All this time I thought this was bug due to me running SWTOR on Linux (was the only glitch I really noticed). The preview window would bug out and not display items...sometimes it would work, but other times it just failed -seemingly at random. Yeah, this needs fixed.

Well, this is the first time doing this "quest" and I used duckduckgo searching for SWTOR reclaimed treasure...so here I am. And the information has been useful to me. And, yes, the person that kept fussing about duplicate thread topics needs to lighten up a bit.

I am a new player (started late last month) and I am enjoying the game. As a subscriber (having never played "free" I am pretty satisfied. My biggest disappointments to date: I purchased a Legacy Rename...it says I have to wait like 500+ hours...WdeeF? When I created my first character and Legacy on my first char I wasn't really sure what the name entailed or that I couldn't just later rename, I have a clearer Idea now about what I want but for some reason it has this huge timer on the rename. It would be my first time ever renaming the Legacy, for a purchased option -well, I am not pleased. Free Character Boost for new players This is a very bad idea all around and especially bad considering the...nature of the expansions... Why would devs want new players to skip or jump directly into the expansion content which effectively nullifies and isolates the player from experiencing most of the best of the pre-65 content? Yeah, I deleted my free Boosted character after completing the story...that character became a dead end and had no connection to anything in the pre-expansion areas, too many limitations and a dead end for RPG enthusiasts. By all means, allow players to purchase BOOSTED or allow them for players who already have level cap chras...but this is not for NEW players for so many other reasons (not limited to what I listed here). Snippet: Quest tracking/availability is weird...can't seem to find the same quests on my Sith Warrior as I did on my Sith Inquisitor...

Except we are all freaking emperors of the galaxy, therein lies the problem.

Well, I am late to the party having just been playing SWTOR for under two months but having also played a boosted 65 char to 70 and completed the God Emperor of the Cosmos...I am going to emphatically say that story sucks. The shark has been thoroughly jumped and BW has completely ruined the stories I was enjoying by breaking the whole game with this ridiculous "story". So, having deleted the offending level 70I shall do my utmost to avoid any of the last two expansions as much as humanly possible. Shame on BW for doing what they did, they seem to have forgotten SWTOR is an MMO -the player character is part of the world not the whole of it. Amateur rookie decision to force funnel the player through to a dead end.

To those of you who are pointing out what various players may like or dislike about the last two expansions in particular in regards to the Sith and Republic diminishment.... I would politely suggest that one may like something that might turn out to be a detriment to the overall life of the game. MMO's are fragile things, their life is dependent on the player's desire to do more in the game's world... Having the player character elevated to a (supposedly) God Emperor status is a risky move, especially for a game that brought us the Legacy system that was promoted as a way to link all the player characters... Either the elevated status is bogus, signifying nothing (which I suspect) or it's a dead end for the player story. Barring some waking up and it all was a bad dream scenario (silly) I can't see how BW can pull its nuts outta the fire... If being emperor of the galaxy is a trick by the devs (which it assuredly is!) to the player, there will be a back lash, a cardinal rule has been broken and BW needs to do some revisions/redactions or very imaginative pivots.

I don't find any fault with what you are stating but I also don't think it is at odds with those who want the MMO theme to be focused on Sith versus Pubs. Both sides have complexities and variances of moral values. The true battle is one of balance between dark and light, both Sith and Republic make up the Yin and Yang of that contest but the expansions serve only to muddy the water and detract from the major theme of the game. IMO

Yes, same here. I am passionate about this because I want to play this MMO for a long time to come having only recently started the game. I am concerned, BW has lost its way from what I have seen. I don't mind single player RPG thrown into the MMO mix, but the balance has shifted so far to the single player overarching focus that the story no longer aligns with a MMO backdrop. The game I am supposed to be playing is Star Wars: The Old Republic. You can't have the player character become God Emperor and still have an MMO which is recognizable -it flushes all the prior content down the tubes -which happens quite a lot anyway in vertically progressed games but this one was a mega-doozy.

To be clear, I never stated I thought /level was "destruction of the game" only that it was a NOMINAL example of skipping content that did have some negative repercussions to the overall game as I briefly described. BW's expansions are TRULY destructive in my opinion and using the FREE character boosts to get to that abhorrent content is just icing on the poison cake. The CAKE is the REAL problem. Avoid the effing cake. Boosts are bad for mmo's they are a confession of dev failure to make gameplay enjoyable, additionally, they are proof that vertical progression games are flawed. BUT the point: the MMO story telling of the expansions is bad form all around and does not fit the MMO genre and has no place in a living MMO progression that should give a fig about a player and how they feel about the game's universe and their role within it.

This, horrid MMO storytelling aside, this is the big problem I have with the Eternal Empire crap. They jumped the shark, pure and simple. Kill this expansion, nullify it or make it entirely optional to progress. I have deleted my boosted character after leveling to 70 in this awful expansion. Very stupid move from BW to ruin the MMO dynamic. They need to pull their collective heads out of their rear and realize that this is an MMORPG not a single player game that ends with winner takes all. I am not going to play a character who presumably rules a galactic empire but has to go kill ten rats to make money.

I suspected but didn't want to be a downer. Yes, I agree...it was a single player RPG diversion completely disconnected from the rest of the real game. But, can you level to 70 with out doing it?

It's poison to the game, BW shouldn't sell it. I have played MMO's for 20+ years, I know a lot about what it normally means to skip content. In Dark Ages of Camelot you could /level (with a few restrictions) it was bad for the game, killed the starter areas and early dungeon content. But BW took it one step further, it made the player character the freaking king of a galaxy...that's crazy, it is where stories go to end and MMO's go to die. PS: the boosted character is deleted, as I indicated I have the game I enjoy back. I hope BW makes this content avoidable in the future...has no appeal to me.

I assume/make believe that there are armor and other counters to the light sabre that mitigate its awesomeness. Otherwise, it is all Eagles for Taxis to Mount Doom.

I haven't PVPed yet, but I will give it a try I am sure at some point if FPS/performance isn't a limitation. I think the game should have kept the Sith versus Republic conflict active and if they were going to change anything, make a third faction without killing or belittling the two existing ones. The game devs seemed to have killed the goose/jumped the shark and boxed themselves in by breaking some cardinal rules when it comes to sustaining a story in an MMO.

Nah, no regrets, I don't want the 70 back, I'll get 70 the old fashioned way, assuming that's possible...but I really do not want to do Knights of the Eternal Throne again, it's a MMO killer for me. Devs need to do something, another path perhaps -anything that doesn't make my chars all "Emperor of a freakin galaxy" I mean, my Scoundrel would think that so ludicrous.

I can see how the Uprisings could be fun and engaging, but not for a player who hasn't finished the other content like me. My intent was to take my level 70 out to explore the earlier stuff, heroics and questing. I knew the class story wasn't in the cards for the boosted char, of course. Essentially, it appears Knights of the Eternal Throne is great for players that have truly done everything pre-65 but I still wonder what the devs were thinking when they chose to give the player character such a specific and end game role...seems to destroy a lot of uniqueness.

I am a new player, I started just playing less than 30 days ago. I have setup a subscription and fully intend on playing SWTOR for a very long time to come. I already have 12 characters, a Stronghold and many Cartel Coin purchases under my wallet, err belt. I succumbed and created a boosted level character (it was a freebie after all) since I felt leveling another tank was something I could forgo, additionally a higher level character could make me a lot more money to help support all my other chars... I wasn't wrong about any of that, but after finishing the Knights of the Eternal Throne story and reaching level 70, I realized that it no longer made sense to play that character anymore. The magic was lost, the suspension of belief dispersed. The shark had been jumped in a big way. Don't get me wrong, I loved the story, it was a great single player RPG playthrough for the most part even though I had missed out on the lead up to it pre-65. But, it left me wondering why I would want to level ALL my characters in my Legacy to the same end, I don't even role play but WhatTheFrack? "You can't all be King!" I can't comprehend how the story can go on from there...in a single player rpg...sure...but in an MMO, no. I deleted my level 70. I tried to ignore my misgivings and had him go back to "regular questing" but it just seemed absurd to me. Also, some quests were blocked, like the Black Talon, etc. So, I sent all his coin to my level 22 Sith Sorc and reverse engineered everything I could and liquidated it all. I feel much better now, in fact the game is alive for again as I happily take my time and level my characters.

Well, I ran into the load screen spinning blue twirly issue-that was fixed once I ran the swtor_fix.exe file before running SWTOR from POL. I am using Wine 2.9 (not staging) and I do have CSMT enabled. Additionally, I was getting a white screen during the playing of the in-game cinematics -this problem went away after I installed directx9 & directx11 via POL component installation wizard. I have graphics set on highest settings and I did initially have problems with the mouse being way too sensitive, but it appears to have calmed down after I used the mouse camera sliders. So far the performance has been amazing! Very very happy, my 3 day weekend is coming up in a few days, look forward to spending many hours in SWTOR. Peace, Elva

Hey! Great post, and it may even be easier now with the release of Wine 2.9 and csmt enabling. According to the the most recent WineHQ ratings/write up: - https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=34946 I am in the process of downloading the very massive game, the launcher is running perfectly although I did follow this advice which appears to still be applicable due to bitraider issues: Also, I will edit the screen resolution in the settings ini if it appears necessary. But, using PlayOnLinux and manual install (not their script, it's outdated!) I simply created a 64bit Windows 7 virtual drive and ran the installer for SW:ToR, nothing else other than setting Wine CFG to Windows 7 and enabling CSMT in the registry. I shall report back once I have my game up and running, the download will take some time and I have to work tonight. Peace, and thanks for your post.