128209-morning-coffee-619-the-decision-edition

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Good Morning!!
 
 
 
 
So I made a decision that I'm taking Sophie DuPree as far as I can take her in game. Normally, I'm an alt-o-holic but I I'm having so much fun I decided to push the envelope with her  :) I have discovered that getting above 2900 AP is amazing! So now.... I have to find out what it means to have MOAR!!!!!
 
So tell me what decisions you've made in getting MOAR for your toons!
			
				
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So tell me what decisions you've made in getting MOAR for your toons!
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 Not so much more in my case but less... I slack to much with the amount of time i put into games. I guess that's my playstyle for right now lol...
Im still waiting to get a second wind for housing.. It still baffles me why such a little flaw in the game has crashed my motivation to build right now.. maybe its because I need some inspiration in my sails to get back into the swing of things. So im taking advantage of my down time right now.. 	
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I wish I had some big plans, some real desire to push an envelope ... but honestly, I don't.
 
The only thing I need MOAR of, is quality playtime and the drive to use that time effectively. ;)
 
I had honestly expected my "Kid Free Month" to be All-WildStar, All-The-Time ... when it's turned more into "Start Game of Thrones Over From the Beginning and Sit on the Couch Every Night."
 
Ah, well. At least the wife can't complain!  :lol:
 
I am looking forward to tonight and this weekend, though. Now that I can stop stressing over Lola, it's time to get back to Sharice, get that Tank crap ironed out and start doing something other than dailies and shiphands.
 
See y'all on Nexus!
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Adventure seeker on an empty street,
Just an alley creeper, light on his feet
A young fighter screaming, with no time for doubt
With the pain and anger can't see a way out,
It ain't much I'm asking, I heard him say,
Gotta find me a future move out of my way,
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now,
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now.
 
I suppose last night was a good night for more, at least for Remi.  It was GA night and as we were down some people and it's largely farm it was a relaxed night, people brought alts, other people were tanking sometimes.  I still brought Remi just because having a well geared tank when having undergeared alts running around isn't a bad thing, but I got to DPS on Phage Maw and Guardians and such.  It's good seeing fights from different angles.  Also got my DPS class pants.  AND was able to get 20/20 Tech Firestarter in neatly so running 3650ish assault power, lots of crit, etc.
 
So there you go.  More.  And things do blow up oh so nicely.
 
Weekend time, hoping to spend some time with a sweetie, might go see the PIxar movie.  Who knows.  Probably worry about my dog who has developed a limp.  Might be a bite on her paw, but she's so shaggy it's very hard to see.  So we'll see how that goes.  Probably okay but I worry anyway.  She's older and blind so limping around in addition just seems sad.	
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For me, my big moment of getting MOAR was also a moment of having less. As I was finishing up GA, I was running about 1800 insight and 2950 support power. I decided I wanted more SP, so I reruned all my gear to use heavy support power runes instead of insight and crit otherwise. Now I have 1600 insight but 3600 SP plus a buttload of crit! 
 
MOAR ... MOAR .... MOAR .... GROND!!!!	
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Having a lot of AP is certainly a lot of fun. There's also a point where you have enough that you can carry just about any group and be guaranteed a successful dungeon run, except for UPG. The issue is getting queues to pop as a DPS :D
 
I haven't really made any decisions to get "more"- for me the entire game has been a gradual climb of power as I've gotten the gear. I remember a time when I thought I'd never do a raid and that 2900 would be the highest AP I'd ever get. Now I'm sitting on 3440 and it's great :)
 
I finally replaced my old blue crafted shoudlers last night with the ones that drop in SSM. I think I've passed over those many times before not realizing they were a slight upgrade (4 more AP, more ST, less crit hit). Ah well, feels good to be out of those shoulders. :D
 
Tonight we are back in GA, and I am pumped. Convergence looks like an easy combo this week, so I'm really thinking we can get back to 5/6 as a raid.
 
Finally, I've been working very hard on my raid organization website. It's coming along nicely. I now have the ability to add non-raid members to the assignment pages, so that will help when we have out of guild people helping us along. I have a list of features I want to get done before I open it up to the general public, but it's getting there :D
			
				
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 Convergence looks like an easy combo this week, so I'm really thinking we can get back to 5/6 as a raid.
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So tell me what decisions you've made in getting MOAR for your toons!
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I heard it was all frogs. 
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So tell me what decisions you've made in getting MOAR for your toons!
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I wish I had some big plans, some real desire to push an envelope ... but honestly, I don't.
 
The only thing I need MOAR of, is quality playtime and the drive to use that time effectively. ;)
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It's good seeing fights from different angles.  Also got my DPS class pants.  AND was able to get 20/20 Tech Firestarter in neatly so running 3650ish assault power, lots of crit, etc.
 
So there you go.  More.  And things do blow up oh so nicely.
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Well yesterday Jack and I did some leveling on our Dommies, but there won't be any WildStar for us this weekend! In a few minutes, we're heading out the door to drive up to Lake Buchanan for a weekend retreat that was a 1-year wedding anniversary gift from my parents. :3 We'll be gone until Tuesday!
 
... Of course, we're both bringing our laptops because we're nerd and we'll probably be roleplaying in the evenings. XD
 
I'm not sure I have much in the way of "big" plans for my main. I'm just steadily plugging away at getting her better gear, filling out rune sets as I get said gear, and pushing through vet dungeons. I dunno if there are really any "3K AP" equivalent zomg-milestones for healers. XD	
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Well yesterday Jack and I did some leveling on our Dommies, but there won't be any WildStar for us this weekend! In a few minutes, we're heading out the door to drive up to Lake Buchanan for a weekend retreat that was a 1-year wedding anniversary gift from my parents. :3 We'll be gone until Tuesday!
 
... Of course, we're both bringing our laptops because we're nerd and we'll probably be roleplaying in the evenings. XD
 
I'm not sure I have much in the way of "big" plans for my main. I'm just steadily plugging away at getting her better gear, filling out rune sets as I get said gear, and pushing through vet dungeons. I dunno if there are really any "3K AP" equivalent zomg-milestones for healers. XD
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Well, I got 20/20 life giver for shits and giggles, and coincidentally it is absolutely worthless. I'm actually a bit embarrassed when that little glowy circle pops up under someone because I just KNOW they are judging me for my terrible rune choices.
 
Medic runes are by and large terrible once you get a few of the key sets out of the way. I almost just want to replace 8 of the life giver runes with generic support power runes... it'd probably give me more healing overall.	
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Howdy everyone. Just thought id stop in and say hi. Work is still hell and its gonna be getting worse with a visit from high up in the company coming in a week or two. Logges on for a couple other night to buy a credd othwrwise i havent played in overa month or so. Seems so long ago i have no idea what wildstar is like anymore XD Took up playing league and heroes of the storm recently for more short burst gaming that isnt a chore and have fun. 
 
So cant wait till everything quiets down and i can have 2days off a week again. Anyway. Ill see ya all around nexus eventually XD	
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Well, I got 20/20 life giver for shits and giggles, and coincidentally it is absolutely worthless. I'm actually a bit embarrassed when that little glowy circle pops up under someone because I just KNOW they are judging me for my terrible rune choices.
 
Medic runes are by and large terrible once you get a few of the key sets out of the way. I almost just want to replace 8 of the life giver runes with generic support power runes... it'd probably give me more healing overall.
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And this right here is what has me worried.
 
Right now I'm maxed finesse, 3033 AP, have pretty good gear and I'm not sure if it's time to start using those Magic Fire Starter runes because, honestly, I'm unsure how they (or all the better runes, not just MFS) actually work and what if I waste them because I'm still replacing gear??
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And this right here is what has me worried.
 
Right now I'm maxed finesse, 3033 AP, have pretty good gear and I'm not sure if it's time to start using those Magic Fire Starter runes because, honestly, I'm unsure how they (or all the better runes, not just MFS) actually work and what if I waste them because I'm still replacing gear??
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I really don't recommend anyone putting eldan runes until they start getting GA legendaries. The 20/20 bonuses are for the most part, bad, but a small bonus is still a bonus when you're min-maxing at your gear level. I recently finished switching over to Eldan sets. Now I run 20/20 life giver 15/15 full charge 12/20 fusion gorge 4/12 spirit sense 8/20 logic bomb and working to 8/20 crystallize. 
 
Phandaal, 20/20 lifegiver may be bad, but if you use exceptional runes and only rune SP and Crit/Moxie (milestones), it usually turns out pretty well. Besides 20/20 lifegiver is about 2-3 times the heals I was getting from Echo Burst. Echo burst is terribad. 	
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I just wanted to say, "I love it when Coffee is the most popular thread of the day."
 
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Phandaal, 20/20 lifegiver may be bad, but if you use exceptional runes and only rune SP and Crit/Moxie (milestones), it usually turns out pretty well. Besides 20/20 lifegiver is about 2-3 times the heals I was getting from Echo Burst. Echo burst is terribad.
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I dunno, as tanking, I'll stand in the smokey green circle all day :-).  Maybe it's not big, but it's something and it's not like the heals stop.  Plus it looks cool.
 
Fusion Guard is pretty hideous and was either designed for PvP or by someone who doesn't understand tanking very well.  I mean, sure it SOUNDS great to give you a bonus if you get hit really hard, but tanks tend to gear to avoid critical hits as a priority, so that effectively makes it a wasted rune ability.  Might be more useful in PvP though.
 
Exceptional runes do not give more stat, they simply count double towards the set bonus.  So for instance I was previously carrying Technophile 12/12 on my DPS set.  I managed to get Tech Firestarter (the same base set bonus as Technophile) 20/20 in 10 runes, opening up other slots for other sets (theoretically anyway -- I think most went to general due to the rune element type.)
 
Likewise for tanking I went with Logic Bomb (as neither bonus for Crystallize nor Fusion Guard are especially good for tanking.  The Logic Bomb one isn't great, but it's at least sort of applicable, a little bit more mitigation for a moment.  I have a mixture of regular LB and exceptional LB in there, but if it weren't for the exceptionals, I wouldn't be able to do it.	
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Yes the psychological effect! Maybe that's really what the developers wanted the rune bonus to be.
 
Anyway, that's how I go for MOAR. Better gear and better proc effects in that gear. Most of the time the small bonuses do add up. At this point I can out heal a lot of the non instant kill dungeon effects and I got a kick out of telling everyone to bunch up in the red in the Crimelords boss and just spamming emission through it.	
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Yes the psychological effect! Maybe that's really what the developers wanted the rune bonus to be.
 
Anyway, that's how I go for MOAR. Better gear and better proc effects in that gear. Most of the time the small bonuses do add up. At this point I can out heal a lot of the non instant kill dungeon effects and I got a kick out of telling everyone to bunch up in the red in the Crimelords boss and just spamming emission through it.
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It's better than nothing only because it's not literally 0. But given health pools and the kind of HPS you'll put out when you're at least GA geared, it is functionally nothing. It's 1056 hp every 20 seconds, or 52.8 hps. Contrast that with over 2.5k hps just from emission spam without the tier bonus or crits, and Emission will proc things like armor coating.
 
Oh, and the bonus doesn't scale. So the better your gear is, the worse the bonus becomes. I think I've just convinced myself to remove any non-optimal runes I have in life giver right now haha.
			
				
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			my MOAR moment came after running my first vet dungeon. I decided that 1600-1700ap wasn't nearly enough and spend a day working on a set. Now I've got over 2600ap and a full tech fire starter runeset. Feels good man, Feels real good :)	
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I play toward goals in a spiral so that I enjoy each activity, rather than focusing on the product.  I cobble a little onto my ship, I pick up some contracts, I do a shiphand or some missions on the ground for rep, and just let stuff build up.
 
Breakfast was eggs and sausage, but I might have to add something starchier to my mornings because the price of eggs went up ~30 - 60% this week, dependent on what sort you buy.  Are they shipping them out of the country with the meat?  Did some sudden tragedy strike all of chickenkind?  It's like animal protein turned into a luxury item this year, one thing at a time.	
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Breakfast was eggs and sausage, but I might have to add something starchier to my mornings because the price of eggs went up ~30 - 60% this week, dependent on what sort you buy.  Are they shipping them out of the country with the meat?  Did some sudden tragedy strike all of chickenkind?  It's like animal protein turned into a luxury item this year, one thing at a time.
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This having to actually work on Fridays is for the birds  <_<
 
So during lunch I went and looked at runes on Jabbithole http://www.jabbithole.com/tradeskills/runecrafting-22
 
and I guess my confusion is this: If finesse is my AP and I re-rune to Magic Fire Starter, there is nothing that ups my finesse. So how do I keep my finesse up and still use kick-ass runes? I know that there is AP runes but that's not really the same....is it???
 
http://www.jabbithole.com/schematics/magic-fire-starter-rune-of-assault-power-3472 and I need 20 of these??? (or 10 for the purple ones but still) Where in blue blazes do you put them?
			
				
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This having to actually work on Fridays is for the birds  <_<
 
So during lunch I went and looked at runes on Jabbithole http://www.jabbithole.com/tradeskills/runecrafting-22
 
and I guess my confusion is this: If finesse is my AP and I re-rune to Magic Fire Starter, there is nothing that ups my finesse. So how do I keep my finesse up and still use kick-ass runes? I know that there is AP runes but that's not really the same....is it???
 
http://www.jabbithole.com/schematics/magic-fire-starter-rune-of-assault-power-3472 and I need 20 of these??? (or 10 for the purple ones but still) Where in blue blazes do you put them?
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			Its better to rune Finesse up to soft cap (1680 - 71 (boost) - 67 (food)) because milestones make the AP contribution of finesse slightly better. Once you get to soft-cap, it becomes better to rune for pure AP. As you get more and more high level gear, the amount of finesse needed from runes decreases and you are able to rune straight AP. I wouldn't suggest starting to rune MFS until you have 2-3 legendary's because the only reason to switch is for the 1) minimal 20 piece dps bonus and 2) ability to rune more AP over Main Stat in certain slots. In the mean time spellweaver 12/12 gives the same bonuses as MFS 12/20. 	
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I'm in all purple gear at this point and my finesse is maxed at rank 6, which is why I have started looking a lot more seriously at better runes.
 
It's apparently not as popular but I'm running a pure magic build that is highly sustainable and easy in rotation, it keeps my innate up all the time. If for some reason if I don't crit a tap of Quick Draw solves that issue. Which is why I'm looking at Spell Weaver and MFS runes.
			
				
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Its better to rune Finesse up to soft cap (1680 - 71 (boost) - 67 (food)) because milestones make the AP contribution of finesse slightly better. Once you get to soft-cap, it becomes better to rune for pure AP. As you get more and more high level gear, the amount of finesse needed from runes decreases and you are able to rune straight AP. I wouldn't suggest starting to rune MFS until you have 2-3 legendary's because the only reason to switch is for the 1) minimal 20 piece dps bonus and 2) ability to rune more AP over Main Stat in certain slots. In the mean time spellweaver 12/12 gives the same bonuses as MFS 12/20. 
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			*Stumbles in late night grabs a coffee grumbles something about being weak willed stumbles back out to watch Wild Star patcher. Walks away singing "Hold me closer Tony Danza.*
			
				
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