Originally posted by catlana

Originally posted by vadess40

Originally posted by gaou

to anyone interested in the new op, i suggest checking out darth haters preview of it.  they werent able to complete but from what they got through, sounds like alot of fun and pretty long

 

http://www.darthhater.com/articles/feature/23310-operations-preview-scum-and-villainy

 

My raid group ran through the SM version of the ops. I'll be honest it is a tough operation that will require a lot of strategic planning. However, it was tonnes of fun and really makes both my character and how to do ops fresh. 

One thing I'll say is that there are 5 main bosses in the ops that count towards your achievement system,  and 2 mini-bosses. Though the 2 mini bosses might as well be main bosses because they are toughies, sometimes more so than the main bosses. It will be interesting to see how different groups do the giant puzzle for one of the mini-boss fights.

I am glad to hear that Bioware decide to make the operation tough. PVE content without challenge gets boring very fast.  

Yeah, my original crew pretty much quit because the launch OPs were a bit on the easy side.

Frankly Armor has a lot of interesting orange sets but all of the Synth sets look like Franciscan monks of various parts of the middle ages.  *YAWN*  So if they didn't give Armormech any new orange sets, no big -- I could really see them just giving Synth the extra love.  Bop over to Tor-Fashion and check out the armor sets if you don't believe me.  It's a dramatic difference.

Not that the folks who do armor design for SWTOR couldn't learn something by hiring some fashion entrepreneurs from Second Life (which I believe AO did and it really improved their couture...heh...  Either that or they just copy-botted a bunch of designs, which would make me sad... ;).

But yeah, armor design in SWTOR?  NOT THEIR STRONG POINT.  omg.  Hire a RISD grad boyz.  My ghod.  What is wrong with you people?  I come from several generations of both engineers and master tailors and military -- and I could at least supervise better designed better aesthetic progression-oriented "cool" mix-and-match paperdoll/ragdoll clip-averse meshy flexi whatever sorta gear within canon than your folks are putting out and I can't draw. (but ok, yeah, been doing interactive graphics since 1978-ish...;)

But yes, I want better armor choices, and I want re-skinnable armor via the cash shop er cartel market!  And LOTRO-style outfit panels would be awesome too... And...and...

Sigh...GW2 is looking less and less like my backup game... (not that I get any of that there either...but at least I don't feel like I'm paying to not have it... with the less and less time I have to game right now...)