111 *NOR/News The Old Republic

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“You know, sometimes I amaze even myself.” – Han Solo –

A New Hope. There was a fabulous turnout for the NOR swToR G.L.U.E. (guild led unity event.) This was the first time I have had the privilege of attending a swToR Glue, and I have to say it was great fun! We had a wonderful adventure, and travelled to many different destinations throughout the galaxy. Special thanks to our Branch Leader, Duke Intisar for doing a wonderful job planning this. We also were able to mount up in walkers and stomp around on Corellia. Lord Tundrra has also added an award ribbon to the NOR profiles of everyone who attended. Did you know you have a NOR profile? Are you like me and cannot remember when you joined NOR? Forgot when you were promoted? That is all on your NOR profile, along with milestones, when you were recruited and who recruited you.

One of the things we have developed over the years in swToR is the need to keep things lively and fun. We have accomplished this through the many Shenanigan’s during fun runs, many between guild member’s. Most seem to be for our wonderfully patient, or maybe not so patient, but actually patient Branch leader. Recently we have discovered the joy of trying to see how many raid member’s we can get blown up without dying during a couple of wonderful world boss mechanics. It appears that we may have all been upstaged when Intisar decided to blow everyone up at once during a fun run raid. He now holds the record for most collateral damage given. It was only a momentary setback, not done with bad intent, and one hundred percent hilarious at the time.

The newest Star Wars season is now in full swing, and with it comes a subscriber login tokens. Logging in 4 times in a week will earn you a subscriber token that can be used as a way to catch up on gear quickly (non NOR content creator SWTORISTA has posted a recent video about this.) The current season is focusing on flashpoints; these are small 4-man raids that can usually be completed in a half hour to hour time depending on level of difficulty and amount of chaos that the group decides to take part of. You have not truly experienced a flashpoint speed run until you have had the blessing to run one with our very own Captain Chaos. There may be one or two people in the guild who aspire to do the same, but sadly we cannot compare to the true Captain of Chaos. And, we should be seeing our first big story update in the fall.

We have started progression raiding some of the more difficult content, and with last weekends run tackled “The Nature of Progress.” We made great progress for not having run a veteran mode operation this challenging in a while. Yours truly held the great honor of being the first sacrifice for the run. With our amazing healers, tanks and DPS, we one shot Red, made it through the holding pens and reached the control center where things got really interesting. The guild made their first clear of the control center “According to Plan” Monday night. I have no doubt the Mutant Trandoshan’s will fall in a spectacular manner soon.

Both the Republic and Imperial side guilds have reached level 500. We will also be hunting down something new soon.

Baron Gonzowill
*NOR/BA-swToR