Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

That's an old link, and not a specific one at that. "The year of companions" doesn't narrow down much. How many major updates do they do in a year?

I thought they had actually confirmed for a specific patch, like they have been doing.

I've been reading stuff in here and elsewhere about the latest story bits and it got me to reinstall the game...again. And no, it's not for Thana Vesh, I think I always kill her.

Every time I decide to uninstall SWTOR and tell myself it's the last time I play the game, I reinstall it 6 months later. *sigh*

If you count planetary quests, flashpoints, ops, dailies.. it is overwhelming which is why they provide an option to hide most quest marks in the map. But they're all doable at any time. No real rush, enjoy at your own pace.

While I still would prefer the leveling to be as slow as it once was (hitting 50 somewhere roughly midway into Corellia having done every planetary questline, side quest and each flashpoint at least once along the way as they became available), the current model does allow you to speed through to the KOTFE/KOTET content and beyond rather quickly IF you don't mind skipping a ton of quests. Level-wise you'll easily keep up just doing class quests and the main questline on the planets. You could probably even skip the planetary questline tbh, but there's a limit to how much I'm personally willing to skip.

I miss the days when it was genuinely challenging to do stuff like taking on champion level mobs solo with just your companion, forcing you to actually git sort of gud and giving you some practice in getting your rotations right for group content before and without actually having to step foot into a flashpoint or operation. Now the only way is to actually do them, leaving you (well, me at least) feeling like you're shit and dragging your group down because you're beyond rusty since you cut through any solo content like a hot knife through butter without any challenge.

It's been a while since I've tested one, but are the level scaled flashpoints (group ones, not solo mode) still disproportionately hard if you go in at lower levels? Because I remember trying to do Hammer Station at ~20 (a few levels later than the original intended level for it way back when) with the rest of my group being something like from late 40's to 60 and all the mobs absolutely MELTED me, no matter how much my stats were supposed to be adjusted.

But I'm starting a new job shortly, so I think I'll get a sub going again since my pay is going to be nice enough that I won't feel too bad about paying for it even if I go some time without playing.

Esseles/Black Talon were always easy, I was duo-ing them with comps right out of starter planets at release which isn't that much different than doing the solo mode now with you companion and the robot (outside 4.0 companions being better). BioWare haven't touched their enemies difficulty from what I can see, the "easier experience" is the result of the companions changes. The faster leveling is the result of the questing XP rework (aka purple quests).

SWTOR leveling speed isn't that fast. Sure you'll level cap long before you reach Coruscant if you do everything, use XP boost and got a sub, but it's not any faster than GW2 or ESO (my two other MMOs) under the same conditions. In fact, GW2 throws XP at you (via tomes and anniversary scrolls) and ESO seems to have made it easier than aoibhealfae experienced because I leveled a character from 1 to 25 over the weekend without using XP boosts (outside sub boost) doing normal questing.

As for "removing the rusty", last night I ran "Traitor among the Chiss" solo (first time doing it) on a character I haven't played since last November. It wasn't as bad as I feared, there was a few close call though. Saying that, I'm surprised Temple asked to join considering how much "healing on overdrive" she had to do. If I was one of those companions, I would have quit the job so long ago.

If only... 

I might try my hand at Saber-smithing one day, but I doubt I could reach that level. It's from these guys, based near Atlanta


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Finally got the time to run through the story for the Nathema Conspiracy. My female Sith Warrior is now "up-to-date" with the story. I'm kinda surprised how much they spend on level/environmental design for us to just run through a "corridor" sometimes though.

Now, I kinda want to replay something else (I played through all the stories at least once), especially since I got all those new haircuts to choose from...but I'm currently subbed to ESO and well, I'm technically supposed to play that. lol

I have problem focusing on more than one game at the same time, if I switch game I can rarelly comeback to the same character I had before. That means I "binge" MMOs for a few months and less or more move between SWTOR, ESO and GW2 through out the year...and then I restart a new character each time (less or more).

I started a new male Smuggler and female BH last night though. While my BH is a total badass already at level 5, I did a lots of Imps questing last year and I needed some levity so a new Smuggler was born... I much prefer the BH story though.

I just stay subbed to SWtOR and play when I feel like it. I may go a week or longer and not play. BUT if I get the itch I'm subbed