121131-1192015-morning-coffee-the-comeback-edition

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First, a little coffee to start the day....
 
 
This weekend was incredibly busy for me.  Saturday was completely consumed by ripping down the walls in my mother's basement, ripping out the carpet, and carting it all out.  Returned it mostly to bare concrete floor and CMU wall.  Water was leaking into her basement from somewhere and mold had taken over half the carpet in one of the little rooms.  After that was done, I stuck around to play bass on my new amp (well, the amp isn't new, but it's new to me and is a LOT better than what I've got) and to get my brother set up and in the game.  It's an exciting time for all!  He's one of the best support players I've ever rolled with in other MMORPGs.  He was a Paladin tank in FFXI with me, a warrior tank and priest healer in WoW with me, and he flew a drone rig with me in EVE.  He got hooked in just by seeing how awesome STL is just during a normal guild run.  I can't wait until he's level 20!
 
Yesterday became content day for the Blazing Saddles, and it was exciting and eventful.  First, we ran WotW with a bunch of people, some of whom had never seen it before.  That went so well we gold-medalled the thing without a second thought.  We'll definitely be running that again a few times, it's just popular.  Then we walked into Siege of Tempest Refuge.  I'd only ever run it once (during my initial attunement right after headstart), and since we medaled it I never went back.  Well, I finally decided to just take a bunch of people into it that knew absolutely nothing about it.  Failed it the first time through.  But my team didn't despair; we did a bit of research, changed our strategy, and almost beat the next try completely at Tempest Refuge!  Unfortunately, an inferno tank killed our generator, and we had to run to Skywatch just to spawn the last boss.  Got him down and won though.
 
We then went into Skullcano and, though we struggled through (I learned a lot of the small mechanics that run underneath the surface stuff about avoiding red and big playstyle changes that really define the teaching to brand new players).  We made it to Bosun before people had to start going to bed, but we almost got him down, too.  I'm so proud of my team and my guild for that perseverance.  It was a learning experience for all involved, but I had a whole lot of fun with it.  Last night was one of the more exciting nights I've been playing, and this is a person who previously attuned with a hardcore raid guild just doing normals.
 
It's trite but true, this game's not most about what you do, how you do it, or how fast you get it done, but who you do it with!
 
Anyway, I've been happy to see a lot of old faces coming back to Wildstar in anticipation of Drop 4 (or for a whole host of myriad reasons).  I just wanted to personally welcome all those people back.  It's good to see so many of my friends from the early days returning (looking at you, Antiabz!) and the game, especially on the EU side, starting to show a few more players coming back.  Along with a lot of the new faces we've got around here, it's easy to feel hopeful.  I mean, I'm just peachy in game, but so many people seem to not have been so fortunate with friends as I've been.  I'm glad to see a lot of them coming back!
 
So I wanted to pose a question today:  if you left and returned, what brought you back, and if you never left, what keeps you here?
 
I'm in the latter category, and there are a lot of things about this game I just love to pieces.  First and foremost is the rolodex of people, and now guild of people, I have connected with that make the game so much fun for me.  Piggybacking off that, I love getting the odd bit of RP in and the scenes we get to do it in.  I wouldn't have ever, in any other game, been able to personally make a swamp for my voodoo shaman to live in, or build an entire flying fortress, but housing allows me to do that.  Finally, this game is all about difficulty and mastery.  So many MMORPGs turn playing into a chore, a time sink you invest in just to get to the end.  You can't even walk into a rallied normal instance in Wildstar figuring you're just going to stand in the fire and faceroll through until you're very seriously overgeared for it.  The variety helps, too; even doing a normal Hycrest with my guild is a wild jaunt of figuring out what random paths we're going to take instead of spam-running the same ones.
 
Between the people I know, the customization we get, and the content we play, I've got enough for years of involvement even before Drop 4 shows up.  What keeps you playing?	
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Well i came back because i became bored to tears with WoD..the people who brought me back to WoW vanished, the gameplay was so so incredibly shallow, and i did not like a lot of the changes they made.  I decided i wanted something where i would die horrible and demeaning deaths for very stupid reasons, that i could laugh and cry at....and as i learned when i dragged my Cassian Engineer back out into the world...that only took about 5 minutes to accomplish XD.
 
I don't have much time to play, i'm very casual, but when i do play, i want to feel like i'm being challeneged even by normal questing...even if at times i feel i should have taken tap dancing lessons with my fingertips!
 
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Typos...i think my fingers heard me about the tap dancing....	
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I never left!  But what has been keeping me playing, honestly, is the awesome community.  In that vein....
 
I'm just going to leave this here....
 
And this one too.
 
Off to do Monday things.  Bleh.  I formally move that Monday be made part of the weekend.	
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I never left!  But what has been keeping me playing, honestly, is the awesome community.  In that vein....
 
I'm just going to leave this here....
 
And this one too.
 
Off to do Monday things.  Bleh.  I formally move that Monday be made part of the weekend.
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RP has been wonderful. The Wildseeds are growing again! I've initiated 3 new members. We don't have a storyline yet. Gonna let people settle in and then try to see what everyone wants to do.
 
I really wanted to join Black Daggers in their thing Sunday. But that's what I was doing.	
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Good morning, everyone! Got another morning work shift to put up with so I'm up early. I haven't had too much time to play Wildstar lately so my housebuilding has been pretty stagnant. Once I figure out how I want to layout this room, though, it should be smooth sailing.
 
As for that topic question, I haven't left and don't plan to anytime soon, I love the gameplay. The Dominion RP community is pretty cool too. As for the events, definitely attending Thaydfest if I have even the slightest bit of time off that day.
 
...it would be nice to have an event in Illium though, something as cool. I wouldn't even have the slightest who'd run it, though. I'd offer, but I do not even have the slightest ability to run anything, just provide help or prizes or something.	
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I'm one of the comeback kids. I played for two months right before the server mergers happened. I think maybe August and September? I'm not completely sure if I have that timeline correct. And I left primarily because I burned myself out on the early game. I decided to try new things with WildStar, so I started on a PvP server. That didn't pan out. So I moved to an RP server, again to try something new. That went better. Amidst all of that I was rerolling characters frequently. I just couldn't decide on a faction/ class/ race/ path combo. I can't say for sure, but I bet I went through all or part of the first 10 levels 15-20 times. I've never been so indecisive with a game, but it was because all of it looked so appealing I couldn't decide! So I took a break, tooled around in some other games and WildStar just kind of fell off my radar. 
 
Warlords launched and I went back to WoW. About a month later I felt I had played through everything that interested me. The rest was just grind and I'm over that. So I started looking at my options again and landed here. I'm glad I came back too, I forgot how enjoyable the game was. 
 
This time I'm trying to get a little more involved in the community here on the forums. I need to in game as well and I've joined a guild this time so I'm heading in the right direction. Most of the reasons Vic listed are why I'll stick around. The content, challenge and customization. Also for me the story and setting are a big draw. And the art style. 
 
As for this weekend, I didn't get in as much time as I would have liked. But I gained a couple of levels and met the squig for the first time to my delight and horror. So that puts my warrior at 27. I've enjoyed Whitevale for the most part but I'm ready to move on. Not sure what level I need to be for the next zone but hopefully it's not too far off.	
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First, your coffee:
 
 
Breakfast was an Evol. burrito and some milk. Not necessarily inspired, but tasty nonetheless.
 
This weekend was spent with lots of real life stuff, and some WildStar mixed in. Judging was finished for Lifestyles of Nexus II and scores were tabulated, and I ran around and made sure images were taken of the winning plots and everything got posted before midnight. :) I also hung out and did some guild storyline RP which has gotten awesomely intense. Daggers also ran and finished two Vet KV dungeons. Hurrah!
 
As for what has kept me in the game? The guild. The community. All of the amazing folks I get to tweet and play the game with. Without them, I don't know if I'd have lasted as long as I have, because the big things that keep me playing a game for a while (vanity items, mainly) are few and far between/easily obtained.	
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Grad students don't really get holidays, and my "Free time" has been momentarily removed. 
So I'm at work. 
 
Coffee was good, on my 6th mug. Sketching out ideas for the rework of the mordesh coffee house. My current version is a little too midnight garden, and that needs to be toned down. Start with the basics, then add RP nooks. 
Have some music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV50WgPkcBo	
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WOO DAY OFF! HAHAHA!
 
I ended up not playing as much WildStar as I'd expected this weekend. Oops. It's partly the fault of RP, partly the fault of being super busy preparing for a convention trip for my SO (he's a sci-fi writer and he'll be talking on panels plus we'll have a booth to sell his anthologies and stuff at COSine Science Fiction Convention), and partly the fault of... Dragon Age: Inquisition. XD
 
I'm not usually a single-player gamer. Actually, I rather dislike the things, not because they're bad games but because I need to be able to play with other people to keep from getting bored. My other half and I just kept being drawn by the world of DA:I and the story that all our friends were gushing over (and I'll admit - the character creator), so we just broke down. We've got one copy and we're playing through it together, which is a little awkward but so far acceptable. I really, really, really wish this game had real co-op, though. If we could play as party members together through the story, I think we'd lose twice or three times the number of hours to this game as we will. XD Wish there were more games like that, too.
 
Anyway, so that's what I ended up doing instead of playing a lot of WS this weekend. XD I did make sure to log in to get my eldan fragment thingymajigs. And I idly worked on my Cassian's house - started construction on the guest house and debating whether or not her enclosed hot springs thingy needs a second floor. Not much beyond that though. I am sad I missed out on the dungeoning last night! D:
 
What keeps me playing is definitely 1) the people (I luff my guild :D), 2) the housing, 3) the dungeons/adventures, and 4) the RP.	
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Good morning! Today's breakfast consists of day old donuts (still yummy!) from my favorite bakery and coffee I haven't quite made yet lol! Woke up with a crick in my neck, so hurting pretty good  :(
 
In Wildstar, I had a very eventful weekend! We did SSM last night for my last dungeon needed for attunement. While we only got bronze, I was assured I wasn't as bad as I felt lol. I'm confident in my healing ability, but I also know that I "scare" easy and then start panicking and mashing buttons, and inevitably dodging into the red.... while this might work in other games with more buttons to mash, not really the answer to healing in this game lol! I know it but I still do it. I know as I get more comfortable with the fights, that will happen less. I also managed to farm a good amount this weekend, so I'm somewhat comfortable in my stores at the minute (tho I need leather, again.... *shakefist*)
 
As to the question you asked, I have been playing this game since open beta. I was drawn in immediately. I came to Open Beta literally knowing nothing about this game other than seeing an advertisement for it. I loved it. I had played EverQuest 2 for almost 9 years before finding WS, so it was quite a commitment to leave there, especially since I had been in the same guild for the last almost-4 years! While initially I was having problems finding a guild to suit my needs, I've now settled into OTG, and I'm feeling quite at home. Before then, what drove me was a compulsion to get to 50 at MY pace, and to get all my crafters researching (which meant getting to 50 on all of them!) and to learn all the recipes I could. I'm still working on that, and now with the assistance of my guild, I've also been working on the adventure side of things, tho I still care more about my crafting lol!	
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Good morning! (or afternoon... I'm late today. >.<)
 
I hope everyone had a good weekend. :)
 
I didn't get to do too much because I was away all weekend. I am liking my Engineer now even though I'm a low level. I really need to level more on Dominion side. I've been Exile since beta and only have gotten about 10 on Dominion twice.
 
To answer the daily question: I left for awhile (for various reasons, none of which were the game), so "What keeps you playing?" isn't the best question for me. But I will answer what brought me back. :) Ever since beta I've known WildStar to have an AMAZING community. Everyone is so nice here. I've made a ton of friends and met a lot of really cool people. The forums for WildStar are the only official forums I could ever stand being on. So the community is 75% of what drew me back. The other 25% and the thing that tipped me over the edge was reading about what was planned for Drop 4 and what was planned over the next year and once again being reminded that the motto "The devs are listening" remains true. Drop 4 is looking to add a lot of things people have been asking for. :) I know a lot of people tend to lose patience. Some people who have been asking for the things in Drop 4 since beta have probably already given up and left. But it might take a little time, but the devs ARE listening and it seems like they prove it time and time again by adding requested features.
 
Again, some people might feel like it's not fast enough, but it's still a fact.
 
So really, reading those notes and realizing that fact made me decide to resub and get back to the game. :) I realize things are a lot slower than they were over the summer, but WildStar is still a great game with a great community and I think it is still getting better. Hopefully more people decide to give the game another try and come back and see what they've been missing!	
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Weekend was pretty dreary for me and a mix of good and bad news.
 
It's funny to see a few people returning, but I'm actually going to be bowing out this week to "break" from Wildstar for awhile. I have many reasons, but chief among them is that I'm going to be focusing on my art and my health which hasnt been doing too well. I'll still be subbed for awhile and take care of the entity guild list as welI,l probably pop in once in awhile to chat, and I still have some wildstar art id like to do as well, but otherwise it's time for me to hang up my great sword and get some rest.
 
In other news I made chocolopp figures over the weekend for family and friends who play or just like Wildstar as a valentines gift. A mix of black and milk chocolate.	
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Weekend was pretty dreary for me and a mix of good and bad news.
 
It's funny to see a few people returning, but I'm actually going to be bowing out this week to "break" from Wildstar for awhile. I have many reasons, but chief among them is that I'm going to be focusing on my art and my health which hasnt been doing too well. I'll still be subbed for awhile and take care of the entity guild list as welI,l probably pop in once in awhile to chat, and I still have some wildstar art id like to do as well, but otherwise it's time for me to hang up my great sword and get some rest.
 
In other news I am making chocolopp figures for family and friends who play Wildstar as a valentines gift. A mix of black and milk chocolate.
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			To answer your question, I'm leaving because there's nothing really left for me to do. The content seems incredibly sparse, even for a new MMO.	
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Best of luck where ever you go! Hopefully at some point in the future you'll give WildStar another try! Maybe in a drop or two when there is more content added. :)
 
But in the mean time, happy trails!	
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Best of luck where ever you go! Hopefully at some point in the future you'll give WildStar another try! Maybe in a drop or two when there is more content added. :)
 
But in the mean time, happy trails!
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Anyone got coffee today?  I feel weird making it twice in a row.  Instructions are easy!
 
1.  Post in this thread you're making the new batch.
 
2.  Put the date, [Morning Coffee], and a tagline in the subject line.
 
3.  Write a post about what you did in the game, any thoughts, and a picture of breakfast and/or coffee.
 
Anyone can do it! :D	
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I'll give it a shot! I almost did before I left for work but I was short on time and haven't ever started one before.
 
EDIT: I can't figure out how to add an image from my phone because I'm as technologically savvy as a three-legged wombat. Is here someone else who can jump in and get this coffee started? I'll try to figure it out for another time.	
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			I think I understand how to do it so I will can give try!	
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I came back, deleted all but 2 of my characters, and started an Esper Aurin. 
 
I came back because I wanted to see how much CREDD I had.  Just kidding.  I left for personal reasons.  I'm back because that personal reason is no an ex that lives many, many states away, lol.  I did like the art and the humor.  I didn't like the fact that it reminds me of a Korean grindfest game.  I'm hoping I enjoy it more now.  I'm playing it side by side with WOW and I am loving WOW.  I am hoping that it will capture my attention like it did in beta and is a bit easier to solo. 	
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