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Here's what's been happening on the blog in July!

The Shrine of Silence is Pretty Spiffy - Everything I love about the new flashpoint

Galactic Season 4 in Review - Final thoughts after achieving all my GS4 goals

Savanna Vorantikus Returns! - The story of a meme

Playing Story Catch-up - I talk about some "between-seasons goals" I'm working on

Republic Saboteur, Part 1 - After finally getting a suitably aligned Republic character far enough in the story to turn traitor, I detail her story from Iokath to Onderon

The Interpreter's Retreat - More detailed thoughts on this new planetary area

Republic Saboteur, Part 2 - My saboteur's adventures continue on Mek-Sha and Corellia

Planets I'd like to revisit - Since it worked pretty well for Voss, where else would be fun to return as part of the story?

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Here's what's been happening on the blog in August:

Never Knowing What Comes Next - I get a little melancholy about the way SWTOR's content cadence has always been somewhat irregular, especially when compared to other MMOs

Romance Review: Base Game Guys for Gals - My opinions on the original romances for female characters - clearly a highly relevant topic in 2023!

SWTOR Moves to the Cloud & GS5 Changes Direction - My thoughts on these two pieces of news

My Very Own Malgus - I got the Black Series Malgus figure and he's the SWTOR merch I always wanted

A Long, Slow Goodbye to Twitter - Musings on the support role that particular social media site has played for the blog for over a decade and where it's going

Saving TOR Fashion - Some thoughts on the importance of fan sites and just how much work goes into them

What Is Conquest and Why Should I Care about It? - An attempt to provide a concise answer to that question without going into too much detail

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Thanks for your blog. I've been following it since about 2018 and enjoy seeing your perspective on things since it's different from mine (solo player here). Sorry, I don't comment there because I don't have a blogger account and hate creating new accounts, especially just to comment on one blog. That's not a knock on you though, just on how restrictive blogger is with comments.

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Well, it's not so much a Blogger account that's required as a Google account - I figure lots of people have free Gmail accounts and such. But I get it, I wish there were more options (and there used to be). Now the only other thing I can do is allow totally anonymous commenting and let's just say that hasn't always worked great in the past.

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Here's what I've been talking about on the blog in September:

Take That, Brontes! - Sharing a little joy about an operations achievement

Strange Conquest Drama - A short tale about how Total Galactic War apparently brings out the worst in some people

Patch 7.3.1 and Galactic Season 5 Are Here! - I pick my favourite patch notes and comment on them

PvP Season 3 & A Look at Some Battle Records - Some musings on the season after completing the reward track and a look at my PvP stats since seasons were introduced

The Hunt for the Best View Returns... Again! - I get excited about the Best View contest returning and share my submissions from last year

Notes about Galactic Season 5, Week 2 - Thoughts on companion, operations and flashpoint objectives in GS5

Star Wars: Visions Season 2 - Sharing some thoughts on the episodes that came out in May

Life in the Cloud - I summarise the move to AWS from a player perspective

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Whoops, forgot to post my monthly update here last week! Here's what I wrote about in October:

Thoughts on the Ahsoka TV show - I definitely liked parts of it, but it just didn't come together into a satisfying whole for me

The Devs Speak - In which I profess to see hints of the devs being a bit happier/more relaxed in their interactions since moving to Broadsword

Galactic Season 5 Story Review - GS5 is still going on, but the story can be completed once you hit season level 40, so I wanted to write down my thoughts on that

Master Mode Flashpoint Tips: Infinite Army Prototype - Just a little guide as I noticed there seemed to be almost nothing out there about this boss

A Livestream About 7.4 And Beyond - My thoughts on the 7.4 dev stream and which items I was most excited about

Peace Out, Again - My pacifist character hit the level cap again - sadly, it wasn't that exciting the second time around

Thoughts on Dxun Master Mode and NiMs in general - People clamour for more NiMs, so I was surprised to find that there's very little documentation of some of the existing MM ops even years after their release

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On 9/20/2023 at 2:32 AM, Tiranea said:

Well, it's not so much a Blogger account that's required as a Google account - I figure lots of people have free Gmail accounts and such. But I get it, I wish there were more options (and there used to be). Now the only other thing I can do is allow totally anonymous commenting and let's just say that hasn't always worked great in the past.

Sorry, I didn't see your response until now. When logged out, it says "Sign in with Google." Once logged in to Google, the button changes to Sign in with Blogger. Clicking the button goes to a form to create a blog. There's no way to comment without filling out that form to create a blog.

I understand you have to do what's best for your site. I'm not disappointed or anything. I hope for the best for you and your site. I continue to check every few weeks to see your perspective on what's happening in the game. Thanks.

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That's interesting to know, thank you! As this is the first time I've heard of this... but then I guess a lot of the people who comment more regularly on my blog are already registered with Blogger as well so wouldn't have noticed. 🤔

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Gah, I need to be better at remembering to post here at the start of the month! I know we're well into December now, but here's Novembers summary for now:

Looking Back at SWTOR's Patch History - A massive post in which I look at SWTOR's content cadence over the years in terms of releasing story updates, group content, new planets and more

Mysteries of Mek-Sha - A bit of a short rant about the incongruence of everything on that planet

Surveyed! - I write about the survey that Broadsword sent out in November, what sorts of questions it asked and my personal answers to them

Hotblooded on Hoth - About the experience of trying to get kill credit for world bosses while on your own

New APAC Region Server Launching TODAY! - Let's just say, I was very surprised to see the Shae Vizla server launch as it did!

Enjoying the New Server Smell on Shae Vizla - My experiences playing on the new server immediately after launch

Liabilities of Taris - How hunting named mobs for seasons can turn into an unexpected bit of fun

GS5 Review: Star Forge - TL;DR: I joined a guild and it made everything better

A Week of APAC Adventure - More observations about life on a completely fresh server

GS5 Review: The Leviathan - I made some new alts and struggled with bonus series bugs

GS5 Review: Tulak Hord - I experimented with doing guild conquest by myself in a mini-guild

I enabled non-logged-in commenting again for now after the previous exchange by the way... we'll see whether it causes any issues with spam etc.

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Hello Shintar/Tiranea, congratulations on 12 years of SWTOR blogging! Like ThanderSnB, I have run into obstacles trying to post messages on your blog itself. Earlier today, I thought I might finally manage it (since there was an option to post using a name and URL, rather than having to log in to anything ... I didn't recall having seen that option before), but then the platform just returned an error whenever I tried to post. Oh well. If that had worked, I was going to start posting about the Shae Vizla (APAC) server, as I'm probably in the minority being an Australian who hasn't created a character there yet. I plan to do that eventually, but it isn't a priority right now. Considering SWTOR factors alone, the main reason I haven't left my current home server (Satele Shan) is because I'm in a great guild here (Elders of the Republic/Elders of the Sith). Anyway, congratulations again! 🙂 - DB

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You wouldn't have seen the anonymous comment option before, because as I mentioned above, I enabled commenting without logging in after seeing what people were saying about having difficulties posting here... bummed to hear people are still getting errors even when trying to use that 😭 but that may just be a general issue with Blogger then. Quite annoying though.

Anyway, thanks for the nice words and I do hope you enjoy SV whenever you do check it out. 😉 Though I totally get wanting to stick with your guild on SS.

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Happy New Year! December was another busy month on the blog; here's what you might have missed:

GS5 Review: Satele Shan - What I got up to on that server during Galactic Season 5

7.4 First Impressions - New gear, shiny dyes and bugs, oh my!

Chains in the Dark Story Review - My in-depth review of the 7.4 story update (with spoilers)

A Great Dev Interview - Basically a plug for an interview done by the New Overlords podcast, with some choice dev quotes highlighted

The Shae Vizla APAC Server Is a Month Old Today - Impressions of how things are going

SWTOR Turns Twelve Today - I look back at a pretty momentous year and how I felt about it

Twelve Years of SWTOR Blogging - My annual review of what I talked about on the blog

Enjoying Life Day - How MMO holidays can sometimes deliver when real life doesn't

Galactic Season 5 in Review - What I thought of this season as a whole

Will We Return to Hutta in 7.5? - I look at what looks like a deliberate hint at what's to come on the new loading screen

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I've been pretty busy on the blog in January, updating some widgets and evergreen pages for the first time in ages - didn't realise my characters page hadn't been updated in almost seven years for example, oops.

There was also the usual number of regular posts though:

Is SWTOR Unusually Bottom-Heavy? - I muse on whether the low-level game is more popular/important in SWTOR than in other MMOs

Struggling with Credits on Shae Vizla - Life at endgame is expensive nowadays, and you notice it more on a fresh server than on any of the old ones

Thoughts on the New Galactic Trade Network - Some pros and cons of the new interface

Guild Level 600 - My guild hit max level without me even realising... I feel a little melancholy

Meeting the Curator - Thoughts on the Lane Vizla story continuation that came with 7.4

The End of Galactic Season 5 & The Future of Shae Vizla - My thoughts after finishing the GS5 reward track on the new APAC server

PvP Season 4, Arenas & PvP on Shae Vizla - My experiences in my busiest PvP season yet

Seeing How the Other Side Lives - Three things I didn't realise people liked/cared about until I became part of more casual guilds on other servers

Around the SWTOR-sphere: January 2024 - A round-up of some SWTOR content by other creators that I found and enjoyed throughout the month

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New month, new monthly summary! These are the posts I made in February:

Bring Back Kuat Drive Yards! - In which I realise that I really miss KDY and campaign for it to return to the group finder

Kessan's Landing - Thoughts on the new map/daily zone that came with 7.4

Bad Romance - About the strange experience of replaying the Quinn romance after a decade

7.4.1 Dev Stream Highlights & Thoughts - What it says in the title! A new stronghold and date nights, oh my!

Three Months of APAC Life & Waiting for Transfers - About the situation on the Shae Vizla server three months after its launch

Republic Saboteur, Part 3 - Impressions of playing through the latter half of Onslaught and Legacy of the Sith as a Republic saboteur

Around the SWTOR-sphere: February 2024 - I once again share some SWTOR content from other creators that I considered interesting throughout the month

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Here's what I posted about in March:

Back in My Day: Datacrons - Musings on how datacrons and our relationship with them have and haven't changed over time

Jumping into PvP Season 5 - I enthusiastically throw myself at a new season after more than a month's break and talk about what a different experience it can be on different servers

What Have We Lost? - I take stock of what has changed since the move from Bioware to Broadsword

Patch 7.4.1 Is Here! - Comments on my favourite patch notes

Galactic Season 6 & Reputation - I talk a bit about the changes to reputation that came with GS6 and that the devs forgot to announce

Persistent Pet Pals At Last! - I celebrate a decade-old bug finally getting fixed

Shintar's Galactic Season 6 Diary, Week 1 - Insight into what it can be like to aim for 7/7 weekly objectives completed on all servers

Drop In: Mek-Sha - I visit some strongholds for seasons and comment on them

Date Night With Theron and Arcann - My thoughts on the two date nights I was able to access so far

Shintar's Galactic Season 6 Diary, Week 2 - Another week of seasons objectives across all servers

Around the SWTOR-sphere: March 2024 - Once again I share some links of interesting SWTOR content I encountered throughout the month

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April has been a bit of a weird month on the blog as it's been pretty much all Galactic Seasons, all the time! (Plus some stronghold tours inspired by Galactic Seasons objectives.)

At (Token) War with the Czech Empire - A tale of a tough battle between two guilds during Total Galactic War

Shintar's Galactic Seasons Diary, Week 3 - Despite of being focused on Conquest on Darth Malgus, I still managed to get some things done on other servers, mostly by killing world bosses and blowing up womp rats with exploding barrels

Drop In: Alderaan - Visiting some differently themed Alderaan strongholds on different servers

Shintar's Galactic Seasons Diary, Week 4 - in which I do entirely too many flashpoints while playing mostly as a knight or inquisitor

Drop In: Manaan - People like datacrons and palm trees on Manaan, I found

Drop In: Nar Shaddaa - Visiting different Nar Shaddaa strongholds and finding the remnants of old "deco spam"

Shintar's Galactic Seasons Diary, Week 5 - in which I have some interesting experiences pugging False Emperor and Legacy of the Rakata

Shintar's Galactic Seasons Diary, Week 6 - in which I get quite fascinated by the named champion mobs on Corellia

Drop In: Rishi - There's more than one way to decorate a Pirate Hideout

Around the SWTOR-sphere: April 2024 - Interesting posts and videos I found in April

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May has been another bunch of Galactic Seasons adventures, but don't worry if that's not your cup of tea - more normal business will resume soon!

7.5 Dev Stream Highlights - A post in which I shared my opinions on what the devs previewed on Twitch for patch 7.5

Shintar's Galactic Season 6 Diary, Week 7 - In which I do a lot of questing and am starting to feel a little burnt out for the first time

Shintar's Galactic Season 6 Diary, Week 8 - In which companion objectives almost make it feel like there isn't even a season on

Drop In: Tatooine - I visit some Tatooine strongholds across different servers

How's the Shae Vizla APAC Server after Six Months? - Something for people interested in server population - I specifically interviewed a bunch of players that play there for their input too

Shintar's Galactic Season 6 Diary, Week 10 - A week in which I craft and PvP and generally once again underestimate how long everything would take me

Drop In: Copero - Let's see what people got up to decorating the newest stronghold!

Shintar's Galactic Season 6 Diary, Week 11 - The last of my GS6 diaries

Around the SWTOR-sphere: May 2024 - Sharing some links once again, with a bit of a music theme this month

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With Galactic Season 6 slowly winding down, I've been posting about other things again in June:

Spring Abundance - First impressions of the new spring event

Drop In: Yavin 4 - In the last installment of my drop-in series (for now), I visited a number of public Yavin 4 strongholds

Being in Guilds on Other Servers - I look back on how my attempts to be social on other servers have gone

Legacy Level 50 on Star Forge - A short bit of reflection on this achievement

Desperate Defiance - NOW We're Getting Somewhere! - An in-depth review of 7.5's newest story update

PvP: Queues, Rewards & Healer Power - I ramble a little about some concerns I have in regards to PvP

The Abundance Festival in Review - More thoughts on the spring event after doing it religiously for four weeks

A Year at Broadsword - What has changed for us as players?

Where Is the Group Content? - A question I've seen a lot of people in my social circles ask in recent months

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July has been another busy month on the blog!

Mount Sale Shopping Tips - I had some advice for how to make the most of the big Cartel Market mount sale while that was going on

Galactic Season 6 in Review - My thoughts on everything GS6: theme, rewards, objectives, story & that pesky Blueprint Fragments achievement

My 7 Favourite Post-Launch Story Updates - The expansion storylines don't always get a lot of love, but I appreciate many of them!

Adventuring With Bessi - My thoughts on our little Basilisk droid so far

The Acolyte (No Spoilers) - My review of the latest Disney+ Star Wars show

Brief PSA: Shintar No Longer on Twitter - What it says on the tin

7.5.1 Dev Livestream Notes - Opinions and impressions of everything new that was announced there

Flying Robots, Account-Wide Surprises, Decoration Sale - Just some random thoughts on a Friday

Playing as a Male Character - I get a bit philosophical about why it took me more than a decade to complete a class story as a male character

Around the SWTOR-sphere: June & July 2024 - The (bi-)monthly link grab bag returns!

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