127709-morning-coffee-2015-06-09-lightning-round-edition

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Morning folks!
 
Last night I joined an STL run.  The good news is that I remembered to not be in my plot farming spec.  The bad news is that I'm reworking my single target build.  Apparently CRB decided to troll DPS Stalkers and make us stance dance :angry:.  Of course I failed to notice that I missed the switch back to Lethal from Evasive about a quarter of the time.  I'm pretty sure I pulled some trash off the tank at least once :ph34r:  The healer was amazing though.  Heck I lived through Aetheros on the first try and that never happens.
 
I forgot to update the Aura Master aura for my innate so that it reflects the current stance.  Some of the others I'm using aren't working the way I'd like.  Think I'll be doing battle with some of those tonight.
 
Also... haste runes+speed flask+confused does not mix well with ST's eye of the storm <_<
 
So what are your Wildstar "Lessons Learned?"	
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I'm pretty sure I pulled some trash off the tank at least once :ph34r:
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So what are your Wildstar "Lessons Learned?"
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My lessons learned?
 
1. Even with 3600 SP its still not okay to just stand in/heal through certain mechanics (the trails left by those big elementals in STL for example)
2. AIDS is bad, don't share the AIDS
 
I can't think of any more right now, but I would have to guess that most of them involve me trying to heal through stuff I shouldn't be. 	
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Lies!
 
 
Agreed :D
 
 
I'm sure I'll have more later
Just because you are ranged, doesn't mean you can't stand up on the mob and shoot it in the face
Small, patient steps often work better than big ones
CC breaks are for non-slingers!
Position matters
The rotation you can execute in battle >>> the rotation that does best DPS on a target dummy
As an aside, there's a trick on Aethros that I'll show you next time we do it. The lightnig strikes actually come in lines FROM the boss to the front of the room, one after another. Once you see the pattern and realize they are not random, they are a lot easier to avoid. 
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Morning!
 
For me, the lessons learned has to be, at this point, runes. 
 
The importance of when to rune, which runes to use on which armor and runes while leveling. When to spend the plat to change slot stats. 
 
I just managed to get above 2900 AP. I still need boots and weapon attachment which should push my stats up even farther. I attempted to reroll my slots on my weapon and the reroll offer was just as bad as what I had, so now I'm stuck with those stats :angry: Maybe I can get Koob to make me another purple weapon. 	
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Good morning(yay actually posting in the morning for once)
 
I think I'm jus breaking from my warrior for a bit, but also focusing primarily on real life stuff and possible job change. So I haven't' gotten much done , BUT I did have a lovely time and made some friends in a protostar academy run.
 
With me as the exception, everyone in the group was brand new to the game(And a couple new to MMOs apparently). The run took longer than usual, but it was worth it because I went into teacher mode we took our time and I explained how certain mechancis work like actuators for medics, crash coursed the warrior on tanking, and gave some overall advisement.  They all added me to friends after and pointed them to various guilds that they may like as well.
 
Its also been funny running around on my medic I get whispers and such basically  saying "oh man granok females do exist!"
 
As for lessons learned...
Don't' assume that one telegraph works the same way as other telegraphs, just because it's roughl the same name and the same monster type. I did a veteran malgrave and the ground pound that the end boss does at the salvage area reminded me of the 2nd boss in skullcano. So I figured "oh ill just jump and I'll be fine"....boy was that a giant case of "NOPE!" damn thing one-shot me mid-air.
 
 
In regard to real life, I'm laying in bed today...having some nerve pain issues and can barely get up so forced to take day off.	
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Spent a lovely time dying to System Daemons last night, following a really tough Vet KV.  With the various surges of population post Drop 4 and Drop 5 (and everyone's varied leveling speed) we have many folks hitting 50 who have NOT run STL/KV/SC/SSM ad nauseum.  It's sometimes easy to forget that.  I may have to write up a guild forum post about "Welcome to 50.  Here's what is expected of you in dungeons."  We did manage a bronze out of it though, which is what folks wanted for their contracts and then onto raid time.
 
I really love the System Daemon fight.  That is all.
 
Lessons learned.  I don't know anything too specific other than the average stuff I guess.  Off the top of my head:
1) Change hazardous telegraphs to white.  Shows up better in 90% of cases.
2) Speed flasks are well worth the renown.
3) So are haste runes.  Wish I had room for it in my tank set.
4) The group that interrupts together, stays together.
5) There's never enough (or any) seared spikehorde on the CX and why do we need to wait until Datascape recipes to get a decent tank food?
6) My red tanking outfit on the Hot Rod Retroblade is the best looking thing ever.
7) You can ride a Thayd transport pallet, drop your explodaversary boombox, start to dance and dance your way on the pallet across the spaceport.
8) Spellslingers make my left hand ache from chording.  Surge on.  Surge off.  Thank you sensei.  Are you going to pay my physical therapy bills?
9) I don't play my esper enough, nor my medic, and not enough time in the day to take care of them all properly.
10) If they create a good tanking food, I hope it's a burrito.  I like the idea of eating an entire burrito before every fight.
 
Tonight, Attunesday (a Tuesday).  Seeing as we have a lot of new 50's I suspect tonight will be busier than it has been in awhile.
 
Hope everyone has a good day on Nexus and elsewhere.	
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Spent a lovely time dying to System Daemons last night, following a really tough Vet KV.  With the various surges of population post Drop 4 and Drop 5 (and everyone's varied leveling speed) we have many folks hitting 50 who have NOT run STL/KV/SC/SSM ad nauseum.  It's sometimes easy to forget that.  I may have to write up a guild forum post about "Welcome to 50.  Here's what is expected of you in dungeons."  We did manage a bronze out of it though, which is what folks wanted for their contracts and then onto raid time.
 
I really love the System Daemon fight.  That is all.
 
Lessons learned.  I don't know anything too specific other than the average stuff I guess.  Off the top of my head:
1) Change hazardous telegraphs to white.  Shows up better in 90% of cases.
2) Speed flasks are well worth the renown.
3) So are haste runes.  Wish I had room for it in my tank set.
4) The group that interrupts together, stays together.
5) There's never enough (or any) seared spikehorde on the CX and why do we need to wait until Datascape recipes to get a decent tank food?
6) My red tanking outfit on the Hot Rod Retroblade is the best looking thing ever.
7) You can ride a Thayd transport pallet, drop your explodaversary boombox, start to dance and dance your way on the pallet across the spaceport.
8) Spellslingers make my left hand ache from chording.  Surge on.  Surge off.  Thank you sensei.  Are you going to pay my physical therapy bills?
9) I don't play my esper enough, nor my medic, and not enough time in the day to take care of them all properly.
10) If they create a good tanking food, I hope it's a burrito.  I like the idea of eating an entire burrito before every fight.
 
Tonight, Attunesday (a Tuesday).  Seeing as we have a lot of new 50's I suspect tonight will be busier than it has been in awhile.
 
Hope everyone has a good day on Nexus and elsewhere.
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I don't know what build you use exactly as a SS, but if you are using CS/IG/QD (if you don't have max ability points, I would tier down IG) then you can usually get away with running your Surge from the bottom (toggle on, do CS C3, it goes below 25 so it auto toggles off) ->3 QDs ->Surged Ignite (toggles off automatically again) ->3 QDs.
 
Makes SS DPS a lot less frutrating to me. 
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Lies!
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It's more that the tornadoes are my Waterloo.
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Today is a good day for me! I've finally been approved to leave my current job (long, boring story) and I can start looking at some great opportunities that I've been offered in various cool parts of the country. Very happy about my prospects for the future right now.
 
In WildStar, my future holds another GA run, where I know we'll down Ohmna a lot faster because some of the nub has worn off. Then System Daemons will be my classy friend and finally let me get some of that Datascape glory gear with the awesome stats.
 
As for what I've learned... man I've had the trial by raiding fire this past week, so it would be a novel if I started writing it all out. Suffice it to say, the raids in this game are top notch, even if TimeTravel is clearly a sadist.	
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Oh my gosh, last night I actually was able to do CONTENT! :o I know, amazing.
 
Managed to convince one of the Saddles' new members to join Jack and I in a vet adventure. Queue was long, but then Update Sys volunteered to join us as a tank. Yay! Queue short! Breezed through WotW for a gold and yay 25% of the way through that attunement step. Then Sys volunteered to stay and we ended up doing Crimelords as all of us needed that one for the quest as well. Another easy gold and I actually got some new blue pants out of that one. Had a lot of fun, so thank you Sys and newbie whose name I have forgotten!
 
Hopefully we can knock out the other two soon. I'm getting super antsy to get back into the dungeons so I actually feel challenged when healing for at least part of the time. XD	
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So, I'm gonna ask here instead of starting a topic ... mostly because you guys and gals are all smart and friendly, and the people I don't want to talk to rarely if ever post here.
 
So, I discovered I had this quest to go to the OMNIcore. Never noticed it before and I guess I thought that was part of a Raid or something.
 
Anyway, I trucked it out to the location and started the quest, but immediately thought I'd wandered into an adventure by accident since I gave me the "choices" menu to decide how to proceed. I was totally expecting to run into waves of Prime mobs, and that I'd end up chuckling to myself for being so dumb.
 
Well, that didn't happen and I actually enjoyed the whole thing. What really surprised me what the I got a Medal for completing it and a whole pile of lewt (mostly worthless, but still, I got some stuff to sell and made a few gold, so no biggie.)
 
So I turned that in and got the follow up "Arkship Heist" (which I didn't do yet, just logged out standing next to the quest giver).
 
Is that the same kind of content? Like can I take someone along with me?
 
Which beggars the follow-up questions:
 
1. If we can get Medals, then they are obviously meant to be re-playable content. So, why isn't there a way to queue for those? Why I gotta shag my butt all the way to the far-ass end of Grimvault when every other mission like this is accessible through the N menu.
 
2. Why the hell aren't there more of that level of content? They're like Shiphand-Adventure combos, tons of fun and you're able to "choose your own path" which is awesome.
 
Anyways, I might yet make a thread about it, if the answers/feedback here is what I'm expecting/hoping.	
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Omnicore was the single player lore counterpart to Datascape. It can be done repeatedly for elder gems I believe. 
 
Arkship Heist is a special one shot mission for attunement. 
 
So, they're really not related except they start in the same place. Fun though, yeah.	
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Hey Tex, omni-core is also accessible in secret ops. As far as I know, you can't take someone with you though, so they never put it into the queue or lfg. As to why there isn't more of that type of content, search me. I personally hated omni-core after the first few times, but I haven't done it since they added the option to skip dialogue. For me it was a long slog that got boring quick. I also prefer group content tbh. 
 
Arkship Heist is part of the attunement quest, you must have gotten beloved with the exiles. 	
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Omnicore is a solo dungeon- it's repeatable in thayd. I can do it one a week for 10 extra elder gems. You cannot group for it.
 
And in fact, Omincore is intended to allow you to participate in the story of the fall of avatus- the idea is that you are a participating player along side enigma who is raiding with you :)
 
From what I gather, it hasn't been really that popular, but I don't know. I thought it was fun and ran it a few times weekly back in the day when it was first introduced.	
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			Nvm, they already said stuff, so yeah.	
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Arkship Heist is a special one shot mission for attunement.
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			Yeah, bunch of us smartypants. By the time I typed my short thing, it'd been answered twice :-)	
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IT'S A TRAP!!!
 
(This will lead you to raiding and all sorts of unpleasant things, Tex :P )
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Heh, not likely anytime this decade, but okay cool.
 
Thanks for the answers everyone. I only bought the Genesis Key this last weekend, since I'd been roped into Crimelords. I've been Beloved with the Exiles for weeks now, but I just never noticed the quests before.
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Just curious, are there any other solo instances like those two?
 
I think I wanna make a thread in the PVE section, but I want to be fully informed, so as to make less a fool of myself than usual.
 	
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			I learned that organic lifeforms are capable of dodging things that are beneficial for them. Like heals... I have to dedicate extra CPU just to accommodate, I hope you're happy. The things I do for love...	
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Just curious, are there any other solo instances like those two?
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Omnicore-1 is the only repeatable solo-only instance I'm aware of.  I'm hoping it'll be the last one and that future installments are presented as a Vet Shiphand.  I like the end-boss fight of OC-1 and while I love the look of the data-core, I really would rather do without the rest of the instance now that I've done it four or five times.
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Madda is playing TOR to fill the void for Madda's RP as WoW got old pretty fast. 
 
WildStar is nice to return to, as with all the drops as of late and upcoming F2P, WildStar is ready to be released proper this time. 
 
We'll see how this goes.	
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Omnicore-1 is the only repeatable solo-only instance I'm aware of.  I'm hoping it'll be the last one and that future installments are presented as a Vet Shiphand.  I like the end-boss fight of OC-1 and while I love the look of the data-core, I really would rather do without the rest of the instance now that I've done it four or five times.
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D: Nu I love the concept of Omnicore! It just needs to give good rewards and scale up in damage/health with additional people so it's not solo-only. I think it's fine to have some places that are more story-focused...
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			The way you said you could do without the rest of the instance made me think you were suggesting something with more boss fight, less story. I really liked the story. XD	
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