The Stoppable Force blog posts

Pulled the trigger. Pow. It’s dead, Jim.

NSTK-ites can confirm I haven’t been in-game lately – pretty much since dinging 50 and finishing my Jedi Knight’s story, in fact. I also haven’t said much about the game at all, as the 3 of you still reading this blog can attest

Level 50? Check. Done.

Now to do everything else. The character shown there is Fortress (or as I say when I’m saying it out loud, THE INDOMITABLE FORTRESS EPSILON), and he, along with Doc, leveled by finishing up a bonus quest on Corellia. I promptly finished up in that

Focus, Padawan

(Disclaimer: All of the article below is based on my experience leveling a Sentinel. YMMV, as always.) The Jedi Sentinel can be an interesting class to level, especially when it comes to picking a skill spec. The three skill trees all say “Damage,”

Shard-hunting on Belsavis

What you see above is someone taking a circuitous route through Belsavis to get Rakata Energy Cubes. You’ll need 4 of these (among your group, that is, or 4 by yourself if you’re solo) to hunt down the Green Matrix Shard on Belsavis.

Welcome to Hoth, it’s cold

Deal with it. Hoth: it’s cold. It’s once again full of pirates. Jentra’s level 43. And it’s cold. It’ll probably be another week or two before 50 is a realistic possibility due to circumstances, but there it is. Even then

On the table

No, I’m still not level 50. I’m level 42 and just finished the first quest hub on Hoth. I’m the overlord of overlevelling. I needed an excuse to share this screenshot, though. (You’ll want to click through to see the dialogue.)

A leveling tip, courtesy of @Asros

PRO TIP - If you dont do heroics or flashpoints or pvp while leveling, do all bonus objectives and bonus series while leveling. #SWTOR13 minutes ago via EchofonReplyRetweetFavorite@AsrosAsros Its not a tip so much as a rule, because leveling is modular,

There and back again

The hills are alive, with the sound of--no, no, stop that, NO SINGING Over on the Inquisitor’s Roadhouse, Anexxia asks: “why the rush to 50?” Well, let me tell you who’s not rushing. There’s a story here. Oh, how I love

Home for the Holidays

I’m out of town for Christmas, so don’t expect too much out of me – in game or out! As for progress, I’m level 31 and somewhere on Alderaan…and fairly sure I’d rather be a Shadow.   So I rolled one of those,

Eight things I learned during early access

1. I’d done a ton of reading about the game itself (aside from playing in the beta), but that didn’t mean everyone else had. A lesson of perspective. There were lots of inquiries in-guild about Advanced Classes, Crew Skills, and so on,

On “What Advanced Class should I pick?”

This is actually a copy of a post from our guild forums. Lots of people asking this, and I think it’s not quite the question they actually want to ask. My default answer to this is, as always, play what you want to play. If you base your game

Patch notes: beta build 2011.12.01, Patch 0.742.27

New in this patch: Corso finally shuts up. Build notes after the jump. Also important to note – the known issues list. General Experience gains on Origin Worlds have been adjusted to help solo players reach level 10 more easily. Improved the overall

Crew skills: a very high-level overview

I googled "star wars crafting" and this came up - repeatedly - in the results. Puttin’ ‘em to work The crafting/gathering system in Star Wars: The Old Republic is called the Crew Skills system, which confused a few people

TOR by numbers: a (very quick) stat primer

New game, new stats, new numbers to stack – isn’t that how the story always goes?SWTOR’s no different, fundamentally, from many other MMOs. Plus, to make things a little simple for the new player, each class basically has its own stat,

The doors re-open

NDA’s up, which means I can actually talk about The Old Republic now. Thank goodness, I was getting tired of not talking about The Old Republic. Got questions? Fire away in the comments. I’ll answer as best I can. I’ve got a wide-ranged

Pardon our dust

Just doing a little site moving around. Again. Migratory blogs? Don’t mind if I do. Now it’s time to hunt down themes for all 3 of my blogs.

Pardon our dust

Just doing a little site moving around. Again. Migratory blogs? Don’t mind if I do. Now it’s time to hunt down themes for all 3 of my blogs.

Crickets

The recurring mantra about betas is that the sum total of what you're allowed to disclose under the non-disclosure agreement is this: There is a beta. I am in it. Well, as such, it's going to get a little quiet around here, because yes, there

Crickets

The recurring mantra about betas is that the sum total of what you’re allowed to disclose under the non-disclosure agreement is this: There is a beta. I am in it. Well, as such, it’s going to get a little quiet … Continue reading →

Crickets

The recurring mantra about betas is that the sum total of what you’re allowed to disclose under the non-disclosure agreement is this: There is a beta. I am in it. Well, as such, it’s going to get a little quiet around here, because yes,

What's in it for me?

Perhaps you think this is about the "loot bag" announcement from this week. Afraid not. My feelings on that (I'm for it!) hardly justify an entire post to themselves. No, this is something else entirely - gaming personality types, and their

What’s in it for me?

Perhaps you think this is about the “loot bag” announcement from this week. Afraid not. My feelings on that (I’m for it!) hardly justify an entire post to themselves. No, this is something else entirely – gaming personality types,

What’s in it for me?

Perhaps you think this is about the “loot bag” announcement from this week. Afraid not. My feelings on that (I’m for it!) hardly justify an entire post to themselves. No, this is something else entirely – gaming personality types,

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