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Njessi is a jerk

Njessi: oh hey do you have any strength implant recipes? Alexx: Umm Not sure I could look Njessi: ok implants are the weakest part of my gear so i probably should get on that (yech) Alexx: Implants are gross Like … Continue reading

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Under the wire

My guildmate, Kris, recently wrote about SWTOR in review, covering the events that have occurred over the past three months. She invited everyone to contribute their own recap of their first three months in game and since I’m usually scrounging … Continue reading

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Snark isn’t dead weight

In my several years of gaming and raiding, I have often tried to find myself in a raid team that isn’t carrying any dead weight. But it never quite seemed to happen. That team had a tank who didn’t use … Continue reading

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Linear questing and will SWTOR make it work?

This is cross-posted from my guild’s blog, snarkside.com  Back when Cataclysm was relatively new and people were leveling to 85, WoW started to draw a lot of criticism from the blogging community for being too linear. Between the heavy use … Continue reading

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False Urgency

Here’s the situation. There’s an insane Sith attacking the local populace in a nearby town and the local military is too busy trying not to get slaughtered on another battlefield to do anything to help out the civilians. So we … Continue reading

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Role Playing

One thing that I think will immediately strike anyone who plays swtor is the way they’ve chosen to incorporate story into questing. Story is everywhere and whether it’s through simply watching a cut scene to receive the details of your … Continue reading

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Beta field test results

Looks like I was a big, fat failure in posting anything since my first post. However! I finally got into the same weekend beta that everyone else got into and so I now have some things to say about the … Continue reading

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Expectations

The big buzz around the internet today is that the release date for Star Wars: The Old Republic has been announced and we all know we have just under three months of waiting before we can dive in. I’ve been … Continue reading

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