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Ajay "R2D2"
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Joined: July 7th, 2004 Became an Auroch and Jedi Knight: January 8th, 2006 . Stepped Down From JAT: February 11th, 2007; Retired Master Auroch
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Virtue - Jedi Council 
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R2D2 is now on the JA Hall Of Fame for his outstanding efforts as both a Jedi Instructor, and the Co-Leader of the Jedi Academy Aurochs (JAA).
R2 was part of the team directly responsible for reviving the Aurochs after the unfortunate resignation of many of the team's older members. We thank you very much for all you've done for us, R2. It won't be forgotten. 
- Virtue.  _______________ Academy Architect This comment was edited by Virtue on Feb 11 2007 08:16pm. |
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Janus - Retired 
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Hey there R2,
I'd like to say I'm going to be super active but I'm just not sure yet. I'm hoping even in my casual play style I'll be in 10-15 hours a week, but that's a rough estimate. I'd like to help you guys out in any way shape or form, just let me know! Boh _______________ Be honorable, be friendly, be trustworthy. Show respect to all whom you meet. Don't forget you learn when you win AND when you lose. Be the first to admit mistake AND the first to correct it. Be the shoulder for someone to lean on. Always remember those that sacrificed time to help you. Thank you Odan Wei, Vladarion, 3th, Moridin, n00b, Motrec, Faded, Leif, and Tido, you will not be forgotten as the ones to make you remember, it's all about fun... |
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Janus - Retired 
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Hey R2!
Yeah, it's weird, it's not an "on-purpose" sort of thing, I've been going where the road takes me y'know? Gaming-wise once JKA died out, it's not that I didn't want to be around you guys/gals, I just had other real life stuff come up and my gaming took me in other places/directions. Mostly some RL friends and I have played and switched between EQ2 -> Battlefield Bad Company 2 -> Battlefield 3 where we're at now. In addition to this, after trying the SWTOR Beta weekend last weekend, I was sold on the game. So the first group I think of when it comes to Star Wars gaming is you guys so I "came home" , thus my appearance as of late. I know the above is a long winded explanation but we go way back and wanted you to have some backstory to what's been going on. How's life treated you?
As far as guilds go, I'm crazily trying to get people applying to TJA.net so different groups of people I know end up here. I'm more than likely to get my main in on the TJA US guild with a secondary in a PVP server (I've never really PVP'ed before but I have friends that are only going PVP so I wanted to give it a shot at least). We'll see what happens, hit me up if you have any other questions and I'd love to hear how you've been! _______________ Be honorable, be friendly, be trustworthy. Show respect to all whom you meet. Don't forget you learn when you win AND when you lose. Be the first to admit mistake AND the first to correct it. Be the shoulder for someone to lean on. Always remember those that sacrificed time to help you. Thank you Odan Wei, Vladarion, 3th, Moridin, n00b, Motrec, Faded, Leif, and Tido, you will not be forgotten as the ones to make you remember, it's all about fun... |
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Cloud Senatu - Student 
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Most likely! I'll be doing my best to get on there constantly 
Cloud Senatu  |
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Cloud Senatu - Student 
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Welcome back to your old position on the Staff, R2. Its good you've decided to take the responsibility once again.
Cloud Senatu |
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Masta - Jedi Council 
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♥ _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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Siren_Mintaka - Student 
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Glad to have you back, Artoo!
- Rin _______________ Former padawan of RoseRed, and cofounder of the Wii! Triumvirate! Quote: In the words of Old Ben, "Not as retarded or as stupid as a public, but an elegant community for a more civilized age." - Jedi_Pimp
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Sauce - =^.^= 
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yeah i'll definitely try out TOR when I get the chance but if i don't, I'll definitely play it when it comes out.
As far as finesse in wow pvp goes there's just more tools available to each class to counter each other (to give you an idea, My wow ui has 50 spells/macros all keybound where as the most keys i've seen in a tor video is 24). Also, an ability may not work all the time depending on the skills/class of the person you're playing against. To give you can example, I will talk about a mage's "ice block" ability and how few classes can interact with it. Iceblock allows the mage to entomb himself in a block of ice, immuning him all incoming damage. However, the ice block can be broken by a warrior's shattering throw or a priest's mass dispel. To counter this, the mage can cancel his block early and blink (which allows the mage to teleport 20 yards in the direction he is facing) to his teammate and run behind pillar to line of sight incoming damage and be healed up. If a priest is on the mage's team, the priest can life grip/leap of faith (which would pull the mage to the priest) the mage out of range and line of sight of the enemy's counters. Alternatively, the mage's teammates can prevent the counters by interrupting/cc'ing the opposing team during the mage's iceblock. If a rogue's on the mage's team, he can gouge/blind/stun/disarm the warrior during his shattering throw or gouge/blind/stun/kick the priest during his mass dispel. However, a warrior may anticipate this by fearing the rogue or cast throwdown on him (which throws the rogue to the ground) before casting shattering throw. A priest can also fear the rogue or make himself immune to the rogue's kick (a spell interrupt) by using inner focus during his mass dispel. Alternatively, the priest can simply make his mass dispels cast speed faster (as therefore less likely to be silenced/stunned) by using power infusion (which makes him cast 20% faster). These are just a few things a few classes can do in relation to how they can react to a mage's iceblock. Some classes can simple do nothing against it. For example a paladin/shaman/druid/hunter/warlock/mage can't really do anything to counter the iceblock ability itself. Alternatively, a rogue can limit the usefulness of iceblock by casting smoke bomb (which prevents the mage from being targetable inside the smoke bomb for 5 seconds) ontop of the mage's iceblock to prevent the mage from being healed up. Also, a Deathknight can make use of a mage's iceblock by casting dark simulacrum (which copy's the target's next spell) to copy the iceblock so he can use it later as an extra defensive cooldown. Also, simple things matter too. Just like in jka, being able to move your character better while performing your abilities gives you a competitive advantage. If you can move well, you'll be better able to kite, run into, around, and behind stuff. All of these things matter because you'll be better able to mitigate damage (for example players can only attack or parry/block in front of them and most spells can only be casted on players in your line of sight. This is just to give you an idea of how wow pvp is like. By finesse I mean there are just more skills, spells, and therefore strategies/teamwork needed to succeed at the higher levels. There are far more things I didn't talk about like positioning, map dependent adjustments, team compositions/synergy, trinketing, cc chaining and diminishing returns that is really important for successful pvp. This comment was edited by Sauce on Nov 17 2011 04:31pm. |
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Sauce - =^.^= 
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i'm speaking from watching tor videos and reviews from other people who are experienced with competitive arenas/pvp in WoW.
pvp in tor is very plain. it is mostly just spamming damage and some crowd control. there is not a lot of countering or reaction based abilities that allows you to out-think someone or win by finesse. inevitably when a game is designed like that winning and losing will come down do who can do the most damage until it becomes unhealable. Open world pvp will not be fun for me at all. I pvp to play against other players under fair conditions. What I imagine open world pvp would be is whichever side has the most people will probably win. And i'm really tired of getting killed 1 v 5 and getting spawn-camped, emoted, t-bagged. I don't wanna lose to people simply cuz they have more friends that have nothing better to do. In addition, the gameplay just doesn't look very fluid. I dunno if this is because the game design is clunky or the youtube video quality sucks or the person controlling the character is inept but the fluidity that i'm used to from playing jka and wow is just not there. all in all, tor is prolly a fine game. it's sw's. it has good voice acting. it has alot of storyline options. it's a new game for the academy members to play. But ultimately, it's just not a game that I want to devote too much time to because I wanna play something that requires skill. This comment was edited by Sauce on Nov 15 2011 08:51pm. |
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Sauce - =^.^=
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i dunno man. i want to play it but i only really like pvp and tor's pvp is objectively terrible.
i'd play it just so i can play with old ja friends but i don't know how long i'd stick around or if we'll even be able to play on the same server and at the same times. for sure tor brings a new opportunity to revitalize the ja, but i can't help but feel that it won't. /sadface. maybe it's time to move on! |
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Komence - Student 
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two more years here getting my bachelor's and then four years of grad school. so about 6 years and $100k of debt. the good life  |
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Sauce - =^.^=
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justin bieber would not cheat on selena gomez! NO WAI!!!
P.S.: yeah i know the incident supposedly happened by for bieber and gomez became a couple. |
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Komence - Student
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dude that is really awesome, congratulations! getting paiddddd 
and i'm doing well, still in college. i'm studying biology and trying to go into optometry. i got an internship a couple of months ago so i've been learning under an optometrist. cool stuff so far! |
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Komence - Student 
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hey r2, how's life been? are you completely done with genius school and into a steady career yet? |
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Laziana - Jedi Instructor 
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merry christmas, R2 _______________ Proud owner of Buster Senatu's 200th & 300th, Muro's 370th, Maher's 2100th, Henkes' 1639th, Johauna's 400th, 666th and 900th, Sho Koon's 2000th and Kain Sol's 600th comment Download Laziana's lightsaber here! Glory to Arstozka! |
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Komence - Student
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dude, how excited are you about auburn in the national championship game? that should be an amazing game, really looking forward to it. i'm kinda pulling for the ducks though  |
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Roan Belouve - Retired 
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R2
It's been a while hope you are well. Just watching the Game v Ole Miss. I been thinking about posting over the last few weeks as I've been watching a lot of college football. Tigers and Cam are looking good. Roan MTFBWY _______________ *Bro to Vaxxla,Padawan of FiZZandOdan-Wei Part of the mighty Belouve Dynasty-Knight of Nippledom.Twin of Selphestal!**Proud Master to Kaelis and Acura Friend to anyone who would call me the same . Pic by the amazing Majno (merry)
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O'Liin Onasi - Student 
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I've been good man. How've you been? _______________ Comments Owned- Darth Mike's100th. Stig's 300th. BDKawika's 400th. Grycen's 200th Ryu's 222th. Kenwan Obiobi/C'au Onasi's 150th. Tidus' 30th. Padawan of Tido. Master to Fox-AJ-Onasi, and Ryu. Brother of BDKawika, and Enoch/Vamushka. Founder of the Onasi Family. Friend to many. |
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BDKawika - Student 
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I've been doing pretty good, how have you been? I've been playing LOTRO too lol awesome. _______________ Proud Padawan of 3th. Brother to O'Liin Onasi. Owner of Grycen's 150th comment, Threat's 69th comment, O'liin's 150 and 225th comment, Zadus's 125 comment, Jade Jedi's 1100th comment and 3200 comment, and Ryu's 700th comment. |
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O'Liin Onasi - Student
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ARTOO!!! _______________ Comments Owned- Darth Mike's100th. Stig's 300th. BDKawika's 400th. Grycen's 200th Ryu's 222th. Kenwan Obiobi/C'au Onasi's 150th. Tidus' 30th. Padawan of Tido. Master to Fox-AJ-Onasi, and Ryu. Brother of BDKawika, and Enoch/Vamushka. Founder of the Onasi Family. Friend to many. |
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BDKawika - Student
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R2D2! how you been man, do you still play, or visit the website? _______________ Proud Padawan of 3th. Brother to O'Liin Onasi. Owner of Grycen's 150th comment, Threat's 69th comment, O'liin's 150 and 225th comment, Zadus's 125 comment, Jade Jedi's 1100th comment and 3200 comment, and Ryu's 700th comment. |
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Komence - Student
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sorry for the late response! to be honest with you, i'm not really entirely sure. what i'd love to do is be a general manager for a team, but obviously that's quite a reach. i'd like to start out maybe as a sports journalist or something similar, but i'm not all that sure yet.
there are a couple of internships being offered in regards to helping plan out where some of the sports teams will stay during away games like hotels, planes, etc. so i'm definitely going to apply to those. i guess i really don't know quite yet haha. oh well, got a lot of time left. |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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Ah cool do me a favour bro and update me when server is up the offical one anx i'll totally play it with ya. Feel free to add me to msn monte3ee@googlemail.com _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are
Best Movie Character EVER!! |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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Whats the OR ? New update or something ? _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are
Best Movie Character EVER!! |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget
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You still playing on the SWG Emu TC? if so let me know i started on there too. Could use some funds if you have any spare hehe armor n all _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are
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Sauce - =^.^=
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she's okay too stern and combative for my taste! women belong in the kitchen! This comment was edited by Sauce on Jun 24 2010 02:53pm. |
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