[What is taunt?]

Newby question: What does the phrase Taunt mean. I have been in some flashpoints where someone says to stop taunting. Feedback is appreciated.

 

Usually this means that someone (maybe you) has a companion that is automatically using their Taunt ability. This interferes with the tank's ability to grab/maintain aggro. If you are using a companion that has a taunt ability, you'll want to shut it off in Flashpoints and raids.

[Targeting Friendlies for healing?]

I simply click the group UI frame of the person I want to heal and press a heal keybind. The only issue I have is that companions aren't shown in the group UI frame at the moment but I'm hoping they'll add that in soon.

[Razr Naga problems]

Also, this post at the top of this forum: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=141027

[Razr Naga problems]

I bought a Razr Naga and I have noticed sometimes one or two of my num pad hot-key buttons decide not to work when fighting mobs. I thought it might be b/c I was getting silenced or a number of other in-fight reasons, but then I noticed sometimes the hot key on the mouse (and likewise the num pad on my keyboard) would still not work after the fight was over.

 

Has anyone else had this problem with the Razr or is it a driver problem with my computer?

 

Thanks

 

There is a current in-game issue with abilities not firing when they're supposed to. There's a thread here: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=152112

 

As a side note, I also have a Naga. If I remember correctly, there was an update to the software shortly before SWTOR launched. I haven't had any issues with the mouse at all but have noticed the issue described in the above link.

[Hit the spacebar!!]

OP, one simple sentence will shut up these types of people:

 

"When YOU start paying my subscription fee, then you may dictate how I spend my in-game time".

 

Shuts 'em up every time

[Promoting Community Fan Sites In-Game - Bannable offence?]

I wouldn't take any chances by advertising URLs in public channels right now. At least not until the in-game Customer Service team figures out how to distinguish between credit spammers and guild/fansite advertising.

[Advice: raiding w/ weird job schedule?]

So I'm in a bit of an odd situation. Last year around this time and for years before, I had a normal schedule job, raided like normal people do - in evenings after dinner, that sort of thing. Now I'm working a 2nd shift job. This means that I start work about 14:00, and get back home about 23:00.

 

Now sure I could just find a late night raid guild and reroll on their server and hope to get in. But... here's where things get even worse. I live in Arizona. Now Arizona was brilliant enough to do away with observing Daylight Saving Time. Yeah, sure, it sounds neat at first, but what it really means is that half the year I'm in PST, the other half of the year I'm in MST. So let's say I join a guild that starts raiding at 22:00 Pacific. That means that half the year I can just barely make it on time (because I get home at 23:00 Mountain = 22:00 Pacific) ... and the other half of the year I'm still at work and won't be home for another hour.

 

That means that I have to find a guild that STARTS raids AT MIDNIGHT my time, just to compensate for the time zone shifts that happen in my lovely little dusthole of a state. I've made a LFGuild post here after my first thread got locked (go figure, a "looking for guild" thread in the Guild Hall forum, I think the mods need to read their own sticy )... but still no replies, and I'm a bit worried that RL situations like this destroy one's ability to raid.

 

Alright. So that's my story. Any advice?

 

TLDR:

 

Does anyone raid with a job with weird schedules and has figured out a way to deal with it? Does anyone here raid from Arizona and has found a way to cope with the timezone fail?

 

Hiya Avanaco,

 

Yeah, you're in a bit of a pickle, aren't you? It's not impossible to find a guild that runs content during your available hours, but it won't be easy. Here are a few things I would try:

 

-Start your own guild and build your raid team around the hours that you are consistently available. I see a lot of people looking for guilds that run ops during 'off-peak' hours. Our guild has had good luck in the past by being on a PST realm running EST raids.

 

-Find a large guild that would welcome an additional raid leader to run another set of scheduled raids.

 

-Weekend raiding guilds are rarer but also not impossible to find. They typically run longer raids on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

 

That's all I can think of for now. Good luck!

[The Ideal Guild Quiz!]

Thanks for doing this Dink! I tried to submit my guild right around Early Access launch but we didn't participate in the Guild Program once we found out they would place us on a server of Bioware's choosing.

 

I resubmitted my guild's application this morning with our Recruiting thread in place of the Guild HQ url.