tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post3329028675504352993..comments2024-03-26T20:47:12.919+00:00Comments on Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog: Flashpoint Levelling: Russians and RerunsShintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-53071561580680812732015-12-07T04:08:22.180+00:002015-12-07T04:08:22.180+00:00Ah, Cademimu, my old friend.
I still like Athiss ...Ah, Cademimu, my old friend.<br /><br />I still like Athiss and Mandos better, but Cademimu is one of my favorites.Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-6625482519047038202015-12-05T21:34:51.814+00:002015-12-05T21:34:51.814+00:00Have to admit that doesn't ring a bell. :) Tha...Have to admit that doesn't ring a bell. :) That doesn't necessarily mean that it's not true though - I didn't follow the dev updates that closely early on.<br /><br />I did remember that about Lost Island, because it was odd how it was in a category of its own. At the time we always figured that they were going to expand on the concept of flashpoint tiers, but then the change of trajectory towards F2P changed everything.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-71754715123344514262015-12-05T21:11:07.966+00:002015-12-05T21:11:07.966+00:00It's been a long time and a cursory Google sea...It's been a long time and a cursory Google search didn't show any results,so I'm probably just having a senior moment. -.-<br /><br />I seemed to remember a gold post saying that Bioware altering the percentage chances for certain particular flashpoints to pop (assuming everyone was queuing for all) as a sort of 'highlight option' based on the time of day. I think the intent was to let people see the rarer flashpoints via group finder than the ones everyone had already run ad nauseum.<br /><br />That said, Battle of Ilum soon dominated (on my server) once all of those Sentinels/Marauders discovered that the Columi offhand hilt that dropped in there could be swapped over to their main hand. They would run a random once for the rewards, then just farm BoI for that offhand.<br /><br />All of this is from when Group Finder was first released so it may have been long since removed, though it wouldn't surprise me that this sort of code still is in there.<br /><br />On a positive note, I did see the initial GF post and was surprised to learn that only Lost Island was a Tier 2 flashpoint. Kaon was originally a Tier 1 FP. I guess I've had those two linked in my mind for so long because of story reasons that I had forgotten they weren't considered the same difficulty.Pallaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01052537793722183657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-19182973385835272732015-12-05T18:27:46.438+00:002015-12-05T18:27:46.438+00:00Not sure what you mean with your first point... ti...Not sure what you mean with your first point... time of day has always mattered because it influences how many players are available, but I don't recall anything inherent to the system affecting the rate of pops.<br /><br />I did wonder initially whether my randoms might be skewed by people queueing for specific flashpoint, but I don't really see a reason why people would select Cademimu above all others for example, so I don't think that's it.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-83495607460469811572015-12-05T14:39:33.340+00:002015-12-05T14:39:33.340+00:00I vaguely remember that at one time certain flashp...I vaguely remember that at one time certain flashpoints were more likely to pop depending on the time of day. Sort of a blue-light special for flashpoints. Thinking about it, I imagine that is likely to be a long gone feature with all of the changes to create the tacticals. <br /><br />Given you can select which flashpoints you want to run I wouldn't be surprised if you're getting folks queueing up for specific ones while you probably have all of them selected.<br /><br />This is an area where cross-server would really be nice as a larger queue population would give them a chance to make the randomness a bit more uniform. (As in, it is random where you start and what you get next, but the system keeps trying to give you a new one until you've done all of the existing ones.)Pallaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01052537793722183657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-443341093689859122015-12-05T13:05:56.890+00:002015-12-05T13:05:56.890+00:00I obviously enjoy running instances with friends a...I obviously enjoy running instances with friends and guildies too, but to me it's also fun to just pug things sometimes to expose myself to different play styles and meet different people. It does require me to feel comfortable with the game though, so that I can remain calm and confident even when things go wrong (and with pugs, it's pretty much unavoidable that sometimes they will).<br /><br />If pugs are consistently unenjoyable in a game, that's actually a big turn-off for me, because I don't like being limited to <i>only</i> doing things with friends and guildies. I strongly felt this in WoW the last time I tried it, when even in a "nice" dungeon group, people just expected such an insane (to me) speed that it sucked all the fun out of it for me.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-68367322509990835882015-12-05T12:32:05.192+00:002015-12-05T12:32:05.192+00:00Oh we did Cademimu and Red Reaper last night as a ...Oh we did Cademimu and Red Reaper last night as a pre-made four. I have to say I much prefer playing with friends over any pugging, the need for pugging story instances constantly in FFXIV was a big turnoff in the end (they have the same spacebar warriors there too).<br /><br />Not that I've seen it before but dungeon is donjon in French and possibly Spanish too, never seen the dj abbreviation though.<br /><br />I did run Cademimu on my first leveling stint after launch back when I was in a guild, I didn't remember all that much though. Punting stuff off platforms was entirely too much fun with force push, only remembered this about half-way through after killing so many gold-silver droids the hard-way!<br /><br />Both instances were fun runs though. Telwynhttp://gamingsf.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com