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Continuing to help people through my dungeon learning circle. Getting lots of questions about runes, and try to keep them from going broke. Did a run last night with 3 newer players through STL and had a good time. Seeing a few folks who started with the cricle progressing into GA pugs, which is cool, though I hope they find a home with a true progression team (it's more fun that way!)
 
We pulled Limbo last night in what was a frustrating experience. The lag is just really making that encounter not fun at all, and making us take longer on it that we should. I also think we had some problems as a group and I wasn't my best about finding good solutions. My brain was kind of fried from an intense does of solo parenting four children this weekend! I'm afraid I may have responded to a few people without having made the transition from "parenting children" to "leading adults" :P
 
Looking forward to getting another crack at Limbo, especially if the rumors regarding a patch this week addressing the lag turn out to be true. Trying to dodge red at 9FPS on ultra-low is painful and not fun :(
			
				
	Edited December 7, 2015 by SlyJeff	
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Gooooood morning, everyone!
 
I tried to inject as much cheer as I possibly could into that exclamation, as I am feeling like crap and staring down a loooong week of prepping students for their final exams. @_@ Can't go home sick, though. They'd be lost without me. I don't do coffee, but I do love me some hot chocolate.
 
 
Mmm... wish I could get some here at work. Will have to make a cup when I get home. And then pass out.
 
Aside from feeling ilke crap today, I had a pretty good weekend. In the real world, we obtained a festive tree and festive-upped it and the house, so yay! Also unwrapped another present from my husband, which we promptly watched. He's so good to me. xD He's dated them, so I get to unwrap something every few days. Today is one of those days - I wonder what it'll be!
 
Had a blast workong on Phageborn Convergence on saturday with the Hold My Beer raid circle. I feel like we could've had it down if we'd gotten to the fight a little sooner, but we had to kill Prototypes and clear up to the Convergence room first, so that ate away time. Oh well. NEXT TIME, you silly bosses!
 
Last night, I got in some quality time taking a good friend of mine through lowbie adventures and dungeons. We used to game together constantly, but then my husband and I started playing WS while she stayed in FFXIV... but she's made the transition to WS now, so yay! :D Took her through WotW, Tempest Refuge, and then did a couple runs of Skullcano. Our horrible guild leader, Castark, volunteered his meager dps to help out. ;p Looking forward to my friend hitting 50, so I can shower her in gear and we can work on vet stuff and PvP. Yay!
 
Anyone else helped out new folk lately? What's your "must see" for new players?	
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Morning. My birthday weekend was relaxed, if a little boring. I played all evening Friday and most of the day Saturday, with a couple hour breaks for napping, eating and making that pistachio cheesecake (which was amazing, by the way.)
 
I got me a couple of iLvl 90-100 pieces, fiddled with my (basic) Runes, farmed up a lot of gold and renown and generally just did a lot of goofing around on Tex.
 
Got guild leadership handed to me, then handed it back off to Cast - so that was cool. Sorry our previous leadership keeps bailing on us, but hopefully, we've reached the end of that horsecrap for a while.
 
I met some newbies and invited a couple to the guild. They didn't ask for any help, but I'm always happy when someone finds a home with us.
 
As for "must see" ... my best advice to newbies is to SLOW THE HELL DOWN. Endgame is going to be there. If you put your blinders on and rush to the end, you are going to completely miss the best things WildStar has to offer.
 
The one piece of advice I always offer though is that they don't have to spam the 1 (builder) button over and over. You can just hold that sucker down and save the pounding on your keyboard.
 
Off-topic, I hooked up the Playstation 4 last night for the first time, so ... uh ... I might be slightly doing other things in the evening for a little while. B)	
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Hello all,
 
This weekend I didn't get to 30 like I wanted to I got to 27 though, between feeling like blah on Saturday, The new RWBY co-op game, and doing a Marathon of The Seven Deadly Sins on Netflix it was a busy weekend. I did finish off all the quests in Galeras. O_O I forgot how large that zone was! I need to go back through and do my explorer missions still though. The DPS queues for dungeons was horrible this weekend in my level range. It took me well over an hour to get into anything then my group fell apart due to a new tank not knowing what he was doing and getting frustrated and leaving the party.. even though no one was giving him a hard time about it. :(
 
Other than that, that was the weekend for me. Hoping to get Whitevale finished this week, and those dungeons and adventures finished, I wasn't able to this weekend.	
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Got guild leadership handed to me, then handed it back off to Cast - so that was cool. Sorry our previous leadership keeps bailing on us, but hopefully, we've reached the end of that horsecrap for a while.
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As for "must see" ... my best advice to newbies is to SLOW THE HELL DOWN. Endgame is going to be there. If you put your blinders on and rush to the end, you are going to completely miss the best things WildStar has to offer.
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Good morning! (or good evening soon over here).
My weekend was alright, went and bought us some new pillows since the old ones had done their lifetime work. Wonderful with new pillows is all I can say :)
 
Currently I'm working as usual. I will be working a little less this week though because I have an exam on saturday. Hopefully I will have some time to run through expeditions for housing stuff.
 
As for helping newbies to the game. Well, I'm pretty much a newbie myself, started playing somewhat active with f2p, and usually I'm the one that needs help :) However Syl in guild is helpful and I'm sure I can ask her a lot of things, and I have also received good help in these forums :) 	
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			That reminds me, I need to go onto WS-RP and find a few circles to join for RP stuff, and find an RP guild, that does events story plots, and a bit of PvE (PvP would be sweet, but I can do that solo.)
			
				
	Edited December 7, 2015 by War Siren	
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Not much in the way of RP guilds - we mostly use circles, as it lets us spread our feelers out to more varied interactions. There are a couple, I think, though I can't remember them off the top of my head. But yay, RP!
 
... Now I want to write some RP posts that have been backlogged. Think my students would mind if I did that while they work on their final study guide? :D (Kidding, kidding...)
 
@Tea: I'm happy you've found some helpful people! That's what really makes an MMO experience - meeting folk willing to engage positively with you.
			
				
	Edited December 7, 2015 by Naunet	
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Morning. My birthday weekend was relaxed, if a little boring.
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Good morning all! I had a pretty weird weekend that ended up with playing a game of beer pong in my basement with a couple of aussies we met at a bar in downtown DC. Nothing like that 5 AM double-cup finish. 
 
We also had a pretty decent weekend of raiding (plagued though we be by attendance issues). We were able to get SD down again and killed Limbo on our second night in DS (bleh lag). Hopefully this week we'll be able to pump all three days into DS and maybe get 3/9 or even 4/9 working on lattice and maelstrom authority. 
 
Til then, I'm in full glory farm mode to get my SD glory pieces.	
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Happy belated Birthday! 
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			Pistachio cheesecake?	
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Pistachio cheesecake?
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As for "must see" ... my best advice to newbies is to SLOW THE HELL DOWN. Endgame is going to be there. If you put your blinders on and rush to the end, you are going to completely miss the best things WildStar has to offer.
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Not much in the way of RP guilds - we mostly use circles, as it lets us spread our feelers out to more varied interactions. There are a couple, I think, though I can't remember them off the top of my head. But yay, RP!
 
... Now I want to write some RP posts that have been backlogged. Think my students would mind if I did that while they work on their final study guide? :D (Kidding, kidding...)
 
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This makes me a bit sad, we had such a strong RP community back when it was Evindra. I'll have to poke around on WS-RP more see if I can find what I'm looking for, if this is going to be a long term return I need RP in my life. XD
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Oh, there is PLENTY of RP to be found - and you really don't even have to look hard for it.
 
The WSRP channel is kind of like the operator's switch board. If you want to RP, just go there and say "Anyone up for RP or anything going on?"
 
If you want to host some RP, just go there and say "RP starting in X minutes. Meet up at Location Y" and people will show up.
 
There are also TONS of housing plot bars or taverns or whatever. Always a good place to start if you don't know anyone or have anything specific in mind.
 
Personally, I'm *almost* to the point where I'm happy with my gear, so I can start focusing on RP and building houses. If you find a good group, Scotty, drop me a line. I am almost always down for some story-telling or just providing a warm body.
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Happy belated B-day Tex!!!
 
I had a great weekend in game until last night. Ran sooooo many WB kills it was becoming mind numbing however i got almost a full set of ilvl 90 tank and dps gear. The crap part was dealing with two tools from Warhound calling me gay for not voting to disband the dungeon group. I needed the run to get my imbuement for GA and had they just taken a few seconds to tell me the fight we were on since it was my first time there we would have been fine. Not to mention they tired vote disbanding the run before we even pulled the first mobs. Other than that though I have been having a good time  :D
			
				
	Edited December 7, 2015 by Wolfuse	
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Almost got my dominion to level 50.
 
A must see for newbies....idk.....let them randomly stumble upon a world boss raid....I did at 34 and had one hell of a time watching
my fps drop to crap...would do it again since my dominion character is a ranged character.	
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Woof... what a week.
 
So apparently the secret to making enough in game plat is to give up one's job (I was on vacation), do all the daily contracts, run a couple world bosses, run a couple zone's dailies, PvP until your eyes bleed per day.  Then go raid.  To be fair I was doing this on three characters but I think I'd be hard pressed to keep up that kind of pace on one character when you factor in real life responsibilities and our raid schedule.
 
Normally I don't bother with dailies but I was grinding out Defile and Guardians of the Grove rep for their respective Ability Tier unlocks.  I did finish on Elsa and Bri but am still working on LJ.  Probably should also start that grind on Pykke.  Elsa's done with her Ability points and needs two AMPs.  Bri needs one more Ability and three more AMPs.  Elsa still needs an X-89 kill.
 
Everybody needs a hobby I guess :lol:
 
Other than that, wrapped up an RP plot on Friday morning :wub: .  I had a lot of fun with that, hope to run more in the future.
			
				
	Edited December 7, 2015 by PlasmaJohn	
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Hello Everybody - 
 
Another great weekend in Wildstar.
 
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Got guild leadership handed to me, then handed it back off to Cast - so that was cool. Sorry our previous leadership keeps bailing on us, but hopefully, we've reached the end of that horsecrap for a while.
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Yeah but we killed prototypes on the first pull so feeling pretty proud of that.  We got sword, hammer, squid and spider in Convergence.  We focused DPS on hammer while two other teams kept sword and spider busy.  Best pull we got Hammer down to around 35%.  Ran into an issue a couple of times where we were dodging waves and missed jumping in with the tank to absorb damage from that one hammer attack.  Other than that, it will just be getting a few more mechanics down and getting comfortable with everything.  We did really well when a boss would move to the center and do their special ability. (Hint: Giving this detail so Sly Jeff will feel nostalgic about the fight and chime in with some wisdom, he is s a sucker for that) :) 
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This makes me a bit sad, we had such a strong RP community back when it was Evindra. I'll have to poke around on WS-RP more see if I can find what I'm looking for, if this is going to be a long term return I need RP in my life. XD
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			Thanks for the advice MedicMelawen,  Will pass on to our strategy people, I am just a lowly DPS Esper on the raid team.  I kill stuff and yell for Naunet to heal me whenever red stuff gets near me.  That's the extent of my raid role.	
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I usually pug dungeon at least once a game session to try and help newer 50s gear out. Its wondrous what DS gear can do to carry a dungeon ;).
 
My advice though..... If you're new, say you're new. This may seem as a no brainer, but I went through a Protogames a few days ago where several people in the party were CLEARLY new players, that didn't knowthe mechanics, yet refused to say so. I continued to ask in chat multiple times if they were new and they never answered me.
 
It is NOT a crime to be new, we all have been at some point. I don't get angry at people for not knowing things if they've never experienced things.
 
HOWEVER. I get VERY angry when people pretend that they're not new and insist on wasting my time and making my repair bill go into the stratosphere because they're not willing to admit that they have no idea what the mechanics of the fight are. I spent 15 minutes on a single Hut Hut pull trying to carry the dam fight and shout broken instructions at people because no one knew what the hell to do and our tank didn't do me the courtesy of giving me time to explain. Even after we wiped and I explained it, no one bothered to mention that they didn't understand what I meant by "press 1 to throw the intern" and we spend ANOTHER 10 minutes fighting before they figured out that "OH WE DONT HAVE TO FUMBLE THE BALL WHEN THE GUY JUMPS ON US BECAUSE WE CAN THROW IT DERP A DERP".
 
So please, for the love of all that is holy. If you don't know what is going on, SAY SOMETHING.
			
				
	Edited December 8, 2015 by ZuberiGF	
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