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Flaminica

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  1. In LotRO you get all of the above plus if you drink enough you eventually pass out and wake up in some random part of the world with no pants on. There's a game that takes drinking seriously.
  2. I play mostly healers with a few DPS for variety. I'm not afraid of tanking - I just know I'm no good at it. For starters, people expect the tank to lead the team and I have no sense of direction. I still get lost on flashpoint maps I've played a hundred times. I don't enjoy mob skipping, let alone boss skipping, I don't know or use all the conventional shortcuts and people get *****y if I go the long way. This is why I respeced my Shadow into DPS and retired my Powertech because I can't afford to re-gear him. Healing... pfft. Follow the tank and watch the health bars. Easy. As a healer I can compensate for poor DPS or bad tanking. As a tank, if the heals or the DPS are sub-par I'm the first to die and usually eat the blame for it.
  3. My outer-space ray guns shoot sideways because they're make-believe.
  4. You're not alone. I thought Watcher X was fascinating enough that after leveling a sniper I modeled my operative after him. I just swapped races to mask it.
  5. Annihilation's DoT self-healing reduces down time and makes it an efficient solo and leveling spec.
  6. Can you define "odd hours"? Because I play at off hours and I'm sick of being the only person online in a guild of 300+.
  7. Leveling as a healer is fast and easy. Fight what you want, stealth when you don't and do lots of flashpoints with the healer's advantage of fast queue times. I didn't personally notice any drop off at any level. Keep Kaliyo well geared and the two of you can manage any +2 content comfortably. Vector is a buzzsaw and makes a good leveling companion too but he suffers versus elites. If you only have the resources to keep one companion geared, focus on Kal. If you have the cash and the crafting, by all means gear both.
  8. This happens to someone almost every time I've run Esseles. Relogging is the only way out, they always get booted from the group and If the group was formed via the LFG that person can't be invited back. I consider that game breaking. I can easily see a new player being turned off and quitting after such a bad introduction to flashpoints.
  9. This is far from the first time this topic's been discussed, but I do think It's getting a bit out of hand. People will make the argument of hard modes especially that "you've already seen the cutscenes in regular mode, right" except lots of people haven't. There are no shortage of players who only start FPs at 50 and never saw the lower level version. Then there's the native level 50 flashpoints, like False Emperor and Ilum. I've been 50 for months, have healed these two FPs dozens of times and I have never once seen the cutscenes to either. Unless I try YouTube I probably never will. Players are so rude and so arrogant now that even the healer or tank will get votekicked for even asking and replaced by someone's Rakata-geared companion. And that's nothing to the first time ever I ran Taral V with my Commando (who had been soloed to 50 back in the day) and the whole team literally ran to the end, clicked a console and left. The total number of mobs defeated was countable on the fingers of one hand. What's needed is a redefinition of the LFG tool's completion requirements. Make the non-bonus bosses all mandatory. Set a kill threshold of a minimum number of trash mobs defeated. Tweak some of the maps to eliminate the worst of the skipping (Taral I'm looking at you). Oh and add incentives for cutscenes -- like bonus loot, titles or legacy perques unlocked only by viewing uninterrupted cutscenes.
  10. Gene Roddenberry was once quoted as saying he'd always wanted more alien-looking aliens on Star Trek but that "There were very few in the Screen Actor's Guild."
  11. Somewhere out there is the person who enter the first vote for Ugnaut.
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