Phovos Maledict

Last night, my wife, who was exhausted, fell asleep while we were trying to watch TV. I knew she was tired, but I didn't know she was that tired. So I had more time to play SWTOR than I thought. I did some crafting and then mostly played Phovos Maledict, my Sith Warrior, famous recently for his fancy Disco Sith outfit.

I hadn't played him nearly enough. He was in the low to mid 30s for level, and had just gotten his ship and finished Dromund Kaas. Now, he's in the very high 40s and just landed on Nar Shaddaa. Still got plenty to do with him, and I probably "overdid" Balmorra just a bit by adding the Bonus Series and most of the Heroics to my playthrough. I even took a mission request for Hammer Station, which I almost always skip, although I haven't tried to play it yet. 

Anyway, I feel pretty productive with him. In about three hours or so of play, I leveled him up at least ten levels, maybe more (well, actually I played him for a couple of hours a few days ago too; it's really a combination of the two evenings). I think I want to keep working with him for the time being, and maybe keep pushing until he's either 1) max level, or 2) done with Act I or 3) both. I can get him to max level early by doing extra heroics or flashpoints with him, I think. This is especially agreeable to me because for whatever reason, I don't really enjoy doing Alderaan all that much, which is of course the last planet of Act I for all character class stories. I noticed that for both Vant and Anstal on my recent playthroughs that I'd hit max level on Hoth and then dropped out of doing faction stories, bonus series, heroics, and even most exploration missions. I just did the class story after I was max level and that was all that I did with them. 

I do need to occasionally do those things, because that's the point of replaying, after all, but because most of those are the exact same across every character in the faction, it's too much repetition if I do it every time. But if I frontload a lot of that, I'll be less inclined to do it in the later planets, of course.

Also, Alderaan and Voss in particular tend to run a little slow on my rig. It definitely encourages me to play them less. I get some graphical lag. I'd really like to maybe get a new motherboard so I can install the graphics card that I have, and then it'll all run the way it's supposed to; but at that point, why not just get another PC altogether?

After I do some of this Phovos Maledict stuff, I think I'll turn back to Revecca Arden, another character who's woefully behind where she should be right now, and then after playing her a bit, Elemer Kell. Once I've got those two played up a bit, I'll go back to Mirabeau Tane and Gael Heckett. I can state plans for after that, but let's see before I even articulate them, much less commit to them.