In wow, I am on the verge of completing my legendary staff. I'm at 230 of 250 siphons, and anyone who knows what I'm talking about knows it takes a long time to complete when all you do is 10-mans. It is the 2nd staff for our group, but will be the 4th in my guild. Anyway, I will be finishing it this coming week - more than likely tomorrow night, in fact. I know this will sound stupid, but I'm actually really stoked about it. I've been involved in getting other people legendary weapons - all the way from Molten Core to Icecrown Citadel - but I wasn't sure if I'd ever have one myself. Even in the last few months as I've worked on the quest line, there have been times where I wasn't sure if I would be able to finish it - or if I would have to wait until next expansion to finish it - and then really never be able to use it. Then with patch 4.3, there was a worry that with new content available no one would want to go back to the old content to finish the quest. However, people continued to show up most weeks and now that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, I just want to say it feels good to know that my guild and my raid group in particular stood by me and continued to show up for the weekly Firelands raid when they surely would rather be doing something else. So, for that, I must give a big Thank You to those guys for hanging in there. You know who you are.
In SWTOR, I've kinda gotten bored of it. I could lie to myself and make some other reason why I'm not playing it, but the truth is it just feels really repetitive... go to cave, kill alternating packs of weak mobs and either solo strong mobs or strong mobs with like one or two weak mobs, then the occasional solo elite mob, collect shit from cave, kill shit in cave, do RP shit at end of cave, run back, rinse, repeat. I don't remember there being so many random caves or giant underground bunkers in Star Wars. To make matters worse, I really dislike the way the mounts, err... Speeders, are in SWTOR. Keep in mind here, I'm a gigantic mount whore so this is pretty big deal to me. I just passed level 40 where I threw down pretty much all my credits on a speeder that offers a negligible 10% speed increase over the one I had, and all I have to look forward to at max level is yet another 10% upgrade! I quite literally cannot perceive any difference in speed. I just feel like I got ripped off. The main thing tho is I just can't figure out how a game that gets so many things right can get so much other shit so completely wrong. I can repair at any vendor! hurray! Mount speeds are jacked up and pointless! BOO! The game looks and plays great! hurray! No combat log or addons (like recount) make it impossible to theory-craft! BOO! I mean when I play, I'm just pressing buttons, using abilities that have longer cooldowns because generally those should do more damage, right? Are the talents actually working? I dunno! I don't know how much damage I'm doing! I mean, I can see the floating combat text when I shoot a mob but short of FRAPS-ing the game and going back to record all the damage numbers vs. the time they appear in the video there's really not a good way of measuring it in a meaningful way. (God help any asshole who is desperate enough to do that by the way). As it stands, SWTOR is something I'll play when I have absolutely nothing to do in wow, and even then, if I reach level 50, I'm probably just going to cancel my sub and someone can let me know later on if/when they fix some of the more glaring problems because the way I see it, there's really no excuse for some of it and I don't see any reason for them to keep getting my money while I wait for it to be fixed.
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