Welcome our newest Peacekeeper, Tobinius!

[Tobinius]

The application submitted by Tobinius is as follows:

[Tcyiora]

Hello Tobinius
Thank you for applying to Pax Republica! I loved your application, it was very well written and organized.

To answer your question, we will allow alts into the guild.

Alex(Gaiutus) and I are from Canada as well! Where abouts are you? :D

I'm sure some of the members will have some questions for you, so be sure to check back often!

[timaselj]

Wow 48 years huh? If you get in, you'll be the oldest member!
I liked your app a lot. Very detailed, and leaves little room for questions. But questions there shall be!

Now I'm sceptical about them, since you're so much older than the rest of us here, but I'll shoot them your way non-the-less.

1) Ninja or Pirate?
2) Cake or Pie?
3) Your favorite game so far? If the question is too specific, then name more.
4) Do you have a favorite superhero? If so, which one and why?
5) I read you like all music. But which genre do you like most?
6) Why did you pick Jedi Consular Shadow?

And I think I'll let someone ask some more questions. Can't hoard em' all for myself.

[Tobinius]

Tcyiora wrote:

Hello Tobinius Thank you for applying to Pax Republica! I loved your application, it was very well written and organized. To answer your question, we will allow alts into the guild. Alex(Gaiutus) and I are from Canada as well! Where abouts are you? :D I'm sure some of the members will have some questions for you, so be sure to check back often!

Thank you for the welcome, and answering my question.

Glad to see that I am not alone (so to speak) as a Canadian player. I'm originally from Nova Scotia (Wolfville), but I have lived, and still do, most of my life in Toronto.

How about the two of you?

[Tcyiora]

Tobinius wrote:

Thank you for the welcome, and answering my question. Glad to see that I am not alone (so to speak) as a Canadian player. I'm originally from Nova Scotia (Wolfville), but I have lived, and still do, most of my life in Toronto. How about the two of you?

No problem at all! If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask away

That's awesome! :D I've actually never heard of Wolfville... is it a nice place?
Alex and I are in BC, around Vancouver.

[Tobinius]

timaselj wrote:

Wow 48 years huh? If you get in, you'll be the oldest member! I liked your app a lot. Very detailed, and leaves little room for questions. But questions there shall be! Now I'm sceptical about them, since you're so much older than the rest of us here, but I'll shoot them your way non-the-less. 1) Ninja or Pirate? 2) Cake or Pie? 3) Your favorite game so far? If the question is too specific, then name more. 4) Do you have a favorite superhero? If so, which one and why? 5) I read you like all music. But which genre do you like most? 6) Why did you pick Jedi Consular Shadow? And I think I'll let someone ask some more questions. Can't hoard em' all for myself.

I'm surprised to hear that I would be the oldest, since I was never the oldest in any of the guilds I participated with in WOW. Nonetheless, I am happy to be the "old man" of the guild, lol.

And let me say that skepticism is always the way to go.

1) That's easy - Pirates wear frilly shirts and funny hats with feathers in them. Now there is nothing wrong with that if that's your thing, but for me it is Ninja all the way.

2) I like to have my cake and eat it too.

3) This is a really tough question, but if I had to pick something, it would be the Myst series, Civ IV, and Oblivion. However, there are so many more that come close.

4) I think that I would have to go with Dr. Manhattan. Besides all of the amazing places you could go in the galaxy, just the mundane things would be great - I mean you could be having sex, playing on the computer, and going out to pick-up an extra spicy chicken roti all at the same time.

5) I really do like all types of music, from punk to opera, and from heavy metal to classical. However, if I had to give one genre, I guess it would be the broad genre of Alternative music.

6) I picked the Consular Shadow because it seems to be the closest class to Druid in WOW (actually, Druid was my main go to in EQ, EQ2 and WOW). The Shadow seems to be a generalist - uses weapons and magic/the force, can go invis, and I believe I saw a suggestion somewhere that there may be healing abilities too. This means that I can fill many different roles when it comes to group/raid events. I also think that it will be a great PvP class to play.

Cheers for the questions.

[Tobinius]

Tcyiora wrote:

No problem at all! If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask away That's awesome! :D I've actually never heard of Wolfville... is it a nice place? Alex and I are in BC, around Vancouver.

Wolfville is a town not too far away from Halifax (although I guess nothing is too far away in Nova Scotia). I'm not really sure what it is like now, and I was very little when we moved to Toronto.

BC is a great place to live - if I was to live somewhere else in Canada, it would be in BC, as I love the Rockies and the west coast.

[Sticx45]

[timaselj]

Tobinius wrote:

timaselj wrote: Wow 48 years huh? If you get in, you'll be the oldest member! I liked your app a lot. Very detailed, and leaves little room for questions. But questions there shall be! Now I'm sceptical about them, since you're so much older than the rest of us here, but I'll shoot them your way non-the-less. 1) Ninja or Pirate? 2) Cake or Pie? 3) Your favorite game so far? If the question is too specific, then name more. 4) Do you have a favorite superhero? If so, which one and why? 5) I read you like all music. But which genre do you like most? 6) Why did you pick Jedi Consular Shadow? And I think I'll let someone ask some more questions. Can't hoard em' all for myself. I'm surprised to hear that I would be the oldest, since I was never the oldest in any of the guilds I participated with in WOW. Nonetheless, I am happy to be the "old man" of the guild, lol. And let me say that skepticism is always the way to go. 1) That's easy - Pirates wear frilly shirts and funny hats with feathers in them. Now there is nothing wrong with that if that's your thing, but for me it is Ninja all the way. 2) I like to have my cake and eat it too. 3) This is a really tough question, but if I had to pick something, it would be the Myst series, Civ IV, and Oblivion. However, there are so many more that come close. 4) I think that I would have to go with Dr. Manhattan. Besides all of the amazing places you could go in the galaxy, just the mundane things would be great - I mean you could be having sex, playing on the computer, and going out to pick-up an extra spicy chicken roti all at the same time. 5) I really do like all types of music, from punk to opera, and from heavy metal to classical. However, if I had to give one genre, I guess it would be the broad genre of Alternative music. 6) I picked the Consular Shadow because it seems to be the closest class to Druid in WOW (actually, Druid was my main go to in EQ, EQ2 and WOW). The Shadow seems to be a generalist - uses weapons and magic/the force, can go invis, and I believe I saw a suggestion somewhere that there may be healing abilities too. This means that I can fill many different roles when it comes to group/raid events. I also think that it will be a great PvP class to play. Cheers for the questions.

Note to self: I like this man. Have to get him into the guild and befriend him ASAP.

[Tcyiora]

[Nwahs]

Good app Welcome!

[Tobinius]

Sticx45 wrote:

Two questions pertaining somewhat to this. 1. What do you like least about the shadow class (of what you know) 2. I'm not saying this is the case, and I'm not giving out any NDA covered info. This is hypothetical. But if you were to find out that a shadow is not at all a utilitary class, but very 1 track oriented. As in you could do either X or Y, but never both at once, ever. Would you still want to play it? Would you stick to your class choice, or reroll to something that fit your posted playstyle more?

1) Based on what I have been able to piece together, I think the thing I like least is that it appears that the shadow class will remain a cloth armour class. I picture it being more of a light armour form (similar to the leather classes in WOW). This answer seems like a weak one, but I don't think that could say much else until I actually get to play the class.

2) Yes, I have no doubt that the way I imagine the class being now (based on what I have read and the youtube videos I have watched) and what it will actually be like, could be very different. However, unless the class as a whole is not very well put together, I don't think that I would feel the need to reroll - I plan to play all the classes at some point anyway.

As far as play style goes, the last year in WOW I went to a new server and started playing 7 different classes all at the same time. I managed to get the 7 to around 20 before I focused only 5 of them, which I took to level 70 together (after that I took 2 up to 85 before starting to bring the other 3 up). So I had a great time constantly changing my play style depending on which class I was playing at that moment. So I am hoping that this will allow me to just go with the flow with regards to whatever kind of play style this class needs. If sometime down the line I find that I far prefer to play one of my alts, then I will make a decision at that time as to whether or not I want to change what class my main will be.

tl;dr - Whatever type of class shadow turns out to be, I will most likely stick with it in the short term.

[Atrayu Yung]

Welcome Tobinius!

I see by your profile that you just joined the TOR forums yesterday and have 0 total posts. Just curious how long have you been following TOR and how many other guilds you have looked at?

[Tobinius]

Atrayu Yung wrote:

Welcome Tobinius! I see by your profile that you just joined the TOR forums yesterday and have 0 total posts. Just curious how long have you been following TOR and how many other guilds you have looked at?

Yes, I thought that this might come up. To be honest, I wasn't really looking for a new MMO until a couple of months ago, when I finally decided that I was just tired of playing WOW (and that lack of interest has only grown with the presentation of their next expansion).

However, I have been playing MMOs now for so long, that I really enjoy them, so I started looking around at what alternatives there were or were going to be. The first one that caught my interest was The Secret World, but then I started to see stuff about SWTOR. So for roughly the last two months I have been doing research about the game, and then when I decided that I was going to give SWTOR a try, I spent quite a lot of time deciding what class I wanted to play and whether to start playing on a PvP server or not. Towards the end of this time (maybe a week ago or so), I started to think about whether or not to join a guild before or after the launch date.

As I started leaning towards the idea of joining a guild before launch date, I started looking various guilds over. What I thought would be a hard choice between Republic and Empire turned out to be extremely easy - there are waaaaay more PvP Empire guilds, so being on the Republic side will be much more fun in my opinion. Then I started lurking on the main SWTOR website forum and several mid-level Republic PvP guilds in my time zone, finally deciding on PR. So it may appear that I just came out of nowhere and picked PR out of a droids head, that is not the case.

[Arkathos]

As a fellow Canadian, I welcome you Tobinius to the Pax Republica forums. I've been horrifically busy (and should be on a LOA lol), so I apologize for not having viewed this sooner and responded. Everything looks good and I provide you with the Consul's stamp of approval.



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