Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

All my other characters are male, and rightly so. But for the agent, you're missing out. Jo Wyatt voice is love/life.

It took me a long time to finally get into the Jedi Knight's story, but I think that was because I picked shitty dialogue options. 

After returning to the game a few years later, picking some more renegade options, romancing the shit out of Kira, and playing the expansions - I now consider the male Knight my main character. He's not quite Kyle Katarn levels of awesome Jedi, but I feel like he's close now 

Wow, just bringing this whole motherfucker down, man.

Despite considering my Jedi Knight my main, I still love the smuggler. In fact, pre-expansion it was my favorite class and the only one that jived with me. 

I felt at the time most of the other classes had missed the mark and didn't quite have the right tone. Smuggler on the other hand was exactly what it needed to be about and you got to revel in how much of a non-special savoir you were. 

Everyone else is off to either go save the galaxy or make a big name for themselves in the first 10-15 hours, while the poor smuggler is just trying to get their blasted ship back. They're constantly an underdog that manages to exploit that to their advantage.

Also you can change Skavak's medical record so that potential love interests will think he has incurable STDs...I'd take that over electrocuting someone every single time.


Only thing that changed for me was that the story expansions shifted in way that just makes non-force user characters horribly misused. The quality in the Eternal Throne stuff is surprisingly well done, but doesn't work with a smuggler.  

Better at trolling than the Smuggler, even. LS Veng Jugg is still my main after all these years.

My favorite is showing up to meet Jedi, repeatedly saying "I'm just here to ask you a few questions", "I'm not here to cause trouble", and suchlike things, and getting them so enraged at my character's failure to act like a "real" Sith that they just go berserk and attack.

Which happens, like, three times in Chapter I.

Yep! And the final mission of Tat class story, and the mission "The Plan Is Working!" from after Tat + Ald class stories.

The personal vendetta the Emperor has with you makes so much more sense when you killed him as a Jedi Knight.

The whole "you're unique and have so much potential to be more than you are" bit where the emperor is obsessed with you just doesn't fit when your skill set is mostly limited to drinking, getting into bar fights, flying, and smooching space babes. Maybe if they played that up a bit and made it feel like an actual arc for the character to overcome their more basic lifestyle I'd have felt differently. But they pretty much start and end KotFE/KotET from a position of authority that is pretty much the exact opposite of how I played the smuggler in their vanilla main story campaign. So much of that character can be played as a person who has no interest in getting involved with factions, politics, fighting people's wars, and by the end of the expansions you're a supreme leader that's bringing together all the various factions that hate one another. It feels natural as a Knight who slowly assumes more and more responsibilities in their class story and ends up becoming a master. 


Your main adversaries in the Eternal Throne expansions are all force users who are constantly described as extremely powerful, unique force wielders, who are nigh-unstoppable and require you to defeat two through one on one combat and the other through your brain/force in the end of the game. I like that the smuggler can be under-estimated and they find a way to use that against their enemies, but they don't do that in the expansions because it's all one same story at that point and you're forced to confront your enemies head on every time. Han Solo shouldn't be able to shoot Vader to death and then later go on to beat the Emperor through sheer will-power. 

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I play male and female characters.  And I loved the game up to and including RotHC.  It started to fall off after that for me because all the stories were one size fits all.  I really wish they would go back to what made SWtOR different to begin with and brought people to play: class/planet/companion stories.  With interesting FPs and Ops that fit into the stories.  I'm sure my wish on this will never get fulfilled though 

I keep playing though.  By leveling alts through Makeb and then making a new one

Yeah but I didnt have a starship when I beat the emperor...