I changed my plan just a bit. For one thing, I didn't play quite as much as I anticipated. I watched a lot of TV with my wife, for instance, which normally I can't do super well, but I was in the mood to sit and get many, many hours of it and not complain about being restless. So, finished Stranger Things once and for all, and watched most of an entire season of Big Bang Theory. Of course, I did a few minor things with my "business" in SWTOR, but not much. I haven't been motivated to craft and sell, and my pistols haven't budged, even though they're the only copies for sale on the GTN right now. I guess I got lucky with my earlier sale, and there isn't demand for them at that price. Sigh. When they expire, I'll probably try again at $4M instead of $5M and see how it goes.
I also got more invested in Seasonal stuff than I expected, and ran around doing the Yavin IV dailies, which took a bit of time. I hadn't done those in quite a while, and I'd never done them with Johhn, so he didn't have a Yavin IV map uncovered at all. I also had a few characters on Ilum; another Season objective was 15 dynamic missions on Ilum. That took an hour or two as well. It was all reasonably fun.
But on to story progress. I took Vant Galaide, who just finished his class story, to the fleet and pick up the Ilum mission, after doing the Ilum dailies with some other guys and feeling motivated. I didn't really think about it until I got there, but I also picked up the Black Hole and Section X missions, because they're right there too. However... I skipped the faction stories on Belsavis and Corellia, so in theory, that character has no context. In reality, I've skipped the faction stories on those planets most times that I've played through the game, so I thought it might be nice to go back and actually do them. Vant went to Belsavis and picked up both the faction story string and the bonus series string and is working through them. I'm even doing a lot of the exploration missions (although not Heroics) with him there. Once I do that, I feel like I can skip several more Imperial characters on that and not feel bad. I'll also do Corellia with him before I do The Black Hole. I need to also run someone through the Voss stuff, since it's been a long time since I've done those. But probably not Vant. This was both surprisingly satisfying and unsatisfying at the same time. Satisfying in the sense that I feel no pressure to really accomplish anything quickly. I'm max level, semi-retired, and I'm just doing this because it's open and I haven't done it in the long time. Unsatisfying, because... well, it doesn't feel like making real progress. I am, of course. It's story material. But it's also side quest story material. The Belsavis stuff at least will lead to Oricon, but the Corellia stuff is completely unnecessary, and if you skip it, it has no impact on the expansion story stuff that comes next.
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| Vant's Mandalorian style custom suit |
Then I played Phovos Maledict a bit. Finished Nar Shaddaa, except for the bonus series, which I'll go ahead and do before leaving the planet. But he's also way over-leveled at level 53, and he's on his way to Tatooine, which is one of my favorite planets. I may also grind some heroics and the Black Talon with him again to get him another level or two. (Or three.) Although he's unlocked enough abilities to feel pretty complete, I want to add the Vandinite Asylum helmet to one of his outfits that I've had from the beginning, but I can't equip it until he's level 61. Plus, I'll "relax" a little when he hits max level. That's still a ways away, but I want to get closer with him. It'd be great to be far enough ahead that I can skip some more of the faction stories coming up if I feel like I don't want to do them. And maybe he's the Imperial character who should do the Voss stuff. I don't have a new picture of Phovos, but I also played a fair bit of Mirabeau Tane, who's now level 68, and who finished both his class and the faction story on Alderaan. Which wasn't as tedious as I recall it being, although it'll be nice to not necessarily have to do it with everyone going forward because I just did on one recent Republic faction. (Although the Imperial side is almost the same anyway.) I'll stay on the planet with him long enough to do the Bonus Series. Then tomorrow, I can do Heroics on Ord Mantell and Coruscant again with him, get him up over level 70 and finish up the Act I story missions that we have between the planets before going to Balmorra.
I know Imperial and Republic Balmorra aren't exactly the same, but because I have so many Imperial characters on or just finished with Balmorra, I'll probably let Mirabeau "rest" before doing it. I'll get burned out on that planet if literally almost everyone who's not retired is doing it all at once.
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| Mirabeau in spec ops fatigues. I dislike troopers in heavy armor. That doesn't seem appropriate for the more spec ops stuff that they actually do in the story. I'm kind of amused that I caught him mid-blink, but I'm leaving it for now. |
So, I didn't get as far with Phovos as I kind of hoped/thought, I didn't play with my son-in-law at all, I didn't do anything with Beorn like I thought I might on Dromund Kaas, I didn't finished up Vash on Balmorra or even open him at all to double check that I'm remembering exactly where he is, and I didn't do anything with Gael Heckett either. Vant on Belsavis and Johhn on Yavin IV kind of took the place of what could have been quite a bit of that, though.
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