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Progress vs. Gear

Apr5

Now, I’m a very organized person. I like going in order and don’t like skipping ahead (I do not care how hard this quest is–I want every quest in the area done before moving to the next one) and want things done a certain way. That’s just how I am. That doesn’t mean I never cut corners (Space Missions and PVP stuff I obviously put off until the end), but in general, especially with PVE, I liked to do things in order. Planets, quests, flash points…and that includes difficulty levels.

That doesn’t mean it’s been completely followed (For example, I did Kaon Under Siege on Hard Mode before Normal Mode), but that was never my choice to do it. And despite doing False Emperor and Kaon, I still have yet to do Battle of Ilum on either difficulty because I can’t find anyone to go with. And I’d be lying to say it didn’t bug me.

I don’t really care too much about gear. I know it’s important, but when it comes to priority…it’s probably 3rd or 4th on my list. 4th if I count Codex Entries and Lore as a separate thing. But yes, so in order:
1. Completion/Progress
2. Collecting (Codexes included)
3. Gear

I do know better gear will make certain things easier…but only harder versions of raids. The level cap isn’t rising yet. The new quests that are coming in 1.2 are just level 50 dailies. Sure, it still makes things easier, but it shouldn’t be priority at this point.

And that is part of why it bothers me so much that the guild, while thankfully finally doing Karagga (even if they still aren’t listening to me completely), seems to just care about gearing up (and more so than not, the ones who are already geared to some extent. Those in the Green/blue gear? Go have fun.). I do have a good amount of Columni–in fact, all I still need are the offhand and main hand. I do not care too much for the main hand as I like my Pink Crystal, but the offhand would probably be helpful. Regardless, since we have Columni, we should apparently just go for Rakata.

But it bothers me that we’re skipping a normal difficulty mode for that kind of reason. What about learning the fight? What about codexes? What about actual progress? Can you really say you just did everything if you skip normal mode? I don’t think so.

And it could be practice. To get the titles from those, you need to be able to down them on Nightmare mode within 2 hours. While you may be the time to just rush into things on the hardest difficulty, isn’t that kind of rash?

You could learn the fight and then learn the new mechanics. Or you could learn everything new while dying much more. We’ve gotten to the 4th boss on normal. We KNOW what we need to do, but they haven’t tried. Do you really expect me to believe you’re going to want to do it on Hard Mode? Are we even going to get there with such few practices on normal?

Target of Target isn’t needed, despite pleas of saying things. Will it make it easier? Sure. But it is not needed.

And the giant fight against normal (soon to be Story mode) not only takes away from some of the experience and learning, but also from the chances to earn things. Some people DO still need Columni even if Rakata is better. And some people just want the experience or the codexes.

Why should everything constantly be put behind the “priority” of gear? Maybe it’s just me, but I’ll always find that a silly concept–after all, what’s the point of better gear if you’re not trying to complete that story in the first place?

Karagga’s, Karagga’s, Karagga’s

Apr1

This weekend has been pretty bad. And even when the day momentarily looked up (I was invited to a Karagga’s Palace/Hutt Hospitality group!), it ended miserably. While I did get invited, the people they were waiting on finally appeared and I was kicked.

Which sucks.

I have yet to find a group. People either have done them already and/or have no room for me.

And my guild doesn’t want to do it. In fact, that is why a huge fight broke out. Which ended up in a whole mess of things.

And while in the end, we are still in the guild…it sure doesn’t feel like we’re part of it anymore. I almost wonder if I should’ve just made my own guild.

…but I don’t think anyone would want to join it anyway.

Quitters

Mar26

If there is one thing I hate…it’s when people quit and/or give up. I hate when we go through raids or flash points or something and decide it’s “too hard” and just stop. There’s time left. Frustration isn’t an excuse. Deal with it and try your best and let’s make it happen until you need to sleep or have something else you need to do.

But it especially happens in PVP. If someone thinks something is a lost cause and they leave, that’s stupid and pathetic and cowardly. And if they don’t leave, sometimes they’ll just sit and watch.

We had a wonderful person come in and pretty much say “so, it’s been losses all day, no point in trying”. And it’s like, really? It’s not the first time I had to deal with them being a complete butt head (the first time, they pretty much said since I had no gear, I shouldn’t PVP 😀 …which really makes no sense when you think about it).

We got left first. If people came and held off middle some more rather than giving up, we could’ve won.

And even when they got it? At that point, more people gave up saying how it was a lost cause and just sat over by left. I killed several people while being attacked and just healing myself. There was no reason we couldn’t have had people come and gotten middle back or even right if people tried.

But people just left and some just didn’t care despite the fact that there were a few of us trying.

So, great job guys. I get to have my eyes tear up with frustration because you people are too stupid to try–with something we probably could’ve won, no less. You gave up when there was still plenty of time to recover.

And no, I don’t care if you got 5 medals the next match–you got it by forgetting what the point was. Ironically, it might be called PVP, but the Warzones do have objectives and I think people forget to focus on them.

And I’m so sick of people like them.

What ever happened to trying? Losing happens. At least you tried your best rather than just sitting there and being stupid. Hope I never run into any of you again.