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Dear BioWare, I am... bored.

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ShaftyMcShaft
02.08.2012 , 06:04 PM | #271
Quote: Originally Posted by TheHeadCapper View Post
Oh please, after the 1-10 area you were doing the same content on every character, of least i was. Every quest is click accept i couldn't even choose different option during the quest, SWTOR i can.
No, I meant you could go through completely different areas. If you're 15-20 Alliance you can go to Westfall, or Loch Modan, or Darkshore, so 3 different characters can go through zones the others never did a single quest in. In SWTOR there is only one level-appropriate planet at a time, and you HAVE to be there for your class story quest. If you're level 37, you WILL be on Quesh, whether you like it or not.

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DarthMeerkat
02.08.2012 , 06:13 PM | #272
Quote: Originally Posted by ShaftyMcShaft View Post
No, I meant you could go through completely different areas. If you're 15-20 Alliance you can go to Westfall, or Loch Modan, or Darkshore, so 3 different characters can go through zones the others never did a single quest in. In SWTOR there is only one level-appropriate planet at a time, and you HAVE to be there for your class story quest. If you're level 37, you WILL be on Quesh, whether you like it or not.
So there are only three zones in WoW for 15-20?

In TOR, Corrusant has about 4 zones each about the size Loch Modan.

You're taking about settings.
DDE

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Kuriby
02.08.2012 , 06:15 PM | #273
Perfect post about what many players are feeling...

Just perfect...

Bioware step it up please

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Kaisernick
02.08.2012 , 06:17 PM | #274
i have found that playing as a diefferent faction after my main is sligthly different story wise.

i played as a sniper on my main and a jedi knight after, due to the quests being a tad different was enougth to keep me going.
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ShaftyMcShaft
02.08.2012 , 06:55 PM | #275
Quote: Originally Posted by DarthMeerkat View Post
So there are only three zones in WoW for 15-20?

In TOR, Corrusant has about 4 zones each about the size Loch Modan.

You're taking about settings.
No, I mean entirely different places you can go and different quests you can complete. In WoW I can choose to ignore Westfall entirely and level in Loch Modan instead, doing different quests with a different story to the area. In SWTOR as Republic you must go do quests in Coruscant. You are not given the option of choosing a different planet to level on with different quests to complete.

I guess you could just do the class quests you're forced to do and grind out the levels some place else, but that's not really much of a choice.

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Belarrasus
02.08.2012 , 06:57 PM | #276
Quote: Originally Posted by ShaftyMcShaft View Post
No, I meant you could go through completely different areas. If you're 15-20 Alliance you can go to Westfall, or Loch Modan, or Darkshore, so 3 different characters can go through zones the others never did a single quest in. In SWTOR there is only one level-appropriate planet at a time, and you HAVE to be there for your class story quest. If you're level 37, you WILL be on Quesh, whether you like it or not.
Yea, at least give ust the option to go to ONE other planet besides Quesh (etc.)
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TheHeadCapper
02.08.2012 , 06:59 PM | #277
Quote: Originally Posted by ShaftyMcShaft View Post
No, I meant you could go through completely different areas. If you're 15-20 Alliance you can go to Westfall, or Loch Modan, or Darkshore, so 3 different characters can go through zones the others never did a single quest in. In SWTOR there is only one level-appropriate planet at a time, and you HAVE to be there for your class story quest. If you're level 37, you WILL be on Quesh, whether you like it or not.
After the 1-10 zones i played every zone and quest on level up in wow so there was no difference besides the starting area.

In this game i have a bunch of heroics on my alt that i haven't touched as well as a bunch of side quests because i dropped so many gray ones levelling up. I have new content i will be seeing the entire time unlike wow which was only level 1-10.

Nevermind that wow is extremely boring with clicking accept. Of least with these quests i'm having different interactions with the questgivers and some even give me different ways to complete the quest. I'm not forced to get boar tusks and click complete, there are different ways to do it.
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DarthMeerkat
02.08.2012 , 07:06 PM | #278
Quote: Originally Posted by ShaftyMcShaft View Post
No, I mean entirely different places you can go and different quests you can complete. In WoW I can choose to ignore Westfall entirely and level in Loch Modan instead, doing different quests with a different story to the area. In SWTOR as Republic you must go do quests in Coruscant. You are not given the option of choosing a different planet to level on with different quests to complete.

I guess you could just do the class quests you're forced to do and grind out the levels some place else, but that's not really much of a choice.
During my leveling as a trooper I was able to head back to Taris to level from 30-32.

But once again thats not much of a choice.

What you want is different settings, that would require Bioware to create entire four zone planets.

I don't think you understand what exactly went into creating SWTOR's planets and how large they actually are. I don't find leveling in Loch Modan over West Fall any more fun then I did leveling a Dark Side Smuggler on Taris as apposed to a light sided one. Yes it was a nice change in pace but that was all it was.
DDE

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sixtyfourdriver
02.08.2012 , 07:08 PM | #279
I wish I had more than 2 thumbs to put up because the OP perfectly captured my own feelings on the game. Well said

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Teneas
02.08.2012 , 07:12 PM | #280
WOW at launch: A full month of downtime between 11/04 and 3/05. I remember waiting 3 days to be able to login at one point in January.
PVP? If you were on a PVP server perhaps. And then we got WSG, which you had to ACTUALLY TRAVEL TO ASHENVALE to queue up for, and if you didn't get ganked 7 dozen times between Astranaar and Sentinel Lodge the servers were probably about to crash. And once you got there, you got to queue and do nothing else while you waited.
I hope that you don't die, because the sheer inconvenience of dragging your ghost from the graveyard 9 years away might make your eyeballs bleed.
Which brings up travel. If you played horde in early 2005, you probably remember trying to use flightpaths to get anywhere you needed to go for quests. You probably also remember crying at those times because the nearest flight path was in Milwaukee.

Just a few examples of how bad WOW was at launch, and it had nothing to do with content. It was pretty conceivable that you would spend 20 minutes out of an hour travelling while burning through a chain quest. The 3 minutes getting from a planet to the orbital station back to another planet is no comparison. Try a patient approach.

Admittedly, this game isn't much different....yet. Give it a bit. WOW hit its golden age after the first major content patches during the summer of 2005, and that continued through Burning Crusade (Disclaimer: Golden Age in fun, not sales). If you can't play for 3 more months patiently waiting while levelling up alts, I guess we'll see you this summer when you hear that this game got awesome.