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I'd be interested in getting into raiding, although I'd need to really work my rear end off (not just on the Double XP weekend) to get something to the appropriate levels. I do have a Sorc that I'm working up on JC at the moment (and need to get into TNG), although based on What Super3 said below healing is pretty much covered. I was never very good at playing a tank in WoW (or even trying to play one in SWToR), but I could work up a DPS if that's what's needed. (Also, is anyone online currently that could invite me into TNG?)
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gently caress me dead, but the lag today is horrendous. Normally I can get about a 180ms ping (which from Australia to the East Coast servers isn't too shabby), but today I'm lucky if it's less than 500ms... causing the connection to drop every 20 minutes or so. [Edit:] Just ran a speedtest comparison to a couple of servers based in Ashton VA (where the SWToR East Coast servers are allegedly located). Pings are between 240-265ms, yet I'm getting double that in-game.... Same tests to Santa Clara (alleged home of the West Coast servers) is 180-190ms. In-game to Harbinger server my ping is around 195ms. Yay. OzCavalier fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Apr 12, 2014 |
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Apr 12, 2014 07:27
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Cross-Section posted:Not to mention complete disintegration. Mr Wikstroem posted:That gif clearly shows the Endar Spire being blown away [OzCavalier sez: Emphasis mine] from the escape pod at speeds faster than the eye can see. and, as such, in the OPPOSITE direction to the planet's surface.... which again raises the question, how the gently caress did the Endar Spire end up crashed on the surface of Taris? Continuity spergs itt....
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May 18, 2014 05:15
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Nipponophile posted:Thanks to everyone who came along, I hope y'all got something out of the experience. As an observer (I was sitting in TS listening whilst grinding levels) I'd just like to remind you to put 'Guard' on before pulling... 
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May 23, 2014 04:27
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HiveCommander posted:There's never anyone on during my timezone If it's the Aussie daytime timezone, look for my Sorc (Rheranni). I'm about a quarter into lvl 38 and just started on Hoth (oh God, kill me now...) I'm often around - unless my work collegues decide to go on holiday/get sick en masse, in which case I get called in at the last minute to fill in... (oh God kill me now...)
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May 23, 2014 07:26
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Blacktooth posted:Are you guys playing Imp or Pub? I usually get home around 2-3 Central time. Primarily Imp here, but I do have a Pub alt I'm (slowly) levelling
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May 23, 2014 09:20
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Ainsley McTree posted:Yeah, transferring would be your best bet. I don't think we really have the numbers to support a guild on more than one server (unless it's for a good reason like "we all live on literally the other side of the planet from you,") not if you want to raid with it, anyway. And even then we Aussies have all migrated to JC simply because that's where the rest of the goons are (even if we do get shittier pings to JC compared to the other servers).. tl;dr Just pay the  and transfer
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May 25, 2014 01:48
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Orgophlax posted:How does unlocking species work? The character creation screen says a level 10 character is requires, but the legacy screen says 50? IIRC, you need to create a Legacy (which is unlocked at level 10) before you can access the Legacy unlocks for purchasing most species otherwise you need a level 50 character of that race to unlock it for free. Most races cost 1.5million credits or 600 Cartel coins (except Cathar, who are only available with cartel Coins and are thus available account wide, not Legacy [server] specific).
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May 25, 2014 03:49
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Medullah posted:HAha dude don't show up if you don't want to. Ain't a big deal. Just realize it's -200 sDKP. (Space DKP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvIYRrgZ04 (Sorry, I am a terrible goon  )
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May 30, 2014 00:54
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Speaking of people in chat, even in the off hours.. Does nobody use the TNG TeamSpeak server outside of Oedzi-led raids? As much as I enjoy listening to Oedzi leading other goons in raid shenanigans, it gets awfully lonely sitting in TS all by myself when the raid ends, or anytime outside of raiding hours really... tl;dr Won't people join me on Teamspeak so I can pretend I'm in a real guild, and not playing an MMO in single-player mode.. 
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Jun 4, 2014 10:50
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Hulk Smash! posted:Attention altaholics; additional character slot on sale. 60cc each. If only that allowed subscribers to have more than 12 slots (*has already fallen for that one before*)
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Jun 8, 2014 00:15
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KaneTW posted:I have 13 slots. Bedurndurn posted:As a subscriber, I now have 22 slots. That seems to be the limit though and it won't let me use any more extra slot items. da fuq? I put in a ticket when I did it and got told "Accounts are only allowed 12 slots maximum" by GM M0-T0... ...Don't tell me that fucker has hosed up yet another one of my tickets.... 
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Jun 8, 2014 00:20
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motherfuckingpieceoffuckingshitfuckingcuntbrainedfucking.... Looks like another phone call to BioWare support to complain about M0-T0 being an incompetant piece of poo poo and to get them to reverse another one of his hosed-up, dick-brained, completely-opposite-to-the-policy decisions.... <----------- [Edit:] Picture me doing what my aavatar (left) is doing right now...
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Jun 8, 2014 00:23
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Nipponophile posted:How can you even spend 5.5 million? That guy must've just bought stacks of Kingpin's tokens for straight credits. I guess that might be understandable if you have literally no outside information about how the odds work, but then why are you dumping millions of credits into something you don't understand? This is the very principle that Las Vegas (or any casino anywhere in the world really) operates. BioWare is just copying the online casinos in an MMO... and goons are loving every drop of pubbie tears that it is creating.
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Jun 14, 2014 00:49
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Ok, so after the discussion the other week about additional character slots (beyond the normal 12) I purchased a token during the sale event and applied it. Bingo! 13 slots. So I submitted a ticket to BioWare about my problem (purchased an additional character slot token last year, used it, no extra slot was applied, etc). The CSR (Stephen) who got my ticket looked into it and sent me a new token, which I used, and ta-da - new character slot totalling 14. Woo-hoo! Or so I thought..... The next day I logged on, and I was back to only 13 slots again.. the new slot had disappeared! So I sent a new ticket, referenceing the old one. Again, the CSR (Eugene) looked into it, agreed that something had gone wrong, and refunded the token. So I just used that new token, got the little animation thingy which seemingly indicates it worked correctly. However, not trusting the system, I logged out and logged straight back in - still only 13 slots. So, Bug report time, or does this game just really, really hate me??
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Jun 17, 2014 03:11
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Unctuous Cretin posted:Is there a JC Republic-side guild? Yes. What name and I'll jump over to Pub and try to invite now. [Edit:] (30 mins later) or... maybe not. OzCavalier fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Jun 17, 2014 04:26
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So finally finished the Inquisitor storyline.. and I'm still only halfway through level 52. Now to grind Illum and Makeb, and starting to look for some decent pre-raid gear (both DPS and Heal)... ...oh and decide how I want to end the weird time-share going on in Khem's body by helping Zash take full control, or support Khem in ditching the witch.... decisions, decisions....
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Jun 29, 2014 11:08
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Medullah posted:So when are we getting our "cut open taun taun and sleep inside it" rest item? JediBlutarsky posted:I want that. Me too. Especially on Hoth and Illum where I can use it to stay Luke-warm... (I am a terrible goon )
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Jun 30, 2014 01:16
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Medullah posted:I mentioned to Oz that I would run them through Oricon tonight, so if any fresh 55s need to run through (or want to do dailies), I'll try to log on around 8pm Eastern. I'm not sure what time that is in criminal penal colony time. Thanks to Medullah, Desht, and JediBlutarsky for running a completely clueless n00b (me) through Oricon. I may not have known wtf I was doing and got lost a few times, but they took the time to show me what not to do (which I did frequently anyway) and had the patience to deal with me loving up (constantly it felt to me). Much, much respect to you three. I've got my 5 pieces of Oricon Purps now, as well as a butt-load of Comms etc from my own grinding yesterday, and I am looking forward to raiding with goons soon.. or at least as soon as I figure out how not to suck so badly.
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Jul 3, 2014 02:54
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Missed tonight's raid (drat work ) which is a shame because I've never done Kragga's Palace before... will keep grinding Comms for gear and look forward to Sunday night's (US Time) raid.
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Jul 4, 2014 05:32
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After umming-and-ahhing over starting a new tank character during Double XP week, I decided to transfer a 55 Jugg I had sitting idle on another server... now to set myself up with Oricon etc for that one too and show that not only do I suck as DPS in a raid, but I can suck at tanking too.
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Jul 4, 2014 13:13
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Medullah posted:Oz I just logged on to send you the implants I made for Rheranni but I apparently mailed them off last night in my blackout drunk state. Let me know if you didn't get them. An earpice and two implants. All good 
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Jul 4, 2014 23:44
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raffie posted:Who was it that got all pissed about the HK-47 quest? I saw someone (don't recall who) in Guild chat commenting on how hard it was to find the compinet that's on Hoth, but don't recall them being overly pissy about it...
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Jul 5, 2014 08:12
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Beartaco posted:Hey I reinstalled this game after like a year and a half to finish the story but I'm stuck on a boss. I'm playing as a Sith Marauder, what's the best build for doing single player stuff? Also I only ever used Jaesa who seems terrible as a companion to a dps class so all my other guys are underequipped. Outside of sinking more money into stims and health packs and trying again and again until I get stuck on the next boss what can I do? Is there anywhere I can go to get some new equipment for me and some companions? Dulfy seems to be the go to site for builds and other info. Try this for a Marauder: http://dulfy.net/2014/02/03/swtor-marauder-dps-class-guide/ Also, if you're on Jedi Covenant get into That's No Goon and don't be afraid to ask for help. It worked for me.
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Well since I won't be able to make it Sunday (US Time) for the pick-up raid because my power will be out for the day while they do some upgrades to the local supply or some poo poo, I'll make sure to be around to make up numbers (and provide someone for people to blame when the raid wipes).
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Jul 10, 2014 14:19
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So... I make it about 8.25pm Anyone raiding?
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Jul 11, 2014 01:26
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Medullah posted:Nah that fight is the worst. So much going on, interrupt you HAVE to hit, and we were cursed with a first time healer (who did a pretty good job of trying!) and a healer who hates healing, so we were doomed from the start. I was the first time healer (re-specc'd from my DPS Sorc), and I managed to keep my half of the raid alive....  I just kept forgetting to look at my own status and cleanse the DoTs off myself and keep my own health up, thus causing the wipes... Nipponophile posted:Also, thanks to everyone who showed up last night. I hadn't healed anything since I leveled my Republic characters, which has been a while now. Fights like Draxus just take a lot of practice and experience with seeing what actually happens before things click. Keep showing up, and we'll keep running stuff. That's the only way to get the gear and practice you'll need. I don't know about anyone else, but I had fun regardless of the wipes. I haven't done end-game raids since vanilla WoW (yay for 40-man Molten Core) and after last night, I'm hooked again.
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Jul 13, 2014 07:52
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Power is finally back on here (about an hour later than the original notification said it would be), but at least now we have new power lines outside the house. Now if only they would upgrade the old phone-lines to actually allow decent ADSL2 speeds.....
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Rasmussen posted:Is anyone in a decent west coast guild? JC and the other east coast servers give me about 300ms which is doable I guess, but I'll avoid it if I can. omg chael crash posted:I'm in SF but I play on the East severs and I never have a ping above 70ish. Odd. That's probably because, despite EA/BioWare claims to the contrary about East Coast servers being in Virginia, the ip trace puts Jedi Covenant (an East Coast server) in Redwood City, just outside SF. Realistically though Rasmussen, if you want to play with goons on a regular basis you'll need to bite the bullet and join Jedi Covenant and just live with the lag - it's really not THAT bad. I've managed to PvP and raid without major dramas despite the ping differential. [Edit]: Fixed tpyos.... mostly... OzCavalier fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jul 19, 2014 |
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Jul 19, 2014 08:00
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KaneTW posted:How do you people get 300ms from the US when I get 150ms from Europe? Unlike Europe to US, Australia only has 2 fibre-optic cables linking between the two countries, both of which terminate in NSW. Combined with a lack of any significant fibre-optic cable network for broadband internet, and thus having to primarily rely on an aging (and mostly copper-phone line based) system between those nodes and the rest of the country... FWIW, here is the result of a Speedtest conducted between my ISP in Melbourne, Australia (internode) and San Jose (Internode): http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3634424204 (Note that to my local ISP servers the same speedtest returns a 26ms ping, with average speeds of 5+Mbps Down, 2.5Mbps up)
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Not sure how many folks might be interested in the following, but as a (former) DJ/Correspondant for a variety of MMO-related Internet radio stations (Paragon Radio, MMO Radio, WoR [World of Roleplayers], and GRI Netwrok [Gamer Radio initiative]) I like to keep updated on how various MMOs are travelling. As such, I came across the following article:quote:Not only is ESO proving to have retained nearly 800,000 subscribers through June, but apparently SWTOR, LotRO, and TERA (even Lineage) are all doing quite well as well according to new research from SuperData. Read on for details. An interesting graph from the article shows SWToR has (an estimated) 6% of the market share for subscription-based MMOS, coming in 4th behind WoW, Lineage, and TERA Online  Full article is HERE for anyone interested.
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Jul 20, 2014 12:42
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Nipponophile posted:We ended up not running it since some people apparently think having a baby is more important than killing space robots. Well, to be fair, there was also some crazy Australian guy whose internet connection started going flaky just as we were about to start too... Seriously, gently caress that guy. He should get a better internet connection.... It was me... I am that crazy Aussie....
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Jul 21, 2014 01:24
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kmzh posted:IP geolocation is notoriously unreliable. I'm guessing in this case they see that the IP block belongs to EA and just assumes Redwood City because that's where EA is headquartered. If you give it a Euro server IP like 159.153.72.252, it'll still say Redwood City but a traceroute shows routing to Level3 servers in Dublin before disappearing. That is true. Perhaps I am confused, as when I previously did the same ip trace to my old Asia-Pacific server, back when they were running and I was having an issue with late-night latency, I got an ip address of 175.45.88.251 - which is from a block located at the server farm in Sydney for Vocus P/L, who formerly ran the APac servers for SWToR (until EA closed the servers down).
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Jul 21, 2014 16:05
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Nipponophile posted:New character portrait thanks to the weird zoomed-out view currently affecting the character select screen: See, it's images like this that really make me want to put my big bad (Light-side) Sith Jugg into Pink and White armour..... FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABULOUS.... 
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Can't see Oedzi doing a karttoon and going 'gently caress goons' personally. That guy that's just become a new dad on the other hand....
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Jul 25, 2014 16:20
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Irrational Man posted:is there someone I should be messaging for an invite? I do /who "that's no goon" and it gives me like 50 people, I'm assuming cause its capturing more than actual guild members so I'm reluctant to randomly start messaging people, or is the guild just that big? If you're around now, I can invite. Look for Rheranni.
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So... I've just spent an hour or so scanning the GTN for clothes and dye modules to play Pretty Space Princess Dress-Up, and come away wishing there was some kind of resource that allowed you (offline) to mix-n-match various armor items and dye modules to create the perfect 'look'... Damned peer-pressure from y'all, that's what it is....
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Alter Ego posted:Don't feel too bad--this is a guild where the vast majority of people run around with a giant hat that looks like a bell. Oh I don't feel bad at all. I just wish there was an easier way of seeing which leg armor (or belts, wrists, feet, etc) go with which chestpiece (and the rest), and then which dye color combinations to really pull it all together....
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Nerd Of Prey posted:The easiest way I've found is to open up the "collections" window where you can quickly look through almost every set of adaptive armor that exists (with good-sized thumbnail images), preview pieces on your own character in any combination you like, and then you leave your preview window open, search for dyes on the GTN and preview different color schemes. Tried this just now and found that, even though I was leaving the preview window open, it kept switching back to my default (equipped) armors when I went to pick the next item (ie. previewed a wrist piece, then when trying to select a belt from another set, the wrist piece defaulted back to what I had equipped, not the piece I'd just previewed). What I'd really like is something like the old City of Heroes Costume Creator, that allowed you to use all the different costume pieces and colors to 'make' a character outside of the game... [Edit:] Holy poo poo, I re-read what I just posted and I think I might be taking Pretty Princess Space Dress-Up too seriously....
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