Category Archives: The Old Republic

Arcane Envoy Podcast 14 – Lightsabers Are In This Season

For the curious, the MC thing went well. Not super well, but well enough. (I won)

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A Week In TOR

Well, the title more or less gives away the point of this post. I’ve been playing TOR since the 15th-ish. Depends on who you ask, and where you’re from.

A lady defined by her love of hats. I can't blame her. Hats are great.

The point of this post is to be a discussion of what I’ve done over the last few days, in as many words as I can remember in. You’ll have to wait a week or so (at least) before I can really talk about how I feel about the game in great detail.

Most of my playtime has been spent on my Jedi Sage. She’s a pretty nice lady, who likes to help all the people with their problems, mostly in exchange for XP and light-side points.

While I’ll go into the group-based exploits of my character in more detail again, at a later date, I can and will reveal that I spent a significant amount of time grouping through portions of my 30 levels. Specifically, I grouped with people (specifically just Kiki) for all of Coruscant, Taris and Nar Shaddaa.

This was good fun. Although I wish we’d done a tiny bit more together, I’m at about 690/750 social points towards Social II, which unlocks more social gear (pretty dresses, fancy hats). Social points are earned by doing conversations in a group, and are gained pretty slowly. Still, it’s no biggie. I’m happy to be Social I, otherwise I’d not be able to have my fancy hat. (That I don’t use because better stats elsewhere, but it’s cool looking, so that’s something)

Let’s also talk about class quests. This probably won’t be so much of a problem if you’re soloing and taking the time to do all the missions and stuff, but these are hard to solo below the intended level. Not impossible, I know I did many 2-4 levels higher than my own, although that made them annoyingly difficult. I am slightly ashamed to say, but I may of ragequit from one particularly annoying boss. In my defense I’d been awake too long? Went and ground out gear & another level and kicked his ass.

I’ve also just started playing my Imperial Agent. She’s great. Like, super great. While her first companion isn’t as cool as the Bounty Hunter’s, she’s got a great voice, and she’s written well.

Anyway, this post has actually been sitting here a whole day, while I tried to think about anything else I wanted to say right at this stage.