Archive for the ‘Lore’ Category

SWTOR Flyby: Taris (Republic)

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Greetings galactic travelers! My apologies that it has been so long without a fresh SWTOR Flyby for your reading pleasure. Truth be told I was on a flyby of my own this past month visiting the amazing country of South Africa, which I highly recommend, but those are stories for another time. Today we are [...]

SWTOR Loading Screen: Altaholism

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Hello. My name is Jean, and I’m an altaholic. I hold no shame for the fact that I use a spreadsheet to keep track of my alts, with new tabs for each MMO I play. When I first jumped on the Star Wars: the Old Republic bandwagon, I prepped a sheet of proposed character names [...]

SWTOR Loading Screen: Player Housing – Yea or Nay?

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Some MMOs have it, some don’t, some have no plans to introduce it, but the subject of player housing has come up with reference to Star Wars: the Old Republic, and I’d like to offer thoughts on the subject to our faithful readers. My experiences with MMO-based player housing mostly revolve around the methodology of [...]

SWTOR Loading Screen: Skankwear And Dudewear

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Over the past few weeks, since the cartel packs have become a thing, something else became a thing and I began wondering why. To date, we’ve had four cartel packs that have commonly dropped orange adaptive gear whose express purpose was to showcase a character’s… attributes. For the men, there was a single item of [...]

Companions 101: Aric Jorgan

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Today BioWare released another in their Companion 101 pieces!  Courtney Woods put together a great blog post on Aric Jorgan, the first companion for the Trooper class.  Assisting her in giving great depth and background on this character is Charles Boyd, the lead writer of the Trooper class story. While Jorgan’s demanding personality makes him [...]

Game Update 1.7 – Return Of The Gree Preview

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Today, BioWare released the first information on Game Update 1.7 – Return Of The Gree.  There are 2 parts to this update, a new recurring event that focuses around the Gree and Ilum, and a new game system, “Galactic Reputation”. See below for details. NEW RECURRING EVENT: RELICS OF THE GREE Explore Ilum’s contested area [...]

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