GS4 Review: Satele Shan & Tulak Hord

I expected the other two servers to be at least a week behind, but in reality it was only a few days, meaning that I actually finished GS4 on all my secondary legacies in the same week. I was kind of impressed by how "in sync" I had kept them without really paying much attention to it.

Satele Shan

My Shadow didn't get too much love this season and was mostly used to complete objectives that benefited from stealth, without making much story progress. Like seemingly everywhere else, I enjoyed spending some time on Empire side, getting my Sniper from ten to 28. I didn't touch my trooper at all this season, though my Guardian gained a few more levels from doing PvP.

I will have to say that trying to get into warzones kind of vexed me this season though. Satele Shan being the west coast server (even if it's "inofficial" now), it's always been a bit tricky for me to find the right time to do group content on it, because 7 pm on the west coast is 2 am my time, so "prime time" was always out. Still, in the past I also used to be able to get pops outside of peak hours, such as when it was early to mid-afternoon over there. This time, though: nothing.

I would sometimes use the /who command to check how much activity there was going on in warzones and could often only find a single match running in the 80s bracket, and sometimes none at all. I had to give up on PvP-related objectives a couple of times because despite of repeated attempts to queue at different times of day on different days I just had no luck whatsoever. This is also why I only got to PvP season rank 3 or so this season. (I forgot that the PvP season was about to end and didn't check my final rank before the UI disappeared, oops.)

Now, from what I've read online I get the impression that Satele Shan players are a bit sensitive to their server being declared "dead" because it seems to happen all too often. While we don't have official population numbers, indicators we do have point towards SS still being bigger than both Tulak Hord and Leviathan combined. There just didn't seem to be that much PvP happening these past couple of months. Did I miss an exodus of PvPers in specific or something? I would be happy to hear from any Satele Shan regulars about what they think.

In terms of personal stats, my Shadow upgraded his gear to item level 333, and my legacy gained five levels, going from 22 to 27.

Tulak Hord

On Tulak Hord, I'm still in the same two-person guild that I joined on a whim during Season 2, and it seems that the other guy also plays kind of on and off, as I noticed that the guild master title had once again reverted to me when I last logged in. However, he also invested in a guild ship this season, so he's clearly been around and busy at some point.

My trooper made a little progress in terms of story and was able to proceed to Tatooine, though I still have the Nar Shaddaa bonus series left to do. My Sorcerer alt hit level 30 and actually got her ship.

Here, too, my legacy advanced by five levels, from 20 to 25, and my trooper's gear rating increased to 332.

Overall, Tulak Hord wasn't my favourite server to spend time on this season, though I couldn't exactly tell you why. I think it's because there was a period of crossover where both my Sage on Leviathan and my Tulak Hord trooper were doing similar content on Nar Shaddaa and Tatooine, and since I usually logged into Leviathan first, the second time round on Tulak Hord then felt repetitive. As an example, I actually bothered to hunt down all the Tatooine datacrons on my Sage this season, which included a ride on the Jawa balloon, something I hadn't done in aaages. But then I thought about doing the same on my trooper and just felt "eh". So she only picked up the Anchorhead datacron so far and the rest will have to come some other time I guess.