Denial – Anger – Bargaining – Depression – Acceptance (but mostly Acceptance!)
I’ve been accepted into Jen’Jidai and it makes me very happy. Being pretty busy lately I’ve doing my best to get involved and to meet and greet my new guildies.
I’ve also started to rp.
This rp has only taken the form of writing my bio but I’ve recieved encouraging responses so far. It has been much easier to create the story and allow other readers to envision me as a tank and I hope to continue my story with the same fervor that I’ve started it.
The only downside of this guild is that it is an east coast guild . Well not a downside for them, more of a downside for me. Having been in a west coast guild previously my work schedule didn’t matter as much since most events didn’t start til 9 EST anyway.
Not so much for Jen’Jidai.
I’m trying to make sure that I can make the meetings. I was able to get to the bounty hunter meeting, which was very informative, but I missed out on the mandatory meet and greet due to premade plans that I couldn’t miss. I’m not sure how attendance is counted or how to make the most effective use of my limited time. As of now I’m trying to stay active with my Bio and the main guild history RP thread. I’ve also stay in vent as much as I am able and have gotten to know a few members better through playing the Aion beta with them.
All in all the guild looks great, I’m going to try to be an avid member and find my niche.
SW:TOR Tanking speculation
Being that I love tanking I’be been trying to dig up some tanking info on The Old Republic. They haven’t confirmed a “Holy Trinity” style of play yet but they have said that there would be raids and I find it difficult to have a raid without someone to take the serious hits.
Three classes have been revealed so far: The Trooper, The Bounty Hunter and the Smuggler. Its safe to assume that Both sides will have a Force sensitive class and that the Empire side will have a smuggler equivalent (Likely an Assassin/Rogue). In less they intend to give The Trooper and Bounty hunters Stun Batons/Vibroblades and a Shield, I can’t picture any other class being a tank other than the Force user. I picture a Jedi/Sith tank using a two-handed grip on their Lightsaber and having decent crowd control.
Then again these could just be my hopes coming though.
To see the general feeling on Tanking and traditional class roles I hit up the Official forums, which turns out to be rather depressing.
Traditional anything isn’t really whats being shouted from the loudest posters. A lot of people seem to want Bioware to come up with a magical solution to the problems that they don’t like in the games past.
I’ll have to keep hoping that I’ll get to tank and we’ll see what happens. I hope more than anything that Bioware sticks to their guns, produces the game their way and doesn’t release it until it is ready (EA be damned).
The Older Republic
Of all the news coming out of the E3 one video garnered my undivided attention. Bioware has released a Video for Star Wars: The Old Republic called Decieved.
It has been a long time since I’ve anticipated an MMO release, but I can’t wait for SW:TOR. I had been browsing the forums for information and I’ve noticed quite a few guilds forming up. I was writing up an application to dark side guild named Animosity when a friend of mine, Witchcraft, starting telling me about Jin’Jidai.
Jin’Jidai looks to be a harcore PvE,PvP and Rp guild, they have a great website and the forums seem to have a great friendly feeling to them. I copied down the application immediately and took my time filling it out. I posted my app that night and was given an interview time for tuesday. I think this bodes well for the guild, they genuinely care about who they accept.
My Interview Tuesday went well as far as I know, they asked a lot of good questions. I haven’t heard back from them yet but I believe the interview went well. I’ll be happy if they accept me.