About This Blog

This blog is about Star Wars: The Old Republic:

• Srs Bzns Casual Raiding
• Fashion
• Theorycraft on classes I play
• Other random SWTOR crap that catches my attention

But you just said “casual”, yet you’re saying at the same time “raiding” and “srs bzns”.

Yes, I did.  See, for me, casual is the amount of time that I have available to play, not the amount of effort I’m putting in.  Casual does not mean half-assed.  It just means prioritizing game-time… and for me, that priority is raiding.

About Njessi

After playing a healer in 3 different MMO’s, I’m branching out and playing a Jedi Sentinel as my main…

Serious Jedi Is Serious

… with a Scoundrel healer as my alt.

What's the upside for me?

I am a member of The Snark Side guild (Republic) on the Juyo server.  If you want to get technical, I’m a Co-GM, but I’m not sure how that happened.

How does one pronounce “Njessi”?

I’m going to say the “N” is silent, even though I have no authority to back that up.  In SWG, everyone ended up calling me “Jessi”, and that was ok.  In my mind I pronounce it “Nuh-Jessie.”  I acknowledge that it sounds dumb that way.  My husband pronounces it “En-Jessi” kinda like you’d pronounce “Nvidia.”  I am not entirely clear on the proper pronunciation of “Nvidia” either.

Other Writing

Occasionally I can be found spouting nonsense in other corners of the internet.

• The Snark Side (guild website)
• The Church of Alvis (husband’s guild website)

IRL

I met my husband at the Star Wars Galaxies Fan Fest.  He was the infamous forum troll, Jounville Blackferne¹, GM of Church of Alvis (which is rebooting for SWTOR).

A few years later, we were ready to spawn.  As you know from health class, when a mommy gamer and a daddy gamer love each other very much… they go by GameStop and purchase a baby gamer.  And, like Amazon pre-orders, the delivery date is just a rough estimate. The Little Jedi is 4 but isn’t quite ready to raid yet.

We both have full-time jobs so our playtime is limited.  We’re definitely “casual” players.

MMO Gaming History

I am getting old, so clearly I played a bunch of other MMO’s before this one.

Dark Age of Camelot

DAOC was my first MMO.  I admit that I had no flippin clue what I was doing at that point.

DAOC is where I encountered Njessi, this godawful sea monster patrolling a river in the newbie area, who had a bad habit of chomping me when I was trying to cross.²

Nom Nom Delicious Dwarf Healer.

Star Wars Galaxies

I started playing Star Wars Galaxies at the game’s launch as a Tailor and Image Designer.  Yeah, laugh it up.  Tailoring is how I developed my love for hawtpants.

This is my character n'Jessi. Twi'leks have apostrophes, so I modified the name "Njessi" accordingly.

For a while, I was also the Tailor Correspondent who solicited feedback from the players (on tailoring) and took it to the devs.  It was fun to be involved in the process, but a lot of not-so-glamorous work, mostly lists and reports (of feature requests, bugs, etc).  I also did some work on SWGTailor, an unofficial resource for tailors.³

But when the NGE came along, many in the community (myself included) just could not stomach the sweeping changes to, and essentially the destruction of, the sandbox they had “inhabited” for over two years.

That was my shop! (Click to embiggen)

World of Warcraft

In WoW, I did my first srs bzns gaming.  I became a raider (healer)!  I researched, became proficient, and maybe even a little leet.  I even had a blog, Murloc Parliament, where I pretended to know what the hell I was talking about.⁴

Suck it, Arthas!

Unfortunately, my fashion sense suffered for it, as I had to dress based on stats, not aesthetics.

The. Horror.

After debating with myself really hard, I did decide to quit WoW and play SWTOR exclusively rather than trying to keep one foot in each game.  Part of that decision has to do with the fact that I have limited playtime, and I’d be spreading myself too thin in two games and would end up half-assing it.

Contact

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