144610-morning-coffee-21st-of-october-2015-hoverboard-hump-day

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Happy Hoverboard Hump day!
 
Sign ups are looking great for the Costume Contest!
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/135871-eventvenus-risings-shades-eve-costume-contest-oct-23rd/?p=1430724
 
I’ve been working hard non-stop this Shade’s Eve celebration. Sorry I’ve not been here much, but hoping today we can catch our breath a bit. I mean ‘’we’’ as in my officer team and myself, I’m not going crazy….yet! We’ve been planning this event during Shade’s Eve since August, and what a trip it’s been so far! We’ve got the best house builders working a vibrant and spooky setting,  tee shirts from Carbine as prizes, and lots of donations so far! I can finally farm the instance in hopes of getting stuff for my Bomba and Nili now, as every shade’s silver has gone to this housing project J
Anyone else entering their home for the Housing Contest? I went around and put shade’s eve stuff all over Bomba’s home yesterday afternoon to qualify for the contest. Even if I don’t win, Tony Rey will have seen it :D
 
 
Last night we saw our Project Vanilla go into Genetic Archives for their first time.
What this means is, they are freshly attuned players who have never ever seen Genetic Archives in their whole WildStar lives and they’re banding together to experience those first kill vibes we got a year ago. I still can’t believe it’s been a year since we got Lightspire’s Dominion first on X89, that was incredible! I hope they felt that same rush of adrenaline, I’ll see if I can find some streams or something. ^_^
 
Now on a personal note, I’ve been talking to my husband, and despite me being a fully qualified chef, I’m unhappy working in the kitchens as it takes a physical toll on my body, something I don’t want to wear out. I have Hypothyroidism and Hypermobility so I’m forgetful, my joints lock up, I’m tired from the tiniest work out. It sucks. So I sat down and talked to my husband, and as long as I’m productive around the house (he’ll help too of course), he’s fine with me staying home and brushing up on my graphic design. Maybe one day I’ll be a personal chef, that won’t as taxing as full time fine dining kitchen hours.
So for now, graphic design, event planning, guild running, house building, and real life of course. (can I say my husband is incredible? J )
 
Let's go get ourselves a Delorean Hoverboard!
 
I’m so hyped for Shade’s Eve and real life Halloween. :D
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If i win the lotto you can be my personal chef, my requests are simple, BACON EVERYTHING!!
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			If i win the lotto you can be my personal chef, my requests are simple, BACON EVERYTHING!!	
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If i win the lotto you can be my personal chef, my requests are simple, BACON EVERYTHING!!
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As long as no one minds my self-electing as scribe/spokesperson (for the moment at least :)...
 
We Vanillae did good! Not great, but hey... it was (as Nili said) literally the first time 90% of us had ever set foot in there.
 
We had:
- amusing deaths (eggs, disorienting, leaping off the side of bridges ;P)
- hilarious squeaks of fear (drippy/mortar things still hitting us as we were gathering for the next pull after the bridge, most of us dodge, one person gets knocked straight forwards... ohhh the sound over teamspeak was priceless!)
- lots of practice at how to separate mobs, which is a lot harder than it sounds when taunts aren't single target (boy, never thought I'd complain about that!). We got the hang of it after a while :)
- lots of being beaten up by Genetic Monstrosity
- but we got him to 23% so... that ain't bad for a first evening! Once we get better at not dying to the egg/pustules, we'll have him easily. We only really spent two hours in there, maybe two and a half. We'll get him on Friday :)
 
Most curiously amusing moment?...
Legendary medium armour drops!
... for DPS... with ideal stats for Stalkers... and we realise we don't have a SINGLE Stalker in the group...
All the medics were "well... it's okay, but... ehhh, wrong stats!"
 
What a waste :P thanks RNG  :rolleyes:
			
				
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Awesome. I was going to make the same topic if no one beat me to it. :lol:
 
Not the contest, but the hoverboard-Back to the Future tie-in.
 
Ah well, good on you, Nil.
 
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Awesome. I was going to make the same topic if no one beat me to it. :lol:
 
Not the contest, but the hoverboard-Back to the Future tie-in.
 
Ah well, good on you, Nil.
 
Have a great day.
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Oh... that looks so tasty...  :unsure: ... :wacko: .... :blink: ....
 
I'm hungry.	
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Hey everyone! Long time no chat! Another all-nighter working in the shop, sipping on coffee (some star wars themed coffee mate stuff - Chewbacca flavored?), smoking and listening to Possessed by Paul James (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efg5TYE_NE4). Very mellow morning. A bunch of R&D on this helmet business has finally paid off and it's nearly done. just needs a little more detailing then painting. Been an interesting learning experience, but I'll be happy when it's done. THEN I might be able to get back to my wildstar-related project.
 
 
On another note, I've been logging in just enough to do the event quests. Silly me thought the different candy bowl decors would have different types of candy for the quest, so I bought all the colors and they're all filled with skulls... Ah well. At least my plot is well-stocked and I've been forced to communicate with other people, which isn't such a bad thing.  :P
 
Ok, back to work. No rest for the wicked.  ;)	
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That looks awesome Ratstomper!! I am really looking forward to seeing the finished product. If I had half that talent!
 
My guild's pitched in and made a list of people to visit for candy. :D	
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Here's a meal perfect for your salt mate :)
 
 
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Good morning everyone. :) Loving these topics, especially during downtime. Not entirely sure why but for some reason reading post about the lives and experiences of others is just mildly entertaining to me. Anyway, just figured I'd put a bit of a "Dear diary" of sorts to contribute to thread bumpage as I sip my coffee. I've become rather enthralled and in love with the game which is not what I was expecting to be perfectly honest. I tested the game in beta, wasn't impressed then. I did a free trial of the game a few months after it was out, wasn't impressed then.
 
Only decided to try it out again this week because it was F2P now which meant I simply had nothing to lose (I've also recently cut ties with WoW on a very permanent basis.) so I figured why not? I'm honestly impressed. I can't even really name what grabbed me this time around but it feels so much better. It honestly feels like the game I was expecting and wanting this entire time when I first read about wildstar pre-release, even pre-beta. I'm not even sure what they all changed or what did it for me I just know they did: So good job Carbine.
 
That aside, I've been exploring and enjoying myself. My spellslinger (who i transferred to Entity-2 out of curiosity, having no clue I couldn't transfer back...Sorry Tex. Miss you guys </3) is now in his 30s. I've also decided to bench him for a little while, re-rolling to a warrior. Don't get me wrong I am enjoying him but the more I play him the more he just doesn't feel really right to me. He just feels tedious as things go on for what feels like very little return when in comparison to other classes I've grouped with and when I talk to people it seems to echo my feelings. So, he is benched for now though I will get back to him. I'll miss you Draaaaaaven. As for my warrior, I decided to roll him on entity-2 as well (Less lag there it seems..Won't lie, enjoying it.) and i even decided to make this one an Exile. Wanted to see what the other side of the fence was like. Made him a big, bulky mordesh with a bane like mask and metallic mohawk. Seeing as I'm a fan of the undead/Forsaken from my WoW days..I did indeed approve of this.
 
Only have him to level twelve at the moment since I made him shortly before the server maintence took effect but so far I am really enjoying myself. I think I am better and enjoy resource building systems than I do the management of the spellsurge on my SS. Reminded me too much of a DK honestly and I hate DKs..maybe that is what was bringing me down. Is that weird? Anyway, me and the warrior (Who I named Tenkai Menethil..Hey I still love the lore.) are tearing it up and I think i'll make him my first level 50. Chances are I'll be DPSing because I've always done the tank/heal thing in WoW and frankly the change of pace to "Just kill it" feels really nice.
 
All that aside, I am kinda down on the lower population in entity-2. Been looking for a guild or friends to talk to but so far nothing, so if anyone knows anyone or is anyone over there on the exile side of things, I'd love to hear from you. But yeah. That is pretty much my first experience with the game so far. It's really enjoyable. Hell, I am having fun even with the housing aspect, which is credit to how good it is because i utterly DESPISE player housing systems and anything sim-like generally speaking. Anyway, looking forward to playing with you guys in the future and I'm having a ton of fun. How about you guys? How are you all? Also any advice I welcome by the way.
 
 
Edit: Nil, your threads always make me hungry. x-x
			
				
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Edit: Nil, your threads always make me hungry. x-x
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Tex!
 
That ham!
 
Now I'm even MORE hungry...
 
You guys are mean :)	
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			Good morning, coffee people! How's Shade's Eve?All that delicious food and it's hoverboard day! Hmm. I can't really tie hoverboards with breakfast, but I had Cheerios.In Wildstar news, I am still exploring guild options. I have yet to meet anyone from BDS so that's on hold. Shade's Eve has proven to be quite generous: I've got all the hoverboard flair straight from the expedition so now I only have to accumulate 500 Shade Silvers to get the hoverboard. I would farm the instance but I am TERRIBLE at the first half. I always end up getting lost in the woods.No picture today; only a very Shade's Eve song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mEQnaSzxoDanger ahead! Danger behind! Maybe danger sideways...because Jack Shade knows what you did last summer o.o	
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Good afternoon I have to say =)
Joining in with some afternoon coffee, prepared a pot for work. I'm working at home these days between some studying for current AI course exam, lots to do :(
Trying to download patch, it crashes over and over again but think it's ready soon. Will do some quests before work, hopefully I will have the time =)
I really like the trick and treat quest, hope you get it a lot... it's fun to visit other players houses!
 
Just thought I got the patch down, but received "client version does not match the game server version", so guess something is up bugging it out. Don't know what to do, guess no play until tonight then =(
			
				
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Either that or a barrista uniform.
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As a chef I take that as such a compliment <3
 
 
Morning Lich!
Glad to see you posting here. Love it when newbies come and say hi ^_^
You'll find the right class for you soon! There's a lot to choose from hehe!
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It usually is a great way to meet people.
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Happy whatever-time-it-is-in-your-zone, everyone!
 
Aaaand right after I wrote that my screen went black for about 10s... not good. More terrifying than Jack Shade slipping under the sheets with me at night...
 
Anyway. Speaking of timezones, it just occurred to me yesterday that if I were accepted to the JET program and left to teach English in Japan, I would be a completely flipped time schedule. I've been easing myself on the idea of the transition, moving away from family and all that, by focusing on the fact that a lot of my interests and socializing happens online. But what happens when it's primetime here and 10am in Japan? :(  I would basically lose access to a huge community... ungh...
 
As to the haunted contest, I want to join but as I think I wrote in another thread, likely won't. I love seeing an official contest but the currency investment is too high (plat and real moneys to get spooky eyes from the cash shop, etc). Plus the rewards rather suck. That wouldn't be my biggest motivation, I just like building and can be friendly-competitive; but when I don't care at all about more signature status (4 months already) and a mount I would never use... meh. So I'll repeat here for good measure: CRBs, please give housing related rewards for housing contests! :P
 
On the topic of hoverboard stuff, is today one of the big events? I had no idea! Hopefully they put an update for this in the launcher or something. I'll have to go do some searching now as I didn't see a recent post about it here on the forums or on the twitter page.
 
 
Niliana, I think you've made the right move in putting your health first. Letting a job grind you down to a pin isn't what life's about (not now anyway, maybe in feudal days :lol: ). I'm really glad you have a partner who understands that. I'd personally not have a problem doing the same for my theoretical nonexisting partner.. it might even give me a sense of purpose. Some part of me has that desire to take care of someone, maybe remnants of an old culture, but without the patriarchal bullshit that can muss up a nurturing bond. :P
 
 
Well, since we've got another couple hours of downtime, I should probably do some schoolwork... *thinks about the Murakami book in bag and a hot bath*...
 
Yea... schoolwork... :rolleyes:	
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Happy whatever-time-it-is-in-your-zone, everyone!
 
Aaaand right after I wrote that my screen went black for about 10s... not good. More terrifying than Jack Shade slipping under the sheets with me at night...
 
Anyway. Speaking of timezones, it just occurred to me yesterday that if I were accepted to the JET program and left to teach English in Japan, I would be a completely flipped time schedule. I've been easing myself on the idea of the transition, moving away from family and all that, by focusing on the fact that a lot of my interests and socializing happens online. But what happens when it's primetime here and 10am in Japan? :(  I would basically lose access to a huge community... ungh...
 
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That's the real, sole reason for Morning Coffee.
 
We're a community-building service, provided free of charge!
 
I do think that after one reaches the 500 Posts in Morning Coffee, we should get an exclusive skin that turns all our weapons into coffee cups and giant donuts.
 
Spellslinger Version
Stalker Version
 
Engineer Version
Either that or a barrista uniform.
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Love the ideas but what about people like me who enjoy Warriors? We need a giant coffee bean of doom to swing around O_O! 
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Ah, maintenance is causing it all, darn maintenance always when I want to play :P
Only half an hour before work starts, no time to start on another answer to old exams so might as well continue reading here and sipping coffee and munching chocolate biscuits =)
I hope one day I will be able to take part in housing contest. Perhaps around this time next year, who knows =) However my current house idea isn't really spooky so I guess I need to take part in something more all around, unless I add some spooky touch to it. Will be interesting to see what others come up with this year. Already seen some spooky places during trick and treating =)
			
				
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Coffee. Now available in Warrior size.
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Goodmorning everyone! 
 
Havent had much time to post, been super busy. Seems like everytime I have time to relax something else happens. Just never seems to end. 
 
Been kinda lost in wildstar right now. I dont have the ability to really commit to raiding, dungeons are really fun but do get old if spammed to much. Been wanting to get into pvp badly, but I dont know what class to do this with. As im mostly gonna be solo queing (maybe) most the time, I dont wanna stick to healing.
 
Pugs never seem to want to peel or help their healers so I was gonna focus on dps. But spellslinger dps is not for me. I have an engineer at 50 already but not sure how id like engi in pvp. Seems overall to slow. Ive been wanting to try out dps medic some more (apparently op?) And that way I can still heal when I want, but i hear healing medic is really gimped into emmission spam. Anyway, off my rant.
 
I havent had a chance to play Shades eve yet so hoping to do that soon. Hearing so much about it, just hope i dont miss it.	
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Now on a personal note, I’ve been talking to my husband, and despite me being a fully qualified chef, I’m unhappy working in the kitchens as it takes a physical toll on my body, something I don’t want to wear out. I have Hypothyroidism and Hypermobility so I’m forgetful, my joints lock up, I’m tired from the tiniest work out. It sucks. So I sat down and talked to my husband, and as long as I’m productive around the house (he’ll help too of course), he’s fine with me staying home and brushing up on my graphic design. Maybe one day I’ll be a personal chef, that won’t as taxing as full time fine dining kitchen hours.
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That looks awesome Ratstomper!! I am really looking forward to seeing the finished product. If I had half that talent!
 
My guild's pitched in and made a list of people to visit for candy. :D
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Oof work hours. There are times I wish I worked a normal job, so my husband and I could actually afford to move out of my parents' house, but then I love my job and really it's hard to beat being home by 2-2:30 every day. xD
 
In WildStar news, I am super happy that a friend of mine finally reinstalled the game and is having a lot of fun! The only problem is she's pst and I'm cst, and her hours are wonky so she generally doesn't log in until 10:30 our time. >. < Oof. Still managed to run the Shade's Eve instance with her once last night at least. She wants to do content when she hits 50, though, so now I have even more pressure to work out my runes. x_x Weeeee...	
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Good morning.  I'm between soldering on connectors onto a little protoboard we make for adapting debug pods to circuit boards so figured I'd drop by. 
 
Patch notes look alright.  Pleased to see some nods to the pure/divine rune acquisition issue.  We'll take a crack at SD tomorrow night and see how it feels.  My suspicion is that it'll require respect and execution the way it did last week.
 
Didn't play much last week but did a little Shade's Eve and we attempted to run Malgrave Gold for a guildie's alt he's readying for alt raids.  We were just rocking through perfect and then got a 2nd lost caravan member and could not reach him in time (we spotted him.)
 
Just continues to go to show how this adventure's "difficulty" is crap.  It's just random.  Random in the right place is great.  Random that affects outcomes like that where it's not a matter of "perfect play" but "with the on-screen information and Perspective/EntSpy you STILL can't find it, and get to it in the time required to save him" is really just... dumb.  
 
So, we ended with 29/30, not enough for the gold for the alt's ability point.  Alas.
 
I went off and read a book :-).
 
Tonight, speed GA hopefully.  It'll probably depend on north or south path.  Seriously.  South path just takes so much longer for some reason.	
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Another day, another flowsheet. That's how it works right? ;)
 
Had a great night doing Shade's Eve- even managed to get gold! As it turns out, you need only complete one of the optional portions in the first phase- either don't get tagged, or make it to the fountain before Angel wakes up. Not too tough to do with a little care (and memory)!
 
Decided to farm the instance a bit, ended up with 3 shoulder costume pieces :lol:  and some other rabble. My ever-lucky and handsome slinger got the front flair on his single run through, so now he REALLY has to get the board! I will be sure to post a photo of him doing a victory lap once it has been acquired.
 
Otherwise, hope everyone else is enjoying themselves- and I guess... I will see you all at the hoverboard races! Boom! Event within an event! Event-ception!
 
I am just a bit excited for this, I love the hoverboard and doubt I'll ever bother using another mount.	
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"Matt, this looks like you may have a problem."
 
"YOU'RE A PROBLEM."
 	
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"Matt, this looks like you may have a problem."
 
"YOU'RE A PROBLEM."
 
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			Silly question but it just popped into my head: How do I remove the UI in-game to take screen shots o_o I am thinking of taking some pictures of my warrior and documenting his growth for some funnsies.	
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"Matt, this looks like you may have a problem."
 
"YOU'RE A PROBLEM."
 
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Morning(ish) all!  Breakfast was chicken salad because I was running late for a meeting (it had poppy seeds and cranberries in it, which allows me to classify it as a muffin, and thus, breakfast food).
 
Wildstar last night was about cobbling something together to allow access to the ship and get a candy bucket placed.  I still need to raise my décor cap so I can shape the compartment and add details, but for now the ship is accessible to the public and ready to dispense candy!  
 
Plot name: XSS There and Back Again (Shendorion Fleetfoot)
Candy type: bag
 
 
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Silly question but it just popped into my head: How do I remove the UI in-game to take screen shots o_o I am thinking of taking some pictures of my warrior and documenting his growth for some funnsies.
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"Matt, this looks like you may have a problem."
 
"YOU'RE A PROBLEM."
 
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			My tea says hi	
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My tea says hi
 
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"Matt, this looks like you may have a problem."
 
"YOU'RE A PROBLEM."
 
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