Can you play this solo?

[Schinkenbro]

Hello there
I am thinking of given this game another shot (tried once until lvl 10 or so a few years back).
In the past the constant reminders to buy the subscription annoyed the hell out of me. This time I wouldnt mind paying for one month though, which should negate my previous main problem.
However, I am not really interested in interaction with other players (guild, raids, ...).
My question is: Is it possible to play the game completely solo and enjoy the storylines on my own pace? If not, how far in the story can I get, without needing to join a guild or do dungeons?
Thank you for your insight, cheers!

[Berserkr]

Level 10 you barely got a taste lol
I'll tell you what I do I take gen chat, trade chat and pvp chat and I make two other chat tabs, I disable all 3 of those on the main tab, I put gen chat to the 2nd tab, put it to like font size 10, and I put trade and pvp to the 3rd one
So if I want to look at gen chat I just click the 2nd tab, it's nice and peaceful
Subbing for only 1 month will permanently get you level 80 cap and all current content forever so I would do it, fyi do it through the swtor site as Steam has many issues not putting the sub through
There's veteran mode, master mode flashpoints. Can be done as f2p but Operations(raids) that you need to sub to do, all the flashpoints have a solo story mode and you get Jesus droid with you as well that's super OP
So I would say you can solo pretty much most of the game, imo this game is played better with a single player mindset
I'd give it a shot, you can level 8 class stories up to like lv 60 or 65 for free, all you have to lose is some bandwidth and free time, maybe your marriage as well

[Schinkenbro]

Thanks for your insight! Sounds pretty much exactly how I want it to be :)
I will try it out then, thanks!

[Dr. Sinclair]

Originally posted by Berserkr:

all the flashpoints have a solo story mode and you get Jesus droid with you as well that's super OP

not all do.
but yes, you can solo 99% of the game :)

[RobOda]

You can solo everything except;

1. Flashpoints (the non-story ones are generally optional anyway and offer nothing to the story, so can be mostly skipped.)

2. CR-19whatever expansion (Orricon I think?), when Bioware had a brain fart and thought it would be smart to have the solo-story end with consecutive raids. Even the optional side quests end in group content.

3. Any optional operations (you'll never see the Dread Masters storyline, which you might stumble upon in your class quests if you go solo.)

For points 2 and 3, the game will allude to what has happened by pretending someone else did the content instead. So you'll get filled in partially like "oh so, I heard x and x happened and they killed x person" for example.

[Dr. Sinclair]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2174600228
this should give you an idea of everything you can do solo, just follow the line

[Berserkr]

Originally posted by RobOda:

You can solo everything except;

1. Flashpoints

But you can solo Flashpoints in Story mode

[Dr. Sinclair]

Originally posted by Berserkr:

Originally posted by RobOda:

You can solo everything except;

1. Flashpoints

But you can solo Flashpoints in Story mode

as i pointed out above, not all of them have story mode. and they specifically pointed out non-story ones.

[Rockhopper]

With 37.4 hours played, I have barely scratched the surface, and all completely solo except for selling some things I craft via the auction house thing.

[Schinkenbro]

Thank you all for helping me out. Game is downloading :)

[RobOda]

Originally posted by Berserkr:

Originally posted by RobOda:

You can solo everything except;

1. Flashpoints

But you can solo Flashpoints in Story mode

... It is like reading comprehension doesn't exist.

[Berserkr]

Originally posted by RobOda:

... It is like reading comprehension doesn't exist.

See Op this is why you wanna play the game solo

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by Dr. Sinclair:

Originally posted by Berserkr:

But you can solo Flashpoints in Story mode

as i pointed out above, not all of them have story mode. and they specifically pointed out non-story ones.

I think they changed that. I know a couple of years ago I looked on the wiki for which could be solo'd and it was a short list, but just a couple of months ago with nothing to do after finishing the last mission content I opened up the flashpoint panel and it showed all as being able to be run story mode solo.

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by Schinkenbro:

Is it possible to play the game completely solo and enjoy the storylines on my own pace? If not, how far in the story can I get, without needing to join a guild or do dungeons?

You never need to join a guild or run dungeons (Operations). As to the content from your very first beginning mission all the way through the last bit of content released all can be solo'd.

[Fibre🌹]

I've been playing literal SOLO ever since 2016. I've joined guilds but never participated in any events, only join them because of the minor xp boost you get. Almost everything can be done solo

[Dr. Sinclair]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

Originally posted by Dr. Sinclair:

as i pointed out above, not all of them have story mode. and they specifically pointed out non-story ones.

I think they changed that. I know a couple of years ago I looked on the wiki for which could be solo'd and it was a short list, but just a couple of months ago with nothing to do after finishing the last mission content I opened up the flashpoint panel and it showed all as being able to be run story mode solo.

... no they did not
solo hammer station?
solo athiss?
solo cademimu?
list goes on