Thoughts on the sith warrior and the new leveling system to excuse yet another photoset of my newest character :
So this is I believe the third time I'm playing the sith warrior story. You might be surprised to hear that I considered the sith warrior story one of my least favorite to play, I just ended up playing it more than once for one reason or another. More than that, I only now on my third playthrough finally seem to be in the right mindset to enjoy and have fun with the story.
I was roleplaying light and mixed characters before with the warrior. My pureblood sith was someone I wanted to sort of resemble Lana from the getgo; powerful but logical, more calm than a regular sith. That translated in a pretty boring playthrough for me. Even though I had great fun playing a lightside inquisitor previously, this time I couldn't make it work for my warrior, even though he still made plenty of dark side choices.
Now, I'm playing as my Jedi main's sister, which from the getgo, I knew would be a lot like him: arrogant, overconfident in their skills, and cocky (my Jedi is very, very flawed). She is hardened more than her brother, due to being left alone for a while after he got taken by the Jedi. Until the Sith found her, and encouraged her lust and display of power that her brother had to try and keep under wraps in favor of being a Jedi. So she is basically an unhinged version of him, a what could have been.
The result is just a ton of fun. The voice actress is at her best when doing hilarious lines like 'I'm going to kill you and eat you all raw!' and displaying over the top sith powers fits her so well. I'm just having a ton of fun and I'm already nearing the end of chapter 2 I believe. Imagine last time I had to force myself to slog through it all! It's really all in the mindset.
As for the new level up system:
I'm playing as a Sentinel with her, which was basically a way for me to test the sentinel to see if I wanted to use it as my Jedi's second combat class. I already gave my pureblood the marauder second combat style so I wanted to compare.
What I've noticed, and I don't know if that was the case before, but I'm now level 37 and I have very little choice in abilities. My rotation is extremely simple and straightforward. This is fine, except I only have one focus building ability, so I find myself just hitting with my basic attack a lot to build focus. I've also found myself being exceptionally squishy, and my companions being absolute trash at healing me. And I do mean it. I don't know what changed, but my companions seem more focused on healing themselves or hitting the enemies (which they do a shit job at doing anyway) rather than healing me. It's not great. But I think, I THINK I like the sentinel animations better than marauder, save for the 'upgraded' slash ability she just got which makes the animation really slow for some reason, which I absolutely hate. For marauder the equivalent replacement is sharp and fast I believe. Wish I could merge the two.
And that's my rambling done for the day lmao. At least it's not gearing talk for once!
