Matt and Joe are back again to bring you their always heavily opinionated views on real money transactions, pug raiding, Trion has their favorite soul-specs too, and more. This week we also are proud to have our first Community Voice guest on the show, Payton to discuss a little bit about Faeblight & role-play. Even Battlemaster Atrophinius makes a cameo appearance in this week's Overcast. Enjoy!
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Great episode i really enjoyed the guest and how he talked about faeblight rping.
ReplyDeleteGreat show this week guys. Getting better with each episode, keep it up.
ReplyDeleteGood show, guys. I play a 51 Sab spec and I really think the reason they didn't completely overhaul it is because the build isn't broken so much as it is misunderstood. In raiding my DPS is close to comparably geared marksman, and while the traps are a total waste in raids they do come in handy at times for normal PvE and rifts. Sab becomes hard to play when you're in fast-moving battles where the mobs get decimated by other players before you've even managed to get five charges off (and consequently haven't done any damage). But being able to set all of your charges and remain out of combat is quite handy. The only bomb that I find no use for is the timebomb which seems to me to just be a knee-jerk way to fill a gap in the tree - the countdown is hard to follow (especially when in vent and the tick is not so audible) and the damage is negligible for the effort.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I'm also on Faeblight, but I'm not a dedicated RPer. I started playing a few weeks before the Great Consolidation merged all of the other RP shards into Faeblight, and having seen the before and after I definitely prefer the "before." I joined an RP shard because I vastly prefer the environment... Players are generally more helpful and friendly, and having the RPers about also adds some spice to the game. It's nice to wander into an area and see emotes and catch bits of conversation that aren't canned npc responses. Regrettably since the merge there have been significantly more griefers about, and with the population so obscenely high the lag in zone invasions makes the game nearly unplayable. I do not think Trion was expecting as much bounceback from SWTOR, and Faeblight's hardware is just getting tasked to death. Tech support admits that it's a known problem, but it seems like they're hoping people simply jump ship and save them form having to augment their hardware...
I would agree for sure that Trion most likely did not expect as many returning (and new) players as they got recently. Here's to hoping the influx only grows from here.
ReplyDeleteAppreciate the comments, all of you.
-ROC