Knights of the Old Republic Appreciation Thread.

[WarLocke]

Well, I intended to sit down and write out a real report, but I never got around to it so here's the stream-of-consciousness version:

I ran into a display bug with my first character - at seemingly random times, your PC's Vitality display on the Item/Character/Equip screens will show 1/1. At the time I didn't know it was merely a display bug though, so I started a new character in a huff.

My current character is a Lightside Female Scoundrel 8/Guardian 5. I chose Scoundrel the second time through because they get Persuade as a class skill, a worthy tradeoff for the Implant feats IMO. Scoundrel's Luck is also better than Uncanny Dodge (again IMO). After working through Taris as possibly the worst class combat-wise, choosing Guardian gave me a big shot in the Vit/BAB stats, and I still have plenty of Force points for the powers I use (I'm concentrating on the heals, speed powers, force resistance and the pushes). I did take Affect Mind, but I've yet to use it - nearly every time it's come up as an option, it's either a blatantly Darkside response or too grey for me.

I've done Taris, Dantooine, Tatooine, and am nearly finished with Kashyyyk. I figure I'll do Manaan next, but I may head back to Tatooine first because I still haven't finished the swoop racing games there, and a few sidequests. Is it just me, or is swoop racing incredibly hard? In the second tier you have to beat a time of 23.29 seconds! My best time was 23.89, and I could only manage it once... :(

Also, regarding NPC sidequests: the only ones I know of are Mission's and Bastila's on Tatooine (although Mission's needs to be started on another planet?), Zaalbar's obvious one on Kashyyyk, and I guess HK-47's is the repair dialogue option that I can't seem to get to work. Do any other characters have actual quests related to them? I talk to them as often as I can; Canderous has a ton of war stories, but nothing resembling a quest, T3-M4 doesn't seem to have any dialogue of note at all ( :( ), and Juhani only seems to have new dialogue at every other level. Carth pretty obviously seems to be the female love interest, but besides conversations (which are way better than the Anomen BG2 romance - Carth is surprisingly deep, and there's alot of give-and-take between him and the PC rather than the "I'm stuck up so don't piss me off" attitude Bastila has) there isn't much happening with him.

So, any recommendations on what characters to take to which planets? I did Bastila/Mission/HK-47 on Tatooine and Canderous/Zaalbar (and later Carth or Jolee) on Kashyyyk. I really want to get more playing time in with Juhani and the droids, but are there particular places where having them in the party just 'works'?

Also, Dark Jedi piss me off. Darn Fear (or whatever power), pretty much instantly immobilizes lil' Seera Kast. Dangit. But they can't stand up to her long blue/short green lightsaber combination. B)

EDIT: More questions:

1) How the heck do you use Security Spikes/Tunnelers or the different computer/security passcards you come across? There's never any option to (even though the desfription for Security Spikes specifically says they show up as an option in the target boxes of locked doors and such), and you can't "use" them from the item screen. And I have 4 or 5 different computer passcards that, AFAIK, never lowered the number of spikes I had to use to slice something.