What Are You Playing This Weekend?

20 thoughts on “What Are You Playing This Weekend?”

1. The wife and I are playing The Sims 3. I'll never shake off that super weird feeling having my sim play a video game. If you zoom in really close, you can see the sim playing Skate. It would have been better if you could have them play The Sims 2. Then it would be art imitating life imitating art that's imitating life… like an M.C. Escher of video games.

   I also still have to get the Robin DLC for Arkham City. I guess I'm hoping against hope that it'll go on sale one of these weeks, although I don't think the price would be reduced any more than $2, so I'm kind of questioning my own stinginess here. Lastly, I have Portal 2 and Gears of War 3 now officially in the queue, but I probably won't get around to starting either one until I complete the Robin DLC and/or The Sims 3.

   -M

2. SWTOR has officially taken over my life. I am finding it damn hard to find full groups for the Heroic missions though (mostly a lack of healers).

   1. You don't have your healing companion yet? The droid is one. Most classes get 2 heals to choose from. But you need some sick dps, CC, or be a tank (like me).

      The bonus series are so damn hard!

      1. Well, I simply don't trust a Companion healer in a Heroic 4 mission. And the Droid sucks. I can't find droid parts anywhere. As a pure ranged DPS (Gunslinger), I generally need a Companion who can tank and keep the enemies off of me, otherwise I go down in a heap pretty quickly if I get mobbed.

         Also, it seems like the Imp to Rep ratio on my sever is roughly 3-1 in favor of the Imps.

      2. Yeah Heroic 4s can be tough but you can do it with your companion healer and some CC. Just will take about 10 minutes per pull. I do it on my juggernaut when nobody I know is online. However in your situation it's kinda rough. Are you doing pure dps talents? Maybe put some points in the healing tree so you can mend your pet/tank?Don't worry about upgrading the droid. He can't even gain affection. He's for crafting only :P

      3. Yes, C2-N2's sole role in life is to change my ship's air circulators to have the scent of Alderaanian nectar and over-stuff it's seat cushions to make sure I'm comfortable. That and going out on crew skill missions. He never sets foot outside of my ship with me. I have a ranged tank a Melee DPS and a ranged DPS as my other 3 companions though, so no true healer outside of the droid, whom, I still can't find droid parts for anywhere.

         I went Gunslinger, not Scoundrel – so I have no healing tree. I'm all about ranged attacks – Guns, Grenades, etc. Most of my better attacks have a charge time or are AoE, (which can work against you in Heroics because AoE has a tendency to pull). I've been going straight up the Sharpshooter tree to add more attack power, but I may take a few things in Dirty Fighting as well.

         I have like 5 Heroic missions on my board that I can't even find groups for. One on Alderaan and 4 on Nar Shaddaa. It's damn near impossible to find healers on the Republic side on my server. I did one Heroic 4 with a group of 3 and one companion healer, and it just didn't work when we got to the boss, because the person who's companion it was (the tank) would go down and then the healer would go down too. Did it later with an actual healer and my tank companion and it worked fine, because as the ranged guy, I can stay out of the damage area and my companion will stay up so long as someone's dropping heals on him.

      4. Which heroic is it on Alderran? Me and a friend struggled to do it because it was bugged depending on where you stood. Insufficient Staff I think it was called. It spawned the 50k and 80k mini bosses simultaneously and the waves of mobs appeared very fast.

      5. Red Handed. I have apparently not been online at the same time as ANYONE ELSE that needs to do it, and I can't go through a Heroic 4 by myself.

      6. Yeah that one was a bitch too.

      7. Yep. And on Nar Shaddaa, it's the same problem – no one ever online to do groups when I am. It's the 4 Heroics from the bonus series, which popped up at like level 31 when I came back for a class quest, and everyone else on planet is in the mid 20's.

         Either way, I've moved on to Balmorra for now. I may come back since it's the weekend and see if anyone's actually online.

      8. Yeah the Nar Shaddaa bonus series is by far the roughest of the bunch. Alderran isn't a slouch either but it has nothing on Nar Shaddaa. Put it this way..the NS bonus series has put me about 4 levels higher than any content I've been through since.

      9. I don't think I have the Alderaan bonus series yet. Probably because I haven't finished Red Handed. Hm….

         I'm level 36 right now, bordering on 37. I don't want to get too far ahead of these missions, because then I won't get anything for them XP wise. But at the same time, I don't want to spend my whole time online LFG instead of enjoying the story.

      10. You access the bonus series by completing your class story line on that planet and being high enough to get the quest series. Being higher up isn't bad. The mobs aren't worth too much and the quests start giving out 15-20k xp for completion. I only needed to gain 315k for lvl 41 which i just hit about 3 mins ago. Hence replying so quickly. :)

      11. I guess I'll have to go back and look for where to find the bonus quests on Alderaan then.

          I'm enjoying the class story for the Smuggler a lot. My next character will probably be Imp for balance, maybe a Sith Inquisitor that I do all light side responses with for the redemption effect. We'll see….

      12. Haha my friend is an imperial agent, the equivalent of the scoundrel, and he's doing light side.The series always has the initial quest giver in the first area you land in for the zone.

3. WARNING! A CHALLENGER APPROACHES!
   WILD ROO APPEARED!
   POKEMON INC. used "Copyright Infringement" on Roo's cuteness!
   …But it had no effect!

   Just letting you know, I thought Roo was one of Black and White's Pokemon when I first saw the article. Yes, for Pokemon's appearances, it's all downhill from here.

4. Not much this weekend, just trying to do some reading (Heat Wave, The Gunslinger, and The Picture of Dorian Gray are all currently in my carousel). My next book has a few possibilities, but it could either be The Eyes of the Dragon (once The Gunslinger is finished) or I might start The Hunger Games series as it is supposed to be very good and the series is fairly cheap (free if I used my one free book a month with a Prime membership and took three months to finish the series).

   I'm also playing Pokemon Black. Just leveling up some Pokemon in the Elite Four and doing subway battles so I can get a couple power items. Soon I might start battling some online, we will see though. I'd like to finish my pokedex too, but in order to get all the trades I would need that would take a time commitment I can't make right now. I'm also not sure what moveset to give my Haxorus, so he is sort of just sitting around unused right now.

   I also think I might start breeding a few pokemon for natures only and EV training from there, then if I find something I want to use really badly I will IV breed it. One thing I need though is a 0 speed IV ferrothorn with a negative nature to speed for trick room purposes. I have no experience in breeding for ) IV's and haven't found a good trade yet.

5. best buy is having a buy 2 used, get 2 free sale this week, this is the last day…

   so ill be going up there to sift through the ashes, maybe something worthwhile may still be there?

   1. and no…nothing good left

6. Patriots!!!

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