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I think I got a handful alts on other servers I'm going to play. 12x xp bonus (for class mission only) and free skill training... would be a crime not to play at least some toons through the class mission only to try some variety instead of just the boring L55 grind with the old ones.

I consider the Mass Effects series "Lite" Entertainment, the kind get from a Steven Seagal movie (with all the "depth" of a such). Hence, not sure if there is a point of an indepth analysis. It basically boils down to, what did i like and what did i not like in each installment. Summary of memories for each game: ME1: Had the best combat and felt the least restrictive. Minigames sucked big time and companions were forgettable. Bioware still had this idea that their space opera games needed jailbait in the form of blue skinned alien children for people to have a crush on. ME2: Minigames still sucked big time and now the combat sucked too. Redeeming factor was more interesting companions and a larger variety in the mission types, even if the linearity of each mission would give a mathematician wet dreams. ME3: Combat still sucked, but at least most of the minigames were gone and only that hovercraft Thing remained. Yay!!! Companions were a mixed bag and the beginning of the game was such a turn off, that I needed three runups to finally stick with the game. Middle part was quite (i would even say "very") good and the ending is in hard competition with Kotor2 for the title of most messy video game ending. I did like the DLC's by the way, generally adding interesting things to the game (not the item dlc's, but those with companion/story elements). I would heck out ME4 if a such were to be released some day. PS: Dear Bioware, when can we have a patch for ME3 that lets us skip those horrible, useless "dream sequences" with the stupid child? I really wanted to let that Reaper just squish him right away and be rid of that completely unneccesary element.

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Start of old thread End of old thread "Im Westen nichts Neues." - Trench warfare continued. ... My inner sexist is going to very upset if they start campaigning for video games without chainmail bikinis But i guess that was not the line of the current discussion.

Played a handful of flashpoints before the Weekend, gearing up my assassin tank. It sort of covered the entire scale from friendly and pleasant to me "abusing" tank status to kick above mentioned attitude Problems ruining the run for everyone else. On the positive end of the scale (Hardmode CZ Meltdown), despite getting a lightweight (gear, not skill) healer, we got two DPS that were better geared than some countries intelligence Services. Top of the line equipment. Checking Achievements, I guessed they very much "knew their stuff" too. No matter who I would put guard on, the other guy would be able to rip aggro off me at will, so I pretty much said so in Chat. we got a good laugh at that Kind of luxury Problem and agreed they would either just dump aggro or pull boss to right place until I could reacquire it. Smooth run from start to end, guys were as good as i guessed. Same place, same difficulty, different day and pug Group. Had another low geared (mercenary) healer, but unlike the above, not a lot skill. Has a lot of Problems already at the sandstorm beast, despite us downing the boss after two and a half Generator, None of us has more than 10-15% health left (and various defensive measures and self healfs, med packs etc. on cooldown). Even worse with the Vrblter fight... i didnt even think it was possible to wipe on that one, yet we did several times. Explanation after second wipe "You kept LOS'ing me" (losing line of sight). Sure, we were all Standing in the middle of the effin Arena. Third time, he got eaten by adds, making a Point of running away from both where i could have taunted them and dodging the nice Orbital Bombardment that one the DPS guys fired off. That was by the way the first time I noticed him moving from the spot at all, way to go. Real killer was when one of the DPS lost Connection for 60 seconds and then reconnected. Instead of raising him, the "healer" decided to start a vote kick. Needless to say, kick didn't get any votes, the following vote kick sent the "healer" packing right away though. Some people should have stayed in bed that day Had some similar sad stories from a lowbie vanguard tank I'm leveling up, but in the level 35 range I'm just way more patient and tolerant with peoples antics. In Level 55 HM's, i do expect People to meet Minimum requirements in gear and in particular in knowing their role (not the fp mechanics, but their class and the role they queue for). Now off to practise with my new L55 Guardian tank on Oricon again. Solo runs of the heroics are quite educational in teaching you to get the most out of your available skills.

A couple of patches late though... from patch notes 2.9: •Nefra, Who Bars The Way has a new “Frustrated Howl” ability, and now deals damage to all players participating in her Dread Fortress encounter if she reaches 80% health and is unable to reach a target. I.e. rather than trying to prevent people from getting Nefra stuck, they made it a suicide move trying to do so.

Explain this to me. Explain this to me. They tried to fix it so many times and failed (its a very old bug). Last patch they had a fix too in the patch notes. It's exploiting a bug that means you can 3 man 16m NiM (any mode actually) Nefra without breaking a sweat, just a bit of patience, wait for him to die and scoop up the loot drops. No skill required. As said, probably old fashioned, but i would like to know when I clear HM (for now) content, it's because I've acquired the skill to do so.

(insert hysterical laughter here) Yeah, there really are some atrociously bad personalities (not even talking skill, just attitude) amongst the pug crowds. Quit the guild that my main characters were members of for a while. Call me old fashioned, but when the People I was supposed to run HM Ops with spend more time farming the NiM Nefra exploit and become way overgeared (not talking about trying it once or twice to satisfy curiosity, but farming it weekly on all their alts) rather than actually getting better at playing the game, you know you have a Problem. time to cut losses and see if it's possible to find people who prefer to learn and progress at the same time.

Just wondering how fast we can push through the moderator replacement program without it being too obvious that the ultimate goal is an all danish mod squad

I *think* bought a handful of games from a discount shelf, 3 old games of questionable quality (and never installed) for $10. "Real" purchase was... NWN2 Deluxe Edition (with maps, rings etc.), The Witcher (big box Edition with art books etc.) or Fallout 3 (for like $15 with all DLC's included). Cant really remember which one was last. Probably not NWN2. Edit: Yeah, I think NWN2 is somewhat older, got it somewhere around the same time i got STALKER (SoC) I think (the version with metal lunchbox and other goodies)

The most manly of men...

Don't get me started on what Bioware did with Kreia... that was beyond embarrassing. I would recommend that writer to start writing under a pseudonym Right... I remember reading something about that buff on Makeb. Sort of a Bolster "Light Version". I guess i should finish it at least once on Republic side. Edit: Since I enjoy playing healer on my operative, I started levelling up a sage and a sorcerer, both healers. The latter aptly named 'Malpractise'. I got the Rakghoul Event currency to get him the Diseased Varactyl (or was that infected?) next time the event comes around

I didnt check the one bedroom apartments to be honest, but something that is large enough for the container full furniture on its way, monthly rent is about 1200-1500 Euros depending on suburb.

Heh, I'm still technically homeless. Finding an Apartment or a townhouse in Berlin is harder by a Magnitude than in Australia. Biggest obstacle is not having a history (which you don't have for obvious reasons after 4 weeks in a new country). Ah well, some day I'll get a roof over my head and not live in the hotel special offer the day/week.

Had one of those for a number of years. Not 100% sure if it's the exact same model, but it Looks the same (was a Microsoft IntelliMouse according to the label on the backside) and had 5 Buttons. Best mouse I've ever had since starting to use a mouse on my Amiga 500 in the late 80's. Edit: My current Steelseries Sensei is nice too, but I will always remember that old MS Mouse fondly.

Just speculating, but maybe they have been burnt once too many by projects suffering from feature creep and deadlines being a "nice concept" rather than something to strive for?

CZ doesn't really have much in the way of Story. An intro dialogue and a debriefing after the Titans of Industry mission (which is just doing the 2 flashpoints, labs and meltdown one after the other). Have you done Makeb? It was mildly interesting the first time, but subsequent toons was just boring because it's the same story for all classes, only the factions are different. Several of my imperial toons have only done "enough" (the first little bit) to unlock the taxi to the mesa with Toborros Courtyard (on Republic side it's immediately accessible). Edit: Come to think of it, I haven't actually bothered finishing it yet on any Republic toons. The high mob density and immediate grind just turned me off at the time of release.

So, they want to turn us all into Girls

Mind you, i don't really follow the EU stuff other than the in-game references. I read three of the paperback books many years ago, found them a bit too silly, only one I liked was a blue skinned guy Name Thrawn or some such. After one about some species that sounded like a Monty Python skit, Neowumpingzooo.... (the Knights who formerly said Ni!) or some such, I dropped it. I doubt I'm the only one, hence the desire for something "recognizable"

I've been lurking a bit on the swtor forums the last couple of days, seeing the rumours and guesswork about what 3.0 is about. First off, I really hope the "Boss" at the end of the Rakata flashpoint is just a bad deflection on Biowares side. Some things are best left buried or risk getting silly. Come to think of it, where did Guss Tuno go? He always dreamt of being able to actually use that lightsaber of his As to the speculations based on previous CM releases and the emails sent out during and after the Manaan/Rakata fp pairs, people seem to be obsessed with a place called Yavin IV (I might remember the numeral wrong). Why??? No idea what the place is, it figured all of 15 seconds or so in Kotor1 as a distant Background on a space station, no game play actually took place there. Crossing fingers and hoping for something like DXun instead, if it has to be a moon involving the people vaguely referenced.

The Drama that goes on and on... and on

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My Nar Shaddaa place is starting to shape up a bit. Haven't had much time to Play (any game at all) the last month. A bit proud of resisting the urge to just reach the 100% completion asap. Not even halfway there, trying to put a bit of effort into it and not just fill all hooks with kolto Barrels and wall lamps. Started to gear up my new Level 55 marauder girl a bit. That is, currently wearing a bunch of Hand me downs from my dps jugg and some won greed rolls from hardmode flashpoints. Earning her own ultimate coms now though. On the other faction side, my smuggler, aptly named 'Gorth' is halfway through Level 54 and approaching 55 fast. Not putting too much effort into the gearing anymore though, holding my breath and see if the rumours of Level cap increases are true. If so, will that mean yet another gear Inflation (last one not even 6 months old or so)?

Trying my hand a bit on Risen 2 and Skyrim.

So, are the English planning to secede from the Union next?