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lic has a perfect introduction to an instance with the esseles a 2 person flashpoint designed for l10 12 no other players in the area no competition to complete a heroic 2 first and we ve got plenty of time to finish without rushing the esseles has the bonus of being one of the best of the old republic flashpoints for story so i knew that d keep them attracted as well so i pulled out the old man reacquainted myself with how to play a scoundrel aka get up in people s grill and blast them from behind with a shotgun scattergun and sauntered off to take a trip to coruscant aboard the esseles my oldest had the first run and to be honest that was the smoothest of the bunch i told her straight up to let me maneuver into position first and then backblast to start the fight typically i d end up taking out a regular enemy leaving corso to round up the strong and or elites for us to attack afterward while the fighting went well enough i had to explain the tor method of choosing who gets to speak in a cutscene there was also the little matter of me playing the old man as more a devil may care type than my original gunslinger so i got to see some wording out of him that i ordinarily wouldn t ever see out of dalaak i heard a daa aad from upstairs more than once but i shrugged it off but there was one problem the esseles crashes at the end on our desktop computer ironically enough not the laptop so i was able to restart swtor and get back into the flashpoint before it ended but still it was quite annoying next came my son and he was just as wisecracking as i was but he reserved it more for the group chat he was a bit overeager at times but luckily it wasn t too big of a problem but my youngest i told her at the beginning to let me lead i told her that during the flashpoint too several times in fact she s ten and i know she can read but she still kept running ahead running the wrong way running into a boss fight before we cleared out the trash and in general acting more like someone half her age finally her behavior caught up with her she ran off the edge of a platform and disappeared into space i said a silent prayer of thanks that swtor flashpoints still let you do that whereas you re hard pressed to do that in a wow instance now i said as she respawned will you cut it out oops she replied if you pull stuff like this in a regular instance people will let you die to teach you a lesson it s called you yank it you tank it and the real tank would get really pissed off at you for this behave better and let the person who has been here before do the leading after the lecture she shaped up i d rather she get the lesson from me than finding herself vote kicked or being the reason for a wipe she also learned that as a gunslinger her abilities are best when behind cover whereas my scoundrel is built to get in the baddies faces she saw me at work and tried to imitate it but i explained that her best abilities like the charged bolts bonuses and other assorted goodies she gets in her talent tree are made for long distance by comparison these runs ended better than the hammer station run i had the other day where the commando healer didn t heal and the tank would rush in before i could cc a droid by the time the healer began to get the hang of things the tank decided we weren t going to live through the first boss and dropped group in spite of my encouragement the healer dropped too and then after that so did the other dps these people were too willing to throw in the towel rather than try the hard work of actually making it through an instance slowly grinding out a victory maybe they could have taken a few lessons from some kids my rules i get to control the mmo accounts lotro and tor that way and i also keep track of any activity within the toons tor has each person select an action and then a random virtual dice roll determines who gets to speak i decided to have the old man play dumb with beryl toward the end of the class questline on taris kind of unusual for a guy who flirted with grand master satele shan in the closing cutscene to the athiss flashpoint but i ve decided that i want him to pursue a romance with one of the female companions later so i want to minimize any repercussions later sometimes it helps having done the smuggler class story before nobody had the ability to pick up the canisters so he decided he d rather drop instead of actually you know trying posted by redbeard at 10 23 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family flashpoints swtor monday august 5 2013 blizzard announces more info on connected realms which are sounding exactly like server merges they re just not saying that because well saying world of warcraft to perform server merges is a way of getting a lot of negative press patch 5 4 feature preview connected realms to be honest it sounds more like what has been implemented for the secret world and is being implemented for age of conan than anything else still they re server merges no way around it i ve been perusing some online listings of active accounts on servers i still wonder how they manage that and i ve found that ysera has dropped quite a bit over the past few years down to something like 1 4 the size of area 52 matching what i ve noticed in game i do wonder how this is going to work long term and whether a horde heavy realm will be matched up with an alliance heavy realm to balance things out but the merges have begun just don t call them that posted by redbeard at 12 20 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels wow saturday august 3 2013 like the corners of my mind i was doing a little cleanup on the blog tonight when i came across a couple of things i knew were coming but still were a punch in the gut the domains for the pink pigtail inn and tankingtips com were gone going through the list voss sword and board and cynwise s posterous field notes have also vanished into the same ether that claimed tam s righteous orbs and lara s root and branch still the ppi especially was the great watering hole that not only had larisa s posts but also had the monster mess of a blogroll that people could use as a master reading list i know i used to use ppi to find new blogs to read and i could trace a big spike in pc s readership to the week when larisa added us to her blogroll even up to a year after larisa stopped posting at ppi we d see more people following a link from there to our blog than just about anywhere else now outside of rades huge blogroll there s pretty much hugh at the mmo melting pot keeping the blogroll flame alive wow insider doesn t bother with posting interesting blog links anymore and truth be told i ve not really ventured over to wi in quite a while change is the only constant in the blogging world keeping up a blogging schedule is not an easy task and real life has a way of interfering with both blogging and game playing when we started pc almost four years ago i had no idea what i was getting into if i did i might not have committed to it yet at the same time i d not have traded the experience for the world i ve met fellow bloggers around the world whom i m happy to call friend and the schedule of writing a blog has pushed me and my writing in directions i didn t think i could go the mmo blogosphere can be sniping and backbiting at times but we all have the same interest at heart a love of the weird wonderful worlds that inhabit a massively multiplayer online rpg this blog while ostensibly about all sorts of games really began as a wow blog and it remained that way for well over two years with occasional forays into other mmos however as i ve moved from one dominant mmo wow to several mmos the blog s feel has changed to reflect that i suppose that going forward you can expect more change but what it will entail i don t really know i m not the gamer that some people are i don t have the experience in electronic gaming that spinks has for example or the endgame experience that many other mmo bloggers have while i realize his hiatus was for medical reasons i still miss cynwise s pvp posts because compared to the master i m merely playing at pvp there are others who write great fiction like rades or akabeko the red cow and many others whose humor and wit bring cheer to an otherwise dreary morning reading work e mail however it is the thoughtful blog posts the ones where people bare a little of their souls that i cherish the most it s the equivalent of sitting out on a porch with a beer or two shooting the bull while the sun goes down and the fireflies dance in the yard but i hope that as the blogosphere changes one thing remains constant the camaraderie of the bloggers themselves now if you ll excuse me i ve got a beer that s getting warm the pink pigtail inn goes to another blog entirely now and the domain for tankingtips com has completely vanished now if that will only translate into getting a novel written to completion posted by redbeard at 12 09 am 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging musings thursday august 1 2013 the stuff of nightmares have you ever had the dream where you re trying to outrun something a train a car or usain bolt but you feel like your feet are made of lead you re trying desperately to get around a corner before you get run over and you can feel the rumble of the steam engine in your bones as that train gets closer closer closer and then you wake up your heart pounding in your chest yeah i ve had that dream a lot recently and it involves deepwind gorge on the face of it deepwind gorge is a lot like arathi basin and battle of gilneas with the additional part of having to capture the other faction s gold the bg is more compact than either ab by a lot or bog marginally so but the line of sight issues make it seem larger than it is but the biggest differences between the prior two and dg are the locations of the respawning points each faction s home base that alone changes the dynamics of the bg because if you re assaulting a mine and you can kill off another faction s toon that pretty much guarantees that toon will be gone for more than twice the normal amount of time it would take to run back from a localized spawning point we ve all been in the situation where you re in ab assaulting the gold mine and you kill off a toon just to see it make a reappearance from the gm spawning point 10 seconds later that won t happen in dg but what the respawn points also do is make rogues biggest advantage stealth their biggest weakness no matter how fast a rogue can run while stealthed except for a few short bursts they can t move fast enough to get back to a base in peril you are trying to get back as quickly as you can or to get anywhere as quickly as you can and you feel like your feet are in mud there is an option of course which is to summon your mount and ride back but for a class that s bringing up the bottom in terms of survivability in bgs that s akin to jumping up and down and yelling free hks to ensure survivability you have to ride in a pack and that isn t playing to a rogue s strength either rogues are at their best when they can strike when you least expect it they don t have the plate or even the mail of other melee classes and they don t have either tanking or healing capabilities they also don t have a seemingly neverending font of mana either what all this means is that a rogue s best bet while playing deepwind gorge is to either play close to your home base defending the gold or spending time as part of a bigger effort solo work is a risky business for a rogue in general and solo work in dg is potentially very nasty indeed oh and try not to have too many nightmares i once hid in icewing bunker with another rogue watching a mage spam arcane explosion and seeing the mage s supply of mana creep downward like a snail they need to nerf that i whispered there s absolutely no downside to spamming that for minutes at a time yeah the other rogue replied that and a lock s hellfire and rain of fire when a lock can dump rain of fire on the run posted by redbeard at 1 14 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels battlegrounds mists of pandaria wow newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred waiting room 4 days ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 6 days ago twisted nether blogcast moving to youtube episodes 346 348 3 months ago battle bards the final refrain 1 year ago ootinicast a star wars the old republic swtor podcast ootinicast episode 503 1 year ago mmo blogroll massively overpowered city of heroes celebrates its 22nd birthday with an anniversary 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