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Finished Chapter 3 on my Bounty Hunter, and it really is the weakest of the chapter 3s for any character, which makes me sad because the character stuff is still good, as are the individual missions (except Corellia) but it just doesn't hang together.

Once again, this mission makes it really clear that Jedi Knight is supposed to be *the* light side story. ( Spoilers ensue )

It does however reinforce that Imp. Agent, awesome though it was and is, really isn't a Star Wars story. I mean, I love it (and my companions most especially) but it's not a Star Wars story.

Bounty Hunter - ( Finished Belsavis )

Not sure how Voss will work with my Bounty Hunter. Or rather, the Voss having to cope with my Bounty Hunter and her companions (ha!)

Smuggler - ( I may have accidentally finished the character storyline for the smuggler )

Finished Belsavis with my Knight

( Spoilers )

My Bounty Hunter is supposed to be finished too, but she was one mission behind anyway and then she got a bit lost and I found a whole area I've never seen before. I'm not sure if I've accidentally activated the bonus series because I'm now over the minimum level to start it, but I thought the minimum level for that was 60 (which I've not reached) and that you had to leave the planet first, which I definitely haven't. However, there remains the possibility that I have done something bizarre. I am the fool you have to proof your games against.

Finished Voss on my Smuggler and my Sith Warrior

Smuggler was fun, even if bits of it were "there is no good option here" but in the good way.

Sith Warrior was also excellent, and properly creepy.

( Spoilers for Warrior and Jedi Knight, and a tiny one for Sith Inquisitor )

Was a bit of a let down. One part of it wasn't its fault, it's just that I played it right (well okay, a week) after the galaxy-shattering Jedi Knight chapter 2 ending, but also it just doesn't feel as big as any of the others do, because it doesn't change anything. It might make the Bounty Hunter's situation more itself than it was before, but it doesn't change it.

( Comparing the end of the Bounty Hunter's chapter 2 with the others (spoilers) )

Finished Hoth on both my Jedi Knight and my Bounty Hunter.

( Bounty Hunter spoilers (and minor Jedi Consular spoilers) )

I do not like Doc. He makes my skin crawl.

( Jedi Knight spoilers )

( Spoilers for the bit just after )

The four characters who have finished their main stories have been switched to crafting, which is an excellent way of keeping the inventories of the other characters tidy.

Both my smuggler and my Sith warrior are on Belsavis. Belsavis has not got any less itself, but I have got a lot better at reading the maps. Both stories are interesting, and, despite the way the game has been made easier (several updates ago), I have managed to die on both characters. Because the Esh-Kha are mean murder cows.

( Spoilers for which companion I am blaming )

My Jedi Knight has finished Balmorra and I hate my new companion. Doc is the latest in a long line of sucktacular male companions who are supposed to be the romance option for your female toon. Let's recap, dude you've just met, comes aboard, demands better quarters (okay, that one's obviously a joke but still) and is then horribly mean to your robot, who has been with you since before you were knighted and has a (mechanical) heart the size of a whale, and the other Jedi aboard, who is a woman who has seen some seriously bad things and come out on the side of good, and it's like, no dude, you do not get to do this.

Part of the problem is that with both him and Corso Riggs, they are trying to write Han Solo, missing that that is a hard character to pull off (and Harrison Ford has mutant charisma).

My Bounty Hunter has just finished Taris. I deliberately used Gault for the end of it in case ( I did decide to )

I would utterly recommend taking Gault as the companion for Balmorra because he is just so much fun. Oddly, being as he is utterly self-centred, take-the-money and run, he is both more fun, and closer to Han Solo than either of the two characters who are supposed to be like him.

( Spoilers for the Bounty Hunter Balmorra storyline )

While I mentioned that if you play the Taral V-Jedi Prisoner flashpoints, it becomes clear that Jedi Knight is *the* main Light side class, I don't think the distinction is as big over on the dark side, because you have this very interesting convo with Revan even if you're a show-me-the-money bounty hunter. Which my character is.

Now both my Jedi Knight and my Bounty Hunter move on to Quesh.

My replay characters are moving along nicely, and I (helped) defeat my first World Boss - The First on Dromund Kaas. People continue to be really lovely if you're willing to admit that you're a noob who's never done something before.

I was going to try and do a ranking of the stories, but I realised that was quite difficult because several of the stories are of similar quality (mostly good), and none of them are bad, so I've done a good things and bad things about the first chapter for each story instead.

( Jedi Consular )

( Imperial Agent )

( Trooper, one spoiler for the rest of Trooper beyond the first chapter and spoilers for the first chapter )

( Sith Inquisitor )

( Smuggler )

( Sith Warrior )

( Jedi Knight )

( Smuggler )