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Presence is the LOL stat in regards to PvP and End game raiding. It only affects your companions, so no one puts it up on their priority list of things to get when outfitting your toons. However it is important to note that presence is actually pretty useful for a certain phase of the game. I currently have 2 50s. One has all his companions at 10k affection and the other does not.
When we look at the benefit that provides to my level 11 Jedi Knight’s companion we see this result.
Those are some huge bonuses to someone so low. The extra health alone makes it worth it if you are looking at early tanking companions (Corso, Qyzen, T7 to name a few), but even a DPS or Healing companion would benefit.
Let’s now finish the affection grind on the other 50 to get the +10 presence on all my alts.
The increase as you can see will make leveling that much easier. T7 serves as a tanking companion for knights and an extra 250 health makes him that much more durable.
Note: This post expresses the views of Jounville Blackferne and may not necessarily reflect those of the Church of Alvis or its membership.
It has been a long and windy year. Last November many people in the Church were in various forms of the Beta program. We had a huge shared experience in the Thanksgiving Weekend Beta, and SWTOR was largely praised as real potential rival to World of Warcraft.
About a year later we have gone through two rounds of server mergers, seen subscriptions drop, layoffs at Bioware, and are almost at the dawn of the Free to Play era. Some say that SWTOR has been a failure, though I’m not sure I agree.
This last summer for me I will admit was a fretful one in regards to the future of SWTOR. Before the first server merge (I’m sorry voluntary transfer), Juyo was getting 50-100 people on the Republic Fleet during prime time. It was a small but stable community, but I knew it couldn’t last. Without new players coming in, that would drop. As the mergers happened I saw more people, but I was wondering if it was sustainable.
The layoffs probably bothered me more. I knew one of the people laid off and I genuinely worried how he’d do. Luckily he landed on his feet with Fire Fall. Still the whole episode did leave me shaken about the future of a game I was finding myself emotionally invested in.
The biggest shock however was the announcement of the switch to Free to Play (F2P). I’ve never played a F2P mmo before and my thoughts initially were rather pessimistic as F2P read in my mind as “prelude to a funeral”. However I did talk to some people who just couldn’t justify a subscription to a game they could only play a few hours a month. Also lonomonkey of Screaming Monkeys made a comforting case of how F2P has worked for LOTRO.
With that I find myself pretty optimistic about the future of SWTOR. I do feel that as long as I pay my monthly subscription that I should not be put into a position where I have to pay extra to see content, or be competitive. I think the best example of this in WoW was the sparkle ponies in WoLK. Blizzard offered a mount that wasn’t any better than normal in game mounts in exchange for a one time $25. It was purely a cosmetic thing. If I find myself having to pay real money beyond my subscription to list more items on the GTN or go to Hard Mode Operations or the like, that is a deal breaker for me. But if my $15 gets me the all you can eat platter of SWTOR I’ll be happy. If they want one time pay extra for sparkle speeders or lawn chairs for you to sit on on fleet? Go ahead, but keep the core game accessible to all subscribers.
The thing that worries me most with F2P is the demanding content schedule Bioware has set for itself. Every six weeks getting something new seems like a high bar to reach and I really hope they don’t set expectations they cannot meet. Though in playing alts this past month I realized there is still a whole lot of story I have yet to see.
If Bioware can manage to keep up content production and continue to add polish to existing game systems and content, reduce bugs, find the quality of life benefits to all players, I don’t see any reason why F2P would necessarily be a bad thing. So Bioware if you read this, best of luck, I’m hoping you pull this off.
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This week the Church of Alvis and our raiding partners at the Snark Side on Jedi Covenant have cleared Story Mode Scum and Villainy.
I failed to get a screenshot from the final boss, but here is Friday’s raid standing near Sunder and Ta’chuk of the Warlords fight. Our roster this week included Alorad, Andosha, Biscotti, Boccior, Jounville, Noreek, Premmat, Shattner, Skiggity, and Starel. It was a good week for us and we look forward to upping our game to the Hard Mode 55 ops over the next few weeks I’d imagine.
Raiding as always should be fun and in our groups it usually is.
Even though we are not on an RP server, the Blackferne clan and Jounville in particular has a life story in my mind. This is a story that has evolved since Star Wars Galaxies, and one of the aspects of that story is that Jounville always should have had an eyepatch. That wasn’t an option in that game, so when SWTOR launched and I could make a character who finally looked more like how he should looked I was pretty happy.
Here is Jounville on December 15th 2011.
Early access and as you can see by the clown armor Jorgan is in we are pretty low level there. The eyepatch is my thing. I get that technically it is supposed to be a cybernetic eye, but it looks like an eyepatch so for me it IS an eyepatch.
Saturday night I helped Boccior, Starel, and Skiggity complete a popular quest chain and we came across a certain Lord Tagriss.
What. Period. The. Period. Hell. Period. Question mark. Exclamation mark. This is like two people wearing the same dress to prom. Listen here Lord Tagriss, I don’t know what you think you are doing, but I’ve been all over Spacebook and OurSpace and hell even that social network that only Ortolan’s use, Orkut, and I’ll tell you something, the eyepatch? It is my effing thing. Okay I’m gonna cut you. I hope you still got the receipt because I want you to go back to Sithieland Mall, stroll right into Hoth Topic or whatever and exchange for a straw fedora or that muscle tee with the Jawa Shore logo on it. You can wear those ironically all you want, I don’t care. But the eyepatch? That is mine.
