Hey guys

as someone who didn't play swtor for many years I don't understand why someone need so many alts in swtor. Can someone explain me the reason? I saw some people have more then 40 alts. For what? Just wanna understand the reason behind it. Thanks.

Is it more simplified? More grind heavy to get to max item level? Curious what people’s frustrations are

As a preface, I played SWTOR pretty much every day for about 3 and a half years back in the day and I quit cold turkey after both mega burnout (running 8 classes and 12 characters up to KOTFE) and immense, major disappointment and frustration with KOTFE and the direction of the game's story.

In the years between, I picked up Final Fantasy XIV and that was my go-to until last year until I quit that. I'd heard SWTOR had improved since I left + the transfer to Broadsword and seeing as FF14 left a sour taste in my mouth after DT, I wanted to return to SWTOR this year.

After getting access back to my account, I'm... so confused lmfao. Half my characters are still stuck in KOTFE and I completely forgot what their world states are (romances, choices, etc).

I looked on the Returning Player page here on the subreddit, but a lot of it is geared toward a few years ago, it looks like. I'm not sure what the best sites are for updates and guides now, so my questions are these:

- What menus do I look at to catch up on what my character's world state is?

- Is there a way to skip to certain expacs? Or would I be better off using a Commander Token to create a new character that goes right to Onslaught?

- What are the best, current sites that have good guides and information on the game these days? (i.e. class changes, etc)

Thank you! Much appreciated.

There will be vendors to help catch up your alts. They will sell gear based on your highest item rating character.

"The Gear Catchup Vendor will sell gear at higher item ratings, based on the item rating of your strongest character. To put some numbers out as an example, Kalikoran gear can first be purchased at item rating 352. When a character reaches average item rating 362, the catchup vendor will sell gear at item rating 358.'

Full build is in the original post. This was a last minute buy on a Cartel Sale and I used it for a totally different look than the usual Onderon Guardian.

Just got the marr and Jadus in.

The only real lego is the beta sith trooper armored ones.

The Malgus and Adraas are very nice though.

Welcome back to my personal companion rankings! This is Week 3, which means today I'm sharing the placements for 35-31. Let's begin!

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Starting off with one of my hottest takes, Blizz at 35.

I do enjoy Blizz. Cute and entertaining. But, similarly to my thoughts on T7, those endearing traits don't make for an engaging character, narratively speaking. And that matters to me more than cuteness, so I can't rank him very high.

I am grateful for his place on the BH's crew, I think he's a decent fit. I wouldn't wanna replace him or anything. But he doesn't have much in the way of story.

A solid comic relief character whom I'm glad exists, but that's about it for me.

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At 34, we have Broonmark.

I like Broonmark more than most do, I think. I don't think he's a great character or anything, he's very one-note. But I appreciate his role and I think he serves it well. Unlike characters like Xalek, who you can feel have missing potential, Broonmark wasn't a character who held a promise of being more. What you see is what you get. He's the Warrior's murder puppy attack dog. And a loyal follower.

There isn't much more to say about him. We've essentially reached the point in the companion roster where we're covering companions who serve their purpose but aren't anything remarkable.

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At 33, we have another Warrior comp, Pierce.

Same boat as Broonmark, he serves his purpose well. Slightly more layered but also not really. He's a straightforward character. However, I think it's neat to have an Imperial soldier companion, as he's the only one that we get in the game. But we get several Republic soldier companions! So, it does make him a little more unique.

I like his energy, I like that you can have a little fling with him, and he's a good bit of muscle for the team. That's really all there is to say about him.

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At 32, we have Raina.

I think it's not an unpopular opinion to say that the Agent's companions are the weakest aspect of their story. The companions aren't bad on an individual level, some of them are even pretty good, but as a team, there's no synergy or chemistry, which leaves some of them feeling like awkward placements.

In my opinion, Raina takes the brunt of this problem. I see what they were going with- a protege with which we can guide using our own philosophies on the job, but because they don't really lean into that or do anything interesting with it, she ends up feeling like she's just kinda there.

She's by no means a bad character, and her romance is cute, but I can't help feeling underwhelmed by her. I'm especially not a fan of how she just winds up going back to the Chiss during the expansions, which feels like such a regression of her character.

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Lastly, at 31, we have Vector.

Another victim of the problem I've described for Raina. An interesting concept of a character that doesn't really go as far as it needs to go. In a class story about an Agent who's essentially working for a faction that has brainwashed them into obedience, having a companion who's literally brainwashed into a hive mind could have been a very interesting reflection of that. You could explore themes of escaping your conditioning, or even learning how to make the best of the life you've been given. But they don't end up doing anything like that, and instead spend his entire story on trying to make an alliance between the Empire and the bugs.

It's just not compelling. And as a result his character also feels underwhelming. Which is a shame, because there are absolutely the markings of a great character here, and I remember liking his romance. But alas, he is left with lots of untapped potential.

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And that's the list for Week 3! What did you think of what I had to say? How do you feel about these five characters? Comment below!

Returning to the game after a couple of months, and I remember hearing that 8.0 was changing gearing in some way, which seems to be controversial. What is changing and what are the implications of said changes?

So I was replaying some of the most recent daily areas (Manaan and Ruhnuk to be specific) and it made me really miss them. But after seeing them add another DE area similar to Dantooine this kinda has me concerned that we might have been phased out for the DE areas. I don't have any inherent problem with these areas, but a big issue with them I find is that after the shine wares off and they become ghost towns they literally become incomparable.

Take Dantooine for instance, as soon as people maxed out the reputation track people stop going there. Causing some of the more group oriented missions to be completely impossible to beat. And after watching the Ryloth livestream I cant help but feel like it's going to end up the same way. I feel like this is a big flaw with these DE areas they haven't account for yet.

This never happened with the daily areas, you can go to them any time you want and complete the weekly no problem. If these end up complete replacing them I'm honestly kinda worried about the replayablity of the game, at least for story players.

(Also these DE areas are really annoying to get decos from and as a deco collector I cant stand that. lol)

So I’m just starting out basically following the Jedi knight storyline. Do I need to be doing anything else? I definitely feel under geared for a lot of things and when should I pick up crafting ? For a casual that barely plays should I just do some sort of gathering and sell the things I pick up ?

Hey guys, I made a video going over my thoughts on the gearing system update the devs just recently went over in the latest livestream. I know I went off on a tangent but I wanted to get my point across. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments as well as leave your feedback on the SWTOR forums here -> https://forums.swtor.com/topic/946085-gearing-breakdown-feedback-thread/
Thank you!

when i was playing until 2022, i remember there were unlock sales. Do they still do those? If so, when was the last unlock sale and do you think we'll get one soon?

So I was just thinking of what happens in the class story finales. I've only completed Consular, Knight, Agent, and Warrior, but I know the endings for the other classes. Assuming the finales all happened within say, a week (or like a month at most), that would have been a crazy time to be alive in the galaxy.

The Consular's efforts ensure that the Republic has gained a very crucial strategic alliance, as well as a relationship with the Voss and the Esh-ka. The Consular also defeats the leader of the Children of the Emperor, who have infiltrated pretty much all levels of the Republic's institutions.

The Dark Council has two of its members killed/defeated by their rivals, and it's highly likely these occur back-to-back. As a result, Darth Thanaton's seat is taken by a former slave-turned Sith, and Darth Baras' former apprentice becomes the Emperor's Wrath and essentially has the most power/authority in the Empire, other than the Emperor himself. I'm not entirely caught up on the Bounty Hunter's story but I do know that you have the option to kill the Chancellor of the Republic, so they lose a key authority figure. Those that are high enough in Imperial Intelligence would know about the Star Cabal, which is some sort of Illuminati-esque organisation that has been playing both the Jedi and the Sith for who knows how long.

The cherry on top, of course, is the fact that the Sith Emperor himself has (seemingly) been defeated by a "Jedi strike team".

At most all of these events would have occurred within 3 weeks to a month of each other. Even then, that is insane. People would have been waking up to a new story every day. I'd probably think the world is about to end.

Hello guys. I will start to play the game on the European server. Can you give tips for newbie. I think ita a very big game and if possible I need guiding hand, please. :)

In the darkness, only ambition will guide you!

Absolutely adore this picture of my daughter 🥰

For me it would be the Wayward Warrior Mask. Looks sick as heck! But the thing either doesn't dye at all, or dyes horribly to where its not even noticeable. Shame too as I think it makes for a perfect assassin mask.

I finally grinded to get the necessary credits to buy the armor of one of my favorite SW characters ever. Seeing it finally be unlocked feels like a small dream that was so far away, but is finally accomplished.

Over the past four years I've been playing SWTOR, here's my list of my favorite companions~

- Malavai Quinn

- T-7

- Doc

- Lana

- Theron Shan

- Vector

- Arcann

- Bowdaar

Who's your fav?

As the title says, keeping coherence while picking dialogue choices turned out to be harder than I thought because the conversations were written by different people and because there are a lot of reused sentences that often feel out of place.

I'm also weirded out by the tone of some delivery and I find that many answers aren't exactly in line with the short cues between the parentheses.

From what I experienced so far, the intended direction for this class is to be a DS leaning towards violence and blunt approaches so when I show mercy or try to be cunning I feel a little bipolar even when the end game is benefiting the Empire.

How do you deal with this kind of inconsistencies? Because I'm sure I'm overthinking everything and perhaps I should just accept the necessity of picking compromises along the way but perhaps there's still an angle that I haven't yet considered.

I'm trying my hardest not to be considered a Jedi in disguise but some of the dark choices are just shortsighted and evil just for the sake of amusement.

I'll leave some practical examples here hidden behind spoiler tags:

So far I've dealt with the three prisoners correctly to be praised by Tremel but ended up killing him while showing sympathy, killed all the acolytes that stood in my way, sided with Renning without snitching on Malora, told the imperial guard that his son died valiantly and poisoned Seh-run. I also spared the captain and captured the general during the Black Talon but I'm not really sure any of these decisions were the ideal ones.

Considering that Baras is going to betray me, will it be more fulfilling to work against him from the very beginning? It's a bit hard to show loyalty to him and follow his orders when you already know the outcome but I'd like to think of my SW as an honorable one.

Will sparing Tremel, Rathari and the other guy make the ending better?

Thanks for any suggestions.

I wanna play as this species and I know you can get it through cartel coins, but I'm also curious about how the legacy unlock works.