Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

I second all of this.  Except for the missing Makeb part.  The storyline on Makeb I loved, but I hated all of the questing there.

I have yet to finish KotET on any characters but my troopers/bh.  Having their LI back really did make a difference to me through the KotFE line.  I have a slinger almost done but she was my boosted toon and romanced Theron.  The rest of them are somewhere in the KotFE/KotET chapters, but its hard to care enough to play them, when I've already seen what will happen and I know I won't be getting any of the LI back.

1-50 is why I still sub to the game.  I have so many toons and I just keep making more specifically to level.   

lilyenachaos same! i have so many lowbie alts

akrabra I would say yes to the Torian romance. It's very sweet. I like the BH the least of the 8 and prefer the Vector romance, but after the new stuff I really do like the Torian romance and would recommend it.

I honestly like all the female romances though, my least fav is probably Quinn.

Aric and Vector are my favourites aswell. I have replayed the agent storyline way too many times just for the bugman. Never played male agent, Kaliyo makes my skin crawl. I do like Felix aswell though, for Consulars. While he is somewhat boring, he is just a decent down to earth guy and there aren't many of those around. 

Going to make a Fem Bounty Hunter now, starting at level 1 and playing it all the way through KoTet, this is gonna be rough. Is there any addtional dialogue with Torian if you are a Mandalorian?

I ran through the first part of KOTFE with my Vanguard, and maybe with one or two more chars that I cannot recall. It did no feel right for him, and I was bored. By then, I was mostly into doing group content anyway. The story did not have links between the classes, not even any differences between republic and empire. For me, the breakthrough in SWTOR's SP experience was that jaw dropping titanic and monumental task of uniting 8 unique and varied class stories, each with multiple quest resolutions. So, Rishi, where the class stories wound down was the last bit of actual story SWTOR experience. The rest just did not really appeal.

Heh, I am a straight female, but I love most of the romances for SWTOR males, and prefer to play as a male, since i really like how cool they turn out. Jedi Knight story is second least favorite (I like Imperial Agent less), and I don't like either romance for him/her. I'd have loved to romance The Sith Lord you get on the crew instead, can't remember his name.

Torian was nice, but really boring for me, I don't like the romances that are too much like real life with a nice guy. On IA, I really loved dumping Kalyio for Raina, same as dumping Risha for Akaavi.

Edit: if I have to pick my favorite characters for the story and most played with, I'd go with:

Quinly Zabrack (renamed to Tuonel) healer Sage, unofficially romanced Zenith;
Tishujen, twilek female Gunslinger, that romanced Numen Brok, tried to settle for Riggs, then moved to Shan
Ruvvoy, Sorcerer heals, loved Ashara, his feelings were not quite returned, so he fell for Cytherat, then remained unattached
Runt'o'litter, Cathar Operative healer, dumped Kalyio, filled around with Raina, but really... love? Meow.
Yvolgar, twilek Sith Juggernaut, a crazy nuvorish from Balmorra that was really in love with Vette, but sort of left Barras to stew and went to become an ace pilot (erm, in his mind, I was terrible at gsf) instead in GSF
Tageren, a real honourable Vanguard, a Mirialian, whose only DS act was saving Jaxo, whom he walked out on, staying loyal to Elara
And Glean and Glaen, Mando and Merc I'd thought would be healers, hence annogram of Galen as names, but turned out to be DPS. Did not really finish their romances, pvp for Glean, PvE for Glaen. Glean was a Miri, and Glaen -a Pb Sith.

The characters that did not turn out all that well were Gori, the Cathar Powertech, Tredici, the Miraluka Guardian (he looked gorgeous though), Becchino, the Sith Marauder and a Human Sentinel, Lariko.

The character I plain hated was Dusk-fell, the Chriss Sniper

The character I regret running out of time to play was Last Words, the Torguta Shadow and Last Laugh, the Miraluka Scoundrel (but I played a Twilek to Togruta Scoundrel heals called Rhodion a fair bit).

There are some other characters that did not make it past level 50, but they are not memorable at all...

Consular is actually one of my favourite stories. It makes you actually feel like a Jedi. You help the people of the Republic, and forge Alliances that benefits it. As much a diplomat as a warrior. Really enjoy the female Consular voice aswell, she is so serene. Added to that the romance with Felix is sweet and has some of my favourite Jedi relationship dialogue. I'll quote the line when i find it.

Consular bores me to tears on Tython/most of Chapter 1. The last time I did it I literally completed one objective of the first mission before I instantly wanted to delete and roll another Knight.

But it does get a lot better from Chapter 2 onwards. I really like the Rift Alliance stuff and wish it factored into stuff more. And I miss Nadia as well...

Bounty Hunters hunt things. The end. The saving grace is of course Mako

For sure. Thursday nights still work for you? Or weekends? It might have to be a bit later than 6 EST since I work later these days. We can take this to PM to discuss schedules with any interested parties.

Yay, my lightsabers are getting fixed (at least I hope). I can see them screwing this up somehow.

Rough. Sorry to hear it. I have a feeling I left at a good time. All my SWTOR experiences and memories are mostly really fond and golden. I just wish there was more space on this forum to rave about SWTOR... though it did change so much....

Ok. The promised legacy cxp boost costs 3.5 million credits, increases cxp by only 10% and is -not- for the legacy, just for that character.

The new options to get gear seem to be okay though. Upgrading a set piece from Tier1 to Tier2 costs 150 components (and some command tokens, of which I have too many anyway). Winning GSF gets me 8 components (not to mention almost 1200 cxp) and unranked warzones are okay, too. Only arenas seem to have decreased cxp somehow. I haven't tried ranked yet, no one is queueing up for that this late. I'll look into it tomorrow.
All together I got 84 components from PvP today, which means I should be able to upgrade my T1 chest piece to T2 tomorrow. I think that's plenty fast progress. By the end of the week I should have all pieces at 236.

In theory this makes gearing up alts somewhat faster, as I can just buy the gear for them, put the mods/enhancement/armoring etc in legacy gear and trade it to them that way. But that's... not the best idea I think. Won't work for relics, implants etc either.

I wish they simply had used legacy xp for this, we wouldn't need this cumbersome system then. But then F2P had access, too... and BioWare can't allow that.

I can't handle this game anymore.

To me it has gone beyond a joke. PVP is ridiculous. The lack of any meaningful new PVE content is ridiculous. The added restrictions to the already extreme f2p model are ridiculous.



I've been checking out other MMO's and found that Guild Wars 2 is actually pretty fun, funny thing is I can play the entire base game for free with virtually no restrictions, and then make an informed decision about buying the expansion. I was a big fan of the original Guild Wars but never got into 2 before since it is quite a different style of gameplay.