First, congrats to those who made Jedi. But this just confirms what I have thought all along - that Jedi was not yet in the game until recently and that there is no real formula for getting Jedi. It seems obvious people were just awarded Jedi status by GM's.
Look at the facts:
1. There was a patch recently, and there have been other files patched in with no notes on them.
2. Within days of that patch, not one, but several Jedi all appear at around the same time on different servers, most on the same day even. What are the odds that all of them would go FS at the same time? 4 months into the game and suddenly within hours of each other multiple Jedis appear on multiple servers? It seems beyond coincidence to me.
3. It is the start of Christmas season and the SWG marketing people want to get people talking about SWG again. First you get Jedi's and then you add vehicles and other new things. Instant press and buzz just as people are making up their Christmas list. Again, the timing is suspicious.
4. 2 weeks ago FFXI came out and was a huge hit, taking players away from games like SWG. How to best get them back? Jedi of course.
What does this add up to? Jedi are likely awarded by hand by GM's, not earned through some internal system. I'm not even saying this is a bad thing necessarily, but it is not what everyone was led to believe. The facts are pretty clear on it.
Congratulations Monika T'Sarn for Unlocking the Force Sensitive Slot!
Monika T'Sarn of the PA Combine on the Intrepid Server unlocked her FS today. Akinom T'Sarn (her FS character) is the first player confirmed JEDI INITIATE in all of Star Wars Galaxies. I had the pleasure of seeing her the day of the announcement an even greater pleasure to duel her.
So a HUGE congratulation to her on this most sought after accomplishment. Now onto the details I am sure you all are dying to know. Please realize Akinom was being literally pounded by questions so I kept it brief as possible....
What she did with her original character to unlock her Force Sensitive slot is as follows in her own words:
Here's what I did, from start to the end.
Human female artisan, starting in Bestine.
Master Medic
Master Creature handler
Pistoleer up to 2444
Dropped Creature handler, pistoleer
Master Marksman
Commando 0440
Doctor 4430
Got my first three holos from dark troopers in the naboo faction dungeon, 2 red 1 blue
First holo told me to master ranger. Dropped all medic+doctor, got master scout, master ranger.
Second holo told me master doctor. Dropped all scout, got master doctor.
Third holo told me master weapon smith. Did that.
Fourth holo was silent.
After the fourth holo I mastered artisan and brawler.
Other stuff:
Finished the rebel theme park, did some other rebel-related quests. Did the Jedi-quests on dantoine ( or dathomir, not sure, from the Jedi in the cave with the dark Jedi outside ?) Not much else in quests though.
Got the two monthly badges on the rebel side, no others.
Placed a house and declared residence, yesterday.
Was rebel colonel, the highest rank, for a long time.
The slot opening message came at the first mob she killed today on dathomir, a female picket longhorn.
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Monika T'Sarn, Combine
www.the-combine.net
Now in some Rapid fire follow up questions by the pistoleer correspondent Philosopher1976 and others the following information was gathered:
Additional information on what her main character has done:
She finished mastering her last profession 1 week ago.
She says that she has visited every town on every planet.
She was never married.
She never intentionally visited a static POI, she says.
She killed the piket maybe 10 minutes after she logged in. Before killing the piket she buffed herself and took a shuttle.
She placed and declared her first residence yesterday, her new Jedi character has access to the house.
She never sold goods from a vendor.
She says that the one type of mob/NPC that she never intentionally killed was Jawas.
As far as faction perks go, she has bought some armor, several NPCs, no buildings.
She has visited a battlefield, but not often. The battlefield was PvE.
She did none of the Hermit quests.
She never used the matchmaking feature, and her friends list was between 20-30 people.
She did not do the Endor Maurauder quest ... she only did Rebel-related quests, the theme park, plus some quests on Tattoine and Corellia.
She never looted any force crystals or force-related items, aside from this petrified egg that she looted.
Information on her New Jedi:
She started with a mineral survey kit, a chemical survey kit, brawler newbie clothing, and a generic crafting tool. She had to make a lightsaber crafting tool, then make a crystal, then make a saber.
She says that making the second saber is buggy and does not accept her newbie saber as an ingredient.
Here are the stats on her lightsaber, according to her:
Training, Light Sabre
AP rating Medium, Damage type Kinetic, 94-189 damage 1.4 speed and HAM cost of 5/5/5
Her Jedi has the same HAM as the rest of us.
She is not TEFed unless she USES A SPECIAL, so she can walk around town freely otherwise. She was dueling people and could not be attacked because she was just using the default auto attack.
Based on a quick scan of the combat spam she was hitting between 45-60 PVP per hit with the default attack, which corresponds with the current equation we already know (1.5 damage modifier, divided by 4 for PvP).
There are two different types of XP on the skill tree ... lightsaber XP and Jedi XP.
She gets the lightsaber XP from killing things with the saber (obviously). She said that the "Jedi XP" works like Combat XP does.
I asked her how she trained her first skill ... she said that there is a trainer (not a Holocron) that she gets the skill from. The trainer is in Wayfar. The Jedi trainer is disguised as an artisan trainer.
She can group and fight with other players, sharing the XP with them.
She can also be healed by non-Jedi.
So a HUGE congratulation to her on this most sought after accomplishment. Now onto the details I am sure you all are dying to know. Please realize Akinom was being literally pounded by questions so I kept it brief as possible....Tags: News, StarWarsGalaxies
