double FD (though the spell can fail). I did corpse runs as a Bard too since Bard's have an invisibility song.

[Lantyssa]

Lucky for you that you can cyber your companions all you want in SWTOR.

Unless they're the same sex.

[Trippy]

Until they add it into the game.

[Draegan]

for $5.99.

[Sheepherder]

Like even today in WoW, if you spec for healing, when you want to quest solo or whatever, you either respec to your DPS build or kinda putter along as a sad panda.

For a while in Wrath of the Lich King holy priest, disc priest, and holy paladin were really fucking good leveling specs.  I don't know what they're like anymore, but I imagine it's not good.

[tmp]

Lucky for you that you can cyber your companions all you want in SWTOR.

Unless they're the same sex.

Don't have a link at hand but there was one interview with BioWare people recently in which they alluded to possibility that the Post Launch Gay Patch may, indeed, be coming.

[Sjofn]

Like even today in WoW, if you spec for healing, when you want to quest solo or whatever, you either respec to your DPS build or kinda putter along as a sad panda.

For a while in Wrath of the Lich King holy priest, disc priest, and holy paladin were really fucking good leveling specs.  I don't know what they're like anymore, but I imagine it's not good.

Holy paladin was fine if you could keep yourself from dying of boredom, I guess.

[apocrypha]

Holy paladin was fine if you could keep yourself from dying of boredom, I guess.

Pull more mobs! 

[Lantyssa]

Don't have a link at hand but there was one interview with BioWare people recently in which they alluded to possibility that the Post Launch Gay Patch may, indeed, be coming.

Yeah, we've had the discussion.  I actually think adding it post-launch is a Bad Idea if the game doesn't launch with it.  More publicity I guess, so maybe it'll work out for them, though.

[UnSub]

for $5.99.

Meet Gubba, the lesbian Ewok.

[eldaec]

Don't have a link at hand but there was one interview with BioWare people recently in which they alluded to possibility that the Post Launch Gay Patch may, indeed, be coming.

Yeah, we've had the discussion.  I actually think adding it post-launch is a Bad Idea if the game doesn't launch with it.  More publicity I guess, so maybe it'll work out for them, though.

They presumably have a male and female romance option for each class anyway, so I'm guessing all they plan to do is sneak it in after tweaking any gender specific pronouns. Wouldn't be very surprised if it ends up coming in even before launch.

[Lantyssa]

Since I've had a chance to see the game for myself, I may now consider pre-ordering.  Don't read too much into this.  It's a combination of:

a) I've really missed playing an MMO with my friends and they're just about all going to play this.
b) I now know what to expect for my purchase.

Any impressions will have to wait for the NDA to drop.

[Ratman_tf]

a) I've really missed playing an MMO with my friends and they're just about all going to play this.
b) I now know what to expect for my purchase.

This is why I'm probably going to be playing. And when (not if) my friends bail, I'll be leaving as well.

[Furiously]

Since I've had a chance to see the game for myself, I may now consider pre-ordering.  Don't read too much into this.  It's a combination of:

a) I've really missed playing an MMO with my friends and they're just about all going to play this.
b) I now know what to expect for my purchase.

Any impressions will have to wait for the NDA to drop.

And most importantly, there is really nothing else to play at that point.

[kildorn]

Since I've had a chance to see the game for myself, I may now consider pre-ordering.  Don't read too much into this.  It's a combination of:

a) I've really missed playing an MMO with my friends and they're just about all going to play this.
b) I now know what to expect for my purchase.

Any impressions will have to wait for the NDA to drop.

So this means you're going to be playing with someone other than Slap?! :(

[Sjofn]

I wish they had a crying jawa for us to use as our emblem. :(

[Sky]

I wish they had a crying jawa for us to use as our emblem. :(

I agree with both sentiments.



At this point I'm tempted to roll a consular for slapforce 1. Rolling Trooper might pull too much Fordel aggro.

[Ingmar]

He's the only one out of 16 or so who have laid claim, so I think you'll be safe.

[Sjofn]

You can be a healing trooper and blast him with your medical shotgun. I'm sure he'd forgive you then.

[Lantyssa]

a) I've really missed playing an MMO with my friends and they're just about all going to play this.

So this means you're going to be playing with someone other than Slap?! :(

Oh, I'll play with you dirty Rebels, too.  You would probably like another Trooper for company.

Though I'm really more of a Sith at heart...

PS - if Slap or Bat need a pre-order person to get the reservation, let me know and I can switch over.

[Ingmar]

We have the 4+ now.