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Originally Posted by Pants
Man, "raiding" (it's with 8 people, so I don't think it's really raiding, is it?) on normal is so incredibly easy and fun in this game, you can pug it with no issues. You will never encounter any ninjaing or loot drama as BW auto-assigns the loot to everyone (probably in order to make it as pug-friendly as possible).
Soa on hardmode has been giving us fits for weeks now and we finally downed him and the satisfaction of achieving something with these other 7 people who've been trying their hardest for a while is awesome. Just awesome. I don't know how anyone can not enjoy it.
Also, raiding is repetitive but it's who you play with and what you make of it. I'm nowhere near burned out yet and 1.2 is on the horizon. I know I'd rather "raid" and get that feeling of satisfaction than do 90% of the same quests I did when I leveled my character. And I still can't bring myself to play a Sith.
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You gotta remember who I am. I'm not interested at all in being social. That's not why I play these games. I play because of the amount of content that MMOs offer. And the reason I love SWTOR so much is because so much of that content is solo friendly. In the end it's like the biggest single-player game ever made. (Which is I think a problem for a lot of the rest of the playerbase.)
There probably isn't anything I dislike more than meeting new people. Which is why I don't PUG, and why I won't PUG. I'm an extremely anxious, socially-awkward person by nature, and being in that situation, having to deal with people that I don't know, really takes all the fun out of it for me. Particularly if they're of the "pro player" sect. You know who I mean, the ones who think they need to 'educate' poor little ol' me about what's going on, the guys who as soon as you're in a group start telling you how you need to set your skills, what gear you need to have, how you have to do x,y and z, and exactly the way they say. My PUG experiences in MMO's have been filled with encounters with that kind of condescending elitist bullshit, and I'd rather not do stuff at all than do it with people like that. So I don't PUG. Hell, I don't even turn on General chat. If nobody in my guild is on, SWTOR for me is pretty much a single player game.
And as far as raiding in general goes I really don't have a competitive bone in my body, at least where MMOs are concerned. I just don't have any of those impulses that drive people to raid. I don't care about bragging rights, I don't care about gear, and I really don't get any sense of accomplishment from finishing anything with other people. I actually get more out of completing difficult things by myself.
I definitely haven't repeated 90% of the content either. I don't do anything on my alts but world arcs and class quests, no side quests at all aside from space missions, so it's at worst 50/50 old content and new content. Somewhat to my surprise, I actually prefer that to the way I did nearly everything on my initial toon, my Sage, because it keeps me at or just slightly below level, which makes the combat aspects of things much more interesting to me, as opposed to facerolling through all the planets. I've enjoyed Belsavis and Voss (2 of my favorite planets anyway...) a great deal more on my Sentinel in the 41-45 range than I did on either my Sage or my Gunslinger in the 45-49 range.
And I still only use Doc on the elites.
When I do run the flashpoints, it'll be for the story, really. That's the only thing I'm bummed about missing out on.