Other than studying my butt off for finals, I’ve been prepping for SWTOR to launch in just a few days. I posted not long ago about my struggle to decide which class I wanted to play. I ended up going back and forth over a Jedi Consular Shadow vs. a Jedi Consular Sage… and threw both out in favor of a Jedi Knight Guardian. I want to tank and I just like the look at the Guardian. That’s honestly all it boils down to for me.
Just look at their armor. Armor had a huge impact on my class choice.
I think it was the idea of being a Jedi using a traditional 1-hand lightsaber with a robe that hooked me.
Now I’m trying to choose which crafting professions I want. I’m leaning towards a Synthweaving, archeology, and Underworld Trading combination which is, I like, all the stuff I need to make Jedi armor and stuff. I find myself wanting to get into my ship. I want to start my companions working on my crafting and I want to figure it all out — remember, I didn’t touch crafting in beta.
A very common theme among my circle of friends is the struggle to choose the right class. The advanced class system is having more of an impact than I thought. More than just doubling the options of what class to play, people are struggling with being a ranged or melee tank, or wondering which will be the ‘best healer’, ‘best dps’ or even if something will be over/underpowered.
My advice to all of my friends, and all of you, is don’t over think it. Choose the class that looks fun to you for whatever reasons you have thought up. Heck, I chose Jedi Guardian because
1) Looks cool in a hooded robe with armor that reminds me of Obi-wan Kenobi
2) Uses a 1h-Lightsaber
3) Can spec to tank
Switching gears, we have our guild set up and ready to go. We’re not utilizing the auto-deploy feature because we’ll be playing on the RP-PvP server. We welcome anyone interested in joining us.
Lots of excitement in the air again. It seems to come and go with each new MMORPG. The excitement feels different this time, as players in general become more aware of reality and jaded gamers become more prevalent. I caution anyone to get too excited, since nothing lives up to what our imaginations concoct, but Bioware makes quality products and SWTOR is a good game with a healthy future.
Now the waiting game begins as we try to guess what day Bioware will grant our keys access to the early start.
“Choose the class that looks fun to you for whatever reasons you have thought up”
Excellent advice.
Can’t speak for SW:TOR in particular since I had no interest in playing it until I got to check out the beta – and then I had even less! But that’s solid advice for every new game.
You don’t know which class will be the “best” and which will be “gimped”.
You don’t know which class will be overplayed and which will be underplayed.
Even if you did, they could flip around in a single patch worth of heavy-handed buffs and nerfs.
Just play what you think will be fun.
(oh, and if you’re playing a holy trinity game, don’t play anything that doesn’t have any options beyond dps!)
Play what’s “fun?” Blasphemy! You must play that which the “experts” have declared to be “optimal” and discard all other options! /sarcasm
I think that’s one of the best things about getting into a new MMO. While of course it is just a matter of time before the theorycrafters boil everything down into the “best” options, in the meantime we can at least pretend those things don’t exist and just play whatever class/spec/faction/alignment that makes our little gamer hearts go “pitter, patter.” I actually made my mind up months ago about my class and spec, and haven’t let anything I’ve read change my mind. If I get in the game and it isn’t fun to play, THEN I will look at my options. But that’ll be my call, not because some forum troll says my spec sucks.
Look forward to seeing everyone in the Galaxy Far, Far Away! 🙂
I’ve already been sent the manual/semi-Theorycraft guide and totally disregarded it.
I’m going to play a Sith Sith Marauder with my old WAR PvP mates.
With my local mates I’ll be playing an Cyborg Alliance Trooper.
I know what ships they get and that’s all I care to know at this stage. In theory I will get access tomorrow as I ordered early August.
Since the game is still officially a week away I’m wondering if I will have the ability to cancel my order should I find I don’t like it!
My weekend preparations consisted of grinding a lot of rep with my wife, getting a haircut, and stockpiling clean clothes for the upcoming marathon. 😉
Tick, tick, tick, tick………………Damn my clock is moving sooooooooooo slow.
I plan on playing a Sith Sorc Healer. A class I have never played before until I played one in beta. I played a healer in beta only because I did not want to spoil the other class story lines. It was just so much fun I have to play one to level 50.
The crafting is ………. well good enough I guess. Keen your not going to like the crafting very much. First off your very close to level ten before you get to craft. Second you character levels at a much faster rate then your crafting. So in short you won’t be wearing most of the items you craft. I plan on making healing pots for a living which will always come in handy for a healer and my alts.
Bar Fridge full, check
Trash can empty, check
New Batteries in place, check
Vent working properly, check
Early access notification, ????????
Still can’t decide if I should get it or not. Know hardly anything about the game as I haven’t been following it, but I know a ton of people planning on getting it. If I preorder today I doubt I’ll get early access at all.
Argh, I just don’t know what to do.
Im still torn between Imperial Agent Operative or Sith Inquisitor Assasin. Both are similar so im in a quandry it seems. I like the looks of the SA better but I liked the story of the IA more so im torn still.
@thomas not true.. in the beta weekend i was synthweaving and was in full epics the entire time playing after level 10ish ofc. crafting is a money sink though ya.. you have to make stuff reverse engineer it etc to get the epic recipes but crafting stuff is def better then stuff from quests.
Also a lot of end game armor/weps are crafted.. like you get the mats from operations.
Double post sorry but forgot to say that biochem and cybertech will prob be the most popular crafts though as they are good for everyone.. biochem may not be as great for a healer as a tank though.
WOW there is hope then Bartillo!!!!! Thanks for the info. I had a real hard time getting mats and so crafting was real slow.
Smuggler all the way for me 🙂
FYI:
US East RP-PvP Server – Jung Ma
US West RP-PvP Server – Ajunta Pall
There’s some “interesting” Server names (US):
Chuundar (here to “Chunder” is to vomit).
The Fat Man
Space Slug
Alas my Sith Guild told me last night our server is called something like:
Lucaseen
Sounds like an extract of George…
We’re on the Jung Ma server. US East RP-PvP.
For the moment the 1st day of Early access will have only 4 waves (this could change). It is extremely unlikely for anyone to get an invitation if they did not submit their codes within the 1st week (July 21st-27th). Three waves of invites have gone out and they are only up to July 24th (there was a large preorder spike for the 21st though)
They have extended the invite cycle to two more waves (total of 6). Wave 5 just went out!
I must be wave 20 or something.
Graev was wave 1.
Yeah…not real happy I waited until November to pre-order atm 🙁
Trying to pretend 5 days early access is the norm still but not doing a real good job.
I got into wave 5 and registered on July 26th. I bet the first day will consist of the first week of registrants.
In the meantime, a guild mate is already level 15.
The staggered launch may not be a bad idea, but splitting guilds is one of the most stupid decision I’ve witnessed in 15+ years of MMO gaming.