Community Q&A – April 20th 2012 Blog Discussion

At one point we - the great guild I belong to - were running two 8man teams, twice a week. Now, we can't run one. We are down to about 5 key players, and around 20 who don't feel like raiding. We had 211 once.

When can we toggle hoods on and off? Are you flippin' serious, BW?

Zepp

I wonder when I'll be able to toggle hoods on my companions... or get better gear for my lovely Kira... or get a reply from the developers about the problems that ACTUALLY MATTER!?!?!?

- State of PvP wasn't addressed
- Class balance wasn't addressed
- Server merge deadlines for low pop servers weren't addressed

The 3 most discussed topics that are causing people to quit aren't being addressed.

1.1 was better than 1.2... just saying.

These now reward appropriate orange weapons for ALL companions. Orange techstaves use barrels as hilts.

There are many players out there who consider "Hood Toggle" an important issue. It is my #1 concern with the game. I personally cannot stomach myself to play my Jedi Knight with his hood up, when I know how much better he looks with it down. Hood Toggle needs to be implemented ASAP.

I seriously wish my biggest problems in SWTOR were art issues involving hoods. That would be fantastic.

This Q&A thing is just a big Farce.

The questions are - in 99% of the cases - senseless and mostly answered weeks or months ago.


Again: Q&A is a Farce par Excellence.

Agreed, this was a worthy question and an interesting answer IMO

I don't know about that...I'd simply bet there are 10,000 things that they have ranked as more important to get out, like grouping widgets and such.

Perhaps the fact that it is the burning item on your list leads you to expect it to be at the same place on everyone's list?

Please understand, I think it is an important RP tidbit and will welcome it. But I'd be quick to see that many other things will come first.

I didn't see the "before," but thanks.

On account storage:

Is there a chance we could transfer bound items through this account storage? If I the player have earned the gear should I not be able to utilize it fully? Currently I have a lot of useless items (generally bind on pick up but also some outdated gear) that I can't use because I wasn't lucky enough to get it for the right character).

At the very least couldn't we see much more utilization of the bind to legacy tag with perhaps signature quest rewards being an exception.

On a related tangeant, any chance we could see more cargo holds (yes I am a hoarder).

On the last question, aim melee weapons:

I dunno about Skadge but the problem I find with Torian is his obscure weapon he uses, a techstaff. Would it not be easier for him to use a vibro weapon/sword which seems close enough in style. Any custom ones for example could be itemized for Torian and Khem (and probably several others), rather than having to itemize for such a rare item.

A vibro weapon could be interpreted as several things (sword/staff/axe) giving a lot of choice. I would consider the only one having to be seperated and distinguished would be a vibroknife as something that is used very differently.