OotiniCast Episode 142
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We cover what little news there is, along with the usual community talk and feedback. In our discussion, we talk through user interface fundamentals, including our own choices and why we made them.
1. Introduction
2. Tip of the week
Congratulations to this week’s winner, Greg! Thanks to Dracko, Chong, Tait and Corwynn for entering.
Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Wednesday for a chance to win a M8-R3 code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.
3. Holofeed
- The latest three questions from the class representative programme have been answered for Sages and Sorcs.
- The first standalone Star Wars movie that will be released on 16 December 2016, in between episodes 7 and 8, now has a director (Gareth Edwards, best known for Godzilla) and screenwriter (Garry Whitta, who despised what George Lucas did with the prequels).
4. Community
If you’re interested in writing some fanfic for SWTOR, why not try Chadrassa‘s SWTOR fanfic challenge? She has a FAQ, a place to suggest your own challenges, to introduce yourself and a starting set of challenges.
If you heal in SWTOR, you may want to visit @HealingSwtor‘s healingswtor.com, a site and nascent podcast dedicated to the art of healing.
See this forum thread for how to enter Dracko’s lottery.
Kuze is starting a casual raid group, which he’s calling the Jawa Joyride, to do ops and world bosses on Wednesday afternoons (US time).
Our guildmate Morriah, an experienced player who is very willing to teach others, is hoping to form a leveling group to do Flashpoints and heroic missions that would run on a couple of weekdays (US afternoon); see this thread in our forums if you’re interested.
If you’re in one or both of our guilds, please follow @OotiniKnights and/or @OotiniRage. Our guildmate Ferrous Terran is now able to utilise both to keep everyone informed of the latest happenings.
5. Force Feedback
We discuss tweets, emails and comments from The Malgadar, Mark (@mark_swtor), @ForceChuckle, JB (@O_JohnnyBravo_O), @fnord3125, Aaree (@AramonNoir), @swtor_miner, Brad, Kuze, Oofalong, Ilmaren, Joe, Matthew, Craig, Spikey Joe, @darksplat, Terg (@TheTurg), Greg (@GregCarter78), @DouglasMallette, and Spero.
Meet Buzé, Kuze’s alter ego!
Joe believes that fans of Sons of Anarchy may enjoy this:
Aaree reminds us that the three cinematics—Deceived (YouTube), Return (YouTube), Hope (YouTube)—are very much worth watching again!
One of Greg’s favourite datacrons:
Douglas Mallette recommends Do You Want to be a Sith Lord?, a parody of the Disney movie Frozen.
SWTOR Miner wonders why this awesome looking guy never made it into the game:
6. Sarlacc Digest
We attempt to answer GasGuy’s questions about setting up one’s user interface. Here are the UI screenshots that we reference during the discussion.
Chill’s UI
Red’s UI
Kuze’s UI
Teo’s UI
7. Outro
Thanks to Kuze (@kuze_roh, YouTube) and Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) for joining us this week.
Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.
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My main is a sorc heal. I’m not for the suggestion of the consumption ability not costing life as I don’t find it hard to manage. But that said. To use it right I need to keep myself shielded for the hot and keep my other hot up on myself in order to be able to use consumption as needed. So I do see how it would help. If I don’t need 2 gcd’s to keep those hot’s up then I’m using them on my group… So it would help, and if you are using consumption without the proc’d stacks you kill your force regen, so there is a downside/ cost… You can’t just spam it as you guys said. So it’s not as OP or dumb a suggestion as you guys seemed to think… Just my two cents.
One of things you guys didn’t mention in your UI descriptions is any parsing program you have. Do you use parsec? If so, how is it setup with the rest of your UI? What pop outs? Might be good to include raiding UIs/soloing UIs/etc.
Great show, been listening since start.