Hello All, I have not played this game since 2012. I decided to subscribe for a month to see what content had been released. Honestly, I caught the trailer of KoTFE somewhere and thats what made me want to check it out. I had lamented Biowares decision to move away from Class stories as I thought they held some of the best storytelling in an MMO. SO I was disappointed to see that KoTFE continued this trend, disappointed but not surprised. Right off the bat, I have to say, this expansion was awesome to play through! I have been reading these forums from time to time and I know that a lot of people disliked the move away from Empire vs Republic but I wasnt one of them. I thought this was a great story filled with great characters. I went from hating Arcann to rooting for him, man what a great character! I went from liking Valkorian' mystique to enjoying his defeat. Both of these voice actors were top notch and they were just written really well. Senya was nuanced and well voice acted. Koth was a bit of a mary sue but he had his place. Vaylin annoyed me. She was really the only character that I thought was 2 dimensional. Evil for evil's sake. Overall, the story was really good. I felt like it was a homage to the old Star Wars stories that Disney scrapped where a third faction shows up and is stronger than the Empire and Republic combined. it took me at least 24 hours of gaming to finish it and I consider it time well spent. I'm a little sad that the story has now gone back to generic Empire vs. Republic and Zakuul and the alliance are pretty much swept under the rug. The "boss fights" were a welcome change to SoR where you had to do a flashpoint for the story. Even if you could solo them, they took a long time and that annoyed me. In KoTFE, they have "mechanics" and I even died a couple of times. If there was one thing that I thought was "wrong" it would have to be that the expansion must make zero sense as a non force user. The whole story leaned heavy on the force and force users, which to me, I didnt mind cause I think the force is whats interesting about star wars. I cant imagine taking an Imperial Agent or a republic trooper through that story... : / ... Like shooting Arcann with a las pistol? Thats not gonna do much. This is where Class stories come back into play. Class stories made all the classes seem interesting because they were doing their own part of the story. I'm rambling now, but yes, I think this expansion was great from a story aspect and if it had just stood alone as its own game like KoTR xxx then I believe it would be one of the best games I'd ever played.

Sadly, this game doesnt make enough money to pound out expansions.

Thanks for the responses, I'll give it a try DS.

Is it better to go Light Side or Dark Side? For example, the Sith Warrior is muuuuch more suited to dark side and the Jedi Knight is much more suited to Light Side. Does smuggler make more sense for one side?

Its the only story I havent done yet, is it worth it?

I haven't played this game since 2014. I wanted to replay the Sith Warrior storyline because I loved it so much. But there seems to be a few expansions or storylines added since the Hutt Cartel. My question is when I finish Corellia, where do I go and in what order do I have to do the main story.

Can you get 1-50 using only the class stories?

Returning founder here... Ravage... just ugh. Such an awesome animation turned into something I don't even want to cast anymore.

Whoopdi****

Don't feel bad. I'm in a nightmare capable guild and I'm still bored to tears. This game forces me to take huge breaks 6 months+ Where as if they just came out with stuff to do at 55 I wouldn't leave. i.e. not putzing around an apartment.

I had 5k when this new pack came out. I bought a few more CC and bought the Hypercrate. I will save them all since this pack will be embargoed in a few weeks. Once Tulak Horde stuff goes sky high, I will sell and make a huge profit!

Does this mean Eric is toast?

I don't understand everyone's misgivings about an obvious design flaw. Why are you accepting of lazy code? In the end, its a companion and it should be as easy to gear as the other ones. And yes, It is important at end game to gear your companions and test their limits, because theres not a whole heck of a lot else to do at 55!

You continue to leave out one very important equation. If you are in a guild and clear Hard mode you can get pcs extremely fast. I got full 180s for me and my companion in 2 runs. 1 week of raiding. Granted my other guildies were already geared and didn't need any gear. Ultimate comms themselves are not hard to come by, and easier still are elite comms which I can use to gear a companion not named HK-51

So considering this plus wiredgutter's false assumption that it takes "months" to get gear from raids. Its not even close to compare HK to another companion. My original post is not to say HK-51 sucks, but that its 10x easier to get another companion much better gear in a much faster amount of time. And that is a design flaw, which can be fixed if they were so inclined.

That's not cheap at all. Isotope alone is 100k+ on my server. Exotics are about 50-70k each plus the 150k for schematics. Far easier to get into a few raids than get to champion status with CZ-198 only to then spend a few million to gear him up.

30 Ultimate coms for using raid finder for a story mode raid and 10 ultimate for Hard Mode Flashpoint. yea I'd say they are pretty easy to come by. Hard mode is not hard.

You guys saying that you can just gear him in 168 and he destroys everything aren't taking into account A. It costs millions of gold to buy those 168 armorings. Or if I want to gear him with the CZ-198 gear I need champion status and a F load of basic comms. B. I can collect raid gear from raids and Ultimate comms to easily gear another companion to do a better job at killing stuff with none of that bullsh#t Bad design is bad design.

Personally, I've been running out of things to do in this game for a while. I've resorted to full time PvP on non raid nights because that's the only thing to do where its not the same exact thing over and over. Put some randomness in your game BW!!!!

Just because its always been like that doesn't mean its not extremely lazy programming. Either make the armorings able to get transferred to the corresponding droid part or make droid parts that are 180+ As it stands now, HK cant hold a candle to any of my other companions, so why would I ever use him? Also, all droid parts come with defensive stats...

So I just went on the questline to get him, which I was thoroughly enjoying until of course I got him and realized I cant gear him out in 180s making him far inferior to other companions. The problem is droid parts cant accept the same end game armorings because they don't have the corresponding armoring, i.e. Chest Armor can not go into a motor. Seriously, fix this, it's dumb.

Think I can 2 man HM Foundry with a healer all in 180s?

This is the first time I'm doing the HK-51 hunt. I've acquired all the pcs from the planets. I just have to get the one from Normal False Emperor and Hard Mode Foundry. I'm in all 180 gear plus a few NiM pcs. Can I solo these two?

F2P only killed this game because every single Cartel Coin purchase in this game is overpriced. A black dye that is one use is not worth $20.00 Even the unlocks are way too much. They killed my enjoyment of collecting things when they brought an expensive price to it.

Welcome to the 2year long party. This company has serious problem keeping its members happy. It just cant get out of the way of itself. Not sure who is coming up with these ideas, but whomever it is, doesn't care about the long term stability of the game. Because of that, I will not and have not bought Cartel Coins to fund their money sucking madness.