Can I be an honorary Stark?
I think it goes particularly well with my toothsabers (look at the FANGS on those things) and is an outfit without a lot of hood/cape/cloak fabric flying everywhere.
Can I be an honorary Stark?
I think it goes particularly well with my toothsabers (look at the FANGS on those things) and is an outfit without a lot of hood/cape/cloak fabric flying everywhere.
A few days ago I’m talking about our planned weekend of raiding and 1.4 dropping… (excerpted from my illustrious chat log…)
I’m sure they will launch 1.4 at a time that is the most inconvenient for us
like thursday and break all the stuff for our friday raid
Welp, that happened, although at least it deployed on Wednesday and not Thursday, but things did break. The GTN totally broke. A lot of people probably don’t care about that, but remember, I am seriously stalking those last few recipes.
Also, the hat toggle for companions is not yet fully functional… Both the self-toggle and the companion toggle have the problem where the hat sometimes shows even when the box is checked. To turn the hat off again, you have to uncheck the box and then recheck it. The companion hat toggle works right until you go into a cut scene. When you get out of the cut scene, the companion is once again showing hat. I like the idea of the hat option for companions a lot, but it’s frustrating that it requires constant “babysitting” right now.
I also said in that same IM conversation
or it might be buggy RIGHT after the patch and need the subsequent fix-it-patch that they always do the next day
The servers are down today? Unscheduled maintenance? SHOCK.
These patch bugs aren’t a big deal. They usually get fixed in a reasonable timeframe and bugs don’t enrage me like they do some of my guildies. However, the knowledge that something will likely break, and it may not be something related to the patch, and it may be something really annoying – that really saps the carefree, unbridled excitement of rushing online to experience new content.
Also, moods make my toon look like a perv or an ax murderer or a pervy ax murderer.
This weekend, we’re going to try Terror From Beyond. I haven’t studied a new encounter in a while. I’ve studied hard modes of known encounters, but it’s been MONTHS since I’ve had to study a whole new thing. I’m a bit nervous that there will be bugs – in fact, given the track record of the last few patches, I expect bugs.
Wish me luck!
Ah, Torian. Issen’s future love interest… I couldn’t wait to meet him (well… I could).
***Mild and potentially boring spoilers ahead about Torian Cadera, Bounty Hunter Companion. You have been warned.***
I’m seriously terrible at remembering any anniversaries, let alone my own. Really. I’ve been married for 6 years and have remembered… twice. I’m sure I was good at remembering until I took an arrow to the knee.
Fortunately, wordpress has my back. I can pre-schedule a post telling you guys that it is, in fact, my blogiversary. I have been spouting drivel about SWTOR right here for a year. It is my 148th post. That is not a round number. It is a large number. LOTS of drivel.
Thank you for reading. It still blows my mind that people read my stuff, but I have looked at the stats and they mostly don’t lie.
Thank you for commenting. I know there are far more lurkers than commenters, but I have a special place in my heart for the commenters because it makes me feel like people want to start a conversation. Conversations are good!
Thank you for catching up with me on Twitter. Hey, I’m not there much, but if you want to have a conversation THERE, I’m game.
Thank you for… holy crap, seeing me in GAME? Ok, that kind of boggles my mind that people recognize the name and are like “I read your blog!” I’m going SQUEE in a most undignified manner.
Thank you for being awesome bloggers in the SWTOR blogosphere. It seems like bloggers go out of their way to encourage and support each other and don’t get all argue-y.
As much as I like to bitch and whine (and I do love bitching and whining) here’s hoping that I’m still here to celebrate my 2nd blogiversary. If that does occur, I expect beer.
Welp, after ranting like a loon the last couple of days, I’m a pretty happy camper today. Check out the swtor blog about the doodads we’re getting in 1.4.
2 points I really really REALLY love. I’m dotting my i’s with hearts.
Companion Customization Improvements – Finally, starting in Game Update 1.4 players will be able to hide the helmet, or unify colors to chest, for their companion’s gear (see the screenshot at the top of this article). No more mismatched, silly outfits (unless you like them that way)!
I knew about this before, but I forgot how much I love it. I especially like the ability to get rid of the bucket head. As you might recall, I was a big fan of removing helm so I could see my companions while they were speaking, but refrained from doing so because half the cut scenes seem to toss you into battle at the end, and I need my companion to have all his/her armor.
I was contemplating putting Doc in the slave collar so I could see his face – and shock him if he looked at another lady. I guess I won’t have to. (But I might anyway.)
But, this one is even better, seriously:
Delayed Binding – Ever accidentally roll greed by mistake? Ever spend your commendations on the wrong item at the token vendor? In Game Update 1.4, players will be able to address this issue. Bind on Pickup and Bind on Legacy items will now have a 2 hour limit in which they can be exchanged. If they were a loot item, you can freely give the item to any party member who was in on the kill and therefore eligible to loot the item. Similarly, if you buy something from a commendation vendor, you will have 2 hours to return the item to any vendor and get a full refund of commendations. (and then there are some terms and conditions blah blah)
Right now, our biggest time suck in raiding is LOOT. There are a lot of times when most people don’t need the damn thing and we’re stuck going through the stuff item-by-item with the master looter.
So, you say, why don’t you just do need/greed? Ok, smartass fictitious arguing person, here’s why: there is TOO LITTLE TIME to inspect the gear and make a decision before the damn thing times out. You can only look at 2 gear items at a time on your screen, so you have to make decisions and move on before seeing what the rest of the loot is. This led to a LOT of oopses and tickets until we decided we had to go back to master looter so we could make sure that people who needed the gear didn’t lose out on it by accident.
Now we can do need/greed without any danger of screwing someone over, and if there’s an oops, we can trade on the way to the next trash pull. Easy peasy.
I know, the big news will be the new raid – I mean ops – but the quality of life improvements? I live for this stuff!
Tsk tsk Bioware. You know, I’m trying to be positive and not like the gloom-and-doom hollerers out there, but you’re making it fucking HARD to be nice right now with this newest wave of mergers, I mean transfers, I mean consolidation, that still totally isn’t a merger.
I’m picking my ass off the floor right now with having fallen out of my chair at the awesomeness of the communication with the community on this point. Or maybe laughing about the not-awesomeness.
First, a few months ago, “We’re going to lock the origin servers and transfer all your toons to the destination servers at the end of the summer.” No big shock there when they said on Monday “hey we’re finally going to do that thing we said with the origin servers…”
Right until the point where they said “And, LOL, some of your destination servers are now origin servers and we’re dumping you guys onto brand spanking new servers. TOMORROW.”
Are you fucking kidding me? Really?
Look, pulling this shit is exactly the reason I get pings from my guildies over the weekend going “holy fuck, they are testing higher pop servers, they are going to cram us all together” and I’m thinking… nah, that’s totally paranoid, they haven’t mentioned a thing about it. And then it fucking happens. Now, we are damn well RIGHT to be fucking panicked when you say something chipper about just testing some random feature because hell, you might cram a surprise down our throats 2 days later. Awesome.
Making people move twice is pretty sadistic. Let me demonstrate:
Day 1. I log in and name my toon “Njessirules”. Woot.
Now you make me transfer. My toon is flagged for a name change because some jackhole on Canderous Ordo (who may or may not even be a subscriber anymore) made a throwaway alt named “Njessirules.” So I get to change my name to “Njessirools.” Not my favorite, but the Canderous Ordo guy was there first and it was a “totally optional transfer” so it’s on me to make the change.
And THEN we do this merger thing. “Njessirools” is lvl 50 and gets total priority on the name “Njessirools”. Gee, thanks, I get to KEEP my craptastic 3rd choice name. I don’t even get to TRY for “Njessirules”, even though probably nobody has it anymore.
I could put in a CSR ticket. HAR HAR HAR. I might as well not sit in my chair anymore since I just keep falling out of it.
Fail. Just fail.
As my 4-year-old is fond of saying “BUT WHY?” I don’t have a good answer. The destination server of Canderous Ordo was already plenty damn populated. It was easy to get a group. There were 2-3 instances of the fleet on most nights. How many more roommates do I need for a good “population?”
Also, I should point out, that I did not find any additional synthweaving or armormech recipes on the GTN in this move, so there was nothing in it for me.
Several guildies who had high level mains (before they joined our guild) have been hoping since FOREVER to transfer those damn 50’s onto the same server as their new mains. NOPE. The former mains are STILL elsewhere, even after we’ve all been squished into essentially a handful of servers. Don’t even get me started (again) on when we are getting “real” server transfers (never).
Seriously.
Back in the day of SWG, I was a pretty staunch fangirl. I volunteered to be a correspondent and spent HOURS upon HOURS making lists of bugs and issues. When there was testing to be done, you bet your ass that I was on the test server testing the crap out of it. Including, I might add, RE-GRINDING tailoring from scratch because the functionality to just LEARN trade skills wasn’t enabled on the test servers. I was thrilled to be the first to see something, to be on the cutting edge, and to potentially help shape the new content.
Fast forward 9 years. Holy shit, yes, 9 years. I have a srs job and an even more srs kid. And, this last weekend, when I heard that all east coast toons, presumably including my own, had been copied to the test server my first thought was not “ZOMG I want to see the new stuff.” Nope, my exact thought was “Fuck dat.”
My free time is so scarce right now, I’ll be damned if I’m going to do anything resembling WORK in my limited game-time. And beta testing is work. It’s unpaid work at that. So, again, fuck dat.
I guess I’m just a game customer now. A game customer who wants to play only a polished product because I don’t have time to be wrestling with bugs. Let’s leave the heavy lifting to the fan girls who still have the time to do such things. I’m sure they’ll do a fine job. But that part of my gaming life is over.
And I’ll just have to post about server “consolidation” (still totally not a merger) some other time… I just don’t even know where to start on THAT one.
Last night, in about 10 minutes hanging around the GTN stalking recipes, I saw the following…
First, I’m not the only idiot to put Akaavi in a bikini:
I’m going to pretend I started a trend. Then not 2 minutes later, I see Kira in this monstrosity:
I know we’ve seen THAT outfit before.
But just as I thought things couldn’t get worse, it’s the return – nay, the REVENGE – of the leaf butt:
Folks, the only thing that could look dumber than the leaf butt with a bikini are those damn elbow pads that must be stuck to her skin with adhesive.
I really need a GTN on my ship so that I won’t be traumatized any further by fleet fashion.
Guys, don’t ever say that an artifisser1 is useless. Because my guildie made me 2 toothsabers!
Niman Master’s Primary Lightsaber (Main Hand)
Niman Master’s Secondary Lightsaber (Off Hand)
Check out the badassery!2
So a while back I took a picture of the voss mystic robe for some blog post or another… Friday night I went to try it on again in a VAIN HOPE that it no longer clipped my toon’s butt. It still clips my toon’s butt. However, it does look just a wee bit different than before.
I suspected a stealth change in a patch. Which patch? No idea. Probably something recent. Possibly the one on Wednesday. The devs now report that this is a bug and it’s being looked into.
You may like the old version better. You may like the new version better. Both are unique in the game. They are both very pretty. If the bug is fixed, we lose access to the new blue one. If it’s not fixed, we have lost access to the white one. We lose either way.
Fashion is srs bzns.