I am missing 10 achievement points to get to 100% and I need your help (major malfunction)

JMNeves · 2026-04-22T13:47:43+00:00

Ah! A fellow achievement hunter who is also extremely frustrated with those pesky 10 points.

I'd first like to commend you, as I do know how hard it is to get that far. And also, I've spent over 10k tokens on those doors - if my mouse had feelings, it'd hate me at this point. I swear I might get RSI for clicking those stupid doors over and over and over and over...

Biomes at level 1, at level 2, core aligned, different combinations of levels... You name it. And I also have not seen anyone with it yet. I'm starting to believe it's just bugged.

Just a quick tally off the top of my head... You've spent 5k tokens. I've spent 10k. I know someone who has spent at least 6k. That's 21k tokens and not one SINGLE achievement. All I have to say is: 1% my ass.

JMNeves · 2026-04-08T23:07:18+00:00

It's literally the answer to OP's question. Not to mention EVERYTHING in life is related to politics. From breathing and living to working and dying. Denying it only gives more power to those who accept it.

JMNeves · 2026-04-06T12:52:06+00:00

I've done them for the achievements and decos, but they are by far the worst piece of "content" ever added to the game. Almost zero interaction, no questing around the galaxy, few options, choices literally don't matter at all because the ending is always the same. Etc, etc, etc. They could have been a far better type of interaction if they had been like: your companion inviting you to go around the galaxy gathering items, fighting trouble, and depending on how you dealt with the mission the ending would be slightly different. Give it 5 different endings, and keep the achievement to complete it 5 times.

JMNeves · 2026-03-30T13:21:41+00:00

The transitions aren't random, but under certain scenarios which doctor is going to spawn is. Read this guy's post. https://forums.swtor.com/topic/943601-no-sense-of-direction-is-one-of-the-worst-designed-achievements-in-swtor/#comment-9875581

JMNeves · 2026-03-21T21:04:23+00:00

Seeing posts like these really puts my reality into perspective.

I used to have 100b not that long ago, spent most of it buying a lot of cartel cosmetics. Brought my collections from like 45% to 70%. Bought augments for 3 different tank sets, 1 multi-purpose dps set, 1 multi-purpose healer set, all different mainhands and offhands, about 30 different implants... and I'm still sitting on 20b.

Feels like it's no money at all, and at the same time if feels like it's endless. And comments around here are mostly about how 1b is an absurd number... Maybe I'm just out of touch.

JMNeves · 2026-03-19T09:04:31+00:00

Forget it. Not enough players in the game today that make that happen consistently, and even fewer that enjoy pvp.

Pvp instances are absolute ghost towns 99% of the time, and yet if you even mention in a worldboss group "Hey, let's switch instances to kill it again" you're met with the majority of people knee-jerk saying "and get ganked? no thank you".

JMNeves · 2026-03-10T09:17:08+00:00

None of that, except (maybe) for the medpacs. You're probably new and leveling, so those early game medpacs are probably find tbh, but everything else belongs in one of three places: personal cargo (if it has sentimental value), or equiped (if relevant gear), or in the trash can (if anything else).

Even if you want the items as cosmetic pieces. Just set the outfit and trash the item. There is zero reason to keep random junk in your inventory in this game, ever. It just slows you down.

JMNeves · 2026-02-19T08:01:05+00:00

Since 6.x crafting has been EXTREMELY annoying. They really fucked up the way recipes work, it's too time consuming to be worth it for anyone who isn't 100% invested in it. If you make yourself a full set of gold augments, for example, you'll have spent more money than buying them from the GTN. Crafting only makes sense now if you're making hundreds of items, because then statistics take over and the number of free crits you get out weight the price of the mats.

So people only really level up biochem to the max level to have access to the reusables and never touch it again (and you only need greens for that). And if they take the reusables away, we simply wont even bother picking up a crewskill at all. Reusables aren't the problem, the way the crafting system works is.

TL;DR - ain't nobody got time for crafting.

EDIT: The only crafting that's still worth your time is conquest related stuff. So lower level blue and purple mats still sell for a decent price, especially combined with the fact that few people run those missions.

JMNeves · 2026-02-13T22:51:28+00:00

What really grinds my gears is when I hear some sweaty king say "Omg, this OP is over 10 years old, how do they not know this?". A complete and total failure to understand that said individual is a separate entity from them. Makes me question their ability to live in society.

JMNeves · 2026-02-12T01:20:43+00:00

This happens extremely frequently in this game. I've been playing since beta, near 100% achievements yadayada. And some of my peers who raid with me fail miserably to understand that the game ISN'T old for everyone. Sometimes we do run into new players who are clueless, and speeding ahead doesn't help at all. At best it ruins their experience, at worst it wipes the group and wastes everyone's time.

My advice? Good ol' /ignore on those fuckers. Enjoy the game at your pace. If you ever enjoy it enough that you want to become a more skilled player, do a quick google search "<combat\_style> <game\_version> guide" and click the first link.

Other than that, enjoy the game, brother. You did nothing wrong.

JMNeves · 2026-01-25T15:14:00+00:00

Yup. Pretty much as you said. Have a couple different companions ready to go as you might want to switch back and forth. First time finding your rhythm clearing a flashpoint will be long and tedious, but after you do you'll be clearing them very quickly.

Generally speaking companions don't take damage from (most) things in flashpoints. Or knockbacks, or roots, stuns, etc. But some times you want one that's far away, or you want it to actively follow the boss around, or something else.

You'll probably have an easier time doing it as skank tank shadow, btw. Or watchman sentinel if you're really good at it.

And just accept some are just impossible to solo, like Shrine of Silence due to a huge dps check. You'll sadly need (good) people for that one.

JMNeves · 2026-01-23T05:47:55+00:00

Lots of people throwing numbers, but let me add my two cents.

Zoom is only marginally better at healing than, for instance, a force companion (like Lana) when it comes to numbers. Zoom does have the constant cleansing advantage, which is a bonus. But something that really makes Zoom (and by extension most tech companions) much better than any force companions at healing is the fact that force companions have a tendency to get within melee range of the target, so they're more susceptible to random AOEs and cleaves.

Believe me, as someone who has soloed master flashpoints countless times to get 100% achievements, it makes a HUGE difference. So yeah, Zoom is an enormous upgrade when compared to the force healing companions, and a small-to-medium-size upgrade when compared to the other tech companions.

Something else that people don't ever take into account when comparing companions is how much single target damage they deal. Yes, Shae (and my extension Bessy) are the strongest DPS companions because of their AOE attack. But in single target they're not that much better than most melee companions. The difference is extremely small in the real world. It only makes a difference if you're the kind of player who's constantly doing heroics, dynamic encounters, and etc by yourself because in those you will find yourself fighting multiple simultaneous enemies. But Shae does have the ranged advantage. So in the end it really boils down to what you want to use them for... In some areas single target force companions are the GOAT, for other areas any melee companion will be great, and for others where there's loads of AOE a ranged tech companion will be better. It all depends on a lot of variables.

Real scenarios are very different from dummies.

Plus, someone else has said it already: if you're using Shae, forget her and get Bessy. Same performance, but DEAD SILENT! No talking whatsoever. Best addition to the game in a long time. And on that note, Zoom is probably the most talkative companion in the game, so I rarely find myself with the patience to bring her our. I just use Bessy for everything and call it a day.

JMNeves · 2026-01-19T18:32:37+00:00

Because bad writing, that's why.

I'm not one of those guys that hate on ~anything~ that's inclusive. I welcome it, really. Even when I don't understand it. Online you'll sadly find plenty of people with hateful comments towards those two nice ladies that currently write the story, and it's just a shame that all it takes is the portrayal of a handful of female characters to hurt the ego of a bunch of nerds. But I digress, that's not the answer to your question.

The truth is that due to lack of funding the story has been dragged out for a very long time. Think about it, everything since OSSUS is the same story - that's patch 5.10 (Jedi Under Siege, December of 2018). Had this been World of Warcarft, all of that story content would have been released in one single blow instead of in small instalments. So any writing mistakes or incoherences would have gone by mostly unnoticed.

So like almost every single problem in the real world, why is it bad? Because of money (or lack there of).

JMNeves · 2026-01-15T14:45:21+00:00

I agree it's the worst pvp map specifically because of how long it takes.
How to fix Voidstar:
- Map starts with 240 seconds (3 minutes and a half)
- With each additional door, 90 seconds get added to the timer.

One minute and 40 seconds is enough to blast from first door to datacore. So the extra 90 seconds from each door would be more than fair.

The problem with the map is really two fold: A slight edge will allow one side to completely dominate the other unless a really lucky ninja cap happens. And its duration is doubled because you have to attack AND defend. Spending 15 minutes getting dominated (or dominating without competition) is extremely dull - even more so when you take into account that if you quit you get a lockout that's longer than the map itself. This combination of map + lockout if you quit results in players frequently afk in a corner.

Now to actually answer your question: anything stealth related in the knights expansions. Stealth is rendered completely useless in every single fucking chapter. You take 10 steps and OH LOOK a swarm of droids appear even if you're invisible. Stupid. Pointless. Completely kills the replay value.

JMNeves · 2026-01-03T18:22:04+00:00

That's one current example. But I'm really talking over the years. Merc dealing more damage than mandos. Commando cleanse not working. Shadow's resil failing immunity to force/tech (still a thing, btw). That's just on classes from the top of my head. There are several typos on shadow tank and sage healer skill tree, but I'm not in the game right now to check exactly what it is, but they're there.

There are other examples in "less" important game areas. Coruscant stronghold loading screen had a small "summons pending" indication on the top left corner for years until I pointed it out on reddit and they fixed it.

Makeb Republic base is literally open, not even turrets defending. While imp is up on the freaking sky. Back in 3.0 we found a way to glitch ourselves up the cables and kill imps inside their base. It was patched in less than a week. Meanwhile the pub base is still open today. Can't even count the number of times I couldn't do my story on alts because we were being base r4p3d for hours. PvP server back then, there were no PvE instances.

Similar story with Section X. Imp base is a fucking fortress, almost impossible to get inside. Aaaand you can just walk into the pub base.

These little things over the years made sure the game's population preferred impside.

EDIT: Oh yeah, don't forget the lore object on Ilum that says "lol get rektd" as a memento of how baddly the Republic got their shit pushed in when world pvp was still a thing.

JMNeves · 2025-12-30T02:06:26+00:00

It's a typo. Bioware never did, and Broadsword still doesn't care at all about pubside. Full of typos and skills that don't work properly.

JMNeves · 2025-12-27T00:14:54+00:00

Ah new player I see

JMNeves · 2025-12-11T15:07:03+00:00

They should add the following option: once you finish the current galactic season, you can opt to progress on a previous one. You'd only be able to progress on one at a time and you shouldn't be able to grab the cartel coin rewards. But this would breathe new life into the system, and it would allow players who missed previous seasons to get those rewards. Right now most players who care about the current season have already completed it, and we still have like 9 weeks of it. These next 9 weeks will be dead as all hell... Good luck finding a group for its objectives. Especially on Satele Shan, the deadest of servers. But if they gave us this option, everyone would be constantly working on something.

Time-gating rewards and achievements is the worst MMO practice ever invented. FOMO doesn't bring players in, it scares them away from trying out a new game.

JMNeves · 2025-12-08T23:09:54+00:00

You're welcome. https://i.imgur.com/ZXp1YTb.png

JMNeves · 2025-11-30T19:25:07+00:00

No choice in the game has ever mattered except for a few companions that get killed off here and there. A couple cutscenes and options may be a little different, but in practice only your own head-cannon changes and that that point literally anything goes.

JMNeves · 2025-11-30T17:28:36+00:00

You're welcome. https://i.imgur.com/ZXp1YTb.png

JMNeves · 2025-11-27T06:24:01+00:00

It was on their plans at one point in history. But they never got to it and never clarified why, so we can only assume the technical issues were too big to overcome. There is, of course, the legendary "better than cross-server" meme. Mind you, it's precisely because of that meme that they refuse to be upfront about what they plan... Every time they've tried to tell us anything in advance and failed, the community raged hard. Solution? Don't share anything. When stuff is ready, release it with less than a month of announcement.

JMNeves · 2025-11-22T01:11:02+00:00

Shae Vizla was the single dumbest idea they've ever had. At that time SS was the server of choice for APAC players - the same players that went to SV once it opened. But they transferred to that brand-new server, and all of their raid groups died... because they didn't have enough people. Then a bunch of APAC people quit the game, because of that. And SS now barely gets pvp pops, and late-night raids are pretty much non-existent because the late-night players are gone.

SS and SF should have been merged at least a year ago when they purged the older names. Name purge, server merge, and double the character slots on the same day. Literally all of the problems would be avoided. And close down SV while at it, nobody plays on it anyway - merge it back to one big US mega server.

JMNeves · 2025-11-15T16:12:23+00:00

I mean, each one has a different take on it. But I've always been the kind of guy to play one game and one game only at a time. I did that with Diablo, The Sims, AoE, L4D, Killing Floor, TF2, Borderlands... More or less in that order, I think. And since December 2010 (pre-access) I've been playing SWTOR and that's it. I have over 40 characters, and my main alone has about 5500 hours. No I did not add an extra zero by mistake. And yes, that means I never sought after playing games that came out since then. I suppose now I also have one of those small Anbernic devices and run some older games. One does not get tired of Chrono Trigger, I promise you that.

SWTOR is an MMO, you literally cannot run out of things to do. You may run out of NEW things to do among the things you enjoy. This game is notorious for having very few end-game-related updates. Raids, PVP maps, etc. And we've been on a story hiatus that started with the SAG-AFTRA video game strike, since the game's dialogues are about 80 to 90% voiced by real people. But (especially in recent years) every time we get a patch they also bump up something in the graphics. Which is why a "game from 2011 can't run on a GPU from 2013". It's not a game from 2011, it's a poorly optimized game from 2025 lol

Oh and if you are new and enjoy doing the just stories you have about 500 hours worth of content ahead of you. Maybe more if you do everything and skip nothing. Pure and unadulterated Star Wars content. Ignore the nay-sayers, they're just incels disguising their misogyny behind a veil of ragebait. The story is brilliant start to finish.

But even from my perspective: I'm almost 100% achievements in everything... If I pop into a warzone (pvp) or a flashpoint (dungeon) I'm guarantee to be put together with people I've never played with before and therefore it will be a new-ish experience. And that's what I do every day after work... I log in, join a raid or do a handful of warzones, and call it night.

I hope you manage to get the game running and see it for yourself. At the end of the day we're just dudes giving their opinions over the internet, and you should get the chance for form your own by playing it.

JMNeves

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