136874-i-wish-i-knew-this-before-mistakes-prevention-thread

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OK, it's time to put axes down and learn something.
 
Veterans of the game, I call you out now! Step up and provide some beginner tips, pro tips, time saving tips, anything that you learned in past year of being here and that NEW player might not stumble upon just by playing casually.
 
Provide us some info to enhance our Wildstar experience while we (mostly Luminai folks) wait in loadings or queues :)
 
I'll begin with one good tip I snitched from one good WS Ytuber (shout-out to you Sywo)
 
1. Get any unit frame addon which shows up the shield and absorb shield amounts in numbers. Default UI doesn't do that. It's very handy to know how much shield you have and I was actually looking for that option in default UI and than I realized you gotta use addons for that info.
 
Let the help-fest begin!
Looking forward to replies! 	
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			Get into a guild ASAP. It will enhance the entire experience.	
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Start crafting as soon as you're introduced to tradeskills. I have yet to judge how costly it is compared to before, but crafting is a reliable way give yourself good/great armor and/or weapons relevant to your level. It can also be a nice break inbetween questing.
 
Also you can switch between tradeskills whenever for a price, but there's like a 4-day delay? before you can switch again. Switching does not lose experience previously gained in a tradeskill if you return to it later.
			
				
	Edited October 4, 2015 by Beartornado	
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There is a one-time-only achievement that rewards a title in the northwest corner in Galeras involving a quest where you have to find the right NPC who has been mind-controlled. If you want it, don't just zap NPCs willy-nilly! Pay attention to their clues and work through the puzzle. Though as a little trick: if you guess wrong, you can abandon the quest, pick it back up, and try again, and you can still get the achievement.
 
If you're an achievement hunter, don't let that one pass you by unnoticed. xD
			
				
	Edited October 4, 2015 by Naunet	
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			Get the ClassicQuestDialog addon (you'll need to edit in the f2p fix from the comments section yourself).  It makes quest text easier to read and puts all the 'extra' dialog right in the main window so you don't have to click through it all to see everything.	
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Start crafting as soon as you're introduced to tradeskills. I have yet to judge how costly it is compared to before, but crafting is a reliable way give yourself good/great armor and/or weapons relevant to your level. It can also be a nice break inbetween questing.
 
Also you can switch between tradeskills whenever for a price, but there's like a 4-day delay? before you can switch again. Switching does not lose experience previously gained in a tradeskill if you return to it later.
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I would assume crafting while leveling would be bad for your income?
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I would assume crafting while leveling would be bad for your income?
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			wanted to post a WTS> AMP Power upgrade in zone chat (worth about 9 ~ 12 platinum) but failed to link it to chat and instead used it..	
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It took me way longer than it should have to figure out what the purple health bars meant, so my contribution will be to explain how "moment of opportunity" works.
 
If you interrupt an enemy (with a stun for example) while they are casting an ability, their health bars will turn purple for a brief moment. During this time they take increased damage from all of your attacks. So most of the time, in my experience, it's better to hold on to your big nukes and wait for a moment of opportunity. I think I made it to around level 25 on my first character befor I figured this out and it really sped up my leveling.	
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			If you're enjoying leveling your Path, you can get a serious boost to that once you hit level 15 or so if you don't mind a detour. Do all your stuff in your first two starter zones, and once you're at your faction capital, head to the other set of starter zones and do the Path content there too. You can ignore regular content as much or as little as you want, maybe hunt some Achievements too, but the added Path xp doesn't scale down based on level so you're not hurting your progress. You can get some additional costume parts, bags, and maybe even the mount customizations (I think).Even if you don't like leveling your Path, doing so at some point pays off because there's the inexpensive AMP and Ability point unlocks you get for doing so.	
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Yes. The cost of crafting mats + the cost to complete the craft will eat into your finances. I honestly wouldn't recommend crafting right off the bat, until you can fund it.
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I would assume crafting while leveling would be bad for your income?
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			If something is too expensive on the AH/CX just wait a day or in some cases 6 hours. Recent example mini metal maw companion pet. Starting prices 3 plat - 10 plat. Is now at 10 gold. Just a few days from being introduced to the game. Only things that stay the same or become more expensive are the rare items like Savage Warpig and the equivar luminous.	
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