Last night, a few people from my guild and quite a few from The church of Alvis tried to go take down some world bosses on Tatooine for the Rakghoul event title. We did not suceed. For one, the bosses have ridiculous long spawn times that means that if you miss a spawn you’re pretty much screwed. It felt a lot like going after Azuregos in Vanilla WoW with all the good and bad that entails.
But we did have a ton of fun! One of the bosses is situated in a pvp zone and of course, the Empire was there to provide entertainment. I’m really not a fan of pvp most of the time but yesterday, it was tons of fun trying to take down a world boss while fighting off the Empire trying to mess with us. It was chaotic, it was laggy, it was messy, but it was also one of the best night I had in a long time with a completely random world event. I know quite a few players miss the days of Vanilla WoW and these kind of events and I’m here to tell you it can still happen, today, in 2012.
I’m writing this to fight off some of the negativity I’m seeing around the game lately. I get that Swtor is not a perfect game and that it let down quite a few people, myself included for a moment, who wanted it to be their perfect game. That I get, what I don’t get is how according to some people the game is the worst thing to happen to humankind. According to them, the game is doomed and is currently dying.
So in a deliberate attempt to prove them wrong and to prove to them that quite a few people still enjoy the game. I’m going to list a few blogs and guild sites full of people who still enjoy this game. Swtor has true potential for greatness if you allow yourself to see it and I hope these blogs might help someone turn that frown around.
The Snark Side (mah guild!). A guild full of bloggers and awesome crazy people.
The Church of Alvis. Another crazy guild full of awesome people.
Button mashers of the empire. Great empire guild as well as good info.
Republic mercy corps. Semi rp guild and home of more great players!
Hawtpants of the republic. Your swtor center for fashion and lewd stories!
Going Commando. Shintar trip through swtor as well as some actual useful info!
Trooper commando. Lots and lots of guides about endgame. Excellent reference site
Light rank V. Anachan well-written journal. Simply great read.
A new dope. Alas secret swtor blog. Don’t tell anyone
All for the wookie. Kristalys swtor adventures.
Summertime on Hoth. Sex, drama and healing! What could be better?
Imperial intelligence. Good info and great fun. He’s imperial but we won’t hold it against him.
Imperial Medical Corps. Imperials get heals? Who knew?
Dulfy healing corner. Great guides and great sites for endgame info.
I play swtor. One of the rare blogs focused on crafting and gear. A must read if you’re into crafting.
Inquisitive Myth. This one seeks to conquer the galaxy with well laid out graphs! Be careful
Thrown Gauntlet. Sithie tankinking!
And many many more that I’m missing. Please drop a comment if I missed you and I’ll add you to the list.
Yay, more stuff to read! I’m enjoying ToR a lot. Of course it’s not perfect. Nothing is. Perfection is an illusion. But what it does have is good, and things will get added to make it even better.
That slurping sound you heard was the sound of all these tasty URLs being sucked into the Great MMO Melting Pot feedreader…
Thanks!
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Oooh ooh! Mee too! Not that inquisitors are known for sunshine and puppies, but I’m still rather upbeat in my quest for galactic domination.
Morehnai I am sorry you logged out because I think two more bantha pulls and we got him. The pug reinforcements from general allowed us the numbers we needed to get it done.
In case that wasn’t clear we did kill the bantha. He dropped 124 loot. Iwas jedi knight stuff mostly.
Yar.. Grats to all! Sadly, I was, still am on medication, so I had to bail out for some doctor recommended sleep. Honestly, I don’t mind not killing them, still had a blast.
Njessi over at Hawtpants is simply a must-read. And thanks for the link Lono!
Hurrah for positivity; it’s definitely needed. To be honest I’m glad that many of the larger, multi-MMO blogs have stopped covering the game as much, because it would inevitably turn into a flood ranty comments from the anti-SWTOR troll brigade. I thought WoW bittervets were persistent, but they have nothing on the professional TOR haters…
Great post and thanks for all the links!! I am having a blast with this game and the recent world event just made it sweeter.
You can certainly add me to the positive list (http://throwngauntlet.blogspot.com)! I’ll be checking out all these blogs and possibly adding to blogroll! Cheers, this was a great idea!
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Wonderful, thanks!
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I think Alas is getting you back for outing her blog! LOL
I know you probably read the Snarkside today.
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Great list. I don’t blog as frequently as I’d like but that’s mainly because multiple posts a week saying “I really love this game!” would be boring.