124724-4-14-2015-morning-coffee-the-fun-with-friends-edition

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I found a mug for Tex!
 
 
Anyway, Wildstar is best played with friends, I've found.  Last night, after a really rough day at work, I had time to log in!  Crazy, right?  Anyway, I logged in and got to help a random group with a pair of Hycrests and the DPU in Farside.  It was going good and I was feeling better.  That's when Sanrlon asked to form up a Normal SSM run.  Well, I hadn't done SSM since just after launch and never tanked it, so it sounded good to run a normal.  Anyway, I wasn't the leader, it was San and another player he knew, Kiri.  They queued us in and.... nothing.  Nobody is running normal SSMs anymore.  So they decided to just run a random vet.
 
And we got Vet SSM.  So that was sort of the deep end for me.  Couple people in the run I didn't know, a dungeon I barely remembered, and one I never had to tank.  But these colors don't run!
 
So we were doing pretty well, despite me not remembering a damn thing as we went, until we got to Rayna Darkwhisper (the fire wave boss).  That's when inexperience (and a randomly bad connection on my part) started killing us.  After two wipes, the two random DPS left, leaving us with just San and Kiri.  I went to our guild and pulled Cycotik into the run.  They then queued in another DPS, a Julie Anne, who turned out to be a pretty good apple.  After another wipe, we got Rayna down.  Then Kiri had to leave.  Luckily, Feida Veil, of Perseus Veil, decided to run with us on his Medic he's gearing up (and he got me a WAY better runed Shard of Vitara, so thanks for that!) and joined in.  Now, keep in mind, we had Cyco, who had never done SSM before, Julie, who we didn't know, San, who had only run it once, myself, who hadn't run it in nine months and never as a tank, and Feida, who actually knows what he's doing.
 
That team was good enough to get the holdout done on the third try, then get Selene down on the third try.  And I looked up, and it was one in the morning.
 
Time flies when you're having fun, and it turns out that having fun is all about playing with great people.  Who do you like to play with?	
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Oh, I need that mug now.  :lol:
 
As for who I like to play with ...
 
Uh.
 
Does it sound bad if I say "I like to play with myself?"
 
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Okay, yeah. That sounds pretty bad.  :ph34r:	
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I like to play with my wife :)
 
Beyond that there's the folks in my circle, but as you know I also just like to queue up and give it a whirl.
 
I'm glad your SSM run went well and you had fun. I really enjoy it when I have time for it. If you are ever looking for someone for SSM or ANY vet dungeon and I'm on, give me a holler. I always like to help when I have availability.
 
My wife and I ran some vet shiphands last night. I think we also accidentally uncovered an exploit which I won't discuss here, but we reported it to Carbine. We also did a veteran SC- she loves that place and we were helping an alt of our raid's main tank get attuned for Thursday. We had a pug along and he lost patience with us. Then we replaced him with another person from the circle and about 10 pulls later mordaci went down. My wife is STILL working on not dying on that fight, but she's getting better :)  Even our seasoned raiders were dying on it. Gotta love that even being in fantastic gear won't protect you from dying in these dungeons. :)
 
Anyway, the pug was rude and ratcheted up the tension with every wipe. I was glad when he finally gave up. I think I prefer pure pugs or pure people I know over mixed groups. I don't like people giving my friends a hard time :(	
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
This is my day :)
 
I haven't logged in for the past week. Been busy in RL and taking a much needed break. But am starting to get the 'gaming itch' again, so may be on tonight.
 
The kind of people I like to play with are like minded to me. Willing to learn the mechanics of a fight and not getting upset over wipes or mistakes. Willing to laugh at those 'stupid' mistakes. "Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to drop that bomb on your head and get us both killed. Maybe next time I can do better and take out the whole group." :D  I do believe the people in Blazing Saddles are all like minded. We are all willing to wipe several times to learn a fight and no one gets mad. We truly enjoy grouping with each other. That makes a game fun!
 
Well back to work. Hope you all enjoy your Tuesday!	
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I don't play with anyone in Wildstar. It's been a pretty unusual experience with this MMO, actually. I'll often level solo to remove distractions, then guild up and make friends for endgame. Wildstar was the flipside... I ran guild PVP to 35, leveled fast to 50 to endgame PVP, then left the guild, stopped PVPing, and became a builder. I've pretty much just run a few pug veterans since then.
 
Because of this, I actually miss dungeons quite a bit, and even raids (though not the scheduling). I love cooperative ARPG gameplay but I don't play WS like an MMO and probably never will, so I guess I'll be 'floating in space' until another MMO comes out that can provide better instanced content, or WS releases new dungeons with good rewards, or even improves on the challenge factor of other instance types (adventure, shiphand, excavation). I enjoy WS and it's been a very unique experience in several ways, but I miss tanking or healing through dunjons. :3
 
In the end I'm pretty thankful for the RP community on Dominion. I've not been too chatty in recent weeks, but without that social anchor I would likely have left WS months ago.The Dominion has not been healthy enough to support solo players very well. :(	
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I'm probably a giant weirdo, but I like to play with almost everyone. The only time I ever had a negative experience in-game with others was this one guy in PVP going "wtf why are you RPing here!? !@#!@#1ing Evindra I swear", but that was funny to me and minor. I enjoy the company of Dominion and Exile players and even though I main on Exile now I try to keep in touch and help my Dominion buddies too. In some sense it's been actually better for me and my friends when I swapped main factions as it's given us a bit more of the RP we were looking for(more conflict based),but I do wish grouping and such was cross faction...
 
I'll miss my friends I haven't seen log on in awhile, but everytime I log in I meet someone new and have a great time. 
 
EDIT: Also normal war of the wilds is an absolute B!@%#. My god...It's like the hardest thing I've ever done lol	
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Good morning! The weekend's been pretty eventful, I've finally had a chance to tank veteran dungeons with my engineer. It's been... an experience, but I managed to tank through the first four dungeons! I still need to keep tabs on volatility so I don't dip to nothing, but overall I've been doing pretty well. And on top of that, I somehow got the Silver Screening achievement as I did (Well, having GA-geared people for Sanctuary of the Swordmaiden helped.) So yeah, I think I can take on just about any role people would ask of now, which is nice!
 
And then monday was okay, got a shiphand or two in, helped with a world boss.
 
Defense Protocol Unite is a jerk, I still don't get how the construct cavalry works in terms of keeping them from attacking other people.	
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Good morning! The weekend's been pretty eventful, I've finally had a chance to tank veteran dungeons with my engineer. It's been... an experience, but I managed to tank through the first four dungeons! I still need to keep tabs on volatility so I don't dip to nothing, but overall I've been doing pretty well. And on top of that, I somehow got the Silver Screening achievement as I did (Well, having GA-geared people for Sanctuary of the Swordmaiden helped.) So yeah, I think I can take on just about any role people would ask of now, which is nice!
 
And then monday was okay, got a shiphand or two in, helped with a world boss.
 
Defense Protocol Unite is a jerk, I still don't get how the construct cavalry works in terms of keeping them from attacking other people.
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WotW is difficult?
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My handful of experiences with normal mode (I didn't do it much because it gives horrible xp) is that it is harder than vet mode. But perhaps it's just because I have more experience with vet.
 
This is also what I remember about Seige as well. Though I don't think I've touched normal since launch and it may have been due to us not knowing what in the world we were doing :P
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WotW is difficult?  If you're on Exile, hit me up on Seeger sometime.  I'll take you through it and give you a rundown.
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I've done it no worries(gold on both versions), but by comparison to the veteran counterpart and the other adventures it feels far more difficult at level(no scaled down players). 
In addition to having much more ground to cover the AI is extremely wonky. The warrior champ as example kept resetting its health because it basically had no cooldown on leap and bugged itself out(lol) among other little things.
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I'll play with most anyone to be honest, though PvP matches are getting much closer to harassment even given the somewhat more relaxed environment there with regards to trash talk.  There's banter and then there's harassment, and it's not particularly a hard line to find.  I do hope Carbine pays some attention to that in the future.
 
Long day yesterday but ended with Ohmna attempts.  Lots of wackiness along the way from Ohmna herself, but didn't stop us from getting into Phase 4 on several occasions.  Tentacles are melting, platforms are staying up, and need Phase 3 perfection and I think we're going to get this worm finished off.
 
Worst tequila ever. :-)
 
New sofa arrived this morning.  Will have to balance playing Wildstar tonight with enjoying the sofa.  Sofa... Wildstar... Sofa... Wildstar... 	
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Oh and a bonus image from our very own Behalter who likes to create posters from "Heard in Raid"
 	
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Oh and a bonus image from our very own Behalter who likes to create posters from "Heard in Raid"
 
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Heh.
 
Me, I'm very moody in anything I play.  I'll go days where I want to group, and then days when I just want to play alone, talking via chat. (I'm currently in just want to chat mode for the most part.)
That said, my SS is needing to do adventures, so I'm aiming for them this weekend, force myself to be social	
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Time flies when you're having fun, and it turns out that having fun is all about playing with great people.  Who do you like to play with?
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