TAKEtwo | SWTOR Guild

Killed in Action: Soa (Hard Mode Cleared)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:38:11 -0500

We have no cleared all Hard Mode encounters in SWTOR, leaving us only Nightmare mode left.

This week we cleared out EV and got our first kill on Soa. We will be using Wednesday and Thrusday raids to farm some Hard Mode encounters for gear, before progressing on to Nightmare EV after we've cleared both KP and EV on Hard Mode.

Here's a screenshot of us look pretty in front of a dead Soa:

Killed in Action: Heavy Fabricator, Karagga

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:03:26 -0500

Another raid night, and some swift progress to report:

Tonight came with a one-shot on Heavy Fabricator, followed by a two-shot on Karagga in Hard Mode. TAKEtwo has now cleared Karagga's Palace Hard Mode. We also cleared out 4 of 5 bosses in Eternity Vault this run.

What does this mean? We now have a final boss - Soa - left in Hard Mode, and then it's on to Nightmare for the final stint of raid content prior to the march content patch!

Killed in Action: Jarg and Sorno, Foreman Crusher

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:17:00 -0500

We've now got another two bosses in Hard Mode down - Jarg and Sorno, and Forman Crushers. That leaves only Soa, Heavy Fabricator and Karraga to go and then we can move on with Nightmare progression.

WOOOOO.

No screenshot presented. Take it on faith ;D

Token empty screenshot:

XRR-3, Gharj, Ancient Pylons, Infernal Council, Bonethrasher

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:38:00 -0500

Raid progress has been a little stunted of late with player numbers leaving us hard pressed to fill raid spots. Thankfully, with an influx of new members as well as some outside help, we've made consistent progress towards clearing the current crop of content on Hard Mode.

Xrr-3, Gharj, Ancient Pylons and Infernal Council all suffered one shot kills, whilst Bonethrasher took a melee heavy group a bit of getting used to before getting the kill in.

Here's a token screenshot of an empty room for posterity:

Guild Wars 2: Beta and release in 2012

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:51:55 -0500

As a group that looks to play a variety of games together, I thought you'd all be interested in the following news:

ArenaNet and NCSoft have confirmed that Guild Wars 2 will go into beta and also see release in 2012. This isn't unexpected news of course; Guild Wars 2 has been in development since at least 2006, and a 6 year release window is a reasonable time frame for a well developed and polished MMO.

Guild Wars 2 promises (or alleges) to change up the MMO formula, doing away with such staples as grinding, the Holy Trinity and stale PvP at end game. Of course ArenaNet is no stranger to these claims; Guild Wars is probably one of the most revolutionary titles in the MMO genre, and steered clear of many of the mechanics that bog down titles like World of Warcraft and Star Wars The Old Republic.

As per our agenda, we'll be starting to ramp up our efforts to penetrate the Guild Wars community in the next few months. If - and it's a big if - Star Wars The Old Republic doesn't hold our interest, we'll look to other games to pass the time: one of these games may well be Guild Wars. Even if Star Wars does tide us over, it may be worth picking up Guild Wars as well as the three expansion sets; as a Buy to Play title, there is no monthly fee and it gives us something else to get our teeth into as a guild!

Welcome to the new (and final) TAKEtwo Website!

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:07:00 -0500

TO ALL MEMBERS: PLEASE USE YOUR IN-GAME NAMES WHEN SIGNING UP TO THE SITE.

Finally - after 3 different sites that broke in 3 distinctly different ways - we have a permanent home on the Internet!

In the coming week we'll be starting end game progression in SWTOR as a guild. We'll be embarking on 8-man raids with an aim to clearing the initial crop of content prior to the addition of more raid encounters later in the new year.

We're now pushing recruitment to bring up our player numbers to a comfortable level so that we can facilitate our 2 weekly compulsory raids and a third raid night for farm runs.

It's advised that all members (and applicants) head over to the forums to take a look at our raid schedule, DKP rules and other information. It's very important to be familiar with all the details so that there is no confusion during raids.