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extrapenguin(Using my Sith Inquisitor icon because that's my main, even if the lightsaber color doesn't fit.) So, after my Sithquisitor completed Ziost, I decided to take a bit of a break from her and try out another class story, this time on the Republic side. As the two classes recommended to me by the good people of EAD were Sith Inquisitor and Jedi Knight, I of course picked the latter. Because I'm also a subscriber, I get ingame cosmetics currency for "free", and decided to unlock the Togruta species. Behold! Kurebir Krait, tall and buff Togruta Knight. Screencap album.
Most montral patternings were a bit too white-based for the most part for my tastes, so I went with this one. Not the look I was going for, but the patterns play nice with a lot of the Jedi gear's patterns. I'm also a boring person who likes their Togrutas yellow-orange-ish with blue-ish montrals, so I went for that, instead of the various other technicolor combinations. The character creator didn't have an eyebrow option, so I picked the facial patterning that gave the best impression of eyebrows with the boundary of marking and skin color.
Of course, after creating a buff butch decisive warrior, it turned out that the ingame voice is ... not what I was expecting. Oops. She's a bit breathless and :o and speaking high on the palate rather than with an authoritative chest voice. It's slightly better after Tython/Coruscant, but I'll put that as a mark against taking Kurebir as my Republic-side expansion character.
This inspired me to take a look at the voice actors for the various classes. The only ones I recognize are Grey DeLisle (Bounty Hunter) and Jennifer Hale (Trooper), both of whose voicework I have positive impressions of and neither of whom has yet to voice a character in a manner I dislike. I really enjoyed Xanthe Elbrick (Sith Inquisitor), am meh on Kari Wahlgren (Jedi Knight) so far, and have no impressions of Jo Wyatt (Imperial Agent), Athena Karkanis (Jedi Consular), Natasha Little (Sith Warrior), or Kath Soucie (Smuggler). I guess I might listen to clips or something, but lbr, my todo list loving self wants to do all the stories.
(Play as a dude? Me? No.)
Tython was very much an intro planet, though I think I preferred the quest design there to that of Korriban – less "go someplace, return to base, go someplace new, return to base" and more shuttling between 3-4 distinct locations. Also faster, since I have the cooldownless fast travel legacy perk unlocked! I don't think I recall much about my impressions of the plot – I guess there were places where there could've been good roleplaying options, but I decided I'd play Kurebir as The Most Jedi That Ever Was, so lightside choices only it was for me. Not that e.g. those idiot padawans in love made it hard to choose to turn them in.
Honestly, this is a great shot.
I actually did the post-starter flashpoint this time around! It was pretty cool. In general, I've felt tough enough to switch T7 over to damage mode and T7 + Jedi = unstoppable indeed. Some of the choices would've been more meaningful had I not known the whole thing was running on video game logic, but hey, I had fun lightsabering things in the face and accumulating ludicrous quantities of LS points and T7 influence.
Spot also how the montral pattern harmonizes with the shirt!
With Coruscant, my main beef that I had been an utter idiot who forgot to buy a speeder on the Fleet. Thankfully, the planet was smaller than Dromund Kaas – probably due to the city nature versus the open-ish jungle. The story with the Sith secret agent made the SIS look really bad, but it was at least a Jedi-level threat suited to the class. (Also the atmosphere ionizer was kind of silly, but hey, it's Star Wars.) What left me baffled was why Bela Kiwiiks handed her padawan over to me. Like, what? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind having a padawan, but why did you dump her on me like that? Wtf?
By Taris, I was really overleveled, so I decided to only do the purple quests (class mission + planetary questline). The planetary questline was the usual "help me please, okay now go help my friend at the next outpost", but eh, sure. I also got to get infected by the rakghoul plague For Science!, which was utterly hilarious and an A+ inclusion to the questline. The class questline's cat and mouse with Watcher One was great, too! 10/10 only positive memories.
Nar Shaddaa wasn't as good, and I think at one point both the class and planetary questlines were about stopping unethical Imperial super soldier experiments on unwilling volunteers, which, okay, that is a bit too much repetition for my tastes. I decided to do a few heroics, just because regular mobs were a bit easy, and got a bit of a challenge! I even died once, lol. It's a nice extra source of income for a character skipping most of the side quest credits. I also hit the 1k kills with T7 as a companion achievement and swapped out to Kira. I'm up to 400 with her at this point, I think?
Companion-wise, I'm pretty happy with these two! I can see they'd be annoying if you want to be Evil McEvilface, but I am a Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic, ready to answer every call for help with a resounding "Yes!" and T7, best droid ever, approves of each and every such reply. He should definitely get that lightsaber upgrade he's been asking for. <3 T7-01 is great, T7-01 is adorable, he and his previous master were really into rehabilitative justice, and I might've cried at one point over just how adorable and good this little droid was. I would ask you to send help, except that I don't want it.
As for Kira, I've dealt with the "Admiral what's-his-face wants to defect" abandoned asteroid mine thing with its revelations, and brought Kira to speak to the Jedi Council. Sith defector is a pretty interesting backstory to give to a Jedi Knight's padawan companion, even if she isn't evil at all. There was one guy on the Council who was all "once a Sith, always a Sith", but given that Kira's been a pretty standard padawan – slightly impatient, perhaps, but not on the path to darkness – I was very comfortable rolling my eyes at him. Kira appreciated the defense, too.
I suppose I should mention my combat specs? I'm a Jedi Sentinel, Watchman specialization. I picked that one because it seemed to be the biggest difference to my Lightning Sorcerer: melee single-target DoT vs ranged AoE burst. I'm significantly beefier (or just better at playing the game :P) so I can put my companions on damage and even do heroics like that without instagibbing.
Oh, I had ship opinions as well! I think I prefer the Fury to the Defender, tbh. The "turn around to get to the map" layout isn't my favorite, and it took me way too long to figure out that my ship had a bottom floor. The Fury was comparatively simpler (and looks nicer).
Midwan was an Artificer, so Kurebir's a Synthweaver. I made myself a blue trenchcoat!
Next up: Tatooine and Alderaan.
Most montral patternings were a bit too white-based for the most part for my tastes, so I went with this one. Not the look I was going for, but the patterns play nice with a lot of the Jedi gear's patterns. I'm also a boring person who likes their Togrutas yellow-orange-ish with blue-ish montrals, so I went for that, instead of the various other technicolor combinations. The character creator didn't have an eyebrow option, so I picked the facial patterning that gave the best impression of eyebrows with the boundary of marking and skin color.
Of course, after creating a buff butch decisive warrior, it turned out that the ingame voice is ... not what I was expecting. Oops. She's a bit breathless and :o and speaking high on the palate rather than with an authoritative chest voice. It's slightly better after Tython/Coruscant, but I'll put that as a mark against taking Kurebir as my Republic-side expansion character.
This inspired me to take a look at the voice actors for the various classes. The only ones I recognize are Grey DeLisle (Bounty Hunter) and Jennifer Hale (Trooper), both of whose voicework I have positive impressions of and neither of whom has yet to voice a character in a manner I dislike. I really enjoyed Xanthe Elbrick (Sith Inquisitor), am meh on Kari Wahlgren (Jedi Knight) so far, and have no impressions of Jo Wyatt (Imperial Agent), Athena Karkanis (Jedi Consular), Natasha Little (Sith Warrior), or Kath Soucie (Smuggler). I guess I might listen to clips or something, but lbr, my todo list loving self wants to do all the stories.
(Play as a dude? Me? No.)
Tython was very much an intro planet, though I think I preferred the quest design there to that of Korriban – less "go someplace, return to base, go someplace new, return to base" and more shuttling between 3-4 distinct locations. Also faster, since I have the cooldownless fast travel legacy perk unlocked! I don't think I recall much about my impressions of the plot – I guess there were places where there could've been good roleplaying options, but I decided I'd play Kurebir as The Most Jedi That Ever Was, so lightside choices only it was for me. Not that e.g. those idiot padawans in love made it hard to choose to turn them in.
Honestly, this is a great shot.
I actually did the post-starter flashpoint this time around! It was pretty cool. In general, I've felt tough enough to switch T7 over to damage mode and T7 + Jedi = unstoppable indeed. Some of the choices would've been more meaningful had I not known the whole thing was running on video game logic, but hey, I had fun lightsabering things in the face and accumulating ludicrous quantities of LS points and T7 influence.
Spot also how the montral pattern harmonizes with the shirt!
With Coruscant, my main beef that I had been an utter idiot who forgot to buy a speeder on the Fleet. Thankfully, the planet was smaller than Dromund Kaas – probably due to the city nature versus the open-ish jungle. The story with the Sith secret agent made the SIS look really bad, but it was at least a Jedi-level threat suited to the class. (Also the atmosphere ionizer was kind of silly, but hey, it's Star Wars.) What left me baffled was why Bela Kiwiiks handed her padawan over to me. Like, what? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind having a padawan, but why did you dump her on me like that? Wtf?
By Taris, I was really overleveled, so I decided to only do the purple quests (class mission + planetary questline). The planetary questline was the usual "help me please, okay now go help my friend at the next outpost", but eh, sure. I also got to get infected by the rakghoul plague For Science!, which was utterly hilarious and an A+ inclusion to the questline. The class questline's cat and mouse with Watcher One was great, too! 10/10 only positive memories.
Nar Shaddaa wasn't as good, and I think at one point both the class and planetary questlines were about stopping unethical Imperial super soldier experiments on unwilling volunteers, which, okay, that is a bit too much repetition for my tastes. I decided to do a few heroics, just because regular mobs were a bit easy, and got a bit of a challenge! I even died once, lol. It's a nice extra source of income for a character skipping most of the side quest credits. I also hit the 1k kills with T7 as a companion achievement and swapped out to Kira. I'm up to 400 with her at this point, I think?
Companion-wise, I'm pretty happy with these two! I can see they'd be annoying if you want to be Evil McEvilface, but I am a Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic, ready to answer every call for help with a resounding "Yes!" and T7, best droid ever, approves of each and every such reply. He should definitely get that lightsaber upgrade he's been asking for. <3 T7-01 is great, T7-01 is adorable, he and his previous master were really into rehabilitative justice, and I might've cried at one point over just how adorable and good this little droid was. I would ask you to send help, except that I don't want it.
As for Kira, I've dealt with the "Admiral what's-his-face wants to defect" abandoned asteroid mine thing with its revelations, and brought Kira to speak to the Jedi Council. Sith defector is a pretty interesting backstory to give to a Jedi Knight's padawan companion, even if she isn't evil at all. There was one guy on the Council who was all "once a Sith, always a Sith", but given that Kira's been a pretty standard padawan – slightly impatient, perhaps, but not on the path to darkness – I was very comfortable rolling my eyes at him. Kira appreciated the defense, too.
I suppose I should mention my combat specs? I'm a Jedi Sentinel, Watchman specialization. I picked that one because it seemed to be the biggest difference to my Lightning Sorcerer: melee single-target DoT vs ranged AoE burst. I'm significantly beefier (or just better at playing the game :P) so I can put my companions on damage and even do heroics like that without instagibbing.
Oh, I had ship opinions as well! I think I prefer the Fury to the Defender, tbh. The "turn around to get to the map" layout isn't my favorite, and it took me way too long to figure out that my ship had a bottom floor. The Fury was comparatively simpler (and looks nicer).
Midwan was an Artificer, so Kurebir's a Synthweaver. I made myself a blue trenchcoat!
Next up: Tatooine and Alderaan.
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Date: 2021-02-24 01:55 (UTC)I like her already! :D
The patterning on her blue montrals is really beautiful.
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Date: 2021-02-24 21:12 (UTC)