Squad Leader Archive

Dang.. you sir, are all OVER the boards, Vem!

This news *really* makes me want to go home and play my secondary artisan char. heh. Thanks for maintaining your presence and keeping us informed - it does mean a lot to many of us.

This is ridiculous to the point of stupid. I dropped weaponsmith for this?

WHat the hell was I thinking.

so if you are in a group of elite professions iwth capped combat xp, you still will get no xp?

I hear that !

I was in the crystal caves tonight and was lucky enough to be able to lead a FULL group. I was getting 2000 exp at most when no one used pets. I was there about 10 hours and half filled a first lvl box. I only had a full group about 2 hours. Then everyone left.. I was left witha group of 4 people.

The worst part was when a fellow squad leader came in and needed xp. He couldnt get any at all and his small group couldnt get any looting rights at all. I felt really bad and it made the entire atmosphere of the night turn really sour for everyone there. His group disbanded and they all commited suicide and left. Shortly there after people started leaving and the group was down to about 4-10 people over the next several hours. At the point when the group got down to 4 people I was getting around 200-400 exp per Force crystal kill.

WE need to be able to get decent exp with a small group of maybe 5 people. Trying to get a group of 20 people together when it's not Friday or Saturday night is 100% impossible on alot of servers. I can walk Dantioone on Tues midafternoon and not see a soul for 3-4 hours. They also need to add in xp from pets because alot fo people demand to have thier pets in the group so they can monitor thier health on the tab bar.

At this rate it will literally take 6 months to master if I am dedicated. They need to up the exp rate at least 10-15 x. I was given this master in a random role of a holocron and I see no benefit from this profession at all.
For people that choose this profession in hopes that a squad leader could enhance a group-- I dunno, I'm really sorry it hasn't worked out that way. Why can't they do something as simple as make it so a group member does 10-20% more dmg and defends 10-20% more if they are lead by a squad leader ? That would make us useful.

My gf is begging me to play Final Fantasy or Horizons.. Man please get this game fixed before you add more eye candy. I really had way more fun in beta. I have done every single badge. Mastered 6 professions and now I've hit a brick wall and all anyone says is..it's being looked into. nice.....

I have a verbal confirmation that the XP forumla will be changed to be more lenient on smaller groups. I will try to push them to do this ASAP, while they are extremely willing to help us.

They should really give you a badge for putting up with all this CaptainMemnox. If my level of frustraion is this high after 2 days of doing sqaudleader I can't imagine how you have put up with being ignored this long.

Thanks for sticking you neck out and hopefully getting us all a profession that is fun to play.

PS-- Anything said about pets ? I dont see them ever leaving groups.. thoughts ?

opps.. I meant Vemnox.. 4 am does that to my brain...

If they don't allow us to gain at least some meaningful SLexp solo with pets, and decent exp with other group members and their pets, I think that is just wrong.

Reason being that solo exp even in RP terms should not be something negative to a SL. I mean wouldn't you rather have a squad leader that has gotten some experience somewhere rather then having none? One that know's how their weapons work, how mobs respond, and other general combat knowledge? Leaving pets out or making it have any effect on our exppenalizes us for wanting to better our overall character.

Thanks for all that Captain !

I hope you will be listen by the devs...

Combat xp is 10% of weapon xp, it's also one of the hardest to accumulate next to getting Master CH using a rancor only, which wont work anymore anyways. But still, trying to get 450000 points of Squad Leader xp based on Combat XP is terrible! The old formula worked great! And if they're going to make it harder to master Squad Leader than it is to master Commando why can't they make Squad Leader's more valuable? Do more damage or increase all damage done by 2 or 3 or 4 or reduce damage taken by 2 or 3 or 4? What about experience gained is boosted while with a Squad Leader? Or buffs Half the effectiveness of Doctor/Entertainer buffs are applied and maintained as long as grouped with a Squad Leader? Someting dynamically important.

Revert to what it was at the start.

Until then this is a "You don't contribute to the high end party and the high end party doesn't need your paltry contribution and you can't earn mediocre let alone good experience without being in a high end party." situation. Right now the choice is to have friends be pitiful and tolerate our mediocrity so we cab furthur reduce our abilities through advancing into Squad Leader or lead large parties against things that aren't worth fighting in large parties.

When they get around to making the class viable then maybe they can justify a NERF. As it stands this is insult to injury. I haven't been one to complain much and have tolerated our limitations on the hope that we'll get fixed some day. My stand of "Well, at least we stink so bad we are NERFproof" has been disproven and I find this to be... shocking.

Feliz

I Am alway's in a group from 1-20 i don't care i need that exp. 5 Day's ago i was Slowly geting the xp i needed to work my way up theSL tree.I didn't take this tree Because i had to i took it because I wanted tobt the leader of a Group.Ther more and more i get the skill's of the skill tree theless and less valuable i become. What is the whole point behind Making this Great prof. Worse and worse when all we do islead Group's of player's.Groupingis what the DEV's want."Get in group's they said, You wont die as much." OkI understand that, but if your a SL and you try to get into a group with Squad LEader above your head Peo-le ignore you BecauseourProffesion is usless right now. Unles you area Master in one of the combat proffesion's No one want's anything to do with us. SO i say Fix SL and more people will not only group. But they will search out SL's For their skill's. And it will Become the Proff. it was Ment to BE.......my 2 cent's

ignore the spelling i just woke up.