Let's *All* Play [Star Wars: The Old Republic] Let the hate bro through you.

Welcome to the Star Wars: The Old Republic thread!


What is this Old Republic you speak of? You are speaking a foreign language and I will destroy you!

Star Wars: The Old Republic is a fully voiced, free-to-play, massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by BioWare. The story takes place 300 years after the events of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and more than 3,500 years before the events of the films. You can be a part of either of the Galactic Republic or the Sith Empire, but may choose a morality anywhere between the light or dark side, regardless of which faction you choose. It's all about the choices you make in the story.


Return

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The Old Republic Timeline


This thread is an offshoot of the BioWare thread. Some of us were making little journal entries of our individual stories in the game. While most were small and non-intrusive, a couple (mostly mine) started to grow larger and larger. So I made this thread so that people in the BioWare thread don't have to suffer loading up my many images.

We're hear to talk about The Old Republic and Star Wars in general. I'm also going to use it to continue to share my Old Republic experience. I'm pretty much doing this blind, as the furthest I've ever played before, was with a different class and faction, and for a short time when the game was released.

I also invite everyone who would like to post their experiences here, to do so. It's not just my thread.

There are a couple of places that PA people meet. There is a guild on the Jedi Covenant server for both Empire and Republic players.

For Empire, it's The Lost Squadron.

For Republic, there is a guild with PAers in it, but it's really not a Penny Arcade guild. It's called Dominus Nihil if you are interested in a good casual guild that raids on the regular. Full 10% xp. http://www.dominusnihil.com/forums is where you sign up.

Send @Cambiata a PM if you want to get into either guild.

If you don't want to join a guild, but still wish to chitchat with PA peeps while on Jedi Covenant, Empire side, just type:

/cjoin pennyarcade

That will get you into the chat channel.

Races:

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F2P and Preferred are limited to three races; Humans, Cyborgs (humans with metal parts on their face) and Zabrak which come in Darth Maul red if you're playing on the Empire side and regular skin-tone if you're playing on the Republic side. If you want to unlock more races to use right there in the Character Creator or later in-game with the cash shop, it'll cost 600 Cartel Coins (six bucks real-cash). These races are (in locked order on the screen above) Mirialans (green-skinned race that's normally Republic-only), Twi'leks (aliens with head-tails, one of which you may have seen dancing in the third movie for Jabba), Miralukas (aliens with blindfolds on due to having no eyes, also normally Republic-only), Chiss (blue-skinned, red-eyed aliens that got popular due to a Star Wars novel-character named Thrawn, normally Empire-only), Rattatakis (grey/white-skinned and always bald aliens, normally Empire-only) and Sith-Pureblood (red aliens tied to the Sith origins, normally Empire-only). A race not seen there and added with the 2.1 patch for 600 CC (even to subscribers) are the Cathar AKA cat-people.

Classes:

Each side has four classes, with each set of classes basically identical to each other though the non-Force classes have a few differences in gear and resource management to set them apart. If you want a quick look at what they are, take a look (and ignore the charts on the right as this was made in 2011 apparently).

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The pair of classes in orange are the Advanced Classes for each main class, which you pick at Lv10. Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, they help focus your role as well as grant you extra abilities tied into that AC. As you can see, the Trooper/Hunter and Consular/Inquisitor are the two classes in which their AC options offer both the opportunity to be a tank or a healer depending on which you choose.

Each class comes with it's own story, with your main missions consisting of continuing this story on different planets while you also handle side-jobs and any general storyline connected to the planet accessible to all classes. I'm not going to spoil them but I will divulge the opening hook for each class' story which tends to change once you leave your starter planet

Jedi Knight: Come to the Academy to learn how to beat people with a glowrod, stay to find out who's riling up the local population of starter mooks.
Jedi Consular: Learn the history of the Academy's planet and earn points with a lizard god without trying.
Trooper: Help the best squad of Republic soldiers as their newest recruit before all your base are belong to the local resistance.
Smuggler: Land on a war-torn planet, deliver guns and le-...wait, why is my ship flying off without me?

Sith Inquisitor: You are Harry Potter, trying to prove you're better then Draco Malfoy in the eyes of the Sith.
Sith Warrior: You are Draco Malfoy, trying to prove you're better then Harry Potter in the eyes of the Sith.
Bounty Hunter: Earn a spot in the biggest bounty-hunting contest in the galaxy at the swamps of the Hutts before the banjos begin to play.
Imperial Agent: Fool The Living Daylights out of a Hutt as a rookie Empire spy with a License To Kill. Goldfinger.

If what I described isn't enough to help you decide which class you want to try out, check out these videos below which were made by Bioware to show off the classes and their ACs.

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Choose your side!

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