12XP Boost: Kind of Bullcrap

Hey everyone,

For anyone considering picking up the pre-order and re-subscribing for a dainty jaunt through all of the class storylines you may have missed, please be forewarned: I am currently L38 on Quesh as an SI, and I am hitting the wall. Hard. Very hard.

Without gear, things have been getting tougher and tougher for awhile now, but at this point they're pretty much impossible. It was workable when mobs and bosses were 2+ levels below me, but they're only a single level down now, and although I could be buying greens from the GTN a little more frequently, I still don't feel like this experience is within my expectations.

I imagine a lot of you are considering making this leap back into SWTOR for the same reason I did: To just see the stories. If that's what you're looking for, I think you'll regret the decision. I definitely do.

Thanks!

This feature was not well thought of to be honest. was mainly meant for people who had high level toons to bank the new ones. Not returning players who might not have the credits or new ones.

Told some of my friends not to preorder. As they will have a hard time as new players and not be able to enjoy the leveling experience.

It's not a "feature." It's a temporary bonus. Likewise, you can indeed craft or simply buy gear from either the GTN or the numerous vendors on planets to keep somewhat up to date. Yes, that "Medium Armour Vendor" actually has a use beyond repairing and vendoring.

Serious question. What's stopping you from earning gear?

You're on Quesh you say? Why not go back and do the heroics on Balmorra or Alderaan? You will pick up comms and gear, and get a bit of experience.

If that's not your fancy, why not PvP for a bit. You can build your planetary comms that way and at 40 can buy a full set of gear that will last you most of the way to 50.

OR, say you're really lazy, you could go back to Coruscant/Taris/Nar Shaddaa and blow out their heroics for comms. Would take less than an hour and get you back.

This is a problem with a simple solution. Why haven't you used it?

You still need to break from the story at some point and grind, regardless. Either you have alts that you can run dailes/FPs for cash or heroics for comms or you can go back a few planets and run heroics and sidequests yourself. Unless you're just sitting on a couple million creds.

It's still manageable though. For one thing check your group finder. From level 15 onwards you can get 15 comms a day just from that (10 from regular FPs that come up, 5 from tactical ie. Kuat). And that's just the daily GF reward. Another thing is heroics that yield 3 comms as reward. Someone should make a list of them (or likely someone has and you just need to google it) and just run those. Even if it's gray you still get the mission reward and you can storm through it solo.

Anyway you slice it the grind has still been cut down significantly. I love speeding through a planet in under an hour.

I just hit lvl 36 and I see what you're talking about. I don't think this was a great reward for early pre-buy, and just a statue, now if it was 12x ALL xp I could at least get into some warzones and get more xp from kills.

This is a fair question that I think a lot of you guys are providing helpful suggestions about.

The answer, and the reason that the ideas you guys are having aren't really relevant to me, is simple: I don't actually want to play SWTOR. I literally just want to see the stories and crash through the whole game with absolutely no meaningful amount of difficulty whatsoever.

I recognize that Bioware doesn't explicitly say that this is what the experience will be like, but I feel like it's sort of implied? Certainly I feel like a lot of people who are exactly like me will think so, and fall for it.

My post was really only intended to warn people who have exactly my mindset.

The insidious thing is also that it's super easy at first and then slowly gets harder. In other words, it's exactly like an MMO. You just get tricked into playing the exact thing you were trying to avoid. I gotta admit, BW is brilliant for that one.

But thanks! If you guys enjoy playing, more power to you. I used to - I just don't now. But I would love to see all the stories.

Sadly, this is not a way to do it.

Agreed. If it was 12 XP across the board, I think I could roll with that. Would do a few FPs and warzones for fun.

Theres no doubt new players will struggle from lack of funds, there simply isn't the time to make them fast enough as you level.
But, the OP didnt mention credits only that his expectations to have to update your gear differ from everyone else?
One solution I thought of was to drastically lower the prices of the green mods from the vendors on each planet and make them bop.

Not at all.

Bioware is only offering a considerable XP boost, whenever you're completing class story quests. Repair bills, gearing up your character, travelling, etc etc, is all on you.

As it should be.

Feel fortunate that you -- apparently -- don't have to pay to class trainers to learn new abilities with this buff.