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KeithTalent

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NO NO Redskins!!!

:p

Lol hahaha, missed that post. I'd rather they stick with Ponder for another year, get some secondary help in the draft, and not pay for Flynn. Don't want it to turn into a Kolb situation!

KT
 

IndyColtsFan

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Lol hahaha, missed that post. I'd rather they stick with Ponder for another year, get some secondary help in the draft, and not pay for Flynn. Don't want it to turn into a Kolb situation!

KT

I remember people ridiculing me when I made fun of the Kolb trade. :D

Oh well, back on topic, I should hit 43 tonight.
 

maniacalpha1-1

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Amazon seems only to have physical copies. those of you that ordered from Amazon, did they immediately send you a code to activate on Origin?
 

RiDE

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wow, in all my years i've never seen a "waiting room" for a website before. pathetic.

The SWTOR forums is not even worth queueing for... its a cesspool of whiners. Who complains about maintenance being too short? and who keeps faking banned emails? :hmm: Seriously? Seems like there's a rolling lynch mob for Bioware because of DA2.
 

KeithTalent

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The SWTOR forums is not even worth queueing for... its a cesspool of whiners. Who complains about maintenance being too short? and who keeps faking banned emails? :hmm: Seriously? Seems like there's a rolling lynch mob for Bioware because of DA2.

Is that not the case for almost all official game forums? I never go to them anymore as they seem to attract the worst form of whining, trolling idiot. D:

KT
 

Sixguns

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Being an ex WoW nerd, how does this compare? I really want to get it since I love Star Wars but am wanting to wait until maybe March so little bugs or issues can get fixed.
 
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sick of their missions and crap loot, i made my own mission with great loot. i wish i took video :( . i love hunting down the stupid datacrons, and accumulated a handful of matrix shards. a matrix thingy is equipped in 1 of your relic slots, otherwise it lives in your mission inventory. for now, you can have only 1 on you at a time - others can be kept in a storage locker.

http://www.swtor-spy.com/datacrons/

http://segmentnext.com/2011/12/25/swtor-matrix-cubes-guide-how-to-craft-power-and-store-them/

my assassin (34) is fueled by willpower, and there's a tier at level 32 that gives me a nice fat 33 end, 29 wil relic! hold on, i need 2 red shards and a blue, and i'm 1 red short. the only other red on the main list is on ord mantell, off limits to my sith lord.

a little more internet searching revealed reds on hoth and ilum, both way over my lvl 34 head. hoth looked pretty impossible and ilum looked easy-ish, so i had my target. i set out by speeder for the republic base, knowing an ass-whooping would be certain if i was caught by any mob or jedi player. i did cut a corner too closely once, getting shot off the speeder and spanked by 3 50 elites. rez in place, move away, continue.

i made it to the base and headed for the hut containing the red shard. the site revealing it's location did not reveal the lvl 50 robot that lives in the hut with the shard :eek: fortunately, i brought meat shield, i mean khem val with me. robot comes out and khem val took the aggro. i ran inside but couldn't collect the shard because i was in combat mode. quick-thinking me decided it was a great time use force cloak for the very first time, dropping me out of combat, extra-invisible, and no damage/healing. i think the combat kinda glitched while i was in movie mode, because robot had stopped killing khem val. movie over, khem val lives just long enough for me to dodge a pather and get out of town with my red shard in hand :cool:
 

Fingolfin269

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So I've played two characters up to level 10, finished the starting world and moved on to the next, and then immediately end up being bored after the first flashpoint. Anyone else facing a similar dilemma? I'm not sure if there is something wrong with the game or if I have just changed to the point where I don't really like the generic MMO model anymore.
 

2disbetter

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I've never seen an MMO that let you idle indefinitely. Most of the "idlers" that stay logged in for huge amounts of time are running macros or something to simulate activity.

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Guess you've never played Eve Online then. People stay logged into that idle all the time. The server is restarted daily, but if it weren't you could stay logged indefinately for sure.

2d
 

IndyColtsFan

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Guess you've never played Eve Online then. People stay logged into that idle all the time. The server is restarted daily, but if it weren't you could stay logged indefinately for sure.

2d

You're right. Eve bored me to tears after very little time and felt like having another job.
 

lupi

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Finished the. 2 heroics and end of class quest to complete nar shaddaa last night. Even though it gave me 4 levels, it seemed kinda skimpy. On tatt now after doing a limited in space class quest. The credits are cranking in though, just. 3 levels of leveling have made back the majority of what it cost to buy riding already. Actually seems somewhatt odd to plaay an mmo and get such easy money.
 

Merad

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There are plenty of money sinks in the game. Since this is my first toon I'm spending pretty freely to keep crafting leveled up and keep decent gear. I rarely have more than 30k credits in the bank at level 35.
 

IndyColtsFan

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For you guys who have yet to reach Hoth on a PvP server, beware. Both factions are all over the planet and PvP battles are plentiful. I was getting ganked in a cave that I had to run through to get to some of my story areas, but that was fixed when I went back the next day with my brothers and they destroyed and embarrassed a bunch of Republic players while I got to my quests.

I decided turnabout was fair play, so while I was doing quests in the Starship Graveyard last night, I saw two Jedi. One got away, but I snuck up on another and finished him off pretty quickly. :D
 

Worthington

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So, the user controls are starting to bother me. There is no macro support so I can bind multiple skills to one key or button using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, etc).

I've tried binding shift to something like Quick Slot Bar 3, and then just placing my duplicate binds there but I guess shift isn't re-progammable? It won't let me bind it.

Am I missing something? Is there an easier way to go about what I want to do?
 

s44

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Activate Bottom Center quickbar. Bind shift-combos to that.
Activate Right quickbar. Bind ctrl-combos to that.

I have my Companion bar on the left. The different rows of the original bar I only use for warzone-only setups, etc.
 

HumblePie

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i've never waited in line to read a website before. have you?

Umm of course you have. You wait in line EVERYTIME you click on a webpage and wait for the page to be served to you. Just because the line is usually short and you are not being told you are waiting in a "line" doesn't mean you aren't. Hell, even these Anandtech forums have slowdowns from time to time. Guess what is happening when you click to go a webpage and all you get is a white screen and a spinning mouse wheel? You are waiting in a line!
 

HumblePie

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Activate Bottom Center quickbar. Bind shift-combos to that.
Activate Right quickbar. Bind ctrl-combos to that.

I have my Companion bar on the left. The different rows of the original bar I only use for warzone-only setups, etc.

What he said. You can use multi binds such as shift, ctrl, and alt on all other quickslot key rows but the main row.

You can also use macros if you have a keyboard and/or mouse that supports it. I use a G15 keyboard for that. If you consider yourself a real gamer you might want to look into getting a keyboard with programmable keys. They aren't that expensive anymore. I'm highly tempted to pick up a razer naga mouse just for the extra programmable buttons.
 

Worthington

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Activate Bottom Center quickbar. Bind shift-combos to that.
Activate Right quickbar. Bind ctrl-combos to that.

I have my Companion bar on the left. The different rows of the original bar I only use for warzone-only setups, etc.

You rock! I had the bottom bar enabled but it just hadn't clicked with me that I could hold down shift and a button to bind the combo. Awesome.