SWTOR

[Air]

Is there anyone planning on playing Star Wars: the Old Republic?  Early access is starting tomorrow and release is on 12/20.  I was just wondering if there's anyone else that will be trying it out.  I'll be playing a Sith Juggernaut ( Warrior) on the Imperial side as my main. 

There's an unofficial server list coming out now, a list can be found at: http://www.darthhater.com/articles/swtor-news/19789-guild-deployment-server-assignments.  I haven't decided on a server yet, but I was thinking maybe: Darth Bandon, Canderous Ordo, or Grand Master Zym.  All 3 are pve east servers, there are no central servers.

If anyone's interested, here's a good FAQ about SWTOR: http://liberi-fatali.net/the-old-republic/star-wars-the-old-republic-guide-and-faq/.

[Tony]

Let me know what server you're gonna be on. I'm hoping to get my early invite email tonight :-)

[Lord Entropy]

I don't really know anything about that game, so thanks for the faq.  Not sure I'll be playing - I barely have time for WoW as it is, but it does sound cool.

[Air]

Early invites don't start till tomorrow at 7:00 am est

Takes four people to create a guild on a server, which is the size of one group.

[Lynette]

I'll probably try it, although I'm not sure how much I can put into it right now.  Let us know what server you are rolling?

[Air]

I'm thinking Canderous Ordo. Seems like it'll be a decent sized server with guilds more towards questing and casual amount of raiding.  No big guilds on there as far as I can tell.

[Air]

To help figure out about the classes.  Here's a comparison from a wow perspective.

Jedi Sage / Sith Sorcerer - caster

• Seer/Corruption (Healer) - Disc Priest + Riptide/Tidal Waves + emergency Lifetap. Uses "mana" (thanks boredlol)
• Telekinetics/Lightning (dps) - Fire mage rotation /w slower cast times + Ele shaman (thanks boredlol)
• Balance/Madness (dps) - Shadow Priest/Lock (thanks Boredlol)

Jedi Shadow / Sith Assassin - stealth class

• Kinetic combat / Darkness (Tank) - DK style tank with death grip - Less self healing but more mitigation
• Infiltration / Deception - Rogue (heavy positional focus) + enh shaman due to ranged force abilities
• Balance / Madness - More enh sham than rogue - heavy dot focus

Jedi Guardian / Sith Juggernaut - single lightsaber

• Defense / Immortal (tank) - Prot war - Most defensive CD's
• Vigilance / Vengeance (dps) - Arms war without MS debuff iirc - fair amount of focus on dots
• Focus / Rage (dps) - heavy hitting war with a lot of utility

Jedi Sentinel / Sith Marauder - dual wield

• Watchman / Annihilation (dps) - Fury war with bleed focus
• Combat / Carnage (dps) - Fury war with multiple sources of damage on strikes (fast hitter)
• Focus / Rage (dps) - Heavy hitting utility fury spec

Gunslinger / Sniper - heavy use of cover mechanics and ranged

• Sharpshooter / Marksmanship (dps) - Marksman hunter+ vanilla fire mage (thanks Yshaana) - no pet
• Saboteur / Engineering (dps) - Survival hunter - no pet
• Dirty fighting / Lethality (dps) - AoE, Bleeds, and ranged - Frost DK/hunter (Thanks Boredlol)

Scoundrel / Operative - stealth class

• Sawbones / Medicine (healer) - Resto druid but using energy instead of mana
• Scrapper / Concealment (dps) - Feral druid - Hard hitting + bleed effects + heavy resource management
• Dirty Fighting / Lethality - Feral druid with more utility + better bleeds + heavy resource management

Commando / Mercenary - Ranged

• Combat medic / Bodyguard (healer) - Holy Pally + Earth shield. Uses Ammo/Heat mechanic instead of mana
• Gunnery / Arsenal (dps) - Hard hitting Ranged DPS with important resource management and debuff stacking - Think Heavy Armor Arcane Mage (thanks L1M3)
• Assault Specialist / Pyrotech (dps) - More dot focus than gunnery

Vanguard / Powertech - medium ranged (thanks L1M3)

• Shield Specialist / Shield Tech (tank) - Pally tank w/o HoPo but more dot focused - mid ranged tank
• Tactics / Advanced Prototype (dps) - Ret pally/Frost dk for quick movement and heavy hits
• Assualt specialist / Pyrotech (dps) - More dot focused Ret Pally/unholy dk

[Air]

My character name is Crematoria on Canderous Ordo server.

[Kajula]

As soon as I get my invite I'll join you...It might be a couple days,  I preordered only about a month ago.   

[Lord Entropy]

After looking over some of the info about SWTOR, I definitely want to try out this game.  The wife though, reasonable as ever, suggests that I waiting until after the holidays and our move to Florida.  Knowing my ability to get sucked-in, that's probably a good idea.

Maybe there will be fewer bugs then too.

[Lynette]

Seems there is an xp exploit with PvP, folks already max lvl (50) in less than 24 hours.  Tough way to launch a new MMO.

[Air]

Space combat is fun as hell, especially when you can buy some upgrades for it.  Exp, and credits from doing the missions are still really nice even after the nerfs.

[LostWander]

My brother and I are on Darth Malak server on the Republic side. We were going to be on Canderous Ordo but is full and we don't want wait time. My character name is Lostwander a Jedi Consular who going to be a tank type. My brother is also a Jedi Consular but he going healing.

[Lord Entropy]

Now that I'm up and running I bought this game.  Started a mercenary on Carderous Orb - name is "Entropic."  Only level 11 atm, but so far it's fun.

[Deadlymijo]

Ive been playing on a west coast server and there just not very populated so i have moved to Can(whatever) ordo server and wow population people do exist here