137930-morning-coffee-61015-treat-yoself-to-a-guild

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 Woke up, took an artsy picture of my coffee. Look how cool I am! So cool. That I'm bragging about how cool I am on a forum full of angry people out there.At least I think they're still angry? I really don't wanna poke my head out and see.  I've got my coffee, this window open, talking to guildies, and listening to B52's Mesopotamia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FyLcHxbSRk So onto WildStar. If you're a new player. This is the best advice I can give you: Join a Guild. Not just any guild, cause some out there will tell you to put strike through on your healing gear, or a +100 armor. Phew I've seen some bad runeing lately from some people! Don't just join for guild perks, cause chances are that's a zerg guild and they have no idea what they're doing either! What you want is a guild who knows what they're doing, a guild that is willing to take you under wing and teach you the basics proper. Ya know what I mean? On Jabbit Dominion I've seen lots of new Community guilds popping up, and I think that's amazing. I really honestly do. Jabbit Dominion needs someone else besides me to invest in the community. Not that I mind doing it, I love helping people and pushing them on the right path. :) I might pass some of this swag I have onto them for their guild events and stuff, I mean if that's the kind of thing they're doing. Now, I didn't make this thread to talk about my guild, not really, but last night blew my mind so I'm gonna gush for a few, don't mind me. We had our first F2P Guild Meeting last night, the serverr booted us out halfway through so that was funny xD (There's over 40 people there by the way, hence why I'm gushing!)We have lots of fun events planned for Jabbit Eu, Warplots being one of them once the lag settles down.  Secondly, I announced the costume contest categories last night at the guild meeting, so ya'll are the second to hear about it (cause I still need to make shinies for the official thread)Categories are gonna be:best group/duobest themed costume for shade's evebest sexiest costumebest technologically advancedbest over all.
 
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/135871-eventvenus-risings-shades-eve-costume-contest-oct-23rd/
For those that missed it.
 
Also, I thought I'd share I've created a kind of project in Venus Rising for our roleplayers. Cause I love roleplaying, it's my favourite thing to do ingame really. :) I've started Character Episodes, where we focus on each individual member's story on how they joined the guild or whatever else they want really. :) http://i.imgur.com/qq1xlEV.png-(Also made a new recruitment poster to go around Illium) 
 
I feel Venus Rising has something really special, I mean I always loved it, but now it's just..a living breathing organism and we will only see success from now on.
 
And that's me finished gushing about my guild. Sorry for so much rambling, I can't help it. I love WildStar, and love how exciting everything is now that Free to Play has arrived :D
Today after maint, I'm gonna check Bombalurina's house and see if that desktop crash is still happening, it not, moving her ballroom so I can buy a bigger house as well as rebuilding the entire restaurant.
 
Oh yea, someone in LFRP put me on ignore last night. He's a new guy and isn't here to make friends apparently. Thinks guilds are cliquey (far from the case in mine) and put me on ignore after I posted a new macro in chat. It was hilarious to be honest. Grumpy roleplayers entertain me so much! xD
 
Right, I'm gonna drink this coffee now <3
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*Walks in with a slightly ticked off aurin under one arm. *
 
Don't know about angry people out there, just strange bots trying to tell me they are gold medal black magic something something.
I hate those things. 
 
Took a stray elbow to the side from the mrs, so I thought I would get some wilderrun in before the rest of entity woke up. No luck, server is down. 
I have a bunch of work related stuff that needs to be done today so not sure what time I will be  able to get back on.
 
Guess I will try to get a few more hours of sleep. 	
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Why do you have an angry aurin under your arm? o.O
 
Yea those bot messages are very weird, they don't even link to something I can buy.. I mean what if I were *really* interested in magic gold metal black? :P
 
If you do go back to sleep, I wish you sweet dreams ^_^	
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Quietly pulls up a chair and sips on some hot chocolate. Think this thread is the one I enjoy the most as get to see what everyone gets up to worldwide. Been taking a break but peer in now and then to assist. Also wonders what that Aurin got upto that it got adopted :>
 
At moment wonder if that magic threads can be hired to sort each other out and winner can come back in a few thousand years.
 
Wishes everyone the best for the new influx and at least know that there are many good hands out there trying to help those that are willing to be helped.	
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Insomnia sucks.  Actually at this rate I might as well call in because the probability of me faceplanting on the keyboard at work is nigh 100%.
 
Anyhow, enjoyed raiding last night.  Whacked Ohmna a good one and then worked on System Daemons.  I like the way we're going with kick duty as we were pursuing a high-risk strategy before (and had a couple of successes in spite of ourselves).
 
Really like a couple of the costumes that are now available.  Figured I'd put up pictures of myself and my favoritest healer.  First up, yours truly in the Outlaw outfit.  Not dyed, I like the original coloring and textures.  Secondly is my favoritest healer in the Witch Doctor outfit dyed in a more "Day of the Dead" look.  I really like the feather in the cap personally.
 
      
 
 
Anyhow, I hope everyone got more sleep.  Can't even play WS at the moment, scheduled maintenance (admittedly this is typically a good time to avoid US players, but with the lack of sleep it would have been nice to pass the time on Nexus.)	
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Why do you have an angry aurin under your arm? o.O
 
Yea those bot messages are very weird, they don't even link to something I can buy.. I mean what if I were *really* interested in magic gold metal black? :P
 
If you do go back to sleep, I wish you sweet dreams ^_^
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Morning
/raises empty tea cup/
 
Yesterday - due to queues on Jab-1 - I made 4 additional characters on Jab-2. Something to do while Carbine tweaks queues on their end. And got all of them to whooping lvl 3. Yay me. Thought about re-learning the ropes on fresh characters instead of running and looking dumb. So when I decided to switch back to Jab-1: queue.
 
Not bad, around half an hour. As I get into I see that Guild meeting is about to start. Call that perfect timing. Was a bit surprised that you actually planed and performed that. It was one thing I tried to do myself in other MMO while I was leading a guild there. Sadly people weren't interested in such activities and all I could was just to dream that one day...
 
It was refreshing to be there, see people and listen to officers. Something I was looking for in a guild, that's for sure.
 
Ok, enough of that yadda-yadda of mine. Although it's past 11 am for me, my brain still isn't working properly. Tea cup is broken (still empty), I'm still at work for 4 more hours and all I can think of right now is hide somewhere and turn myself off.
 
Anyway - I'm glad that I returned to W* and found such a nice place. Cheers Nili for your attitude, good work and kind words.	
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Took a stray elbow to the side from the mrs, so I thought I would get some wilderrun in before the rest of entity woke up. No luck, server is down. 
I have a bunch of work related stuff that needs to be done today so not sure what time I will be  able to get back on.
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I keep forgetting that on the forums, sometimes Arachnaas is the husband, and other times it's the wife. :ph34r:
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Hey all. It's about 2 hours before sunrise here, so no coffee for me yet. I haven't actually been to sleep yet. I think I might just try to power through until bedtime tomorrow (tonight) and see if I can return some normalcy to my sleep schedule. I've got my Spindrifter build half way done, but may shelve it for the time being to work on some Halloween costume pieces for my nephew, since that has a time limit on it. 
 
Good morning and/or afternoon, everyone; just in case I pass out in the next 5 hours. 
 
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Insomnia sucks.  Actually at this rate I might as well call in because the probability of me faceplanting on the keyboard at work is nigh 100%.
 
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Ooh they share a forum account? XD
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			So since today you are officially marked as having split personality. Problem solved  B)	
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*Slumps into room, dragging feet as she gets onto a chair with much effort and slams her head onto the table*
 
. . . Need . . . coffee . . . 
 
How is everyone today? I have not yet had my coffee fix, but it is almost my lunch break at work so then I will change that! 
 
My guild has been around since launch, but, since most of us stopped playing earlier this year, we are slowly beginning to rebuild now. It is on EU-Jabbit, and it is a roleplaying guild for those of you who do enjoy roleplaying. 
 
Feel free to check out the website: http://rowsdowerrebels.com
 	
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*Slumps into room, dragging feet as she gets onto a chair with much effort and slams her head onto the table*
 
. . . Need . . . coffee . . . 
 
How is everyone today? I have not yet had my coffee fix, but it is almost my lunch break at work so then I will change that! 
 
My guild has been around since launch, but, since most of us stopped playing earlier this year, we are slowly beginning to rebuild now. It is on EU-Jabbit, and it is a roleplaying guild for those of you who do enjoy roleplaying. 
 
Feel free to check out the website: http://rowsdowerrebels.com
 
 
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I'm normally pretty happy to jump in and chat in guilds in games.
 
WS I've mostly played by myself - the only guild I ended up talking with at all just randomly invited me while I was leveling - but they seem to have all left the guild/game before F2P :S
 
I don't mind it too much - but I guess it's maybe time I expand my non-existent social circle.
 
Wish I had time to join a raiding guild though - guess I'll just have to wait for that other game's raid tier to be done first.
			
				
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*Walks in with a slightly ticked off aurin under one arm. *
 
Don't know about angry people out there, just strange bots trying to tell me they are gold medal black magic something something.
I hate those things. 
 
Took a stray elbow to the side from the mrs, so I thought I would get some wilderrun in before the rest of entity woke up. No luck, server is down. 
I have a bunch of work related stuff that needs to be done today so not sure what time I will be  able to get back on.
 
Guess I will try to get a few more hours of sleep. 
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Morning,
If i take in any more coffee in me today i'm gonna feel like a dehydrated piece of wood....so i'l have to make due with tea. I had a hard night not because of Wildstar(i played until 2am) but because of what happened after, I spotted a game called Undertale and saw various people play it to see what it was about, i liked it so much i bought it and played for 4 hours straight to beat it, There's a genocide route and a pacifist route, i figured since the you tube peeps are doing the pacifist route i see how the genocide one is, man the game makes you feel like the worst *cupcake* that ever lived ~_~.
 
This is some good rosehip tea by the way, mmmm.
 
			
				
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Good morning sir!  :P 
I want you addons specificaly the health bar one. I used the ForgeUI but some stuff didn't work. Couldn't see my action bar and etc.
And i would love to join your guild but i already have. Not sure if it's good or not(at least they didn't told me to put Stikethrough on my healing gear). Can tell you the name later to tell me your opinion. If i must stay or leave, if you don't mind of course! 
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No luck with guilds, and not real interested in being in one at the moment. 
 
Was in a dominion guild, but it exploded over server merge.
Joined Saddles, and love the people over there on Exile, but in my heart felt like the Forums were only really friendly to new Exile players so I went back to Dominion. 
Found that what was left of the Dominion players were in their own small groups already so it was not real helpful for me to try and push new players into anything but WSRP. 
 
My time isn't really my own right now so I would feel bad joining Tex even if I like the people. My schedule isn't set enough that I can do things like be there for a raid night. 
 
 
And I don't ever chua jvjd. 
The Eldan didn't manufacture me to take crap from some obnoxious little slanks. 
			
				
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			Since this is guild focused topic, how do you disable the chat from showing the guild peeps logging in and off ^_^, i kinda forgot and it can become a real spam fest.	
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Hey Volcanoid!
First, I'm not a sir. But one of those annoying gamerchicks ;)
Secondly, everything up there is Forgeui, there was an update yesterday so perhaps you just need to get the recent version for everything to work smoothly? (oh there's 1 more add on at the top right, that's my Vortex Meter for helping me see what's going on in terms of dps or hps- it's very helpful for a boss in GA named Kuralak)
I'd love to hear what guild you're in, sure ^_^ and you're welcome to stay, everyone's welcome to stay <3
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Since this is guild focused topic, how do you disable the chat from showing the guild peeps logging in and off ^_^, i kinda forgot and it can become a real spam fest.
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First, I'm not a sir. But one of those annoying gamerchicks ;)
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Need more coffee.
 
Anyone have a set date on when the Shade's eve stuff starts? 
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First, I'm not a sir. But one of those annoying gamerchicks ;)
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Need more coffee.
 
Anyone have a set date on when the Shade's eve stuff starts? 	
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Need more coffee.
 
Anyone have a set date on when the Shade's eve stuff starts? 
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			Game is back up and...that desk top crash bug is still there :(	
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
It's been a while since I have posted in Coffee. *Shakes off the cobwebs and waves to everyone*
 
Husband woke me up extra early this morning with a swift kick to the knee with his foot. I never knew there was a 'funny bone' in the knee till it went tingly LOL. Oh well early start to my day and more time to enjoy my coffee before my self imposed cut off at 10am. :)
 
Guilds and recruitment: We are all trying to get people to join our guilds. Some invite willy-nilly, some talk to the person then invite, and some have applications. My guild is in the last category. I don't know how many times someone has said something rude about having to do an application for an online game. It's not really an application, it's more of a questionnaire so we can get to know the person who wants to join us.
 
I am so happy that more people are coming back and that there are so many new people trying WildStar for the first time. The new people that have joined my guild are so much fun to converse with. They are seeing this beautiful game for the first time and their comments are awesome! It is renewing my love for the game, that's for sure. :)
 
@Arachnaas *hugs* Good to see you and Vunne back ingame.	
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Good morning.
 
Yay patch. Yay Wildstar. Yay working from home today.
 
Yay, I made level 45 last night. Yay ...
 
Why am I awake?	
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
It's been a while since I have posted in Coffee. *Shakes off the cobwebs and waves to everyone*
 
Husband woke me up extra early this morning with a swift kick to the knee with his foot. I never knew there was a 'funny bone' in the knee till it went tingly LOL. Oh well early start to my day and more time to enjoy my coffee before my self imposed cut off at 10am. :)
 
Guilds and recruitment: We are all trying to get people to join our guilds. Some invite willy-nilly, some talk to the person then invite, and some have applications. My guild is in the last category. I don't know how many times someone has said something rude about having to do an application for an online game. It's not really an application, it's more of a questionnaire so we can get to know the person who wants to join us.
 
I am so happy that more people are coming back and that there are so many new people trying WildStar for the first time. The new people that have joined my guild are so much fun to converse with. They are seeing this beautiful game for the first time and their comments are awesome! It is renewing my love for the ga :)me, that's for sure. 
 
@Arachnaas *hugs* Good to see you and Vunne back ingame.
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Why am I awake?
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Glad to know I am not the only one who was awoken by accidental impact.
 
I have missed you too Ciri. Sorry for going silent, I guess I sort of followed along with Vic because he was the voice of a lot of the frustrations I had with how I saw the game going. 
Vunne stealth harasses him over on the warcraft forums. Unless there is another Seger around? 
 
We will have to catch up ingame at some point. I'm curious how you ended up as the recruitment officer for Black daggers.
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And I don't ever chua jvjd. 
 
The Eldan didn't manufacture me to take crap from some obnoxious little slanks. 
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There are no girls on the internet.
 
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Good morning everyone! I actually got some playing time in last night, but instead of doing anything productive I bounced between all my characters, making new characters and not having a clue what im gonna do. I really wanna start over, but I do love my slinger and engineer on entity and want to keep playing them. But then I wanna play over on warhound. Then I also eanna play on dominion.
 
Why am I so indecisive. Maybe if I get some play time tonight ill figure it out.
 
On the guild topic, dont think ive ever found a true guild to call home yet on nexus. Ive been in guilds were I knew a few people, but have always seemed like an outsider most the time due to playing restrictions. Maybe ill find a place to call home now.	
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You can always find me on Spousal. I am off and on all day, most days. :)
 
I am not sure where Vic is playing now. I am friends with him and Parth on facebook, but hardly ever go there.
 
I look forward to catching up with you! It's been too long!
 
Oh! I crated my whole house plot yesterday. Everything went, including those spiral staircases that took me a few days to complete and my tree bar. /cheers to a fresh start!! I am looking forward to building something totally different from what I had.
 
BDS is filled with awesome people! We really do have a good time doing whatever. I am looking forward to seeing where we go. With the f2p launch, it's like starting fresh. So much fun! :)
 
We are in the planning stages for the next ThaydFest. It is going to be a lot of fun. We will post something on the Entity forums when we have the details sorted out.
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I'd love to hear what guild you're in, sure ^_^ and you're welcome to stay, everyone's welcome to stay <3
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Guild name is After Forever. (jabbit1 EU/pve).
I just found that i pay 5%tax lolz
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And I have the 5% tax on my guild as well,
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so I use the money for guild events and giveaways :)
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I haven't actually played in days. I did manage to get my Esper healer regeared last night. Healer is my off spec, but note better geared than my main spec. Go figure...
 
IMO, the most important thing is to find a guild with goals that align with yours. I ran into my old guild and they're still struggling with vet STL. Eight months ago that was a problem for me. Right now I'm looking at W* as a SP experience, so I'm not concerned.	
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			Good morning, coffee people! How's the science?Peanut butter and jelly for breakfast with a tall glass of milk. Om nom nom!Another day on beautiful, peaceful Entity-2 where I get to go on with my business undisturbed. The peace and quiet is nice but the lack of people can be unpleasant at times. Looking at you SCS-Prime. On the other hand, I managed to snag some -serious- deals on the few dyes I am missing in my collection.The plan for today is to do dailies and complete a whole lot of challenges in Thayd to possibly get my hands on dyes that I am missing.I have a question for my fellow coffee people! I have a friend playing on Warhound. Is it possible to queue for expeditions/adventures/dungeons with him? He's not online at the moment so I can't try.More to do! More to do! Also, more to do!	
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Having a great guild is super important, at least for me. I've been really impressed with <TCO>. I've seen it keep going, whatever has come our way, and be a very "slow and steady wins the race" for every setback. We may not be the fasted guild in the world at clearing content, but we work hard and get it done. Watching people get better and better and continually step up to meet the challenge, I just can't help but feel we are the kind of guild that Wildstar was made for. We didn't come in uber-elite. Some people had never raided before in any MMO before WS, but the feedback the game gives is perfect for a bunch of people like us who just want to learn and grow as players. I remember our first raids wiping on Genetic Monstrosity. Two hours on that boss. We were so happy just to get one full night in on x-89. Haha. Is it OK to admit that now? And now we can do close to a full clear of GA in 3 hours? And we EARNED that right, fighting and learning each boss along the way.
 
This week, it was awesome being in a guild that WANTS to go in and fight the lag, wiping on farm bosses, even adding an extra raid day because "people are on, let's just go back into GA"- that's just a great experience as a raid leader. And it will pay off. Because we got our "new patch" woes out of the way last week- figured out the rune system and learned pillars on Kuralak- so we can hit it hard this week.
 
I really couldn't ask for a better raid team or guild.	
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I <3 my guild. The Saddles folk are just all-around cool people, and I'm super happy Jack and I managed to find them. xD It took us a while, but it was worth it. So... yeah! Yay guild, go team.
 
I am still half-asleep. @_@ Stayed up too late rping...
 
Jack and I went on a wild and crazy adventure last night and broke the game... will have to post screenshots later when I get home from work, as it was pretty hilarious.	
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Jack and I went on a wild and crazy adventure last night and broke the game... will have to post screenshots later when I get home from work, as it was pretty hilarious.
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Woke up, took an artsy picture of my coffee. Look how cool I am! So cool. That I'm bragging about how cool I am on a forum full of angry people out there.
At least I think they're still angry? I really don't wanna poke my head out and see. 
 
I've got my coffee, this window open, talking to guildies, and listening to B52's Mesopotamia. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FyLcHxbSRk
 
So onto WildStar.
 
If you're a new player. This is the best advice I can give you: Join a Guild. Not just any guild, cause some out there will tell you to put strike through on your healing gear, or a +100 armor. Phew I've seen some bad runeing lately from some people! Don't just join for guild perks, cause chances are that's a zerg guild and they have no idea what they're doing either! What you want is a guild who knows what they're doing, a guild that is willing to take you under wing and teach you the basics proper. Ya know what I mean?
 
On Jabbit Dominion I've seen lots of new Community guilds popping up, and I think that's amazing. I really honestly do. Jabbit Dominion needs someone else besides me to invest in the community. Not that I mind doing it, I love helping people and pushing them on the right path. :) I might pass some of this swag I have onto them for their guild events and stuff, I mean if that's the kind of thing they're doing.
 
Now, I didn't make this thread to talk about my guild, not really, but last night blew my mind so I'm gonna gush for a few, don't mind me.
 
We had our first F2P Guild Meeting last night, the serverr booted us out halfway through so that was funny xD (There's over 40 people there by the way, hence why I'm gushing!)
We have lots of fun events planned for Jabbit Eu, Warplots being one of them once the lag settles down. 
 
Secondly, I announced the costume contest categories last night at the guild meeting, so ya'll are the second to hear about it (cause I still need to make shinies for the official thread)
Categories are gonna be:
best group/duo
best themed costume for shade's eve
best sexiest costume
best technologically advanced
best over all.
 
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/135871-eventvenus-risings-shades-eve-costume-contest-oct-23rd/
For those that missed it.
 
Also, I thought I'd share I've created a kind of project in Venus Rising for our roleplayers. Cause I love roleplaying, it's my favourite thing to do ingame really. :) I've started Character Episodes, where we focus on each individual member's story on how they joined the guild or whatever else they want really. :) http://i.imgur.com/qq1xlEV.png-(Also made a new recruitment poster to go around Illium)
 
I feel Venus Rising has something really special, I mean I always loved it, but now it's just..a living breathing organism and we will only see success from now on.
 
And that's me finished gushing about my guild. Sorry for so much rambling, I can't help it. I love WildStar, and love how exciting everything is now that Free to Play has arrived :D
Today after maint, I'm gonna check Bombalurina's house and see if that desktop crash is still happening, it not, moving her ballroom so I can buy a bigger house as well as rebuilding the entire restaurant.
 
Oh yea, someone in LFRP put me on ignore last night. He's a new guy and isn't here to make friends apparently. Thinks guilds are cliquey (far from the case in mine) and put me on ignore after I posted a new macro in chat. It was hilarious to be honest. Grumpy roleplayers entertain me so much! xD
 
Right, I'm gonna drink this coffee now <3
Niliana
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Guilds and recruitment: We are all trying to get people to join our guilds. Some invite willy-nilly, some talk to the person then invite, and some have applications. My guild is in the last category. I don't know how many times someone has said something rude about having to do an application for an online game. It's not really an application, it's more of a questionnaire so we can get to know the person who wants to join us.
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What little I did content wise was me derping around trying to suss out a setting for Aura Mastery.
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Have you not made the switch yet to LUI Aura?
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As I understand it, LUI can import AM Auras.
 
I would've thought you'd have been the first to jump on it because it is WAY more efficient (usually I'm the late adopter on things like this, but I couldn't get AM to work after the patch).
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LUI-Aura is supposed to be pretty good, but can't handle some of the more complex code that aura mastery can. Or at least that's the way I understand it. And now back to the topic at hand. 
 
Last night was kind of a bit of an eye opener. The dust is settling from the f2p release. The pain of runing is somewhat diminished. Its honestly the first time I've had so much fun in Wildstar in a couple of months. We didn't actually do much, just worked on Gold dungeons and did DS minis for fun, but the game felt alive and vibrant. Our guild is bursting at the seams with new people, returning 50s and leveling newbies alike. We're running attunements, giving advice, and all in all, having a great time. 	
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Aye, been having a LOT of fun since the drop. Having lots of people in game has really made it feel more alive.
 
We did a 4 person run through some vet dungeons where we pugged the 5th, and the non guild member had a good time with our group. Told us it would be difficult to go back to a "normal" group after.
 
That was a bit of an eye opener, because our groups have been "normal" the last few months. Now, I guess we've moved into the upper tier of performers with the influx of new players- we're suddenly elite! Haha!
 
I also joined a normal STL pug on my warrior because they lost a tank midway through the run and were asking in LFG. I just hate for people to leave that dungeon with a bad impression, so I jumped in with my half raid geared tank! They had a good time, and I was glad to help out some newer players.
			
				
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A lot of guilds are cliquey, most don't realise it.
 
You log in to the same people every day you start to get on with a few. Not everyone will get on, especially in big guilds, so little groups form and cliques appear.
 
I love small guilds. Anymore than 40 people and I usually leave. I prefer around 20. Easier to talk to people and less chance of guild drama.
 
I joined a guild at launch last year, it lasted a month before it was down to 2 of us and 3 days later, he'd left the game too. By that time the server barely had any active guilds so I walked away.
 
I don't think i'll bother this time round. I'm levelling with my missus, we're going to do a few characters, but I won't be doing any end game stuff, i'm burnt out on that from the last few months of FFXIV before the expansion and getting the free company geared and ready for it. I'm just playing to relax now. No real need for a guild.	
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You sapients use strange fuel sources.
 
My life is simple with that regard. The answer is always which ever one is more energy efficient.	
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A lot of guilds are cliquey, most don't realise it.
 
You log in to the same people every day you start to get on with a few. Not everyone will get on, especially in big guilds, so little groups form and cliques appear.
 
 
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I've always led large guilds in all my MMO history, I think it's due to the fact that I'm active and inclusive and organized with events and ranks and raids and roleplay. I juggle many plates and have yet to drop one in my 9 years of guild leading. ^^
 
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That's actually one of the fun things over at TFF. Back in the day, I utterly refused to be the raid leader because it really does serve as a system of checks and balances, and I've always believed that guild leader and raid leader have drastically differing mind-sets as one is focused on raid progression which requires a stricter attitude and making sure people do their job, while guild leading is always about making the guild thrive and making people happy.
 
Then having a raid leader that wasn't me bit me in the ass, and we couldn't find another, so here I am being both! I am at least hoping I do a decent job of it. :P	
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<TCO> is primarily a raiding guild, but we do have other stuff going on. Our raid leader (me) and our GM are two separate people, and while our GM can override my calls, he also answers to me in raids. I have my own raid team officers who are not guild officers, and we have our own private chat channel. I'm in both channels, but I'm a "lesser" officer than the others. Basically, raids are my domain, and that's a big domain because it's a huge part of what the guild does, but I'm not omnipotent (I AM however "ohmnapotent"!). So that creates a nice check/balance, even if sometimes I don't agree with the calls the GM makes (and sometimes he doesn't agree with the calls I make). But then, that's part of being on a team, and we are stronger that way.
 
Also, our GM is far more active in TS during the week, and I feel like is more involved. I run stuff during the week, but a lot of that is "together time" with my wife, and I'm jealous of that time (so if we got on specifically to run a dungeon, I resist getting pulled into other things), so socially our GM is maybe better plugged in. But come raid time, I'm certainly in TS and talking to folks :)
 
I'm sure we have our little groups of players who play more often with one another, and people who play less than others, but overall I feel like <TCO> is the kind of guild where you get out what you put in, and most people are satisfied with that. But then, I don't really have the view from the cheap seats to say for sure :)
			
				
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			Speaking of guilds, as much as I love the Loppy Seconds, I kinda want to find a pure PvP guild on Warhound. My new Draken Warrior needs some buddies to kill Exiles with. 	
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That's actually one of the fun things over at TFF. Back in the day, I utterly refused to be the raid leader because it really does serve as a system of checks and balances, and I've always believed that guild leader and raid leader have drastically differing mind-sets as one is focused on raid progression which requires a stricter attitude and making sure people do their job, while guild leading is always about making the guild thrive and making people happy.
 
Then having a raid leader that wasn't me bit me in the ass, and we couldn't find another, so here I am being both! I am at least hoping I do a decent job of it. :P
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			I would have to join an all chua guild or a furry guild.  they are the only ones that can handle my strange.	
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Good morning! Is it still morning? *checks clock* Yep. Still morning... somehow.
 
It's very interesting to see such a candid discussion on guilds; rather refreshing really.
 
Forgive me for not recalling who made the point, but there was a comment relating to some old guild adage, "Ask not what a guild can do for you, ask what you can do for you guild", and it is one which I happen to agree. I find myself stuck on this.
 
As a bit if a personal narrative, I've been playing for several months now, but never really joined a guild; mind, Dominion on Entity guilds seemed mostly focused on raiding, at least the ones which popped up in zone chat, or they were the incredibly obnoxious "blind invite to the guild A'HOY" types which I vehemently despise. Sadly neither of these are much my style at the moment.
 
As one with a limited play time, I really don’t feel I fit into any guilds that I’ve seen around... I now fit into a more casual role I guess, but for cupcake sake, you can take the progression raider out of the raids, but you can’t take progression raiding mentality out of the raider- I spend as much time playing theory craft and reviewing other’s notes of efficacy as I do just playing. It’s just weirdly enjoyable for me.
 
And I have yet to find a guild for “retired raiders who don’t have the time they used to”- so if any of you know of one, I’d gladly consider coming on board! But if not I am rather OK being solo right now, I worry about not being online enough to really get to know anyone, or contribute to the social-environment of a guild. I may just hang out in the coffee threads instead (you're all very nice). :)	
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			I think retired raider is pretty common. Also you can hang here for as long as you like. 	
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Okay so it turns out I took 40+ screenshots of Jack and I's adventure last night. xD I, uh, filtered it down to 31 shots? I have an addiction to the prt scr button...
 
I posted them all up on my tumblr, so here's those links: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
 
And some highlights I particularly enjoyed:
 
We got SO FAR off the map (literally - even zoomed out to the full continent, we were gone completely xD) that we, uh, broke mounts. We also disappeared from each other's view temporarily. But the best part was, summoning a hoverboard only actually summoned the flairs!
 
This led to shenanigans.
 
*jaws music*
 
There's a HUGE chunk of map completely outside Algoroc/Northern Wilds and good grief does it look cold.
 
But it's also incredibly beautiful and with some great views!
 
We eventually ended up in Celestion and for some reason the game kicked us into a new instance, despawning our glorious mount flairs. :( But not before I got this shot! MUWAHAHAHA
 
THE TITANS HAVE RETURNED! THEY RIDE UPON THE COSMIC EQUIVAR! BOW BEFORE US! I'll never get over the hilarity that can be accomplished with WS's water reflections.	
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