Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

I'd do them...

Question: How viable is it to just play this game in free-to-play mode and treat it purely as a single player game, only wanting to experience the story and ignoring most of the MMO stuff?

If I were to attempt it would I discover that most of the game is absolutely brutally hard and almost impossible to survive without being in a well-geared group, and paying attention to all that spreadsheet min/maxing, meta, best in slot stuff that usually goes with MMOs?

Is it possible to level without hours and hours and hours of ceaseless grinding?

Or is it fairly simple to level up a character entirely solo without needing other players to help me?

Free-to-play players are limited to the story content they have access to, it ends with Shadow of Raven (max level 60 I think) and you don't need to min/max gear to do the content for it. Min/maxing is reserved for max level (80).

You will level up as you do the story content, no need to grind unless you want to level faster than required. I think FP2 have to do the side quests (purple quests are the main quests that gives the most XP, yellow quest are the side quests). I have never been F2P so I don't know exactly.

Veteran/Master Flashpoints, Uprisings and Operations (aka Raids) are group content. I don't do them, you don't have to do them either.

Story Flashpoint are soloable (with AI companions) and story related (mostly, I'm still wondering what is the point of Directive 7).
Heroics + 2 are soloable with your AI companion, but some are a PITA (they are badly balanced). They aren't super important to do, but give nice XP if you need some more.

I only play solo and I have zero issue leveling up characters.

I like jumping and platforming puzzles about as much as I like root canal surgery without anaesthetic So will be avoiding those.

I've created an account and installed the game, and also bought a handful of Hutt Cartel coins just so as to remove some of the more annoying restrictions such as limited credits etc. So I'm good to go. Think I'll make a Jedi Sentinel, as that's what I play the majority of the time in KotOR 1 and 2, so it's familiar and comforting to me.

Just need to finish current playthrough of KotOR 2 first, as I want to experience the stories in the correct order.

Sentinel in KOTOR was a roguish Jedi, Sentinel in SWTOR is a dual wielding DPS version of the Guardian. If you want a roguish Jedi, you want Shadow/Assassin, but that means using double bladed lightsaber.

Also, to follow the story in SWTOR in the correct order you probably want to keep this nearby. As a F2P, you'll stop at Ziost, but you'll be able to experience the entire Revan story related stuff. Note that it shows the Operations (raids) paths, you can ignore those. I would also suggest jumping from Makeb to Forged Alliance. Seeker Droid/Macrobinocular are side activities. The Czerka flashpoints don't have solo version and CZ-198 is a daily area with zero story. All the flashpoints outside the main line don't have story mode (solo version) and aren't part of the main story anyway.

Thanks, I fixed it. Mine send to a graphical representation of the story.

Darth Jadus said to my Operative "Bow before me!"

I said "I'll pass."

Jadus said "You'll be sorry!"

I said "Nah. I'm good."

He zapped the crap out of me. Then a medical probe showed up to restore me, I got a call and walked out. Still didn't bow. Screw that guy.