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*****Official Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread*****

Couple of more tips i found worked well at increasing FPS.

First of set the .exe on your desktop/quick launch bar or what ever to windows xp Sp3 compatibility mode. This seems to generate the most performance increase.

Also make sure in your graphics card control panel you have stopped it from scaling the game to match your resolution.

Couple of interesting things:

Shields in the game only mitigate melee and ranged damage which makes them less effective for overall pvp considering most classes abilities are classed as everything but melee and ranged.

Currently Guardian's are the best mitigation tanks in the game due to there talents.


Tracer missile spamming isn't skill FYI. ;)


The Resolve bar under the nameplates is a bar that is actually out of 800, so you’ll notice it fills but doesn’t go white right away sometimes.

Stuns give 200 Resolve per second of the stun.
Mez (breaks on damage) gives 100 Resolve per second.
Knockbacks and pulls generate 400 Resolve.


If they have not yet reached CC immunity, i.e. Resolve < 1000:

Resolve starts to drain when the CC effect ends
Resolve drains at a rate of 25 Resolve per second


If they have reached CC immunity, i.e. Resolve >= 1000:

Resolve starts to drain immediately when the player becomes immune
Resolve drains at a rate of 100 Resolve per second


It’s important to note that snares (i.e. movement debuffs) and roots are not factored into the Resolve system. That is, they do not build Resolve, and their effects still apply to targets that have CC immunity.
 
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wab said:
Our world Ilum PvP run from 2/3 days back my first
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Nice vid, 58 republic in Ilum! Never seen that :D
As I said today during the smaller group, you need to start inviting the rest of the people in Ilum, I'm always happy to take ops assist and merge the groups, the benefit being;
Of course, you won't merge two 26+ player groups, but when there's not enough yea.

1: We can see when others flank or where they are on the map
2: Any one that can heal and wants to, will be able to see the health bars easier, I did get a few from you, I guess you saw me running back.

Most important is to keep people fighting, as melee... if your group is not doing well then you leap in, get 1 ability off before you're stunned to death, or as I usually do, guardian leap back and wait for 30 secs + before I come out of combat at 10% hp becasue nobody in my ops heals :P
It's natural for people to attack the closest thing, especially if there's one red name in a group of 20, they target you first, so it's difficult.

But despite you only staying around for 10 more mins, it was good to see a guild that will merge ops with others, it benefits us as a whole and it's fun, that's what I really want to do in Ilum, have fun.

Those A Ordem guys seem to always stick to themselves and in the end they just leave Ilum, rather than use their noggins and team up.
We can't afford always to be in multiple small groups on a low pop server.
 
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ChrisJSY said:
Nice vid, 58 republic in Ilum! Never seen that :D
As I said today during the smaller group, you need to start inviting the rest of the people in Ilum, I'm always happy to take ops assist and merge the groups, the benefit being;
Of course, you won't merge two 26+ player groups, but when there's not enough yea.

1: We can see when others flank or where they are on the map
2: Any one that can heal and wants to, will be able to see the health bars easier, I did get a few from you, I guess you saw me running back.

Most important is to keep people fighting, as melee... if your group is not doing well then you leap in, get 1 ability off before you're stunned to death, or as I usually do, guardian leap back and wait for 30 secs + before I come out of combat at 10% hp becasue nobody in my ops heals :P
It's natural for people to attack the closest thing, especially if there's one red name in a group of 20, they target you first, so it's difficult.

But despite you only staying around for 10 more mins, it was good to see a guild that will merge ops with others, it benefits us as a whole and it's fun, that's what I really want to do in Ilum, have fun.

Those A Ordem guys seem to always stick to themselves and in the end they just leave Ilum, rather than use their noggins and team up.
We can't afford always to be in multiple small groups on a low pop server.
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Had been here the best part of a hour most nights when we do go in now we have a full raid team + a few spare.

As long as there is space we will include you guys in our runs, your we,come to jump on our mumble so to hear what we actually trying to achieve, although for the last week I have been running these Ilum events, I'm hoping that at some time the PvP captain & officers will take it over and work out a proper strategy!

One thing I can see is the gap closing between us and the Sith, ye they may out number but but we seem to play slightly better.

Tue, Wed & Thursday we came into Ilum with full groups and even tho we were outnumbered close to 2:1 we still wiped them over and over, two weeks ago we would not have stood a chance.

We lucky our guild i still growing even with the drop after the free month.
 
ChrisJSY said:
Nice vid, 58 republic in Ilum! Never seen that :D
As I said today during the smaller group, you need to start inviting the rest of the people in Ilum, I'm always happy to take ops assist and merge the groups, the benefit being;
Of course, you won't merge two 26+ player groups, but when there's not enough yea.

1: We can see when others flank or where they are on the map
2: Any one that can heal and wants to, will be able to see the health bars easier, I did get a few from you, I guess you saw me running back.

Most important is to keep people fighting, as melee... if your group is not doing well then you leap in, get 1 ability off before you're stunned to death, or as I usually do, guardian leap back and wait for 30 secs + before I come out of combat at 10% hp becasue nobody in my ops heals :P
It's natural for people to attack the closest thing, especially if there's one red name in a group of 20, they target you first, so it's difficult.

But despite you only staying around for 10 more mins, it was good to see a guild that will merge ops with others, it benefits us as a whole and it's fun, that's what I really want to do in Ilum, have fun.

Those A Ordem guys seem to always stick to themselves and in the end they just leave Ilum, rather than use their noggins and team up.
We can't afford always to be in multiple small groups on a low pop server.
Click to expand...

Had been here the best part of a hour most nights when we do go in now we have a full raid team + a few spare.

As long as there is space we will include you guys in our runs, your we,come to jump on our mumble so to hear what we actually trying to achieve, although for the last week I have been running these Ilum events, I'm hoping that at some time the PvP captain & officers will take it over and work out a proper strategy!

One thing I can see is the gap closing between us and the Sith, ye they may out number but but we seem to play slightly better.

Tue, Wed & Thursday we came into Ilum with full groups and even tho we were outnumbered close to 2:1 we still wiped them over and over, two weeks ago we would not have stood a chance.

We lucky our guild is still growing even with the drop after the free month.

Us on Torwars
 
Managed to do the most amount of damage in a WZ yesterday on my Sith Assassin. Pretty good going to be honest considering how few of us are around, oh and also being rather underpowered compared to other classes :p

I'm gonna stick at it though, I quite like the class but we need way too many keybinds for our cooldowns to make us even viable in PvP. I can see why so many players have rolled Sorcerers/Operatives/BHs
 
Yep, cant believe it off again, Saturday is the only time I really get to play so I had an early night to get up early and hopefully hit 50 this weekend, not gonna happen now.
 
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Devious said:
Yep, cant believe it off again, Saturday is the only time I really get to play so I had an early night to get up early and hopefully hit 50 this weekend, not gonna happen now.
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Pretty much likewise here, apart from being nowhere near level 50 ... I'd just gone up to 14 on my Sorceror and got a couple of new abilities I wanted to try out - massively pee'd off!!!
 
I don't understand why the Euro servers couldn't be serviced during Euro night time.

This is one of the reasons why when I get my main to 50 I shall cancel my subs.

The other reason is I'm bored playing it. I don't necessarily think it's the game that's making me bored, I actually think that I, after 30+ years of gaming, have lost interest in games. I have many games on my HDD that I haven't completed as I get bored playing them really quickly.
 
Just a quick update to all in TDR. I'll be moving my Main and Alts to another Guild at some point this weekend (when I can get to login that is, worst timing ever for maintenance).

With the exception of Distraught, Moshpit and a couple more everyone has vanished it would seem :(
 
Saturday morning maintenance is a bit stupid really. Especially when we don't even have patch notes to indicate why it is being done. Regardless of whether it's a Saturday and there is plenty else to do, I get up early and fit some gaming in before heading out the house at about 10 to start Saturday activities. Can't believe they've taken them down today tbh.

Their patching schedule is ridiculous sometimes and it's always the EU players that get screwed.
 
And the worst thing is, Bioware will continue to carry on doing this with no apology, or even reason why they can't roll out patches during the night like the Americans get. They say it's because they want everyone to experience the content at the same time, but that's not likely when we have to wait for it to be implemented during our playtimes, and the US gets it waiting for them when they roll out of bed.

So utterly sick of Bioware/EA and their crap.
 
Thought I would go back to Skyrim for a few hours and install some of the new mods but it seems the the skynexus mod site is broke too, no downloads work .. ace
 
Yeah definitely felt the nerd rage as tried to log in this morning. Maintenance on a Saturday ffs? I understand you can't make everyone happy all the time, every time but I'm pretty fed up of being treated like a second-class customer. Why can't they give us our patch + maint 6 hours prior? Or maybe the next day but early hours, I wouldn't give a crap if i got a patch later than the US, as long as it doesn't cut-in at inconvenient times.
 
Ary101 said:
Would anyone recommend the game, heard a lot of good things about it but was just wondering what everyone thinks :)
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As a computer game its massive, the stories are great fun and you'll have months worth of gaming spent inside a deep RPG and star wars experience.

If your into MMORPG's, everyone has there own opinion, so i would say play it for the story, if you enjoy the MMO aspects then engage in them.

Take what people say on this forum with a pinch of salt. The vast majority of comments are negative because the people enjoying the game are generally playing it and not whining on the forum.

But in the end, you can't go wrong for £30, its very enjoyable.
 
LateX'Dog said:
The vast majority of comments are negative because the people enjoying the game are generally playing it and not whining on the forum.
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I get tired of hearing this, it's just not true. I think the people whining are the ones who's played it the most, and are starting to see past the shiny exterior and realise there's not a whole not of mmo behind the single player experience.

He's right when he says you should take everyone's comments with a pinch of salt. Just include his too ;)
 
ins0mn1ac said:
Worst patch timing ever!
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Personally I think Bank Holiday Monday after Xmas was worse timing than a random Saturday.

Don't get me wrong, Saturday morning is damn stupid too. I'm almost glad though, makes me feel better I quit over this kind of thing, that it wasn't just a one off silly patch timing.
 
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