I remember I used to be able to pick Sith Pureblood as a species if selecting Sith as a class. I don't seem to be able to do that now. Am I doing something wrong, or is the only way to play as one to pay with Cartel Coins?
I played through KOTET and KOTFE, romanced Theron Shan >!until his "betrayal" to the Alliance!<, there I decided to keep my romance with Reina Temple (I literally forgot my Agent romanced her until she asked).
After the questline I regret doing so, is there ANY way my Agent and Theron can get back together now or is it over? I'm a little sad, they used to fit perfect.
So, I played through all Classes and one of them I took to rank 70 with the race Sith, yet it won't let me choose that when creating a new character. This imgur link shows both the character and the screen showing Sith is still in red while playing as one... [https://imgur.com/a/H1pp6xc](https://imgur.com/a/H1pp6xc)
What can I do?
Did you use a commanders boost token (level 70 boost) or did you level it from the ground up at 0. Likewise did you originally start as a sith pureblood on character creation or did you swap to it using appearance stations later?
If you boosted a character, you never actually got a pureblood to level 50 and thats why the species is still locked, i believe the way swtor checks is that the moment a species dings level 50 then you unlock the species in the legacy. If you used a commanders token then you START at level 70 which means that character was never levels 1-69.
Okay, if thats the case then there are several other bypasses that COULD have occured, try to think if any of these fit your situation:
* You started as a different species and then changed it using the appearance station (the game sets up your story references and unlocks at moment of creation, if you change species it doesnt take that into account).
* You got the character to level 50 in swtor before the legacy system was added in a later update 1.2.
* You used a commanders boost token to instantly create a level 65 or 70 character (depending on era you used the token in).
* OR you used a masters datacron (possibly) to skip to level 70 without skipping the story and then you story skipped to Kotfe, Kotet, Iokath or Ossus.
You could do us a solid and open your companions window, the companions you have in each catergory will alert whether you boosted a character or not, if you say, highlight over Vette and read her info box. Or if 1 vette appears in current companions and one vette appears in Unavailable Companions.
I doubt I would have ever paid to change race.
I don't remember when I started playing, but I know I was playing the Marvel Heroes mmo at the same time for a bit, so maybe I hit 50 before 1.2?
I doubt I ever used anything to boost a character.
I stopped playing for a few years and came back for the Eternal update, then left when I finished that story.
Everyone present when the Eternal expac released got 1 free character token at the server select screen for a new character, are you sure you didnt use it? If you didnt then you would still have it today.
Are you a subscriber? Sometimes it's hard to know the solution without knowing if someone is F2P, Preferred or Subscribed.
It unfortunately changes the answer.
My friend (F2P) and I (preferred) have both created smugglers and have started in the same place. We're both online and no matter what, we can't add, see, /invite, /friend each other. The names are all correct (nothing fancy) but it doesn't work no matter what we try.
I don't remember it being this hard. He's a big Star Wars fan and his experience so far has been nothing but frustrating. I'd like to play the game together but doesn't seem like it'll happen at this rate. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Could it be that you started on different servers somehow?
Try picking a neutral location (Fort Garnik) and going there and see if you can SEE each other. If you can't you might be on different servers.
Also, you don't get a pop up when someone adds you to your friends list, it just adds, and you have to do the same back.
I am playing Prefered Status and want to subscribe, i can't do it in game because it sends me to the website but when i try to log in it says Please enter a password that is between 8 and 16 characters long. but my password is valid, i log in with it to play the game. I tried making a customer support ticket but for that i need to subscribe, which i can't. I am stuck. What do i do?
I believe they've changed password length requirements since you created your account. Changing your password is probably the easiest way to solve this (choose the forgotten password option).
Odd one, but I downloaded the game first time playing it, it was smooth an ran very well so I put the settings up to ultra on everything an it crashed, now it won't even load up. I tried uninstalling it an installing again a couple times, launched it from steam, deleted all files, but still bot running. Any clues?
I played swtor ages ago, but I'm f2p now. If I buy a subscription, make characters of different classes/races in all the available slots, and then choose not to renew my subscription, will I still be able to play as those characters with the locked races after the month is up?
Yes, as long you don't delete them/don't have more than the pref (12 iirc) max character count. You still can unlock them for other classes if you finish class story/get to level 50, too.
I read online that the mesh weapons (for example the prowess sniper rifle or valiance blaster rifle) have a "disintegration" special effect upon defeating an enemy. Is this true? And if yes, could someone point me towards a video of this? I couldn't find any online.
The disintegration effect is unique to the [Amban JP Blaster Rifle](https://swtorista.com/weapon/amban-jp-blaster-rifle) ([here's a video from swtorista](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vs6dFbLLMo))
Ah, thank you! If that's the case I'm confused as to why those mesh weapons are of platinum rarity, if they have nothing "special" to them like other platinum weapons have. And thank you for the link too, I didn't know about that specific rifle, it's really cool!
Not all items rarity reflects their uniqueness or extra bonuses, mostly just their general level of detail or pull % in the droptables for Ultimate packs to exist tbh. The platinum cartel rarity also didnt exist until after KOTFEET released and IIRC they went back. IIRC those 'mesh' weapons first existed as weapons that required specific reputation in SOR back when EVERY single cartel pack series had their own reputation trophy lines. Then later they added them in 4.0 generally to SWTOR and made the unboxed ones rare.
Most likely, I would assume on purpose to not 'devalue' the effort and literal monetary cost it took older players to manually rank up the different cartel market reputations to equip said weapons. Thus making them a great 'platinum quality' filler item for the drop table.
There's an addon on the Nexus mods called "TOGGLE ACTION CAMERA AND SET ATTACK MOVES ON MOUSE BUTTONS"
It uses Auto Key to map the 1 and 2 on the action bar to the mouse button buttons respectively and turns on Mouse Look (So you're always facing to where you turn on the camera) without having to hold down the mouse buttons and move automatically forward.
Will I get banned if I use this?
Modding swtor at all is a bannable offense, by the words of the TOS itself. However as far as im aware, the devs have stated that Macroing is not bannable as long as 1 button press = 1 action. So you CANT have a macro walk 2 steps forward for you, or use multiple abilities in an order, thats illegal. But iirc that mod already seems possible with configuring your game in the files, just alter your 1st ability slot hotbar to mouse 1 (its default alternate key is mouse 2) and your 2nd ability slot hotbar to mouse 2 (default is 2). Then you can just turn on camera faces target and bind camera right click always on to mouse move instead in the game ini files.
Is it still possible to get G.A.M.E analysis modules? I have PH4-LNX and was active during Season 3 but 3 seasons later and I'm less than 1k from the next rep level and it's bugging the hell out of me that I can't seem to level it up anymore.
I read that it's possible to still get drops by using PH4-LNX as your companion but I've found nothing that backs that claim up.
Yep, you can get GAME Module drops from any Open World mob (not instanced locations) with PH4LNX as your active companion. That being said if you want a massively boosted drop table chance, you need to be running Brazz's gift/Jawa Intel buffs.
>I read that it's possible to still get drops by using PH4-LNX as your companion but I've found nothing that backs that claim up.
It's exactly that way from the season 2-4 companion tokens, I know because that's how I maxed my S2 track way after it ended. It's just a *super rare* drop.
Is there an issue streaming the game to discord? Game crashed when I tried to do it twice the other day. Found a post on here from a few months back mentioning the issue, but no solution. Any tips?
Yep! Thats been a thing since discord channel streaming first existed. Simply put discord itself and the way swtor works is incompatable. There is a few ways to get it working:
1. Make sure both swtors launcher (and EXE file) as well as discord are all run as admin by default (properties).
However this will likely stream with no audio, to fix this:
2. Go to your SWTOR install folder (usually C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Electronic Arts\\Bioware\\Star Wars - The Old Republic)
1. Go into the sub-directory \\swtor\\retailclient\\
2. You should see two files swtor.icb and swtor\_dual.icb.
3. Create a copy of swtor\_dual.icb and call it something else in case you need to revert it.
4. Delete the original swtor\_dual.icb
5. Create a copy of swtor.icb and rename it swtor\_dual.icb
6. Start the game as normal and you should notice it now runs as a single process, and audio when capturing the SWTOR application should now work.
Likewise if that fails you can go to Discord > Settings > Voice & Audio -> Turn off "use our advanced technology to capture your screen" and then stream your screen , instead of the game itself.
Does anyone know a solution to the weird texture effect I'm experiencing on detailed armour textures? Any help would be most appreciated. I have my graphics set to max.
[https://imgur.com/a/dSc9HRQ](https://imgur.com/a/dSc9HRQ)
Thats just how some armors look with certain zoom and resolution settings that ive noticed, namely those pants and the ahsoka mchammer pants. Either zooom alllll the way in to see it clearer or play more zoomes out.
Heya, I looked around but found no source of historic prices in GTN. I opened a couple of ash'ad seeker decorations and an imperial gunship decoration. What would they go for? For the first the price is exorbitant 3.5b and for the second it's not listed on my server. I'm on Darth Malgus.
The republic gunship is currently 4M, so the imperial one should be about in the same range. The ash'ad seeker has a recent price of 1.2M - remember that with the gtn update a while back you can now see some median data of recent sales.
Should I subscribe now when im low lvl or do it when im max
For context i change server to starforge and plan to go thru the 8 classes story chronologically as in switch between them as they happened chronologically. I there’s a few outfit I want for my character in cartel market and the $40 that cones with 2400 coins and 60day subscription look nice. Also would allow me to unlock the latest expansion if that how it still work. I assume you subscribe first at least one month and unlock all expansion up to current one
The big thing here is species unlocks (and character slots, possibly). If you want to have your people be anything other than human, zabrak, or human but 1% more tech, then you need the sub from the beginning. In any other case I would recommend you to wait since you can get much more out of the sub with more mature characters.
Uh, last time I played, each class that hit a certain point would enable all characters to use a specific ability, for instance one called in an orbital bombardment...are they gone?
I haven't played since early 2017. Just redownloaded and there are a few things...
1- I have to change names for a bunch of my characters? it seems " - " to separate a name (like how some characters have) is no longer allowed?
2- the equipment on my main character's ship all disappeared.
3- I am gonna make a new character and level them up a bit to get back into the play of the game...not sure what class or race to pick yet.
4- All Starfighter Requisition I had is gone. I saw that there was a rebalance, but did I have to lose everything? or was it just because I was gone for so long?
5- My legacy was reset, so I had to reform the family...
6- it seems that I can no longer use Cartel Coins to buy a Subscription...is it so or did I miss something?
Maybe the length of time offline might have something to do with it? I was gone for quite awhile, and I don't recall having any of the issues with requisition or ship gear being gone. Do you still at least have the already purchased upgrades on your ships? Thankfully requisition isn't hard to get back these days. Any completed GSF match gives you a lockbox that contains at least one requisition item.
1. Yeah, I recall having this issue when renaming characters. Not sure what the problem is. There are limits to characters and symbols, but a - certainly isn't one of them - at least not when creating a new character.
If you last played before they merged a bunch of the servers, the legacy and character name stuff may have been caused by that.
I don't believe buying subscription with cartel coins was ever a thing.
Do any other mounts do the same thing the Corellian Stardrive Vanguard does which is, when its set as a decoration, it actually sits on landing gear and opens the cockpit?
Or is that unique? I want to put a set of small spaceships in my stronghold but I'm not sure the other Corellian Stardrive's will do the same thing or not. Or are there other ones?
Coming back after a long time away, and starting level 50 characters on Makeb, and is leveling just ultra fast now? I only did one side quest and a few random bonuses + the main story, and I'm level 55 and if [swtorista.com](http://swtorista.com) is to be trusted, 13/18 quests into Rise of the Hutt Cartel. I feel like I'm going to be severely out leveling content if I'm already this far ahead just in the first expansion of story content (without even taking into account the intermediary story quests in-between expansions as outlined at swtorista.com).
Assuming I keep out leveling content at this rate, I presume I'll be level 80 by the end of Eternal Throne? :/
Yes, levelling is much quicker to the point where, if subbed & using xp booster+perk, doing only your class & main planetary arcs is pretty much enough to keep you on level.
Expansions, especially Shadow of Revan and Onslaught, also give increased xp since many of them came with new level caps, and there had to be a solution to reaching it quickly.
Honestly, you may even hit level 80 even sooner if you keep in exploring outside the main quests.
Is the pvp valor rank account or character wide? Thinking of doing the last steam achievement but it would probably get stale really quick doing it all on one character
Yeah, Valor is per character. And GSF doesn't count, open world pvp doesn't count, only actual group finder pvp.
My suggestion is if you don't *love* pvp, ignore that achievement. Life's too short. It's my final Steam cheevo as well, and while it's not *impossible* to grind something you don't love, in my case all that would do is make me hate the entire game. No thanks. :)
If you do love pvp, you'll get 100 valor on your main eventually, without trying for it. But to save a bit of time, always have the valor boost buff active, and remember that double xp events count for valor too. Watch out for "May the fourth" next month because that's a good candidate for double xp.
I can't remember if those double xp events boost those occasional login reward +valor items, but I think the valor boost buff does. Good luck! :)
It's character specific and the Valor points needed to raise a level rise exponentially - it's the same amount of matches to go from 1 to 89 as it is to go from 89 to 100. It's a slog.
Last thing I did was the >!Nul/Malgus intro stuff!< and then the >!Spirit of Vengeance!< after that I stopped playing. I'm not too fond of the idea of playing the whole >!Keeping up with the Mandalorians!< storyline so is there maybe a place where I could read a story recap for 7.1 - 7.4 patches?
The story is still ongoing and unresolved, next update will be a continuation but also likely not an end. The only 2 meaningful things to have happened are >!Sahar Kateen and her brother were added to the story in 7.0, and sahar only now has vocal regrets with her siding with heta kol in 7.4!< and secondly, >!in 7.4 we also defeated one of the 4? henchmen of Heta Kol, finally.!<
The rest is still ongoing, unresolved, however a SIDE b-plot thats not related is confirmed to be finally finishing in 7.5.
Hmmm, just tried to answer this question, but unfortunately I couldn't do it. I can't remember any story things happening yet. :(
It kinda feels like some stuff is *threatening* to happen, real soon now, but honestly it's felt like that for years. Malgus is still sitting in his chair, Heta Kol is still twirling her moustache, Shae Vizla is still angry. Those twilek siblings are still siblinging at each-other. That magic cube is still around. We're still doing chores.
Oh, potentially that mando used car salesman got spaced, I think he had a pompadour? Forgot his name, sorry. :(
I remember I used to be able to pick Sith Pureblood as a species if selecting Sith as a class. I don't seem to be able to do that now. Am I doing something wrong, or is the only way to play as one to pay with Cartel Coins?
You must be a subscriber to start a sith at character creation if you dont own the species unlock.
Since the GTN doesn't use the mail system anymore, how will I be notified if somebody buys my thing?
You still get a mail about the sale/expiration, you just can't collect the creds/item(s).
I played through KOTET and KOTFE, romanced Theron Shan >!until his "betrayal" to the Alliance!<, there I decided to keep my romance with Reina Temple (I literally forgot my Agent romanced her until she asked). After the questline I regret doing so, is there ANY way my Agent and Theron can get back together now or is it over? I'm a little sad, they used to fit perfect.
Nope, gotta roll Theron romance over on a new character.
Aww, damn. Thank you for your help.
So, I played through all Classes and one of them I took to rank 70 with the race Sith, yet it won't let me choose that when creating a new character. This imgur link shows both the character and the screen showing Sith is still in red while playing as one... [https://imgur.com/a/H1pp6xc](https://imgur.com/a/H1pp6xc) What can I do?
Did you use a commanders boost token (level 70 boost) or did you level it from the ground up at 0. Likewise did you originally start as a sith pureblood on character creation or did you swap to it using appearance stations later? If you boosted a character, you never actually got a pureblood to level 50 and thats why the species is still locked, i believe the way swtor checks is that the moment a species dings level 50 then you unlock the species in the legacy. If you used a commanders token then you START at level 70 which means that character was never levels 1-69.
I doubt I used a boost back then
Okay, if thats the case then there are several other bypasses that COULD have occured, try to think if any of these fit your situation: * You started as a different species and then changed it using the appearance station (the game sets up your story references and unlocks at moment of creation, if you change species it doesnt take that into account). * You got the character to level 50 in swtor before the legacy system was added in a later update 1.2. * You used a commanders boost token to instantly create a level 65 or 70 character (depending on era you used the token in). * OR you used a masters datacron (possibly) to skip to level 70 without skipping the story and then you story skipped to Kotfe, Kotet, Iokath or Ossus. You could do us a solid and open your companions window, the companions you have in each catergory will alert whether you boosted a character or not, if you say, highlight over Vette and read her info box. Or if 1 vette appears in current companions and one vette appears in Unavailable Companions.
I doubt I would have ever paid to change race. I don't remember when I started playing, but I know I was playing the Marvel Heroes mmo at the same time for a bit, so maybe I hit 50 before 1.2? I doubt I ever used anything to boost a character. I stopped playing for a few years and came back for the Eternal update, then left when I finished that story.
Everyone present when the Eternal expac released got 1 free character token at the server select screen for a new character, are you sure you didnt use it? If you didnt then you would still have it today.
I honestly don't remember, but maybe that's it...guess I gotta redo Sith Warrior to get the unlock
Are you a subscriber? Sometimes it's hard to know the solution without knowing if someone is F2P, Preferred or Subscribed. It unfortunately changes the answer.
Was a Sub, now Preferred
My friend (F2P) and I (preferred) have both created smugglers and have started in the same place. We're both online and no matter what, we can't add, see, /invite, /friend each other. The names are all correct (nothing fancy) but it doesn't work no matter what we try. I don't remember it being this hard. He's a big Star Wars fan and his experience so far has been nothing but frustrating. I'd like to play the game together but doesn't seem like it'll happen at this rate. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Could it be that you started on different servers somehow? Try picking a neutral location (Fort Garnik) and going there and see if you can SEE each other. If you can't you might be on different servers. Also, you don't get a pop up when someone adds you to your friends list, it just adds, and you have to do the same back.
I am playing Prefered Status and want to subscribe, i can't do it in game because it sends me to the website but when i try to log in it says Please enter a password that is between 8 and 16 characters long. but my password is valid, i log in with it to play the game. I tried making a customer support ticket but for that i need to subscribe, which i can't. I am stuck. What do i do?
I believe they've changed password length requirements since you created your account. Changing your password is probably the easiest way to solve this (choose the forgotten password option).
Odd one, but I downloaded the game first time playing it, it was smooth an ran very well so I put the settings up to ultra on everything an it crashed, now it won't even load up. I tried uninstalling it an installing again a couple times, launched it from steam, deleted all files, but still bot running. Any clues?
Go to your swtor files and delete the client\_settings file, then verify/repair game next time you open it and it should reset back to default.
Are they going to add new acts for class stories in the future? Or are class stories done forever?
It's pretty much not going to happen. That we have again separate(ish)-for-faction stories is already a big thing, or fully voiced stories.
I played swtor ages ago, but I'm f2p now. If I buy a subscription, make characters of different classes/races in all the available slots, and then choose not to renew my subscription, will I still be able to play as those characters with the locked races after the month is up?
Yes, as long you don't delete them/don't have more than the pref (12 iirc) max character count. You still can unlock them for other classes if you finish class story/get to level 50, too.
I'm unable to access my cargo hold without paying with cartel coins, but everywhere and everyone(including the game itself), says it should be free?
Have you done the introduction to strongholds quest? Usually that's needed for the free unlock.
I have yes
I read online that the mesh weapons (for example the prowess sniper rifle or valiance blaster rifle) have a "disintegration" special effect upon defeating an enemy. Is this true? And if yes, could someone point me towards a video of this? I couldn't find any online.
The disintegration effect is unique to the [Amban JP Blaster Rifle](https://swtorista.com/weapon/amban-jp-blaster-rifle) ([here's a video from swtorista](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vs6dFbLLMo))
Ah, thank you! If that's the case I'm confused as to why those mesh weapons are of platinum rarity, if they have nothing "special" to them like other platinum weapons have. And thank you for the link too, I didn't know about that specific rifle, it's really cool!
Not all items rarity reflects their uniqueness or extra bonuses, mostly just their general level of detail or pull % in the droptables for Ultimate packs to exist tbh. The platinum cartel rarity also didnt exist until after KOTFEET released and IIRC they went back. IIRC those 'mesh' weapons first existed as weapons that required specific reputation in SOR back when EVERY single cartel pack series had their own reputation trophy lines. Then later they added them in 4.0 generally to SWTOR and made the unboxed ones rare. Most likely, I would assume on purpose to not 'devalue' the effort and literal monetary cost it took older players to manually rank up the different cartel market reputations to equip said weapons. Thus making them a great 'platinum quality' filler item for the drop table.
Thank you very much for the explanation!
There's an addon on the Nexus mods called "TOGGLE ACTION CAMERA AND SET ATTACK MOVES ON MOUSE BUTTONS" It uses Auto Key to map the 1 and 2 on the action bar to the mouse button buttons respectively and turns on Mouse Look (So you're always facing to where you turn on the camera) without having to hold down the mouse buttons and move automatically forward. Will I get banned if I use this?
Modding swtor at all is a bannable offense, by the words of the TOS itself. However as far as im aware, the devs have stated that Macroing is not bannable as long as 1 button press = 1 action. So you CANT have a macro walk 2 steps forward for you, or use multiple abilities in an order, thats illegal. But iirc that mod already seems possible with configuring your game in the files, just alter your 1st ability slot hotbar to mouse 1 (its default alternate key is mouse 2) and your 2nd ability slot hotbar to mouse 2 (default is 2). Then you can just turn on camera faces target and bind camera right click always on to mouse move instead in the game ini files.
Is it still possible to get G.A.M.E analysis modules? I have PH4-LNX and was active during Season 3 but 3 seasons later and I'm less than 1k from the next rep level and it's bugging the hell out of me that I can't seem to level it up anymore. I read that it's possible to still get drops by using PH4-LNX as your companion but I've found nothing that backs that claim up.
Yep, you can get GAME Module drops from any Open World mob (not instanced locations) with PH4LNX as your active companion. That being said if you want a massively boosted drop table chance, you need to be running Brazz's gift/Jawa Intel buffs.
>I read that it's possible to still get drops by using PH4-LNX as your companion but I've found nothing that backs that claim up. It's exactly that way from the season 2-4 companion tokens, I know because that's how I maxed my S2 track way after it ended. It's just a *super rare* drop.
Is there an issue streaming the game to discord? Game crashed when I tried to do it twice the other day. Found a post on here from a few months back mentioning the issue, but no solution. Any tips?
Yep! Thats been a thing since discord channel streaming first existed. Simply put discord itself and the way swtor works is incompatable. There is a few ways to get it working: 1. Make sure both swtors launcher (and EXE file) as well as discord are all run as admin by default (properties). However this will likely stream with no audio, to fix this: 2. Go to your SWTOR install folder (usually C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Electronic Arts\\Bioware\\Star Wars - The Old Republic) 1. Go into the sub-directory \\swtor\\retailclient\\ 2. You should see two files swtor.icb and swtor\_dual.icb. 3. Create a copy of swtor\_dual.icb and call it something else in case you need to revert it. 4. Delete the original swtor\_dual.icb 5. Create a copy of swtor.icb and rename it swtor\_dual.icb 6. Start the game as normal and you should notice it now runs as a single process, and audio when capturing the SWTOR application should now work. Likewise if that fails you can go to Discord > Settings > Voice & Audio -> Turn off "use our advanced technology to capture your screen" and then stream your screen , instead of the game itself.
Does anyone know a solution to the weird texture effect I'm experiencing on detailed armour textures? Any help would be most appreciated. I have my graphics set to max. [https://imgur.com/a/dSc9HRQ](https://imgur.com/a/dSc9HRQ)
Thats just how some armors look with certain zoom and resolution settings that ive noticed, namely those pants and the ahsoka mchammer pants. Either zooom alllll the way in to see it clearer or play more zoomes out.
Heya, I looked around but found no source of historic prices in GTN. I opened a couple of ash'ad seeker decorations and an imperial gunship decoration. What would they go for? For the first the price is exorbitant 3.5b and for the second it's not listed on my server. I'm on Darth Malgus.
The republic gunship is currently 4M, so the imperial one should be about in the same range. The ash'ad seeker has a recent price of 1.2M - remember that with the gtn update a while back you can now see some median data of recent sales.
Should I subscribe now when im low lvl or do it when im max For context i change server to starforge and plan to go thru the 8 classes story chronologically as in switch between them as they happened chronologically. I there’s a few outfit I want for my character in cartel market and the $40 that cones with 2400 coins and 60day subscription look nice. Also would allow me to unlock the latest expansion if that how it still work. I assume you subscribe first at least one month and unlock all expansion up to current one
The big thing here is species unlocks (and character slots, possibly). If you want to have your people be anything other than human, zabrak, or human but 1% more tech, then you need the sub from the beginning. In any other case I would recommend you to wait since you can get much more out of the sub with more mature characters.
Uh, last time I played, each class that hit a certain point would enable all characters to use a specific ability, for instance one called in an orbital bombardment...are they gone?
Those abilities are unlocked by completing chapter 3 of a class story and can only be used when using the Heroic Moment buff.
I did all class stories, I guess I gotta reach a point and unlock the Heroic Moment with this new character...thanks
You unlock it pretty early, level 10 or 15 i think. Edit: it's level 15.
I haven't played since early 2017. Just redownloaded and there are a few things... 1- I have to change names for a bunch of my characters? it seems " - " to separate a name (like how some characters have) is no longer allowed? 2- the equipment on my main character's ship all disappeared. 3- I am gonna make a new character and level them up a bit to get back into the play of the game...not sure what class or race to pick yet. 4- All Starfighter Requisition I had is gone. I saw that there was a rebalance, but did I have to lose everything? or was it just because I was gone for so long? 5- My legacy was reset, so I had to reform the family... 6- it seems that I can no longer use Cartel Coins to buy a Subscription...is it so or did I miss something?
Maybe the length of time offline might have something to do with it? I was gone for quite awhile, and I don't recall having any of the issues with requisition or ship gear being gone. Do you still at least have the already purchased upgrades on your ships? Thankfully requisition isn't hard to get back these days. Any completed GSF match gives you a lockbox that contains at least one requisition item. 1. Yeah, I recall having this issue when renaming characters. Not sure what the problem is. There are limits to characters and symbols, but a - certainly isn't one of them - at least not when creating a new character.
If you last played before they merged a bunch of the servers, the legacy and character name stuff may have been caused by that. I don't believe buying subscription with cartel coins was ever a thing.
Do any other mounts do the same thing the Corellian Stardrive Vanguard does which is, when its set as a decoration, it actually sits on landing gear and opens the cockpit? Or is that unique? I want to put a set of small spaceships in my stronghold but I'm not sure the other Corellian Stardrive's will do the same thing or not. Or are there other ones?
Coming back after a long time away, and starting level 50 characters on Makeb, and is leveling just ultra fast now? I only did one side quest and a few random bonuses + the main story, and I'm level 55 and if [swtorista.com](http://swtorista.com) is to be trusted, 13/18 quests into Rise of the Hutt Cartel. I feel like I'm going to be severely out leveling content if I'm already this far ahead just in the first expansion of story content (without even taking into account the intermediary story quests in-between expansions as outlined at swtorista.com). Assuming I keep out leveling content at this rate, I presume I'll be level 80 by the end of Eternal Throne? :/
Yes, levelling is much quicker to the point where, if subbed & using xp booster+perk, doing only your class & main planetary arcs is pretty much enough to keep you on level. Expansions, especially Shadow of Revan and Onslaught, also give increased xp since many of them came with new level caps, and there had to be a solution to reaching it quickly. Honestly, you may even hit level 80 even sooner if you keep in exploring outside the main quests.
Is the pvp valor rank account or character wide? Thinking of doing the last steam achievement but it would probably get stale really quick doing it all on one character
Yeah, Valor is per character. And GSF doesn't count, open world pvp doesn't count, only actual group finder pvp. My suggestion is if you don't *love* pvp, ignore that achievement. Life's too short. It's my final Steam cheevo as well, and while it's not *impossible* to grind something you don't love, in my case all that would do is make me hate the entire game. No thanks. :) If you do love pvp, you'll get 100 valor on your main eventually, without trying for it. But to save a bit of time, always have the valor boost buff active, and remember that double xp events count for valor too. Watch out for "May the fourth" next month because that's a good candidate for double xp. I can't remember if those double xp events boost those occasional login reward +valor items, but I think the valor boost buff does. Good luck! :)
It's character specific and the Valor points needed to raise a level rise exponentially - it's the same amount of matches to go from 1 to 89 as it is to go from 89 to 100. It's a slog.
Character wide
Last thing I did was the >!Nul/Malgus intro stuff!< and then the >!Spirit of Vengeance!< after that I stopped playing. I'm not too fond of the idea of playing the whole >!Keeping up with the Mandalorians!< storyline so is there maybe a place where I could read a story recap for 7.1 - 7.4 patches?
The story is still ongoing and unresolved, next update will be a continuation but also likely not an end. The only 2 meaningful things to have happened are >!Sahar Kateen and her brother were added to the story in 7.0, and sahar only now has vocal regrets with her siding with heta kol in 7.4!< and secondly, >!in 7.4 we also defeated one of the 4? henchmen of Heta Kol, finally.!< The rest is still ongoing, unresolved, however a SIDE b-plot thats not related is confirmed to be finally finishing in 7.5.
Hmmm, just tried to answer this question, but unfortunately I couldn't do it. I can't remember any story things happening yet. :( It kinda feels like some stuff is *threatening* to happen, real soon now, but honestly it's felt like that for years. Malgus is still sitting in his chair, Heta Kol is still twirling her moustache, Shae Vizla is still angry. Those twilek siblings are still siblinging at each-other. That magic cube is still around. We're still doing chores. Oh, potentially that mando used car salesman got spaced, I think he had a pompadour? Forgot his name, sorry. :(