Darth Nox, I

I was beginning to wonder if the day would ever come, but I finally leveled my first character to level 50 Monday. I started playing SWTOR during the first day of the early access on my Bounty Hunter and did level him to 40 before switching to my Inquisitor around two weeks ago. My guild is small, comprised of a few friends from WoW and so I’m actually the first player who’s leveled to 50 at this point. There are two other players who are relatively close and hopefully will have leveled to 50 themselves by this weekend, but we’re still a good way off from doing any end-game activities.

To be honest I’m in no rush to start raiding as I’m enjoying the leveling process immensely and I’m relatively busy with work. I completed my Inquisitor class story Monday, but there are still a goodly amount of planet quests to complete and I’m just as happy to go back and finish up everything I skipped or missed during my leveling to 50. Outside of Korriban and perhaps Drummond Kaas I didn’t finish any of the planets. Between multiple PVP matches daily, and the occasional Flash Point, I was usually over leveled for the planets I was on until I was in my 40’s. I moved on relatively quickly on each planet. Essentially whenever I completed the Class Story portion of my quests on a given planet.

I’m a weird kind of player. I love the competitive nature of PVP and love a lot of aspects about “sand box” MMOs. Yet I’m also a player who loves to complete content in Theme Park MMOs. I always intended to complete Lore Master in WoW but never did finish it. I always found the questing in WoW too boring to get very far, but in SWTOR the quests are more lively; the story aspect of questing more robust. I have a much easier time following through with questing in SWTOR and I’ve found it’s created quite the desire in me to see and do everything. I’ll be more than happy to experience end-game at some point, but for now I want to experience everything else first.

And I’ll certainly do that, though I don’t believe SWTOR has an easy means of determining content left to complete on a planet by planet basis as WoW came to have in recent years. But another reason I’m not rushing forward to participate in end-game raiding is that there are these stories out there, and they are very compelling and fun. All of the classes are extraordinarily fun and I want to experience the game through the eyes of those classes as well. I’ve always been something of an alt-a-holic but nothing to the extent I’ve already found I’m being in SWTOR. It’s a terrible dilemma, and I should be pitied, as Bioware has created this entertaining MMO and I literally can’t come to a firm and long term decision on what class to play.

So it looks like I’ll be playing them all, and it looks like the next character I’ll be leveling is my Sith Warrior. I’m intensely interested in experiencing the differences in class stories between the two Sith force sensitive classes. Quick tangent, but as I mentioned I completed leveling my Sorcerer to level 50 Monday and I completed my Class Story. I mentioned previously that I had found the Inquisitor chapter one story to be quite interesting and loved chapter two ever more. But chapter three was by far my favorite, and without giving away too many spoilers, chapter three was thoroughly engaging. I’m not a role player per se, but I’m finding these class stories to be so engaging that I’ve been completely drawn in.  During the final stages of the class story you assume a role on the Dark Council and are proclaimed Darth Nox (in my case).  The specific title you will receive will depend on your light side/dark side alignment, but all dark side aligned characters will be named Darth Nox.

In the specific case of the Inquisitor class story, I can’t wait to see what comes next.