My most difficult fight: on Belsavis, towards the end of the planet, there was a Heroic Mission in some underground area, with one of the toughest bosses behind a force shield, so you couldn't fight him directly (you had to grab a correct key or whatever). But there was a small gap that allowed my character to 'see' the enemy through the shield, so I stated blasting! But then the boss dragged me inside his cage... There was no way I could get out, and there was no way Elara could help me either! Luckyly, I was heal commando, and I was able to survive the whole fight, which lasted several long minutes -probably one of my longest fights. And when I vanquished the boss, I still could not get out, so I teleported myself outside and did the whole thing again, properly this time. Another very difficult fight was Vaylin at the end of KotFE... I had to ask help from guys on the fleet.
Oh I love that quest. But ahhhhh!!! That's crazy tha your survived! Vaylin seems to be one of the top fights people run in to trouble. There's so much going on there.
One class boss I had trouble with was on Tatooine as a Sith Warrior when you had to fight without your companion for the first time since Korriban. I think the part about key binding your defensive abilities will be very beneficial to getting better. Thanks for the tips Swtorista!
In regard to companion level: If you aren't going vault to 50 using a compendium, then it's buy/grind via convos/gifts/missions. If can afford it, max your companion gift/convo legacy perks, get your comp to 40 right away with gifts, this nets you 2 advantages. A) Your comp will be almost at top performance, making their effectiveness much more noticeable. B) Economically it makes all convos/gifts/missions more valuable by default. Since gifts become less effective at higher rank 40+ it's most expensive to use them 40+. So gift up to 40 immediately then use convos/craft missions to get to 50. If your legacy perks are maxed (and not level 75 using influence amplifiers) a single "approve" in a convo has an economic value of ~6500 vs the cost of 10000 for a rank 5 purple gift. This makes the long term economic cost balanced with the upfront cost of gifting to rank 40.
I'm a Vet with tons of experience, but I have to admit - I completely forget about Heroic Moment as soon as I unlock it. Usually I don't even need it and often remove it from my quickbars, but there has been times when I completely flop a fight because I'm way too cocky in a game that I've spent way too many hours in. Same goes for Unity and Sacrifice. Those two are prolly the first Legacy abilities I've ever unlocked and I've never bothered with them. But yeah, in general I don't have any problkems with solo fights. I'm not a "clicker", I know where my Interrupt is, I use my stuns and in general I've been thru any fight numerous times already. Titles like "The One and Only" and "Deathless Champion" should support my claim, but even that doesn't prevent my brain from totally going "DERP! :P" from time to time :D
Haha!!! I was having trouble the other day and a friend reminded me to use Heroic moment... I'm the same way, I had dumped it off my bars! It's one of the reasons I made this list, wanted to hunt down any "obvious" tips us veterans are missing... Unity was one I never even think of using.
After my Sith Inquisitor story finished three weeks ago, I began using Heroic Moment every five minutes....Not because I need it, but because I LOVE FORCE LIGHTNING!! It's the most cinematic of attacks available in the game, imho. That goes Doubly So on my Sentinal pub side where throwing around such obvious Sith power feels extra naughty & exhilarating!!
Great video SWTORISTA and our missions in the Outer Rim territories was a success for the most part. The Empire is making life difficult for us but we continue to make some effort for the Rebellion
I remember that on my first playthrough, back when you still had to equip your companion with proper combat gear and level caps were not a thing, I could not for the love of god manage to clear my main quest on Quesh. I had to get quite a few lvls higher than the enemy npcs in order to win because I kept aggroing way too much of them at the same time. Noob me was so cute
@@Fektthis honestly, the few fights like that where one specific companion is forced was probably a big driver for removing companion gearing all together
@@AuthorReborn I know they ended up adding T7 gear in the staircase before the fight with the emperor because it was such a big deal Strangely enough, that gear is still there (and totally unusable now)
Here is an advice. Get a companion. Set it to heal. Go get a coffee and let it deal with whatever u pull. Nowadays companions are better than most players
I look with disdain upon high-level players still using heal comps outside of MasterMode fp's Beginner warriors should start with a healer, but over time switch to Tank, and eventually to DPS companion as you master your working knowledge of your class defensive buffs, stuns, & area stuns
I can so clearly remember the one heroic 4 quest at Voss with the dark side Voss that gave me such a hard time all those years ago on my first character If every team member did not use their interrupt skill at the right time coordinated after another, you were completely annihilated by the boss Ahhh, I certainly miss those times when the content was more challenging 😁
Cross 111 The one were the boss would redirect the healing the players recieve to himself, and when you beat him you had to destroy two balls of electricity by throwing bombs at them?
Bonus tip for players: try to remain calmed, if you feel the fight is too difficult, exit from the game for a while to calm down and after you did, just try again, using a different strategy, method i usually do
Back in the day I didn’t know about new abilities, so I was running a level 50 Jedi Knight with only the basic attack and healing abilities of a level 1. I was such a noob since SWTOR was my first MMO. One of my friends question why I keep using the same basic attack then he told me LOL.
@swtorista - i want to thank you again. I had already watched this video but your recommendation to watch it again proved fruitful as I did learn a bit more; specifically, the companion influence. I hope that will help me with solo-ing heroic +2's.
See here my metallic friend. Sith Lords are by far the most effective fighting force. You dare to compare yourself to the most powerful group in the galaxy.
Correction : I’ve slaughtered sith before meatbag, Those little crybabies are just has annoying has already slaughtered meatbags. Invite : Would you want to try my blaster next meatbag
Me: I do almost all of these already, but I keep forgetting to read my ability tool tips, something I'm doing now. For those of us who have fought Revan, I found him really difficult to beat. However, some well placed refresh life abilities (reckless combined with legacy force lightning for the Sith inquisitor restored 60% health) helped beat him.
I always use Heroic Moment on Heroic Missions, and often during the major story bosses. There's something satisfying about unleashing lightning and force chokes on Jedi an Sith as a Bounty Hunter.
Inquisitor's Force-Lightning puts HeroicMoment on the map! Never used it deliberately until finishing the Inquisitor story three weeks ago, now I use HM ever five minutes!! Would kill to have quickbar assignment-key made available for these temporary abilities. The lightning just looks so much more theatrical than anything the Jedi Knight gets and I wanna record it without needing to have the big ol hud superimposed over the entire frame!
@@kangkudos1225 I hadn't played the game for a long time and thought they'd removed heroic abilities because of that. It used to be that you had to slot them, there was no pop up for them haha
I remember the first time I played SWTOR I got so angry because I couldn't defeat that flesh raider with the lightsaber, I was so mad I deleted the game lol.
Your Jedi must have been given a defective light saber as a prank... You should get back at them & sign up a flesh-raider for classes in the Jedi Academy!!
I don't know if this term exists in SWTOR, but there is a concept in other MMOs called a "Buff Window" or a more specific term window related to the class and spec it relates to. My Destruction Warlock has her "Infernal Window", I need a resource called soul shards to cast my big nuke spell Chaos Orb, and normally those are generated by my filler spells, but when I cast the spell Summon Infernal it summons a big demon that attacks my enemies, but also passively gives me soul shards. So when I have some other buff that would increase my chaos Bolts I will pop summon infernal and chain chaos Bolts for maximum output. Learn what your buff spells do, what they interact with, and sandbag resources to maximize those high output windows.
Just starter playing this game a few days ago got to say HOW THE HELL DID I DISMIS THIS GAME FOR SO LONG its sooo fun I was instantly addicted to it and your videos are so helpfull keep up the good work 👍
Me and my dad are both huge Star Wars fans, he used to play Star Wars Galaxies back when that was a thing and got onto SWTOR when it came out but fell off after level 50. Anyway I got into the game this year and have been playing a lot with him as Jedi Knights. We both like a challenge and feel like story mode is too easy so we run veteran flashpoints together, these are level 70 missions meant for 4 people though so as just the two of us it can be pretty difficult. The colicoid war game was almost impossible, but definitely fun.
That's a perfect challenge! You guys must have had a LOT of team work running the collicoid FP together just 2! Hope you guys get a chance to try operations together, though it's not as good for hanging out since you are in a group.
@@Swtorista It was definitely a challenge. I just finished my second character as a sith warrior and I'm gonna try a bounty hunter soon (as well as working my way through the expansions), your guides have been really helpful so keep up the good work!
Worst solo fights for me are a couple on Makeb - the big droid on the flying ship Republic side in particular was a '50 companion on heal, every defensive and offensive cooldown including everything Heroic Moment can throw, and hope'.
The first time I struggled in swtor was the trooper story. Before we had companions that could do all roles, I could not beat the 2 Imperial Commando's at the end of chapter 3 as a Vanguard Tank. I had to call on my friend who was a sage to help with the healing interrupts.
Imperial Heroics on Balmorra & NarShadaa felt like they were designed for the Inquisitor-Assassin class player. I started to solo the Balmorra & NarShadaa Heroics very early during my playthrough as a way to speed up my character's leveling starting the moment I arrived on Balmorra @ level 22-27. I was able to average around 10-min per level-up all the way through level 70 by running those planets's heroics daily. I was pleasantly surprised to find my low-level Assassin was competing very well time-wise on Balmorra with my [75/306, SetBonus+Tactical, _Marauder,]_ completing all Balmorra's heroics in a 30-min period that practically matches times taken with my 75/306 Sith Warrior running those exact same missions. I would start each day's play-session with Heroics, then make a run of 3-to-5 *HammerStation/Athis* flashpoints which combined would level my character by about 10-12 ranks in roughly one 2hr time-period, at which point I would proceed to focus my attention on the _INQUISITOR_ class story until the next day's playthrough when I would repeat the ritual. I highly recommend this to anyone playing the Inquisitor-Assassin. I was a level 59 Assassin by the time I completed Chapter 01 _(after maybe 3 or 4 days. I can check dates if anyone REALLY wants to know)_ ----[Note]: On NarShaddaa playing SOLO, will often skip two noticeably inefficient missions: 1) *_Building-a-Better-Beast_* and 2) *_Recruitment Drive_*
Oh, BIG NOTE in methodology used: I did wire the character a few million credits to level Khem Val up to around 22 the moment he became a companion, and I suspect he was ~LvL 33 companion tank by the time I began the heroics
Very helpful tips! A lot of these ring true to me. I found the most helpful thing for me was to read my utilities. Holy crap can utilities really swing a fight in your favor.
Cheers! And YES! Certain fights utilities can help a lot, but it requires sitting down and reading for sure. Especially fights that need more movement, or more interrupts!
@@Swtorista Absolutely! Utilities are something where you should clear your schedule and give them the time they need. Utilities for some classes can be the difference between constant death and nigh-immortality! It's something that more people should definitely look into.
between you and kidlee ive conquered my fear of jumping LOL.. and have a few gameplay video's of my own, nothing that would ever take from you but you keep inspiring me to try harder :D so thank you sweetie.. please keep up the amazing work you do to help noobs like me play
My worst fight was a heroic on Illum that had you defeat three Sith Lords and their minions, under normal circumstances these fights would be cakewalks but the areas they are fought in are SURROUNDED by lots of gold and silver enemies that fight in packs, with one half of the packs being healers themselves so the Sith lords would push you away constantly thus activating the other enemies causing you to die almost instantly.
(Late to the party) What gets me are mobs in Heroics. Bosses aren't a problem, but 4+ henchmen will pound me to paste before I can start get the first knocked down. Often the first encounter of the mission.
I can't remember the name of the flash point, but I ran it on veteran mode to kind of test myself, and I breezed through all the bosses, but there was an enemy (not even a boss, I think it was silver) it kept stunning me over and over until my companion died and shortly after I died, I tried like 3 times and gave up. It was fun to try veteran mode for the first time though :D
A little thing to keep in the back of your mind. While SWTOR’s auto scaling is actually really good. One of the better mmo implementations of such. It’s not perfect. And some boss fights may scale oddly. A good example from this weeks Season 4 tasks is the Veteran mode KotFE Chapter 12 Vaylin fight in the cave. Not the big finale fight with Valkorian from KotET chapter 9. The cave fight can be brutal because while they scale you down to 70, the healing and shield tools they give you are only scaled up to 65. So they seem to barely touch your health.
Before the Knights expansions, the Baras, Thanaton from the Sith Warrior and Inquisitor end storylines were really rough fights. And Baras could one shot you if you did not interrupt his Voice of the Emperor ability. The Prototype Isotope-5 Droid from the Imperial side of Makeb was a pain to do solo likewise before they locked your level to the level of the planet. Now these fights are a complete joke, especially with how powerful your companions are (who is the hero of these stories here?).
Oh gosh, I remember Darth Chubbs at the end of the Sith Warrior story. Baras wrecked my day an uncomfortable number of times, it easy but oddly.satisfying curb stomping him after the planetary max levels update.
I haven't played consular in about 6 years and totally forgot about that in my run I just finished, it was my first death on that class and I had no idea what happened Hahaha
my main is a watchman sentinel and it took me forever to beat all the star fortresses solo and i still haven't managed to get past the complete eternal championship. i think i got stuck around boss 5 or 6 and eventually got bored of trying. i'm just not very good at the game so i only play easy end-game content, but i still have fun so it's okay.
I'm not an experienced StOR player on my first play through, I'm a solo gamer generally and made the silly mistake of starting a flashpoint and then got stuck at the boss, who spawns minions and with every companion I tried there's just no way I can take his minions down before the boss wipes me out or take the boss down before his minions wiped me out, which I tried because he respawns them even if you do take them down and he's still standing for too much longer. Every companion goes down too quickly to be much more help than soaking up his minion damage for a short time before everything jumps on the PC. After an entire afternoon of respawning revival and futilely trying every possible tactic, power/skill and companion and new thought I could come up with, so I felt there was just no way a solo player can get past this boss and gave up, played some other characters for a bit and then didn't play anymore. I might come back at it and have another try at getting past that boss but I hope I can get back into the immersion I had with that character, I've pretty much forgotten everything now so I don't even like my chances of hitting the ground running trying to take up that character again and take that boss down to progress onto getting off that rock and back into the class story. I think I was at lvl 35 or something. Just to get back that immersion I've half a mind to just burn the character and start a new Jedi Guardian (can't even remember what the class is called in StOR, whatever that equivalent is for the classic warrior knight). But the problem with that is I actually spent money on cartel coins tailoring his equipment. I don't know, I'll work something out with it I guess. I did start a Sith warrior PC in the meantime and got into that one a bit before leaving the game for a few months. So I do have a question about that, can you play a light-sider in a dark side campaign? What I mean by that is I started a true Sith race Sith warrior in a dark side campaign and was surprised how immersive it was, spookily it was like my life when all these evil people started wanting me to do horrible things just to justify their choice to do horrible things and I just want to be a good guy, not like with followers following me around like shining good guys but I mean just make my choices when choices are to be made and typically why do hurtful things when you can do helpful things and feel good about yourself. So by the time I've got my Sith ship, which is about where he's at, that character is basically a light sider trying to secretly help little old ladies cross the street whilst giving a thumbs up to evil Sith overlords and telling them sure, I'm out there evilling evilly mate, don't you worry about it. So how is that kind of play through likely to go, does the game accommodate something like that or am I just going to lose points and XP and get terrible disadvantages for not playing the evil sith campaign the way an evil sithy is supposed to? I mean I got right into the Jedi warrior PC and that guy's stuck in a bottomless pit of unbeatable boss so that was disappointing. It's like I've been hurt before, is this character attempt really worth it, or is the game just going to slap me down for being so unconventional? I'll keep subscription active either way, even if I never play again. It's too good a game overall not to support in this small way. But I want to know for gaming sake. That sith guy's level is I can't remember, whatever you are just after you get your ship. Waste of time and start another Jedi PC to do the light-sider thing? Or keep at this guy, who's actually really immersive now I think about it again, I was so frustrated by the Jedi unkillable boss thing. The sith trying to be good in an evil world, it's just so much like life. I don't mean that in a religious sense, I mean like say if you were a cat and you decided to participate in a cat civilisation of civilised cats, the regular cats would seem pretty evil but they're just being cats, I'm the one being different by trying to be a civilised cat. That's people in real life man, so it's a really immersive character, relaxing actually. Come to think of it the Jedi was making me feel anxious anyway, like the world he was in was too utopic and kind of depressing with it's "us and them" attitude about good guys versus bad guys and a rather convenient set of rules and subordination to being good, I've always found it's more like a you're on your own thing when you try to be good and good decisions in fact require introspection, forethought and absolute responsibility as opposed to mindlessly taking instruction like a child which is how a bad guy would make good guys bad if they were bad guys not good guys, so the Jedi light-sider thing was feeling a bit creepy anyway. Does the sith light-sider in a dark side sith warrior class story work or is it a game breaker? You've done like 400,000 play throughs. Have you done that one? Does it work?
On a side note, if you’re new to the game and you set your first companion to heal, you’ll feel like your Wolverine for a good chunk of time. Lol I did this and I barely if ever would receive damage. 😁 Rey’s not the only one with Force Heal!! 😅
It super depends on the class, and whether or not you have a gaming mouse or not. I actually use a method that works for me that most players don't like, a hybrid of keybinding/clicking. Ex here's what mine might look like for Telekinetics Sage - imgur.com/a/6IJzWoU - the only ones I truly keybind are the ones at the bottom, then 1-7 I use, then the rest I click.
Yesterday I was fighting the Dread-Seeded Sand Demon on Tattoine for the dread seed quest and I gave up because at around 30% health it just spams self-heal faster than my interrupt CD -_- Your stuck in this loop where it just regens all the health you dealt from your last interrupt. My attempt now is to just out-DPS the regen by upgrading my gear
lol, not to ruin it for you, but you don't even have to fight that thing. the right choices in the conversation and it will yield to you without even drawing your lightsaber.
@@Fektthis Think you are thinking of the story quest for the Sith Warrior. The dread seeded one would be part of the Seeker Droid missions, but I do not remember ever having to fight one.
Yes he is one of the ones I came across online when making this! He comes up as one people have trouble defeating. So I don't know much about him specifically, but more tips when you can't interrupt fast enough: 1) *most* stuns act as an interrupt, use those too if you aren't already, even the ones that break on damage 2) Some other abilities act as a baby interrupt (it will restart a few second later, but buys you precious seconds) - example the trooper vanguard leap does this. force leap might too. 3) Some utilities give you a fast interrupt 4) some utilities make those baby interrupts be available more frequently and good luck out dpsing him! PS he might also technically be a world boss. from online: "Check his buffs: He has the "Terrorizing" buff that perma-stuns all companions that engage him (states "Only true heroes...") All World Bosses have this buff. His nametag states that he is a "Champion," but most if not all World Bosses state that they are a "Champion."" It also seems the interrupt might have been different when he was first released compared to now. hmmm.
I'm still intimidated by the Vaylin fight when Valkorian takes me over. If you chose Light Side to free the Sith from that holocron earlier I literally saw no way to win, especially with certain classes and no companion help so I could use the heroic. :( I have a character on a server where our guild members are rarely on at the same time. I'm afraid he'll get stuck there forever. I ran into a LOT of rude players going 'learn to play the game'. But I'd also seen a LOT of other people in forums complaining about that particular fight not working for light side players! wait what IS a Dark Project
That is one of the most common one that came up when I searched for people looking for help with difficult fights! A Dark Project is an item you can craft, just takes expensive materials. Or you can buy them directly from the GTN.
I am only having some small problems with heroics 4+ solo (but it is doable, "alchemy of evil" for example, it was hard, but i did it). Kuat Drive Yards solo was also challenging.
@@Swtorista Thanks, i know that you are also did Kuat Drive Yards solo. i also know that some people are doing master flashpoints solo (this is crazy and THIS is beyond my abilities)
Sometime shortly after launch my JK was on Belsavis... I can't remember the name of the boss, but I died over and over and over and over and over again. After getting frustrated time and time again, I left the area to grind a few more levels, and then slaughtered him or her. The rest of the game (at that time) was comparatively simple.
@@Swtorista @Swtorista -- Think the dev who came up with all those numbers was the inspiration for Vaylin; after she murders 3 knights-- th-cam.com/video/BwNLWubhWmA/w-d-xo.html
There is one fight I couldn't win and it's the fight with Arcann in KOTFE chapter 16 (veteran mode). Of course master mode of both expansions is still a plan for the future. But this fight with Arcann is just impossible to finish... :/
OH THAT ONE IS HARD! I think I showed it briefly in this video. I'm guesisng you already know the mechanics, just incase, these are from dulfy.net Besides these though I haven't seen any really good tips specific for that fight, beyond what's in my general video here! Defeat Arcann The fight with Arcann has some mechanics you need to be aware. At certain point in the fight, Arcann becomes immune to damage and you will see green arrows directing you to a shield you can pick up. This shield will give you certain skills you can use in a separate hotbar. Use the shield (shield icon skill) whenever you see him summoning Force Manifestations that target you with yellow arrow, these attacks from them will charge up your shield so you can use Empowered Bash (arm icon skill) on Arcann that deals massive damage. Neat the end of the fight Arcann will jump away and attack you with Empowered Lightning, just put your shield up and walk towards Arcann and bash his head in. You will get over 100 stacks of that shield buff this way and can immediately end the fight
Basically said powertech is the best starter. You rarely die because you can tank and dealing massive amount of damage while your companion heal you the whole time.
Corrupted Sithspawn Experiment....after trying for over an hour trying to solo it, I had to go to fleet and ask for help, it's not the difficulty that's annoying it's the moments when he jumps and is meant to explode the canisters only when he doesn't tho
My best tip is this: Stop using a healer companion. This sounds unintuitive, but the damage they deal will eliminate enemies faster, and the faster they are eliminated, the less damage you take. The other benefit is that using a damage dealer or even a tank in case you are a ranged class, or a class that likes to flank, will force you to use your rotations optimally, and learn your defensive cooldowns. Frankly, with a healer companion, you can almost afk and you will be fine. If you use your defensives, and optimal rotations, you will clear content a lot faster, and a lot safer, and you wont look silly when using a sniper against something that is standing right in front of you, using a stick. also, keybind companion bar 1, especially if you are using a tank companion, this is their basic attack and should be your opener for every fight, unless you are a tank, in which case you should definitely be using a damage dealer. Finally: learn to rocket boost/recover/ cancel, as this will respawn your companion at full health between fights. Even if you have to heal a bit between fights, its still faster than killing things eventually, with a weak damage dealing companion in a heal spec. And toys are fun to use. This is the way.
Depending on my character, I've had a real difficult time defeating the Gemini Captain. The class stories a very easy now. Back when, I had to actually use strategy. Now I can stand toe to toe with most.
Swtorista could you possibly look into the Gemini captain again since 7.0 came out? I am a new player but like to think I’m decent at the game. I am on story mode, 5 levels above the captain (75) with 250 gear rating but she still kills me within 1-2 mins of the fight starting. I haven’t even got her down half health. There’s a whole rubreddit on this too & honestly there is DEFINITELY something wrong with her difficulty since the update. Very frustrating as I just want to advance in the story but literally CAN’T as of now. I think this needs more attention as it is completely halting a lot of new players’ ability to just play through the story… on STORY mode.
Swtorista I also have looked up videos, raised Senya’s influence to 21, have her set as healer (I’m DPS), try to interrupt the captain’s best abilities, etc. I promise, I have tried everything & am doing exactly what others have done in videos from years ago but she absolutely shreds both Senya & I insanely fast. Honestly thinking about putting the game down for a while because of this which is a complete shame.
Swtorista if you made a video on this or something I’m sure the dev team would see it & make a very needed change. This has also been my favorite expansion but after all the hours of getting to the end of chapter 15, I simply cannot advance. As always, love your content.
Probably won't make a video but... 1) Out of combat, all classes have an ability that lets them recover to full health 2) in combat, you can use a medpac. Medpacs can be picked up off the ground or the GTN 3) Set your companion to be a healer That's about it!
For KotFE and beyond, are veteran mode “main quest” missions supposed to be solo-able or are they for a group? There were certain gimmicky boss fights that seemed impossible to solo in Veteran mode. Vaylin in the cave is a good example, since you can’t use your companion. On the other hand, story mode seemed entirely too easy. This was part of what frustrated me about SWTOR after the KotFE expansion the difficulty curve seemed to spike a little too much. But then my main character was a jugg tank.
The story, veteran and master mode were specifically designed to be done solo. Some of the fights are hella harder than others. I've done KOTET 1-9 when they first came out on veteran in the previous expansions's gear and one of them was so hard I had to give up on it. I haven't tried them recently or on master mode yet. You'd really need to use all of this stuff in this video, gear the hell up, and really learn how to play you class.
Swtorista That’s the thing, My gear wasn’t maxed out but it was way stronger than what was being rewarded for those chapters. Some of the encounters also favored DPS as opposed to healers and tanks.
Struggling as a consular on Alderan. I'm level 24, but the Jedi Master I'm trying to fight then heal is something like gold level 31. I think I can equip some new gear at level 25.
problem they stuck me in a walker and put me up against 3 really tough robots and the companion is missing the walkers powers suck and i have no way to get out of it or use my normal powers and i have no friends to ask for help my guild ignores me oh well
Just to as, when you're subscribed in-game, you get like 27 character slots, when you're preferred you have 15, if you have more then 15 when you change from subscribed to preferred, do you keep them or do some diaper?
they don't disappear but they're no longer active accounts. you have to pick which ones you want to remain active and I think it's only 12. the characters will remain and so will all the gear and everything else but you won't be able to access them until you change your account status and re-sub or choose to make a different character active/inactive
@@Swtorista thanks for the advice but I found a solution, I looked up your companion guide and buffed Senya up + if you manage to stand on 1 of the platforms before the gemini captain does that 4 of the same move she skip it and you can keep hitting just one
Hey! You're vids are awesome, but it would help if you had any idea whether I could run swtor. If you don't know, its fine and your videos are a great help for deciding if I should get SWTOR anyways. Specs are below: 5.5 gb RAM (all useable) 480 GB Storage 1.5 MHz Other Specs I think are fine, but on most sites these three things vary. Thanks alot for your help, your awesome vids earned you a sub! 😄
you cant actually create a character that is directly called a mandalorian. You do get mandalorian companions (smuggler companion Akaavi, and Torian, bounty hunter companion, Shae Vizla). The Bounty Hunter character is called a mandalorian in the storyline, and you can buy with cartel coins or on the gtn some mandalorian armor, to get close enough to roleplay one. It isnt too hard, the bounty hunter story line ends with you being the leader of all mandalorians.
Dear swtorista, I've noticed during many, many videos that the AoE attacks have a cool 3D design. My AoE just look like the rep logo lying flat on the ground. I searched in-game for a 3D effect option, but I couldn't find it. Could you point it out to me, please? Thank you -Xaidac
Quick tip for anyone who has lots of Jawa scrap. You can buy maintenance gifts from the Jawa vendors just for scrap, means you can upgrade your ship droid to lvl 50 for almost free. Other then the cartel comps, your ship droid can also craft for you. Just make sure to unlock the right legacy perk to upgrade your gifts. :) They also sell gifts for animal comps.
Hardest for me so far on solo was the last boss on eternal championship. I almost broke my keyboard panicking to press defensive buffs, increase speed, stun remover and interrupt among other attacks. 9 out of 10 bosses defeated and I think I got no rewards there. (Or did I miss it?)
My most difficult fight: on Belsavis, towards the end of the planet, there was a Heroic Mission in some underground area, with one of the toughest bosses behind a force shield, so you couldn't fight him directly (you had to grab a correct key or whatever). But there was a small gap that allowed my character to 'see' the enemy through the shield, so I stated blasting! But then the boss dragged me inside his cage... There was no way I could get out, and there was no way Elara could help me either! Luckyly, I was heal commando, and I was able to survive the whole fight, which lasted several long minutes -probably one of my longest fights. And when I vanquished the boss, I still could not get out, so I teleported myself outside and did the whole thing again, properly this time.
Another very difficult fight was Vaylin at the end of KotFE... I had to ask help from guys on the fleet.
Oh I love that quest. But ahhhhh!!! That's crazy tha your survived!
Vaylin seems to be one of the top fights people run in to trouble. There's so much going on there.
One class boss I had trouble with was on Tatooine as a Sith Warrior when you had to fight without your companion for the first time since Korriban. I think the part about key binding your defensive abilities will be very beneficial to getting better. Thanks for the tips Swtorista!
Enraged defense is your best friend
I found that dealing with the younger guy first made the fight much easier since he seemed to do most of the damage
Is that the bug monster in the desert? I love that scene :)
@@Swtorista no but I enjoy that scene as well! The scene I am talking about is when you have to fight the two Jedi at the same time.
Yeah that was a tough fight. I won by focusing down the younger Jedi, then retreated out the front door, healed up, then went after the elder Jedi.
Easy, be a Jugg that smacks that ground like he owns it.
Except for that part when u have to defeat master yuli or something and the other one I forgot his name
And also grits his teeth
Actually having fun dying from some of the heroics as it brings back memories for when you had to try a lot to get past something.
Yes there are some that i have to be careful on!
In regard to companion level:
If you aren't going vault to 50 using a compendium, then it's buy/grind via convos/gifts/missions. If can afford it, max your companion gift/convo legacy perks, get your comp to 40 right away with gifts, this nets you 2 advantages.
A) Your comp will be almost at top performance, making their effectiveness much more noticeable.
B) Economically it makes all convos/gifts/missions more valuable by default. Since gifts become less effective at higher rank 40+ it's most expensive to use them 40+. So gift up to 40 immediately then use convos/craft missions to get to 50. If your legacy perks are maxed (and not level 75 using influence amplifiers) a single "approve" in a convo has an economic value of ~6500 vs the cost of 10000 for a rank 5 purple gift.
This makes the long term economic cost balanced with the upfront cost of gifting to rank 40.
great tips, thanks for sharing!
I'm a Vet with tons of experience, but I have to admit - I completely forget about Heroic Moment as soon as I unlock it. Usually I don't even need it and often remove it from my quickbars, but there has been times when I completely flop a fight because I'm way too cocky in a game that I've spent way too many hours in. Same goes for Unity and Sacrifice. Those two are prolly the first Legacy abilities I've ever unlocked and I've never bothered with them.
But yeah, in general I don't have any problkems with solo fights. I'm not a "clicker", I know where my Interrupt is, I use my stuns and in general I've been thru any fight numerous times already. Titles like "The One and Only" and "Deathless Champion" should support my claim, but even that doesn't prevent my brain from totally going "DERP! :P" from time to time :D
Haha!!! I was having trouble the other day and a friend reminded me to use Heroic moment... I'm the same way, I had dumped it off my bars! It's one of the reasons I made this list, wanted to hunt down any "obvious" tips us veterans are missing... Unity was one I never even think of using.
After my Sith Inquisitor story finished three weeks ago, I began using Heroic Moment every five minutes....Not because I need it, but because I LOVE FORCE LIGHTNING!! It's the most cinematic of attacks available in the game, imho.
That goes Doubly So on my Sentinal pub side where throwing around such obvious Sith power feels extra naughty & exhilarating!!
Its alway good to see people making videos of star wars :)
Great video SWTORISTA and our missions in the Outer Rim territories was a success for the most part. The Empire is making life difficult for us but we continue to make some effort for the Rebellion
I remember that on my first playthrough, back when you still had to equip your companion with proper combat gear and level caps were not a thing, I could not for the love of god manage to clear my main quest on Quesh. I had to get quite a few lvls higher than the enemy npcs in order to win because I kept aggroing way too much of them at the same time. Noob me was so cute
and then you're forced to use T7 for the final boss fight and realize you haven't geared him once since you got Kira....
I’ve just finished quesh and now moved onto hoth with my Jedi guardian , gotta agree some of the fights are still quite challenging
Haha! I forgot about that!
@@Fektthis honestly, the few fights like that where one specific companion is forced was probably a big driver for removing companion gearing all together
@@AuthorReborn I know they ended up adding T7 gear in the staircase before the fight with the emperor because it was such a big deal Strangely enough, that gear is still there (and totally unusable now)
Here is an advice. Get a companion. Set it to heal. Go get a coffee and let it deal with whatever u pull. Nowadays companions are better than most players
I look with disdain upon high-level players still using heal comps outside of MasterMode fp's
Beginner warriors should start with a healer, but over time switch to Tank, and eventually to DPS companion as you master your working knowledge of your class defensive buffs, stuns, & area stuns
@@kangkudos1225 look with disdain upon my balls
Best training ground to learn your character: the Eternal Championship trying to achieve the "SprintChampion" Do that and you know, what to do.
I agree! If you can pass Eternal Championship you are ready for anything.
I really enjoy this game. Your videos are a very high-quality and help players understand how to enjoy the game more. Thank you for your time.
Cheers!!!
oh no, you're british@@Swtorista
The only voice covering swtor that I can listen to
I can so clearly remember the one heroic 4 quest at Voss with the dark side Voss that gave me such a hard time all those years ago on my first character
If every team member did not use their interrupt skill at the right time coordinated after another, you were completely annihilated by the boss
Ahhh, I certainly miss those times when the content was more challenging 😁
Oh yeah that quest in the caves and that last boss just murdering all the time....
Invid of INP exactly that :D
Cross 111 The one were the boss would redirect the healing the players recieve to himself, and when you beat him you had to destroy two balls of electricity by throwing bombs at them?
Nice guide Swtorista! Soloing difficult fights is a power move!
Says the guy soloing stuff that was never meant to be solo'd haha! :)
Great vid Swtorista! Wish I had this guide when I was on the Attis Station mission for the Jedi Consular.
The consular had a lot of hard fights!
Yul-li and yonloch (sith warrior campaign) is my least favorite fight since your companion isn’t in the battle.
Bonus tip for players: try to remain calmed, if you feel the fight is too difficult, exit from the game for a while to calm down and after you did, just try again, using a different strategy, method i usually do
Love you, Swtorista!
Back in the day I didn’t know about new abilities, so I was running a level 50 Jedi Knight with only the basic attack and healing abilities of a level 1. I was such a noob since SWTOR was my first MMO. One of my friends question why I keep using the same basic attack then he told me LOL.
Haha!
I did that on a game before, not swtor but yeah. 🤦♂️
@swtorista - i want to thank you again. I had already watched this video but your recommendation to watch it again proved fruitful as I did learn a bit more; specifically, the companion influence. I hope that will help me with solo-ing heroic +2's.
Declaration : even with this tips meatbags cant fight has well has I do.
Conclusion : i am the best fighting machine in the galaxy
I second that.
Correction : the first spots go to fellow HK’s. Meatbags are terrible killers.
See here my metallic friend. Sith Lords are by far the most effective fighting force. You dare to compare yourself to the most powerful group in the galaxy.
Correction : I’ve slaughtered sith before meatbag, Those little crybabies are just has annoying has already slaughtered meatbags.
Invite : Would you want to try my blaster next meatbag
@@cloutful Aaah like the 47 model before you overestimate the power of a blaster. It's power is nothing compared to that of the force
Me: I do almost all of these already, but I keep forgetting to read my ability tool tips, something I'm doing now.
For those of us who have fought Revan, I found him really difficult to beat. However, some well placed refresh life abilities (reckless combined with legacy force lightning for the Sith inquisitor restored 60% health) helped beat him.
there you go! those will be useful for you in the future too!
Thanks, Swtorista. Keep your very valuable instructional videos coming. Your the best!
Thanks Far Sear!
I always use Heroic Moment on Heroic Missions, and often during the major story bosses. There's something satisfying about unleashing lightning and force chokes on Jedi an Sith as a Bounty Hunter.
Inquisitor's Force-Lightning puts HeroicMoment on the map! Never used it deliberately until finishing the Inquisitor story three weeks ago, now I use HM ever five minutes!! Would kill to have quickbar assignment-key made available for these temporary abilities. The lightning just looks so much more theatrical than anything the Jedi Knight gets and I wanna record it without needing to have the big ol hud superimposed over the entire frame!
@@kangkudos1225 The Knight's Legacy Ability is good for crowds. And the Bounty Hunter gets a flamethrower.
@@Janoha17 -- FlameThrower! Somebody better tell Mel Brooks!
@@kangkudos1225 I hadn't played the game for a long time and thought they'd removed heroic abilities because of that. It used to be that you had to slot them, there was no pop up for them haha
I remember the first time I played SWTOR I got so angry because I couldn't defeat that flesh raider with the lightsaber, I was so mad I deleted the game lol.
Darth Revan 😂😂
LOL!
Your Jedi must have been given a defective light saber as a prank...
You should get back at them & sign up a flesh-raider for classes in the Jedi Academy!!
I recall i lost 2 hours on the "Prison Planet" then someone came and told me have you ever listen the word rotation 🤣
haha!
Beats losing two hours in getting a Holocron then find it's only a color-shard :(
Love this channel! You made me a subscriber today.
Im having a blast with the game, this was exactly what i needed since im burned out on other mmos.🙂
Glad you're enjoying it!
I don't know if this term exists in SWTOR, but there is a concept in other MMOs called a "Buff Window" or a more specific term window related to the class and spec it relates to. My Destruction Warlock has her "Infernal Window", I need a resource called soul shards to cast my big nuke spell Chaos Orb, and normally those are generated by my filler spells, but when I cast the spell Summon Infernal it summons a big demon that attacks my enemies, but also passively gives me soul shards. So when I have some other buff that would increase my chaos Bolts I will pop summon infernal and chain chaos Bolts for maximum output. Learn what your buff spells do, what they interact with, and sandbag resources to maximize those high output windows.
I have not played WoW, but yep, there are ways to optimize playing your class w/ buffs at a high level! We call it a "rotation" or "priority system".
@@Swtorista we have those too, it's a more specific variety of that concept.
Just starter playing this game a few days ago got to say HOW THE HELL DID I DISMIS THIS GAME FOR SO LONG its sooo fun I was instantly addicted to it and your videos are so helpfull keep up the good work 👍
glad you're having fun!
Me and my dad are both huge Star Wars fans, he used to play Star Wars Galaxies back when that was a thing and got onto SWTOR when it came out but fell off after level 50. Anyway I got into the game this year and have been playing a lot with him as Jedi Knights. We both like a challenge and feel like story mode is too easy so we run veteran flashpoints together, these are level 70 missions meant for 4 people though so as just the two of us it can be pretty difficult. The colicoid war game was almost impossible, but definitely fun.
That's a perfect challenge! You guys must have had a LOT of team work running the collicoid FP together just 2! Hope you guys get a chance to try operations together, though it's not as good for hanging out since you are in a group.
@@Swtorista It was definitely a challenge. I just finished my second character as a sith warrior and I'm gonna try a bounty hunter soon (as well as working my way through the expansions), your guides have been really helpful so keep up the good work!
Love you swtorista!!!!!!!! Love your content... U are the best!!!
Worst solo fights for me are a couple on Makeb - the big droid on the flying ship Republic side in particular was a '50 companion on heal, every defensive and offensive cooldown including everything Heroic Moment can throw, and hope'.
kick your butt droid!
The first time I struggled in swtor was the trooper story. Before we had companions that could do all roles, I could not beat the 2 Imperial Commando's at the end of chapter 3 as a Vanguard Tank. I had to call on my friend who was a sage to help with the healing interrupts.
Oh! I remember that! That might have been where I learned to interrupt years ago.
I just started today and am really enjoying watching your videos, thank uuu very much :D
Imperial Heroics on Balmorra & NarShadaa felt like they were designed for the Inquisitor-Assassin class player. I started to solo the Balmorra & NarShadaa Heroics very early during my playthrough as a way to speed up my character's leveling starting the moment I arrived on Balmorra @ level 22-27.
I was able to average around 10-min per level-up all the way through level 70 by running those planets's heroics daily. I was pleasantly surprised to find my low-level Assassin was competing very well time-wise on Balmorra with my [75/306, SetBonus+Tactical, _Marauder,]_ completing all Balmorra's heroics in a 30-min period that practically matches times taken with my 75/306 Sith Warrior running those exact same missions.
I would start each day's play-session with Heroics, then make a run of 3-to-5 *HammerStation/Athis* flashpoints which combined would level my character by about 10-12 ranks in roughly one 2hr time-period, at which point I would proceed to focus my attention on the _INQUISITOR_ class story until the next day's playthrough when I would repeat the ritual. I highly recommend this to anyone playing the Inquisitor-Assassin. I was a level 59 Assassin by the time I completed Chapter 01 _(after maybe 3 or 4 days. I can check dates if anyone REALLY wants to know)_
----[Note]: On NarShaddaa playing SOLO, will often skip two noticeably inefficient missions: 1) *_Building-a-Better-Beast_* and 2) *_Recruitment Drive_*
Oh, BIG NOTE in methodology used: I did wire the character a few million credits to level Khem Val up to around 22 the moment he became a companion, and I suspect he was ~LvL 33 companion tank by the time I began the heroics
So fast!!!!
Very helpful tips! A lot of these ring true to me. I found the most helpful thing for me was to read my utilities. Holy crap can utilities really swing a fight in your favor.
Cheers! And YES! Certain fights utilities can help a lot, but it requires sitting down and reading for sure. Especially fights that need more movement, or more interrupts!
@@Swtorista Absolutely! Utilities are something where you should clear your schedule and give them the time they need. Utilities for some classes can be the difference between constant death and nigh-immortality! It's something that more people should definitely look into.
Could we please get a imperial sniper/smuggler shooter guide? I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate one
Ty for the Video Helps with this crazy lock down.
between you and kidlee ive conquered my fear of jumping LOL.. and have a few gameplay video's of my own, nothing that would ever take from you but you keep inspiring me to try harder :D so thank you sweetie.. please keep up the amazing work you do to help noobs like me play
cheers!!!
My worst fight was a heroic on Illum that had you defeat three Sith Lords and their minions, under normal circumstances these fights would be cakewalks but the areas they are fought in are SURROUNDED by lots of gold and silver enemies that fight in packs, with one half of the packs being healers themselves so the Sith lords would push you away constantly thus activating the other enemies causing you to die almost instantly.
Oh I remember that area!
Swtorista that area is the cause of lots of headaches lol
(Late to the party) What gets me are mobs in Heroics. Bosses aren't a problem, but 4+ henchmen will pound me to paste before I can start get the first knocked down. Often the first encounter of the mission.
I can't remember the name of the flash point, but I ran it on veteran mode to kind of test myself, and I breezed through all the bosses, but there was an enemy (not even a boss, I think it was silver) it kept stunning me over and over until my companion died and shortly after I died, I tried like 3 times and gave up. It was fun to try veteran mode for the first time though :D
Haha! Yes veteran is a great challenge solo!
A little thing to keep in the back of your mind. While SWTOR’s auto scaling is actually really good. One of the better mmo implementations of such. It’s not perfect. And some boss fights may scale oddly. A good example from this weeks Season 4 tasks is the Veteran mode KotFE Chapter 12 Vaylin fight in the cave. Not the big finale fight with Valkorian from KotET chapter 9. The cave fight can be brutal because while they scale you down to 70, the healing and shield tools they give you are only scaled up to 65. So they seem to barely touch your health.
Before the Knights expansions, the Baras, Thanaton from the Sith Warrior and Inquisitor end storylines were really rough fights. And Baras could one shot you if you did not interrupt his Voice of the Emperor ability.
The Prototype Isotope-5 Droid from the Imperial side of Makeb was a pain to do solo likewise before they locked your level to the level of the planet.
Now these fights are a complete joke, especially with how powerful your companions are (who is the hero of these stories here?).
Having the Consular end of story boss drop a cave on you wasn't fun either
Fektthis I had to spam mind snap to prevent him from doing that
Oh gosh, I remember Darth Chubbs at the end of the Sith Warrior story. Baras wrecked my day an uncomfortable number of times, it easy but oddly.satisfying curb stomping him after the planetary max levels update.
I haven't played consular in about 6 years and totally forgot about that in my run I just finished, it was my first death on that class and I had no idea what happened Hahaha
Watching your video daily now. "This is the way"
OG Daily area heroics, especially Aurora cannon, need I say more?
As the Jedi Knight, The Emperor boss fight used to give me such a headache.
my main is a watchman sentinel and it took me forever to beat all the star fortresses solo and i still haven't managed to get past the complete eternal championship. i think i got stuck around boss 5 or 6 and eventually got bored of trying. i'm just not very good at the game so i only play easy end-game content, but i still have fun so it's okay.
Oh yes Star fortress is tricky and Eternal Championship is downright hard!
With level sink and hard cap on Mastery and Power stats, taking on multiple adds can be fatal 😀
Haha! Things get... interesting with sync.
Also would be good if you know your character's rotation. If you "use" your character correctly, you will always be in the fight.
I'm not an experienced StOR player on my first play through, I'm a solo gamer generally and made the silly mistake of starting a flashpoint and then got stuck at the boss, who spawns minions and with every companion I tried there's just no way I can take his minions down before the boss wipes me out or take the boss down before his minions wiped me out, which I tried because he respawns them even if you do take them down and he's still standing for too much longer. Every companion goes down too quickly to be much more help than soaking up his minion damage for a short time before everything jumps on the PC. After an entire afternoon of respawning revival and futilely trying every possible tactic, power/skill and companion and new thought I could come up with, so I felt there was just no way a solo player can get past this boss and gave up, played some other characters for a bit and then didn't play anymore. I might come back at it and have another try at getting past that boss but I hope I can get back into the immersion I had with that character, I've pretty much forgotten everything now so I don't even like my chances of hitting the ground running trying to take up that character again and take that boss down to progress onto getting off that rock and back into the class story. I think I was at lvl 35 or something. Just to get back that immersion I've half a mind to just burn the character and start a new Jedi Guardian (can't even remember what the class is called in StOR, whatever that equivalent is for the classic warrior knight). But the problem with that is I actually spent money on cartel coins tailoring his equipment. I don't know, I'll work something out with it I guess.
I did start a Sith warrior PC in the meantime and got into that one a bit before leaving the game for a few months. So I do have a question about that, can you play a light-sider in a dark side campaign? What I mean by that is I started a true Sith race Sith warrior in a dark side campaign and was surprised how immersive it was, spookily it was like my life when all these evil people started wanting me to do horrible things just to justify their choice to do horrible things and I just want to be a good guy, not like with followers following me around like shining good guys but I mean just make my choices when choices are to be made and typically why do hurtful things when you can do helpful things and feel good about yourself. So by the time I've got my Sith ship, which is about where he's at, that character is basically a light sider trying to secretly help little old ladies cross the street whilst giving a thumbs up to evil Sith overlords and telling them sure, I'm out there evilling evilly mate, don't you worry about it.
So how is that kind of play through likely to go, does the game accommodate something like that or am I just going to lose points and XP and get terrible disadvantages for not playing the evil sith campaign the way an evil sithy is supposed to? I mean I got right into the Jedi warrior PC and that guy's stuck in a bottomless pit of unbeatable boss so that was disappointing. It's like I've been hurt before, is this character attempt really worth it, or is the game just going to slap me down for being so unconventional?
I'll keep subscription active either way, even if I never play again. It's too good a game overall not to support in this small way. But I want to know for gaming sake. That sith guy's level is I can't remember, whatever you are just after you get your ship. Waste of time and start another Jedi PC to do the light-sider thing? Or keep at this guy, who's actually really immersive now I think about it again, I was so frustrated by the Jedi unkillable boss thing. The sith trying to be good in an evil world, it's just so much like life. I don't mean that in a religious sense, I mean like say if you were a cat and you decided to participate in a cat civilisation of civilised cats, the regular cats would seem pretty evil but they're just being cats, I'm the one being different by trying to be a civilised cat. That's people in real life man, so it's a really immersive character, relaxing actually. Come to think of it the Jedi was making me feel anxious anyway, like the world he was in was too utopic and kind of depressing with it's "us and them" attitude about good guys versus bad guys and a rather convenient set of rules and subordination to being good, I've always found it's more like a you're on your own thing when you try to be good and good decisions in fact require introspection, forethought and absolute responsibility as opposed to mindlessly taking instruction like a child which is how a bad guy would make good guys bad if they were bad guys not good guys, so the Jedi light-sider thing was feeling a bit creepy anyway.
Does the sith light-sider in a dark side sith warrior class story work or is it a game breaker? You've done like 400,000 play throughs. Have you done that one? Does it work?
On a side note, if you’re new to the game and you set your first companion to heal, you’ll feel like your Wolverine for a good chunk of time. Lol I did this and I barely if ever would receive damage. 😁 Rey’s not the only one with Force Heal!! 😅
Could you do a key binding guide. Like what keys you use and what abilities you put on them
It super depends on the class, and whether or not you have a gaming mouse or not. I actually use a method that works for me that most players don't like, a hybrid of keybinding/clicking. Ex here's what mine might look like for Telekinetics Sage - imgur.com/a/6IJzWoU - the only ones I truly keybind are the ones at the bottom, then 1-7 I use, then the rest I click.
Yesterday I was fighting the Dread-Seeded Sand Demon on Tattoine for the dread seed quest and I gave up because at around 30% health it just spams self-heal faster than my interrupt CD -_-
Your stuck in this loop where it just regens all the health you dealt from your last interrupt. My attempt now is to just out-DPS the regen by upgrading my gear
lol, not to ruin it for you, but you don't even have to fight that thing. the right choices in the conversation and it will yield to you without even drawing your lightsaber.
@@Fektthis Think you are thinking of the story quest for the Sith Warrior. The dread seeded one would be part of the Seeker Droid missions, but I do not remember ever having to fight one.
@@Linkforlife199 you're right on that. i was thinking of the sith warrior one
Yes he is one of the ones I came across online when making this! He comes up as one people have trouble defeating. So I don't know much about him specifically, but more tips when you can't interrupt fast enough:
1) *most* stuns act as an interrupt, use those too if you aren't already, even the ones that break on damage
2) Some other abilities act as a baby interrupt (it will restart a few second later, but buys you precious seconds) - example the trooper vanguard leap does this. force leap might too.
3) Some utilities give you a fast interrupt
4) some utilities make those baby interrupts be available more frequently
and good luck out dpsing him!
PS he might also technically be a world boss. from online: "Check his buffs: He has the "Terrorizing" buff that perma-stuns all companions that engage him (states "Only true heroes...") All World Bosses have this buff. His nametag states that he is a "Champion," but most if not all World Bosses state that they are a "Champion.""
It also seems the interrupt might have been different when he was first released compared to now. hmmm.
I'm still intimidated by the Vaylin fight when Valkorian takes me over. If you chose Light Side to free the Sith from that holocron earlier I literally saw no way to win, especially with certain classes and no companion help so I could use the heroic. :( I have a character on a server where our guild members are rarely on at the same time. I'm afraid he'll get stuck there forever.
I ran into a LOT of rude players going 'learn to play the game'. But I'd also seen a LOT of other people in forums complaining about that particular fight not working for light side players!
wait what IS a Dark Project
That is one of the most common one that came up when I searched for people looking for help with difficult fights!
A Dark Project is an item you can craft, just takes expensive materials. Or you can buy them directly from the GTN.
@@Swtorista I literally had to ask for a guildie to help. Which is why doing it on the other server worries me!
Swtorista is so buff! Haha look at that muscle pose! 😆❤️
cool vid they always help me play
I am only having some small problems with heroics 4+ solo (but it is doable, "alchemy of evil" for example, it was hard, but i did it). Kuat Drive Yards solo was also challenging.
4+ can be tough, it's designed for 4x your strength haha! good job!
@@Swtorista Thanks, i know that you are also did Kuat Drive Yards solo. i also know that some people are doing master flashpoints solo (this is crazy and THIS is beyond my abilities)
How do you zoom out so far? That seems super useful to me to be able to get a nice overhead of the groups of mobs
Scroll out if it on PC of not then idk sorry
Sometime shortly after launch my JK was on Belsavis... I can't remember the name of the boss, but I died over and over and over and over and over again. After getting frustrated time and time again, I left the area to grind a few more levels, and then slaughtered him or her. The rest of the game (at that time) was comparatively simple.
Healers never work for me lol they just die and then I die. But with tanks we only take like 10% damage total.
@2:09 -- Hey! Where's the love for prime numbers?? 2:09
Apparently no love at all!
@@Swtorista @Swtorista -- Think the dev who came up with all those numbers was the inspiration for Vaylin; after she murders 3 knights-- th-cam.com/video/BwNLWubhWmA/w-d-xo.html
I'm late to the party, but also: sending them on any gathering/mission tradeskill mission gives a little influence.
There is one fight I couldn't win and it's the fight with Arcann in KOTFE chapter 16 (veteran mode). Of course master mode of both expansions is still a plan for the future. But this fight with Arcann is just impossible to finish... :/
OH THAT ONE IS HARD! I think I showed it briefly in this video. I'm guesisng you already know the mechanics, just incase, these are from dulfy.net
Besides these though I haven't seen any really good tips specific for that fight, beyond what's in my general video here!
Defeat Arcann
The fight with Arcann has some mechanics you need to be aware. At certain point in the fight, Arcann becomes immune to damage and you will see green arrows directing you to a shield you can pick up. This shield will give you certain skills you can use in a separate hotbar.
Use the shield (shield icon skill) whenever you see him summoning Force Manifestations that target you with yellow arrow, these attacks from them will charge up your shield so you can use Empowered Bash (arm icon skill) on Arcann that deals massive damage.
Neat the end of the fight Arcann will jump away and attack you with Empowered Lightning, just put your shield up and walk towards Arcann and bash his head in. You will get over 100 stacks of that shield buff this way and can immediately end the fight
Basically said powertech is the best starter. You rarely die because you can tank and dealing massive amount of damage while your companion heal you the whole time.
I can't do this bit on tattoine, these 2 jedi shocked Vette and I can't kill them?????? What should I do please help.
Corrupted Sithspawn Experiment....after trying for over an hour trying to solo it, I had to go to fleet and ask for help, it's not the difficulty that's annoying it's the moments when he jumps and is meant to explode the canisters only when he doesn't tho
Yes he's very rude! glad you got some help!
The most important part of this is just "Escape colorful circles"
My best tip is this: Stop using a healer companion. This sounds unintuitive, but the damage they deal will eliminate enemies faster, and the faster they are eliminated, the less damage you take. The other benefit is that using a damage dealer or even a tank in case you are a ranged class, or a class that likes to flank, will force you to use your rotations optimally, and learn your defensive cooldowns. Frankly, with a healer companion, you can almost afk and you will be fine. If you use your defensives, and optimal rotations, you will clear content a lot faster, and a lot safer, and you wont look silly when using a sniper against something that is standing right in front of you, using a stick.
also, keybind companion bar 1, especially if you are using a tank companion, this is their basic attack and should be your opener for every fight, unless you are a tank, in which case you should definitely be using a damage dealer. Finally: learn to rocket boost/recover/ cancel, as this will respawn your companion at full health between fights.
Even if you have to heal a bit between fights, its still faster than killing things eventually, with a weak damage dealing companion in a heal spec. And toys are fun to use.
This is the way.
I love your SwagWalker Legacy
Depending on my character, I've had a real difficult time defeating the Gemini Captain. The class stories a very easy now. Back when, I had to actually use strategy. Now I can stand toe to toe with most.
oh yes that's another one that came up when i was researching this video!
Swtorista could you possibly look into the Gemini captain again since 7.0 came out? I am a new player but like to think I’m decent at the game. I am on story mode, 5 levels above the captain (75) with 250 gear rating but she still kills me within 1-2 mins of the fight starting. I haven’t even got her down half health. There’s a whole rubreddit on this too & honestly there is DEFINITELY something wrong with her difficulty since the update. Very frustrating as I just want to advance in the story but literally CAN’T as of now. I think this needs more attention as it is completely halting a lot of new players’ ability to just play through the story… on STORY mode.
Swtorista I also have looked up videos, raised Senya’s influence to 21, have her set as healer (I’m DPS), try to interrupt the captain’s best abilities, etc. I promise, I have tried everything & am doing exactly what others have done in videos from years ago but she absolutely shreds both Senya & I insanely fast. Honestly thinking about putting the game down for a while because of this which is a complete shame.
Swtorista if you made a video on this or something I’m sure the dev team would see it & make a very needed change. This has also been my favorite expansion but after all the hours of getting to the end of chapter 15, I simply cannot advance. As always, love your content.
If you have done all the main story lines use heroic moments it can save your butt
The colocoid boss in the inquisitor class story. I got so frustrated I deleted my inquisitor
LOL you took the extreme route! sorry to hear!
Can you make a video about ways to heal if your character ability does not include healing?
Probably won't make a video but...
1) Out of combat, all classes have an ability that lets them recover to full health
2) in combat, you can use a medpac. Medpacs can be picked up off the ground or the GTN
3) Set your companion to be a healer
That's about it!
Step one: Make sure you are equipped with level appropriate stated gear.
Step two: Make sure you use your interrupt skill.
Man I’ll start a new too I haven’t played in years!
For KotFE and beyond, are veteran mode “main quest” missions supposed to be solo-able or are they for a group? There were certain gimmicky boss fights that seemed impossible to solo in Veteran mode. Vaylin in the cave is a good example, since you can’t use your companion. On the other hand, story mode seemed entirely too easy. This was part of what frustrated me about SWTOR after the KotFE expansion the difficulty curve seemed to spike a little too much. But then my main character was a jugg tank.
I would be fine if they incentivized people learning to Tank by allowing tank players to always use a companion in solo mode fights
The story, veteran and master mode were specifically designed to be done solo. Some of the fights are hella harder than others. I've done KOTET 1-9 when they first came out on veteran in the previous expansions's gear and one of them was so hard I had to give up on it. I haven't tried them recently or on master mode yet. You'd really need to use all of this stuff in this video, gear the hell up, and really learn how to play you class.
Swtorista That’s the thing, My gear wasn’t maxed out but it was way stronger than what was being rewarded for those chapters. Some of the encounters also favored DPS as opposed to healers and tanks.
Is there any new content
It depends when you left. I go over a lot of the changes here th-cam.com/video/rMEptJVyMT4/w-d-xo.html
Struggling as a consular on Alderan. I'm level 24, but the Jedi Master I'm trying to fight then heal is something like gold level 31. I think I can equip some new gear at level 25.
Explored Alderan to gain up to level 25 and equip the gear and the battle went from impossible to acheivable.
Do you remember when you had to kill one mob, heal up kill another mob, heal up and rinse and repeat.. The days a planet took a day to finish
You forgot companion gifts from jawa vendors for new players robot companions are cheapest to max
Yes I did forget! That's a great way.
There are some bosses in ops that do circles you must stay in. Never understood how am i supposed to guess
Haha! The joys of the circle flip flop.
There's a sarlac pit!?
You should make a top 10 vibroswords!!!
its on my long wishlist lol
problem they stuck me in a walker and put me up against 3 really tough robots and the companion is missing the walkers powers suck and i have no way to get out of it or use my normal powers and i have no friends to ask for help my guild ignores me oh well
Just to as, when you're subscribed in-game, you get like 27 character slots, when you're preferred you have 15, if you have more then 15 when you change from subscribed to preferred, do you keep them or do some diaper?
they don't disappear but they're no longer active accounts. you have to pick which ones you want to remain active and I think it's only 12. the characters will remain and so will all the gear and everything else but you won't be able to access them until you change your account status and re-sub or choose to make a different character active/inactive
Fektthis got it exactly right!
I think you're in any to make a video on how to beat Malgus cuz the latest one is Broken as can be
I really have trouble with the gemini captain, when she turns to 4 of the same they hit so damn hard that there is no escape
Right a lot of players are reporting this issue. see if you can get another player in there to help you.
@@Swtorista thanks for the advice but I found a solution, I looked up your companion guide and buffed Senya up + if you manage to stand on 1 of the platforms before the gemini captain does that 4 of the same move she skip it and you can keep hitting just one
Hey! You're vids are awesome, but it would help if you had any idea whether I could run swtor. If you don't know, its fine and your videos are a great help for deciding if I should get SWTOR anyways.
Specs are below:
5.5 gb RAM (all useable)
480 GB Storage
1.5 MHz
Other Specs I think are fine, but on most sites these three things vary. Thanks alot for your help, your awesome vids earned you a sub! 😄
Uh some story's intersec areas of different story's thus mobs are higher.
Currently playing sith juggernaut with healer vette.....I have never once struggled with a fight
Hello! I'm new to this game and I've just started yesterday. My question is how to become a mandalorian. thanks
By choosing the class of Bounty Hunter
@@Dutchmancaptain more fun telling them to shove off when they offer it to you though XD
you find armour later game
you cant actually create a character that is directly called a mandalorian. You do get mandalorian companions (smuggler companion Akaavi, and Torian, bounty hunter companion, Shae Vizla). The Bounty Hunter character is called a mandalorian in the storyline, and you can buy with cartel coins or on the gtn some mandalorian armor, to get close enough to roleplay one. It isnt too hard, the bounty hunter story line ends with you being the leader of all mandalorians.
Welcome to the game! I see you got some great answers :) In short, the Bounty Hunter can later become a mandalorian.
1:21 Be snoopster and solo lol.
In short, read the tutorials, ability descriptions, and have basic reasoning skills.
Dear swtorista,
I've noticed during many, many videos that the AoE attacks have a cool 3D design. My AoE just look like the rep logo lying flat on the ground. I searched in-game for a 3D effect option, but I couldn't find it. Could you point it out to me, please?
Thank you
-Xaidac
What's the armor being worn by the newbie warrior in 0:28-0:42? Peas and carrooooooooooooooots!
Frenzied warrior! :) swtorista.com/armor/frenzied-warrior
Tip for bossfights: KILL. THE. ADDS. Take them out, so they're no longer damaging you. Less damage to you=less chance for you to die.
Quick tip for anyone who has lots of Jawa scrap. You can buy maintenance gifts from the Jawa vendors just for scrap, means you can upgrade your ship droid to lvl 50 for almost free. Other then the cartel comps, your ship droid can also craft for you. Just make sure to unlock the right legacy perk to upgrade your gifts. :)
They also sell gifts for animal comps.
ooooo good tip! Forgot about them!
Hardest for me so far on solo was the last boss on eternal championship. I almost broke my keyboard panicking to press defensive buffs, increase speed, stun remover and interrupt among other attacks. 9 out of 10 bosses defeated and I think I got no rewards there. (Or did I miss it?)