117903-11-11-2014-morning-coffee-were-still-alive-edition

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Good morning folks!  Seemed to be a bit of amusing panic in Thayd last night.  i was watching the festivities as I was covering Dj Dagun's metal show last night.  I got Malak to 41 last night hoping to make up for the potential missing leveling time from something possibly going wrong with the patch this morning.  I'll find out after my show.  I had to disable all of my add-ons unfortunately and I'm missing a few of them but I'm sure things will be back to normal before too terribly long.  So what's everyone's plans for post-Drop 3?  I plan on a bit more leveling and doing a bit more building on the station building.	
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First, I'm going to try Resonance Runner if I can get to it.  Because I've been waiting ages to try it.
 
Then, I'm going to drop a CREDD on the market, hop on Nightengale, and start working on the Shadowcaster.
 
MY GUILD WILL HAVE THEIR RP HANGOUT!  Right now, it's empty....  It won't be for long.  I already closed off and updated the wheelhouse since this pic was taken.
 
 
You guys should have a show on it someday after I finish it!
 
Last night, I decided to have a little me-time after I handled some logistics.  I jumped on Spenser and ran a bit of Blighthaven.  Spenser could seriously use a new pair of pistols, but what can you do?  I'm bouncing with excitement about getting home tonight to work on the Shadowcaster and get to the new content.  I feel like a kid in a candy store!	
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Still Alive is a great song too!
 
Actively hiding from spoilers. As soon as I get online Zone and Advice and all that jazz is going OFF.	
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Huh... the forums ate my post?
 
Anyways. What I said was: 
 
Today I am actively avoiding spoilers. As soon as I log in Zone, Advice and all that jazz is going off! :lol:
 
Edit: wait... I'm ... I'm losing my marbles. Extra coffee plz.	
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Huh... the forums ate my post?
 
Anyways. What I said was:
 
Today I am actively avoiding spoilers. As soon as I log in Zone, Advice and all that jazz is going off! :lol:
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			Oh! That's what is was! I was thinking I lost my remaining sanity.	
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Not yet, anyway...
 
>.>
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Oh! That's what is was! I was thinking I lost my remaining sanity.
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Will Blazing Saddles be running the new main story stuff?
 
Rocio's soul is now shared by a bird anyway. He was hanging out with the ladies, making all the guys jealous of his way with animals. But he skeedaddled when someone threatened to shoot it if it came near her.
 
On a brighter (?) note Rocio recruited another Mordesh who wants his help at making Chimeras and hybrids in an attempt to let at least some of Mordesh genes survive.	
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			We can put together a group run of the Defile content!  Sort of IC zone clearing.  So we can RP it.  How's that sound as an idea?	
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I've been so busy this week!
I hopped in and saw some of the changes and loved the smooth texture of my clothes..so glad to have that!
The game felt smoother as well. The only issues I've seen so far are the gadget thing and chat turning off if you have killroy.
 
I've got a DA live layover to do today.
My customers have decided they want a 1900x1080 (was 1020 this morning) template for all their layovers.
So I had to do my gotham girls one from scratch. Which isn't too big of an issue.
 
 
 
 
I've got my week planned out. And it's planned out around raid times.
Hopefully my husband and I can explore Defile properly when he's home from work. :)
 
*flails cause she's so busy*
Speaking of busy, time to go and stream my second stream of this week for ladiesoftheroundtable ...time to level Mallory Quinne some more :D	
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Ran some stuff with Old Timer's Guild last night, discussed upcoming changes, etc.  
 
Logged in this morning really briefly to see if there was chaos.  There was chaos.  Not entirely sure why the UI bar was tweaked, but I know some of the flyouts were a little weird.  Still, the "recall" flyout is misplaced and gadget is back to launch weirdness, and I don't have a dash meter anymore.  I use stock UI (with a couple communicator frames moved) so best I can figure out... 
 
It's aliens
 
Alien bugs from beyond the stars come to steal our UI elements and rearrange them secretly while we sleep.  They're probably doing some of their abominable probing too.  My poor recall flyout has been traumatized.
 
Happy to see the attention to CB spiders and eggs.  Not entirely sure that "mobs have had their health upgraded to give more of a challenge to veteran players" and "help players complete quest objectives faster" is entirely the same thought (unless it affects % complete).  Along with mounts having less health, I actually see the daily zones having gotten longer to complete.  Having to kill fewer but harder mobs doesn't make things go faster if while going past the mobs you don't want to kill your mount is shot out from under you and you have to fight them anyway.
 
But... oh well.  I only did that for EG anyway, rep capped on both 50 toons quite awhile ago.
 
Aliens have affected my mineral plot, sneakily moving the nodes all over.  I expect I will wake tomorrow and have a mineral node growing out of my head.
 
Esper lost 200 assault power, suspect due to runing scale changes, or milestone buff points.  Not entirely sure, and all numbers are sort of floating right now anyway.  She's got a finger pretzel of a rotation now too, so ... probably aliens.
 
No clue how Remil is working.  AP way up, miniputt scores are way down.  	
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We can put together a group run of the Defile content! Sort of IC zone clearing. So we can RP it. How's that sound as an idea?
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A day off!  A fast patch :blink: 
 
*runs out the door with pith helmet on head, flag over the shoulder and stuffed tiger under arm*
 
First order of business was to get the IG chores done (farming plots).  Long story short, my lvl20 tier 5 miner can no longer completely harvest tier 5 nodes on her housing plot.  Yeah, I've /bug'd it, because why can I start the node but not finish it?  Hopefully the bug is the additional restriction and not an extremely shortsighted design decision, 'cause that'd kill my residual interest in crafting. :(
 
Think today will be baby ESPer day since I've had my fill of Malgrave (wooo, level 45!) for the moment.	
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First, I'm going to try Resonance Runner if I can get to it.  Because I've been waiting ages to try it.
 
Then, I'm going to drop a CREDD on the market, hop on Nightengale, and start working on the Shadowcaster.
 
MY GUILD WILL HAVE THEIR RP HANGOUT!  Right now, it's empty....  It won't be for long.  I already closed off and updated the wheelhouse since this pic was taken.
 
 
You guys should have a show on it someday after I finish it!
 
Last night, I decided to have a little me-time after I handled some logistics.  I jumped on Spenser and ran a bit of Blighthaven.  Spenser could seriously use a new pair of pistols, but what can you do?  I'm bouncing with excitement about getting home tonight to work on the Shadowcaster and get to the new content.  I feel like a kid in a candy store!
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So far, pretty good. But there have been some stumbles with this patch. I've found about a half dozen bugs in the first 30 minutes of game time, and that's not a particularly good sign. Luckily most of them will become white noise in a day or two. There was one particularly annoying one though...
 
It seems like Carbine went ahead and built the Exile base really, really close to The Defile entrance. The Dominion base didn't seem as close or as evident, so I stumbled around a bit looking for it. Then I was killed by some Exile base guards, which kind of annoyed me... then I was teleported to a gravestone in the southern part of Southern Grimvault. That greatly annoyed me as it necessitated taking a taxi all the way back to Blighthaven and then running through the zone back to The Defile...
 
So basically, be careful when you enter. I don't know if the SGV res was a bug or not but it was frustrating.
 
 
All that aside, there's some wonderful stuff with this patch. For starters I'm going to make a thread on the Housing forum which will contain pics, cost, and location of all the new decor I can find.
 
And on that note, I'm off to find the new rep vendors so I can see what they sell!
 
 
update:  Dominion base is close to the entrance as well. If you pause when you enter and get your bearings (evidently what I should have done) you can find it fast	
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So far, pretty good. But there have been some stumbles with this patch. I've found about a half dozen bugs in the first 30 minutes of game time, and that's not a particularly good sign.
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What are the bugs (besides your graveyard misfortune) that I should be aware of? I've only encountered one - where the gadget isn't graphically showing in its LAS. Can still use it though, so not a huge deal for me.
 
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Woot!  Patch Day!
 
Today, I'm going to log in and then try to sort out all the changes to my class and whether I need to rethink the way I've built my gear or not.  That may take a few hours - there's a lot.
 
Then, I'm going to craft and get some armor on the market.  I haven't done that in a week or two and I need to boost my income a bit.  Also, it just seems like good timing.
 
Then crafting dailies for vouchers and the data fragment.
 
Then *maybe* go see solo stuff in the Defile.  Maybe.  If it's not a complete zoo.  Otherwise I'll wait.
 
Tonight, we got dungeoning planned :)
 
Plus I have a bunch of RL stuff to do.  Bleh.  But who cares about that?  Wildstar!	
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			I know my big thing has been having to turn off my add-ons.  Killroy and Improved Item Preview are kidna borked.  I had to set things to default because they just wouldn't turn off and now I don't have any add-ons listed.  Couple of disconnects in the last few minutes.  I know Vilton is having trouble with his spotlights now.  But mostly a bunch of minor things but nothing too terrible for the sheer mass of changes that were dropped on the server all at once.	
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			I'd also like to give a tip of the hat to the moderators on the forums today.  Checking the Twitters and such they've been compiling all the bug reports from the various forums.  Their day is not going to be easy in any way, shape or form.  So here's a "Damn I'm Sorry" from me at least.  You guys do a damn fine job.	
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But mostly a bunch of minor things but nothing too terrible for the sheer mass of changes that were dropped on the server all at once.
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Yea I'm getting disconnects now too. Was fine for a few hours.
 
There's item preview in game now, in a drop down menu, and my light-armor character was able to preview medium+heavy armors on vendors. Not sure if it works on quest reward choices, I forgot to try.	
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			can only harvest a portion of node before getting message not high enough level to mine this node, and i was totally paraphrasing that as i don't recall the actual message, that along with the constant disco's today has not been a good wildstar day	
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Good morning, everyone!
 
Thank you to everyone who has served or is serving in the military. Your service is much appreciated.
 
Happy Veterans Day!
 
 
I didn't make it into WS last night. RL distractions were abundant.
 
Tonight, I plan to look through the new rune types that are available to see if I can work in any more set bonuses with the elemental signs I already have. I'm going to avoid the rune materials on the CX like the Contagion. I have no doubt they've already spiked in price, and by NA primetime tonight they'll probably be ridiculously expensive.
 
I'll probably also take a look at the Medic skills' new field effects and see if any of them are worth using.
 
Then I might actually venture further into Western Grimvault. By the time I get to the Defile, I won't have to worry about spoilers.
 
In actuality, I will likely get sucked into the housing time vortex and not see anything new at all. :P
 
I'm not a big min/maxer, so I doubt I'll get worked up about the stat changes as long as I can still kill stuff reasonably well. I'll look at the pre-raid BiS charts again after the serious min/maxers have updated them, and adjust my gear accordingly.
 
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Tonight, I plan to look through the new rune types that are available to see if I can work in any more set bonuses with the elemental signs I already have. I'm going to avoid the rune materials on the CX like the plague. I have no doubt they've already spiked in price, and by NA primetime tonight they'll probably be ridiculously expensive.
 
Then I might actually venture further into Western Grimvault. By the time I get to the Defile, I won't have to worry about spoilers.
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It might not be.  We might be experiencing a population boom that's destabilizing the server.  The megaservers didn't get stretched like this much after implementation.
 
I wonder if there's a bug in their player parsing code or if their zone instancing isn't working and everyone's crashing the zone.  Can you log right back in after the DC?  Are you timing out or is the server just blinking and you're off?
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Nothing bad, really.
 
Bugged CX for decor (not displaying items)
Bugged res in The Defile (not yet replicated)
Random disconnects (two different types)
What might be a bug with ambient tracks (the default was layering over my music previews, bought a new one, now I'm getting no ambient layering at all)
 
And I know I had at least one more related to housing, but can't remember right now.
 
However, the disconnects are getting bad. I had three in the first 45 minutes— and I've had three more in the last 15. I really don't understand how a content/bug fix patch would cause server instability to this degree, while the megaserver patch was very smooth.
 
Super odd.
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I'm really glad I'm done with CB and NW if the kill 10 rats quests take even longer to complete. Those were already the most time consuming quests in those areas, especially in CB.
 
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Defile zone chat is shared with Grimvault and Blighthaven though.
 
I got 3 runes from just sharding the greens from quest reward and random drops. (much to my surprise, I don't read patch notes lol) There's still RNG, but I don't think rune prices will spike up too much because of this. The flux stuff will be expensive for sure.
 
edit: ooh nvm, you're talking about eldan signs.
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Morning everyone! Hope you're all doing well and had a nice weekend.
 
Sorry for not giving a bit of a hello yesterday, but hope you're all having gun and enjoying the new patch so far!
 
I didn't get to 50, BUT i did get to 49. I should be 50 tonight on Montka and then it's go time! I would've gotten to 50 last night but the lag was REALLY bad on entity until the restart.
 
I got her story roughed out, I'm building up her housing plot, having discussions with some other Dominion RPers(especially last night) on trying to improve RP for our faction as wel as working on RP outside of bars and garden again.
 
I'm also getting some folks for a kind of designated PvE grouping to help get renown, attunements, etc...
 
I'm also working with a couple of Drakens to do some Draken oriented RP, starting with building a "war shrine" thats a mix of a temple and a training ground.
 
I'm also helping with a contest next month that Chef Noriack will be hosting.
 
so exciting! UGH why must I work today!!!!	
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The only other things I'd buy are the LAS 3 and 4, and those have been bugged for weeks. Maybe today's patch fixed them, so that'd be the first incentive I've had to worry about Elder Gems in a while.
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How long does it usually take you to do both zones?
 
For me, it takes 1 to 1.5 hours to do both, and I just have no interest in spending that much of my play time doing tedious quests over and over again. In addition to that, the Elder Gem merchant is pretty useless to me anyway, so I don't even have that incentive. Most of the dungeon gear is worse than my crafted gear (might've changed today, we'll see), and I don't raid, so I don't have access to those pieces at all.
 
The only other things I'd buy are the LAS 3 and 4, and those have been bugged for weeks. Maybe today's patch fixed them, so that'd be the first incentive I've had to worry about Elder Gems in a while.
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I'm also getting some folks for a kind of designated PvE grouping to help get renown, attunements, etc...
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Yea I'm willing to be very tolerant of mishaps with this patch. My only reservation is this: Drop 3 is supposed to be a bug-zapping patch, and so far, I haven't really noticed any improvements. Of course that doesn't mean nothing was fixed, since a lot of bugs will never be experienced by the majority of players; but it is a little unsettling to think we've waited this many months for a patch that brings its own foibles and then hasn't fixed much that you can tell. :P
 
While I'm still very enthusiastic and can't wait to get started finishing my plots, I can tell that there's likely to be a gross amount of complaining over the next week. Zone chat has been plagued with negativity so far, though not the toxic kind... just a lot of "what up with this" with a dose of frustration now and then.
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*raises hand* pick me! pick me! :P
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Vick, my neighbor list is fine on my 3 characters that has neighbors. Granted, I did not memorize the exact numbers (only know it's 20-something, 20-something, 40-something)... and nothing look to be awry.
 
NN has a settings that auto-remove neighbors that hasn't been on for 1/2/3/6/12 weeks, if you have that option selected.	
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Vick, my neighbor list is fine on my 3 characters that has neighbors. Granted, I did not memorize the exact numbers (only know it's 20-something, 20-something, 40-something)... and nothing look to be awry.
 
NN has a settings that auto-remove neighbors that hasn't been on for 1/2/3/6/12 weeks, if you have that option selected.
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Good morning everyone! Patch just finished downloading and I'm ready for Wildstar! Last night didn't have much going on aside from RP stuff and a daily run in Crimson Badlands. I really need to time that at some point, maybe aim for 30 minutes sometime. It helps that there's a secret crossing path right behind Aggregor's spawn point that takes you close to the Dominion starting point (Which is the fastest way back assuming you take on the gronyx last. And I believe that is the fastest Dominion method).
 
So! The moment I step into the game today, I'm going straight to The Defile and trouncing there. At least until the clock strikes 12... noon. Then work is gonna make it hard to complete the defile for a day or two. Still, gotta see these class changes in action.	
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.-. I now has my computer working again.
 
In time for the drop. Woo...	
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			OMG.  When I read they were adding housing music I thought "cool, there will be a few new ones".  I just went through the list - they outdid themselves.  WOW.	
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I'm totally using "our perception of beauty" for my temple...
 
and glad you got your computer up n running Kael!	
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			Right when the stream goes up, my internet fritzes.  I can't hear or see anything, even the chat.  I'll probably have to watch it later. >.<	
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Update: DCs are pretty bad. I was disconnected at least 5 times in the last hour, which means it's playable, but frustrating to commit to anything. I was DCd three times in the ten minutes before writing this post. :( And to Vic, I don't think this is a population problem. The number of folks I saw in the world was not significantly above what I saw the night of megaservers, and that change was very smooth. This is something else... basically, what Chillia said.
 
 
On the other hand... interactive decor is MIND BLOWING. I'm sure a lot of folks don't own many of the pieces from Sabotage, but a ton of them are interactive and have some insane abilities.
 
I'll probably take some screenshots later for the housing forum, though you can't get the true feel unless you see it live or on camera. The sounds, the movements... this is MMO history right here. I have like 7-8 of them (non-chairs) if anyone wants to see the effects tonight. Just visit or add Proxima Dust (Entity - Dom).	
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Update: DCs are pretty bad. I was disconnected at least 5 times in the last hour, which means it's playable, but frustrating to commit to anything. I was DCd three times in the ten minutes before writing this post. :( And to Vic, I don't think this is a population problem. The number of folks I saw in the world was not significantly above what I saw the night of megaservers, and that change was very smooth. This is something else... basically, what Chillia said.
 
 
On the other hand... interactive decor is MIND BLOWING. I'm sure a lot of folks don't own many of the pieces from Sabotage, but a ton of them are interactive and have some insane abilities.
 
I'll probably take some screenshots later for the housing forum, though you can't get the true feel unless you see it live or on camera. The sounds, the movements... this is MMO history right here. I have like 7-8 of them (non-chairs) if anyone wants to see the effects tonight. Just visit or add Proxima Dust (Entity - Dom).
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Cougar got in touch with me.  He thinks it's related to the corrupted players trying to log in that cause crashes.
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OMG.  When I read they were adding housing music I thought "cool, there will be a few new ones".  I just went through the list - they outdid themselves.  WOW.
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Ah lunch... my prozac if you will.  Pizza (a real Joisy pie, none of this cardboard from the left coast) and beer (Sam Adams Winter Lager, not bad).
 
Now that I'm less grumpy I gotta give it up for some of the new QoL features: Lowbie rental mounts.  24hrs and the cost won't break the bank.  Also a huge win for me, my scanbot doesn't get dismissed when I hop on a mount or enter stealth (stalker). :wub:	
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I'll have the TL;DR of the Nexus Report up after I get home tonight.  I left feeling positive.  I also saw the posts in chat of a lot of the people who want the game to go F2P.
 
They're not the kind of people I think I'd want to play a game with.  Just those people left a nice pit in my stomach praying NCSoft has a plan to pump up subs.
 
It seems they do.  The D man said we can look forward to them expanding the free trial system in response to a question of mine.	
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This is just incredible for both my characters.
 
Especially my alt who is a dancer.	
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Cougar got in touch with me.  He thinks it's related to the corrupted players trying to log in that cause crashes.
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They just took Entity down for a 30 minute maintenance, hopefully it'll clear the funk out of the air. :P
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Yeah, it's been my experience that it's usually better to take off the day after patch day.
 
That's not a criticism of WS; it's been the case with just about every MMO I've played.	
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Okay I am enjoying the new content in the Defile - Done all the solo stuff I can find there and too few people about at the moment (on Luminari) to do any of the 5+/20+ content. So I thought I would head to Omnicore 1 - which I am super excited about. However, I do not know how!
 
How on earth do you go to this story instance? Where am I supposed to be heading, are there pre-requisites? Why is there no breadcrumbs?	
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Yeah, it's been my experience that it's usually better to take off the day after patch day.
 
That's not a criticism of WS; it's been the case with just about every MMO I've played.
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My rule with GW2 was to not touch any new content on patch day.
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			Downloading the patch now! :D  I'm super excited, and I'm probably not even leaving Donne's housing plot tonight!	
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So pissed. I got kicked out of Omnicore 1 and now I have to start all over? Lame! Seriously lame!  I have to sit through this whole cutscene again? Where's my shortcut to where I left off?
 
Carbiiiiiine!  :angry:	
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			Nexus Report TLDR is up.  I'm logging in!	
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oh... I got gold... nevermind...
 
*sighs* You are for giiiiven....	
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			Anyone know what happened to the filter invites check box?	
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			New thread has been posted :) 	
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