I was checking out my newly earned Shield skill on my Bounty Hunter, and had an idea.

This shield artwork looks allot like the shields deployed by Droidekas in the Movies. It would be cool to add this artwork to high-end Droidekas. Like my badly botched Photoshop image below.

Maybe make a Droideka-based Heroic instance, where you earn the right to fight the baddest ass Droideka Ever! With a scary name, like …

Stewart

Recently, we were doing the Nightsister Heroic, and the Group Leader was informing us noobs what we need to do during the Battle. At one point during the fight, he would tell us different dots that we need to switch to. Like “Fire”, “Acid” and so on.

I found this request a little daunting. Basically, I am a Crafter that occasionally likes to kill things. I knew my weapons had different dots, but I do not have them memorized. Most of you hardcore combat types can do this in your sleep, but I need help

I created a basic macro with a matching icon for each type of dot.

These macros are not really functional, so they can be anything. They will be used as a visual guide. I placed the different icons above the weapons, based on what dot they have. Basically, a quick visual guide.

In the above example, I can quickly switch out to Energy, Kinetic, Cold, Acid and Heat Weapons.

Ofcouse, if they start talking about “procs”, I am screwed

Massively.com interviews Star Wars Galaxies producer Lorin Jameson

Read HERE for Mr. Jameson’s take on the success of the Exar Kun instance, hints at a new expertise subsystem on level with the Beast Master, and hope for a better future in the Galaxy Far, Far Away. “We have fixed a number of long-standing issues and have added some dynamite new systems and a slew of new content. It is our intention to continue this trend and I expect to be saying the same thing about 2008 in mid-2009. We know we have a lot of work to do to meet our players’ expectations for Star Wars Galaxies, but it is a fun challenge to have and we are lucky to have such a committed and loyal fan base.”

I have been working on the Creature resource collections with my Commando with the full Beast Master Template, primarily because I am reminded of the Ranger profession. I completed the Bone Collection, and the full Creature Resource Collection.

The Bone Collection gave me a full skeleton decoration.

Completing the Full Creature Resource Collection gave “Beast Knowledge: Forage”.

This is a skill you can teach Pets, also called Sniff Out Plant Enzymes

I called my 4 pets, the Rancor, Grand Wrix, Bolotaur and Giant Sand Beetle. All got Invalid Pet Type.

I checked the original Message in chat window, and it referred to “Truffle Pig”. A quick forum search confirmed I needed a member of the Porcine family to teach this to.

I went back to my DNA Storage House and found a 32% Zucca Boar DNA and a 87% Roba Bull DNA. Zucca’s are cooler looking, but I went with the higher % on the Roba. I had some old 14 Hydros, and started the process of creating a new Pet Pig.

According to the forums, the Sniff Out Enzymes give you better chance to forage Lysase enzymes. Admittedly, this is not all that uber of a skill, but it will be fun to test it out

I grouped with 2 other Bounty Hunters (thanks Aeons and Apollyn), and we wondered Yavin bounty checking the NPCs. We made decent progress.

Soon after this screenshot was taken, we got the Thief, so I am just down to the Convict. The others had both finished theirs, and were doing it a 2nd time. Apollyn had his new DC-15 Rifle equipped.

There is also a Carbine. Grouping with others is helpfull, because of the 30 minute timer on a successfull Bounty Check.

Time to login and find my pre-nge Bantha. Aeons offered to trade a Guardian Lightning Cannon for it.

The trials to get the new jedi cloaks will challenge all but the luckiest of players. Starting at an npc in Tyrena, jedi must complete both the meditate and backpack collections, turn in a jinsu with 10 jedi relics and complete an assorted array of parts of some Heroic Instances. While some people will not be up to the challenge, many will and will wear their robes with pride and dignity. That said, the cloaks come with other options, perhaps not as available to the untrained eye.

The new cloaks can be worn with either the hood up or down. That difference will also affect the stats. The cloak is a 4 stat item, with a different benefit for light or dark siders. All users however can take advantage of the extra items that can be worn with them. Jedi can wear the cloak with a bandolier, and with the new graphic option can also wear a hat, and have it hidden, in case they don’t want to look like a crazed meatlump. Of course both the hat and bandolier can have stats on them, increasing the overall points spread for the player. The cloak also benefits from the two-piece bonus with the jedi belt. Jedi with a cloak are able to wear modded hats, shirts, gloves, pants, bandoliers and boots and of course a new crafted saber with an open slot.

Personally I will look into getting a new ORH. The +75 and open slot will help me more in the long run than the added 100 dps points, but that is just me. Jedi everywhere should start laying out thier plan for modded clothing, that is if you haven’t already!

I noticed something about Egg Collecting; The system WANTS you to collect eggs successfully.

For Instance, sometimes you get a message that YOU DID NOT FIND ANYTHING. Don’t give up, immediatly try again, and you usually will get eggs.

Sometimes you will get a message that you found Creatures instead of Eggs. Try again, you usually will get Eggs.

You can also find Eggs in NPC bases.

Even NPCs understand the importance of a good breakfast!

When I started grinding my cl1 Bounty Hunter, I mentioned I wanted to try a little experiment. While I was doing ground and space missions, I sold EVERYTHING I looted. I wanted to see how fast a new player in Star Wars Galaxies could get to the One Million credit mark.

I reached 1 Million credits at cl32.

So, I never want to hear any player bitching they have no money!

As long as you don’t spend like a drunken Corellian, you can have a nice bank balance. Don’t buy stuff that is essentially useless!

BTW, I have a pre-NGE Satchel (Legandary) for sale, for the low low price of 350 Million!

I was working on my Forage Collections (Milk and Hide this time) when I remembered an Entertainer buff called Harvest Faire. But, then I was dissapointed ….

5% increase on the number of resources gathered with harvesters.

Huh? Is this usefull to anyone? My Munitions Trader has 3 Elites down constantly to stock my Resource vendors. I log him in, check the harvesters and logout. Does this buff work while you are offline?

Seems to me a Harvest of creature resource buff would be much more usefull. Anyone use this buff?

In the past two weeks we talked about both the Light and Dark side templates. It is obvious that the devs have created a bit more variety in the style of play for jedi with these revamps. But alot of people wonder about grey siders. For you grey siders, here are some things to keep in mind.

Stance and Focus
Only one or the other will be active at a time, and allow access to the moves for that side. Stance is for Light side moves, and focus allows force attacks. The main reason to keep this in mind is lightning, choke or saber reflect will all need either the stance or focus to work. The up side is that the stance or focus will remain in effect until you turn it off.

This creates a situation of having or needing to rely on the general expertise to supplement attacks if one does not want a full darkside tree. Greysiders can also use the force throw snare, and shockwave damage if they onl want to be lightside in heal, but to get the 10k heal you will have to spend some points as it has been moved down the line now.

The general point to keep in mind is that jedi have been balanced back in line with the other professions. Not all of us will have access to a 10k heal, and we will have to supplement that in other ways if we sacrifice it for attacks. Those that do have it, will have to make sure they are supplementing their offense capabilities through heroics, gen 5’s and such to keep up with the Dark side burst DPS.

Darksiders similarly are not locked into having to take drain. A full DS template would have drain to supllement as a heal, as well as the modifiers to power up drain. Having nothing but lightning, shockwave, force throw and cloak may reduce your overall burst damage, but would allow for a decent pve template with escape potential and a variety of attacks. Mititgate the loss of the 10k heal and you’re back in the game.

Simply put, If BH’s, Commandos and spies can survive with less than a 10k heal surely the jedi of this game can adapt!

Light Jedi, hood down and hood up. Followed by Dark Jedi, hood down and hood up.

NOTE: I added a Poll Widget on the sidebar. The poll is Jedi related. If you get the chance, click on your response (not an ad)

Part 2 of the tricks to help sell more clothing items. I present more examples today. Again, some of these names may seem silly, but they do sell.

Lined Shorts renamed as PIRATE PANTS

Quilted Pants renamed as HIPPIE CHICK PANTS

Shorts renamed as DAISY DUKES

Signet Ring renamed as PVP CHAMPION. I also rename the regular ring as WEDDING BAND

Double Robe renamed as MATERNITY DRESS. (these don’t sell well)

Cargo Vest renamed as FISHING TACKLE VEST

Padded Pullover renamed as BASEBALL UMPIRE