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Blueberry Crepes, that is!
 
I had a wonderful weekend on Nexus. Here on Earth, it was rainy and muggy and muddy - but on Farside, I was nice and dry. Really dry. Like in a vacuum kind of dry.
 
 
But I've always loved Farside. My biggest issue is it doesn't last long enough - and the best part (the last bit inside the moon) is so dark, I have to crank the gamma all the way down in order to see anything, and that sort of ruins the creepy feel. Regardless, it's over too fast for my taste. The Bio-Domes are okay, but they ain't nothing we haven't seen, terrain-wise, but the low-grav lunarscape is just too much fun. Need moar of that plz Carbine, kthanks.
 
Wilderun and I have always had a love-hate relationship. During the beta-days, Wilderun was like a brick wall to me. It was just so dense, so clunky and grindy (and glitchy in parts) that I only ever made it all the way through once and that was because I PVP'd through the levels instead of questing and skipped it to go to Malgrave.
 
I am happy to report that it's been very obviously cleaned up and wasn't nearly as maddening as I remember. I blasted through to the Everpool/Torine questline without so much as an eyeroll.
 
Had to cut it short early last night. Game of Thrones premier, you know.
 
All in all, I have really been enjoying myself since returning and even though I was dreading the middle-level grind, it's actually been very pleasant.
 
How was YOUR weekend in Wildstar?
 
 
 
 	
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			I took the weekend to level a warrior from 0-50 making it my 3rd 50 that is raid ready. Was nice to get back to the game and see the changes, they really helped smooth the leveling process and gearing process. Took the weekend to get to know the raiding guilds on Entity so I can start applying to them and stop playing solo.	
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*Grabs a stack of crêpes*
 
I didn't get much in the way of playing done. I think I was on from 1:30 to 3 ish am this morning after Vunnu left the beach event. Between getting paperwork filed, and waiting for responses I don't have a lot of free time, and when I log I can't really relax and have fun. So Vunne is the main player for the time being. 
 
Hopefully everything will be back to as normal as it gets by the time the new pvp set comes out. 	
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I took the weekend to level a warrior from 0-50 making it my 3rd 50 that is raid ready. Was nice to get back to the game and see the changes. Took the weekend to get to know the raiding guilds on Entity so I can start applying to them and stop playing solo.
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This weekend, man...
 
Friday I had a client meeting that kicked off at 12 and I didn't get back to the office until 4:50.  Which was fortuitous, as I had to rendezvous with my band at 5 to ride out to Lancaster for a show.  The show went REALLY well, but I wasn't back until 2am.  So I went to bed, figuring I'd be on Saturday afternoon.  Saturday rolls around, and I thought I'd have plenty of time to be on.  Apparently, my brother decided to throw his baby daughter a one-year birthday party so I went to hang out at that (where I mostly played bass).  I got back late and found out my wife was a bit under the weather.  I stayed up with her until she went to sleep, then finally logged in and hung out a while, helping with various quests and leveling up a level on my engineer, Hawthorne.  I went to bed figuring I'd be ready to rock and roll Sunday.  Yesterday rolled around, and Parthenia was throwing up, running a massive fever, and having sinus issues (my mother, the RN, figures it's a sinus infection, so she's going to the doctor today).  I stayed with her all day in case she needed anything.
 
So my Wildstar weekend was leveling my Engineer for a bit.  It's been that kind of week.
 
Anyway, I'm hoping to play a lot more this week, especially if Parthenia is feeling better.  I don't have band practice this Tuesday because of our show last Friday, so I'm hoping, praying, I get more time.	
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			Well, give her all our love and well-wishes.	
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My Lord, man. I thought I was kicking ass because I put on 15 levels. Do you sleep? Or is it more a Cartmanesque Poop-Sock situation. :lol:
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Well, give her all our love and well-wishes.
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I took the weekend to level a warrior from 0-50 making it my 3rd 50 that is raid ready. Was nice to get back to the game and see the changes, they really helped smooth the leveling process and gearing process. Took the weekend to get to know the raiding guilds on Entity so I can start applying to them and stop playing solo.
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I will.  I know she's hoping to be better by today.  Today is the end of Spring Break, so she has to go back to work tomorrow.
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I'm pretty sure the remedy for sinus infections is lots of steam, so tell that Aurin to hit the showers. 
 
Do you guys actualy have spring during spring break? Ours was weeks ago and the cherry blossoms just really bloomed last week. 
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You went 0-50 in a weekend?  How's this possible?
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Columbus doesn't always have a Spring (sometimes it just switches daily from winter to summer and back until it finally decides on one).  However, we definitely had Spring over Spring Break this year.  In that, it rained for the entire week almost constantly.
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Just rain or did you get a few nice thunderstorms? I tell you, the lack of good lightning storm skys for skyplots really puts a downer on my spooky tales of mordesh science gone wrong. 
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I streamed a lot this weekend. Went from level 31 to level 42. Finished all of Farside and Wilderrun this weekend. Farside does seem too short. I guess it's because it's broken up between the 3 "mini zones", but I wouldnt have been upset if the actual lunar surface was MUCH bigger. It was just as good the 2nd time through. I'm paying much closer attention to lore in the zones this playthrough (I rushed through the first time) and I'm enjoying the experience much more. I started the Drusera quests too. I did not stream it though, as I'd feel bad for spoiling it for anyone... even though I'm sure it's on youtube already. The Drusera quest line is amazing to me.
 
Side note. There are a lot of people that are very inquisitive about the game right now. With some bigger streamers hitting the game up and actually liking it, it seems to be doing wonders for publicity.	
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We made a lot of GA progress this weekend. That is, we got about two hours of solid time in working on convergence and we are SUPER close to skipping the 8 egg phase on Kuralak. Once that happens, I think we can probably get 3 bosses down on the first night, which would give us three hours on Convergence. We got convergence down to 40% ish, so really it's just a matter of executing. Man, that fight is looooong and repetitive.
 
I spent no time on my add on, again because I'm not sure people are going to use the group creation aspect of it. And now there is a competing add on out there. Looks like we'll probably just merge into one, which is fine with me.
 
Also, planning to do our own GA pug on Thursday with alts. We have five people confirmed from my circle, with hopefully a few more coming. So any casual players who are attuned and wanted to see the raid, feel free to message me. This should be a low pressure raid to hopefully unlock some x-89 gear for folks.	
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I streamed a lot this weekend. Went from level 31 to level 42. Finished all of Farside and Wilderrun this weekend. Farside does seem too short. I guess it's because it's broken up between the 3 "mini zones", but I wouldnt have been upset if the actual lunar surface was MUCH bigger. It was just as good the 2nd time through. I'm paying much closer attention to lore in the zones this playthrough (I rushed through the first time) and I'm enjoying the experience much more. I started the Drusera quests too. I did not stream it though, as I'd feel bad for spoiling it for anyone... even though I'm sure it's on youtube already. The Drusera quest line is amazing to me.
 
Side note. There are a lot of people that are very inquisitive about the game right now. With some bigger streamers hitting the game up and actually liking it, it seems to be doing wonders for publicity.
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You went 0-50 in a weekend?  How's this possible?
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Posted above how I did it. Very long gaming sessions with no breaks, and around 6 hours of sleep at night. 
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That's crazy.  Did you just speed right through w/o doing path and map completion stuff?
 
The problem I have is I'm super OCD so I try and do everything I can in a zone w/o getting bored and moving on.
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How was YOUR weekend in Wildstar?
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Also, planning to do our own GA pug on Thursday with alts. We have five people confirmed from my circle, with hopefully a few more coming. So any casual players who are attuned and wanted to see the raid, feel free to message me. This should be a low pressure raid to hopefully unlock some x-89 gear for folks.
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I... actually didn't do much WildStar this weekend. :S
 
I did log in a little bit to knock out the daily shiphands! Though I'm getting to the point where I wish there was more variety in rewards. Dye I already have, a soulbound ship that I can't send to the character(s) that would actually make use of it, and some renown is starting to look a little sad. Mooooooooooore decoooooooooor!
 
Almost did some PvP yesterday with the SO, but instead we hopped into Rift to do some leveling through Seratos. Will we actually hit level cap before the next expac? o.o It hasn't happened yet! Lol. But us and a couple of our friends have chosen that as our "playing video games together" game, so Jack and I will be splitting our time between it and WS.
 
... that minions minigame is horrendously addicting.
 
Anyway! IRL I went to the Art Car Parade on Saturday and then that evening celebrated my birthday early. I was then floored by the number of copic markers I was gifted with. Floored and ecstatic. xD Definitely gonna be fun making use of them in my art!
 
Still in crunch time at work and have a number of final exams I have to finish writing. May be scarce in-game because of that, but we'll make an effort to log in... try to do a vet adventure perhaps (though I'd really like to see a vet dungeon).	
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I had to work but I did spend a lot of time popping into the various streams that came across (btw, for those who don't like twitch, Forge.gg is a great way to stream and not feel pressured by an audience), and I also had a great time promoting the various player-run events that I've seen posted here in the forums. This weekend was Costume 101, which had a fantastic turn out. Upcoming, there's:  April 17th Dominion / Entity - Dueling Tournament hosted by Keepers of the KegApril 18th Both Factions / Jabbit - Lifestyle of Nexus Housing CompetitionApril 19th Exiles / Entity - Win CREDD at the Deku Lodge Scavenger Hunt
 
(edit: For some reason the housing competition link doesn't want to work, but you can go to the Jabbit server forums and find it there!) 	
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Weekend was weird, spent most of Saturday on Nikson's plot. The lab and his personal quarters are prettymuch complete at this point. Unfortunately... I'm also prettymuch out of decor. I'm going to move some things around so I can finish up the last room eventually, but for now i decided to take a break from ship building and work on the store in the bunker for a bit. Should be a nice change of pace.
 
Also, did anyone here something about another decor increase? One of my guildies insisted it was happening, but I thought i remembered them saying they couldn't do any more decor increases?
 
We also did our first official pulls of System Daemons in Datascape on Sunday. Hoooooo boy we are gonna need a LOT more gear for that. Tanks were getting slaughtered and our dps just could not keep up with the adds. Otherwise, I think we'll be able to get the timing down with a few more tries, but yeah, gear is gonna be a serious issue for a while.
 
Anyway, here are some more pictures of Nikson's ship.
 
 
Nikson's pimped out room (with minibar!)
 
 
The best chua perch
 
 
The lab. FOR SCIENCE!
 
 
 
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Is this the same one run by a guy named Milo (Spelling) from Phobos? Sounds familiar, and I'd definitely help out with it =)
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Oh man.  Thursdays are a great day for me.  *rubs chin* just need to get Vet KV, SC and SSM out of the way.  Ehm, on my Stalker.
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Also, did anyone here something about another decor increase? One of my guildies insisted it was happening, but I thought i remembered them saying they couldn't do any more decor increases?
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I remember a post from a week or two ago that claimed datamining showed large size guild plots and a 1500 decor bump. It was a pretty casual post, nothing I've seen supports it, but I'm still riding the vibe from Joe P that D6 will be housing intensive... and if linked plots failed as a concept, I could see them just implementing a large guild plot to substitute.  /shrug
 
My only hope is that, if it is guild plots only and no community variation, they DO NOT gate the guild plots behind guild Influence grinds. I will be quite upset if that happens.
 
/stare at Carbine
 
 
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Sooooooo ... taking a look around the forums, anyone notice the sudden resurgence of old, familiar faces and "I'm back" and "new player here" threads?
 
That makes me happy in my heart of hearts.
 
In similar news, I have convinced four players to return or try the trial today alone. My Facebook feed is very WildStar-oriented it seems.  B)
 
Yay for good word-of-mouth and yay for the changes that are making this possible! 	
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Just dropping in to say hello, good morning, bonjour! I hopeyou are all well and in great wonderful spirit!
 
This month is really wrecking my free time and as much as I want to help people I've pretty much been online WS using it as a glorified instant messenger(when im not rendering things of course, because my computer would die lol). I had to rebuild and replace a few parts last weekend as well as some things were on their way  out and it'd be bad if I was working and suddenly computer goes POOF. Make Typrop really sad...
 
BUT on bright side new CPU cooler is better, bigger drives, and vid card helps things go vroom vroom vroooom! yet quiet like sneaky cat...hehe
 
Is very busy and doesn't leave much time for gaming, but I am glad to finally be working on freelance I enjoy again. So in a way I am having my own fun ^_^
 
Although while I was painting a piece for art show this week I leveled my mordesh warrior up to farside. It's one of my favourite zones second only to Blgihthaven( I LOVE purple). She has been a lot f fun and though I am often afk I ry to help people when I am around with group quests mostly.
 
Next month I think will be free and I am hoping to get back on top of some projects and help with more community stuff, but who knows; I may end up with more work if all this stuff goes well! focus focus focus!	
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			I got coffee today	
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