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SWTOR Beta Ends Here’s Some Tips

Howdy folks, how’s it goin’? So as a complete surprise to me, my wife received an invitation to 1 more weekend beta test for SWTOR, I looked in my email and I hadn’t received anything yet. About 30 mins later I did. w00t!! We logged in and ran as Smugglers this time. We were in the previous 2 weekend tests too. We never ran as the same class before, it’s pretty fun, it makes it easier for some of the harder boss’s. Not that we got very many levels, only lvl 12 this time. We learned a few things though.

First off, ALWAYS TAKE ANY MISSION YOU CAN, you get a lot of XP and most of the starter quests are quick and easy. Don’t pass them up. You’ll be glad you did later on down the road…

Second, make sure you find the bind points so that you travel back anywhere you have bound. They were usually in cantinas and by the taxis. I can’t remember the name of the special to do it but the cooldown is 30min. That worked out well for us.

Third, make sure you click on the taxi droid to have the point stored. Using the taxis is the fastest way to travel at first and a necessity, so you need to learn it right away. They will show you where you can go from their point and the connecting routes for all of the other taxi droid points you have stored.

SWTOR is going to be fun but I’m gonna miss SWG, SWTOR is not a replacement. SWTOR looks good and I hope it does well. I haven’t got into the crafting side of it much and I’m interested to see some end game stuff too. I did try the warzone feature. It queued me up into a group of 8v8 with toon levels from 11 to 50, I was the 11 LOL. I did get a kill and I died few times too. It was fun. The warzone I was in was like a capture and hold map where there were 3 huge turrets shooting at ship in space. The object was to hold those turret points. Pretty fun stuff!!

Well I’m outta here for now, here’s a screenie of the final minutes in the last beta weekend, Dance party in Coruscant!!

Party at the palace

See ya later,

Mark

www.mogs.com

SWG Has Atmospheric Flight

Hello again folks!! This time around I’m going to talk a little about something that we SWG ‘ers have been asking for since the game added space ships. Atmospheric flight.

With the addition of atmospheric flight you can call any of your spaceships from almost anywhere on the ground and it will launch you into the atmosphere. If you don’t have an ITV set to where you want to go you can just fly across the planet. It takes about 2 minutes to go from one side of a planet to the other now, it’s fast!!! If you are going to take advantage of flying in the atmosphere be careful. They have collision in the game for the ships too. What this means is that if you hit the side of a mountain, you’re gonna take damage. (LOTS OF IT)

Here’s a few pics of my B-Wing above our city, New Boonta Eve.

There are a lot more ships in the game other than the B-Wing. It’s too bad though, the game is still closing and now no one can play unless you had a paid subscription on September 15th. If you did then you get to play the last months of the game for free. I wish this game, that has so many unique things and play styles in it, didn’t have to go far far away……

Mark

Mogs.com

SWG Closing December 15th 2011

SO SWG IS CLOSING!! I hate to say it and its really sad. I went to bed one night and woke up to the forums being offline, normal for SOE sometimes. After the forums came back up this is what I found. on 06/24/2011 12:46:08 this was posted on the official SWG forums.

SWG / SOE and what they’re doing now…..

So most of you probably know about all of the trouble Sony has had with the PSN and SOE system. It was hacked.

As part of their “Make Good” program, every active SWG account is receiving a Boba Fett Slave ITM miniature ship model. They are also running the Bonus Everything Weekend from now until the Tuesday after Memorial Day!

I also checked the TCG and found that i had 3 free booster packs and 1 choose any loot card pack. I of course chose the Ionized Tibanna Gas Display. It looks like a lot of people did.

Thats the hard one to get!! NOW ITS FREE!!

SWG Galactic Civil War 2 – Space Update

We all know that space has needed some help in SWG for a while. It’s still reayyl awesome but it needs more. It looks like they’re working on it, and it looks good.

In addition to new GCW scenarios in space, they are also introducing the ACE Pilot System where you can battle against some of the best pilots from classic Star Wars™ lore. How would you fare against Wedge Antilles or other famous Star Wars characters? Find out in the GCW2 Space Update coming soon to a galaxy near you! I cant wait!!

Being able to fly against Wedge or maybe even Anakin, what a hoot that would be. He was supposed to be one of the best!! I’m interested to see these new scenarios they have lined up for us and there better be more than 1 for each faction.

Mark SWG Guru

The Frosch Bunker and the Prototype IG-88 and Prototype Stormtrooper

The Prototype IG-88 and Prototype Stormtrooper are almost lifesize models of these characters that you can build in game. The loots drop from Frosch Guards and the other Frosch NPC’s inside of the Frosch Bunker on the planet Corellia outside of the city Kor Vella at /waypoint -3679 3402.

For the Prototype IG-88 you will need-
IG-88′s Head
IG-88′s Left Arm
IG-88′s Right Arm
IG-88′s Left Leg
IG-88′s Right Leg
IG-88′s Torso
IG-88 Base Stand
Wooden Dowel
and for the Prototype Stormtrooper you will need
Prototype Stormtrooper Head
Prototype Stormtrooper Left Arm
Prototype Stormtrooper Right Arm
Stormtrooper Collection Helmet
Added by Reomyr Euro Infinity
Prototype Stormtrooper Left Leg
Prototype Stormtrooper Right Leg
Prototype Stormtrooper Torso
Prototype Stormtrooper Stand
Wooden Dowel
Here is a map of the inside of the bunker

Here is a typical Frosch Guard

I hope this gives you all some reason to go killing these Frosch folks, they are all level 90-91 and pretty easy to kill. Good Luck and have fun.

Mark
Mogs.com
SWG Guru

My SWG Pets and their Use

Mark the SWG Guru here, this time around I’m going to talk about the pets I use in SWG and what I use them for. First off let me just say the SWG has made it easier for you to level your pet to level 90, its nice and you wont need to use the XP bonus stims anymore.

The pet i use the most is my Nexu hes a 60 point pet and because i have full Beast Master skills he does some wicked DPS. That goes for all of my pets except for my Kliknik. My Nexu has a Damage of 1030-1583 with a base DPS of 871. He has all 4 abilities, as do all of my pets, Bite 4, Claw 5, Provoke 5, and Slash 5. the provoke comes in handy for running instances. here is a pic of my Nexu.

Nexu - Most Used

This one is my Rancor. Hes my goto pet for PvP. He’s also a 60point pet but i need to get a better Shaken ability for him. Here are his stats. Damage 1005-1545 with a base DPS of 850. he has Charge 5, Dampen Pain 4, Shaken 1, and Stomp 5. It’s the Stomp and Charge that make him so helpful in PvP. Stomp is an AoE attack and Charge will root the target, good for catching a Jedi on the run. here’s a pic of my Rancor.

Rancor - PVP Pet

This next pet is a 60 pointer too but I don’t use her that often, mostly for show. The coveted Kimogila. She doesn’t have all 4 of her abilities yet because I have yet to learn them myself. Her Damage is 1038-1596 and base DPS of 878 but her abilities are only Bite 4, Disease 2, and Provoke 5. If I had all level 5 abilities for her I think she’d be my goto pet for PvP. here is a pic of my Kimogila. imagine if I had all lvl 5 abilities, I’d love it.

Kimogila

Here is a pet that I have just because he reminds me of a little green Jedi that we all know, Yoda. Hes a finicky little guy and isin’t always happy. Hes a 55 point Woolamander and hes green too, and I named him something close to Yoda. He serves his purpose well and I can use him for just about anything but hes usually used when I’m fighting ranged opponents. His stats are as follows, Damage 912-1402 base DPS 771. His abilities are Bite 4, Disease 2, Defensive 4, and Provoke 5. As you can see the Provoke is in there again. It really helps keep aggro off of you.

Woolamander - Tank

This one is my first level 90 pet, hes only a 37 point pet but he packs a whallop. Hes a Kliknik. I can use this pet for PvP or PvE it doesn’t matter he gets the job done. For only being a 37 pointer hes really tough his Damage is 953-1467 and base DPS is 806 and he has Slash 5, Claw 5, Dampen Pain 4, and Damage Poison 4. All of the stats I have here for my pets in SWG were taken while they were Ecstatic. It really helps to keep them happy.

Kliknik

I hope this gives some of you a reason to level up a pet in SWG or try the BM profession. I don’t make the pets I just use them to KILL!!!!

Mark@MOGS
SWG Guru