Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

Playing 100% keyboard though will become quite unsustainable eventually unless you have insanely dexterous fingers, if we're including keybinding EVERYTHING you ever use. Personally, I keep the default keybinds for quickbar #1, and then use Q, F, E, R, T, Y, G, H and mouse buttons 3-5. That's been enough for me to get everything I really use with any regularity, anything beyond that is used rarely enough that it's been fine to just click the ability, or it's non-combat stuff like refreshing the class buff, speeders, quick travel, priority transports etc.

greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat. LEft hubby to trobleshoot sound some more.

Come home and now nothing BUT the crappy head phones work.

While you definitely CAN just do the "story critical" missions that will basically be the class story and the main planetary quest line of each planet you visit, I would definitely recommend doing most of the stuff you come across at least the first time around for the story experience, if not the XP. It's nice when leveling your 50th character or whatever to just skip through all but the essentials, but doing just the bare minimum leaves the game and the characters, especially your player character feeling rather bare bones since you're missing the majority of the content/dialogue. I don't know what the leveling rate is as a F2P player, but at least with a sub right now you'll most likely hit the level cap waaaaaaaaayyyyy before even the end of the base class story, let alone any of the expansions.

I might be in the minority, but I actually liked the leveling and balance way back around when the game launched up until roughly when they introduced the level scaling for everything. If you did all of the sidequests and maybe fit in a handful of flashpoints as you went along, you'd hit that original level cap of 50 sometime on Corellia, which was fitting since that was right at the end of the original story portion before you started endgame stuff like ops and hard mode FP's. Another thing that might get tedious when leveling your umpteenth character but that part of me really misses was that the random mobs you came across on each planet were WAY tougher than now. You actually had to use that channeled heal ability between groups of enemies every now and then before jumping to the next! And something like a single gold enemy could actually kill you if you didn't somewhat know what you were doing, even if you had a healer comp or played a healer yourself with a tank comp, whereas now you can breeze through a dozen of them at once. It did a much, MUCH better job of prepping people for the group PvE content.

I suggest the planet+class missions. It should keep you about the right level. If needed you can do a couple extras or save them for once you're done and come back later. I love most of the planet stories though.

The Senya holostatue is the only one I have, but I don't remember where I got it from.

Doing only the main quests will get you leveled sure, but you end up missing out on some neat stuff.

Sorry to correct you, but F!Hawk - Jo Wyatt - voiced Female Imperial Agent in SWTOR . Inquisitor was voiced by another great actress - Xanthe Elbrick.


About missions - for the first character and first time on one side (Republic/Imperial) I'd say do everything. Including quests that you have to actually switch on (on the map top right corner - check the check box). All the quests are animated and voiced, all have some story in it - why ignore them?!

No, I think he comes in two planets from Korriban, after Imperial Balmorra Story.

The bolded is why I like doing planet missions while leveling, because your companions will sometimes comment on things that are happening and the like.  It gives you a deeper relationship with them, I think.  Even the ones who disagree with you or the ones you don't like   *kills Skadge again*

phoray I will get on later and friend you on my Imperial characters and if I see you on I'll send a tell and let you know it's me!  (phorayz, right?)

I actually lol at that. Very clever!

Purge her with fire.

I actually liked Vette. I was even writing a fanfiction for a while from her perspective for that romance (and slash with Quinn obviously. It is a fanfiction after all). I dunno, she was just more fun and less irritating to me than some of their other littl' sister rogues Imoen incarnations.

I know. Like I said, I usually do not like Imoen Incarnations, but a few of them I've actually liked. Vette was one, and, I am sure there was another at some point, but I am growing old, so my memory is not what it used to be.... Did not really like either LI in the BH story. Both male and female protagonists though were awesome. The one LI that actually creeped me out in the "taking advantage of" way was Nadia. Mako, I did not mind, just not really was keen to romance her. Her story was interesting.

My favorite female LIs were Vette, Ashara and Elara.