BETA Weekends Incoming!
Pardon my absence, but I had very important business to attend to — Wrenz and I were the entire Empire cheering section at a recent Jedi Training Academy at Disneyland. See above for the photographic...
View ArticleBETA weekend post-mortem
For those of us who didn’t get in to last weekend’s BETA testing extravaganza, but had to hear tales of purple lightning from the twittersphere, it was a bit of a bummer to hear that this weekend will...
View ArticleBETA Weekend #1 Invitees to Get a Second Chance
Contrary to what the BETA FAQs announced last week, there is a special group of BETA weekend testers who *will* get a second crack at testing — the folks who were invited to BETA Weekend #1. In a post...
View ArticleReturn to the Old Republic Sooner…
Don't Let the Adventure End I was *sooo excited* to see email in my mailbox from the Old Republic Community mailbox…alas, it was not the much hoped for BETA invite. Instead, it was the above email,...
View ArticleBETA invites for everyone!
SWTOR BETA invite Like a million and a half others who signed up to test Star Wars: the Old Republic, I did a little happy dance when I received the BETA invite email. Turns out, they’re inviting all...
View ArticleSWTOR NDA Lifted: Avalanche of BETA Information Incoming!
Earlier this week, when the big BETA stress test weekend was confirmed as being November 25-28, A number of folks cross the twittersphere started hypothesizing that would also entail the NDA being...
View ArticlePlanning my Sith Inquisitor Sorcerer’s Talent Build
I’ve been playing around with the Talent Calculator on Darth Hater, to get some ideas around how I will eventually be building out my talent tree for my Sorcerer. I’m a little torn regarding PvE or PvP...
View ArticleThe SWTOR BETA Tester’s Guide to Strategic Thanksgiving Leftovers Deployment
(U.S. BETA testers, this post is for you.) Today, at some point between lunchtime and dinner, you will likely be expected to step away from the computer and spend some quality time with the family....
View ArticleReflections on a SWTOR BETA Weekend, Pt. 1: Leveling
SWTOR BETA weekend screenshot Like many of the gamer folks I know through twitter and the blogosphere, I participated in Bioware’s Star Wars: the Old Republic BETA weekend stress test over the long...
View ArticleReflections on a SWTOR BETA Weekend, Pt. 2: Professions
I had 2 big goals for my BETA time, in addition to just getting a feel for caster game play and gaining familiarity with companions as party members: 1) to see how far I could get with leveling my...
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