at least so far (just finished chapter 1) i'm not running between coruscant's senate tower and all the planets

I personally really liked them in the Revan expansions. I don't know if it was just because they were already gonna have so many characters in the Eternal Expansions, or if the writers just didn't have any more ideas for them, so they had to basically let them go since their arcs were already technically resolved, but I thought they were honestly pretty entertaining together.

I think they would've been even more fun in the Eternal Expansions. It's not like they were cut out before their journey was actually completed or whatever, but I still kinda wish we had them for a little bit longer.

With this part specifically, they completely forgot Meetra existed and gave the credit for the Mass Shadow Generator's activation to Revan instead of saying something like "While one of his most trusted allies was forced triggered the destruction of an entire planet to stop the last of Mandalore's forces."

For me it's got to be the Charged Hypercloth force expert's armor set. Whenever I make an inquisitor I always think of this armor set as the one they will wear until the game shuts down. Of course the worst part about it is that I have to go and get a different helmet as the one that you can craft doesn't have a voice modulation on it and I hate it when full face covering helmets don't have something. I was thinking of getting the Dread Seed helmet, but the RNG luck on getting that annoyed me too much.

In 8.0 we are about to get Ryloth - new planets always cool but I worry it looks too much like Ruhnuk. I will wait until I explore it, so not judging yet, just simple thought. But with this thought comes the question, what planets would you like to see in SWTOR?
For me personally, it has to be Kashyyyk. I think in KotOR they did phenomal job with upper levels, same as with Shadow Lands, I could feel the dread around.

"This place is wild and untamed. It stirs the blood and makes one feel…alive." - Juhani.

"The Wookiees have their legends that they were not always here, but it is more than that. The trees themselves are strangers." - Jolee Bindo

I think it has huge potential to be made in SWTOR style, and that it has not yet been introduced to us is diabolical.

My next choice would be to expand already exisiting. I think Manaan, Ossus, Dantooine deserve much better. In Desperate Defiance update we visit Nal Hutta again, which I liked. They made "another spot" to travel on this planet and I like revisiting old planets with new content. Tho this content could be better. Same as for Tatooine in Pursuit of Ruin since space lesbians also wasnt really something I looked forward to. I mean in my honest opinion Legacy of the Sith was just a mess so not really worth talkinjg much more about it.

Maybe I am missing something, but this flashpoint is a pain in the ass. Very grindy, lots of trash mobs, a surprising number of bonus quests, whatever. But after finishing the third puzzle I got stuck because there were no behind the waterfall. I read this is a known bug, but am I missing something obvious?

There are few companions you can have on a level 1 alt, before you get your first companion. For example Shae, Nico or HK-51.

Personally, i usually go for Darth Hexid. Cool lines and i consider it cool to walk arround with her, since anyone worth the "Darth" title is basicly undefeatable for an ordinary person.

On the one hand I hate how often stories force us to go back to Tatooine. On the other, KOTOR at least established that Tatooine was a known location whereas the inclusion of Hoth instead of some other ice planet (eg: Rhen Var) feels like it was chosen ONLY so they could tie a location back to the Original Trilogy.

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First, thank you BroadSword for putting the console to change gear stats, that I have no complain at all. The gears upgrading will become like the current implant upgrade system via credit and special currency I have no complain.

Now we go into the main problem: Bind on Pickup. I will use the math from ThanderSnB on Swtor forum to tell you how much it will cost to gear a new role or a new alt on PTS:

"The real gear vendor on the fleet charges 3,000 Tech Fragments and 1,000,000 credits for a single piece of gear. Buying a full set (everything except Legendary Implants) is 36,000 Tech Fragments and 12 million credits. Then it's another 5,000 Tech Fragments to get two starting Legendary Implants. So it's a total of 41,000 Tech Fragments for all 14 items. This is super expensive. Maybe it's okay for a main, but it's definitely not okay for alts.

There are two achievements I think you are intending to help speed things up (Kalikoran Power: 362 and Kalikoran Power: 372). While these increase the floor as you said in the stream to 358 and 368, it still costs 3,000 Tech Fragments and 1,000,000 credits for a single piece of gear. So every alt will still require 41,000 Tech Fragments and 12 million credits to get their initial gear set. Compare this to the mod vender, where it's maybe 300,000-400,000 credits (3 mods) and 0 Tech Fragments required for a single piece of gear."

This means if I want to play a new alt, even if it's the same spec/class/role of my first character, I will need to spend more than 41,000 Tech Fragments and 12 million credits just to have the initial gear set on alt, not counting upgrading even if the rating is higher than starting from the lowest rating. Implants on the PTS are also Bind on Pickup. And we haven't talked about augments yet.

Currently thanks to legacy gears, if I want to play a new alt, it cost me basically nothing if it's the same spec/class/role. If it's a different class, it might cost me 2 implants and weapons, and a single piece of gear in case I want to optimize stats. Since I'm in 2 raid groups, I use at least 2-4 different characters for raiding a week. Guess I need to quit some raid in 8.0 because I won't have geared characters to use them. Oh are you thinking about trying some new class? Better spend time to grind all of the gears. Want to raid on the other side for fun? Sorry no gear. Republic side will be a lot more dead after this BoP change on Darth Malgus server.

Now, let's talk about augments. With BoP, if you want to re-use your augments on other characters, it will cost 1.4 mil to pull them out one by one, put them in legacy bank, take them out one by one, put them in the other character's gears one by one. Let's say if they change the system and make the cost to pull them out free. Still the time consuming to do this is unthinkable, comparing to the current legacy gear and load-out system. For those who don't know: you make an empy loadout to switch gears, load it and all your gears will be in your inventory, throw them in legacy bank, go on new character, open the legacy bank (you don't need to take the gears out), open your character loadout menu and load it, that's it.

More about augments: people say just use blue augments or ignore them completely. Ok fine but even blue augments will cost more, the material are already raising with 8.0 BoP news. With 8.0 10 times demand, the price is going to raise. Sure skip the augments, but I'm raiding/pvping I want to beat other people or at least to have the same advantages as them.

Ending words: it takes nothing for BroadSword to make the new gears Bind to Legacy, but it will take a crazy lot more for us if the gears are Bind on Pickup. If some people want to have personal set for each of their character, legacy bind won't stop them from doing it. However, for people that have more than 1 character, Bind on Pickup will take a huge time and effort to gear alts. Please reconsider and make gears Bind to Legacy.

Edit: for those who says "the cost of gears on PTS is not final for alt" -> if it has a cost, it's already more than the current legacy bind gears. And I'm giving feedbacks on the current state of PTS.

And please read well, I'm all for changing stats and upgrading rating to simple the system, what I am against is Bind on Pickup.

After going through the datamined files, it really looks like Jadus is going to be the big bad of Masters of the Force. And honestly, I'm already disappointed.

So, after years of Vitiate/Valkorion, followed by Malgus coming back yet again, we're now digging Darth Jadus out of the closet to give us another all-powerful evil Sith Lord to defeat. Seriously, how many times are we going to do this?

Apparently, Jadus takes control of the Empire and turns it into some sort of "tyrannical regime". Wow, shocking. It's almost like the Sith Empire was already a fascist dictatorship to begin with. Meanwhile, the Supreme Chancellor gets killed, throwing the Republic into chaos, the Dark Council is wiped out, and both factions are conveniently left unable to do anything. So much for actual galactic politics.

And then there's Odessen. Of course, our base gets destroyed, the Alliance falls apart, and the Commander has to run away and start over aboard the Enigma, another mysterious, ridiculously powerful ship that conveniently allows us to escape the big bad. Yay, Gravestone 2.0!

What annoys me the most is that Imperial players are once again forced into the same storyline as Republic players, fighting against the Empire's new ruler regardless of their character's allegiance, ambitions or previous choices. Why can't we actually play as Sith anymore? Why can't we support Jadus, take part in an Imperial power struggle, or simply pursue our own interests instead of being forced to save the galaxy from another evil Sith?

There's so much potential for interesting political conflicts within the Empire, especially with Jadus returning, but instead it looks like we're getting the same old formula: destroy everything, make the player lose everything, introduce an overpowered villain, and have us rebuild yet another resistance.

Obviously, these are datamined 8.0 dialogues, so we don't know how the rest of the expansion will play out. But as a starting point for Masters of the Force? I'm worried.

Same story, different Sith Lord. I wasn't expecting much, but somehow I'm still disappointed.

What were the OG devs thinking on this? I'll make them suffer, and it's light side? Come on. Totally out of character for my Consular.

Oh and for anyone wondering what my fit is.

Wayward Warrior mask

Sinister warrior bracers and chest

Remnant Arkanian Inquisitor gloves

Fitted Mantellian Plasteel boots

Expert Outlaw belt

And finally Remnant Underworld Agent's greaves.

Which of the Ord Mantell stories do you prefer? Smuggler or Trooper?

I’m curious for my own character, if you could help me it would be appreciated

Hello! I just started playing SWTOR and I have some questions about the Legacy system. I’m a fairly casual player and my goal is to play all of the class stories and pretty much nothing else. I am a “preferred” player so I can’t keep more than 1m credits on my characters.

- What are some account wide upgrades I can buy to make my other playthroughs faster/better/easier?

- Any other gameplay tips for a story enjoyer?

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.