tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post842682030403338337..comments2024-03-26T20:47:12.919+00:00Comments on Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog: To raid or not to raidShintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-31622446650449046532012-02-18T01:30:45.437+00:002012-02-18T01:30:45.437+00:00Lol, slightly tangential but still amusing... and ...Lol, slightly tangential but still amusing... and bonus points for the link being to a dubbed recording from Pro Sieben. :PShintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-23120029947056062252012-02-17T17:09:52.883+00:002012-02-17T17:09:52.883+00:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK2ABpZ4F3s
I thin...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK2ABpZ4F3s<br /><br />I think this is a good song about end-game raiding. Don't do it, don't get disappointed again! Let the avatars run free!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-6828491013536723432012-02-15T11:09:11.029+00:002012-02-15T11:09:11.029+00:00Thank you for the offer! I feel vaguely honoured, ...Thank you for the offer! I feel vaguely honoured, but I'm afraid I have to decline. I only used Mr Robot for WoW once, and then decided that I didn't care for playing my character that way. I don't actually like fiddling with talents, gear and so on, and the less I have to think about it the better.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-7886049088100538352012-02-14T20:59:07.539+00:002012-02-14T20:59:07.539+00:00Great post! Mr. Robot has been looking for several...Great post! Mr. Robot has been looking for several high-quality bloggers to review his new SWTOR tool. Being a WoW-player you might already have been a user of his WoW tool, which optimizes gear. Here's some screenshots of the upcoming SWTOR tool: http://blog.askmrrobot.com/2012/02/mr-robots-swtor-alpha-is-ready/<br /><br />Anyway, after reading this post, we think you can offer an interesting angle in a review of his new SWTOR tool. You see, his first tool is not going to offer optimization and end-game min/maxxing. Instead, it will be character builder where you can try out different builds, items, and gear sets, to help you discover your favorite setups. The only involvement Mr. Robot will have is providing smart filters to help you find gear that might interest you.<br /><br />In the future, we'll add in optimization. But at this point in the game, we feel that discovery is more important.<br /><br />Would you be interested in getting access to our alpha and writing a review? We'd also be available for an interview / Q&A if you'd like.<br /><br />You can reach me via email, vee [at] askmrrobot -dot- com.Vee Tegenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15807975370085451012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-79613490479204115422012-02-08T14:28:07.586+00:002012-02-08T14:28:07.586+00:00That's the thing, I don't know if the dest...That's the thing, I don't know if the destination would be the same. Yes, some things are undoubtedly unavoidable, such as a certain trend towards thinking more about optimisation, but that by itself was never really an issue for me (even if it takes away from the exploration experience after a while). The crucial questions for me are how things like progression and difficulty will be handled, and there are a lot of different ways of doing that.<br /><br />PS I don't think you can delete posts that were posted as Anonymous anyway. :PShintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-45614879820271387012012-02-08T14:22:06.361+00:002012-02-08T14:22:06.361+00:00I'm glad to hear that my post hit the right no...I'm glad to hear that my post hit the right notes for you. I did think that surely there must be other people feeling this way, but most of the posts I've seen myself either don't talk about raiding at all or the poster simply seems happy to jump right into it. Wish it was that easy for me!Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-51311085211990673122012-02-08T10:29:50.662+00:002012-02-08T10:29:50.662+00:00Great post. From one perspective, you should absol...Great post. From one perspective, you should absolutely not raid, and convince everyone you know not to either! Surely SWTOR's best chance of success is to be truly differentiated from WoW. I quit SWTOR after the free month for many reasons, but part of it was that I only have time for one endgame raiding MMO, and I (personally) didn't find the sandbox aspects or story aspects of SWTOR that compelling. In crude terms, i was happy to do my dungeoneering in WoW and get my story / exploration kicks from single player games. If the sandbox elements had been much better, I might have stayed. I would never have stayed for more raiding with a different skin.<br /><br />On the other hand, I can think of some reasons why raiding in SWTOR will be "better" than WoW raiding is today. It's a game in its infancy, with no add-ons. There will be no DBM, no Recount or Skada, and everyone will be "discovering" the raiding experience. Strange specs will be commonplace, gearing will not have defined iLvls required, and it'll be geared to execution rather than throughput. Plus I think in SWTOR you would have a fun guild also on a voyage of discovery. That will be self-feeding, and very different to a fun guild of equally nice people in WoW raiding that would (after 7 years) just naturally tend towards gear optimisation because the voyage of discovery stage has been completed. That'll inherently make it much more like Vanilla raiding, i.e. full of giggles and people falling off elevators.<br /><br />So, on balance, if I was in your shoes I would probably wish for a different endgame than raiding. But if for social reasons, the impulse to raid proved too strong, I still think you will enjoy it and find it much more like Vanilla raiding than Cata or WotLK raiding. But, y'know, I'd also expect that eventually raiding will be as tiresome in SWTOR as in any other game. At the end of the day, raiding is raiding. SWTOR is a different game than WoW, and quite rightly some people like it better. There are some aspects that are totally different to WoW. But in endgame raiding.... Even if the "journey" in SWTOR is more enjoyable today than what WoW has become today, the destination will (IMHO) be the same in the end.<br /><br />Cheerio,<br />Boxerdogs<br />PS I haven't deleted this post yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-33003148220838177902012-02-07T22:50:57.365+00:002012-02-07T22:50:57.365+00:00I'm at this point as well and boy is it someth...I'm at this point as well and boy is it something that's been nagging at the back of my mind. I really didn't even want to take a decision so I put it off, rather successfully, until I hit 50. And then I hit 50 and the prospect of raiding in SWTOR is both exciting and scary to me for many of the reasons you talk about. <br /><br />I've had my ups and downs in WoW with raiding but Firelands really killed my love and enjoyment of it. I'm so so so scared that history is going to repeat itself here. I mean, I haven't even joined a guild yet because I'm not sure if I should be looking for a guild that raids or not >.<<br /><br />Thanks for your timely post! =)Sayahttp://forcemocha.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com