Serious question. Truly.

I finally got in to play for a couple of hours on Sunday. I have read very little on the game and only know about the various classes and races what it tells you at the character creation screen - which, if I judge from past MMO experience, is probably way off.

I have always enjoyed ranged classes more in WoW, and a decent healer also.

Anwyay, among my accomplishments were, managing to die at level 2, and, on another character, spending about 20 minutes running all over a map trying to locate something the quest giver said was right down the road.

I suppose this is like a new pair of shoes. You know you need them, since your old pair is worn out, but the break-in period, until you get comfortable with them, is terrible.

I am way ready to be done with WoW, and Diablo III is a long ways out, so I would like to like Star Wars. I remember the transition from DAOC to WoW, while I missed some things about DAOC, WoW provided pretty solid interest early on. And yeah, it had plenty of problems. So ... suggestions for transitioning to Star Wars and liking it?

 

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First, to reiterate what I said earlier. The cutscenes are great for the most part, but sometimes you might be in a hurry or not in the mood--or it may be an alien. The point is you can turn on subtitles to cutscenes. You can read the dialogue and hit space to make it skip playing the sound.

As for your having a problem finding a quest objective--just tap m frequently. The maps are pretty good at showing you precisely where to go.

For heals, there are 3 Advances Classes with healing trees -- Republic: Jedi Sage (Jedi Consular), Scoundrel (Smuggler), and Commando (Trooper); Empire: Sith Sorcerer (Sith Inquisitor), Operative (Imperial Agent), and Mercenary (Bounty Hunter).

There is more information here on how the healing classes work (including some of the class specific mechanics) - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1026827-HEALING!-A-Comparison-of-the-Healers

Good luck!

Most of the quests are pretty straight forward and easy to locate using the map, but there are a few quests in noobland that were difficult. I found that it got easier once you make it off the first planet. (The foot of the citadel anyone? Gah that was impossible to find for me)

For a class you will like it sounds like Inquisitor/Sorcerer. Once you are a Sorcerer you can decide to be heals or dps.Nice ranged dps class and you get a tank as a minion.

 

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You died at level 2?

You need to be AFK in SWTOR to die from what I've experienced. That or highly mentally disabled

The only time I came close to dying was on my IA. Had to go to some swamp for robot parts or something and saw a similar one to the ones I had to kill, except like 50 times larger. I tried to kill it but ended up having to run as it was rocking my face.

Still managed to fight it for like 30s though.

 

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I guess you didn't play a Jedi. The level 15ish class quest Sith Apprentice is damned hard even with your tank companion, at least for a Jedi Shadow. Took me a few tries to down him.

 

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My Inquisitor Level 17 is fun to play I am enjoying it and cant wait for it to go live! IN the meantime , I started up my WOW again just to play for a month. Ohhh the game addiction

Nah. I tried a Consular or whatever it is with my friend, where we only made it to 6 or 7

Can solo the groups of 3+ pretty easy. With 2 people it's like a race to get there before your partner kills the whole group before you can even do anything. Ridiculous.

 

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Yeah, I know...Ridiculous that level 5 quest mobs aren't more challenging. New players just starting the game should have to solo elites by then...I'm appalled. If only they'd offer some group quests with elites by level 6..instead of making you wait all the way until 7. /facepalm.

Exactly, minus the sarcasm. If I wanna faceroll a game again I'll go play WoW.

There should be some challenge, even at low levels. At least some threat of dying.

The group quests weren't even hard either ><

It just feels to me like I'm more watching a movie than actually playing a game. It almost plays itself.

Hopefully I will be able to break 15-20 during release and experience more of the game, then decide whether or not I can continue to play it

 

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I'm not interested in the story. It seems that those who enjoyed the beta were enthralled with the voice-overs and story. I'd just read a book or watch a movie if I want a good story. I was looking at gameplay and the mechanics of things. I think that is why I couldn't log out fast enough while others enjoyed it.

 

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