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extrapenguinNow that Christmas is well and truly over, and I've slept on the matter, back to the posting meme! trobadora asked about something I did in 2022 that I never did before.
I suppose there are some trivial things I could mention (visited $place for the first time, that sort of stuff), but I'll go with something nerdier. This year was the one in which I took up progression raiding!
What is progression raiding, you might ask? Well. It is a MMORPG activity. Your average MMO has multiplayer activities which include things called raids: usually for a large(ish) group of players, featuring gameplay mechanics that require multiple people and coordination to complete, and available in multiple difficulty settings. (Difficulty affects stuff like boss health, boss damage, and mechanics.) Progression raiding involves a group of people tackling the harder content together and then moving on to another raid once they've cleared one.
I joined a group for Star Wars: The Old Republic in February – just before the 7.0 expansion hit – and after a bit of reclearing to gear up, we've done Dxun and ToS hardmode, Queen, most of R4, and now we're doing Gods. We'll probably return to R4 after we've cleared Gods, and then head off to nightmare modes. (The group cleared Ravagers just before I joined.) There was talk of starting with TfB at some point. We might squeeze in Monolith at some point.
I really enjoy it! I like everyone in my team, and tanking is super enjoyable. I like being responsible for positioning, basically, and as a jugg tank main, reflect abuse is great. The perfect intersection of these is tanks on EC, where I stack the spires and then the DPS pop their reflects, stand in the middle of the spires with me, and make appreciative noises.
(Also, reminder that December is almost over, time to pick up your DW ponts and paid accounts.)
trobadora asked about something I did in 2022 that I never did before.I suppose there are some trivial things I could mention (visited $place for the first time, that sort of stuff), but I'll go with something nerdier. This year was the one in which I took up progression raiding!
What is progression raiding, you might ask? Well. It is a MMORPG activity. Your average MMO has multiplayer activities which include things called raids: usually for a large(ish) group of players, featuring gameplay mechanics that require multiple people and coordination to complete, and available in multiple difficulty settings. (Difficulty affects stuff like boss health, boss damage, and mechanics.) Progression raiding involves a group of people tackling the harder content together and then moving on to another raid once they've cleared one.
I joined a group for Star Wars: The Old Republic in February – just before the 7.0 expansion hit – and after a bit of reclearing to gear up, we've done Dxun and ToS hardmode, Queen, most of R4, and now we're doing Gods. We'll probably return to R4 after we've cleared Gods, and then head off to nightmare modes. (The group cleared Ravagers just before I joined.) There was talk of starting with TfB at some point. We might squeeze in Monolith at some point.
I really enjoy it! I like everyone in my team, and tanking is super enjoyable. I like being responsible for positioning, basically, and as a jugg tank main, reflect abuse is great. The perfect intersection of these is tanks on EC, where I stack the spires and then the DPS pop their reflects, stand in the middle of the spires with me, and make appreciative noises.
(Also, reminder that December is almost over, time to pick up your DW ponts and paid accounts.)