SWTOR Progress report

1) My Jedi Knight still hasn't started the Iokath mission, which I had meant to do this last week. I did do some dailies with him on Makeb, but for whatever reason I find those among the most tedious dailies I've done so far (to be fair, I haven't done all of them. I hear Iokath is pretty bad. Sadly, I really want some stuff that I need at least Champion reputation with Iokath on two separate tracks; Republic and Imperial, in order to get. I'll end up doing a lot of Iokath dailies, eventually.

2) My Sith Warrior finished Rishi and went to Yavin 4. But I haven't done much with him there yet. There are dailies there too, which I remember thinking were kind of tedious, but I didn't do much of them with the Jedi Knight earlier. Luckily, getting the Yavin 4 reputation up is a lower priority. I don't think there's anything from them that I really want a lot except maybe a dye module schematic for dark red and black or something. The opposite of the Oricon schematic that I already have. I'd like to finish Oricon. I've got everything that I really want from them, but I'd like to bump them up to Legendary, since I'm already at Champion. I'm also using the Sith Warrior as my main vehicle to get my Czerka dailies done so I can get that crazy Champion level sword.

3) My smuggler is almost done. I have the Directive 7 flashpoint, which I could miss if I wanted to since I've already seen it from both the Republic and Imperial sides, and it's basically identical anyway. I've done that flashpoint, I think, four times already. After that, he's got Corellia, and then I'm done with him. I don't intend to use him to do any expansion content, I don't think.

4) My agent just finished Taris, which is the first planet of chapter 2. He's got the early Revan flashpoints to do, and then on to Quesh, and Hoth, where I'll finally pick up my love interest (I cannot tell you how much I despise Kaliyo Djannis. Too bad for the voice actress, who did a good job with the character, that the character is so poorly written and conceived. It's not her fault.) I also finally got a companion that I kind of like, Dr. Lokin. He "hulks out" into a rakghoul, but I think only if you have him on either tank or damage spec, and I almost always keep my companions on heal spec. Oh, well. The companions for this class are really just terrible until very close to the end, which is a real shame. Otherwise, it probably has one of the most interesting class stories of all of the classes, although it's arguably not quite as iconically Star Wars as some, being more of a James Bond or Mission Impossible or Jason Bourne style thriller series.

5) In any case, all of that is kind of on hold. This week is the Rakghoul Event, and I'm going to focus on getting as much rakghoul stuff done as I can while it's active. I've done the dailies (and the two weeklies) already with my agent, and I'm almost at Champion rank. I'll do the other three main characters today too, and I should be well on my way towards Legend rank, as well as having some rakghoul canisters to spend with the reputation vendors—although there isn't anything that I'm really burning to buy. The stuff that I most wanted, I've already bought; the rakghoul lightsaber crystals (black core, awesome green halo), two of the lightsabers (for my upcoming Jedi Sentinel that I'll be video recording), and the black/orange THORN suit. Anyhoo, I don't know how much story progress I'll make with any of my classes this week, or how much progress with any other dailies, because I want to really burn up the rakghoul stuff while I can. I presume this works for all of the reputation tokens, but I know for sure that it does for the rakghoul, because I did it last time—if you hit your weekly maximum, you just get the tokens in your inventory and can then spend them the next week. Even if I hit my weekly maximum before getting to Legend, which I am certain that I will, I can amass enough reputation tokens to get up to Legend rank, probably. And if I don't get all the way there to Legend status; well, the rakghoul event comes up pretty often. Every six weeks or so, probably?

6) After the rakghoul event this week, there's a week off and then the bounty hunter event runs. I haven't done much with this one, but I want to really hit it hard this time around, and do loads of bounty hunter missions. There's some cool stuff I want from this, but not urgently. I'd like some of the bowcasters as blaster rifle substitutes, and if I ever finish the HK-51 quest and get him as a companion for anyone, I'd want to use the Legend rank bounty hunter customization. And there's a dye module schematic that I'd like. The brown/red one, obviously—not the white and bubble gum pink one. I presume after that we'll get the Dantooine pirates again sometime in March since that one seems due again, and then the Gree. Swoop bikes just ended a week ago, so I presume that's the last of the recurring events to come back up again. I haven't really paid too close attention to the recurring events, although I did spend a fair amount of time doing Dantooine pirates once, and rakghoul once. Dantooine I mostly did just because it was the first recurring event that I participated in. I'd like to spend a little bit of time on it again, get the Nova Blade jacket as a possible outfit for one of my recording characters, and the kath hound mount. Maybe the ugnaught companion. When I do my second agent, I want to be better prepared with alternate companions; the ugnaught, the ewok and maybe HK-51, or something (can I transfer HK-51 to another character that didn't earn him? I'll need to check.)

But in general, I'm just a bit wary about being caught up too much in reputation track dailies. It can get tedious if you do too much of it back to back, and it doesn't advance anything on the story. Because I have particular story goals that I want to do, the dailies should be something that most of the time I keep just a bit more on the back burner. 

7) As it's likely that I'll finish the smuggler class story sometime this week, or if not, shortly into next week, I'll start my Jedi Consular story next in my continued leapfrogging. That'll happen pretty shortly, and I'll be on my way towards a fifth character story completion. I may skip the majority of the Heroic, exploration and even planetary story missions this time around, just to get through it all faster. When the agent gets done, a bit further down the pike, the second sith class, the assassin, will be next. Bounty hunter and trooper will be the last two.