SWTOR

CaughtCross_sl said:

Sith Marauder. The comms can be used for gear? I have been taking gear usually.

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Yeah if you head into the merchant area of the imperial fleet you will see an equipment vendor, and a mod vendor. You can buy really good pieces of orange gear from the equipment vendor of that level range. Once you have an orange set, you can replace the mods in that orange set to automatically level it up. Also, a good way to make some money quick to get started would be to buy 2-3 of those packs from the cartel market and sell them on the market. You can get about 250k credits per. 750k helps a lot with filling in some gaps while moving quickly through the story line quests at 12x for yourself and for companions as well.

I also recommend doing the flash point daily once through group finder. Chances at good orange gear, and you also get a lot of comms for the completion of it once a day.

Make sure you always buy from the vendors on the fleet. they are 2 comms for each piece. You need a total of 9 armor/weapon (ie 8 armor + 1 hilt/barrel if single weapon, 7 armor + 2 hilt/barrel if dual wield class), 9 mods, and 7 enhancements. that's 25x2 or 50 comms for each time you upgrade all of your gear. you get 12 comms per class quest starting around lvl 10 or so and you get 3-4 class quests per planet (which works out to just shy of a complete gear upgrade per planet, or roughly 5 levels. The gear you buy is slightly higher than average for the level you are, and so it should last you a good 8-10 levels easily. basically every other planet you can upgrade all your gear and still have a ton of comms banked, just head back to the fleet and upgrade your mods whenever the quest reward gear is actually an improvement over your modded gear.

There's really no need to save comms for any particular level range. anytime after 47 you can head to Makeb which when you click on the little satellite doohickey gives you a buff that makes you and your gear lvl 55 anyway so upgrading gear is pointless. If you have Revan expac you can then start doing those flashpoints which gives you a super retardo strength droid which can solo the instances and you are really just a spectator to the storymode anyway. Still you can upgrade your gear as needed if you feel weak in the overworld stuff but once you finish revan and do the ziost planet you can buy all the 190 gear with all the extra comms you have. The only thing you are really missing at that point is a MH hilt/barrel and accessories, which you can also buy implants/earrings etc from ziost vendor and then worry about relics from the GTN. again I was almost at cap (1k) on basic comms even after buying gear every 10 levels. Makeb gives you 300 comms right off the bat.

on the outside of the supply area of fleet all the vendors are named level X Modifications or Level X gear. once you have a set of orange gear you never need to buy new gear except for looks. it's only the mods you want. On the inside ring there are all the previous end game gear from the various vendors with various types of currency (elite, ultimates, etc), the rare drop turn in gear, etc. from the various raids the game has had at the various level caps that the game has had.

the current end game raid stuff is like, 198? or 196? something like that? and now with Ziost Joe casual just leveling solo doing storymode ends up with 190 gear, which if you wanna do raiding is a better start point than the previous iterations. all the 178 and 186 gear from previous era's raiding is basically obsolete you don't need to do that to get geared to start the raid scene, if that's your thing. Personally the combat is pretty meh and the engine is starting to get rather dated, but the best part of this game was always the storymode anyway. I just treat it as a bioware RPG that you can talk to and group with other players in if you choose.