LevelZeroZilch

Seems like the Alliance US Bomb Squad on Aerie Peak did a huge member purge recently. I was gone for two weeks, came back, and none of my characters on the server were part of the guild. Current roster is only 4 at the moment so not sure what happened there.

Reddit Post

Live Stream Notes confirming Return of the Boost

Apparently this was revealed over the weekend on a SWTOR livestream. 12x experience is returning as "Epic Story Mission Bonus" on May 4th, and stay for the foreseeable future. SWTOR class missions will have 12x experience associated with them forsubscribers. This will enable a Level 1 character to reach Level 55 (uncertain if it will apply to latest content which is 55 - 60) to level strictly through the class story. There will be an item that you can use to turn off the bonus.

Neat!

Hitting a wall with the G3 Elder Dragons! @bollard, is the Thread still (somewhat) active?

Just reupped my sub to see all the non-raid stuff! LvlZeroZilch#1496 if anyone sees me on Aerie peak

@akyho: The current XP boosters & guild xp bonus stack with the 12xp bonus. A level 38 quest gave me 111k with no guild bonus and then jumped to ~143k with the XP Booster (and no guild bonus). You gain a level every 2nd or 3rd class quest you turn in. It's crazy.

@rorie: Neat! As noted above, a class story is roughly 20 hours (most of it travel time) and at one point between level 1 - 50, you will be undergeared for the mobs you face (happened to me today). Helps if you have alts or credits or folks who don't mind crafting stuff for you to get keep the quest flow going.

They added a 'bolster' effect (character stats raised to level 55 gear) for 50 - 55 so you won't need any gear to do those last few missions.

@dagas: Yeah, I wrapped up Chapter 1 on my Sith Inquisitor last night. It helps if you already have one or two max level characters because you outgrow gear fast so they can feed you supplies to keep questing smoothe.

That said, ho man, I legitimately forgot how much time is lost from going from A to B. I did 4 class quests and it took ~3 hours largely due to travel time.

@do_the_manta_ray: It's worth noting Chapter 4+ (The first expansion) don't have class specific story lines. There's flavor text that may reference what you did through Chapter's 1 - 3, but they announced a long time ago SWTOR will no longer have class specific which is a bit of a downer.

Since it's F2P now, you may just want to jump in for a day or two, see how you feel before throwing money back at the game.

From the Site: http://www.swtor.com/shadow-of-revan

Highlights:

• Launch date is December 9, 2014
  • 2 new Operations (Raids)
  • 2 Tactical Flashpoints (Role-Neutral, no tanks/healers needed)
  • 4 Hardmode Flashpoints
• Level Cap is Now 60
• Skill Tree replaced with Discipline System (on paper it sounds more like Cataclysm & Pandaria Hybrid Talent System)
• * Subscribers who purchase the expansion pack before November 2nd get 12x Bonus Xp and free ability training for Class Quests until December 1st.

For those curious, doing class quests exclusively is roughly 20 hours if you include travel time & watching cutscenes. SWTOR's maps are huge so bring a podcast -- there's a lot of travel time. The defacto "must experience" class quests are Jedi Knight (AKA KoToR 3) & Imperial Agent (Most cohesive, robust, engaging Class Quest).

I'll likely be resubbing I resubbed and will max out those last few alts I never capped. Which reminds me -- is there a Giantbomb guild anywhere? If not, I'm leader of the inactive guild named Naritus on The Shadowlands (Republic) and can start housing people who want a crack at up to 10% more bonus XP & rep. Mail Gabriel on The Shadowlands for an invite.

Edit: Folks in the thread are giving out referral links for former subscribers. You both get perks like inventory space so you may want to consider following one of their links in this thread before you resub.

@cwarner4184: You, sir, know how to crawl web servers. Thanks for the tip!