Thursday, July 31, 2014

Nightmare Dread Palace Guide

Fail Raid's 8-Man Guide to: by Stippling Subject to change, subject to errors....

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Nightmare Dread Fortress to Maintain HP Levels

Hey folks,I spoke with the team regarding this, and the health of the bosses in NiM Dread Fortress being left at Nightmare values after the removal of Nightmare Power was intentional. There was some feedback regarding the reversion to Hard Mode values and so the HP was left unchanged. The removal of Nightmare Power does still lower the damage dealt by the bosses. -tait ...

Friday, June 6, 2014

Scheduled Maintenance: June 10th, 2014

On June 10th, all game servers, SWTOR.com, and the launcher will be unavailable while we perform scheduled maintenance. Game Update 2.8: Spoils of War will be implemented during this downtime. Details are as follows:Date: Tuesday June 10thDuration: 6 hoursTime: 2AM PST (9AM GMT) - 8AM PST (3PM GMT)During maintenance, all updates and additional information will be posted on our Twitter account.Thank you for your patience...

Friday, May 30, 2014

Dread Master Brontes Part One

Facelimb x6 Combo by Ortheka Oh the horror!  I vowed when I begun this personal project of writing guides for SW:TOR that I wouldn't cut corners. I wouldn't say "the boss does an AoE that hurts," but rather explain the mechanics of that AoE (whether it projects on the ground, on a player, on the boss), the cast times, the cooldowns, the damage type, etc. so that there was a compilation of easy to access information for all. While...

Friday, May 23, 2014

Game Update 2.8: Spoils Of War PTS Update 3

Flashpoints + Operations Made balancing adjustments to encounters within Nightmare Dread Palace. Players can no longer use gap closing abilities while carrying the Seed of Knowledge during the Dread Master Calphayus encounter in the Dread Palace. During his Dread Palace encounter, Dread Master Tyran's Inferno ability no longer deals damage outside of its affected area. ...

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Patch 2.7.2

Flashpoints + Operations Gate Commander Draxus can longer be summoned and defeated multiple times per Dread Fortress lockout. Fixed an issue where Nefra, Who Bars The Way would not attack players standing in certain areas of her room in the Dread Fortress. Corrected an issue which unintentionally granted Energy Spheres immunity to Challenging Call and Threatening Scream during the Dread Master Brontes encounter in Dread Fortress. Not...

Friday, April 25, 2014

Progress is Beautiful

Written and Illustrated by Paul Connolly So I've been pretty busy since the release of 2.7 and Nightmare Dread Fortress. Between <Failure> steamrolling through the first four bosses and real life undergrad work coming to a head, I've simply had no drive or energy to work on the guides (senior year papers make any additional writing feel like a bad rash in your brain). What I can say is that I've procrastinated my way through the worst...