Star Wars: The Old Republic

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I have recently taken up interest in this MMO. I started as free-to-play, and then subscribed when I realized the FTP restrictions were there just to really give you a taste of the game. I am on the Shadowlands Server if anyone wants to join up with me. I think its a really well designed game, with good storylines to keep you involved. It seriously helps me cope with my issues. Though I need to play the game less and work on finding a job. I think its expansive enough to hold my interest for a while. I remember doing end-game raiding in World of Warcraft around Wrath of the Lich King had great therapeutic value for me. Since they restrict how fast you can complete things in the end game, once I reach that point it should be a bit of a slow down for me. I really like taking the roll of tank in groups.

Does anyone here play The Old Republic?

The game is..... ehhhh.

It's not bad, but it's so freaking generic.

It's not that there's anything wrong with the game mechanics, but the game just doesnt do ANYTHING to stand out aside from "has Star Wars stuff". I gave it a try, and simply got bored with it before too long.

I play once in a while and I agree that it's okayyyy.....Not great, not bad, just very ordinary. It's fun for a little bit.

..then why do you play MMO's as opposed to single player games? Its an honest question not a prodding one.

Yeah, you guys are partially right, normal and weak enemies are mostly just painful to grind through unless they do a significant amount of damage. A strong enemy takes much longer to take down, and does more damage. And elites, the tough guys you are supposed to be able to take one-on-one can be close fights. Several of the bosses for the missions on Oricon are actually rather hard to do solo, though they were the only ones that really require knowledge of the enemy and special tactics. Champion mobs are the definite line for "you can't do this solo" especially world bosses, even I heard if its a lvl 18 world boss and you're 50. In the end you start seeing more and more elites just to complete your quests also. They give you companions to fill in extra roles, which makes things quite a bit easier, say, I mainly keep a healer companion out with my tank, though things take a while to die.

You can solo lower level flashpoints once high enough level though just to get dark side or light side points. There are "heroic" level side missions on all planets with require a group to do unless you're higher level then them. Daily and weekly missions in the endgame also require groups to complete all of them. In general though, with tactical flashpoints and heroic missions, you don't need players of specific roles. Normal and hard flashpoints require the classic tank/ 2 dps/healer combination. You get four person groups.

I have leveled a vangaurd tank to really start with, most of the boss mechanics in flashpoints are designed so that you can't ignore them unless you are way geared, and bosses can still take a while and be somewhat tiring to take down. I have not tried doing operations, I am not geared for them yet, which come in three difficulties, the most difficult being Nightmare mode where you have to know the mechanics or you're as good as dead.

But the entire leveling process feeling rather tedious, and you can't just do your storyline missions and stay at level with enemies, which keeps things the most interesting for me. You have to fill in experience with other things or use legacy experience boosts. They really focused on improving the endgame, which means you either like how leveling works in the game or you don't. There is Galactic Starfighter and PVP matches for different experiences, but I don't play mmo's for pvp mainly, and I don't overly enjoy the style of GSF.

For something different in stead of SWTOR I have played Everquest 2 a little. They both have rather good free-to-play options.

Maybe when I burn out of that, I can focus on cello practicing or exercising.

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