![]() There’s something to be said about soloing old dungeons and challenging yourself. As a mechanic, I think this is pretty neat. Each boss had some interesting mechanic – shield swap, stuns, massive telegraphs, movement debuffs. Everything outside of a boss was a faceroll for me (though I was in gear better than Makeb quality) but it was a cool experience nonetheless. You’re given a GSI droid who can DPS/Heal/Tank and makes it rather hard for you to die. The flashpoints themselves are cool, as I never had the chance to do them previously. ![]() There are mechanics in SWTOR to mitigate it, which is smart. Before the WoW stat squish, every expansion had massive power jumps between them. ![]() It’s a great bridging mechanism that allows players new to the game keep pace on the stats treadmill at all times, without massive peaks and valleys. If you don’t have it, then you can do some solo flashpoints (the Forged Alliance quests) and get a full set of top level 55 gear to get you ready for Rishi. The SoR expansion also does this, as they’ve assigned the baseline to a certain gear level. And if you complete the content, then you’re given the gear for a pretty decent 55. So Makeb now has a GSI buff which makes sure you have the stats to make it through. If you were just using leveling gear, you’d be behind by 50-70% in terms of stats. The current leveling process works up until 50 but the Makeb portion was punishing without the right gear. There have been 2 leveling plateaus so far, one at 50 and one at 55. Which rolls into the part I think SWTOR does well, and that’s introduce new content and smooth our the power curve. Heck, you needed to be a subscriber to have enough credits in the first place to pay for it all. You started the expansion broke, for the most part, unless you were a fairly active player. I wouldn’t have minded a nominal cost but training costs from 1-55 are (were) huge. Good news is that I saved about 500k in credits in that week as now skill training is free. ![]() Given that I had only subscribed on Nov 7th, I missed the first week of the Shadow of Revan expansion. ![]()
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