144183-morning-coffee-1019-weekend-is-dead-long-live-the-monday

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Because I can!
 
Good morning Nexus.
 
Dont let the best traditions die please!
 
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	Edited October 19, 2015 by Jayvi	
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			Morning!  Frozen caramel coffee with fake caramel.  *sigh*  I want real caramel!  Oh well :)  Happy Monday.	
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Ice coffee for me, please!
 
Just returned to the game after a long break and have decided to start over just as I have started over in real life recently. Something that could not have happened without Wildstar, actually. Carbine contributed to at least one life being changed for the better. Raising my morning cup of milk to both the developers and the community.	
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Ah first day of Shade's Eve event.Time to get into the season by pouring an extra dark cup of coffee, and kissing your favorite mordesh.  
 
Being that I has already run it a bunch during beta, Vunne got the first run of the live version. She complained a lot about the toughness of the mobs, but I think it has a lot to do with the fact she was soloing it, under 50, and on a stalker. I still expect that other people will share her complaint about it being a little overtuned for lowbies, and the forums will have a new crop of threads. 
 
Haven't seen any of the housing stuff in person yet, but as the main shades eve mission does not have a daily lock, I will probably spam it to get lots of goodies to ghoul up the housing plots. 	
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Monday's on the way out over here. Shades Eve should be interesting though. They never really did have it last year, so this will be the first real holiday event to be fully implemented huh? 
 
Hope its as good as the hype!
 	
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			Given I work weekends, I'm very happy to see Monday. ;)	
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No one (who works weekdays) is happy to see Monday! Give me back my weekend!  :angry:
 
Coffee was nice this morning. Breakfast was terrible (my own fault ;P)
Work thus far has been... adequate?...
 
Wildstar's first proper full scale holiday event! Rejoice!  :D
 
Didn't realise it started today, I assumed it was tomorrow. That's great :) now I have something to do this evening! 	
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First day of Shade's Eve, a kick-butt PVP Weekend ... and no theme in the Coffee Thread!
 
 
You kids.	
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Just made my pot of coffee. So the day begins.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8mZmgDMLjk	
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Morning.....
 
Still recovering from the weekend...
Was on a big Ruby Conference in Salzburg the whole weekend, and I'm exhausted at the moment.
Lack of sleep, and monday morning.... bad combination.
Thank god my boss is sending me home early today so I can catch up on sleep :)
 
Looking forward to spend some time in WildStar to do the Shade's Eve Event.
Been deliberatly avoiding all tweets and links about it, skipping threads to not get spoiled.
I have no clue what to expect for the event, but it's going to be to figure it out for me.	
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OH KHANDI!!!! 
Tell Sophia to check her mail. I stole her a coat off a traitorous Dominion dog who had the audacity to challenge me in Walatiki Temple!
 
You'll look SMASHING, dahling! Simply SMASHING!	
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OH KHANDI!!!!
 
Tell Sophia to check her mail. I stole her a coat off a traitorous Dominion dog who had the audacity to challenge me in Walatiki Temple!
 
You'll look SMASHING, dahling! Simply SMASHING!
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Oh, I had *far* from a pristine PVP experience this weekend. I mean, I don't mind the losing and dying or being gang-humped by six geared up Warriors. :lol:  That's just part of PVP, so I don't take that personally.
 
Early Friday evening, someone was LFM to join their pre-made. No expectations posted, just looking for more. Well, I love teamwork and the chance to work with others, so I jumped in. We won like five in a row, easy peasy. Then it happened. We started a match and were getting crushed. Suddenly the "leader" stops actually playing the match and starts going through everyone's gear, piece by piece, to see "where the problem is."
 
Naturally, I had only just gotten the full my full set, and was too busy grinding Prestige to bother putting in Runes since ... well ... since we were kicking major butt. So this "leader" starts calling out people, one at a time, in Instance chat, chastising and mocking them for basically DARING to participate in even this lowest level of PVP without full Legendary Gear and Complete Runes. I didn't wait for my turn. I just left the (losing) instance and found other people to PVP with.
 
Not quiet strangely enough, this same "leader" was in PVP chat last night, after a long, grueling weekend of ROFLSTOMPING newbies, telling everyone how terrible they are, how glad he'll be when the PVE casual-scrubs-losers go back to PVE and leave PVP to the Big Boys. Calling people names, insulting entire guilds and generally trying to be as EDGY as possible to everyone. Really, all he managed to do was make my Ignore list and (hopefully) get reported for being verbally abusive.
 
That was the worst of it though, and it happened early enough in the weekend that it didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. I don't do high-end PVP for the same reason I don't do high-end PVE. I refuse to take abuse from anonymous basement-dwelling neckbeards because I am not an "optimal" player. I mean, HOW DARE I JUST HAVE FUN. DON'T I REALIZE THAT THIS GAME IS SERIOUS BUSINESS!?!?!?!?!	
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			What can i say about mornin'... it's good to be immune to hangovers... heh.
			
				
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Coffee re-heated, since today seemed determined to be November already.  Brr.Looking forward to getting in a bit of Ridiculously Late Night Shade's Eve.  Hoping to find a way to get both top hat costume piece as well as some of the ridiculously gothic housing bits for my Mordesh, Igor.  To that end, can anyone confirm:
 
* Are the costume pieces unlocked for all characters, the way most other costume pieces are?  Or are they character-specific unlocks?  Account-wide would make farming up dailies and such to get currency a bit easier to do, with only two character slots.* Is the currency character specific, or is it pooled? I would assume character specific, but figure it is worth checking, since we all know what assume makes.	
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Want to get home....
 
Want to do Shade's Eve........
 
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			Good morning, coffee people!No time for breakfast, no time for Mondo! Only Jack Shade...This event is pretty sweet. I am missing one journal in Thayd and one journal in the dungeon. They are being...elusive...Happy Shade's Eve!EDIT: Found them! There is one hiding in the house just outside Quiet Downs and I missed the one in the Alchemist's Maze in Thayd for some reason :D
			
				
	Edited October 19, 2015 by Frozen_Storm	
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This weekend was interesting and fun.
 
Friday we downed Ohmna in short order. Was a really clean kill and our DPS has just been crazy lately.  We did some pulls on System Deamons enough to know that yes, you may not use DPS for kickers any more. Which creates a problem of finding six geared healers.
 
Saturday I decided to create a circle for helping people learn vet dungeons: <Tears for Gear>. This was the name that members in my guild came up with after lots of discussion. I hate naming things. As a software developer, I know there are only two hard problems when writing software: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors (and I've been working on cache invalidation the last two weeks). Anyway, right now the entire membership of <Tears of Gear> is veteran TCO members, but the idea is to have a circle of people who understand the gear requirements for vet dungeons, but need a "safe" group (one that won't disband after one wipe) of people to learn with. I'm not sure I have the time to manage this circle, but I think it would be sooo good for the community, so I'm hoping to get some non <TCO> folks involved.
 
Saturday night we tried to do an alt raid, and it went well enough. We got x-89 down, but Kuralak was a blocker. We were only able to bring about half the raid as TCO folks, so with a lot of pugs it's just hard to get the numbers of knowledgeable people. PvP was pulling a lot of bodies out of the pool, and we were competing with 3 other GA groups. Had some really great DS geared folks join us, but it wasn't enough, sadly. From what I hear, everyone had a good time, but it does burn me out trying to put together that raid in addition to our normal raids. So we're probably going to try something different soon. I believe we're going to be recruiting for and starting a second raid team to progress through GA, led and managed by not-me. And this will be a place people with alts can jump in and get some more GA beyond our normal raids. Finally, we are looking at an alliance for a fast-clear kind of alt raid. So a lot going on with that stuff, but hopefully these things will happen without me (other than bringing an alt and pew-pewing)
 
Sunday, I leveled an alt all day. My alt slinger. Because bascially, I want another slinger to raid with when my main is locked. *sigh* I'm so sad. But also, there's a part of me that wants to at least get some sense of what gearing up is like post-F2P. I used XP flasks, and I got her (starting with full rested xp) from 26->50 in about 7 hours. Fun times. Then I ran a shiphand a few times and enjoyed that.
 
Sunday night we did pulls on System Daemons. I was *very* pleased with the guild and how tenacious we are. I wonder how may 6/6 guilds are trying to progress on SD in its current state? We almost got through the first pillar phase with no deaths, which is about where we were post F2P. I'm not sure how viable the 6 healer strat is for a 6/6 guild, because basically it requires a lot of really perfect play and good RNG. But we'll see. I think just about everyone was having fun, so that's the important part. And when the pending fix comes in, I think we'll be in good shape to take it an run with it :D  I'd LOVE to get the first progression kill on SD post F2P, but I'm not sure how many other guilds out there we are competing with.
 
So, really busy time. And now there's Shades Eve. It looks awesome, BUT I DON'T HAVE THE TIME- ARG! I'm enjoying too much *other* stuff in game. Guess I need to just sit back and let my other priorities slip a little so I can enjoy it. I'll do my best!
			
				
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Omg I'm so excited to take a cracked at the event with my very own Jack Shade when I get home from work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Also, if you'really on Entity (exile-side) and haven't visited Jack Shade's haunted skyplot, then get your butt over there! He'said even running a screenshots contest on tumblr (twinflamable.tumblr.com - I'll get the direct link to the post later today, it's hard to do from my phone) with a payout of 4p to the best picture of your character being scared at the plot, a la real life haunted house snapshots. xD	
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Good morning coffee people. 
I feel overworked, double pay weekends are nice on the budget but awful on one's health and sanity. Having to deal with a co-worker this morning who threatened my job on Friday afternoon makes today even less fun. Union rep or no union rep, this is upsetting enough to make even me go straight to hr, managers and the union leadership. I'm not one to believe in making a fuss but threatening my job in an angry tone is where I draw the line. 
 
Ugh. 
 
Of course weekend was spent working or trying to get my mind off work so mostly TV shows. Looking forward to shades eve tomorrow!!! I didn't run it on ptr cause I didn't want spoilers haha. I'm so excited!!!
 
This week might be the week I finally do omnicore. Yep, I'm a slacker. Lol	
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An excuse to log in to my Exiles ...
 
If only I didn't know what to expect, I would be tempted. But knowing what I know, I just don't wanna. :( :angry:
			
				
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			O.o That sounds ominous, Tex... What did us exiles do??? D:	
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O.o That sounds ominous, Tex... What did us exiles do??? D:
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An excuse to log in to my Exiles ...
 
If only I didn't know what to expect, I would be tempted. But knowing what I know, I just don't wanna. :( :angry:
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			Ooooh yea I can totally understand that, Tex. I spent another couple hours crying in anxiety over spending money on runes this past weekend, so I feel ya. xD	
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HAHAHA Oh the Faction didn't do anything. The game did.
 
I have multiple level 50s on Exiles side (as well you know), and a couple of them were in pre-transition Crafted gear. So I know they're sitting there, butt-naked, gear stripped, no runes, no weapons and ... no motivation to deal with it.
 
That's the reason I defected to Dominion. I knew my characters were going to be screwed, then raked over some hot coals, dipped in toxic waste and told "suck it up, buttercup! This is for the best!"
 
Yeah. No, it's not. And if Wildstar wants to keep me as a player, I won't be forced to ever look at those toons again.
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Ooooh yea I can totally understand that, Tex. I spent another couple hours crying in anxiety over spending money on runes this past weekend, so I feel ya. xD
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My weekend. MY WEEKEND?! I SPENT THE WEEKEND CREATING A GLORIOUS ADDITION TO THE DOMINION MILITARY. STRAIGHT FROM THE SHIPYARDS OF CASSUS. COMPLETE (or until I farm up a few more Dominion Fighters and move some guns around XD) WITH THE FIREPOWER OF A THOUSAND SUNS AND GLORIOUS SQUADRONS OF DOMINION FIGHTERS AND TRANSPORTS (Slight hyperbole included!). I GIVE YOU THE HMS FOEHAMMER!
 
 
ART THOU READY FOR THE COMING PURGE EXILE SCUM?
 
BATTLECRUISER OPERATIONAL
 
 
 
 
 
 
Plot: Visectria Sciscovox, Dominion Entity
 
Come by and take a look when you get the chance :D
 
			
				
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Good morning!
 
Wow, Shade's Eve. Finally here *starry eyes*
 
I am very excited to log in and check it all out when I get home! AND (and. and! AND!) I already voted this morning (Canadian elections and all that), so I am free from civic guilt and can go home and play. Surprisingly, I was in and out without a stop in line or any waiting. Just a lucky break I guess? Several friends have reported multi-block-long wait times.
 
The weekend was pretty swell, got in a bunch of Wildstar time; continued on my Warrior through Grimvault. Moved my Engineer on to Farside in hopes of escaping the rather laggy Whitevale. I have no idea why, but that zone seems to be the most lag infested I've played in... I guess it's a chokepoint right now for players?
 
Anyways, best get in as much Shade time as I can, as I will be away on a short vacation this coming weekend (Woooo hot tub, wine, and no responsibilities!).	
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Well, I finally mostly figured out runes this weekend, it's expensive and a huge pain, but not that big of a deal once you get into it.
 
For me, it's the gear issue. I just can't deal with a knowing a years worth of effort is flushed away and I'll be basically starting over naked. Tex and Lola, particularly, will be a bad, bad way, as almost all their gear was crafted. Sharice had seen enough play that her gear was mostly higher-end stuff but I am still not looking forward to ever dealing with that crap.
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So,
 
I've done the Shade's Eve daily quests and dungeons.
 
And I can only say one thing:
 
 	
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Good Morning All,
 
I didn't play any Wildstar this weekend  :( so i unfortunately missed the pvp event. I am going to blame my friends because they got me sucked into playing Chivalry all weekend. I had a blast but i really need to get focused on getting my warrior to 50.
 
@Zubar - that is frigging great, i am swinging by tonight to check it out.
 
Have a great day all! 	
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I just got over bronchitis and I'm back just in time for shade's eve.
Omg the place looks fantastic!
 
Calling people on luminai, I'm restarting my guild, and am searching for officers. Going to be a social/fun guild, nothing too serious this time round, I will eventually search for people for arenas and such, but right now I just want to make friends, as since I quit I have lost all my friends, and my old guild is on Jabbit (I forgot to warn people about the transfer date like an idiot)	
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Saturday I decided to create a circle for helping people learn vet dungeons: <Tears for Gear>. 
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Shite Shite , Let it all out. These are the gears I can't do without. Come on , I'm talking to you , now come on. ( Addressing the boss )
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I was totally stoked about this event ... now I read about the Cash Shop Extortion that Crabine is foisting on us.
 
Suddenly, I just don't care much any more.
 
I'm willing to overlook at lot of things, but this "single character unlocks" for things that are account-wide in every other MMO on the market, is pretty damn disgusting.
 
But of course, they'll sell a million of them, leading them to believe that it's perfectly acceptable to screw people over like that.
 
Nope. I'm done giving them money. Once my sub runs out, they won't be getting another cent out of me and I will be doing all I can to convince others to do the same.
 
I would rather this whole ship go belly-up than to sit idly by while NCCrabine hold us to the fire in the name of making a quick buck.	
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Afternoon!
 
I gave W* a miss this weekend as well - things to do outside, and the windy weather gave me a hankering for Skyrim.  I'm looking forward to seeing what's going on for Shade's Eve!  I avoided the event on Test so's I wouldn't be over it before it hit live.
 
Hopefully I'll hit 115 omnibits tonight so I can fix my ship in time to set out a candy dish.  If not, I'll pull apart one of the aft compartments and clap together a waiting room, and set it up there.	
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In case you have a draken witch in your life, there is this.	
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I was totally stoked about this event ... now I read about the Cash Shop Extortion that Crabine is foisting on us.
 
Suddenly, I just don't care much any more.
 
I'm willing to overlook at lot of things, but this "single character unlocks" for things that are account-wide in every other MMO on the market, is pretty damn disgusting.
 
But of course, they'll sell a million of them, leading them to believe that it's perfectly acceptable to screw people over like that.
 
Nope. I'm done giving them money. Once my sub runs out, they won't be getting another cent out of me and I will be doing all I can to convince others to do the same.
 
I would rather this whole ship go belly-up than to sit idly by while NCCrabine hold us to the fire in the name of making a quick buck.
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I concur. I am still hoping that everything will be made account-wide at some point but this event is just a cash-grab as far as the shop is concerned. I haven't spent a dime on Wildstar since returning and it's not about to change.
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			Wait...what event?? I'm at stupid work and can't keep up  :(	
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Wait...what event?? I'm at stupid work and can't keep up  :(
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			Eh? you can get mounts with the in-game events, why waste money on the shop, they horrendously priced....fits with the theme in a twisted sense...maybe the Christmas one will be more charitable...i'l be saving omnibits at least that's for sure.	
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They put some rather expensive items in the store. That skeletal pig mount, and a haunted house plug. For $20 a pop, the fact that it is one character only is a rather large slap in the face. The plug is more odious in my opinion as it can't even be move once placed. 
 
Account bound wardrobe was a nice step in the right direction, single character bound mounts and pets are two steps in the wrong direction. 
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			^just because they give us candy in one hand doesn't mean they won't steal our heart medication with the other.	
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On the plus side, Caydiem did a lot of good work for the actual event part of this event. The trick or treating quest seems like a neat way to bring the community together, and see some nice housing plots. 
 
So who is up for it, and red or blue side? 	
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On the plus side, Caydiem did a lot of good work for the actual event part of this event. The trick or treating quest seems like a neat way to bring the community together, and see some nice housing plots. 
 
So who is up for it, and red or blue side? 
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They put some rather expensive items in the store. That skeletal pig mount, and a haunted house plug. For $20 a pop, the fact that it is one character only is a rather large slap in the face. The plug is more odious in my opinion as it can't even be move once placed. 
 
Account bound wardrobe was a nice step in the right direction, single character bound mounts and pets are two steps in the wrong direction.
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UGH! How rude of me I am deeply sorry everyone...I forgot to stop in.
 
*ahem*
I hope you all have had a lovely morning and a great time on Nexus today! Can;t wait to get home and take a gander at the spoopy things in store!	
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			Home now, so I was able to dig up my husband's tumblr post about his haunted skyplot! :D Go check it out!	
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UGH! How rude of me I am deeply sorry everyone...I forgot to stop in.
 
*ahem*
I hope you all have had a lovely morning and a great time on Nexus today! Can;t wait to get home and take a gander at the spoopy things in store!
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Oh hey, page 3 (or 4) and I have yet to post.  Oops.
 
This weekend was mostly raiding with our (TCO) regularly scheduled runs on Friday and Sunday night and then an alt-raid on Saturday.  I'm pretty happy with my slinger Anna's PvE performance even though she's using about 2/3 blue runes.  Like Jeff mentioned, our System Daemons pulls are getting much better.  With a little more practice we should be seeing the 2nd pillar phase soon :)
 
Got to join the guild BG premade on Saturday.  Ground out enough prestige to buy all of the blue Season 2 gear and have upgraded two pieces to purple.  At this point Anna's pvp gear is half-runed in Cyanosure and Resurgence sets and that definitely made a difference.  Kinda sad that I didn't have more time for the double prestige event.
 
Other than that, spent some time staring into the Abyss trying to fix a design issue with the stock Chat addon.  Due to the naive way they track it in the save data it tends to "forget" which channels are off.  I did post a cranky bug report about it but I just can't wait for them to get around to fixing it.	
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So the FABKit is not only "single character" but also "single use only!?!?!"
 
So basically a $20 flask.
 
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Oh no... I am really sad to hear this. That's quite a pretty penny for something I'll likely want to move in the future! Drat.
 
I'm disappointed to see this is how they've implemented FABKits in the store. Is there anyway to earn it in game, omnibits aside? (Or at all? I haven't been able to log in, so I don't know if there is an omnibit price tag attached here) Maybe with these silver tokens from the event, or as a rewards from the instance?
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Both the pig and the haunted house are 795 omnibits. I'm not really sure how many of those drop in things like raids, but in bgs it would take me a long time to get that much.  
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			Sick all weekend. Still sick today, but had to go to work. Will probably be sick tomorrow and have to go to work. Such is life. *passes out on keyboard from fever*	
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With the 120 soft-cap-that-may-as-well-be-a-hard-cap, plus the week where we couldn't get omnibits, that is... actually I think it is literally impossible for people to afford the omnibit price at this point.
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Aye, this is why I was kind of looking to excude it! Darn. That's a pretty large omnibit count for a FABKit.
 
I was sort of saving my omnibits for an expanded holowardrobe anyways. >_>
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I would think that the holowardrobe expansion would be a better use of omnibits. 
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I'm partial to spending my Ombibits on extra character slots or the increased mount speed, personally. Or some of those cheap Housing items they have in the store.
 
Unfortunately, I can't participate in the event on my main, because I'm stuck in a loading screen after trying to use the portal to the Shade's Eve expedition.
 
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I had heard things about characters caught in loading screens, and really I hope they are on the ball about fixing what ever issue it is that causes that. 
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			Did some housing, levled Architect a bit... went to an event, got stuck, sent a ticket... usual day on nexus.	
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