I decided, because I was level 73, that I wanted to cap my level before going to Corellia, which I did by farming XP through some Heroics. I also was maxed out on tech fragments, so I burned some getting better gear while at level 75. However, I doubt I'll use this guy for much. I do have a bunch of tauntaun fruit to get tauntauns on Hoth, but I don't want him to take those tauntauns (luckily, before you "install" a tauntaun, it's bound to legacy, so you can transfer it to another character.) I might keep him around to grind Heroics for cash, although my smuggler will be my main source for that, and I've been transfering much of my excess cash to him to hold on to. I'm also blasting through the Jedi Consular stuff pretty quick; I'm now on Nar Shaddaa, and will likely (easily) finish that planet today too. I'm trying to stay about 4-6 levels ahead of the recommended for each planet that I'm on, which means that for each planet, I take some time to do some Heroics here and there. Half a dozen heroics are usually worth two levels, at least where I am now. I seem to recall that they get less productive over time, as the XP requirement to level up grows. Anyhoo, because the agent is done, it's time to add the Sith Inquisitor to the story rotation. That will leave me with 1) the Jedi Knight, who's doing the post-Iokath flashpoints, and otherwise finishing up the very last of the 5.x updates; about ready soon to move on to Onslaught. Obviously the most advanced character in my stable in terms of story, but I'm also using him for Iokath dailies, because I really want to unlock both sets of armor there at the Republic and Imperial base. 2) the Sith Warrior, who I'm not doing much of anything with. I was using him for dailies, but that's kind of slowed down now. Of course, the bounty hunter week starts on Tuesday, so he'll get a lot of play again. He's on Yavin IV right now in terms of story, so quite a bit further behind the Jedi Knight, and I'm much less motivated to move him quickly. I'm not really motivated to do either of those two characters quickly in their story advancement, although once I'm mostly done with the class stories that I still have yet to do, I'm sure I'll turn back to them again. 3) The smuggler, who is done, retired, and only kept around because he's the armstech crafter and because I use him for heroic cash farming, and 4) the agent, who's done, retired and will also be useful for recurring things like bounty hunter or rakghoul event, or Dantooine pirates or whatever. 5) The Jedi Consular, who's now getting startlingly close to finishing Act I, and 6) the Sith Inquisitor that I'm about to start. Trooper and bounty hunter remain to be done. Except for the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior, I have no intention of playing anyone else beyond the class stories with this crop. But, keep in mind that...
...I've concluded that I need to do all of this over again, and record it this time. Of course, I'll have access to better cosmetics this time around too.
Anyway, another thing that occurred to me, although it's not surprising by any means, is that the prologue and Act I seem to be tied together very tightly for each class, while Act II and Act III are kind of separate, subsequent stories with a different theme, often a different villain, etc. However, Acts II and III are three planets each. Act I is four planets, plus the two planet prologue. Act I is as long as Acts II and III put together. At least, in theory.
Update 2/21: I fininshed chapter 1 with the Jedi Consular. I watched a video recently about the Jedi Sage and the Sith version of that class build (I can't remember the name of it off hand) and although it was mostly about the mechanics of that advanced class, it did make an offhand comment to the fact that the Jedi Consular story was "not a fan favorite." I'm halfway done now; between the prologue and Act 1, which is longer than Acts 2 and 3, I should be at about halfway. I'm level 39, and finding that I need to do a round of heroics almost every planet if I want to maintain my position at about 4-5 levels above the planet's expectation (i.e., I was level synched on Alderaan and the Act I conclusion down to 33-35 or so. The file I have says Alderaan was level 28, but I was clearly synched to a higher level than that when I was on it. However, the level synch synchs you to the highest level of the planet's range; it looks like Alderaan is level 28-34. So I was synched to 33 or 34; I can't remember which. In fact, it may have changed slightly as I advanced through the planet.
It looks like I'm probably OK for a while. I just looked up the level ranges, and I should be good where I am for all of Act 2 (plus, I'll no doubt advance several levels doing Act 2.) It's not until Belsavis that I'm in a level 41-44 range. By the time I get there, I should actually be at least level 44. I'll keep an eye on my level and do some runs of heroics if necessary to stay where I want to. As it is, I could skip to Hoth and do it without worrying about level synching catching up to me. Of course, the way level synching works is that I can synch upwards too, but that's not great, because your passives and gearing will be underpowered, regardless of what the level synching does.
In any case, I so far haven't minded the story. I actually thought it was kind of interesting, albeit a little repetitive, and it kind of resolved itself very suddenly and abruptly. I agree that it's not likely to end up being my favorite of the bunch, but it's not going to be my least favorite either. I'm a little disappointed that I don't have any super interesting companions yet, though, including no romanceable one. I prefer having a romanceable character pretty early and having lots of time to watch it play out. That's one thing that I found a bit disappointing with the agent; sure, you get Kaliyo early, but she's a terrible, unlikable hot mess, so I romanced Raina Temple instead. You don't get her until Hoth, and the romance feels pretty rushed. You don't get the Consular's romanceable companion until even later on Belsavis, so it'll almost certainly feel even more rushed. But I'll report back on that when it's done.
Meanwhile, I've also done all of the Korriban stuff with my Sith Inquisitor. I don't know how much I'll like or dislike this class story. I've heard lots of people say it's their favorite, but I've heard others kind of blow it off as not that good. Eh. I do like, so far, the sarcastic comments options that it's been given. More classes need more dialogue variety like that. The two Jedi in particular suffer from being unsufferably bland sometimes. Although it was a little tricky, and I had to do a few conquest things here and there to bump up some XP, I managed to get to level 15 before leaving Korriban. It's nice to know that that's doable. Because I just finished Act I with the consular, I think turning to this guy today and doing the Black Talon and some Dromund Kaas stuff is called for as my main endeavor today. Tomorrow, my weekly reputation will reset, so I'd like to spend some time with my Jedi Knight getting Iokath stuff done. To be fair, I have some unspent Iokath reputation, so I can get reputation with any farming, and I can farm to save reputation for later... but I'm feeling like I don't want to get burned out on that too.
UPDATE 2/23: Well, now we have more problems. While I didn't particularly care about the delayed staging of game update 6.2.1, since it wasn't going to change anything (I don't think) that I particularly cared about, it does seem to have had some other side effects that I didn't anticipate. The game update seemed to be focused on what I consider minor things, or things that I don't really participate in much, like Uprisings, amplifiers, and ranked PvP, etc. But apparently the update was what was going to set the schedule of recurring events. The Bounty Hunter event was announced, which they haven't done in quite a while, and instead for some reason, we got the Gree event again. As someone on the SWTOR forum said, when I went to go see if there was any news about it, the Gree event is one of my least favorite of the recurring events. (Other than Life Day.) I haven't been super excited about the Gree event either, and when we had it (just a few weeks ago) I actually went and checked it out. Doing the dailies and getting reputation is more tedious and cumbersome, for me at least and my playstyle, with this event than with any of the others that I've participated in.
Honestly, I'm not sure that I like the idea of events only occuring once every other month, or whatever. Why can't we just do this stuff all of the time? I'd love to find out that they had a plan when it's time to shutter the game, to make it for sale as an offline game, and that all of the content has been modified to be played solo and offline, including all of these "limited time" events just being stuff you can go do whenever.
I've spent quite a bit of time in the rakghoul tunnels doing rakghoul events, and I've spent a fair bit of time doing the Dantooine pirates event. I've dabbled in the Gree and Dantooine swoop bike events, and been less impressed with them. I've also only dabbled in the bounty hunter event, but that was one that I was more anxious to get into more. The other events, like Life Day, etc. are not the frequently occuring ones; it's those five that I wish we could do more often.Maybe if they made two of them available at once? Anyway, bleagh.
Maybe instead I'll focus on my Iokath reputation. I cashed in my saved reputation that I had left over. Didn't quite get to Legend on THORN (unless I forgot that someone else was hanging on to some stored reputation awards, which might be true.) Both Iokath tracks are at Friend, and both are within striking distance of Hero before even hitting the weekly cap. Because Hero is all I need to unlock the armor sets that I want, I should be good to do this week. I'll spend some of the time that I would have been grinding bounty hunter missions into grinding Iokath dailies and unlock those two armor sets, I think—the gray Republic one with the glowing blue tubes and the visor that lowers when you draw your weapon, and the pretty cool black with red highlights Sith armor.
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