Fashion Police: PUG Edition

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Lately, I’ve been vindicated in my theory that you know you’re in deep shit when your pug person shows up in a bikini or something similar.

First, we have Mellons For Hire:

“Lol,” she says dismissively, “you’re using a pylon solver for EV story mode?!”

Good thing we did, because her dps was abysmal and we would have been screwed if the fight had dragged on any longer than necessary.

Later, we come across “Lucky” Loni… as in she’s lucky she ever gets any groups.

Sometimes healers assist with DPS when there isn’t much to do.  However, a healer pulling? REPEATEDLY?  Oh hell no.

So when the new tank shows up sporting some serious underboob, I facepalm and know I’m in for a “fun” time.

Teaching The Next Generation About The Hall Of Shame

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Fun Fact: the Nar Shaddaa gambling event is a great way to come upon terrible fashion.

“Mom! Mom!” shrieks Little Jedi.  “That lady is wearing the most ridiculous outfit!  I mean, it doesn’t even cover her organs!  She’s gonna get STABBED!!”

Me: “While I agree that this outfit is stupid, I only take pictures of the really egregious examples, or the Hall of Shame would fill up too quickly.  That one isn’t actually that bad.  There are way worse outfits out there.”

Me: “Like that guy…”

LJ: “Oh my god.”

Me: “Or those idiots – damn they’re hiding behind a machine.”

LJ: “What are they even doing? What kind of dumb name is that?”

LJ: “Come over here!  Quick!  Take a picture of this moron!”

Me: “I just threw up in my mouth.”

No, Don’t Nerf Baldy!

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Owch, the nerf bat, it hurts so baaad.  Poor Baldy.  Just as I thought I might yoink her out of retirement… nope.

Serious baldy is sad. But the hat is awesome.

If you haven’t seen the Healing Sorc/Sage changes, go read about it on Dulfy.  I’ll wait.

(Insert Elevator Music Here)

Don’t get distracted by bad fashion. Maybe go check it out later.

 

Oh you’re back, good.  Now you can see how they nerfed sorc healers into the ground.

But don’t worry.  They assure us that they are going to nerf all the other healers into the ground too.

We say the target HPS instead of their target HPS because all three healers have the same target HPS. In future balance patches, the other healers can expect to see changes to their healing capabilities as well to ensure they are in line with the target.

Joy.  We’re all getting nerfed.  You know what that means…

DPS, step your shit up!  We will no longer be able to compensate for standing in bad, missed interrupts, or failure to self-cleanse.

Gambling For Fun And Most Definitely Not Profit

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I find the Nar Shaddaa nightlife event painful and boring.  I spent a grueling hour there in order to obtain two legacy weapons and swore I wouldn’t go back.

Then Little Jedi wanted to go.  And, of course, spend my credits.  Ugh, fine.

She loves it.  I’m worried about the future if she’s actually enjoying gambling.  “Don’t you want to go… kill something?”  “Nah, mom, I’m cool.  I want that dance floor.”

In keeping her company, I ended up with enough tokens for the dance floor.  Since she basically lives at my stronghold, I figure she’ll get to use it.

Well, apparently someone woke up at 5am the next morning and ground out some more golden tickets and now is the proud owner of a dance floor and microphone stand. She’s now saving up for that sweet mount with the fin on the back.

I have inadvertently created a monster.

Little Jedi’s Little Bounty Hunter

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Little Jedi has started a bounty hunter.  Watch out, world.

Unlike previous attempts to play, LJ now has reading skills and coordination sufficient to stay on quest task without our assistance.  I am a firm proponent that she MUST level up herself. She will not learn anything if we drag her around.  She won’t learn her abilities, she won’t learn how to navigate a map – she’ll get to 50 and be totally useless.  No child of mine will do that.

I am quite enjoying the commentary I am hearing as she goes along.  She’s very excited to get Mako, and everything is going well until…

***BOUNTY HUNTER STARTER PLANET SPOILERS AHEAD***  (You know, if you haven’t gotten to that five years later…)

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Oh, Quinn. I’m Coming To Get You.

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So while I was on hiatus from SWTOR, I heard little birds telling me that I get to… reunite with my bestie, Malavai Quinn.  Here’s the official blurb, as I am avoiding spoilers:

RETURNING COMPANIONS

Prepare to fight alongside Former Sith Warrior Companion Malavai Quinn or former Republic Trooper Companion Elara Dorne!

But beware, many years have passed… and your decisions may put old friendships to the test!

Last I saw him, I was giving him a neck-tickle… with force choke.

Never EVER gets old.

The following conversation with a guildie occurred yesterday:

Me: I should prioritize murdering Quinn. That’s next on the agenda.

(Guildie]): lol. I feel sorry for Quinn, actually. he’s stuck between a rock and a wall

Me: Ooh that’s how I should kill him. Squish.

Clearly I’m not over it.

Once Again, Customer Service Fail

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As you might recall, I got no credit for finishing Chapter 1 of KOTET and put in a CSR ticket.  Well this was the response I got:

Dear [njessi],

Thank you for contacting Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Customer Service. I have responded to your query in-game and, for your convenience I have included a summary of the response below in case you are unable to access the in-game mail at the moment. Please note – at times, cases and responses from Customer Support may appear blank in the in-game help portal. If you have accessed your case and are unable to see a response from us, please respond to this mail and myself or a colleague will respond as soon as possible.

I am sorry to hear about your issues with your recent chapter returning to the start of chapter 1 despite already completing it.

Unfortunately at the time that you mentioned this issue, you may be aware that we experienced server issues and as a result of this there were rollbacks as you can reead up on here – http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9318975#edit9318975

Unfortunately due to this you will need to run Chapter I of the Wrath and Ruin again to get past it, as unfortunately this is not a quest we are able to progress.

I hope that you are able to get past it quick enough and can continue to to enjoy the KOTET storyline. If there is anything else I can help you with please don’t hesitate to contact me.

To check back on any details of the case, you can do so at any time by logging into the game on any of your characters and opening the Help Centre. All cases you have submitted will be listed in the Request Help section, alongside the response from us. All cases are set to resolved once a response has been sent however if you would like to discuss this case further, you can do so by replying to this email or creating a new case in-game.

As always, at BioWare and EA, we strive to provide you with the world’s best customer experience for the world’s best games. We’re always interested in hearing back from you, the player, about your experience with our Game Advisors so that we can improve our service to you.

We would appreciate it if you could take the time to fill out a short survey about your most recent support experience with us. We would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have as we’re committed to making sure you always have a personal and positive connection to our game, our people, and our community.

Please click here to begin: [survey link]

Thank you for playing Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Regards,

[CSR guy].

No!  That’s a bad bioware!  Copious use of “unfortunately” does not compensate for failure to fix my issue!

It also drives me nuts when they say they’re “unable” to fix the issue.  No, someone over there is able to fix the issue.  They just don’t choose to allow the CSR personnel to do that and it isn’t worth the time to find the person who has the power to press the “skip to chapter 2” button.

As my toon is now level 70, I’m just going to start KOTET on another that actually needs to hit 70.  If I’m going to redo the chapter, might as well be for a purpose.

Up soon: why command crates are bullshit.

Poison All The Things

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First of all, leveling as an operative… well I thought it would suck since I’ve done that before, but Lethality is seriously fun.  Would you like a bomb?  Oh yes, here’s a nice green poison bomb.  What’s that?  Not enough poison?  No problem, let me explode the general vicinity with more poison.  BOMB BOMB BOMB.  For story mode, there’s nothing sweeter.

Chapter 1 has a very sad ending.  I finished up and happily logged off to do other things.  When I got back to it, I was at the beginning of the fucking chapter.  No medal for completing it.  No “pick up where you left off maybe not quite done.”  Nope, no credit whatsoever.  I put in a ticket to customer service, and the clock is ticking.  I’ll let you know when/if they answer.

Fortunately, my new guild (courtesy of old guild merger) was farming things and I ended up at level 70 via story mode raiding – I mean ops, totally ops – without having to repeat the chapter.  Unfortunately for me, my triumphant return to raiding involved the Underlurker.  There was much mockery at my expense.  “I hate you guys” was my mantra for the night.