When I left SWTOR a bit over a year ago I had 12 chars I was at least semi-actively playing. 6 on the Empire side and 6 on the Republic side. 10 of them were Level 60, 5 per side. Also all of the 4 base classes and one extra per faction, no duplicate extended classes.
The empire guild that I had joined in October 2018 had only kicked my alts but kept my main (which is perfectly fine if you ask me) and on day 2 I politely asked to invite some alts back and that was quickly fixed.
The main focus back then were Conquests and apparently the changes to Conquests did change a lot. We were usually grabbing the Large Yield planet without bigger problems, with group activities accounting for a sizable chunk of the Conquest XP per week, but also people reaching their personal goal on all alts. I do remember it was a bit of work to manage that if you weren’t actively playing that particular toon a lot that week.
So apparently this has changed and while I was really surprised how quick you manage to get your personal goal (30mins? per toon if you don’t know what you’re doing and coming back after a year, and if you spread the planets with quick weekly quests over a few days you can easily do 10 toons = 500-700k XP in 5h in a week I guess) and so another guild that’s bigger seems to be the top dog on our server now. We’re still number 2 – we’ll see how this evolves over the weekend and the coming weeks. But people can apparently solo a lot more and that’s when numbers count more than group content like operations. I don’t exactly remember how the rewards work and if we’ll get something next week if we’re number 2 on this planet and if this is still better than winning a Medium one. Whatever.
I think I finished Onslaught on my Sage today but I’m not sure if the follow-up quest is part of the expansion story line proper. I’m told to do Mek-Sha dailies now and wait, I guess. Also I met one of my missing companions but I’m not sure I have the Alliance Alert to recruit them again, as I read somewhere. I hope I didn’t miss that chance, I mean I didn’t kill them so it might work out in the end. Oh, and he’s 75 already.
I also finished Onderon on my Bounty Hunter and dinged 74 in the progress, so on to Mek-Sha on the weekend. 2 more toons dinged 71 while doing the Conquest, and 5 of the 6 others are close. As I’m not really sure if I should buckle up and do KotFE+KotET on all or even any of them (or do KotET on the Agent) and just jump to Onderon thereby getting the “default story” locked in. Do I really care on some alts? Do I care anyway? Missing companions would be the only thing I guess. I wasn’t such a fan of the linear movie-like experience that I’m keen on doing it a 4th time…
I suppose just getting to max level and then acquiring gear via Renown would still be possible, there is no good reason to do the story just for this set of green 268 gear you get.
Also looking at my old “goals” posts and see which of those are still current, I guess the clear current goals are:
- find out if I finished Onslaught on Sage
- finish Onslaught on Bounty Hunter
- finally find a good outfit for my Sage, seriously…
- get 9 chars to 75
- do the remaining 2-3 Conquests this week
- buy the new Alderaan Stronghold (also Umbara?)
- finish the 1000 kills achievements passively (i.e. have the correct companion out)
- ~7 warzone matches for M1-4X
- level Guardian
- level Juggernaut
Worst change this expansion so far: the small shield icon for Bound-to-Legacy gear is gone and I have no idea how I should keep track of my stuff in my bank tabs now.
Hm. Probably will steer clear from that game. I liked the leveling, but the endgame was never fun for me.
The material Conquest rewards are based on yield size, so achieving large yield is always best. Winning first place on a planet of any size just grants you the associated achievement and title plus bragging rights I guess.
After Onslaught proper there’s a short story quest on Odessen called Hearts and Minds, then it’s just dailies and other generic endgame. We probably would have had the next story update by now if it wasn’t for the pandemic delaying their voice recording.
And the Alliance alert to re-recruit Tharan should definitely be there, you can overlook the new mission in the UI but you can’t accidentally fail to recruit him.
I do miss the BoL icon as well but it’s less of an issue at max level as pretty much all drops are legacy bound there; it’s pretty much the new default.