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Thread: New difficulty levels for the Corellian Corvette
We need dungeons that scale, both in difficulty and reward. I'd love to have a dungeon I could do alone without having to be an 'uber l33t dUdE'...and at the same time, we do need some high end content. This would kind of fill both voids...though I do look forward to seeing a solo dungeon some day, with lots of twists and turns and mind bends, with a nifty cosmetic prize at the end perhaps. I'd love that.
David
If this works out, and the "pocket" dungeon actually works... will they retro the other's (Geo Cave, Warren, etc)? As it is now, the Geo cave is nothing more than a dank campsite festering with all of the greediest players in the game who aren't AFK camping the Bat Cave on Rori. Greed so thick, you could cut it with a blunt racoon.
SWG-Runesabre wrote:
I've solo'd the Geonosian Dungeon and the Acklay myself now, I guess, 30 to 40 times. I posted how to do it in the Game Guide Forums, you can check my posting history for the write-up. It uses no exploits, only a careful analysis of the Lab monsters behavior and using two Rifleman specials, Take Cover and Conceal Shot. When I kill the Acklay, it does not aggro me and I take no damage from other monsters in it's Lair.
Using AE abilities to cause the Acklay's minions to attack the Acklay will no longer work once Publish 7 goes live.
Many of the NPCs in the dungeon have new art. I'm not aware of any of said NPCs using new weapons, but there is a new weapon schematic that is a reward for ocmpleting the dungeon.
Are there 9 badges for completing the 9 various quests or just 1 Corellian Corevette badge?
Nine badges.
Second question: What kind of loot can we expect? I've heard of a new speeder, a lovely 2 seater, but nothing else.
Rebel Marine factional armor. AV-21 Power Plant (Necessary ingredient to build the AV-21 speeder). Berserker rifle schematic. AV-21 speeder schematic. Rebel shirt (with small insignia on chest). And so forth...
To all the people afraid of new instances, I'm sure the cap is quite high. Yes, you will most likely get this message if the Corvette's are all 'full':
"The Corvette is currently out of transport range. You will not be able to travel to it at this time."
But, remember, the dungeons are only an hour long.. people won't be sitting up there all day (though a group with a lot of tickets could probably reenter it over and over pretty easily).
As far as the difficulty goes, factional content has been severely lacking for a long time and I'm happy to finally see something of a challenge in game concerning it(though I still believe this dungeon is soloable).
J2xC wrote:
Skedoozy wrote:
J2xC wrote:
unless this is harder than the geonosian dungeon it'll be soloable. Probably pretty tough with warcry gone, but since I doubt any of the humanoids would intimidate, shouldn't be too bad. (P.S. I'm actually hoping its really hard... need some good group content)
Im sorry, but anyone that can SOLO the Geonosian Dungeon is either exploiting or.. um.. exploiting. For one thing it is never empty. There are ALWAYS people there camping it. No one could truly solo it. Now let all the uber1337 wannabes come and tell me different.
Here's what I do: I wear composite armor with 80+ resistances. I'm a master swordsman, master brawler, with some medic skills, and TKA meditation. I get buffed. I also have an acklay power hammer(5.9 250-750'ish)several 2h melee speed tapes allowing me to attack at the speed cap(so I can hit mind pool for upwards of 4k a hit, or spin attack to hit each mob for over 2k damage).
I generally go there early on(when it's not packed... I've been there alone on several occasions) To handle geonosians, I hit Center of Being, run past all of em to get them to attack me in melee(where they can't use those nasty stun guns), then I spin until they're all dead(takes about 10-15 spins due to random pool damage and low accuracy on hammer... so 10-15 seconds). Any bleeds, etc I meditate off. Kwi's and klikniks I intimidate and warcry, and then mind hit till they die. Acklay is the only really tough nut, and my fights with him can last a long time due to his intimidation... I try to get a knockdown+warcry combo in him, stick the heaviest mind-bleed I can on him, and just hammer him in the mind as much as possible. It often helps that other stuff around aggros on him rather than me, but I don't rely on that.
Simple enough? I've seen CM's exploiting his ai in such a way he aggro's everything else in the cave, and a number of other similar things, but the place can be soloed legitimately by some characters, and I've done so a few times. Also, I hate 1337-d00dz, I don't consider myself uber, and I'm not particularly keen on PvP. I'm not going to intentionally limit myself either though.
No elite professionshould be able to solo these "dungeons", that some are capable to do so just shows how broken and unbalancedthe combat profs are.
I am in waiting position now and hope the upcoming combat balance will iron out all of this.
A Jedi player was apparently unable to enter the neutral Corvette with a group over the weekend.
Is this a bug, or intended?
Developer response? Runesaber?
A question,
The mission ends when the player with the ticket dies...so what about resurrection?
I hope this place is tough. The geo cave was a solid step in the right direction in terms of difficulty. I'd like to see more of the same if not more difficult form this new one.
Thx SOE... New Content is a GOOD THING! 
Skedoozy wrote:
J2xC wrote:
unless this is harder than the geonosian dungeon it'll be soloable. Probably pretty tough with warcry gone, but since I doubt any of the humanoids would intimidate, shouldn't be too bad. (P.S. I'm actually hoping its really hard... need some good group content
Im sorry, but anyone that can SOLO the Geonosian Dungeon is either exploiting or.. um.. exploiting. For one thing it is never empty. There are ALWAYS people there camping it. No one could truly solo it. Now let all the uber1337 wannabes come and tell me different.
no. my frend can solo the Geno Dungeon. he doesn't exploit. its called having a good set of buffs, armor, food, drink, etc and being a dark jedi guardian. thats all.