{"id":4841,"date":"2023-11-16T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T19:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.generic-hero.com\/ThisWeekinAurabesh\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2024-01-19T13:40:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T18:40:49","slug":"go-again-the-swtor-hardcore-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.generic-hero.com\/ThisWeekinAurabesh\/2023\/11\/16\/go-again-the-swtor-hardcore-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Again: The SWTOR Hardcore Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of speculation and hope following last spring’s trial run, yesterday Papa Keith Kanneg announced the launch of a brand new Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/strong><\/em> server for the Asia-Pacific region called Shae Vizla<\/a>! I won’t lie seeing SWTOR<\/strong> open a brand new server is pretty exciting, and I am very happy that my friends on the opposite side of the planet now have a quicker and more reliable server to call home for their characters and adventures.<\/p>\n

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To celebrate I want to revisit a topic I posted this summer and throw down a HARDCORE CHALLENGE<\/strong> to veteran players looking to check out the Shae Vizla server. This challenge is, of course, inspired by the success of World of Warcraft<\/strong><\/em>‘s community driven challenge and recently opened Hardcore servers. I have enjoyed watching players test themselves this way in WOW<\/strong><\/em>, and this spring I started wondering if this might be fun to try in SWTOR<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0Let me be clear from the start, leveling in SWTOR<\/strong><\/em> is significantly easier than it is in Classic World of Warcraft<\/strong><\/em>. My goal is not to force players delete beloved characters because they missed a jump to an elevator; instead I think veteran players might find some unexpected pleasure in leveling characters without endless credits and character, legacy and guild perks.<\/p>\n

There are two elements to the challenge, but the main one is simply to advance your character to maximum level without dying. Should you accept the challenge and your character dies at any point on their journey, you are expected to abandon that character and try again.\u00a0The second element of the challenge is that players play using a set of restrictions called SSF: \u201cSolo-Self-Found\u201d. That is to say that the only weapons and armor and accessories they can use are those they\u2019ve looted, crafted or earned as quest rewards. Use of the auction house, the mailbox and trading with other players is forbidden. Without being able to feed a fresh character unlimited credits and high quality equipment, Hardcore players need to be careful when forced to make do with the loot they find for themselves along the way, just like founding players did back in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Here is the rules set for a my \u201cSWTOR<\/em><\/strong> Hardcore Challenge\u201d:<\/p>\n