Jedi Archive

Yesterday a friend came back to play for the first time since the much anticipated(cough* BS) CU so we decided to go out and have some fun and get him some practice time with his Jedi.

We decided to start by killing some krayts for fun,because obviously there really no reason to actually kill them.So we are both running Aura and Infusion macros,we beat the dragon down and discuss how it went since he hadn't played his Jedi since the CU.Then I happen to look at my purple bar of fun and its WAY down from where it should be.Then I proceed to tell him about the trouble Ive been having with healing.Things like "you cannot heal that target" even though its just me fighting one creature/npc.Or how the night before I was killing a krayt had almost full health and BOOM in about 3 seconds he killed me.It was almost as if my defenses had gone bye bye.

Then we decided to go try some PvP.After our first duel the comment was made "This is like going from driving a sportscar to driving a U-Haul truck" That pretty much sums my feelings as well.

Next duel I beat him,he gets incappeed and then he's DEAD.No DB by me,no timer for DB,he's just a corpse laying there.I proclaim "must be another bug".That statement was used a few times during our little session.

The other thing I noticed was that it seemed like my action cost was up.I used my usual foods and yet it seemd like not very far into the fight I was stuck using my default attck because I had no action.Same with him just mine seemd a little worse.

Edited : almost forgot the one duel i was taking no damage for at least 30 seconds.i stood there,default attacked,looked through my inventory for something,never healed.came back and i was still at 80%health.The saber hitting me is only about 5 points from being maxed out.No reason I should have been taking no damage.It was truly a strange bug fest.

So between FC being out of control,creatures by-passing defenses and an unexplained DB it went pretty well.Oh I almost forgot I broke the B-U-and G keys while we were talking.

Now my feelings about Pearls.

Back when they actually dropped I hunted Krayts A LOT.Now apparently someone at SOE hasn't tried to equip the PERFECT saber but they seem to think that if premiums start dropping that everyone will have a perfect saber.This is not the case.

To make a perfect saber I would estimate takes a minimum of 50 pearls(mostly premium and occasionally flawless)but usually much more.Now in the old system if I were to go out solo with my swordsman it would take 20-30 minutes to kill one.Then HOPE it had a pearl,the PRAY it was a premium.So it obviously toook a great amount of time to get enough pearls to produce a good saber.Then I started to help Jedi get pearls.The two of us would go out,I would tank and the would deal the damage.The kicker was if you werent a good tank the Jedi could be killed VERY quickly.This was mostly true from Giant and Ancient krayts because of the KD they applied.Some days one or two pearls was a good day in 6-8 hours of hunting.(2-2.5 buff sessions)

If I remember correctly It would take about 6 minutes? at best to kill one depending on the situation.The other part of the equation was just finding them,which at times was tough.Then there was the down time for the jedi to regen their force and time for me to drag another dragon the 150-200 meters to the killzone.Praying the whole time that the spawn wouldn't go poof.Especially a Giant spawn because they could get somewhat rare at times.

I can recall a period where myself and a Jedi hunted for 3 weeks,probably 5 days a week and 5-10 hours a day.He never quite got to a perfect saber.I have another friend that has tuned hundreds of pearls and never quite made it.(pre cu)

So now SOE seems concerned about keeping the premiumpearls rare.Well they always were until they started creating herds of krayts instead of keeping them rare and making them soloable by everyone.Seems to me theres really no way everyone is going to get that perfect saber unless SOE does something to cause it.(not saying everyone should have a perfect one just that the opportunity should be there)

So as with most things in this game SOE screwed it up and if they would just go back to the original system they would hear a lot fewer cries from their PAYING players.

Especially when theres a cap on the amount of damage it can do

- I support keeping & balancing the original combat system You can too
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