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Prog updates
2 Jul 2023 23:58I've told you lot that I'm doing progression raiding in SWTOR, but not really what I've been doing.
(Quick aside on SWTOR raids: There are three difficulty levels, Story, Hard (officially Veteran), and Nightmare (officially Master). All raids come in story and hard difficulties for 8-man groups, and all except one in story and hard for 16-man. Most come in NiM for 8 and 16. There are two ez raids available in SM and HM – Eternity Vault and Karagga's Palace – then 5 "legacy NiMs" available in all difficulty levels – Explosive Conflict, Terror from Beyond, Scum and Villainy, Dread Fortress, and Dread Palace – and then there are the hardmares of Ravagers, Temple of Sacrifice, Valley of the Machine Gods, The Nature of Progress (Dxun), and R-4 Anomaly, named because their hard modes are tuned to be harder than for the legacy raids. Gods and Dxun also have NiM difficulty; R4 is the one only available in 8m groups.)
My main group finished up the last of the hardmares earlier this year, after spending way too long on Revan (last boss of ToS). Like, we spent 3 months on him – partly because of group turnover, plus we took a break to look at R4 when that dropped – but still. We did three NiM clears with timers in the same time we took to kill the fucker. Before that, we did Dxun HM and then we did Gods HM; we've now cleared all 5 legacy NiMs and have the timer on all but one. We'll spend a few weeks there (one dps not available next week, so we'll have to redo it regardless) and then do R4 HM (and gear farm) into Dxun NiM. Looking forward to it! I really like it.
My other group is a 16-person group for the 16m raids, made by smooshing the guild's two prog teams together and adding some extra people to cover the overlap. We did Ravagers and now we're on Revan. The fight's slightly less traumatic, due to there being less of a dps check and the fact that I don't need to play PT* anymore (0/10, most boring tank spec ever) (love you Ballast Point) but half the dps keep getting flung off the platform during the core burn. We made it to sub-5% a few times today but urgh. I really want to be done with this boss forever. Especially since we're heading off to Dxun next, and I like Dxun! Mutant Trandoshans is a good fight and I like the sense of flow to the place. Fingers crossed we do it next week so I can be freeeeee
(Why PT? Well, when Revan is up you can't turn your back to him or he will backstab you for a shitton of damage. Second and third floors you also have the arena doing a push/pull on a timer so you have to be careful not to be flung off the edges or into the core of death. And the third floor has aberrations that you have to look at when they explode. It's perfectly possible to do two out of three. Three out of three is just not going to happen. And on third floor there's a moment where all three are happening. PTs have Hydraulic Overrides and can just ignore the timed pull. With an implant, assassin tanks can use Deflection to do the same.)
idk ask me about my favorite raids and raid bosses?
(Quick aside on SWTOR raids: There are three difficulty levels, Story, Hard (officially Veteran), and Nightmare (officially Master). All raids come in story and hard difficulties for 8-man groups, and all except one in story and hard for 16-man. Most come in NiM for 8 and 16. There are two ez raids available in SM and HM – Eternity Vault and Karagga's Palace – then 5 "legacy NiMs" available in all difficulty levels – Explosive Conflict, Terror from Beyond, Scum and Villainy, Dread Fortress, and Dread Palace – and then there are the hardmares of Ravagers, Temple of Sacrifice, Valley of the Machine Gods, The Nature of Progress (Dxun), and R-4 Anomaly, named because their hard modes are tuned to be harder than for the legacy raids. Gods and Dxun also have NiM difficulty; R4 is the one only available in 8m groups.)
My main group finished up the last of the hardmares earlier this year, after spending way too long on Revan (last boss of ToS). Like, we spent 3 months on him – partly because of group turnover, plus we took a break to look at R4 when that dropped – but still. We did three NiM clears with timers in the same time we took to kill the fucker. Before that, we did Dxun HM and then we did Gods HM; we've now cleared all 5 legacy NiMs and have the timer on all but one. We'll spend a few weeks there (one dps not available next week, so we'll have to redo it regardless) and then do R4 HM (and gear farm) into Dxun NiM. Looking forward to it! I really like it.
My other group is a 16-person group for the 16m raids, made by smooshing the guild's two prog teams together and adding some extra people to cover the overlap. We did Ravagers and now we're on Revan. The fight's slightly less traumatic, due to there being less of a dps check and the fact that I don't need to play PT* anymore (0/10, most boring tank spec ever) (love you Ballast Point) but half the dps keep getting flung off the platform during the core burn. We made it to sub-5% a few times today but urgh. I really want to be done with this boss forever. Especially since we're heading off to Dxun next, and I like Dxun! Mutant Trandoshans is a good fight and I like the sense of flow to the place. Fingers crossed we do it next week so I can be freeeeee
(Why PT? Well, when Revan is up you can't turn your back to him or he will backstab you for a shitton of damage. Second and third floors you also have the arena doing a push/pull on a timer so you have to be careful not to be flung off the edges or into the core of death. And the third floor has aberrations that you have to look at when they explode. It's perfectly possible to do two out of three. Three out of three is just not going to happen. And on third floor there's a moment where all three are happening. PTs have Hydraulic Overrides and can just ignore the timed pull. With an implant, assassin tanks can use Deflection to do the same.)
idk ask me about my favorite raids and raid bosses?