I've been enjoying the expansion. Because of the reports that Makeb itself wouldn't provide enough experience to hit level 55 I picked up the Macrobinocular and Seeker Droid. I enjoyed the traveling around to older planets. It keeps the game from feeling limited as only focusing on a new area makes any expansion feel small. (Even the large area of Pandaria in WoW felt small in time when it was the only place most of our quests were at.) Because of all the travel, it is nice when time is short to have lots of options to move around quickly. One of the options that gets overlooked are the old Fleet Shuttles because they aren't being used for their original purpose.
The fleet shuttles are from the earliest days of the game, pre-Group Finder. The ostensible idea was that while you quested on a planet you'd be in general chat looking for a group while you quested. Once you had a group put together your group would travel to your planet's fleet shuttle, pick up the feeder quest, shuttle, and then head to the instance portal on the fleet. Profit!, and thus a server community would be built. At least in the minds of the Bioware devs.
Unfortunately it didn't work that way. As a practical matter, unless you were in a static group or had a guild of were folks were at the same level (mostly) this tended not to work. It was hard enough putting together a group for the planet's heroics - everyone seemed to be trying to hit the endgame - as it was to find an instance group. Even worse, if you were on the wrong side of a faction imbalanced server, say, Republic on the late Keller's Void, you were even more screwed. I never saw instances on my Republic toons until the server merge to Jedi Covenant and the emergence of the Group Finder.
The nice thing about the Fleet Shuttle is that it doesn't have a cooldown nor does it cause a cooldown on your Emergency Fleet Pass or legacy Fleet Priority Transport. That's handy when your Emergency Fleet Pass is still the 18 hour one or you haven't unlocked the legacy one.
Here's a list of what taxi location you need for the various shuttles for each planet.
| Planet | Taxi location |
|---|---|
| Alderaan (Imperial) | Outpost Bolym |
| Alderaan (Republic) | Wardpost Duval |
| Balmorra (Imperial) | Glorinth Imperial Outpost (landing location) |
| Balmorra (Republic) | Bugtown (landing location) |
| Belsavis (Imperial) | Imperial Command Post |
| Belsavis (Republic) | Republic Watchtower |
| Corellia (Imperial) | Imperial War Camp |
| Corellia (Republic) | Republic Outpost |
| Coruscant | Senate Plaza Taxi |
| Dromund Kass | The Wall Speeder |
| Hoth (Imperial) | Leth Outpost (Fleet Shuttle is on the other side of the base) |
| Hoth (Republic) | Outpost Senth |
| Nar Shaddaa (Imperial) | Lower Promenade |
| Nar Shaddaa (Republic) | Lower Promenade |
| Quesh (Imperial) | -None- |
| Quesh (Republic) | -None- |
| Taris (Imperial) | Toxic Lake Garrison |
| Taris (Republic) | Waypoint Station Aurek |
| Tatooine (Imperial) | Toxic Lake Garrison |
| Tatooine (Republic) | Waypoint Station Aurek |
| Voss (Imperial) | Fort Kodentha |
| Voss (Republic) | Ken-La Outpost |
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