117611-morning-coffee-05-nov-2014-squee-for-the-defile-edition

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Good morning, everyone!
 
First time I've ever gotten to start one of these threads...kinda intimidating. :blink:
 
OK, first things first:
 
 
And now for the explanation of the thread title:
 
Yesterday's teaser for Drop 3 really has me excited for all the new stuff that's being added to the game. In addition to that, Enki's post in the housing forums about adding new building block decor items just about made my day. I'm a little disappointed that we won't get them until Drop 4, but as a design nerd, I'm thrilled they're being added, as it will exponentially increase the possibilities for people's own houses and buildings. (OMG curved walls!!!)
 
I didn't get to log into WS until late last night, so it was a short gathering spree and then an attempt to finally finish Northern Wastes rep. However, it wasn't meant to be. I ended up at a grand total of 31,950 rep.  <_< So, then I tried to do a challenge to get the extra 50 and found out that the NW challenges do not award rep.
 
So...looks like I'll be doing one final quest in NW tonight. :rolleyes:
 
@Frozen - I saw your post at the end of yesterday's thread, and I really hope you recover your inspiration for various aspects of the game. In the meantime, find something that you enjoy playing and take a break. Come back when you're not feeling burnt out. :)
 
EDIT: how do I edit the thread title? I'm a month behind. :unsure:	
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EDIT: how do I edit the thread title? I'm a month behind. :unsure:
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Use the "full editor" :)
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Ok and now for a proper posting.
 
Good morning everyone!
 
Today is a busy day for me with moving stuffs irl, so not sure if/when I'll get to log in.  The end of the internet is coming really soon (at my old house) so there might be a couple of days when I am offline....stranded....adrift, waiting for rescue.
 
But I am totally excited for the Defile content.  I mean, I've *heard* all those datacubes, but having them all together in the video was just.....bwahahaha.  WANT.
 
Definitely excited about the new housing stuff.  That means the Lifestyles contest at ThaydFest II is going to be even more awesome when it happens :)
 
Anyway, off I go to be responsible.  I have to drive to the office to meet with an executive (even though I'm technically off work this week, sacrifices must be made in order to secure the future).  Then I've got 3-4 trips to do of packing and moving things.  And making sure Comcast is *not* confused about me changing addresses.  I love moving so much.  Really. :)
 
Have a great day in Wildstar today!	
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Thanks. This is why I shouldn't start threads when in a hurry.
 
I wanted to do it before Vic got to it. :ph34r:
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Well, I'm still sick.  In fact, it would appear that I have a sinus infection, one near my ear that's been affecting how my head feels and my balance.  So I'm taking today off, possibly the whole rest of the week.  So that's not been good.  I came home early yesterday and slept an additional five hours on top of the ten I'd slept the previous night, and I slept another seven recently.  And then I got up, and the servers are down.
 
What has been good is on the Wildstar front.  I spent most of yesterday finishing up Seeger's quests in Celestion, and helping lowbies along the way.  I've got a couple names on my rolodex who are looking for guilds, but haven't decided yet, so that's been positive.  Tomorrow is content night for the Blazing Saddles, so I'm going to run some adventures in Vanica's team.  Also, I'm working on dailies reputation so I can get my attunement process to vets for Seeger.  Figure if I can be doing them, I might as well be getting credit for them eventually.
 
So that's all looking good.  At least my head feels like it will be clearing up.	
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Khandi, I miss you!
 
@Vic - hope you feel better, and I'm glad if your head's clearing up...sinus infections are not fun at all. :(
 
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there might be a couple of days when I am offline....stranded....adrift, waiting for rescue.
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Breakfast: Boring
 
Wildstar: Oh yeah baby 40!  Wait... where's my costume slot?  Ugh, 45 :(.  Oh well at least I should be able to upgrade my plugs.  Didn't get a chance to play with my house because there was an opportunity to be social.  Man what a fun time, I've been missing the depth that RP can bring to a game.
 
Tonight... shopping + dinner which means I'll probably be on later than usual which is fine since I'm planning on doing some character maintenance. Housing, maybe some crafting, maybe finally set up my 2nd LAS with a tank build and hopefully another opportunity to be social :lol:
 
Ugh... and so much writing I want to do... Legend of Mosswing :ph34r: (( so totally pulled that from the nether regions ))	
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What's your favorite zone in WS and why?
 
Mine is Farside.
 
low gravity
interesting quests
the biomes are awesome - you're changing environments much faster than in other zones
first time I remember having to sneak into the enemy bases to collect lore items
 
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Khandi, I miss you!
 
@Vic - hope you feel better, and I'm glad if your head's clearing up...sinus infections are not fun at all. :(
 
 
Is your phone one that can be used as a router?
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I'm still here! I have been so busy! 14 hour days at work and family stuff on the weekends (I caught a nice Kingfish! 34 inches at the fork! woot!). I manage to play Wildstar at 6-ish on Saturday or Sunday morning for a few hours and that's it :(
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What does Kingfish taste like?
 
My favorite zone is inside The Phagelabs. Is that weird? I once said to my friend, I wish they made the Phagelabs quest chain into dailies, instead of the NW/CB awfulness. By the time I hit Esteemed at NW/CB, I was ready to turn into a cutter. Just can't make that 2nd half of the climb, so I just left 2 characters at esteemed and go watch paint dry. :lol:	
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What does Kingfish taste like?
 
My favorite zone is inside The Phagelabs. Is that weird? I once said to my friend, I wish they made the Phagelabs quest chain into dailies, instead of the NW/CB awfulness. By the time I hit Esteemed at NW/CB, I was ready to turn into a cutter. Just can't make that 2nd half of the climb, so I just left 2 characters at esteemed and go watch paint dry. :lol:
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What does Kingfish taste like?
 
My favorite zone is inside The Phagelabs. Is that weird? I once said to my friend, I wish they made the Phagelabs quest chain into dailies, instead of the NW/CB awfulness. By the time I hit Esteemed at NW/CB, I was ready to turn into a cutter. Just can't make that 2nd half of the climb, so I just left 2 characters at esteemed and go watch paint dry. :lol:
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			Oddly enough, my favorite zone seems to change from character to character.  Seeger, for example, made my "favorite" zone Wilderrun, but I didn't enjoy it as much as Malgrave on Spenser.  I guess it's just the sort of strange prism playing characters as a roleplayer can be.  Playing different characters completely changes how it "feels" to be in the zone.	
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I had a rough time with the daily zones, too, but dailies just turn me off in general. I like content to have intrinsic replay value, not have it shoved down my throat as something I need to feel obligated to do.
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My favorite zone is inside The Phagelabs. Is that weird? I once said to my friend, I wish they made the Phagelabs quest chain into dailies, instead of the NW/CB awfulness. By the time I hit Esteemed at NW/CB, I was ready to turn into a cutter. Just can't make that 2nd half of the climb, so I just left 2 characters at esteemed and go watch paint dry. :lol:
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Morning everyone hope you're all well today!
 
I didn't get to do much last night as yesterday was really overwhelming and stressful so I just slept the entire night. I did however get to level 21 and heading over to whitevale, but also got my technology and relic hunting up to tier 3 before logging off. Still making good time so I think 4 levels should be easy if I don't go home super tired again tonight hehe...
 
As for favourite zone, I gotta say that it used to be wilderrun, but then Blgihthaven came out and won me over. While I hate the rep grind(the remaining 3 methods) The zone itself is beautiful and zen like for me in many spots. Couple that with "our perception of beauty" track and it's just a zone I can literally just sit in for hours to relax...	
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			I normally don't do coffee threads but I probably should start posting in these :D (seen these since beta, a wonderful tradition)Let's see... Breakfast, breakfast... Yesterday my boyfriend made oatmeal for dinner. I had left overs for breakfast. In reality I feel very tired. I'm severely anemic and in uni mid-semester has started. Not that we have exams or anything. Just that the workload has reached its peak around now. In game I don't know whether I should be overjoyed or really sad. On one hand my guild is doing great and drop 3 is incoming (squee!). On the other hand the server is empty. And will get emptier on this weekend. And here I am farming low level bees for cooking, hording rune fragments, signs, flowers, all the things because the commodity exchange became pointless. Favorite zone would probably still be Celestion :) it's just sooo different! It has laid back Aurin, high Lopps... It's as if there's one peaceful place in Wildstar and that place is Celestion.  	
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I normally don't do coffee threads but I probably should start posting in these :D (seen these since beta, a wonderful tradition)
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I'm glad you decided to post!
 
I've been reading up on the threads about Luminai and Warhound's circumstances, and I'm sorry to hear that things haven't changed much since I was on Warbringer. I really think capturable world objectives of some sort would benefit everyone (I think they could be implemented on a somewhat more limited basis on PvE servers, too).
 
 
Is there a benefit to cutting the fish into steaks as opposed to fillets? I love fish, but only really know as much as I need to buy it from the store. ^_^
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"Steaks" are much easier to grill, particularly in that recipe but otherwise it doesn't make much difference. Kingfish, Wahoo, Swordfish, Dorado and shark are generally 'steaked'. 
 
As far as fish from a store or fish market, it should smell like sea water and if the whole fish is there, the eyes should be clear, not cloudy. Other than that I'm not sure...I've never bought fish from a store :(
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*Cheers for Vick starting the coffee thread for the very first time*
 
Hope many more of them follow! :)
 
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What's your favorite zone in WS and why?
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*Cheers for Vick starting the coffee thread for the very first time*
 
Hope many more of them follow! :)
 
 
Mine has to be Algoroc, hands down. It has a very crisp and clear design that I find very fitting to how I personally view Wildstar.
 
Also it is one area that I can repeat many times easily while testing alt ideas. :D
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As for favourite zone, I gotta say that it used to be wilderrun, but then Blgihthaven came out and won me over. While I hate the rep grind(the remaining 3 methods) The zone itself is beautiful and zen like for me in many spots.
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Is that an Exile circle that does the gold Tree runs daily? What time? I may have to come up there and mooch...erm...help. ;)
 
I really need to see if there's a circle like that on Entity's Dom side, because I love doing world bosses.	
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The Grove rep is going rather swiftly for me, because of the awesome Gold Tree group that runs every day. Although there has been screwups lately (birds killing sproutlings lol), we get the same rep anyway. Then we zerged Ely. Then Scorch if he's up. Then r12, although since the whole daylight savings screwing up scheduling, r12 is being run before tree. Yesterday there was a level 20 in the raid for whatever reason. Don't know what he's doing there, whose alt it was; but I wonder if he gets free Malgrave Research rep before 50. Can non-50 pick up the R-12 quest?
 
My "alt" Exile esper will be beloved with Grove+Malgrave before my "main" Domi esper gets beloved with CB bwahaha! Air-quotes since my Dominion characters have been neglected, they really aren't mains anymore. :(
 
Those who played on PTR, how torturous is the Defile rep?  WTB tabard system!
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Yea Vick, bring your Domi! I always see Dominion players there. We have afkers too lol, part of the reason why sprouts die. People are still standing in purple.
 
8pm PST. They start at r-12 now due to the daylight savings hiccup, but if you only want tree, maybe 8:15pm? If you're not interested in doing the tree start to finish.... there had been people who show up like 5 minutes before the final phase ends. :lol:  No one really cares.
 
Idk of any world boss circles on exile side, but some people tend to shout in Thayd for those.
 
re: Scorch... is there still tagging problems with him? I know there are some Primes in Containment that had grayed hp bar, even though the people who pulled it are in my raid, and I was nearby. Probably another one of those lingering bugs.	
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I like doing all of them. The fights are fun.
 
R-12 is one of my favorite events, although I'm not sure how that'd work if I'm on the wrong faction. The quest has separate progress bars for each side.
 
I also wish there was more reason to do some of the smaller events, like the Strain invasion in Grimvault.	
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Breakfast was at home. 
 
Today is the first day of working from home. It's really nice. :)
 
I was working on housing in between files. Preparing Rocio's plot for his delving into Moodie Magic
 
 
Added a Pell area
 
 
One of the Biggest complaints from the last storyline was that Rocio couldn't have his staff permanently broken.  This was mostly because I couldn't find an IC way to get it replaced.... so this Torine Forge was created to remedy that.
 
 
So now enemies of Rocio can threaten to remove/break his Torine Lifecaller Staff and actually take it/break it.	
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Hello everyone! Really need to remember to post here first thing and not get swept up by Wildstar.
 
So! Today is special. I finally got my last ability point, woohooooo! Now I can fire 4 true shot bullets while benefitting from both T8 quick draw's buff and T8 rapid fire's cooldown reducing. In other Wildstar news? Uh... not much.
 
Thinking of levelling an alt or two today, could be fun!
 
Oh right, as for favorite zone? Hard to decide between Algoroc and Farside, with Malgrave close behind. I just love the feel of Algoroc. Also loftite. Meanwhile Farside manages to keep things fresh by switching between biodomes, and of course the surface. Malgrave's... mostly for the main Malgrave theme but it's a fun zone.	
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 :D Maybe I'll get the date right next time.
 
Algoroc and Galeras are the two zones that I haven't completed yet on any of my characters, so I'm glad Algoroc's a good one. My Granok warrior is poised to venture into those zones when I start leveling her, so it'll be a brand new experience.
 
The only thing I've done in Galeras was imbuements for two random items that my Stalker picked up from rare mobs in Celestion. Speaking of which, it seems odd that a lowbie item's imbuement would send you to a completely different zone. It made me wonder if the items might be in the wrong zone's loot tables.
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			There is an Exile circle that does Gold Tree on Entity nightly (they do a few bosses actually). The guys name is Captain Morica (sp?), and they start around 8pm PST.	
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			Starting new coffee thread now, since I'll be out for a few days after today :)	
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