The Old Republic Launch Thread

[John Doe]

I hit level 25 yesterday, where does one go to acquire a personal speeder?

[Super Buu]

The planet you're at at 25 sells em I think, as well as the fleet. You can train speedering at your class trainer I believe.

I'm level 20 now, my operative's 14.

[Vad]

Hit 28 today. Finishing the quests on Tatooine. SO MANY OF THEM!

Rose is correct. Your class trainer sells speeder training for 40k. The speeder itself is 8k.

[John Doe]

GOOD THING I HAVE 60K LYING AROUND.

Where is the speeder sold? What kind of vender?

[Super Buu]

It's the guy with all the speeders.

[Belle Hibiki]

Goddamn it, BioWare.

I don't wanna have to play WoW for a couple hours during downtime!

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[Rafael]

Lol, all you 30s. I've got 4 13-14s. Can't stop myself from running BT over and over again

[John Doe]

Wewt! Managed to finish my last quest and get to a cantina before the servers exploded. EVEN MORE EXPERIENCE!!111

[Vad]

Lol, all you 30s. I've got 4 13-14s. Can't stop myself from running BT over and over again

Wait until Hammer Station.

[Super Buu]

I've actually been letdown with everything after Black Talon (and the Republic's equivalent). I was like shit - all the instances are gonna have lots of interactive choices, so awesome! And then I got to Hammer Station and was like ... any time now ... until I got to the end and was like oh, it's just like a WoW instance, no choices D= Don't get me wrong, they're good, but Black Talon set the bar high and the only other two I've played, Hammer Station and Athiss, didn't have that same interactive magic.

[Rafael]

awww...Black Talon is so amazingly good though

Even if it refuses to drop my chest even after doing it with the same dude 6 times in a row. 6 inquisitor chests, so lame

[Belle Hibiki]

Yeah, Black Talon was so amazingly awesome that the other instances are kind of a let down compared to it is one of my mental marks against the game.

Like yeah, objectively the other instances are perfectly serviceable, but the first flashpoint is so incredible that you're left wanting with the others, because you're aware of just how good they can be.

As far as Heroic quests go, Fall of Locusts (Taris - Republic) was pretty brutal. The two bosses in it were, like, nothing - but the trash? Oh God, the trash. Four gold-star mobs with a white-star medic, and I was the only hard CC as a Shadow tank.

My anus still hurts.

[Vad]

I have yet to do Mandalorian Raiders or Cad...Cad-something. The 28+ Flash Point. I've had 100% fun over all. The game is extremely challenging and I love it.

Like Belle said. Four gold NPC's and a silver? Try aggroing a second group half way through the fight -mistakenly-. I couldn't sit for a day. xD

[Alura]

I'm level 19 right now, with a level 12 floating around too. I'm an alt-aholic, so I play on a lot of peeps. I've yet to make someone on "the Chubbs server" so I might need someone to talk me into it.

[Super Buu]

Do it because playing with friends is the whole point of MMOs.

[John Doe]

I'm still not sold on the idea.

[Anzekay]

Greg finally convinced me to just buy this via amazon.

They sent me the pre-order code about 5 min after I went to bed, lol

[Orion]

Does anyone know if the lag is bad for nonUS people? If its like LoL then that's fine. Otherwise I should play Skyrim until it gets released locally.

[Anzekay]

Yeah well we don't know if they will do local servers even once they actually release it here.

And I bet they wont. I seriously doubt they will.

If you've ever played an MMO on a US-based server before, I expect the latency will be about the same. Which is basically not too bad for everything but hardcore PvP.

[Orion]

True enough. I just have to decide if I get lost in this or Skyrim first (haven't started playing it yet.)