For this week’s show, we’re joined by Vee and Erick from Ask Mr. Robot. We discuss they new TOR tools, as well as all the latest news in the TOR galaxy!

What we did this week:

VEE/VERONICA
I worked on Mr. Robot and verified some items in game. And I’m trying to romance my companion.

ERIC
In game… I picked up a new companion on my Sniper – pretty cool story line. Disappointing companion though… Spent the week working on the site release, heh.

JOSH
Hutball on Sniper – just shoot
THOSE BOATS
Decked out my Robot companion in healing gear
Still no space combat — take that, Chris!

ANEXXIA
Got one of the Consulars to 27 (still not unlocked legacy; and ZOMG when will I stop being on Taris! second time around still not enamored of it)
Did a lowbie group w/The Collegium (Athiss)
Did not quite hit the 5mil credit mark — slow week in the GTN

CHRIS
Space combat with my smuggler.
Not too much game time this week, as I was busy conducting on my usual TOR night. Got to conduct a World of Warcraft medley, so that was fun.

Galactic Feed
TOROZ Interview: BioWare’s Gabe Amatangelo on PvP, Server Transfers
http://toroz.com.au/2012/03/interview-biowares-gabe-amatangelo-on-pvp-server-transfers/

A very entertaining Developer blog post by George Zoeller on Economic Changes in Patch 1.1.5
http://www.swtor.com/blog/economic-changes-patch-1.1.5

Bioware looking for Austin area game testers
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=3179050#edit3179050

Jedi’s Council

Ask Mr. Robot’s SWTOR Tools

Q1) So, what was the impetus behind starting this tool, when you were already running your very popular World of Warcraft site?

Q2) Can you give us an overview of the three tools you currently have available:

Character Builder
Build a profile of your SWTOR character including gear, companions, skills, crew skills, guild, server, and more. You can choose to add your character to Mr. Robot’s SWTOR Armory which would allow people search for your character, and for you to import your data into other third party tools such as simulators.

Mr. Robot’s Armory
Search for characters that you and others have created using the Character Builder.

Skill Calculator
In addition to experimenting with skills for all advanced classes, Mr. Robot will soon have recommended builds for popular specs.

Q3) OK, so we head to the site, and then what? Walk us through how you would go about setting up a profile for your character for the first time.

Q4) How does the filtering work? As I put in data about my character does the site dynamically update accordingly?

Q5) What is the one feature/function you are most excited about?

Q6) We noticed a few mentions of the armory being able to integrate with third-party apps. Do you have any potential partners signed up/working on any simulations?

Browsing the Holonet

6 Reasons why the Empire is Better than the Old Republic
http://www.dorkly.com/article/33103/the-dorklyst-6-reasons-why-the-empire-is-better-than-the-old-republic
FAVORITE: Technological Innovation–
In less than 20 years, the Empire revolutionized space warfare with the creation of the Death Star, making all large warships functionally obsolete. They also invented the AT-AT, making all ground fortifications equally obsolete. They created the Executor, Sun Crusher, and cloaking technology. The Empire did more in a couple decades than the Republic did in several thousand.

Matrix Cube Assembly Guide
http://torwars.com/2012/03/01/matrix-cube-assembly-guide

An Intro Guide to Commendations and Where to Get ‘em
http://swtorhub.com/commendations-old-republic

Feedback

 

Email

Hi guys and girl

Thank you for the great show. I would just like to know something. This may not be the place to ask it but I would like a little better understanding of the crew skills. Can each companion learn there own crew skill or is there only the 3 crew skill you can select at any give time and swap them out as needed?

Thank you for the help and the great show.

Regards

M0trix

Your companions do your crew skills bidding, however, they individually, do not actually “learn” those skills. You are the skill learner/holder. As such, you can pick a maximum of 1 crafting skill then can have any combination of 2 gathering and mission skills. You can not swap these around; I personally just roll alts and level their crafting when I have something new I want to make.

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