Gating the whole expansion

[Kyonika]

Star Wars as very story based as well. So "not all other mmo's let you skip the story" as far as I recall during "Rise of the Hutt Cartel" if you didn't finish the main story or your class quest story line, you weren't able to get into the new planet to get the new story for the new raid/trail thingy. If you were Sith, and you didn't do the opening quest to the planet, you didn't get to do anything.

That's comparing apples and oranges here. SWTOR's MSQ stuff was all entirely, without exception, single-player content. Meaning, no group finder or duty finder stuff needed to progress. Every expansion can be worked on solo: they didn't lock you out b'cuz you didn't complete x,y,z 8-person operations and a-thru-e 4-person hard modes and stuff.

This game, on the other hand, does.


I'm currently stuck behind a DF quest until I can get a healer or a ranged dps at a high enough level to continue, and then pray - when the time comes - that that DF is still relevant enough for ppl to click DF. But what I'm really dreading is the post 2.0 stuff. Endgame stuff. The stuff that many had done or will only do only once and hope never to touch again (cuz it's hard af).

Any one know if there is a way to throw money at SE to make the problem go away?

If not I'm seriously considering hiring a friend for $1000 with too much time on their hands to power level & grind out all the stuff in the way to Ishgard, and record all the cutscenes and boss fights for me. I'm not even joking. A minimum two-year lockout just to play content that I just purchased seems a little cruel and unusual.

Personally, I really only care about getting the 3 new jobs from this expansion. Everything else is secondary.