Back when these first came out it was super easy to find people on Odessen to do the Star Fortress Heroic 2 missions with. Now it's almost impossible which makes it impossible to complete the story.

 

This is particularly troublesome with Voss since destroying that SF affects the story directly.

 

It also now seems very hard to solo the H2's where as it used to be doable. I don't know if it's class changes or SF changes but I used to be able to solo the H2's and now, on the same characters with level 50 companions, I can't.

 

Please make the SF H2+'s soloable or have the solo version count toward completing the quest for the planet.

I definitely second this suggestion, but I think it can be expanded a little as well. It would also be useful if there were a group finder category for the heroic Star Fortress FPs, though I imagine that would be somewhat more complicated to implement than simply allowing the solo versions to count for story progression.

 

In a related vein of 'old content that needs updating to be feasible', Trouble in the Tion Hegemony is needlessly complicated to complete by virtue of the fact that veteran mode Kaon Under Siege and The Lost Island are not in the group finder. Thankfully, master mode is, but that's small consolation when your pug wipes eight times trying to kill Project Sav-Rak. Colicoid War Games is another FP not available through the group finder and quite impossible to solo.

 

In my view, all of these need either some facilitation of assembling groups and/or changes to make them soloable.

The Story version has become ridiculously hard, which I think must be a bug, since certain key abilities (like Stealth) often just don't work at all.

 

I have had an impossible time finding groups to run Star Fortress on my most recent two characters. It's even worse now that there is new content for people to play with.

 

Mission completion for Story mode really would be a wonderful improvement. Especially if they fix the sudden and extreme difficulty increase.

Edited November 18, 2019 by Xina_LA

Since it is instantiated, I am for it. They should just make it possible to use the story or veterans.

Agree! It's impossible to find groups for these missions now, but they are important to the story.

 

I would prefer making the harder version easier, as the current solo versions drop certain cool decorations, and it's nice to be able to keep farming them.

Edited December 14, 2019 by iamjanan
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I would like to see this happen. It's hard to find a group to do this now.

Me too, they were solo-able to start with as did all but the last one on voss. Then ? Was really doing them for the companions more than anything else. Now just added these to the ever growing list of things in game i no longer do. Soon that list will be more than 50% of the game. When it reaches that 50% mark, then i will just drop sub and go f2p. there is no point in paying for half a game. Sure can still enjoy playing the f2p version, but is that really what BW are aiming for? in-fact probably has already hit that mark with the imperial side flashpoint on Corellia. Just that at present most of my imperial character are still on KotET part or before that. So f2p is coming up fast for me now. Still I already have f2p accounts and as such think it's ok for the most part.

 

At one time I had 5 sub account running at the same time, now only have the one. So sure I am just 1 player, but BW still lost 4 subs due to changes made in game.

Edited February 18, 2020 by DreadtechSavant

Star Fortress Heroic 2 quite doable solo. Completed Belsavis and Voss Fortresses with 30 lvl comp. It is not complete faceroll of course, but definitely soloable. Maybe you need to get better gear?

Actually Star Fortress is pretty easy to be Soloed.

I've done Alderaan and Nar Shaddaa with my Sith Sorcerer (Lightning) 306 iRating + Level 50 Companion and i've not died even once.

 

You need two things in order to be able :

 

1. Better Gear

2. Know the mechanics

 

If you just rush on blind you won't do it.

Like you need to interrupt the boss , kill the ads , always keep moving and staying away from the AoE of the boss and etc.

There's always somebody that thinks the difficulty is fine just because their class, build, and gear can handle it.

 

People should be able to play whatever class they enjoy most as they go through the story.

 

Mind you, we're talking about the group story missions, not the regular Star Fortress missions that you pick up outside near the shuttle dock.

 

Personally, I'm not able to solo it, for two reasons. First, there's one room that usually glitches out and the boss fight can't be finished, unless I go with a group. Unfortunately, it's near the end, so I waste 90% of my run time to get to that point, only to find out I have to reset and start over. Second, my character does short bursts of DPS and has a number of skills that are apparently easily interruptible by the mobs. The battles with wave after wave of adds... nope, can't win. Even with a level 50 companion and fair gear from completing all of the available story missions.

 

I can, however, solo the missions I pick up from the military guy outdoors near the instance entrance.

 

On the plus side, at least the common trash mobs aren't as hard as they were two patches back, and stealth seems to be working again.

Edited February 18, 2020 by Xina_LA

I agree, a doable option for SF H2s. I'm a reasonably 'good' player, with decent gear and high influence companion and I can't even get past the droid in the factory, never mind to the Exarchs. I am clearly doing something wrong.

Not any more wrong than I'm doing. I'm stuck, too.

even the hard mode is easy soloable with a comp rank 40. done all hard mode with a vang dps 2 years ago.

do they change them from then?

Yes. In fact, they were impossible after an update a couple of months ago, then re-balanced back to being sane in a more recent update.

 

The problem is that it's hard to find groups for older content, especially older and less popular content. It's always helpful to make them solo-able for newer players and people who don't want to beg their friends to slog through grinds as a favor to help with a new toon.

Yes. In fact, they were impossible after an update a couple of months ago, then re-balanced back to being sane in a more recent update.

 

The problem is that it's hard to find groups for older content, especially older and less popular content. It's always helpful to make them solo-able for newer players and people who don't want to beg their friends to slog through grinds as a favor to help with a new toon.

 

Its harder to find groups because first they messed up the loot, then they messed up the balancing with 6.0 and Level Lock, and even if that is fixed now, the loot certainly isn't.

 

The Decorations need to drop in Veteran (Heroic) mode just like they do in Story Mode.

The Conquered Exarch armor pieces, in particular the bracers, need to start dropping again (they apparently only drop if you are in the right level range, 65)

The Eternal Empire Walker needs to start dropping again (you can buy it with Eternal Champ tokens, but it first came out with this content)

The final boss needs to drop tech fragments, personal VM FP-equivalent level loot (think VM Hammer Station or Red Reaper loot tables), or both.

Still trying to complete SF Heroics after 2 months! Rage quit again after hours of trying. So frustrating! I'm Level 75, have 273 rating, companion at level 34, all four specialist buffs, watched all the YouTube videos, using Heroic Moment when I can and I still don't understand how some find it so easy and I'm getting killed like 10 times before even reaching the Exarchs..! I give up.

Still trying to complete SF Heroics after 2 months! Rage quit again after hours of trying. So frustrating! I'm Level 75, have 273 rating, companion at level 34, all four specialist buffs, watched all the YouTube videos, using Heroic Moment when I can and I still don't understand how some find it so easy and I'm getting killed like 10 times before even reaching the Exarchs..! I give up.

 

Come back when you are at 306 and have a comp at lv50... VE will definitely go a long way here, and you will be grateful for having all 30 stacks, rather than just 1-2 stacks.

 

That said, I did it on the PTS on a Hatred assassin with the above setup, but no specialist buff, and no Heroic Moment.

 

If you are on Star Forge, please tell me when you would like to run, which one and on which side; I have 8 characters that can possibly run these in the live game.

Edited May 8, 2020 by Townowi

It's already easily soloable. In fact, Star Fortress now is easier to solo than even Hammer Station VM. L2p.

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It's already easily soloable. In fact, Star Fortress now is easier to solo than even Hammer Station VM. L2p.

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People like this is so annoying...

Ok, update on my progress with Star Fortress. Possibly shouldn't have started with the Exarch of Voss!! That is what was annoying me as he apparently is the most difficult. Got a guild member to help with that one so done. Now read up more and particularly the Swtorista page helped a lot for my solo run against the others solo. Upped my gear a bit and respec'd my utilities, took a stim and did the other 5 solo. Took forever to slog through the trash and the paladins were tricky, but so glad that I did go back now and complete them all. Still think its a bit rough tho lol

It isn't? Since when?

The Star Fortresses are soloable. Just make sure to have 306 gear and all the buffs. I glided through the Heroic Star Fortresses relatively easily that way and I am by no means a masterful player. Edited May 17, 2020 by Ylliarus

Stop me here though.... Aren't the quests to get the companions supposed to be level 70? So all of you arguing that the player needs to get to 75 AND get top end gear AND get a companion that they just got to level 50 (cause you won't have your old story companions at this point) for a quest they should be able to do at level 70 is acceptable?

 

Is SFH2 soloable, at level 75 it is... At level 70 (what this quest is geared for) not so much.....

 

They're asking for the QUEST for the COMPANIONS to be soloable, not the H2 to be made easier... It's kinda the same argument for that stupid Binocular and Seeker Droid quest....

They're asking for the QUEST for the COMPANIONS to be soloable, not the H2 to be made easier...

Except that those two things are *equivalent*, since the quest for the companions *requires* you to run the H2/Vet mode.

They're asking for the QUEST for the COMPANIONS to be soloable, not the H2 to be made easier... It's kinda the same argument for that stupid Binocular and Seeker Droid quest....

 

Perhaps you might want to check your facts here. If you want to get the companions from the Star Fortress missions you need to complete the Heroic version of the Star Fortresses, so in other words, Veteran mode.

 

Veteran mode is meant to be completed in a group, that's what the Heroic 2+ stands for, you know. The fact that you can reasonably complete it without a group is already a huge decrease in difficulty. How much easier would you want the content to get? The Star Fortresses are already relatively easy, seeing as how Veteran mode is meant to be group content.

Edited May 17, 2020 by Ylliarus