147651-morning-coffee-1130-the-short-strange-trip-edition

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Y'all can keep yer nasty squash-and-spice-flavored coffee. Gimme my Peppermint Mocha coffee any day of the year. Mmmm. Sipping slowly and readying myself for another week at the office.
 
I kind of feel like I'm coming down off a weekend-long buzz, though. I logged in more butt-hours on Nexus this four-day weekend than I can remember at any one stretch since original launch. Thanks to the Double XPLosion event, I managed in getting Interplanet Janet (my lil' Spellslinger) from babyhood to 50 by Saturday night. That's my galaxy girl!
 
 
Spent Sunday getting the Texarcana Kid (my Bot-less Engineer) up to 28 before just flat-out running out of steam. I logged out standing in the snow of Western Whitevale, where I'll probably be standing until the next Double XP weekend. :lol:  I dunno, he's an Explorer though, and because I was "power-leveling" I never did a single Path mission on him *or* Janet. Pretty sure Janet is standing in Thayd with 12-15 unspent AMP points, crappy gear and a look on her face like ... "What the hell just happened? How did I get here?"
 
Anyway, I had a great time. My plan is now to rotate through my five level 50's every day. Do at least one daily zone and the daily shiphand, and then slowly make enough money to finance my new-found Housing addiction.
 
So, talk to me Nexus! How was your long holiday weekend? Turkey, dressing and travel or jabbit stew, honeywheat cakes and Gallow? Both? Neither?
 
 	
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Snow Doze:
 
Packet of Hot Cocoa make with coffee (not water or milk), a shot of Rumple Minze 100 proof peppermint schnapps and a shot of Baileys Irish Cream. Whipped cream optional.
 
In Wildstar news:
 
Leveled another toon to 50. I was in Malgrave and managed to get the expedition done before I dinged which meant that I was WAY over leveled for The Gauntlet. ~yawn~ -_-
 
Leveling this fast is boring and you end up a 50 with crappy gear and much harder mobs to kill. With so much gear at 50 (think purple Crimson Badlands gear) being soul bound your mains can't even grab gear to give them and the AH is close to being either barren or stupidly expensive for a fresh 50. I had about 6 plat when I hit 50 (I salvage my gear for mats).
 
Maybe they should go the way a lot of other P2P into F2P games go which is to just make the low levels go away. (Think Isle of Dawn if you ever played TERA).	
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I *loved* that I could run up to the end of Malgrave and head straight to Crimson Badlands. My eternal distaste for the Grimblightvaulthaven Zones of Ugly is well known and *anything* that keeps me from setting foot there is a win in my book.
 
So far, I've had between 3.5-5 Plat when I hit 50 ... which has been plenty to kit out a set of Capstone gear to start off with. Even un-Runed, the Capstone stuff is buff enough to plow through daily zones and vet shiphands without a problem.	
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How was your long holiday weekend? 
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Oh sweet jeebus Peppermint Mocha is amazing!!
 
So I'm back again (Formerly Scott Of Awesome.) Leveling 2 characters from scratch my new Warrior War Siren (based on an OC of mine.) And an Engineer Bear McClintoch. After months of FFXIV's slower combat this game feels like it's in turbo mode. Digging the changes like out of combat perma sprint, and the flow of the classes while leveling. Content finder is cool, I never knew how fun Explorations where with 3 people until this weekend. Looking forward to getting back into the swing of things and playing with people!!
 
*High Fives to all* Let's rock!!	
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Well, I am not entirely sure what a System Daemon is, but if you're happy it's dead, then I am happy for you!
 	
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I *loved* that I could run up to the end of Malgrave and head straight to Crimson Badlands. My eternal distaste for the Grimblightvaulthaven Zones of Ugly is well known and *anything* that keeps me from setting foot there is a win in my book.
 
So far, I've had between 3.5-5 Plat when I hit 50 ... which has been plenty to kit out a set of Capstone gear to start off with. Even un-Runed, the Capstone stuff is buff enough to plow through daily zones and vet shiphands without a problem.
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I guess it just hasn't been that big an issue for me. Not saying your frustrations are unfounded, but I've leveled two characters to 50 in the last month (Lana and Janet) and both times I had enough plat on-hand to pretty much get a passable enough set to get me going. Now, with Lana I started a little smaller than Capstone gear because the economy Dominion side is a little higher than the Exile side, but I bought an entire set of Capstone cloth gear for Janet for round 40-50 gold per piece, and I think I grabbed gloves for like 30 gold.
 
No runes, like I said, but now I can run daily content with little issue (won't be solo-ing the Queen Spider any time soon though) ...
 
But no, you're not the only one who thinks the Support drops are outrageous throughout the entire process. I have long been of the opinion that random DROPS should be random, but anything you WORK FOR (like Challenges or Gold-Level Shiphand Chests) need to have a choice of gear, just like turning in a quest.
			
				
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			I totes noticed I was getting more support drops than anything. It's making me think I should make Ol'Bear a tank. War is staying dps Warrior though!	
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Well, I am not entirely sure what a System Daemon is, but if you're happy it's dead, then I am happy for you!
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It's the first boss in DS. One of the hardest (so I've heard), and it took three months to learn. It's been responsible for many a guild's demise...
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Well, we had an absolute blast doing it- so while it may not be everyone's cup of tea, it's *fun* for a lot of people.
 
I really like GA, but this fight has been my favorite so far. It just takes group coordination to a whole new level, and has so much going on that it stays interesting.
 
I'm not going to lie- we were ready for it to die, but the last few months have been fun working on it (by "months", I mean two or three hours a week).	
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			That just proves that one man's idea of "fun" is actual fun, and another's idea of fun is mind-numbing futility set to the Wildstar soundtrack.  :lol: ;)	
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If that's the case, then it's too hard and needs to be nerfed.
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If that's the case, then it's too hard and needs to be nerfed.
 
Three months on one fight. Shoot. Me. Now.
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That just proves that one man's idea of "fun" is actual fun, and another's idea of fun is mind-numbing futility set to the Wildstar soundtrack.  :lol: ;)
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Good Morning, coffee peoples!
*sits here with a bowl of pretzel sticks and a mug of Coke like the fancy Aurin she is*
 
Super proud of my guildies, they made it to Avatus for the first time last night :D ^_^ I really miss raiding, it was a ton of fun (I dropped out of my Healer spot shortly after we first entered DS because pregnancy = too tired of a Lucy to comfortably stay up that late 3 nights a week), but I'm really glad they've kept on chugging! I remember when we lost a big chunk of our raiders not long after Drop 3 and had to make some hard decisions, but we ended up plowing on and here we are now!
 
Unfortunately I missed out on the entire Double XP Weekend, and I had some housing mules I wanted to get up there finally...had to spend all that time trying to get as much sleep as I could snag! We welcomed our newest little family member on Wednesday, so Thanksgiving was kinda glossed over, too (A mesh of Fast Food and naps and HotS instead of a full dinner lol) but we still had as much fun as our sleep-deprived selves could!	
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			Oh, I'm just bustin' yer chops because I'm jealous, Jeff.  :lol:	
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Anyway, not trying to change minds here- just reflecting on a long journey and the fun we've had :)
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The destination is the journey.
 
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(Don't know what's got into me today... quoteables! Quoteables everywhere!)
 
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If that's the case, then it's too hard and needs to be nerfed.
 
Three months on one fight. Shoot. Me. Now.
 
If you want to know why I refuse to raid, look no further than "it took three months to get passed one fight the causes entire guild's to disband."
 
Yeah.
 
Well, I'm happy for y'all. You have more patience than I do.
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Yeah, maybe go back and read my last post. Sheesh. I was *kidding* for crap's sake.
 
I don't know (or care) what's been nerfed in Raid content. I just like giving Jeff a hard time. Then y'all want to come along and pretend I'm being serious. Good gravy on a plate of potatoes.
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It doesn't need another nerf, good lord man.
It's been nerfed so badly that people can easily bypass the mechanics of the fight.
I'm saying this as a casual 8/9 DS raider, keep the game the way it is (and keep it challenging please!). Tex you need to man up :P
 
 
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Yeah, I think some of the less-active Coffee posters are taking my comments a little too seriously. :lol:
 
This is not the thread to take calling for nerfs seriously ... or really take *anything* seriously.
 
Well, except coffee.
 
Coffee is serious business.
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A paper rock can cut just as deep.
 
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Okay, I think I've got the quoteables out of my system now... might be contagious though... best be careful.
 
Though for the sake of friendliness, I feel I should add that Tex, that was most definitely not me taking it seriously :) I just sometimes feel that the internet is full of people all too happy to belittle achievements of others (and god knows there's a lot of it on these forums ;P) so I will pretty much always poke fun where I see it happen.
 
Obviously, this post is pretty much a safe haven of good natured banter and friendliness, hence my responding in... err... decidedly weird snippets, rather than having a rant :)
 
As for my weekend... it was about 5 days long, involved 550 odd miles of driving, very inhospitable hours (4am wake up to drive 5 hours?... ooohhhhhh hold me back!) but good company and lots of Thanksgiving shenanigans as well! We did it on the traditional day though :) which at least means a couple of days off work, woohoo!
 
Speaking of...
 
*back to work*	
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Vahn's post wasn't serious.
My post *was* serious because I'm tired of people asking for nerfs even if they are joking.
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*sits back and sips coffee watching the exchange*
Ahhhh Good to know somethings never change.So questions Scott has questions,
So how do I go about finding RP? I've heard it's mainly been localized to personal plots,and less in the open world. Do I need to grab an add on to find plots?
 
*high fives everyone.*	
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*sits back and sips coffee watching the exchange*
Ahhhh Good to know somethings never change.
 
So questions Scott has questions,
So how do I go about finding RP? I've heard it's mainly been localized to personal plots,and less in the open world. Do I need to grab an add on to find plots?
 
*high fives everyone.*
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Good morning/afternoon all, 
 
By the looks of it I think this weekend should have been named engineer leveling weekend as I too was working on my Granok Engineer named Rocky Sparkalot.
 
 
I think I left him around 28/29 I cannot remember now but the class as a whole is a very frustrating one to play because prior to lvl 24/25 your engineer is slower than a week in jail and at lvl 25 I decided to go with the TA->Mortar-Electrocute build which quickly started driving me insane with the beep beeping of TA.
 
I think those beeps brought back memories of my student days where I had a digital watch which was my morning alarm and it sounded just like that. Ive never been a morning person and me and mornings just don't get along as everytime we meet I just really want to fall back asleep again, but thank god for coffee and also the fact bills don't pay themselves so I have to battle my way through the morning until afternoon where I exit zombie mode and start turning into myself again. 
 
So I quickly done a search and found an alternative engi build that never used TA and instead used Bioshell and I went with that and the class started picking up again.  I never really made the most of double xp by missing quests and jumping zones simply because this is only my second toon im trying to get to lvl 50 and im not at the sick of leveling stage yet. So I just done my usual leveling thing and reaped the rewards of more XP and in the end he is sitting in Whitevale at the camp where you get the defrost animal quest and will probably sit there for a few days whilst I get back to working on gearing up my Stalker. 
 
On the topic of shiphands giving you support items it is really infuriating more so if you get #1 Damage, #2 Healing, #2 Survivability yet get a support item. I have had that happen a few times and it is a pain in the neck getting an item which is basically useless and the other issue I have is with questing and running in a party as it can be at times counter productive. There are alot of quests where when you do what you need to do the party members do not get credit for it and thus you feel like your competing with your party rather than working together and it can be a tad annoying at times.
			
				
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"Slow as a week in jail" ... Yes. That about sums up my pre-25 experience as well.
 
After the PEW-PEW-PEW-PEW of Spellslinger, the HACK-SWIPE-HACK of Warrior and the SNIKKITY-SNICK-SKICK of Stalker, I found Engineer to very ... BANG ... (five seconds) BANG ... (five more seconds) ... BANG.
 
I mean, it's not a hard class to play, but holy hells, just waiting for your builder to go off is like pulling eye teeth level of painfully dull. I honestly don't foresee my Engineer being anything more than a PVP Tank to stand on flags and nodes. No *way* could I do dailies with that sluggishness.	
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For Entity, check out: http://www.wildstar-roleplay.com/and if you're on the Exile side, do /chjoin WSRP (I'm not sure about Dominion side but I'm sure they have something somewhere). There are addons out there for RP-finding, too...I think they might be listed on the site.
 
Edit: I also believe there's a /chjoin Global Radio channel on Exile side that's supposed to work as a sort of IC Datachron channel thing, while the WSRP chat channel is OOC
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Congrats, Jeff!! Been watching your daily updates on that fight for what feels like forever. :P Glad to hear y'all got it dead!
 
My own little raiding group had an amazing raid week last week, too. On Wednesday, we managed to clear through all of first floor AND all the way through Phagetech Prototypes in a single night! :o This is amazing for us, especially as we were only two weeks into killing Phagemaw and had only gotten our first Prototypes kill the Saturday before. And we still struggle on Kuralak! XD
 
So yeah, Saturday was three sweet hours of wiping on Phageborn Convergence. We got what I was told was one of the harder combos - not that I have much experience with it. The sword guy, hammer guy, the "frog" thing, and the "spider" guy. Fight was actually pretty easy for me, unless the sword guy decided to send waves my group's way right as our frog decided to knock us up into the air (missed interrupt). But I could tell that was not the case for everyone. xD It was fun, though. By the end of the night, I felt like we were pretty close to a kill, but we had to call it because time.
 
I avoided leveling in WS as much as I could over the weekend. Unlike Tex (and many others haha), I have zero desire to reach 50 on my alts any time soon. Really wish there was a way to opt out of all the leveling buffs they've baked into the experience, because for me, getting an alt to cap is basically an inauguration of them getting shelved except for housing. >_< Do not have the funds (or really the time) to do all that's needed to seriously play more than one character at endgame.
 
So instead, husband and I spent the holiday picking up GW2 again and had a blast just kind of exploring our way around the world. We hadn't played for over 2 years, so, uh, things were pretty confusing at first. But it was fun just kind of wandering around and encountering things to do. One of my favorite parts about playing MMOs is exploring new areas, and since in WS once you've leveled to 50 once, you've basically seen the whole world, this excursion into GW2 definitely scratched an itch I've had. Will probably continue it. xD
 
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"Slow as a week in jail" ... Yes. That about sums up my pre-25 experience as well.
 
After the PEW-PEW-PEW-PEW of Spellslinger, the HACK-SWIPE-HACK of Warrior and the SNIKKITY-SNICK-SKICK of Stalker, I found Engineer to very ... BANG ... (five seconds) BANG ... (five more seconds) ... BANG.
 
I mean, it's not a hard class to play, but holy hells, just waiting for your builder to go off is like pulling eye teeth level of painfully dull. I honestly don't foresee my Engineer being anything more than a PVP Tank to stand on flags and nodes. No *way* could I do dailies with that sluggishness.
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Woof.
 
What a wild weekend.  Got my esper GA attuned (#5) and ran my warrior (#6) from 25 to 50.  Ran a couple of my Entity-2 alts from 7 to 15 and 16.  The capstone of course was getting SD down :D.  Kitty is now "poor" :lol:
 
 
This is Charlize my Dominion warrior.  Such 'tude.  Anyway, ran her as a warmup so I could run LJ, my Exile warrior, to 50.  (Shade's Eve Black, best. purchase. evah.)	
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Snow Doze:
 
Packet of Hot Cocoa make with coffee (not water or milk), a shot of Rumple Minze 100 proof peppermint schnapps and a shot of Baileys Irish Cream. Whipped cream optional.
 
In Wildstar news:
 
Leveled another toon to 50. I was in Malgrave and managed to get the expedition done before I dinged which meant that I was WAY over leveled for The Gauntlet. ~yawn~ -_-
 
Leveling this fast is boring and you end up a 50 with crappy gear and much harder mobs to kill. With so much gear at 50 (think purple Crimson Badlands gear) being soul bound your mains can't even grab gear to give them and the AH is close to being either barren or stupidly expensive for a fresh 50. I had about 6 plat when I hit 50 (I salvage my gear for mats).
 
Maybe they should go the way a lot of other P2P into F2P games go which is to just make the low levels go away. (Think Isle of Dawn if you ever played TERA).
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Updated both the intro threads for the Venus Rising Housing Competition. I didn't realize the Black Dagger Society was running one as well... eep!	
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Oh Black Dagger is still around? That's awesome, also housing contest? Ohh To bad Keraya is on Warhound. I'm still amazed by the throne room I put together.. need to finish my coliseum at some point.
 
 
Oh I forgot I got a Screen shot of War Siren last night and posted it.
			
				
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Just buy the pvp gear, it runs about 1 plat for the set of gear and its ilvl 70. I have been running that for the majority of the time as i buy up ilvl 78 gear when people post it at really low prices.
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Leveling this fast is boring and you end up a 50 with crappy gear and much harder mobs to kill. With so much gear at 50 (think purple Crimson Badlands gear) being soul bound your mains can't even grab gear to give them and the AH is close to being either barren or stupidly expensive for a fresh 50. I had about 6 plat when I hit 50 (I salvage my gear for mats).
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I am sitting here between ads, waiting for my client to call and letting my mind wander to thoughts of Housing Plots.
 
It could be women in bikinis. It could be a delicious dessert. It would be a new marketing project.
 
But no.
 
Housing.
 
FAKE Housing, no less.
 
My lord, I am an addict.	
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But no crit, crit severity or strike-through.
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Good day coffee crowd!
I got stuck in assignment and couldn't level as much as I wanted. Got to lvl 22 though which isn't too bad. Another housing slot unlocked =)
Will be busy days today and tomorrow, I have barely slept and won't be sleeping much until assignment is done. Trying to beat teacher othello program, and it's not easy to do even if he uses the most simple tactic. I've tried so many things, but at best beats as one colour and not the other and I have to be able to win with both =(
Hope all of you are having a relaxing day, enough to recover from all weekend leveling =)	
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But no crit, crit severity or strike-through.
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Doesn't matter. My fresh 50 stalker went from dying in vet Infestation (you heard that right) to breezing through shiphands with just those cheap pvp blues. Runes? What runes?  :lol:  I threw whatever I had on hand in those sockets. I didn't even look to see if there are any crit stat on those gear either. Stalker is now up to i76 (3 world boss drop, 1 contract loot), waiting for me to rune them LOL. But that will have to wait, as I have two new 50's to sort out. Sigh, I know what I'm -not- looking forward to -- doing contract dailys on 3 freshies. :mellow:
 
If you are on Dominion, contact Audette LeBlanc. He or she has been selling crafted weapons for 1.5p each. 1.2p if you catch them on a good day. Those are the imbuement weapons, so if you plan to never step foot in vet dungeons (hi Tex!), then you might wanna go a different route like praying to world boss RNG.
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Heh, yeah on Lana I took the PVP Cash Set > PVP Prestige Set > PVP Weekend Plat-stavaganza/Orange Upgrades > Capstone/Basic Dungeon gear route. I, too, went from dying in Vet Infestation to roflstomping that content over the course of a long weekend.
 
On Janet, I just spend the Plat I'd earned while leveling to buy a full Capstone set.
 
Did the same basic thing to Big Tex when I came back to him for the first time since ... oh ... a month after first Launch. He suffered a LOT at the hands of the F2P conversion and the blue replacement gears they gave me were craptastic. Luckily, he already had a pocket full of plat, so buying his Capstone set was already paid for.	
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If it bothers you stick some junk runes in it.  Even still, it's "good enough" for doing contracts and dailies until you get more capable gear.
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I am sitting here between ads, waiting for my client to call and letting my mind wander to thoughts of Housing Plots.
 
It could be women in bikinis. It could be a delicious dessert. It would be a new marketing project.
 
But no.
 
Housing.
 
FAKE Housing, no less.
 
My lord, I am an addict.
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I am sitting here between ads, waiting for my client to call and letting my mind wander to thoughts of Housing Plots.
 
It could be women in bikinis. It could be a delicious dessert. It would be a new marketing project.
 
But no.
 
Housing.
 
FAKE Housing, no less.
 
My lord, I am an addict.
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For my Stalker I just purchased the ilvl 65 PVP gear to start with as it wasn't that much to buy and some ilvl 70/7x gear on the AH for cheap as it was far better than what I already had on. I have been checking the AH regular to see if any big ticket items come on that don't require me to rob the nearest nexus bank  but items on the AH are very limited on Entity-2 and those that do appear for Stalker all seem to be support items.  My guess is its the horrible interface of the Auction House that is preventing people from using it more as its like pulling teeth just trying to use that thing. 
 
So I have been working on contracts and finishing off a few zones that at lvl 50 Thayd points me too, although I am noticing quests of requiring +20 people so im guessing that is world boss quests it is handing out to me. Plus what is Star Comm or something similar to that name that is on a timer? And should I even be in there at this time on my toon? 
 
The one thing I am noticing is im getting alot of decor drops in the lvl 50 zones which is good if I ever decide to spruce up my humble abode and I got a hazard training course fabkit drop and apparently im not hazard course material just yet I can get to what seems like the final phase of it and it just goes to pot. So I got some more training to do but I will complete it.....and it beats jumping on berries and making moonshine as its alot more fun. 	
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So I have been working on contracts and finishing off a few zones that at lvl 50 Thayd points me too, although I am noticing quests of requiring +20 people so im guessing that is world boss quests it is handing out to me. Plus what is Star Comm or something similar to that name that is on a timer? And should I even be in there at this time on my toon? 
 
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I loved the double exp weekend along with getting hoopa for my pokemon game. I realized I love my spell slinger alot and being a settler rocks compared to being an
explorer. I would have loved to got my spell slinger to level 50 if it wasn't for family mess and a needy friend....gosh I can't wait for another exp weekend. But getting from 3-34 is not bad either.	
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