I gave this game a try way back when it first launched, and not much of a try at that. My boyfriend just recently started playing it however, and we were looking at playing together. How does that work in this game? I know it's very story based, but what if I want to play a Sith and he wants to play a Jedi, can we still play together? If not, do different classes have different stories? For example, if he wants to play Jedi Knight and I want to play Consular, do we have the same story? Or do we have different stories but can group together and help each other's story along? Thanks!
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I know this isn't all that helpful, I just wanted to reply before you rolled on separate factions. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can help with the rest.
Overall SWTOR is very grouping friendly and it has the best group conversation mechanics in any mmo out there IMHO,
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When you get to Makeb, there's just 2 stories. 1 story pr. faction. You can still enter instanced areas with friends, but only one of you will complete the quest, so you need to do it twice, one time for each of you. Also you need to check a box of "can enter same class quests" in interface somewhere. (Wording may be different)
In SoR it's basicly the same as Makeb, only the story for each faction is pretty much the same.
In KotFE it get a little tricky from what i hear. (dont subscribe so i haven't played it) You cant enter the instance with your friends by just walking in, you need to "teleport to player" It's still as in Makeb and SoR though, only one of you will complete quests aslong as it's inside instanced areas.
The amount of instanced story on Makeb isn't bad, it doesn't hinder playing in a group too much.
It's a little worse in SoR if i recall correctly, but not too bad. The FP's that are part of the story can be done as a group and both of you will complete, so that's a good thing.
From what i hear KotFE is pretty bad in that regard. Most of it is instanced so that doesn't realy promote group play.
The best stories are generelly considered to be the classic stories. Levelling in crazy fast, so you could skip some story, but imo dont skip chapter 1-3 classic story. If you want to skip something let it be sidemissions on the planets..
I think the stories are worth playing. The general grouping in the game is garbage and so is end game. Better to play as a single player game or coop game.
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Intro: thinking about playing SWTOR f2p. Yes, f2p only. Now up to questions:
3) What about story-wise things, which class has the best story?
5) Preferred players (ones who paid for smth) - do they have lvl.50 cap or...?
6) Housing, Guilds: can I have housing as f2p? What about f2p guilds in real life, they worth something or...?
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Seems to be one of those games where things change depending on the weather. It's possible F2p accounts are more restrictive now than before, I just don't know beyond my F2p hasn't held me back from anything I've ever wanted to do.
SWG (pre-cu) - AoC (pre-f2p) - PotBS (pre-boarder) - DDO - LotRO (pre-f2p) - STO (pre-f2p) - GnH (beta tester) - SWTOR - Neverwinter