Jump to content

Despairity

Members
  • Posts

    30
  • Joined

Reputation

10 Good
  1. Maybe what we need is a "General Discussion - Haters" and a "General Discussion - Everyone else".
  2. The OP is not opposed to constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is to be encouraged. Emphasis on the "constructive". I think it's the a) criticism with no constructive part, and/or b) ad hominems. ad ho·mi·nem   [ad hom-uh-nuhm ‐nem, ahd-] adjective 1. appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason. 2. attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument.
  3. Exactly. Just because someone says they like the game or some aspect of the game does not give you license to flame them and call them names. Just go away. I hope you just get banned from these forums because you make these forums useless to everyone else or at least a place where no one else wants to go.
  4. Maybe. Then poor agro control is a good thing as it makes the fights more interesting at my current level. Perhaps it should be incorporated by design.
  5. I have not played those two. I didn't claim TOR fight mechanics are great or even the bestest ever, only that I liked it so far. And I refuse to publish a post that is just another whinefest.
  6. Only GW, WOW, Rift. I specifically rule out "tank and spank" when I mentioned silly fight mechanics.
  7. I am only level 28 so maybe I am wrong here, but I like the TOR fight mechanics for heroics. What I like about them (compared to other MMOs that I have experience with) is that the flow of battle changes during long fights. For example, I play a sniper. Before the battle starts I get into position and crouch. The operative saps someone then the tank moves in. I get a few shots off but before long one of the bad guys engages me for melee. Sometimes the tank can pick him up but not always. When the tank can't re-establish agro, I am forced to stun/vibroknife my assailant then finish with a flashbang or just electrocute/stun my assailant and in either case reposition myself. This continues until one side wins. This is different from other MMO fights where the tank moves in, grabs all agro, and all the baddies glom on to the tank and ranged DPS just has to sit there and snipe targets. The only complication comes in for DPS if they have to use some special ability at a particular time (e.g., interrupts) or do some "simon says" silly fight mechanic (jump when the boss says blah, run when he says something else, stop all actions when he says yet something else, etc.). Maybe things change as we level, but at the present time, I am liking the dynamic flow of TOR combat.
  8. This claim: "All things that Rift had working in MUCH better state than TOR" is not correct. I have been on Rift since day one of launch and there was no LFG tool at all. Also many guild features were missing. Also, remember how bad Rift's first attempt at a LFG tool was? People gave up on it until they fixed it. It is more accurate to say that SOME things that Rift had were working better than in TOR. But having said that, yes, Rift was better implemented on day one than TOR. But having said that, I am enjoying TOR way more than I did (and do) Rift. Rift is technically the better game in my opinion but for me I have more fun in TOR so it is in TOR that I will spend more of my time.
  9. Seriously. I mean how many times does he really need to repaint my cabin "the same color only fresher" or tell me that he has improved drive performance by 0.00008% or something like that? Where is that droid's off switch again?
  10. I only have one quest I cannot abandon (I am lvl 27 at the moment). But I am very wary of this bug and finish all quests so as to not accumulate non-abandonable quests in my log. I have a ton of heroic quests in my log that I don't do because I can almost never find anyone to do them with (I made the mistake of choosing a 'light' server). And once they turn gray I am no longer interested in them. So when I run out of room I abandon those. I recently ran into a quest on Tatooine that will not complete until after I complete some other 'bonus' quest (sorry I cannot remember the name off the top of my head). I did the bonus quest but I can't complete it until I finish the first quest. Catch-22. I already filed a ticket for it.
  11. OMG that was awesome and so true. I especially liked Grammar for Gamers.
  12. Thanks for that link! I am sure all my questions will have answers there. It's just that it is not obvious to me what a particular mod will do if I drop it in an already modded piece of armor. Will the result be better or worse? I have no idea so I am scared to do it.
  13. Ok, I have a question. I have orange items that have mods in them. For example it might say "Armor(22)". What does that even mean? Next, I can make mods as cybertech. Those mods say things like "Cunning +5". How does something like "Cunning +5" correlate with something like "Armor(22)"? I know armor and cunning are two diff things so this example is bogus but I can't remember the corresponding terms off hand. What I mean is basically there is some mod for cunning that will be of the form "SomeName(somenumber)" and how does that correspond to "Cunning +N"?
  14. I wonder if a significant proportion of the negativity crowd simply feel threatened by another MMO? I know a few WoW players who are SO MASSIVELY invested in that game (6+ lvl 85s with top tier gear implying literally years of time, etc) that when a new MMO comes along they get a character to level 4 or something and quit and claim it sucks for <insert favorite reason here>. I just wonder how much of that is going on here as every MMO I have played from the early days of its release suffer from most of the issues people complain about here... even WoW. And yeah, despite the bugs (my latest one is that my character's green eyes suddenly became hazel I don't know why - and I hate hazel) I still adore this game.
  15. WoW has something now called "Transmog". Why can't we have that so that we can make the epic gear look like our favorite orange gear?
×
×
  • Create New...