119343-first-impressions

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Hey guys, completely new player here, giving my feedback after jumping in on the 50% sale over the weekend. Currently playing SWTOR and LOTRO on FTP, i jumped over here looking for something fresh. With LOTRO announcing earlier in the year that they were no longer developing raids, and then more recently no more large scale expansions, and ToR's long standing history of being a social/RP mmo with barely any raiding going on I was hoping this would be the game for me. Somehow I missed this being released, I have vague recollections of the previews and saying I must look in at release, followed by completely forgetting the game existing until this past weekend.
 
Point of reference, I think i've played nearly every major mmo release since WoW was released in 04 (my first graphical mmo, I started with the MUD Legends of Cosrin) and currently play high end content as a Mercenary ranged dps in ToR and a support Captain in LOTRO. I'm currently leveling an Engineer on W*, Exile side, Jabbit EU.
 
1: The combat has ruined every other mmo for me. I doubt i'll ever be able to play a tab targeting static rotation game again without sighing and thinking of W*.
2: The setting. Immediately I was thinking the game is like Firefly and Torchlight had a baby that was an mmo. Love it.
3: Over the course of about 20 hours playing (now level 19, with several >10 alts while choosing a class) I can count the number of times I have seen Zone chat on one hand. That would be twice, the first time I initiated asking if anyone was online (and fortunately got a guild invite which has made the game bearable) and the second time was a guild advertisement. This game needs some sort of world chat. There are more people running deeds in Moria than there are grouping and chatting in lowbie areas in this game (5 year old, now mid level expansion content in LOTRO, old boring stuff).
4: I queued for 7 hours prime time Saturday night UK time, from roughly 4pm-11pm, and did not get a single solitary pvp pop in the practice battlegrounds. Zip.
5: Once I finally got the Thayd (sic?) the chat suddenly exploded, people were everywhere, I had found the games population! Step outside in the next zone and everything goes away again :(
 
For £20 i'll definitely play out the month, the combat is great, I can't remember the last time i died so much (traditional mmo's breed bad habits that get you merced in this game!) and I love the setting. But, and it's a big but, I doubt i'll sub past this first month unless the game suddenly picks up. It's so quiet, the game feels so utterly deserted, that games like LOTRO who have lost masses of population over the last year or so still feel to massively out populate this game. Heck, I play on The Progenitor on ToR, the EU RP server, and even there you don't need to queue for more than 5-10minutes as a lowbie to get a pvp queue pop.
 
TL:DR - It's hella fun, it's also hella quiet. Gief more low level players! :(	
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Welcome to WildStar :)
 
I assume you're playing on Luminai from your explanation?
It has a known population problem, but you're already a part of the solution ^^.
I recommend to stick with it for now. There's people around, but not like Jabbit. However to get this server back on track, more people need to play on Luminai.
Seeing as you already found a guild, you'll have people around to do stuff!
 
Best of luck with your leveling adventures.	
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Who cares about the low lvl Players ? Everyone who rly plays this game already has 1-5 lvl 50 characters. This game is all about lvl 50, everything you see before is like a tutorial.
Also i think you made the wrong decision picking Exile bcuz that means you will face me in BG´s and you rly dont want that to happen  ;)	
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Welcome to WildStar :)
 
I assume you're playing on Luminai from your explanation?
 
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Who cares about the low lvl Players ? Everyone who rly plays this game already has 1-5 lvl 50 characters. This game is all about lvl 50, everything you see before is like a tutorial.
Also i think you made the wrong decision picking Exile bcuz that means you will face me in BG´s and you rly dont want that to happen  ;)
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Who cares about the low lvl Players?
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Well maybe Players was the wrong word, the word i was looking for was Characters.
Nice to see you starting to insult me for my opinion @ Zoomie
Could counter that but i dont want to mess this thread. 	
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Well maybe Players was the wrong word, the word i was looking for was Characters.
Nice to see you starting to insult me for my opinion @ Zoomie
Could counter that but i dont want to mess this thread. 
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			Well i see leveling as a necessity, to each his own i guess.	
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Hey guys, 
 
Lets not get riled up over a little misunderstanding here. :) 
 
Elicas - Welcome to WildStar!	
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Hey guys, 
 
Lets not get riled up over a little misunderstanding here. :)
 
Elicas - Welcome to WildStar!
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Why not? We need to do something while the game is down!
*hides*
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Jabbit quiet at low level??
 
Are we playing on different Jabbit servers?? I've noticed loads of low lvl players since coming back. The settler hubs are even being built frequently.
 
What time of day are you playing? (GMT)	
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Ooooo you're asking for trouble furry Chua - I bet Chillia could be very scary when she wants to be 
 
*also hides*
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This is what I think should be done in the future.
 
Give 50s a reason to go into lower zones, not for lowbie content, not for WBs, but for some benefits that brings people to a lower zone to have more presence in population.  I think it would help attract people to the game so new people don't feel so isolated leveling up.  	
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The Chillia not scare Chua!
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Your funeral :P
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Welcome to Nexus!
 
Real quick bit of advice:  find a guild.  They're so much more necessary in this game.  One of the things that goes unsaid sometimes is that queues don't often pop because there are so many people queueing in only as premades.  Organization and coordination are worth their weight in gold in Wildstar, so most people prefer to know who they're running with.	
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Give 50s a reason to go into lower zones, not for lowbie content, not for WBs, but for some benefits that brings people to a lower zone to have more presence in population. 
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			Welcome to Wildstar m8 - I see alot people running around in different zones.. They might not answer when you do /z ... blah ... But they are there.	
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			Welcome to Wildstar! Enjoy your time on Nexus! :D	
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