Gorth

I thought D&D was dead?

...and somewhere, a voodoo priest has a little toy car with needles stuck in it.

Well, they are "repeatable", but you get no rewards whatsoever I think. Two of us ran the other two though the first heroics, despite having done it before, just so the 4 of use were at the same stage, ready to do the last one. I sort of need to learn them, as I got four more level 55's (as my sniper has now dinged in at level 55 too and started on the quest) that need to do them But as said, it was in the middle of the night (3 of us were from the Apac region) and we were all tired and bleary eyed, so not really thinking straight at the time. But then, we also need to do the seeker droid heroics on Ilum afterwards, so practicing our team work and coordination skills as a group is probably not a bad thing. Edit to add: Interesting Went and checked it on the official forums. More flashpoints can only be a good thing as can genuine expansions. Crossing fingers/knock on wood etc. that the longer cycle actually means more QA time. I used to buy the cartel packs (spent quite a lot of $'s), but refuse to spend a single dollar more on the new ones just released until I see them actually fixing existing bugs. Not just talking about the engine not handling robes clipping through everything (probably a middleware problem), but actual, glaring errors in modelling and mapping.

Had a lot of Irish Coffee over the last month (while on vacation). I just love that stuff. Coffee *and* whiskey in one nice package, what's there not to love about it

Time is indeed a weird thing. It's like some construct added to the universe to bring order, so everything doesn't happen at once. A bit like some math things that can't really be explained, only accepted or understood on an intuitive level. E.g. you can halve the distance between two points an infinite number of times. Yet, that would mean the distance between those two points should be infinitely long, yet it isn't. Some things just doesn't make sense (other than to philosophers, real and self proclaimed, who could probably flame a forum thread to death arguing over semantics and obscure principles).

I wish they had just done something like X-Wing vs. Tie-Fighter. I haven't tried it beyond that one, initial game and it wasn't my cup of tea, so no idea what damage gunships is doing to the game. Almost finished the binocular (shrouds last stand) last night We got as far as the puzzle after the fight with the controller droid and security systems disabled. Found the panels inside the conveyor, the shielded panel above door to lift and the one inside the reactor (which you can vent the gas from for 30 seconds). We couldn't get the order of button pushing quite right though. I suspect the guy at the console has to push first the green button (gas), then one guy moves into reactor and we have to do 4 things simultaneously. We just couldn't get it right I think what was missing was pushing the red button back at the console in hindsight. One of the guys had generated enough aggro at home and had to do a boss fight with his missus, so we had to call it quits ofr the night. Just as well as it was 2:30am at the time. Ah well, next time...

As the old saying goes: Don't throw rocks if you live in a... house! Boulder smashes through Italian farm Nobody was injured. More pictures in BBC story, including the second rock that almost flattened the main house (not visible from this angle).

Made some good friends on the Imperial side over time, so doing things like Oricon and CZ (without using groupfinder for the FP's) is a breeze. Things doesn't look that rosy for my Republic toons though *sigh*. Gave up trying to find a group for my trooper to do the last heroic on Oricon and just did it all by himself. Was surprisingly easy actually, as soon as you can find a "sniping" position. No, he's not a sniper, but he can target a single commander and engage without mobs interfering. Rinse and repeat 3 times. Got the last bit of armour (helmet), took out the medic mods and gave them to Elara. I feel less confident in my smuggler girl trying to repeat that, as she just doesn't have the staying power in prolonged fights against guys who shoot back (a lot). For my main (Powertech tank), I finished buying Basic Commendation gear for Mako and not sure what to use those coms for now. So, since I've got field respec, I went and bought a second armour set. Plan on putting mods into it as I keep getting basic coms every now and then. This armour ('TT-17 Hydra', 7 pieces) is going to be geared towards DPS. Then I can change on the fly, both specs and gear on a need basis.

From the completely irrelevant trivia department: You can get 10 crystals out of each corpse from the ghost on Ilum (if you have at least 10 glasses of shock frozen water in your inventory). Tried it with a character loaded up with 17 glasses of water and could generate 10 crystals from the corpse. Next test is going to involve distributing water to other team members and see if I can make 20, 30, 40 etc. crystals at a time. I better go moisture hunting soon.

I asked myself the same question about a month ago. Decided that I didn't. It wasn't that it completely broke windows gadgets (I can easily live without the little weather gadget), but it broke some other applications that used explorer for file navigation and so it got tossed out again. I noticed that my workplace also adamantly refuses to let it on any corporate PC.

Yeah, my Artifice guy is sort of the odd fish there, since I would like all the classic coloured +41 crystal schematics for him. I like them better than all the psychedelic experiments released in the cartel market. Call me a traditionalist Both crafting and the whole commendation system could use a rewrite/fixing as the gap between level 1-50 and 55 is noticeable. It feels like playing one game up to level 50 and then there is this odd "break" (not sure how to describe it properly) when playing level 51-55 where most of the stuff you've gathered so far becomes obsolete. Only thing I would use classic commendations for other than the above would be if I was short on resources to gear up a few of the less often used companions. The problems with crafting... too many to list really. Mostly summarised as "useless" except for the token gestures of letting people create augments and augment kits.

How about some HM Flashpoints (the level 50 ones)? Gives you plenty of XP and some classic coms for upgrading gear. Also, the Black Hole on Corellia is a good source of xp/coms. When reaching level 53, you can do the GSI missions (need to pick up the macrobinocular and seeker droid missions on fleet to start on the GSI stuff) for lots of basic coms (the level above classic coms) and XP. Heroics space missions can be done from level 50 and gives basic coms, xp and credits. edit: I think you can also start on Makeb at level 50. When reaching level 55, there is Oricon, CZ-198 and level 55 HM flashpoints to do Edit2: There is also Section X, but I can't remember from what level you can do that, nor if it's still "sold separately" or part of the main game now.

The legacy armour work around doesn't work for crystal schematics Don't really mind Quesh as it's generally too short to get boring. I think the WB there is bugged though. I helped kill it with my Sith Sorcerer just before Christmas, but didn't get credited in my achievement list. And it was such a fun fight when you are only level forty something (a level 55 Juggernaut was doing the lions share of the fighting, I just tagged along in the group, zapping it and doing some "off healing")... it did count for my weekly though. Not that I run around killing WB's left and right at those levels.

It could also just be confusing the objectification as used in social philosophy with the very human tendency to categorize everything. E.g. thinking of a person as a "blonde", the guy with the weird moustache or "that obnoxious one" (rather than thinking of a person as employee #712, the cleaner, Star Trek redshirts etc.). The former (IMHO) being a way of remembering people who are otherwise indistinct to us, the latter a true regarding of someone as an "object".

I think I can relate to most of these points. Except possibly not giving a damn about the entertainment industry these days. Bands come and go, one hit wonders come and go, movies gets advertised and I don't remember the name (much less watching anything, not even youtube of them). I guess there really is something about the age thing. Maybe it's the comfort of familiarity that I return to the "oldies" when listening to music or the rare occasion where I can sit through an entire movie on the DVD player. Point in case, I keep hearing *about* this Biber guy, but I don't think I've ever heard *him*. Same thing about this young girl, what's her name that keep ending up in court with drug/alcohol issues. It's almost like a completely alien world to me.

I believe it is massless, and weight is dependant on mass, so I don't believe so. I may br wrong. Wasn't there supposed to be some kind of connection between mass and energy?

First day back at work since before Christmas. Catching up on few hundred unread emails...

Back after almost a month of absence. Cursing the injustice of classic commendations. One character has 500+ coms and nothing to use them for. Another character could easily use them all, but has to do all the grind now to get the artifice schematics I want for him Dear Bioware, How about letting stuff purchased with Classic Commendations be bound to legacy? Best regards, Gorth. PS: Managed to catch a bit of the Rakghoul event. Too similar to the Gree thing in structure to feel "new". Nice tunnels though and the infections are a bit funny to watch on Alderaan

Nah, it simply slowly approaches, people chatting on the crawler while waiting and when it's getting close it completely vanishes without a trace, leaving everyone muttering stuff like wth and wtf in less polite terms Finished the first Heroics for the Binocular mission... car jumping was fun. Took us a bit to work out why the end boss kept regenerating. One of those facepalm moments when we realised the healing droid hiding behind him, out of sight was the one doing it. Spread out a bit so we could look around him and interrupt it when it started to heal him to full again. Then we started on the second (last?) heroics, but it was getting late and after figuring out the mines and the turrets, we kept wiping against the droids, so had to call it a day eventually. We didn't know if they were endless or eventually would end respawning, but without a healer in the team, we probably were a bit challenged (two tanks and two dps'). Ah well, only one heroics to go, will get there eventually. This damn well better be worth it.

I tried using my speeder halfway to the cron and back to the starting point... no luck, no balloon to see anywhere The other two guys who had waited for it the second time also gave up in disgust and moved along. Ah well, I got a few days to play just after New Year and before going away on RL travels.

Got my third toon through the process too. Honestly can't be bothered with a 4th looks like the lockout is timed so you can do it exactly twice before the event goes away (and I missed out on this the first week, collecting enough rep to even get admitted to the fun bits). Hmm, is it just me or is the Jawa balloon bugged? Tried twice in 3 days with 2 different toons to board it. When it's 50 meters (rough guess) from arriving at the sand crawler it just *puff* disappears. Nowhere to be seen >_

Since I've got some time off between the two holidays here, I've been indulging myself to the game 24/7 for a few days. Managed to also get my trooper in on 16 man Xenoanalyst II (which was quite a bit easier than 8 man actually). SM only though, I'm not a masochist. I wonder if I can squeeze my smuggler girl through the process too before it's over. I may not be able to buy any of the stuff I want this time around (I should have been doing two ops per toon then, but can't because of the lockout), but I should have a good starting position when the event gets around again eventually.

Happened to me last night taking the garbage out. Head and upper body just entangled in a sticky web, that some industrious spider had put up in the evening.

Got a slight taste of the Gree event. A nice diversion from the usual grind. Only one daily rubs me the wrong way and that's because it feels like Oricon/Makeb. Too small area with way to high respawn rate to accommodate the large number of players. You often end up fighting the same mob more than once during boss fight because they respawn again... and again... and again... Maxed out in my weekly Gree rep and unlocked a few extra missions. Ran around the galaxy and found all relays. Wasn't too hard. Grand total of 4 grey helixes so far. Still a long, long way to go before getting that lightsaber and sniper rifle I would like

I noticed that at the vendor store... what *is* isotope-5 used for (too lazy to google)?