Ranking SWTOR’s Sith Storylines

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Ranking SWTOR’s Sith Storylines

While I wish the quality of Star Wars: The Old Republic's class storylines were consistent across the board, it simply isn't the case. This week, we'll be ranking the game's storylines from the Sith Empire side of things. And yes, there will be spoilers!

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huntersam

just go on youtube and watch the story lines then you wont have to plas the game

celebfin

I remember that day when my agent was offered to join the Republic and work as double agent. No other class story was so deep and good.

Po_gg

"What's your list look like?"
Similar, IA is the best, hands down. I'd swap the Siths, SI is fun if you go light side, so it's better than SW. BH is the fourth, never was a big BH fan.
(and doesn't matter how Lucas editing the sh.t out of New Hope, Han shot first )

cheyane

I think Agent ranks first. I played evil Jedi Knight and evil Jedi Consular so these stories were good to me. I also played a good Sith Warrior and good Sith Inquisitor. So agent,knight,warrior,inqusitor,trooper,consular,bounty hunter and smuggler is my order.

filmoret

I don't care what anyone says this is the funniest cutscene ever.

Shodanas

I concur that the IA is the best written story line in TOR. In fact, i rolled a second agent in order to make different choices at key moments.

I rank the rest : sith warrior, sith inquisitor, BH.

Amathe

This is a fun article, but I am skimming it nervously for fear I will come across "and Rosebud was his sled."

giftedHorn

Agent and Inquisitor are the only two I have played to the end. Agent because I liked the story, Inquisitor because I liked the class mechanics. My problem with these stories, and story-driven games generally, is how passive your character is. Your Inquisitor kills, murders, probably thousands of people over the course of the story -- but you're not the one to initiate conflict with Darth Thanaton. That would be too evil, I guess.

My tip for anyone starting the Agent story would be: know your character's motivation. Where *are* your loyalties?

FrodoFragins

I've only played through the entire story of the sith Inquisitor and loved it. I got to somewhere in the 40's with my bounty hunter and found it much less interesting. But the main issue was having to redo the same zones again and once the 7x XP boost ended I couldn't deal with it. that massive XP boost needs to be available all the time(at least to launch cap). Just make it enable-able in the options. I can't imagine returning without it.

I tried leveling as an evil Jedi warrior but the Jedi are so freaking dull I had to quit.

Octagon7711

Agents story was the best. Stealth classes were good because you could bypass the boring fights. Sorcerer was good just for all the different types of lighting they had which never got old.

Mardukk

I agree 100% that the imperial agent's story was the best. I had no idea that the Imperials and the Sith didn't really like each other. I do think they gave the Sith a bit too much power. I hated the Sith by the end of the story, and wanted the Imperials to kill them all.

Octagon7711

The Sith starter world had a really good beginning story.  There you were with your instructor hating you and telling you you wouldn't last long.  You had his number one student begging to kill you in front of the class. Good times...

sayuu

I rank the Sorcerer #1 and Warrior #2.

thats it, because that is all the sith classes in the game. . .

(sith=/=Empire) P.S. change the misleading title

Roin

1) Light side Imperial Agent - As a male PC, Nothing even comes close
2) Dark side Sith Warrior
3) Dark side Sith Inquisitor
4) Dark side Imperial Agent
5) Light side Bounty Hunter
6) Dark side Bounty Hunter
7) Light side Sith Inquisitor
8) Light side Sith Warrior

Scott23

FrodoFragins said:

I've only played through the entire story of the sith Inquisitor and loved it. I got to somewhere in the 40's with my bounty hunter and found it much less interesting. But the main issue was having to redo the same zones again and once the 7x XP boost ended I couldn't deal with it. that massive XP boost needs to be available all the time(at least to launch cap). Just make it enable-able in the options. I can't imagine returning without it.

I tried leveling as an evil Jedi warrior but the Jedi are so freaking dull I had to quit.

The experience has been permanently boosted. You can just do the main class story and solo a heroic now and then to keep on level. I recently went back for a month and I was well ahead of the level by just doing class story and the heroics. The heroics give you gear so I never had to do anything else.

Back on topic I would rate it:

1. IA
2. SI
3. SW
4. BH

jesteralways

I did not like Sith stories at all, empire is in war with republic and on the verge of total win but nope, that could not happen? Why? Because we sith are bunch of maniacs who love fucking each other up at the cost of empire. Compared to the sith, the bounty hunter, yes a fucking bounty hunter has been of more service to empire.

H0urg1ass

I'm not going to rank them because, honestly, the people who think this video game has a good story seriously needs to pick up Hyperion by Dan Simmons, or even Frank Herbert's Dune.  Hinging a game around "story" and then spoon feeding us plots that make the Berenstain Bears look like Hemingway in comparison, is just insulting.

However, I will humor you with my impressions of each storyline.

Sith Warrior:  Cartoonishly evil.  Remember that old cartoon character in the 1920's who used to tie women to railroad tracks and then stand off to the side twisting his mustache and cackling evilly?  Well that pretty much wraps up the Sith Warrior story in a nutshell.  Honestly just skip it and level through PVP if you just have to have a SW character in your repertoire.

Sith Inquisitor:  Evil for evil's sake.  Nearly as bad as the Sith Warrior but less mustache twisting and more in the cold calculating range of Anthony Hopkins in.... well any movie that he's in, but mostly Hannibal Lecter.  You basically murder, death, kill and torture your way through a dozen planets while treating everyone like fresh dog poo.  Surprisingly, no one ever gets tired of your shit and ends your life.

Bounty Hunter:  Jet packs.  There was a story?  Sorry, I have jet packs and wrist mounted rocket launchers.  I think I just shot anyone who attempted to open their mouth and start a story.  I also PVP'd mostly because this class was horribly OP in PVP at launch.

Imperial Agent:  This was probably the only story in all of SWTOR that I was even remotely invested in seeing unfold.  I liked the IA male character's voice actor, I liked the way he could shit talk Sith and get away with it, I liked the double crossing and it was the only ending I didn't see coming by the end of the first chapter.

MikeB

sayuu said:

I rank the Sorcerer #1 and Warrior #2.



thats it, because that is all the sith classes in the game. . .



(sith=/=Empire)

P.S. change the misleading title

Sith Empire.

daltanious

Before Swtor was released I could not even imagine any game could take first place in my gaming life over WOW. Swtor succeded. Both great games, just love combat and lore more. WOW is still more complete package, they also had years to perfection it, but now Swtor is my no.1. Even being happy with expansions so far, still would prefer much more to pay 60€ for TRUE expansion, being at level of original release.

jbombard

Agreed it's probably not worth it if you are subbed just for the monthly updates. If that is the case, it's better to unsub wait 5-6 months and get a bunch at once. More to do and better value.

As far as the OP goes, I pretty much agree with that ranking. Both Jedi classes are pretty good too. Smuggler, Trooper, Bounty Hunter all not so much.

Po_gg

H0urg1ass said:

I'm not going to rank them because, honestly, the people who think this video game has a good story seriously needs to pick up Hyperion by Dan Simmons, or even Frank Herbert's Dune.  Hinging a game around "story" and then spoon feeding us plots that make the Berenstain Bears look like Hemingway in comparison, is just insulting.

I'm all about lore /story, but still I have to disagree (somewhat). There's an another thread around here about handling the story in multiplayer games, and how is it tougher than singleplayer ones. TOR's class storylines are fairly good - in mmo terms   True, not as good as TSW for example (I think the narrative and the writing style is much better there)

Also disagree a bit with the book examples... (never was a Simmons fan, I prefer the classics)
I too love the Dune cycle, and Herbert has a unique style (Ragnar used a few similar technics in early TSW, and in AO), but if you want to put up an example for writing, within the genre, I guess Bradbury would be a better fit, he was a great writer in the very sense of writing. As for world building, Asimov was better, and for the "sci" part of the genre (new ideas, directions, etc) I'd say Lem or Clarke over Herbert.
But yep, Dune is awesome, just re-red the six books a couple months ago. (don't like the Anderson additions though)

Phry

Played them all tbh, there isn't really a bad choice in any of them, but in terms of favourites.
Agent is definitely the better storyline, even when you include the Republic side, after that i would rank second place as Sith Inquisitor, followed by Sith Warrior and then Bounty Hunter.
The things i like about the game is a combination of the humour and the often ambiguous moral choices you sometimes have to make, regardless of whether you choose Sith Empire or the Republic.

Snikz

I completly agree with this list, i have leved the different classes 2 times each with light and darkside choices. And the agent's story is the best BUT then one i had most FUN with was the Sith Warrior

klash2def

Playing Agent now, need to finish her story (I know i'm late i've been around since beta but I'm not a content locost plus you know RL commitments)


Empire Side:

Sith Warrior
Sith Inquisitor
Bounty Hunter

*Haven't Finished Imperial Agent*

Republic Side:

Jedi Knight
Trooper
Smuggler

*Haven't finished Jedi Shadow*

As an avid defender/supporter of the game, I've always said the writing in this game is better than the films and I would love to see a film based on KOTOR era.. I say the best story I've finished was Darkside Sith Warrior.. I hear a lot of people say Agent, but I'm about 40% through Chapter 2 there, so maybe it'll change.

Darkside Sith Warrior just feels so good. Showing no mercy to any that had the unlucky fortune of crossing paths with me. Fun times

NO RETREAT FOR THE EMPIRE!