SWTOR

I think someone was just talking nonsense, Ive never seen that and i have 3 toons at VR 100

I've seen jugs take on a whole team like that but never marauders. He must have been getting heals from somewhere but there was nobody else around.

Maybe he had a lifeleech blade from diablo or something

I've only seen one hack in all of my games played and it was on youtube. I would say most players don't know how to gear correctly and the others are just filthy casuals who have no idea how to play, getting called a hacker is rewarding Here is my small hall of shamescrubs - Imgur

[SWTOR] Speed Hacker at the Bastion - YouTube

Also, if the Mara was running Annihilation spec his DoT crits will heal him (and the team) and his Berserk ability causes the next six DoT effects to auto crit.

The other thing is Operative heals. Heal over time is the quintessential fire and forget ability and it has such a huge impact on warzones. Even if they die or run away they're still healing teammates and they can essentially HoT up their entire team with very little resource depletion. They pretty much negate my spammable DoT. They also have their instant Heal which does use up a Tactical Advantage but if they're spreading HoTs around they essentially have an endless supply of it. Oh and they get a free TA every time they use the ability on someone below 30% health. If you into an Arena versus an Op or Scoundral healer, you better hope they're squishy or you're stacked with Burst damage.

you only get the TA stack back every 10 seconds the 30% thing was nerfed a bit back so now you want to keep 2 stacks up at all time, the operative HoT is ok but its only something i cast out if my teams health is above 80%, which usually means you are fighting a bad team or a gaggle of dot classes

Can you play this game yet by doing just the story line/planet story line and stay within the appropriate levels? Do you need like a double xp weekend or XP potions?

Utnayan_sl said:

No. You need to do all the filler. What a lot of people do though is wait for a double XP weekend, use potions on top of that, and run flashpoints until 50. And do this across some of the classes they want to see the story lines in. Than they do the story classes all at once and skip all the filler.

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How long is it to max doing Flashpoints? I really want to do the storylines, but fuck doing all that filler bullshit.

I have a ton of Cartel points, and I think I have most of the purchases legacy things you can get. What are the one character only things you should buy in case I get spare time to play this (not likely)?

arterial_sl said:

you only get the TA stack back every 10 seconds the 30% thing was nerfed a bit back so now you want to keep 2 stacks up at all time, the operative HoT is ok but its only something i cast out if my teams health is above 80%, which usually means you are fighting a bad team or a gaggle of dot classes

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Hmm. Well, even still, Op healers are the only ones it takes three of us beating on to guarantee a kill. Put a Jugg guard on them and you might as well be hitting them with a wet noodle (mostly true for all healers but Op healers just seem to massively outclass the others with a guard). They also have more survivability tricks. I mean, Vanish/Evasion/Roll is the ultimate get out of jail free card. In case you haven't noticed, not a fan of Op healers.

a_skeleton_03_sl said:

Can you still just bot the ship missions and be level 50 in 3 days?

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You can bot ship missions, but I think the rewards go down to next to nothing pretty quick.

Getting to 50 is really, really easy though. People were botting ship missions for cash, not xp.

Draegan_sl said:

I have a ton of Cartel points, and I think I have most of the purchases legacy things you can get. What are the one character only things you should buy in case I get spare time to play this (not likely)?

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Rocket boost is a must. I think I have most of my shit maxxed out so I'm not sure what is best. I like having my own market, mail, etc... in the ship. Rocket boost is the only must I can think of. I don't know about now, but it used to be best to buy packs with cartel coins and resell them on the market for cash.

Since you don't play a lot, it's hard to say. If you had a lot of Legacy, the Ewok is a monster and totally worth it.

Doing the Legacy upgrades for the Fleet Pass takes it down to no cooldown.

Draegan_sl said:

How long is it to max doing Flashpoints? I really want to do the storylines, but fuck doing all that filler bullshit.

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Planets have a main storyline and of course a piece of the personal class storyline, both can be nice and entertaining the first time, some filler quests are pointless and some open up when you kill certain mobs, but you hardly need to get out of your way to complete them (kill 20 of a certain kind, usually with more than one tier).
Non subs have a 25% xp penalty, or maybe it's 20%, which represents exactly the exp needed to finish your level range if you complete all the quests on a planet, but do no bonus serie, run no flashpoints, do no space missions, etc.
I play a little bit here and there, so I'm no xp grinder, but between flashpoints, the weekly LFD quest, the daily FP, the tactical flashpoint, etc. and some bits of rested exp, I tend to have grey quests by the time I finish the planet.

I would get the class mission/flashpoint exp buffs, you can just do Kuat/Planet/Class flashpoints. For my last 55 i just did kuat until 45 for the most part, then i PvP my last 10 levels so i can twink out my no legacy slots and be mostly full brute at 55 , kuat is usually around 60% of a level until around 50

arterial_sl said:

I would get the class mission/flashpoint exp buffs, you can just do Kuat/Planet/Class flashpoints. For my last 55 i just did kuat until 45 for the most part, then i PvP my last 10 levels so i can twink out my no legacy slots and be mostly full brute at 55 , kuat is usually around 60% of a level until around 50

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tried to do Kuat like that, it just gets so boring.