Hello, it’s time once again to get Hustlin’ or technically
talk about what Hustlin’ I’ve done. It’s been a few months but as far as I can
remember I had to finish the “Forged Alliances” leadup to the Shadow of Revan and I ended up doing the Depths of Manaan and Legacy of the Rakata flashpoints where you expose Dark Arkous and Colonal Darok as Revanite Traitors. I did it in "Solo Mode" where you are joined by a powerful bot companion that heals/tanks and does damage to help you so that you can complete the flashpoint to continue the story. So once that was done I was ready to start the main expansion on my Guardian.
These Czerka droids are TNT (di-no-mite!)
Not sure whether I
mentioned this but I’ve joined yet another guild as the newly named Reclaimers
basically just died soon after moving to the Harbinger so I eventually found a
pretty active aussie guild called Eternal
Oblivion and have been in it ever since, it’s been going good, they are
active, have an active forum and raid regularly though I have not yet taken
part unfortunately. I decked out my Valiant Jedi armor with new
level 55 mods and also a new colour, I decided to have a bit of fun with new
dye modules so I used some of the white and light orange dye modules Kxan had
made to colour my gear giving me orange armor and a new white coat. Since the
Shadow of Revan series had a distinct lack of conversations that was able to
influence your companions affection, so I decided to do what I’ve been wanting
to do for a while and smash it up with Lord Scourge, so I gifted him my old Remnant Arkanian Knight
gear which when paired with the white and light orange dye module made us look
like a pretty good team.
Lookin boss on Rishi
So anyway, before I started the Revan first I had to pimp
out my crib, yes my new Coruscant apartment which as a subscriber bonus I got
for 3 credits woo, I decided on the basic 3 rooms layout as I really didn’t
want to spend the heap of credits and cartel coins to get access to the rest of
the house. So then I got busy decorating, as before I used the entrance room as
a sort of utility hub and garage with my speeders and the three storage access
machines Ship, Legacy and Guild and also a wall mounted galactic trade network
kiosk though I did realise that there was also one that was able to be placed
on the ground (oh well)
Entrance room
I covered most of the floor with those merchants rugs
and the walls with republic banners, jedi guardian symbols, the trophy frames
and some other picture frames including one of the Jedi Temple on Tython. I
went a bit more extravagant with this decoration buying a proper space lounge
and gambling table for the guest bed and entertainment room and a chess table
and orange sheeted bed which was quite expensive (in credits) on the GTN, I
recently added a Rishi palm tree (replacing the idol) and a scary looking dread
throne which I left for Lord Scourge (hopefully he likes it). Unfortunately you can't see my companions there in the pictures as I
forgotten to take photos when I furnished the apartment so I took them
after I had started the Fallen Empire expansion where you are separated
from your companions and do not encounter them again until later in the
story.
Hallway
Entertainment room and crew bedroom
My Bedroom
The new storylines are now started from a console on your
ship and I can confirm that it actually lists all the expansions and storylines
that you’ve yet to do so you know which one to pick. After the events of the
Forged Alliances questline you start the new expansion while flying through
space as usual before crew member says to you that they feel something on a
planet called Rishi. I can’t
exactly remember what happened specifically but you land on Rishi which is
basically a like some kind of Star Wars ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ style of
planet, you even get a pirate themed armor set and Lightsaber,
ArrrrRRrrRRrr! Unfortunately I didn't actually wear mine that much so I've only got a few shots here.
The Pirate-themed Rishi Gear set
Rishi is a tropical planet with lush jungles and its main city Raiders Cove has ramshackle
buildings and walkways which still incorporate wood as a building material
which was very weird to see in SWTOR, this is partially due toa bird-like species called the “Rishi”
themselves who were the primitive natives of the planet. And then you’re
mistaken for some sort of leader of apirate gang who are also cannibals, so you play along with that doing
various missions and finding out information until you get back in contact with
Lana and Theron.
Raiders Cove, main city of Rishi
Qaraah, one of the Rishii primitive bird-like race native to Rishi
Who you work with
continually against many pirates and Revan’s forces also recruiting Shae Vizla in the Blood Hunt flashpoint which is
basically on an island and is various chambers shaped in a circle with a
central area designed to be a series of challenges before facing Shae (aka
“Torch”). The storyline on this planet culminates with the Battle of Rishi where
Revan lures both factions fleets to Rishi in the hope of letting them destroy
each other, but by battling Revans forces you are able either reprogram the
anti-air defense from the ground to attack the Revanite ships (Light side
choice) or the ships of the other faction (Dark Side choice). You then manage
to get in contact with Satele
Shan and Darth Marr
and get them to stop fighting and work together, sounds like a damn Disney
story doesn’t it?
Smashing it up in the Battle of Rishi
Collaboration between leaders.
So that finishes off the Rishi part of the story, you then
find out Revan has gone to Yavin
4 and you follow him with the newly formed alliance between the Republic
and Sith Empire forces. Yavin 4 is a jungle planet home to the Massassi and if I’m not
mistaken was the site of Luke Skywalker’s new Jedi Order during the Jedi Knight
series. You’re teaming up with the Empire at this point and there is lots of
back and forth banter between Republic and Empire character who have been
forced together. THe distant trees make an interesting view as it looks like they are an actual texture instead of individually rendered and indeed when you take a speeder off the platform it descends into the trees then the screen goes black and appears under the canopy reinforcing the fact.
The main Yavin base camp
This was taken with Uxan but I like the shot, it shows how the canopy is sort of like a texture almost.
The missions you do on Yavin 4 are basically the daily
missions you do eventually with the exception of the story ones, interestingly
once you get to the final mission to confront Revan you have the choice of
starting the actual Temple
of Sacrifice Operation or doing a very easy non-heroic mission where you
join up with all the heroes from the expansion and go up against Revan. This
only takes about 3-4 minutes then you’re done and you also get a level 192
mainhand for your companion. After this I found that you actually get a mission
to complete all of the daily mission and then you get to choose a box that
contains a set of up-to-date 192 level gear for one of your companions.
Surface of Yavin IV
So
basically if you do all of the dailies 5 times you can deck out all of your
companions in new gear, you can even do the Revan battle mission as many times
as you like which I think is kind of silly. I mean you do have the option to
defeat Revan without requiring completion of the Temple of Sacrifice raidand seeing the proper climactic conclusion
which is good, but just defeating him again and again to get weapons for all of
your companions is kind of lacklustre. But oh well he’s defeated but not dead
as you release the “good” side of Revan and you are treated to a rumour about
the Emperor returning and a pretty cool cinematic of the Republic and Sith
forces leaving the planet.
Revan is defeated!
The gang leaving the planet.
So that was the end of the Shadow of Revan expansion, after
that I decked myself out in an 186 level Yavin Pummeler
gear which I dyed a light brown and yellow colour which looked kind of Aussie
hah well not as aussie as the green and gold but I wasn’t going that far.
My new Yavin Pummeler gear
I
also joined a group and got the Fleet Datacron which wasn’t as hard as I
thought just a bit of group co-ordination needed.
I have... the power!
I joined a guild run of the Dread Fortress where we
got all the way to Dread
Master Brontes but weren’t able to defeat her but that’s a lot further then
I had gotten before.
And that's not my guild btw it's another guild
I also managed to get the Rishi Datacrons because of a
lucky glitch so I didn’t have to do the whole Grophets thing which I never
would have done anyway.
Never thought I'd say this but thank god for glitches
I also got a group for the second last of the of the Macrobinocular
missions but unfortunately it bugged
out for me and I got stuck. Though it was pretty impressive you were jumping
across fast moving speeders Nar Shadaa though obviously it was only the scenery
moving.
ooh boy here we go, jumping puzzles!
Then as I like to say I was back on my ASSassin and it was
time to start The Rise of the Hutt Cartel Story, so off to Makeb I went where me and Xalek met up with Darth Marr who
tells us basically that the Empire is losing the war and is in the shitter so
you gotta get some valuable resource called isotope-5.
Wow has no idea things were this bad
So the premise is
roughly the same as the Republic story except this time you’re going in secret
and trying to get the mineral for yourselves. You get a crack team to help with
military and science personnel and you go at it wheeling and dealing and
stealing and killing along the way. It was ok and good to see the Empire part
but damn I really don’t think I’d wanna do it again with every character unless
it’s required as Makeb is such a grind.
These drill site mission were a major pain even with my stealth ability
SPOILER ALERT What actually happens in
the end as with the Republic story you evacuate the planetas it’s presumably going to collapse but the
Empire secretly finds a way to stabilize the planet to continue mining and
leads to the bonus series being about the Regulators
causing trouble with the mining operation amongst other things.
Makeb's terrain was difficult at time
I also checked our my guild sister Empire guild “Secret
Squirrel’s” guild ship which was quite a sight indeed, I didn’t even know we
had one, and I don’t think I’ve even looked in Eternal Oblivion's ship either.
Wow what a mess
I started the Dread Seed and Macrobinocular missions with the intention of
doing them on the Empire Side, I think I’m at the final missions for both now
but are unable to do it as I need a group for it.
Lazors! This was quite a fun mission in the Macrobinoculars/Shroud series
Thankfully finding the Dread seeds wasn't as hard this time due to previous experience.
I also accidentally started
the Shadow of Revan expansion chapter trying to find out which level it was or
something and now I can’t abandon it and start again but oh well I guess I can
always watch the cinematic again on youtube. One of the last things I did was
use my commendations to by myself an entire new set of Yavin
Duelist gear which has a helm that makes me look a lot like a droid, I dyed
it a dark red and light purple colour which makes an interesting look indeed.
My new colourful armor
I
also went looking to buy a new lightsaber as the one I had was annoying me with
its delayed activation time. Though the one I bought the Reckoning’s
Exposed Saberstaff was quite unique with it’s well.. ‘exposed’ nature it’s
looks a bit too industrial especially with the handgrip pattern looking like
it’s from a modern day tool or machine and not something a Sith Lord would use though
I could possibly try out it’s similar alternative the Retribution’s
Exposed Saberstaff or even the Blademaster’s Saberstaff
which is new on the Cartel Market.
I decided it was time to treat myself with a new character
and create that Jedi
Consular that I always wanted. He was to be named “Qxan” after my Druid in
WoW “Qbui” as he is going to be a Sage
using the Telekinetics
skill tree and that’s as similar do the Druid’s Balance spec as you can get. I
went with the Mirialan as I was
going to go Miraluka
but already used them for my Bounty Hunter, I spose I could have unlocked
something else like Chiss
but I just found Mirialans best for healers so I went with it, I was however an
unusual coloured Mirialan being a very yellow colour instead of the usual green
but this went well with the healer class type. I also chose the normal styled
body as I wasn’t atank this time and a
delightful mullet style mop of hair and as one final change I bought the extra
Mirialan tattoos from the Cartel Market to make me different to everyone else. Due
to me not wanted to level up too fast I bought the White Acute Module from the
Gree who sells them on the fleet to bring my experience back to normal
otherwise I’d level way too fast and my quests would go grey with all the new
boosts involved.
My new Jedi Sage
So I went out and had great fun discovering Tython again
running around and hitting things with my training saber and throwing force
telekinetics around. This time for my Light/Dark side stuff I decided to just
do what I want and not just be good all of the time especially when I have no
companions, I especially liked the dark side options of taking revenge on the
fleshbeasts when they injured a Padawan and blackmailing the two lovers into
keeping their romance a secret.
Ah a moral dilemma (spoiler: i made those fleshbeass PAY with their lives)
The Story for the first chapter of the Consular
revolves around a mysterious illness that affects several Jedi Masters
including your own Master Yuon
Par and you go around collecting several Jedi” Noeticons” (I think that’s
what they are called) which contain the knowledge of previous Jedi Masters who
you talk with to gain insight into the illness. I picked up the companion Qyzen Fess at the end of the
Tython questline and he is a great help being a tanking Companion, in his
original skin he’s missing an eye so I picked a customization where he still has
one hah.
Me and Qyzen in Coruscant, yes I looks pretty ridiculous
I go my Lightsaber on Tython with a Ritual similar to the
Jedi Knight, so I finished off that planet then headed off to the Fleet and got
my Jedi Sage training and
also picked up the gathering skillBioanalysis,
the crafting skill Biochem,
and the mission skill Diplomacy, all
of which I’ve never done before though it’s kinda funny when I think about it I
should be doing Underworld trading again and then I could be a damn drug
Kingpin with my crew being well versed in crating drugs though I suppose you could
argue they have an ability to talk themselves out of trouble.
I finished Coruscant without too much
trouble, picking some interesting conversation options when I found Qyzen
didn’t approve of some Light Side ones and having a fight with my own master
before eventually sacrificing some of my power to heal her. I found Sage combat
pretty good throwing force telekinetics around though I sort of wish you could
do it without your lightsaber out but of course you need to be able to block
too. I got the STAP Royal
for my speeder as I didn’t know what else to use but it was pretty cheap on the
GTN and a nice golden colour that matched my skin (sortof) and I then jumped
back into the Corellian
Defender-Class Light Corvette and did some space missions but it's kind of a letdown when you’re
usually all pumped to see you’re new ship and then it’s just the same one for
your main but meh it’s my fault for choosing a Jedi Class again instead of
either Smuggler or Agent though definitely going to go Agent next as I need to
make another Imperial character.
"Ahh this thing again"
So after finishing Coruscant I continued on
with my Trooper. My Trooper as far as I can see was back on Nar Shaddaa doing the bonus
series and following up on my companion Aric Jorgen’s mission to
find his lost Sniper Squad the “Deadeyes”. The bonus series was pretty dark
with you flushing out an Imperial prison renown for interrogation and torture.
Imps be torturin,
Aric’s companion mission was basically about the SIS
withholding information about his Squad from us. Though we managed to find out
that the Deadeyes had been captured and went down to investigate but found they
had been taken offworld so the hunt continues. I then did the Maelstorm Prison
flashpoint and woke up Revan,
yep that Revan, the one I was seeing a lot of on my Guardian recently though
this was the first time we had met him.
Argh big monsters!
Revan is initially concerned that he lost control of the Emperor and war might break out, but calms down when told that it has already happened.
During this time I managed to get to
the romance stage with Elara Dorne and managed to sex her once or twice which
made a good ending to this session as my subscription was running out so I
decided to leave it there and continue with my Trooper in the next session.
It's hard to be romantic when all I can see in this shot is my right ass cheek
So that’s it for now, nothing groundbreaking this time
around, stay tuned for the much awaited Knights of the Fallen Empire
expansion which brings with it some BIIIIIG changes so I will have something to
rant on about in the coming post. Oh and one other thing, I did see a certain
new Star Wars film.
And it was pretty damn good, nuff’ said.
Hello again damn it’s been a while since the last post, a
good 7 months since the last Hustlin’ through the Old Republic post and about 3
months since the last post of any kind, So welcome back and here we go. Of
course as I had to mention in the title the Shadow of Revan expansion has
arrived along with a new storyline and missions, new flashpoints, new planets a
new level cap and a the new Discipline system which I’m still not sure I fully
understand. Revan who if you
didn’t know is quite an influential figure if his SWTOR wiki page is anything
to go by but I spose all you need to know is the Dread Masters are gone so
and he’s the new big bad boss guy of SWTOR. I must say I really enjoyed the Forged
Alliances storyline lead-up quests to this point as I never really saw it
coming but it all made sense in the end.
The main players in the Shadow of Revan Expansion: Satele Shan, Jakarro and C2-D4, Theron Shan, Lara Beniko, SHae Vizla and of coure Revan!
(NEW EXPANSION SPOILERS AHEAD!)
I must make a brief recap of the events that started the
Forged Alliances questline which basically led to the Shadow of Revan Expansion.
Your character started off by talking to a droid on the fleet as per usually
who sends you to a new mission floor of the fleet, there you find either
Colonel Dark and Theron Shan or Darth Arkous and Lana Beniko (plus another
random third person) who tell you that they are setting up an attack on the
Jedi Temple/Sith Academy on Tython/Korriban. So you go to the enemies homeworld
and attack and kill a few bosses, however after debriefing you then find out
that your own planet is being attacked then race to defend that one however
once you repel the invaders they mention something about a grand plan and that
your efforts are in vain blah blah blah etc so there’s definitely something up.
This part is represented by the Assault on Tython and Korriban Incursion
flashpoints which is part 1 of the series whereTheron and Beniko (Now working
together) have worked out that Dark and Arkous must be working together.
Korriban Incursion, Empire Side - Save the Sith Temple!
The
next part has you travelling to Manaan
which is quite a beautiful looking planet all covered with ocean, it’s here
that you undertake the Depths of Manaan flashpoint where you meet Jakarro and C2-D4, and raid the lab of a a Selkath geneticist
who was constructing cyborgs and shipping them to Darok and Arkous. It was at
this point that Shan and Beniko understood that the two were now part of the
Order of Revan, and the cyborgs were in creation to serve Revan himself, who
wanted to recreate the Infinite Empire in his image.
Manaan - Quite a beautiful planet
In the third and final part of the You then go to Rakata
Prime which if you didn’t know is the home planet of the Rakata species and the central
world of the Infinite Empire though they are now reduced to
Tribal culture. You fight through them and the Revanites and eventually the
initial soldiers of the new Infinite Empire and shut
down the newly created Star
Forge. You eventually confront and kill Arkous and Darok and then Revan and
his fleet appear and he tries to bomb you to smithereens after a short speech
about how he’s back in full force with the Revanites in tow. You manage to
escape of course and Theran and Lana announce they have been accused of murder
by their respective organisation and will go into hiding thus ending the Forged
Alliances questline leadup to the new expansion.
Rakata Prime - Home Planet of the Rakata
(End of spoilers)
And that was that for the time being well now return to your
regular programming of my new character! That’s right after getting my Assassin
to 50 I decided it was time once again to create a new character. Now I was at
a bit of an impasse with this one as ever since I created my Jedi Guardian I’ve
wanted to create a Jedi Sage but told myself I already had a Jedi and Sith
character so needed to create a non-force user to which I thought I should make
another Empire character such as an Imperial Agent. But I eventually decided on
a Trooper Vanguard which although it was a non-force user it was Republic again
so I was forced to create an Imperial character for this time. The thing that
was stopping me from creating an Imperial Agent (or a Smuggler for that matter)
is that I wanted a character with healing abilities but the Operative and
Scoundrel DPS trees were largely focused on stealth and close range attacks,
something that was pretty much exactly what I did as a Sith Assassin so I
wanted something different. The only other choice left was a Bounty Hunter
really so I decided to go a Bounty Hunter Powertech as they have a healing
specialisation and abilities and also a DPS specialisation (Arsenal) that
focuses on long-range combat which was what I wanted to do.
Heehee, look at me and my little pea shooter.
I must take this point to mention that the new Discipline
system was not in effect then but is no so I will now refer to the talent
trees as disciplines er paths I think it is. There is an online discipline
calculator at Dulfy.nethere,
Dulfy.net is a great resource for SWTOR news guides and info and is possibly
the ONLY place you can find certain things like the Discipline calculator but
anyway
The discipline system makes picking your talent points and
skills ever so easy in fact it’s practically the same as WoW’s new simplified talent calculator
which adopts a style akin to Diablo 3 where you choose one of three talents
every 15 levels and also get rewarded one or two abilities every 15 or so
levels. The SWTOR version works in relatively the same way, you follow a line
of main abilities and talents as you level up, then you pick your “Utility
Points” on the right which are sort of like extra talents which let you
specialise your role. And that’s basically all you have to do, tbh I was glad
SWTOR still had the old talent trees as I was kind of sorry to see them go, but
then again I really wasn’t the type of person to chop and change around my
talents so I guess this streamlined way is better for me I guess.
Video describing the new Discipline system
So anyway I created a bounty hunter named “Txan” and because
I had unlocked the Miraluka
race for all classes I decided to go with them. The blind Miraluka races
special feature is the various eye-coverings and headdresses that they wear
which look pretty cool though the majority of them are very big and outlandish
with bright colours that obviously do not tie in with the unify colours option.
I found that although they are initially only available to the Jedi Consular
Class they still have a variety of technological eye coverings one of which was
particularly subtle not like a damn sheet over your head
It's Txan!, he has probably the smallest eye covering option the Miraluka had, goes well with the scar
Playing the Bounty Hunter was pretty fun, wasn’t too much of
a scrounge-from-nothing story but it was good enough, you join a ragtag
bunch of mercenaries/slicers/hunters etc and they want to nominate you for the
“Great Hunt” which is apparently some big bounty hunter thing, you meet your
first companion Mako right then
and there as well, and man is she cute, even before I selected the
customisation that made her white, damn I’m racist. I’ll to take time again to
state that the rocket boots are awesome and I loved zooming around on them.
Mako! with Customization 2
For
my advanced class I decided to go a Mercenary for their long range
DPS and healing capability, I went with the Arsenal discipline as it’s the main
DPS one. I must admit it’s fun being long range most of the time unlike my
Trooper who is either tanking or spends most of his time shooting and smacking
enemies up close my Mercenary is able to finish things off from afar which was
much more relaxing doing flashpoints as I wasn’t in the thick of it for once. I
even tried my hand and healing and didn’t find it too bad, just had to change
the Cylinders to the combat support one, one interesting thing at that point
was that when you had the healing cylinder on you could shoot a ally with your
rapid shots default attack and it would heal them, but this has now been
replaced with a separate ability which kind of sucks but meh.
Not healing here but meh it's group work
I spent quite a
bit of credits, well not me I guess my richer characters have for my Bounty
Hunter, ever since the Cartel Market packs had come into play there was always
hundreds of speeders on the Galaxy Trade Network most of which were with
‘adaptable’ sppeds so you could use them no matter which skill you were at. I
originally started out with the Amzab ZB-8 but didn’t like it cause of the
leaning-over position then went with the Ubrikki Crimson Claw which I got for
free from a guildie as they were going for a dime a dozen. Then while looking
on the Cartel market on my guardian I found the Razalon family which looked
pretty ridiculous so I went with the FC-6 as it was the flashiest cheap one
there was, the end result being that I know have 3 speeders on the one
character, oh well lol.
The Amzab ZB-8
The Bounty hunter story is ok I guess, Mako is mostly
Light-side orientated though there’s been at least one time where she’s
preferred dark which kind of surprised me, but damn the amount of times I
watched a dark side option with my finger on the escape key was a lot and damn
you’re a badass, smacking women to the ground then shooting them, it was pretty
damn graphic for Star Wars at least. The ship you get is kinda cool though it
looks a bit too much like the Jedi one inside but ok I guess, space missions
were fun. The starting world Hutta
wasn’t exactly pretty, just a Toxic waste dump where your constantly working
for Hutts of course (and some Evocii) Having
finished Dromund Kass I have earned a pretty silly looking suit of armor
(especially the helm, I’m now up to Balmorra getting used to the changes.
You lookin at me?
So then it was time to get back on my Ass or Assass, or Sith
Assassin that is. As far as I remember I had finished my Story quest and given
the title Darth Imperious and was basically up to questing on Ilum. Though I actually started out
by doing some of the new Forged Alliances Flashpoints including the Battle of
Rishi, Assualt on Tython and Korriban incursion, all out of order unfortunately
(doh!) Ilum is quite a pretty planet (especially the sky), so I finished off
the quests there and did the Battle of Ilum and the False Emperor and it was
good to see the Empire Side of things though it did make me wonder who would be
the new leader of the Sith (maybe me?) lol. So then I decided it was on to
Oricon! as I now knew it gives you a new set of gear, though technically I
hadn’t been in my Eradicator
armor that long.
Ilum, some very nice sky
Oricon Empire side wasn’t too much different, just dealing
with different people. The Pristine
Seeker’s armor is pretty damn cool, very demonic looking, it was pretty
funny as you do the quests you get a different piece of armor and mashing it
up[ with the Eradicator armor looked kind of weird, there was one point where I
wasn’t even wearing a robe lol. I was experimenting with more dyes and tried
the primary purple dye which looked ok.
Oricon, not a very nice place
After that it was finishing off the
level 50 extra tidbits inc Section X on Belsavis and the Black Hole on
Coreilia, not that they meant much just wanted to see the Empire Side of things.
I completed the Depths of Manaan flashpoint and a few others and pretty soon
pimped out my Pristine Seeker Gear with 172 mods from the Rishi mod vendor and
moved my black/red dye module from my eradicator gear to my new gear and was
looking pretty sharp.
You dig my horns baby?
After that I decided to finally claim my Dromund Kass
stronghold (or apartment), yes as part of the Galactic
Strongholds expansion each subscriber gets to purchase the Coruscant or
Dromund Kass apartment for 3 credits! Yes 3 credits. I wasn’t really too
enthusiastic about the player housing as you had your own ship that was enough
in my view and was scared to try it out as you know what I’m like with interior
decorating especially in Minecraft, though it wasn’t too bad as when you
purchased a stronghold you automatically got a set of basic additions such as
chairs, tables, couches, beds, banners and carpets. Your mesley 3 credits only give you access to three rooms, one being the entry foyer, so I said to myself
that’s fine with me! As you can to spend quite a lot of credits and/or cartel
coins for the full thing, so I just decided I’d make these three rooms look as
good as possible. So I began decorating which was pretty easy, you just have
squares to put things in and you can move them around a small area once placed,
in addition to the decorations you can buy from vendors, the GTN and the Cartel
market you can also gets decorations as loot from questing and doing
flashpoints which was nice.
Your Dromund Kass Stronghold/Apartment tower
Look it's me! though you actually have to pay to get the balcony.
I made the entry room sort of like a utility room
with Decoration vendors and the three banks: normal cargo hold, guild cargo
hold and legacy storage. As you may have guessed legacy storage allow you to
store items that can be accessed across all characters which is a great
feature, I also installed a Galactic trade network kiosk which is kinda weird
because it can only be placed on a wall but when you place it it’s way too high
and you can’t get it down low enough but anyway. I made the large room a
hangout for my companions with beds and entertainment and made the other room
my bedroom with Ashara there of course. Last things were some lights and
banners around the wall and roof and you also get various commemorative
paintings and pictures of bosses you have downed in raids. With everything
added the place looked a lot more homely though I don’t like the way it’s
ALWAYS raining on Dromund Kass.
Some shots of the different rooms, really do need to give it a bit of work.
So that was that for Uxan, next up was Makeb and the Hutt
Cartel Expansion (finally!, I feel like i’m way behind with him). It was then
on to my Trooper Gxan who was just starting Tatooine, nothing really
groundbreaking just got through the story missions, with one particular
interaction being interesting as a girl asked what she could do to show
her gratitude and you could “insinuate” that she could have sex with you but
boy Elara didn’t take that well when I tried it out at first. The other funny
thing was that there was an option to tell Elara that “I won’t let her get
between us” I also got those damn datacrons on the Sandcrawler by riding
the incredibly slow balloon again , this time with no trouble though. I
finished the story mission on Tatooine meeting Fuse who been imprisoned after he
refused to harm innocent civilians and I chose to stop the self-destruct of the
bomb but let the Imperial Commander escape,
Ah the beauty of Tatooine.
I also let Fuse live cause of his
change of heart. I then went on to Alderaan where I got all political again
though I did like the story where you have a prisoner from house Ulgo and
rescue their wife and daughter, I had a lot of fun choosing dark side options
just to see what happened (basically smack the crap out of him) then going back
especially where right at the end you could betray them and leave them to be
executed. Nothing much else happened apart from a Empire guild raiding house Organa’s
cantina, so I confronted and killed Gearbox in his battle mech,
wasn’t fond of that guy anyway. Always loved going back to Alderaan though,
really is (or was) a beautiful planet.
Alderaan Politics, even worse then ours, and that's saying a lot
Sadly though it was very beautiful, much more so then Tatooine
Oh c'mon guys this is just silly
The last part I had to do was confront the final two members
of the original havoc squad, Wraith and Harron Tavus aboard their ship The Justice (hah ironic
name right?) So you sneak aboard pretending to be a fellow Republic deserter
and then kill Wraith then confront Tavis and choose to either kill or capture
him. I chose capture as he was an ok guy. So that was that for the time being,
we destroyed (almost) the entire traitorous Havoc Squad and now we’re the new
Havoc Squad, not fully manned yet of course. So then that our Commanding
officer orders us to get some R&R and report back to my ship’s holo when
I’m ready for duty. This was quite a departure from the other two Jedi and Sith
story missions where they didn’t seem to stop just kept going with the next
thing that had happened. Maybe the life of a humble Trooper is less glamorous
and more orderly lol.
"So, we meet again Lieutenant"
So that was that for that month or two months maybe, I’ve
actually started another session since then, dang it has been awhile since the
last post. Well hopefully I’ll be able to do more in the near future now that
things have slowed down, can confirm in my last session I bought and pimped out my Stronghold on Coruscant, got my Guardian to 60
and finished off the Shadow of Revan expansion, and also did Balmorra on my Bounty
Hunter before stopping to play GTA5 yes GTA5 I’m finally gonna do it wooo
anyway cya for now.
We shooty-shoot-shoot it up in the Taral V flashpoint
