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Nope i dont believe that.

I still believe it will be all your used skill points, on a 1 for 1 basis.

If they change it to Combat and Weapons xp...then I haven't heard about it. The problem with this, is that you would then have to convert the weapons xp into whatever specific xp a profession requires...that in itself can get complicated, and be more of a target to a nasty bug...

As far as we've been told, its skill point based.

I wish they would give a straight answer on how they plan to do this, as certain professions/templates are going to be screwed on account of current requirements that will not equal out in the CU.

Commandos and BH in particular. If they do not allow us to translate full trees in marksman into full trees of an elite profession, we will be set back behind a current no hybrid combination post CU.

I really want to see how this goes.

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Ordo-Malleus wrote:

ok heres my take on this situation

say im a master commando now pre curb

post curb ill be a 0444 commando

say i capped my xp like a smart commando pre curb, thats 900k in the bank

i respend my points and im a 4444 commando

now im 100k shy of mastery!!!!

WHY?!!!

not cool at all

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No, I think you are dead wrong on this. As far as I know, it has nothing to do with XP in itself.

If you are a master commando pre-CU, you will still be a commando post-CU. The differens will be that you can take most of marksman and "move" those skill points to other profession, since the pre-req for commando is lowerd. For the elite professions, you will have to move points from you existing profs to accomodate the increased pre-reqs, but I do not belive it will just auto-drop skills for you.

Reading more into this, I see that you are worried that if a box changes XP type, you think it will be auto-dropped when the CU hits. I am confident it will not be so, since an earned box will not go away unless you surrender it yourself.
Why you ask. That's becouse once XP is spent on a box, that XP can never be gotten back. So it stands no reason as to auto-drop boxes just becouse they, post-CU, have a different XP type.

Just speculation...but when discussing Jedi health (whether we'd get 3K) the Jedi correspondent was told that Jedi would get the 3K too based on how much "combat XP" they'd spent...so that full Knights would get 3K health.

Since Jedi only have "Jedi XP" I took "combat XP" to mean not "Combat XP" as you see it in game presently (which you earn for throwing grenades) but a more generic term "combat-related XP". The devs are not typically precise when they speak, and frequently confuse terms like this if you read the Knowledge Base.

Since the non-combat classes are not changing in the CU, it makes sense that "crafting-related XP" won't be tradable in a respec.

Otherwise their statement that Jedi who've spent combat XP getting 3 K health, and that all Knights would have 3K health, are meaningless.

If they do this respec like they did the Jedi one after Pub 9, then you will essentially be trading skill boxes for skill boxes...rather than XP strickly speaking. They weighted each skill box in our old system by roughly how much XP it took to get there, so that higher boxes were worth more (and cost more to "buy"). The system seemed to work pretty smoothly, as I never noticed any major complaints.

Message Edited by Jeren_Sehn on 04-11-2005 05:18 AM