First impressions

This is supposedly illegal at this beta point so..

Well, cinematics are absolutely GREAT. It beats Blizzard by the mile.
The game is heavy. On my machine, I get 17 fps average, sometimes goes 30, rarely, sometimes goes 5 fps, on Alliance or Sith (Bounty Hunter - Hutta) starter zones.

So unless you got a 3Ghz dual core or so, forget SWTOR.

As I expected, for a ranged player that shoots from afar, the playability and realism is nice, lasers go back and forth, explosions are fine, killing moves too.

For a melee/jedi player, it sucks. You have to run to people that is shooting at you, slicing them with a jedi sword that doesn't kill them immediately, and there they stand, on their feet, point at you with a gun and shooting. It's laughable. As a Jedi, I went up to 3 mobs and all 3 were shooting at me for 1 minute or so as I sliced them slowly. Not realistic at all.

Quest cinematics are nice, you can go at a slow pace and listen to all the conversation and choose which answer to give (weird, the written answer and what the toon says most times are quite different, sometimes with different meaning).

I'm level 2 atm, so I'm not exactly an expert.

PVP seems to open at lvl 10, hopefully I get there this weekend.

I saw some people flying around with bike. Looks fun.

Overall... I've got a problem: SWTOR requires me to buy a new PC and to move all my crap to it. Good thing I tested this before I bought it.

Pedro Lucas Goes to War of the Stars

Ooohooo I've been selected to (stress) test Bioware's SWTOR.

A new adventure awaits me.

First things first. Install and set it up ! And then... lets go to War.

Walclaft goes East.. and down

Funny old world of war... Blizzard figured that people are tired of western looking games, gothic stuff and all that crap, so they decided to march east towards the chinese borders and create a new Warcraft expansion called Mists of Pandaria.
It seems lvl 90 will be the new cap, and of course, the action will take place in another continent, so called Pandaria, a native race with panda bears standing on two paws, practicing martial arts and praying like monks, the new class.

It makes me laugh. Panda bears fighting ? I'm sure the new areas will be wonderful to see, and it's worthwhile playing for a while... but... bear monks with rice-farming/vietcong-like hats ? Ha. Haha. Hahahahahaha.

Warcraft goes Brazilian

I've just read the latest WoW news, and it seems there's a Brazilian version coming soon.

So, instead of Stormwind, there'll be Ventobravo. Instead of Ironforge, Forjadeferro. E Lua de Prata, etc.

Laughing out Loud.

PS: No WoW since July, 1, and happily living ever after. Well, playing LOTRO, actually. The Rise of Isengard expansion is up today.

PS2: Will I resist 4.3 ?

Ex-End: Can't get any worse can it

A friend showed me today the Wow Character of that slime that killed dozens in Norway.

Guess what ? His char was on Silvermoon EU, my server ! ARRGH !

And he was part of some guilds, one of them, a top guild.

This just shows how MMORPG are weird, you can be playing alongside a serial killer and never know.

This slime, I would personally kill myself, never mind about the Fylgies and other norwegian fairies. I hope someone does.

THE END (?)

I'm done with WoW.
Old friends gone or going.
Had no fun with Cata.
May be sometime in the future.
May be when the next expansion comes out.
May be never.

So, for me, casual LOTRO, SWTOR.

And Real Life gaming. Much better !

A nice raiding evening

A few more bosses down, on tonight's raid.

Funny how I'm so tired about WoW. I didn't even bother to read on the bosses lore, or to check on the entrances or even to remember the boss names As a result, it took me a while to figure out where BoT entrance was, after a wipe. But we killed Halfus for sure. Nuke each add, ignore whelps, nuke boss. Can't get much easier...but for sure this boss must be a healing check, with all the interrupts,knockbacks and the only-instant cast restrictions!

As to Blackwing Descent, we killed the first four bosses.
The first boss is easy with 3 ranged dps, last week was a breeze with lock,mage,hunter aoeing the lava parasites from the pillars. Tonight only a mage and warlock, so it was way messier, with adds all around. But we managed to 1-shot it.
The 2nd 4xbosses, 1-shot too, I forgot about the purple spots for dpsing, it costed me top dps ranking. But I didn't forget the oozes ;)
The 3rd boss... the vial one, was 1-shot last week, but this week was a bit messier and caused a few wipes, the last one because we had too much dps and got the boss to 20% before the 2nd green vial. But we did it after we paused dps at the right time ;)
Finally, the 4th/gong boss, last week we had a mage banging the gongs. This week I had to do it, and because of it I was chased and died (swiftness doesnt help when there's fire all around ;(), but was CR and we 1-shott'ed him.

All in all, a good raid, 5 bosses down, 2 of them new.
A very good raiding leader, good communication during the fight and tips.

Next Monday, the Valiona brothers.. and Nefarian is getting closer !