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Yeeeeeah.....
 
 
I was feeling sick, but logged on this weekend in time to do a few Shiphands.  At first, I thought it was a cold that would go away on its own.  As it turns out, I have a nicely sized sinus infection now.  By Saturday, I was barely fit to move.  My poor wife had the same issue.  Even today, we're pretty much run out.  I still came in to work because I'm not vomiting or contagious, but man do I want to be home.  I've barely slept over the last few days and my cough is waking me up.  We spent the entire weekend watching DVD series, including the entire first season of Stand Alone Complex and the entirety of I, Claudius.
 
The upshot is, I was really looking forward to a weekend of Wildstar and I don't even know if I'll be able to get on tonight.  I do want to get on, but my brain is complete slush.  Which is fine for work when I have some easy stuff to work like dimensioning and cleaning up our CD set, but is really bad in a reaction-based game of any stripe.  I'd be in housing, but the Copy/Transform tool doesn't seem to be working.  I was trying to build a new plot, but I can't even get the floor decks to line up.  My click-drag isn't working either.  So my hobby that I do when my reaction time is screwed, I can't do.
 
I'm not feeling this day.  Hopefully you guys had a better weekend.	
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Re: The copy / etc tool, I promoted this to our team to look into, you're not the first one who has mentioned issues with it since Drop 5 and we apologize for the inconvenience to all you housing fanatics. :( 
 
 
I'm sorry to hear that you're feeling ill, too and I hope you feel better! 
I didn't have any time to game this weekend, or well, this week, really. It's always busy right after a big drop and then there was mother's day and all the rest. Hopefully this upcoming weekend. :) 	
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Well in news!
 
Nikson's place is finally done! Well, the basement at any rate. I still have the ship's party deck to do.
 
I also came up with a spankin' new costume for Salsa!
 
 
And last but not least. ITS MINE. ITS FINALLY MINE. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA!
 
 
 	
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Re: The copy / etc tool, I promoted this to our team to look into, you're not the first one who has mentioned issues with it since Drop 5 and we apologize for the inconvenience to all you housing fanatics. :(
 
 
I'm sorry to hear that you're feeling ill, too and I hope you feel better! 
I didn't have any time to game this weekend, or well, this week, really. It's always busy right after a big drop and then there was mother's day and all the rest. Hopefully this upcoming weekend. :)
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Kind of a brain dead weekend for myself too. 
 
Had a bunch of surprise chores (that's really gotta stop) but the big task is that the house is in a dire need of a clean up and that needs to happen before Wednesday.  I've gotten one of the major problem areas "good enough" but that took me a big chunk of Saturday and some of Sunday.  I'm hoping the next one won't be as bad as it looks because there's a third and I'm running out of time.  So I'm sore enough that my on-and-off relationship with Advil is back in the honeymoon stage.
 
Done a bunch of Contract stuff and should hit Tier 5 tonight.  Really hoping tonight's Tier3 isn't something that requires a huge time commitment.  If it is I'll just run a bunch of Tier1's I guess.  Scorchwing was nutso when she was the Tier3 contract as was the SCB event.
 
Assuming I manage to get on tonight it'll be Tier 5 or bust.	
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Well now I feel bad for today being a CELEBRATORY MONDAY for me. xD Why? Because it's the last day of instruction before SUMMER! :D
 
Hey, us teachers have to get excited about this. xD I'll miss my kids but damn am I ready for summer. Nothing but grading exams for the rest of the week wooo!!! Not to mention the days are ticking down for Comicpalooza, which will include the first major publicizing push for my husband's novel. Yes, the excitement is building!
 
I'm looking forward to having a little bit more time to play WildStar once this is all over. My engineer demands more dungeon-tanking happiness! My main demands more... everything! I need to find a list of pet locations. Does that exist anywhere?	
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Well now I feel bad for today being a CELEBRATORY MONDAY for me. xD
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Catch me early enough I should be able to DPS for you guys :ph34r: (but probably not until Wednesday)
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I'm very happy at the moment and very much stress free! Saturday I knocked out the last fo my harder deadlines to meet for work and now it's back ot more stable schedule and less cramming. I basically jammed 9 months worth fo work into 1 and now I jsut want to sleep for an entire week lol
 
Last night was my first real chance to play WS longer than 30 minutes and enjoy myself, but holy crap I feel like I'm rusty as all heck. I don't even remember what half the adventures and dungeons are anymore it's been so long(between releveling and being off and on for awhile it's al slipped me memory). In a way it's very exciting because I feel like it's a fresh start for me and I'll soon have my genesis key and start on attunement. 
 
I recently got to 50 as well so I binged a bit on veteran shiphands and contracts last night, got a decent starter set for tanking in pve and pvp to boot. First thing I tanked was Hellrose bowl which was soooooo much fun. It was a bit hectic because we only had 1 healer and people aren't exactly ummm good at dodging all the red hehe, but we pulled through and had a wonderful time.
 
If anyone Exile side needs/wants a tank hit me up! ^_^
 
I also started up my Aurin spellslinger who will be my healer side(Since there is no class that can be healer/tank) and leveling that with a couple of friends who have come back to play WS.	
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Had a fun weekend. Raid went really well- did 3 bosses in GA on Friday WITHOUT a stalker/scientist, and spent a fair amount of time on prototypes because we had two tanks who had never worked together before (we spent as much time Friday as we did the first time we learned the fight- it really is a tanking fight).
 
Then Convergence with no Sword- ugh, don't like that combo at all. DPSing the squid is awful.
 
Finally, my wife is learning to tank on her stalker so we did the training dungeon and Hycrest. We were grinning from ear to ear. I forgot how much fun the low level stuff can be. Really, REALLY looking forward to STL tonight (if we can get it to pop).
 
Also, doing GA on Sunday with Alts, so if you are interested, it's an open raid: you can sign up here! If we can start close to 8:00, I'm sure we can get both x-89 and Kuralak down. (I might even bring my main if we can find a second tank- looking at you vic!)	
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			I squeezed in a little leveling before my spin class and dentist appointment this morning. Now nomming on Qdoba before my shower and theeeeeen leveling all day!	
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Finished the vet adventure portion of attunement this weekend, and got gold on all of them to boot so there's a shiny new ability point for me! Looking forward to getting into some dungeons now. Getting minor upgrades from the contract rewards too, which is nice.
 
On a side note, does anyone know if people are running the boss in a box? I haven't seen anyone announcing runs since it came out.	
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On a side note, does anyone know if people are running the boss in a box? I haven't seen anyone announcing runs since it came out.
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We are taking a run at it next week as a guild- but I don't think you'll see many PUGs for it soon since I understand it is tuned to be on level with the final boss of GA.
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S'up dawg and dawgettes.
 
Crazy week, crazier weekend, now blissfully back at the office. Yes, blissfully. Sometimes work is my refuge, and today is one of those days.
 
Played a lot this weekend, between leveling Lola and doing dailies/shiphands on Sharice. Finally broke down last night and bought the "blue PVP level 50 set" so I could do a warplot ... only to have tragedy strike minutes later. :(  A dear friend passed away and about twenty mutual friends all let me know at once. Instead of PVPing, I spent the evening crying with old friends.
 
So, it's going to be a long week, even with WildStar to look forward to.	
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Doing this via phone so will be brief.
 
Leveled a spellslinger a lot over the weekend. Did the entirety of Wilderrun in quests and path. Didn't even finish that on main's path. Overlevelled now but whatever. Wilderrun has just about the most important and best end quest line of any of the zones. 
 
Jeff, minus sword really isn't too bad. Try burning hammer down completely. Should be doable in the first minute, or just after first center phase. Split DPS into ranged and melee and put them on spider and frog respectively. Always use center MOO phases on squid. If you do need some direct squid time, make sure DPS are attacking from the front. There's a lot less crap there. We got ours immortal this past Thursday and feel like it's one of the easier compositions. It's certainly quieter since there's few raid calls needed without waves. 
 
Tonight, end of GA and maybe if we have free time another crack at initialization core. It was fun diagnosing that fight last Wednesday. Figuring out how to run it cold can be frustrating but very rewarding.	
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Jeff, minus sword really isn't too bad. Try burning hammer down completely. Should be doable in the first minute, or just after first center phase. Split DPS into ranged and melee and put them on spider and frog respectively. Always use center MOO phases on squid. If you do need some direct squid time, make sure DPS are attacking from the front. There's a lot less crap there. We got ours immortal this past Thursday and feel like it's one of the easier compositions. It's certainly quieter since there's few raid calls needed without waves.
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Um. Something was very bugged then. Killing one does not trigger any traps or alternate behavior. So kill hammer as fast as you can. Use regular phases on frog and spider. Each will get their turn at the center. Use the moments on squid then go back to spider or frog. Burn all down to about 5%, or lower. Maybe lower depending on your DPS numbers. Use a MOO to kill squid, then burn spider and frog. Bingo bango, they're dead :-) 
 
You know what might be fun sometime? Guest raid comp or something like that. Sort of like a raider exchange, just to cross pollenate ideas. I will have to think about that.	
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Um. Something was very bugged then. Killing one does not trigger any traps or alternate behavior. So kill hammer as fast as you can. Use regular phases on frog and spider. Each will get their turn at the center. Use the moments on squid then go back to spider or frog. Burn all down to about 5%, or lower. Maybe lower depending on your DPS numbers. Use a MOO to kill squid, then burn spider and frog. Bingo bango, they're dead :-)
 
You know what might be fun sometime? Guest raid comp or something like that. Sort of like a raider exchange, just to cross pollenate ideas. I will have to think about that.
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S'up dawg and dawgettes.
 
Crazy week, crazier weekend, now blissfully back at the office. Yes, blissfully. Sometimes work is my refuge, and today is one of those days.
 
Played a lot this weekend, between leveling Lola and doing dailies/shiphands on Sharice. Finally broke down last night and bought the "blue PVP level 50 set" so I could do a warplot ... only to have tragedy strike minutes later. :(  A dear friend passed away and about twenty mutual friends all let me know at once. Instead of PVPing, I spent the evening crying with old friends.
 
So, it's going to be a long week, even with WildStar to look forward to.
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Yeah just because group A does it one way doesn't mean that the exact same method will work for group B either due to composition, kit, cohesiveness, or whatever. Might be fun though I don't exactly run things so I'll just kick the idea around with some folks. 
 
But, yeah you should continue to get center phases the entire fight. And if you do have to damage squid while active, make sure it's from the front. No chasing around. Convergence can be buggy though. We had one fight where frog decided to just take a hike. Killed the other three but frog was nowhere to be found. So sometimes weird things happen :-) 
 
These are our Initialization Core notes so far if anyone is interested. Don't know how readable but maybe there's some interest. 
 
http://finalfrontierus.enjin.com/mobile/forum/viewthread/m/22748172/id/21644142	
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S'up dawg and dawgettes.
 
Crazy week, crazier weekend, now blissfully back at the office. Yes, blissfully. Sometimes work is my refuge, and today is one of those days.
 
Played a lot this weekend, between leveling Lola and doing dailies/shiphands on Sharice. Finally broke down last night and bought the "blue PVP level 50 set" so I could do a warplot ... only to have tragedy strike minutes later. :(  A dear friend passed away and about twenty mutual friends all let me know at once. Instead of PVPing, I spent the evening crying with old friends.
 
So, it's going to be a long week, even with WildStar to look forward to.
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Ohey, these threads are still a thing.
 
I've been surprised upon glancing around the forums just how many names I recognize. Just activated my trial a few days ago, been checking out some of the changes, the game definitely seems to have improved in terms of quality of life things, though I'm still disappointed at just how few dungeons there are. (And the fact that it's annoying to get a group going for low level ones, generally, especially as a late night player)
 
Annoyed at myself for accidentally naming the wrong character after the name I wanted, and I already transferred him to Entity, so now I get to wait a week to transfer him back and then transfer the one who I want to have that name over to Entity, then wait ANOTHER week to transfer the other one back. Really wish the PvP server wasn't dead, I prefer to have PvP on, even if I tend to be a person who will just /wave at most people I pass. It was always satisfying murdering a higher level who tried to gank you.
 
Can't decide how I feel about the game in general so far, while I like a lot of the changes, the population issues combined with the shiny newness being gone at the moment has me contemplating what I'm going to do in the long term. We'll see, I suppose.
 
/ramble
 
As an aside, is the group finder cross server? So at the least I could try to queue on character on the PvP server until I can properly transfer him over to Entity?
 
Any addons to look for in particular? Currently using:
 
-Optiplates (I could not live without this)
-Better party frames
-Latency Monitor
-MrFancyPants (Is there a better/newer one out? I saw something about addons being able to equip items properly soon?)
-Spacestash
-Tapthat
-ItemPreview (Though it doesn't seem to work properly anymore? I believe it's packaged with SpaceStash though)	
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