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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 9780359" data-attributes="member: 6750306">I have this bizarre, unreasonable dislike of having to fight things in games... I like to run around exploring and rummaging through peoples' homes and pockets to steal their stuff. Combat is often one of my least favorite things to do... Fighting things, anyway. I do like running around headshotting people and having them fall over, usually from an enormous distance or with some other high difficulty shot. So I usually play stealth archers.When I was playing Skyrim I had a bow that could one-shot dragons.On the topic of improving combat efficiency, Star Wars: The Old Republic is doing a subscriber event at the moment... The top gear in the game is item rating 344 Rakata gear, which you normally can only get by grinding for it (and the components to upgrade it) in large operations groups. Otherwise, you can only get as high as item level 340.However, for logging in at least four days during the week, you can now get six "subscriber tokens" per week that you can spend at a specific vendor to get a piece of 340 Rakata gear specced out for your current combat discipline (dps, tank, heals) for a cost of two tokens, which you can upgrade to 344 with these things called OP-1 Catalysts (also available from the vendor for tokens). So it'd take you three weeks to get a full set of gear (head, wrists, hands, chest, belt, legs, and boots), and another three weeks to upgrade it all to 344 gear. Which is a hell of a lot less time and effort than it would take grinding ops the old-fashioned way.This is great for me, because I don't have a lot of playing time available, and I don't like having to play in large randomly-assembled groups. Not to slag on the game or anything, but most of the people running ops are hardcore guild raiders who've refined everything down to a to-the-second speed run, and will often leave you behind or kick you from the group if you can't keep up. Grinding ops is basically all they do.Now, although you definitely don't need 344 gear for anything other than running ops or pvp matches, and you can basically get through the whole story mode with nothing but the random gear that drops in-game, it's gonna be really nice to have maxed-out gear on my main character...</blockquote>

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