This is my first MMO and my first toon was a Sentinel. Yes, I was one of those Sentinels.
I actually got him Aim gear for a while. As in, I had orange moddable gear for some slots, and I would buy or find Aim mods to put in it. Why? Because Aim makes your attacks more likely to hit. Right? ...Right? Someone gently slapped me for that one at some point and I fixed it before I got too far into the story.
Facerolled through most of the story, I honestly don't know how I made it to the end of it. I think it basically involved using Kira as a tank (in her starter gear), and then using Doc after I got him because Holy stang he's healing me, I can actually survive fights all the way through now rather than having to rez and finish off the mob! (Don't think I ever upgraded his gear either until long after I hit lv50, so this didn't work for very long either.)
The absolute best part was when I ran Red Reaper for the first time. Tank asked if everyone knew the fight with Darth Ikoral; I figured, how hard can it be? I knew perfectly well how to kill a bad guy -- just hit him until he dies, right? So I said yes. Then for some reason the tank didn't pull. I was confused as to why we were waiting to start, and assumed that nobody wanted to go first, so I would just jump on in ahead of the tank, with no warning, every. Damn. Time. The original tank finally quit after three or four messy, unpleasant wipes, with everyone falling into the pit around Ikoral's throne platform. Someone else in the group had a guildie come in to help within a few minutes. And yes, I pulled again. Tank pulled off of me, screamed out instructions for killing the Chosen Sith, and we actually managed to kill him that time.
So eventually I realized I was doing something hopelessly wrong, read up on... well, pretty much everything, and managed to salvage my Sentinel. Three years in and I still use him, and have a blast doing so. I guess I did do a couple of things right: gave him Cybertech because it seemed to be most useful, and held onto my original moddable lightsabers from the end of the Knight story on Tython (still use them for my PVE set).
This is my first MMO and my first toon was a Sentinel. Yes, I was one of those Sentinels. I actually got him Aim gear for a while. As in, I had orange moddable gear for some slots, and I would buy or find Aim mods to put in it. Why? Because Aim makes your attacks more likely to hit. Right? ...Right? Someone gently slapped me for that one at some point and I fixed it before I got too far into the story. Facerolled through most of the story, I honestly don't know how I made it to the end of it. I think it basically involved using Kira as a tank (in her starter gear), and then using Doc after I got him because Holy stang he's healing me, I can actually survive fights all the way through now rather than having to rez and finish off the mob! (Don't think I ever upgraded his gear either until long after I hit lv50, so this didn't work for very long either.) The absolute best part was when I ran Red Reaper for the first time. Tank asked if everyone knew the fight with Darth Ikoral; I figured, how hard can it be? I knew perfectly well how to kill a bad guy -- just hit him until he dies, right? So I said yes. Then for some reason the tank didn't pull. I was confused as to why we were waiting to start, and assumed that nobody wanted to go first, so I would just jump on in ahead of the tank, with no warning, every. Damn. Time. The original tank finally quit after three or four messy, unpleasant wipes, with everyone falling into the pit around Ikoral's throne platform. Someone else in the group had a guildie come in to help within a few minutes. And yes, I pulled again. Tank pulled off of me, screamed out instructions for killing the Chosen Sith, and we actually managed to kill him that time. So eventually I realized I was doing something hopelessly wrong, read up on... well, pretty much everything, and managed to salvage my Sentinel. Three years in and I still use him, and have a blast doing so. I guess I did do a couple of things right: gave him Cybertech because it seemed to be most useful, and held onto my original moddable lightsabers from the end of the Knight story on Tython (still use them for my PVE set).