How I Got My First Suit of Wookiee Armor

I logged in early this morning and saw a few mails from the guild… today was wookiee armor day, when the armor design was released to live, so our armorsmith (who had presumably little to do before, since there was no wookiee armor in the game) had a very busy day.

I had donated some Yavinian leathery hide to the cause yesterday — that was the rarest ingredient for the suits, but the armorsmith was low on wooly hide, common but needed in bulk for the suits. I met another new guild member and a more senior one, who was playing in the evening to our morning (he was in Sweden).

We hunted tortons, big-ass turtles that shake the ground when they walk and tremble it when they fall. We harvested hundreds of hides and I joined multiple groups — the player from Sweden went to bed, the armorsmith himself joined in for a bit. As a bonus I made a little money and got a lot of experience.

We were having a tree out in our front yard, so I was home and played most of the day, and I was never really alone. I don’t know if it was time zones or power players with lots of time on their hands, or if people cleared out time for Wookiee armor day, but things were hopping all day. The activity was steady and good… playing alone you either feel the crowd of the bazaar or the solitude of solo missions. It’s nice to group, to be social without feeling the drawbacks of the “massive” — lag and chatter.

During a break from hunting, I made it to Naboo and got a new rifle that multiplied my best damage by 5x – 6x. I bowed to my guild compatriots in the Renaissance homage that is the central square of Theed.

I did a lot today. I hung out with a really taciturn melee fighter that took a break from our hunting to check out his resource mining installations. I trained in novice medic, because I’m sick of not being able to heal myself or others. I seriously considered dropping Entertainer, because I’m tired of being campy and want to be respected out in the field. I tweaked my hunt discourse from snarky to pop-culture humorous to minimal depending on my group members. I gave over 1000 wooly hides to the cause and, when the armorsmith gave me my armor, even though it was free to guild members, I felt I had earned it.