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This coffee looks how I felt last night tripping through Auroria, looking for costume pieces.
 
I've logged about six total hours there. I've opened probably a 100 or more Discoveries.
 
I have found exactly ONE piece of the Colonist's Set. Pants. And I found those within the first fifteen minutes on the very first day of farming. Since then, nada. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Piles of useless crap, tons of portals, monster eggs, several that just went "poof" when I got close, a couple that didn't give ANYTHING ... and more frustration than I can remember in a video game.
 
*sigh*
 
I want to be a collector and enjoy myself doing it. I don't mind that it takes a while, I don't mind that not every discovery is meaningful. That's fine ... but after yesterday's exercise in futility, it's not even a little bit fun anymore.
 
Oh well. I guess I can go do the same old dailies and run the same old shiphands that I've been doing for months.
 
I know I'm not alone in this frustration. Heck, I even offered my Bandit Carver code from MMORPG to the first person to farm one up for me. No luck. :angry:
 
Tonight I'm just not going to bother. Maybe try again over the weekend.
 
So, what's on your mind, Nexus?	
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Buster is still around, last time I checked.
 
Seems like I saw a new name yesterday. They came in and locked a thread that had gotten out of hand.	CRB_Yaviey 
Title says Community Coordinator. Not sure who that is.	
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Morning Tex  :)
 
My mind is saying that I want to play Wildstar! It's been really tough to get on with all the work related crap going on IRL.  :angry:
 
If I get lucky, really lucky, I might be able to swing in for an hour-ish tonight. :mellow:
 
I have not even started collecting anything yet but I want too...I also want to play...and do housing....I also really want a cheeseburger  :ph34r:
 
OK, here's another thing I want: Since our 'little pony' is gone, who is on Forum Duty?? I see threads getting moved or locked but whoever is doing it they are being awfully quiet about it.
 
Do you know who the CM is now??	
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I know I'm not alone in this frustration. Heck, I even offered my Bandit Carver code from MMORPG to the first person to farm one up for me. No luck. :angry:
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			Yeah Tex I hear ya... The part for me that swearls like your coffee is my pvp experience I came back for free to play and there is new pvp gear..... No not really the gear that cost gold was the season 1 tier 1 gear skin and now the season 2 tier 2 is like my season 1 1800 gear... Makes for a sad day. But hey we can make our gear look how ever we want soooo it's not to bad. I just hope the new 1800 gear skin looks cool!
			
				
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So you're one of those who nabbed more than 1 code, huh?
 
The AH doesn't have what you want? :P
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Honestly my burnout from discoveries has left me really glad that the tech 2 alpha for B&S is this weekend. 
I had really hoped that looking for costume bits was going to alleviate the burnout from running the same shiphands and rep zone farming. I guess it has, but not in the good way. 
 
The Aurin engineers thread has my ire up as well. The game should feel like it follows lore, and not that lore is an excuse to suit the short comings of the game. Mechari going from eating food to keep up appearances, to needing it for energy, needing to breath air, and worst of all getting drunk all to cover for the fact that it would have been a pain to give mechari a bunch of lore appropriate immunities. 
 
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Yeah Tex I hear ya... The part for me that swearls like your coffee is my pvp experience I came back for free to play and there is new pvp gear..... No not really the gear that cost gold was the season 1 tier 1 gear skin and now the season 2 tier 2 is like my season 1 1800 gear... Makes for a sad day. But hey we can make our gear look how ever we want soooo it's not to bad. I just hope the new 1800 gear skin looks cool!
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			Me too, can't wait to find you in a BG and t-bag the s*** out of you! It will be with the best of intentions though	
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Me too, can't wait to find you in a BG and t-bag the s*** out of you! It will be with the best of intentions though
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Morning all...
 
Collector I am,
Semi-Completionist I am,
Very Lucky I am
5 Costume pieces I have... but thinking back I found them on my leveling alt me thinks.. in 1st 2 Exile starter zones. 2 set items starting with B and others I don't know the name of... I had full wardrobe space at the time, with lots of nice pieces from pre-re-launch I needed to farm onmibits for to increase my limit... that 195bits took soooooo long... so in the end the sweet costume pieces that allude Tex just got stashed with alot of others :P
 
In another "unknamed" RNG game... *cough demon killing cough* I found an item with 0.02% chance of dropping. Wizdog I was with OP build weapon... so me just have knack.... but then again my carefactor is less then most
 
PS who is the pony??? Is it the clown or the other one? As a "why the hell am I unemployed" person I feel for those that are in state of loss. Are we allow to talk about this...
PpS... I not on the NEW video posted today that Tony is listed as the Community Manager... im confused so now we have a community coordination, a community content manager and a community manager, just who is who and why do they all sound like their doing the same job,
 
So what is opposite to coffee? A hammer or a hot milk cos i'm off to bed.	
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As mentioned elsewhere, I've only come across three Discoveries thus far while leveling - or what I take to be Discoveries [glowing piles of rock or scenery].  Two have been temprary buffs [the sort of machines Settlers sometimes hoist up], and one was a toolbox for a trade my character doesn't have [i think that I successfully put it on the Auction House... but then I also put trade materials on the Auction House, and have received only a few copper for them, despite the stacks of them suggesting a value of gold... so I obviously don't know how THIS auction house works yet].
 
Say.  Is the outfit worn by the Cassian Noble in the game trailers available in game, in whole or in part?  Sine talking costume pieces fits the tone of the thread today.	
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Morning all,
 
I haven't gotten much game time in unfortunately. I tried to play last night but my mouth was a bit sore from getting a root canal done and was causing me to lose patience with the minor lag i was getting. Hopefully though I will be able to clear some levels tonight. 	
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Me too, can't wait to find you in a BG and t-bag the s*** out of you! It will be with the best of intentions though
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Morning all! 
I'm back home and reading these fine forums on my way to work... On my new Moto X pure. I'm still salty over the fact they didn't make purple back this time. Very salty!!! Turquoise it is again. 
 
I haven't managed to burn out on WildStar cause I've either not had enough time to play a lot or I've been avoiding playing (lag ugh). I've been picking up discoveries while doing contracts or random dailies. I can't seem to get organized and motivated to farm in wildstar. Which is silly because I can get downright obsessive farming stuff. 
 
I played a bit of the technical alpha of bns on bf's account. Way less grindy than the old versions of the game. Quite a lot in that game to tickle my farming senses. Farming gear as you level and outfits throughout the content levels, that's very nice. Funny enough WildStar has the same kind of thing but since I'm such a completionist I got a ton obtained as I leveled. 
 
I was so so on the challenges before. I liked farming specific ones for dyes or pets and hated them at the same time. Now I'm just bored by challenges. 
 
Probably going to do some farming of contracts in the next two weeks cause I need a couple gear items. Waiting on the new system to trade in rune fragments cause at this rate I'm never going to have exceptionals.	
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Morning!
I'm busy today so I'll just drop a quick line. <3
I wrote up my guild's first Character Episode review from what happened on Saturday: http://venusrising.eu/forum_threads/2259475?last_or_unread=true
I'm tired, but need to finish writing some roleplay guides and cleaning house. Also got two housing projects to do.
x.x I've been so busy I hard get a moment to myself!	
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Well, since I've run out of money I've had to go out and actually *gasp* play the game! Horrible I know. Well, maybe a little more than you know. Last night I did two pug dungeons with randoms that were.... less than par. Some very, very green dps and undergeared tanks and healers meant I was having to carry really, really hard *massages back*. I wanted to make money but.... after an 80g repair bill off of a 90 minute SSM run I was certainly not happy.
 
There are two things in particular that really grind my gears about these sorts of groups.
 
1) They aren't geared for the encounter, at all. Some of them still had greens on. Most didn't seem to know what an interrupt was until the last boss (seriously? since when does the entire team just "forget" to interrupt suppression wave on Drokk? I took off two IA all they had to do was throw one single interrupt!). I get that they're new but there should be some kind of warning at least to say "Hey, you're gear is really low, you're probably not ready for this, maybe you should try something else first".
 
2) They ACT like they're geared for the encounter. What, did their last group consist of four datascape raiders or something? Here are people who haven't even mastered basic Wildstar tactics skipping between bosses and skipping all the objectives, somehow assuming that they're going to be able to beat the bosses in a short enough time that they can still get silver or gold without doing any of the side objectives. What? Some of them hadn't even done the dungeons before! Others died in the first 10 seconds of the fight! We wiped on almost every fight at least a half dozen times! And they STILL wanted to objective skip. I just don't get it. How are these people getting a "Gold or bust" mentality when they haven't even been 50 for more than a few days? Are they just looking to be carried through all of this? Honestly, this bothers the hell outta me and I wish I did not have to deal with it.	
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I've totally avoided going looking for the costumes from discoveries... I just know I'll get completionist about it, and it'll drive me nuts. There's already enough things I want to do in the game that I don't have the time to... no way I'm going to add another one to the pile :)
 
And on that note (neat little segue here...) finally... finally... next week I step into Genetic Archives.
 
it's only taken a year and a half...  B)
			
				
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			I suppose that setting a gear level restriction for dungeon queueing might stop that. I don't pug dungeons, there is enough intra-team trash talk in bgs that I don't feel the need to sit through someone having a breakdown about no chances of gold in a dungeon. 
			
				
	Edited October 14, 2015 by Arachnaas	
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Morning, all (or rather, all of you on Eastern Standard Time)!  No WS last night - I went to bed early to have my head on straight for an early meeting this morning.  When I smelled the rank-and-file coffee* in the kitchen, I realized the meeting was cancelled. 
 
Bummer about the drop rate on Discovery items being so low.  I'd zipped around Wilderrun and Galeras looking for some, but if it takes six hours to find one item I think I'll just do things that earn me plat and get the costumes at auction.  I'm a little concerned that all the reasons to move about in the game world (especially in lower level zones) are becoming pointless for capped characters.  I rather liked having an excuse to be on Farside, or Celestion, or really anywhere that isn't encased in quivering purple tar studded with eyeballs.
 
*I call it "rank-and-file" coffee because the execs don't drink it; that it smells rank and tastes like the beans were ground up with a rusty file is completely incidental.	
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I suppose that setting a gear level restriction for dungeon queueing might stop that. I don't pug dungeons, there is enough intra-team trash talk in bgs that I don't feel the need to sit through someone having a breakdown about no chances of gold in a dungeon. 
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[i think that I successfully put it on the Auction House... but then I also put trade materials on the Auction House, and have received only a few copper for them, despite the stacks of them suggesting a value of gold... so I obviously don't know how THIS auction house works yet].
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Dat Lore Dump, wow what an utter retcon disaster.  For my own sanity I will stick to headcannon and just nod my head an smile at them patronizingly.
 
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Another day, another [something something].
 
I haven't yet PVPed in Wildstar, and I admit to being a bit intimidated... but I might give it a try. Hopefully I'll just be slotted in badpug group vs badpug group *fingers crossed*. But, yeah, I have to agree with Tex on this; the pvp armor look swell and I kind of want to acquire it.
 
And on the topic of costumes..! Logged onto my Stalker and made him a new one, with some pretty new dyes. Oh he looked so dapper.... and then I had some sort of, I don't even know, bug/crash? Followed by 5 failed character zone-ins. Followed by my entire costume having its dye removed! I had to redo the dye, gold expenditure included. I bug reported it, so hopefully it can be fixed and no one else will have to go through that. (I can see people spending a few plat and just freaking out...)
 
Did a couple Shiphands on my Stalker and I am a little bit disappointed with his stabby prowess. It feels a lot less potent than it used to be? Maybe I just need to get used to it again, and play around with some AMPS and stuff (to be fair, I have spent a lot of time on my warrior).
 
Also, Hoverboard races. Holy cupcake. So excited! *calmly boards the H Y P E train*
			
				
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I also just finished leveling a Stalker and also felt totally gimped when I hit 50. I was dying on the first trash pulls of every shiphand, even the easy ones.
 
I just went to the AH and bought a couple pieces of crafted gear, then did dailies for a couple of says to fill in the questing greens with rep gear, then some contracts to get the last of the low-level gear replaced.
 
Now I can do shiphands with little issue and I still haven't bothered to rune anything.	
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Dat Lore Dump, wow what an utter retcon disaster.  For my own sanity I will stick to headcannon and just nod my head an smile at them patronizingly.
 
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Throw T4 prep on your bar. You should live through pretty much anything in the open world :)
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I also just finished leveling a Stalker and also felt totally gimped when I hit 50. I was dying on the first trash pulls of every shiphand, even the easy ones.
 
I just went to the AH and bought a couple pieces of crafted gear, then did dailies for a couple of says to fill in the questing greens with rep gear, then some contracts to get the last of the low-level gear replaced.
 
Now I can do shiphands with little issue and I still haven't bothered to rune anything.
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			One of the writers jumped on reddit to answer questions. You can read it all here and here (because he hit the character limit or something). 	
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Dat Lore Dump, wow what an utter retcon disaster.  For my own sanity I will stick to headcannon and just nod my head an smile at them patronizingly.
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One of the writers jumped on reddit to answer questions. You can read it all here and here (because he hit the character limit or something).
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			I have no idea! That's why I asked. :p I'm going to re-read the posts later when I have a little more time to actually pay attention.	
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Reading through it. Not impressed with the lore patch stuck on the lack of Mordesh and Mechari housing. I think the honest "We haven't gotten past the concept stage with them" was better than Mordesh are too sad to make mordesh buildings, and mechari have just lived in cassian buildings, with little additions of "For now". 
 
I should have known this was the standard when we got a lore entry for the fat kitty balloon mount. 
			
				
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Reading through it. Not impressed with the lore patch stuck on the lack of Mordesh and Mechari housing. I think the honest "We haven't gotten past the concept stage with them" was better than Mordesh are too sad to make mordesh buildings, and mechari have just lived in cassian buildings with little additions of "For now". 
 
I should have known this was the standard when we got a lore entry for the fat kitty balloon mount.
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Reading through it. Not impressed with the lore patch stuck on the lack of Mordesh and Mechari housing. I think the honest "We haven't gotten past the concept stage with them" was better than Mordesh are too sad to make mordesh buildings, and mechari have just lived in cassian buildings with little additions of "For now". 
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I am gonna get my beat-down on this Double Prestige Weekend for sure. I have what I call the "Iron Man" PVP set from last year, but hadn't done any serious PVPing since Sabotage dropped the ball.
 
Quite excited to get into some fights this weekend!
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Gosh Tex, please go buy the Season 2 pvp blue set, if what you have currenty is from the Sabotage days. I will give you the plat for it. Don't let those filthy aurins teabag you.
 
Also, the Inorganics of MC will not stand for this. :D
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Wait, they applied a retcon to something?
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If you've read "The Fall of Grimsara" from the Interactive Timeline, you get a sense of an advanced technological civilization.  Heck the in game models are -covered- in advanced cybernetics that they had to have on hand or those people would have died several decades prior to being extracted.  Yet the "dump" re-characterized the Mordesh as a roughly pre-Industrial society.
 
Well I guess we now know why all Mordesh are infected (no spaceflight).
 
Back during CBT they kept telling people that all races could be all classes and insisted there was no lore preventing it.  Well now there is.  Among the many gems (read turds): Mechari cannot be espers because they're not organic which completely ignores the mechanical Espernetic Interface that Victor developed to talk to Elderroot.
 
I suppose that doesn't really count as a retcon but it was a hope near and dear to many, many people.
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			I never understood why chua couldn't be stalkers. Is there something lore specific to it? Cause the excuse on the stalker page doesn't make sense. 	
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I never understood why chua couldn't be stalkers. Is there something lore specific to it? Cause the excuse on the stalker page doesn't make sense.
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I want a Draken esper so badly even though I already have an esper at 50 :P
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Hi all.
 
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Back during CBT they kept telling people that all races could be all classes and insisted there was no lore preventing it.  Well now there is.  Among the many gems (read turds): Mechari cannot be espers because they're not organic which completely ignores the mechanical Espernetic Interface that Victor developed to talk to Elderroot.
 
I suppose that doesn't really count as a retcon but it was a hope near and dear to many, many people.
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Hi all.
 
 
I'm not sure what the Espernetic Interface has to do with Mechari Espers. Lazarin and Elderroot were both organic beings, one just happened to be augmented.
 
I don't know, I'm kind of in the other camp. I think when you open up all races to all classes, you start seeing really silly stuff; like gnome warriors. I get that a lot of people are all for playing what they want to play, but it's all fun and games until a Granok stalker named "Goin Upyurbutt" or some other ridiculous SNERT name tiptoes in and griefs you. I don't think all race/class combos make sense and I don't have a problem with it staying that way.
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I've been so busy today!
I wrote up that cover of the rp
and just finished this now. http://venusrising.eu/forum_threads/2259993Does it sound too elitist? Will it scare people away? I'm so unsure, but I feel it's needed with so many new roleplayers in the guild.	
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I agree that some combination can be a bit funny, however some restrictions don't make sense. Lets take Mordesh for example, they can be spellslingers but not espers. Their description includes Unleashing dark and deadly disciplines on the Dominion? however i don't understand the question mark. Espers use a darker form of sorcery, so why is it that on the flip side Aurins who are "tree folk" can be espers and spellslingers but Mordesh can be spellslingers and not espers. Let be honest there is nothing dark about arcane sorcery  :P
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I agree that some combination can be a bit funny, however some restrictions don't make sense. Lets take Mordesh for example, they can be spellslingers but not espers. Their description includes Unleashing dark and deadly disciplines on the Dominion? however i don't understand the question mark. Espers use a darker form of sorcery, so why is it that on the flip side Aurins who are "tree folk" can be espers and spellslingers but Mordesh can be spellslingers and not espers. Let be honest there is nothing dark about arcane sorcery  :P
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