116719-uncertainty-monster

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The power of uncertainty, it cripples and sends a cold shiver of doubt along ones spine. Well I don’t know about my fellow Wildstar players, but this wait for the next drop has me caught in a mouse wheel of time. Round and round without much direction.
 
Spend some elder gems, na it might be a waste. Rune up that sweet item you got, well actually you might not want to waste those fragments right now, things are changing, things are uncertain. I’ve got like 1500 elder gems, 70 Eldan Data Frag’s for my Architect, I won’t even go near what I have stored on my bank/alts, all banked on the hope that things change for the better and saving now is worth the wait.
 
Or I could be totally wrong, have it (1st word of a Denis Leary song) up, back to front. So what uncertainty monsters does WS have that keep you biting your nails?
 
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	Edited October 21, 2014 by LordJJag
	
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[...] So what uncertainty monsters does WS have that keep you biting your nails?
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			Things aren't really uncertain (at least until we get to the middle of November and have no drop announcement), we know the plan, but there is certainly a lot more waiting in terms of the rune changes, and we will play another waiting game for itemization changes. Rarely is the current tier of gear almost completely invalidated by the same tier of gear by a patch over 5 months later, which is the situation we find ourselves in for PVE.	
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The only thing I'm uncertain about now is how long until Drop 3, and whether I'll have the free time to dump into building my 1K plot. If it hits in the next two weeks, I'm good. :P
 
I deal with the uncertainty by playing different games. Right now casually playing DOTA2, Wasteland 2, and I checked out WoW's 6.0 patch. The premade queue system looks pretty damn good, and flex raiding sounds awesome, but with drop 3 coming around the same time as the expansion launch, I don't think I'll preorder. The unfortunate reality for me now: WoW isn't fun if I don't raid.	
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I had the same issue with D3 and major changes, just stopped playing, thou this time I haven't stopped for a few positive reasons, I like the game, damn why else would I bank 1500ish elder gems. I've only ever brought the better mining tool with them. Crazy I know, still look at this way, with the amp/ability point drops, elder gems can be used for other things now, so bonus it has paid off so far.
 
I don't mind a new patch in X months time with a better armor, new runes, thats cool, these are changes I don't know about and cannot predict about and thus don't worry about. I guess it comes down to me either not wanting to know anything or wanting it all, in X months Y will happen, sweet I will plan Z. At the moment it is , in X.5 months Y.43.? will happen, so planning ???. Think of it from a shareholder point of view, they want certainty, that is why they invest in X shares, in fact the whole share market can crash on the whispers from the uncertainty monster.
 
I feel ya pain with housing too, I'd like the cap increased now, at least I know its gana happen and I am REAL happy about it, planning done, now onto collection stage, takes time getting those decor items the non AH way. I play to enjoy, not to wait, either the devs need to be totally upfront or as tight lipped as a South American Tightrope fish.	
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Well then I guess you're not going to enjoy reading this then........
 
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Sorry for the confusion. I meant ... the major patch after this upcoming one. The real Drop 4.
 
Once we merged the data from old Drop 3 and old Drop 4 into new Drop 3, that's still Drop 3. Old Drop 4 disappears entirely.
 
New Drop 4 is the Drop (major patch) after new Drop 3. Technically new Drop 4 is actually old Drop 5 and old Drop 6 put together. So, it's confusing to us sometimes too since all the numbers changed once we moved to quarterly Drops from monthly Drops.
 
Megaservers - this Wednesday (so excited for this)
Drop 3 - sometime in November (changes are up in the forums)
Drop 4 - a couple months after that (the stuff I want to talk about but shouldn't until you've had time to digest Drop 3)
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			Honestly, the only thing I'm worried about is if the game is going to go F2P.  If I wasn't, I'd be subbed for a year already.  I think Carbine's doing a pretty damn good job as a development house and I love the game.  I'll not be out of stuff to do for a while.  If NCSoft didn't hang over this game like a Poe-esque pendulum, I wouldn't have a care in the world.	
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Honestly, the only thing I'm worried about is if the game is going to go F2P.  If I wasn't, I'd be subbed for a year already.  I think Carbine's doing a pretty damn good job as a development house and I love the game.  I'll not be out of stuff to do for a while.  If NCSoft didn't hang over this game like a Poe-esque pendulum, I wouldn't have a care in the world.
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Id heard somewhere in the traps that Itemization was an after 3 drop thing, but hadn’t see anything Dev talk real talk stuff, now I have read this … …….. …. ….. … …… your right, happy to have it confirmed, very worried about storage issues and certainly not too please’d in general. Why even mention some change months away, voiding stuff here and now before it even arrives.
 
Maybe I can use some mind trick to believe my gear is BiS atm and hence don’t need an upgrade. I can wait thou, slowly, bit by bit, inch by inch, bloody mile by mile, it, the game, WS may arrive at the top of the game world, but it will quote its scared past.
 
Onwards then, saving it all, thanks for the glimmer of hope in a bucket of horror dudes.	
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Id heard somewhere in the traps that Itemization was an after 3 drop thing, but hadn’t see anything Dev talk real talk stuff, now I have read this … …….. …. ….. … …… your right, happy to have it confirmed, very worried about storage issues and certainly not too please’d in general. Why even mention some change months away, voiding stuff here and now before it even arrives.
 
Maybe I can use some mind trick to believe my gear is BiS atm and hence don’t need an upgrade. I can wait thou, slowly, bit by bit, inch by inch, bloody mile by mile, it, the game, WS may arrive at the top of the game world, but it will quote its scared past.
 
Onwards then, saving it all, thanks for the glimmer of hope in a bucket of horror dudes.
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Yeah, after reading those comments (ones I linked in first post I made on this topic) I agree that seeing that the itemization, gear and rune changes are not happening until after drop 3 (drop 3 is really drop 3/4 combined and drop 5/6 are now drop 4), meaning the new drop 4, I'm a little disappointed as well.
 
Guess I will be leveling more than 1 alt in the meantime ;)
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I'm not suffering for any uncertainty. I play for the moment, not for the future.
 
But as fun as the changes look, I'm satisfied with the current state of the game.	
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			Chua uncertain if forum drama continues once Drop3 and Drop4 launched.	
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Chua uncertain if forum drama continues once Drop3 and Drop4 launched.
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Chua uncertain if forum drama continues once Drop3 and Drop4 launched.
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My only uncertainty is if I should keep adding people who roleplay on forums on my ignore-list, or if the list will be full soon. :p
 
In-game, my only uncertainty is if I should spend some time with my chua, or if it's a waste of time, as there are no other players around. I have five Exiles as it is, so if we can't get more character slots, the chua is just there because why not.	
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when did rune changes get moved? im pretty sure those are still in drop 3...
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Rune slot changes are coming with the next drop. Changes are coming to how runes function, their core is another story, here is a quote I found all by myself
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There's a minor upgrade on the Elder Gem Vendor. Do I....
 
1) Buy it now for Gems and take the gamble squared (random number of slots x random slot elements)
 
2) Wait a month and buy it for Gems after Drop3 with a guaranteed number of slots and random slot elements that I can re-roll
 
3) Wait 3-4 months and buy it for Renown after Drop4 with totally different itemisation, a guaranteed number of slots and random slot elements that I can re-roll	
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There's a minor upgrade on the Elder Gem Vendor. Do I....
 
1) Buy it now for Gems and take the gamble squared (random number of slots x random slot elements)
 
2) Wait a month and buy it for Gems after Drop3 with a guaranteed number of slots and random slot elements that I can re-roll
 
3) Wait 3-4 months and buy it for Renown after Drop4 with totally different itemisation, a guaranteed number of slots and random slot elements that I can re-roll
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 Wait 3-4 months and buy it for Renown after Drop4 with totally different itemisation
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can you explain this please? gear is being moved to renown vendor?
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For me the monster is certainty.  I know for a fact that I will most likely be working the night shift for the foreseeable future.  This means there is very little chance that I'll ever see the inside of a raid.
 
I play these games for the story, the setting, the feel of being my character.  Leaving my mundane world behind and picking up a sword, a wand or a pair of blasters.  I love so much about Nexxus.  This world is brimming with wonder from the silly things the lopp say to the menacing look of the alien remains to the flash of white when I first saw that ghostly image.  This world has a story for me to experience, but I don't think I'll ever see those last few pages.
 
The secrets of the Elden will remain secret to me.  The 'final' plot twist, the 'last' villainous soliloquy, the 'ultimate' desperate plea for mercy will be delivered in a raid.  Since I don't raid with anyone, the final pages of my characters stories will be left unwritten. 	
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For me the monster is certainty.  I know for a fact that I will most likely be working the night shift for the foreseeable future.  This means there is very little chance that I'll ever see the inside of a raid.
 
I play these games for the story, the setting, the feel of being my character.  Leaving my mundane world behind and picking up a sword, a wand or a pair of blasters.  I love so much about Nexxus.  This world is brimming with wonder from the silly things the lopp say to the menacing look of the alien remains to the flash of white when I first saw that ghostly image.  This world has a story for me to experience, but I don't think I'll ever see those last few pages.
 
The secrets of the Elden will remain secret to me.  The 'final' plot twist, the 'last' villainous soliloquy, the 'ultimate' desperate plea for mercy will be delivered in a raid.  Since I don't raid with anyone, the final pages of my characters stories will be left unwritten. 
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(...snip...)
 
We took a good long look at WIldStar's itemization plan and the feedback from players about the issues it has/had and are attacking those issues from multiple fronts. The Rune changes were something we felt would could squeeze in separately from the rest of the overhauls, so they made it into Drop 3.....
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There's no story in the raids. Omnicore-1 will be the next story update and is a solo instance.
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Wait, so there is nothing lore-wise in the raids at all?  If that's the case then:
 
'Well, never mind.'  Emily Litella
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Wait, so there is nothing lore-wise in the raids at all?  If that's the case then:
 
'Well, never mind.'  Emily Litella
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Major story elements are told in the leveling zones
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