126403-morning-coffee-519-the-social-club-edition

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Mmmm, space latte, just like Mom used to make!
 
 
So, I was having fun in other threads yesterday and didn't make coffee ... and then no one else did either. Slackers! :lol:
 
Anyway, today is a heavy work day for me, so I'll be busy for the rest of the morning. But hey! Coffee it brewing and we all know that work can't start until the coffee is ready.
 
Logged in yesterday afternoon and picked up a bunch of dailies - and then ended up socializing in chat and never did anything constructive. I got ready to log and realized I'd been on for an hour and the only thing I'd done is talk to friends and ride Lifty around in a circle.
 
That can't just be me, can it? Do you ever "miss" game time just sitting around chatting it up, or do you always feel compelled to be productive while in-game?	
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I don't do too much talking to people (Even after a year of the game, I'm still slow to warm!) but I do spend quite a long time staring at a wall in my housing plot.
 
I get just as much done : P	
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I don't always feel compelled to be productive while in game. Back when I played WoW, I spent a lot of time just logging on to chat.
 
However, in WS I do enjoy the game play too much to not be trying to get something going. As a raid leader, I spent a LOT of time talking to folks and organizing things, and it's OK, but I'd rather be running a dungeon :)
 
Anyway, last night ways fun. My wife and I helped an attuning player do KV, and then we ran UPG. I really do enjoy tanking UPG.
 
This weekend was good- we finally got Convergence down, though sadly I couldn't be there because I was performing a concert with my band. But I was back in time to hear it over TS :D  So we're now 5/6! Not bad as a circle!  Kind of a fitting way to sign of, since our last raid as a circle is this coming up weekend.
 
Did the pug GA on Sunday. Was fun, and this time x-89 actually dropped loot. Got to introduce some folks to Kuralak and even made some progress. If we'd had some more people from the circle there, we'd have had a better chance, but as it was a lot of people did some good learning. Sadly, I have a wedding to go to this Sunday so won't be able to lead the Sunda PUG (but Ice Frostleaf is still planning on doing it for those who want to give it another shot).
 
All in all, lots of fun stuff in WS the past few days :)	
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According to some non-gamers I know, any of our time in-game is "non-productive". ;) From my point of view, if you are enjoying your time, beit it chatting it up with guildmates or staring at that wall in your house, who cares if you got some quests done or not? There's always tomorrow! Or the day after that, or the day after that....
 
For me, my weekend gaming felt rushed, mostly because I missed most of Saturday, due to a real-life family activity that took us out of town. Family get-togethers can be nice and all, but when dinner turns into a four-hour event on hard and uncomfortable seating....one can't help but wish they were back at home and playing WildStar. :P
 
I did manage to get some random house hopping in on Sunday, so that was nice. Also did a bit of work on my own home, not alot however, as I've been trying to reserve most of that for my livestreams. I cannot help it though. I just gotta tinker with it even when the camera isn't rolling. It's an obsession. XD	
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Well... mornin' folks.
 
Don't have a lot to relate.  Many attempts were made against Init Core.  Some very good ones in the mix, but on the whole we didn't get the kill.  So I guess we'll be back in on Wednesday to take another crack at it.  Very glad to see the instancing of StarComm Basin in the patch notes.  Sunday I got quest credit but no contract credit (after multiple attempts) and yesterday I got contract credit but no quest credit (and didn't try again -- no time).  So keeping the instance to a moderate number should help things out.  I hope they tested things like group syncing between instances/shards.
 
Attunement day.  I haven't decided whether I will attune my newly minted spellslinger or not.  I might.  Or maybe just buy a key at this point.  I've done it twice over now on Remi and Glory.  I decided Morgan was more of a PVP character.  Anathema might be... or I could just save my money because who has time for two raiding characters and a regular life anyhow?
 
Ran into an interesting bug this morning with Fragment Zero, and a party member who drops and reconnects at odd times that broke the cave gates.  I will have to type that up and get it into the bug report forum.
 
Guess that's about it.  Hope everyone has a productive day.	
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So, I was having fun in other threads yesterday and didn't make coffee ... and then no one else did either. Slackers! :lol:
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I have absolutely nothing against whiling away game hours chatting with people. I definitely don't feel pressured to stay productive in-game 100% of the time. xD
 
This weekend I managed to talk a friend of mine who had been adamantly against doing vet dungeons into a vet Kel Voreth. I like to think it went well and hopefully he came out of it thinking, "Well, that wasn't so bad." Fingers crossed, because I wanna be able to do more things with him! Husband and I then went on to do a vet STL - our second time in there. I was nervous that I'd make a fool of myself in front of the pug tank on the last boss, but... I didn't die! Woo! And we one-shot everything! Double woo! And we silvered it! Triple woo!
 
Slacked on my dailies and contracts over the weekend, but eh. xD I'll get em done when I get em done.
 
Does anyone else think that the pet drop rates off mobs are kind of absurdly high? I remember farming for months to get, say, my emerald whelpling in WoW, but on Sunday the husband and I ran around to three different locations to farm mobs for three different pets and it only took maybe 15 minutes at each spot. At the Ikthians in Whitevale, I even got the pet to drop three times while farming for the husband's - two of them dropped off the same mob! Not that I'm complaining overmuch. It just strikes me as odd!
 
IRL it's now crunch-time for Comicpalooza. I have today through Thursday to finish both my AoU!Scarlet Witch and Raava cosplays. @.@ Luckily the former is like 90% complete, but the latter still has a good bit of work to go. Eep! At least we've got all our books for selling, though the bookmarks for some reason are in Canada... wtf Next Day Flyers.... -_-	
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			My wife is working the Comicpalooza in Houston. Is that the one you're attending?	
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			Yup! Husband is on several panels, and we'll be at the Houston Writers Guild booth and Skipjack Publishing booth at various times throughout the weekend. I'll locate that schedule and you can swing by and get an autograph/say hi if you'd like!	
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Yup! Husband is on several panels, and we'll be at the Houston Writers Guild booth and Skipjack Publishing booth at various times throughout the weekend. I'll locate that schedule and you can swing by and get an autograph/say hi if you'd like!
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			Yo PJ, if it helps, you can turn off most of the friendly telegraphs in the Combat menu. I usually run with everything but healing telegraphs, my telegraphs, and enemy harmful telegraphs off, to avoid clutter. Does wonders for staying out of the red.	
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The 7 o'clock advice for Kuralak was pure gold.  As complicated as the Kuralak fight looks I predict I'm going to live through that one first before X-89.  With all the telegraphs and particles flying it's super hard for me to see the aoe around X-89.  Maybe I need to find or write a Wildstar version of the GTFO WoW addon.
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Yo PJ, if it helps, you can turn off most of the friendly telegraphs in the Combat menu. I usually run with everything but healing telegraphs, my telegraphs, and enemy harmful telegraphs off, to avoid clutter. Does wonders for staying out of the red.
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Well, to be fair, Ice is still learning to tank that fight (only his second time), so X-89 wasn't always pointed in the best direction for DPS. The other tank has more experience with it, but not a ton. A seasoned tank on that fight makes it much easier.
 
Once you learn not to stand too close (this was a challenge for me when I started playing my warrior on it) and can see the spews/shouts before they happen (by looking at the boss animation), your survivability will go way up. It's always going to be a challenge when you have the small bomp + spew/shout, which is why I try to call that situation out when I see it.	
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			Kuralak is probably one of the hardest fights in GA until you have enough gear/dps to beat it before 8 egg. At least its not SD where each pull can take 10 minutes of fight time and result in a wipe when 1 little thing goes wrong though. 	
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This past week, our top DPSer (the first interrupter) somehow managed to die right before the two egg phase. We ended up with three eggs clustered right on top of each other somehow.
 
We pulled off the kill anyway. I couldn't have been prouder of our crew. Anyone who'se done Kuralak will recognized that's something only a coordinated team could pull off. TBH, I'm not sure how we did it.
 
(I did manage to snipe one of the eggs with Arcane Shock- grateful that can be used on eggs now- Gate would've killed me)	
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			I'll spend hours just chatting in-game. Also Red Bull > Coffee. It's way worse for you, tastes better, and gives you wings. Oh, and it mixes well with alcohol.  	
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I usually won't play a game if the gameplay doesn't interest me, so although I have logged in just to socialize (WoW), it's not common. If that starts to happen I'll conclude that I need a new game. :P
 
On another note, it seems the new copy/paste and relocation bugs were fixed by today's maintenance. Still have to test out to make sure it's real, but if it is, I'm going to be quite happy... 'cause I blew up my plot last night to start over. :o   The cycle of pain and purpose has begun once more... :P
 
So yea, if things work out and the bugs are actually fixed, I'll be resubbing. Woohoo! Happy building, all.	
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Once you get a few more pulls in on Kuralak, you'll find that it's basically easy to execute right up until the 8 egg phase, at which point that whole raid falls apart and everyone freaks out. Rinse and repeat until you get it right. Once everyone can nail the 8 egg phase and you have a good system in place for communicating replacements (for the random egg), it's not really a very hard fight. 
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I usually won't play a game if the gameplay doesn't interest me, so although I have logged in just to socialize (WoW), it's not common. If that starts to happen I'll conclude that I need a new game. :P
 
On another note, it seems the new copy/paste and relocation bugs were fixed by today's maintenance. Still have to test out to make sure it's real, but if it is, I'm going to be quite happy... 'cause I blew up my plot last night to start over. :o   The cycle of pain and purpose has begun once more... :P
 
So yea, if things work out and the bugs are actually fixed, I'll be resubbing. Woohoo! Happy building, all.
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Oh crap. We have a patch today. 
 
Oh well. Time to make some lunch.  :lol:	
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Social media has completely eroded one of the glamours of the MMO, the idea of being "connected" to thousands of other users is no longer a novel idea.
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			I made a new friend!   :lol:	
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I play W* because the combat and mechanics are (generally) ace, especially in teams. Woo!
 
Socialising is fun, as long as there's a goal.	
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Carrot pet sighted tonight in Thayd. Palmtop Taiga got it somehow... he said it was a drop in Thayd, that's the best I have to go off of right now.
 
http://wildstar-core.com/pets/carrot-sproutling/
 
Yes, it is as adorable when it hops around as you'd expect a friendly living carrot to be.	
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mmmm that space coffee looks delicous
I'm not really that social in game, sometimes I will chat in zone or LFG and  I will always help new players with questions if I can but mostly, I can't play and chat at the same time and play gets priority. I don't like dying or missing out on a gold medal shiphand run because I was chatting :D	
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