A battle hardened Knight once said, “…many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” These are mine.
How many of an MMO’s player base actually participate in End Game Group Content?
Why don’t more players participate?
Keep reading to ponder with me.
A battle hardened Knight once said, “…many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” These are mine.
The vocal minority is making sure the interweb hears how upset they are about SWTOR’s Cartel Market and so called broken promises about subscriptions from the Devs. It all surrounds this post from Jeff Hickman concerning the introduction of the F2P model.
Apparently he stated that subscribers would retain unlimited access to SWTOR content. Well comrades, unlimited depends on your point of view.
Along with that thought, I can’t help but think the vocal MMO minority doesn’t realize what type of genre we are playing these days. Read along for my point of view.
Tanks are expected to know all content and push the group forward without hesitation. Great Tanks have to start somewhere, this is one of those places. Here we’ll examine the ins and outs of being a Professional Tank.
Last week I tossed out an Endurance stat of ‘Over 40k’ in the Professional Tank column. This was in reference to augmenting for Fortitude only. I received some quick feedback on optimal Tank Gearing stats. Apparently the ‘correct’ way to gear does not include stacking HP.
I have four level 55 toons. Two are healers, the others are DPS.
With the exception of my “main”, I leveled those almost entirely through PVP. Hell, I haven’t even finished my Imperial Agent storyline and he’s healing HM Scum & Villainy.
The point is that I have pretty good experience with healing PVP. But something happened this weekend that really made me realize I forgot how rubbish it is to be a lowbie PVP healer early in that toon’s progression.
Players start or join a guild for many different reasons. Friends creating a guild together, an Elder Game player joins a progression guild or players band together for PvP. I’ve even seen one-player guilds just for the vault space. Whatever the reason, guilds can be the one thing that keeps a player coming back.
This morning I read a Guild Leadership focused blog with the title “Command Decisions”. Marjor Snarl’s posts are well thought out and parallel many of the same points I work on daily.
I disagree on his latest blog with his view of a Guild not being a ‘Business.’ In fact this is in direct opposition on how I run the SWTOR Zergadins. If I didn’t take a business man’s point of view to leading this group we wouldn’t be where we are today.
Do you enjoy writing SWTOR guides for your fellow guildmates or on the official forums? Are you always maximizing your GTN profits and coming up with new, awesome ideas for DPS rotations? If so, we want to hear from you!
Force Junkies is looking to add a few more enthusiastic, talented volunteer writers to our team. This time around we’re looking for specific columns to be written.
If you know your class like the back of your own hand and constantly lead Ops, you might be the Sith or Pub we’re looking for.
All that we ask is that you’re a true fan of the game and can show us that you know a thing or two about writing. You’re more than welcome to set your own schedule and write whenever your feel inspired..
If you have any questions or would like to apply to become a writer for Junkies Nation and Force Junkies, please feel free to contact Jason Dodge at dreagon@rerollz.net or Garrett Charkalis at garret@rerollz.com. Make sure to have a writing sample handy when you contact us!
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Silverstrike
Players start or join a guild for many different reasons. Friends creating a guild together, an Elder Game player joins a progression guild or players band together for PvP. I’ve even seen one-player guilds just for the vault space. Whatever the reason, guilds can be the one thing that keeps a player coming back.
As a member of an MMO guild, contributions to the community are a direct reflection on your value to the team. How, what and why you contribute to the group is seen by all members and distills into a single statement.
When you are not around do the members say:
“It would have been better if you were here.”
This is a undeniable indicator of your contributions.
To parse or not to parse. That is the question.
I was trolling on fleet the other night when the guild’s best healer starting chatting with me in gchat about my heal parses. He wanted to me to start uploading my combat logs.
I kind of paused because I never really gave it much thought. Only once before had I even looked at TORParse and I used to run MOX when the raid leader would ask us to.
But finding out how many heals per second I put out during a raid is just something I’ve never really worried about. I’m confident in my heals and, to be honest, spend far more time worrying about the group’s performance and whether DPS in the group are quick enough on their feet.
Bioware announced yesterday what’s in store for the community in the 2.1 Patch. I’m very excited to bring you new about the patch titled Cusomization!
Keep reading for details of the often asked for character options.
Many players consider the Damage Dealing role an easy one. I have a different point of view about it. The Damage Dealing role is easily picked up, and slowly mastered. On Thursdays I’ll muse over how to master the art of Damage.
We are 48 hours into the early access of Patch 2.0, and I’m one happy Junkie. This is a great time to talk about Dealing Damage in the level 55 HM Flash Points. Keep reading for pointers and things to focus on.
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