125851-the-game-has-resurected-with-drop-5

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I;m not sure if it is only for a short time or is it permanent but seriously, I never saw so much people (maybe only at june and july last year) in thayd, in leveling zones, everywhere! Queues are poping, etc. I know most of these people are old players but I think some new also came!
I even found guild (that I couldn't find for 2 months!). Okay everyone! If you have any friends that quited WS because of small playerbase this is the time to put yourself into the action! Make these friends come back and seriously, maybe Wildstar will really shine ^_^! I'm so excited. I knew drop 5 will help but I seriously can't believe my eyes in what is happening! I only hope it will stay like this or even become better :)! Hype in this one is strong :D.
 
 	
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Glad to hear another good story, Nekoryuu.  Drop 5 has done a lot of good for the game; not even the turnout of Drop 4 was this populous.
 
 
In before doomsayers.	
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I disagree Drop 4 has brought a lot more improvement to increase population.
The glory vendor and the daily missions for instances are far better then the contracts, then leveling was made easier. 20 man GA was big improvement that was needed.
PvP gear became easier to get and we finally saw battlegrounds popping more even though it was only pratice.
 
Drop 5 is nice don't get me wrong but it has nothing really that improve the game in such a way to attract more players. It's more the icing on the cake so to say. Atleast i don't think players will come back because WS has pets now or a new clothing system	
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And what about contract system? Don't you think this is big improvement? Though I didn't tried this yet.
Besides every update brings players back.	
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Drop 5 is nice don't get me wrong but it has nothing really that improve the game in such a way to attract more players. It's more the icing on the cake so to say. Atleast i don't think players will come back because WS has pets now or a new clothing system
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			I read my posts... omfg... the grammar is so wrong :D! My english teacher would likely to kill me for this :D.	
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			Make 6-49 BG queues pop and I will fall to my knees and accept the Revival of WildStar as my overlord and master.	
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Personally I love the costume system...but thats just because i'm vain both in real lie and in games, but I ont think ppl are in general. So for my this drop is amazing!
 
I also love the contract system I think...cause i do that insted of normal dalies...I hope I can...and that I never have to run another last drop daily again!!!!
 
PVP is just as broken as it always is..I even die faster now...but 2 BG's aint gonna cut it...its just soo booring with the same map over and over again that i mostly pvp just to farm prestige....but I dont realy know why I farm it...it might be usefull in the future? I dont realy need pvp gear as i mostly drink coffee or eat my meal during pvp anyway...
 
AND why keep on with the stupid attunement? Raiding is end game and keeing it from ppl will make us run away...Fear of Attunement made me quit last time...I'm now 4/13 in attunement for over a week. Silver or above in adventures is a pain!!!!! there is noe adv que pop and guldies are busy raiding....they say they can help...yea right when? at 4-5 during the middle of the night? Thy say..join a guild is the key..yes. I am in a guild with friendly ppl but for the love of all good things! You cant expect ppl to spend several hours JUST to help only YOU! They never get anything out of it themselves!...This is bad...I know my guildis are friendly and all....but they are alrdy in the raid...whay should they spend soo much time helping a guildie they dont realy know that well?..make it easier or worth doing for the "helpers"	
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			Drop 5 is awesome.....not sure Carbine can ever do a better drop	
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And what about contract system? Don't you think this is big improvement? Though I didn't tried this yet.
Besides every update brings players back.
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Drop 5 is awesome.....not sure Carbine can ever do a better drop
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You cant expect ppl to spend several hours JUST to help only YOU! They never get anything out of it themselves!...This is bad...I know my guildis are friendly and all....but they are alrdy in the raid...whay should they spend soo much time helping a guildie they dont realy know that well?..make it easier or worth doing for the "helpers"
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The glory quest and the contracts help with that but yeah it's not something you need so to say.
 
For PvP drop 5 has been a big let down.
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I had two friends join just because of the holo-wardrobe system.  Is that a lot?  No, but it proves it was enough to get them to come back.
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Contracts don't seem to add something when you look at it closer.
The kill x many mobs, multi kill or do a dungeon doesn't add much because you basicly get daily quest for those already. I guess it's nice to have something extra to spend your time on.
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do you get glory from the vet adventures?
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No only from dungeons.
So yeah the adventure are a big drag... they take long and no good loot drop from it and you can get unlucky
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			But tbo....they are still fixing the game. Contracts, more ways to do ailies, pets, toys, hole wardrobe all those things are mandatory in any mmo these days. So the good thing is that carbine IS delivering what is consider to be mandatory. The bad thing is...they seems to dont have time to develop any new content...particulary what they do best...dungeons...and maybe raids?	
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Mandatory in any mmo? You are wrong,maybe in any AAA mmorpg, but still - not. Part of them aren't mandatory.
But I do agree - there is need for more content :)... 	
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It only took them a year to do so ^^
 
And isn't this an AAA mmo?	
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Make 6-49 BG queues pop and I will fall to my knees and accept the Revival of WildStar as my overlord and master.
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Make 6-49 BG queues pop and I will fall to my knees and accept the Revival of WildStar as my overlord and master.
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Jabbit. Two full raids for SW, with a 3rd one forming, plus a dommie one as well.
 
I can hear the server hadrware screaming in pain, currently have 1 fps...every 10 seconds :)
 
 	
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I'd argue otherwise, Contracts are perfect for enticing people into the world that Carbine has created and gather people around big objectives which would be otherwise dead content.
But that's just me, I can also be butthurt it's not gone F2P and act like Drop 5 was trash.
Honestly I didn't enjoy Drop 4 as much as everyone else, but that might be because I'm not raiding these days. Drop 5 has provided a lot of cool stuff for me to do outside raids.
Farm pets, farm contracts, get PvP queues 24/7, rated 3v3 arenas(pop rarely but yolo) and finishing off my missing reputations (r12 & Starcomm) with contract rep vouchers. 
Farm toys etc. You get the jest of it by now. 
 
And it's pretty amusing watching 200 - 300 players gathered in 1 area. It's not quite as often you see that in any game, but we do basically only have 1 server running per region as well. 
Pretty good stuff. Don't know if it's been resurrected, but the best form of "PR" is when you see a lot of players around you. 	
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Jabbit. Two full raids for SW, with a 3rd one forming, plus a dommie one as well.
 
I can hear the server hadrware screaming in pain, currently have 1 fps...every 10 seconds :)
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Only if you promise to queue for dungeons. Sat in queue on my level 22 esper as a healer for 2 hours before giving up. :(
 
As someone returning, it's nice to see a lot of people in cities. But that doesn't help when it's all level 50s only doing things within their cliques.
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			I can't wait to test out an event like this with my CPU and Titan X. Optimization was one of the reasons (the biggest one), I quit the first time. Seems better this time around and did not have a Titan X. Had two 760 SLI before the game was optimized for it. I heard it is still a nightmare for AMD CPUs.	
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Just did some running around this morning between 9:30 and 11am PST and here's what I gathered:
 
About 40-50 players online between Celestion and Algoroc, many of them new/returning.
Whitevale was pretty dead.
About 40-ish doing dailies in Crimson Badlands and Northern Wastes.
Nearly 200 Killing SW
Around 100 in Star-Comm basin (check immediately after going back to town from SW.)
Over 100 in Thayd (checked before 10am, more after returning from SW)
 
I have vids of my travels (aside from the sw kill. that was a screenshot or 2.) if anyone needs  proof of these numbers. I'll try to remember to do this again during "prime time" and see how the populations are then.	
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			People really want their pets, scorchwing never saw it coming.	
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			Contracts filled a spot for me. I feel now there's always SOMETHING I can do to advance my character forward, even if its small.	
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Contracts filled a spot for me. I feel now there's always SOMETHING I can do to advance my character forward, even if its small.
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Contracts filled a spot for me. I feel now there's always SOMETHING I can do to advance my character forward, even if its small.
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This is the essential element of the Contract system, I think. It's grindy as hell, but for PvEers in small guilds and/or not interested in raiding, those contracts are a way to continue to improve once you've hit iLevel 61.
 
Although it remains to be seen how much of an improvement this really represents over those RNG bags from far-trader Kigo.
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Make 6-49 BG queues pop and I will fall to my knees and accept the Revival of WildStar as my overlord and master.
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You do know how horrible that would be? Level 6's with their 4 ability slots vs a level 49 with a full LAS and a lot of amps & ability points? Will be horrible to balance around, will be horrible to PVP at lower levels because you do not have the abilities yet. If anything, level 30-49 would be best, and maybe a 10-29.
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I think you didn't read what he said, he didn't mean that everyone should be grouped together but that he wanted to play a low level battleground.
 
Anyway, there are games that only have 1 pvp bracket, they simply use another las and ability system for pvp where everyone is equal. It's really not that hard to do.
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The low level experience as a whole needs addressing.
 
With all of the attention given to max level content, I'm wondering why do modern MMOs bother with adding leveling at all since they otherwise don't seem to care about it.
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Contracts don't seem to add something when you look at it closer.
The kill x many mobs, multi kill or do a dungeon doesn't add much because you basicly get daily quest for those already. I guess it's nice to have something extra to spend your time on.
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The abilities should do the same thing, if abilities work differently in PvE then in PvP it gets really confusing.
 
What i do promote is indeed everything unlocked in a seperate las/amp and have some kind of amulet or some kind that reflects your PvP stats with special runes you can equip in that.
This way everyone is in 1 bracket and there is no gear difference, also you could tweak the amulets for the classes to make them more even.
They can quite easily push the pvp unlock back to level 20 on your first character and after that you can just roll an alt to go straight into pvp with, personally i think this would be a nice push for the pvp scene and make it more competitive.
Arena's might become more a moba where you pick team compositions based on class and abilities.
 
We are still kinda ontopic though because while PvE has had a nice resurrection PvP has only being going downhill.
Carbine seems stubborn enough to keep going the path they have taken though, I hope they can make it work but after this long I think it's too late and simply need to try something else.
 
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Why are you still here?
 
Every post i see from you is complaining.
 
Contracts add solo content for non raiding players, they can now get raid items. And for raiding players like me i see old content again. Two days ago i got the contract Adventure, so for the first time in like 6 months i run a adventure ( not the new one)
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	THE GAME HAS RESURECTED! (WITH DROP 5)*
 
*PvP not so much.
 
Arena matchmaking system that is utterly broken to the point that it's nearly impossible to get games.
Possibly, the worst class balance the game has ever seen
Rated Battlegrounds with rating bugs
New PvP runes that were vehemently opposed making it in anyway, and now you grind for these mandatory runes, that limit character customization.
The same issues that have been brought up month after month, still persist.
 
This drop has pushed me further away. After a year, my optimism is nearly gone.
 	
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We are still kinda ontopic though because while PvE has had a nice resurrection PvP has only being going downhill.
Carbine seems stubborn enough to keep going the path they have taken though, I hope they can make it work but after this long I think it's too late and simply need to try something else.
 
 
Because i like the game.
 
Then you haven't read all my posts
 
If you needed a contract as an incentive to do an adventure again then that is good for you, I rather do content over again because it's fun to do or to help someone else.
Contracts are fun now but for how long will you be doing them for you think? They are a good guidance to content the game has to offer but they don't add any substance themselves and they could have been a bit more original with some of the contracts, we have killed enough already when leveling.
Don't make Contracts into a miracle solution for wildstar his problems, you might be pulling on the short end if you do.
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The whole competitive PvP scene isn't here anymore and just look in the pvp section of the forum and see how good they find drop 5.
 
For the contracts, you can look at the leveling threads and you will see quite a few comments of players that don't like the kill x kind of objectives so kinda surprised they put quite a few into the contracts.
 
For scorchwing, there are quite a few that got DCed or didn't get credit for the kill.
It simply was not meant to be killed by 200+ players, maybe they should make these contracts 100% random so that players get spread out a little bit more.
If you have fun with lagfests and killing mobs in a few second then have fun but I don't like it and i ain't the only one so why you are personally picking me out is very strange, do you have an eye on me or something? ;)	
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