Expect Excellence
I have played many games in my lifetime. There have been many dungeon-crawls, many grind-fests, and many hours spent wondering why I was doing what I was doing.
It has all come to an end.
SWTOR has single-handedly given me what I’ve always wanted in an MMO. It has story, zest, interesting systems, and a gun-totin’, wise-crackin’ space cowboy who has a flair for getting in guns blazing and getting out with a smile on his face and bad-guys in smoking piles behind him.
The first thing you need to remember is I like playing characters that remind me of certain parts of me. In other words, I can see myself in that character. My Hunter in LOTRO was a single-minded, goal-oriented killer, just like me (except of course for the “killer” part). My Captain in LOTRO was a lot like me (really more like me) in that he was fond of justice, dignity, and tradition, and he is fiercely loyal to his friends.
My smuggler is fantastic with the ladies, is a great shot, has a hot-rod starship, and is snarky and sarcastic. Just like…wait a minute! That’s not at all like me! I am literally none of those things. I have never shot a gun (though I live in Texas), my car is a boring, practical sedan, I am typically very polite and non-confrontational, and I was completely in the dark about how my wife liked me for a year before I finally asked her out on a date! Read more…
Greetings from Chipchops or, “Once you pop…”
My name, for all intents and purposes, is inconsequential. You may refer to me, however, as Chipchops. [NOTE FROM EDITOR: Chipchops now goes by Rhekk] My pseudonym, as opposed to my wonderful friends Geldarion and Torvox, is more of a personal nickname rather than my gamer/lore name. Despite that, it serves its purpose as good as any other. Now on to a bit about me. Something you may find of me is that I love words. So to say this is “a bit” is only based on my own standards. Also, to say that I hope you will enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it will probably be inaccurate, but I hope you will enjoy this article regardless. Read more…
Almost there! Guild and server information!
Getting thawed for SWTOR!
Early access for Star Wars: The Old Republic starts tomorrow! I don’t know if I will be getting in immediately, since though I ordered the game the day it was available, I did it on my iPhone, and so I did not see the part that said I needed to register my code until sometime in August. Read the fine print, people!
My guild, Southern Cross, has been placed on a PvE West server, Lord Praven. These are some of the same people that were on Vilya in LOTRO, so I already know that they will be extremely helpful and awesome. I am very glad some of them are coming, and we get to keep the same Ventrilo, so we will still be in touch with our kinmates still in LOTRO.
Any readers that were placed on Lord Praven?
PvP Talent Build: On-The-Run Hybrid Gunslinger – 29/5/7
LAST UPDATE: Update 1.1.5
This is a PvP build for the Gunslinger. This will mainly utilize the Sharpshooter specialization, but also has some balance involved.
This build is mainly conjecture from the perspective of what worked in Beta in PvP. This build will more than likely change, and I will put up more builds as I experiment more. This is just a taste of what is to come.
Note: This build was created with the Darth Hater Talent Calculator. The link to view this build is here. Numbers have been left out of my discussion, as values may change in patches before launch. The idea of each ability is usually more important than the qualitative numbers associated with it.
Class: Gunslinger
Primary Focus: Sharpshooter
Secondary Focus: Balanced between Dirty Fighting and Saboteur
Purpose: PvP
Goal: This build is about getting in cover, making people mad because they keep dying, then when they actually finally come after you, getting the heck out of Dodge to continue your sniping.
LAST UPDATE: Update 1.1.5
All points allocated are the maximum allowed for each ability, unless otherwise noted. Read more…
Rhekk
Geldarion
Torvox
The Fanatical Swordsman 
A comment reply to Lanir
Lanir posted a comment on my other post here. I wanted to respond to him and his “wall ‘o text” (as he put it), but I ended up writing a post-length response, and it just got out of hand haha. I created my own “wall ‘o text.” Oh well!
His comment is in boldface, and my responses are in regular type.
Note: I took the important things that I wanted to respond to from his comment, simply for space reasons, but I do not believe I left anything out that will change his meaning.
“I’m going to try something a bit different and go for a semi-reasonable conversation.”
A welcome relief 🙂
“From an outside perspective, I think the blog post here is really just a statement of beliefs.”
This is true. Specifically, it outlines my description of Jesus, who he was technically and who he is to me today.
“The replies seem to me to be consistent with that viewpoint as they largely don’t speak say much about anything brought up in the blog entry but talk about Christianity in general.” Read more…