129428-new-to-wildstar-level-10-raid-boss

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I started playing Wildstar about 2 weeks ago, I'm a refugee from WoW (I've quit so many times...), and recently I've gone through a bunch of MMOs trying to find one I enjoy. I've tried SWTOR (What a great story/single player experience in an MMO), TERA (No story at all!), and GW2(eh, it's alright! ;).
 
So far I've been having a lot of fun: my highest character is a level 22 on Exile. I've run a few dungeons, they've been tough, challenging and interesting. And the housing....let me say, the housing system in this game is completely amazing, so many MMOs just can't wrap their head around what to do with housing, even WoW fumbles with implimentation with ideas like garrisons. And yet Wildstar just knocks it right out of the park, and makes it seem effortless.
 
Anyway, while on my new dominion character last night I ran into another player looking to kill Metalmaw in the lowbie Drakken zone. I grouped up with him and we were quickly dispatched by what I realized was an outdoor raid boss. An outdoor raid boss for level 10s! I remember playing in vanilla WoW, it was hundreds of hours before I attempted an outdoor raid boss, not 1 hour into the game, and it wasn't even as complex as Metalmaw!
 
I put out a few messages to /zone and before I knew it we had a group of 5 going. We attacked metalmaw and we were completely wiped out! I converted to a raid and after another message or two we grew to 7, 8 people, then 12, then 14 or so.
 
Slowly but surely our raid wore him down. We were by no means orginized, our DPS scattered in all directions when adds appeared, our healers desperately tried to keep people alive, and our tanks tried to pin the adds down as best they could. It was a long difficult fight, as it wore on the raid pulled together and started to get the mechanics down.
 
I couldn't tell you how long it was, at least 30 minutes, but we finally beat him! It really felt like a great accomplishment. I have never had so much fun in the opening hours of gameplay in an MMO. From making a character to leading a raid against a outdoor raid boss. Some of us stuck around and we ran a 5 man dungeon after, which was just a great way to keep the momentem going.
 
All I can say is what great gameplay and design, what a great community. I know that it's small right now, but if any game really deserves a second chance its this one.
 
 	
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Congrats on your kill and welcome to Nexus!
Beings like Metalmaw are in many of the zones, and are known as "World Bosses" which are currently part of the raid attunement! I remember my first WB kill was Grendalus in Celestion, not far from lvl 20 myself and I had no idea what I had wandered into XD I found a full group in progress fighting him, it was insane, lol
 
I've been here since the week after launch, and let me tell you...this is by far the best community I've found in an MMO in years, throughout WoW, SWTOR, EQ2, Rift, and nuuuuumerous F2P games. We've had our rough patches but we've really banded together to do our best to support the game and the Devs.
 
I hope you continue to enjoy your time here!
			
				
	Edited August 9, 2015 by Kavi	
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			A second welcome to add to Kavi's. Wildstar is an amazing experience.	
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			 Welcome.. and u will find similar bosses in each of the questing zones.	
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Soon we will be able to summon them at our leisure.
 
http://imgur.com/a/wWTeP	
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Soon we will be able to summon them at our leisure.
 
http://imgur.com/a/wWTeP
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Damn, that almost brought a tear to my eye. Great writing there champ!
 
And glad you love it as much as I do :D ! 	
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Yup, taking on my first boss as a lvl 8 was one of the major reasons I got heavily hooked on this game too. So many mmo's seem to be all about "get to the end game, and then it gets good."
Wildstar pretty much took that idea, and threw it out the window (now if only we could get ppl to stop thinking this game is also just about end game.)
 
Starting from lvl 6 you have your first pieces of content to run, and it just keeps growing as you level. Dungeons, wold bosses, adventures, shiphands.... so much to do as you level :D	
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			Thanks for sharing your experience!	
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Thanks for sharing your experience!
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			There is an augmented Metalmaw in Whitevale too. I wouldn't be surprised if the Entity insists on throwing a... *sigh* unique version of his own for me... which of course means you, to deal with. 	
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			I had an experience just like this back in beta, It was a lot of fun!	
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