Does anyone have a screen grab of Kanan saying "Empire Day! I love it!" from the Empire Day episode? I'm looking around online for it, and can't seem to find a screencap of it anywhere
I just purchased the game (and expansion) on sale, Empire at War has been on my "man, I ought to play that" list forever. I'm seeing that the modding community for the game is huge, and a lot of people recommend mods that overhaul and expand the gameplay.
As a totally new player to Empire at War (and not terribly experienced with the RTS genre in general), should I start out with the base game to learn it as is? Or is the game outdated enough/are the overhaul mods so good that I should install them right away and learn to play the game that way?
For context, I'm playing a level 45 red minstrel. I've partied up in a Fellowship out in the landscape maybe 2 or 3 times, and I've not yet done any group content. I'm generally solo because I usually enjoy going slow through games, partly because I typically can only play in small bursts when I have the fleeting free time.
Last night, I decided to try popping into a group doing an instance I was struggling to solo. I saw a group was queued up, but I realized I don't really understand what I needed to do after joining it, and the quest never actually started. I joined the group and waited maybe 20 or so minutes, and never got sent to the dungeon. Is there something I need to do to indicate to the others that I'm ready? Was I somehow holding them up and keeping them from starting it?
Also, it said any level between 30-160, but what level is the instance itself being run at? I'd hate to take up a spot in a group doing the level 160 version of the quest with my level 45 character and waste everyone's time.
Lastly, if I do decide to jump into group content, would it be a waste of everyone's time if I say that I'm new to that instance? Is the expectation that people do the instances alone to learn them/see the story, and join groups to grind them out once they know what happens? Are people going to expect me to be in the blue spec for minstrel?
I'm poking around the crafting guilds for the first time, specifically the scholar and cook ones, and I'm not exactly sure I understand what I'm meant to be doing. The only things I seem able to do right now with them are making reputation items for the guilds themselves, which I do see I need to raise my reputation in order to get recipes for anything else. Just an aside, as a fairly slow and casual player who has started to really enjoy the farming and cooking crafts, working my skill up to be able to join the guild only to find that they don't provide anything cool or useful off the bat was pretty anticlimactic and a bit disappointing.
My actual question, though, is should I go ahead and just use the rep items as soon as I create them, or is it better to save them and turn them in to the vendor at the guild? For example with the scholar guild, at the vendor there I can turn in 7 small rep scrolls for a medium one; is it more beneficial to just use the small ones for rep now, or to hang on and progressively turn each tier of the item in for the next higher one?