Nogamara

The quest for gear continues – at the time of writing this first sentence (Saturday before going to bed) I have finished the Personal Conquest on 9 characters (and a half) and my Trooper has a 338 blue Earpiece, and I need roughly 50 FP-1 thingies to do the last upgrade step – which would mean either finishing Conquest on one or two more toons and converting again, or doing 2 weekly zones on a Level 80 – I guess I’ll do the latter tomorrow.

Ok, so Sunday afternoon I had some time and finished this. It’s not that straightforward.

• Upgrading the 340 Prototype via guide – ok
• Deconstructing it – ok, although the window seems different
• Finding out what to buy – kinda fine, 10% Accuracy, then Alacrity, the rest red mods/armoring/barrel/hilt
• Trying to buy on another char – nope
• Putting the “Bound to Legacy” stuff into the Legacy bank – nope
• Mailing them to another toon so the 2h timer vanishes and you can put them in the bank – yes

So I equipped three of them now, 334, 329 and 328 (still missing some other slots).

Now to finally play the game! Just kidding, it was a nice goal and it took 10 days. Now I wanna continue the story (one char on each side) and look at the new zones, also finishing the implant quest (something something 100 charges).

…or whatever they are called (Commendations).

Thursday after work I wanted to check how far my Powertech was progressed (I thought close to LotS content) and noticed there was quite a bit of mid-/end-Onslaught story missing, so I got to work. It was fun enough, except that one horrible flashpoint (Echoes of Oblivion) and when no one showed up for M+ I continued and got to 80 and finished the Conquest as well. Then I wanted to try something non-endgame and went to Ilum on my 54 Sniper (also talking to all my neglected companions on the ship for half an hour) and got to 58. Still don’t really like that class, but Engineer is somewhat better than Marksmanship.

So regarding the Conquests, maybe it’s doable on all 13 Level 75 chars, because as soon as you ding 76 you will get the 200 Commendations and not just some piece of gear (which is also helpful, the Powertech is now 80 and still in 306 gear, that might hurt when doing dailies…). Not sure I really want to do all that, but we’ll see, 3 down and 10 to go.

Friday I specced a couple more characters (default Vulkk.com solo build as I don’t have a clue anymore anyway) and finished Ziost on my Assassin (just one level, boo), failed the droid quest of course, and did some Heroics to push the Trooper to 80 and finish the Conquest. Man, Commando just plays so nice and easy, especially compared to Sage. Apparently there’s a 6000 Conquest Commendation weekly cap, which I will never ever reach. OK.

Saturday was a bit more with flashpoints and some Heroic quests, Scoundrel to 80 and Conquest done, also the Assassin is 77 with a Conquest done (total: 7, but one didn’t give Commendations).

Sunday… Jedi Shadow (Black Hole and.. Czerka I think), Operative (Balmorra+Dromund Kaas), and Sentinel (Ziost+Yavin). (total: 10)

Monday: Mercenary (total: 12, of which 11 count, and I forgot to list one of them somewhere)

So the verdict is that reaching the Personal Conquest goal on a couple character doesn’t seem to hard. Should you try to cram in 12 of them while also having to spec and sort out their bank? Maybe not. Also the only char I didn’t manage to do was the Marauder, but it’s Monday and close to midnight. Ah well, I tried. 😛

So where do we stand now?

• Level 80: Powertech, Sage, Commando, Scoundrel
• Level 77: Juggernaut, Operative, Mercenary, Assassing, Guardian, Sentinel, Shadow
• Level 75: Marauder
• Level 58: Sniper

Looking over my character list got me thinking that unlike in WoW I don’t have a near perfect recollection when and how I created every character, but that’s why you have a blog, I guess.

• Mirialan Sage – created at launch, so Decmber 2011
• Cyborg Powertech – created before Makeb, maybe even close to launch
• Twi’lek Scoundrel – I think this was the third one, not sure when
• Rattataki Sniper – only 58 now, but apparently created before 2018
• Chiss Juggernaut – created in October 2017, deleted the Sith later
• Zabrak Trooper – created before 2018, but only leveled later
• Sith Assassin – October 2017
• Human Operative – November/December 2017 (deleted and remade Human from Cyborg I think)
• Miraluka Sentinel – November/December 2017
• Mirialan Shadow – July 2018
• Human Marauder – Level 50 in December 2018
• Cathar Guardian – Level 20 in December 2018
• Twi’lek Mercenary – December 2018
• Togruta Sorcerer – July 2020

So this means no new character for the last 6.5 years 5 years! (Oh no, an error. The Sith Sorcerer that is Level 1 is from 2018, the Togruta one is from 2020.)

Very atypical for my play style, still. But I am missing Vanguard and Gunslinger and I already made a list with which race/gender combos I am missing and would maybe use…

Then again I was really surprised how well that worked out with checking back and having posts up for SWTOR (also surprising how much overlap between games when it comes to class names, or at least some of them). Not even sure I could do it in such a complete way for WoW, but maybe I should try that as well. Just not for all 30…

After getting a quick lay of the land (as far as that’s possible) of my unlocked characters on Tuesday I resubscribed to SWTOR last night! It’s been a little over 3 years.

My characters were mostly 75 (well, 12 of them, plus a 54, a 16, and 2 classes missing) and had never seen Legacy of the Sith, but 2 had been to Onderon, so probably also finished it.

Of course this was again motivated by playing together, so I didn’t have to look up everything first, but got some hints. So I sat down and did the (short) LotS story on my Sage and was very, very surprised how fast I dinged 80 after just 2-3 long quests. Like, not even without the XP buff I would have finished half the content before that.

Anyway, playing Telekinesis Sage wasn’t that awesome this time around, but what can you do if it’s one of your two most-progressed ones?

This guide piqued my interest but meant I needed 400 Conquest Commendations, not 200, so we started doing some Dailies on my Juggernaut and he finished his Weekly Conquest at Level 77.9 and so I can buy that blue earpiece now, just not upgrade it yet. If the calculations are correct, you need to finish the Conquest goal 30 times to get a set of gear. 5 x 180 + 3 x 170 + 60 = 1470 FP-1 Stabilizers needed, and you need 2 chars to get 400 Commendations to buy 100. Unless you get some from other sources, but no, this is not confusing at all. Glad that gear is not that important to me, but I guess it’s a good idea to work on this.

So I guess the plan for now is finishing the quest line on the Sage, and getting a few more Conquest goals, which should already bring the characters that finish it half way to 80, and next week to 80 (or if I put in a little extra time). With the XP event maybe I’ll also focus on the Sniper to get her the missing 26 levels and also start my missing advanced classes, we will see.

I think it’s a little funny that for 12 max-level characters at the time, only having finished KotFE/KotET on two characters and the first 9 chapters on one… well, it’s not a lot and they were released in late 2015 and late 2016, and I played a lot after that, but they were just too weird and not really my cup of tea, and I guess I put in most of my play time in 2017-2019 there, so Onslaught had not yet launched and I was not missing out on story on those 9-10 characters. That’s also why in contrast to everything up to Ilum and Rishi… the “new” zones of the last 5-6 years are kinda unknown for me. Guess I should push that Juggernaut through KotFE and the remaining expansions and then actually do it a couple more times, if I can muster the will. Otherwise the other ones are set to only do dailies and conquests and achievements on the old planets. It’s a bit weird. Or I could just accept the default choices for KotFE/KotET and not worry, at least on some chars…