122402-morning-coffee-213-the-how-its-done-edition

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HOWDY, NEXUS!
 
Boy, it sure was nice talking to all you lovely cowpokes last night.
 
I didn't actually do any content, mostly ran around in circle in Thayd talking to everyone. It's nice seeing so many people in town again - it's enough to give an old ranch hand a teary eye.
 
Some jackal stole my name though. Not that I expected any less. I understand though, it's tough actually being popular, so best bet is to gank someone else's reputation while they ain't looking. I ain't mad though, but I do hope I get to run into the fake Tex Arcana so I can tell them to their faces what I really think.
 
Regardless, I'm gonna try out one of those Vet Shiphands tonight. I always loved those missions. Also thinking about making a little newbie toon, so I can get my feet back under me before I make a bigger fool of myself than usual.
 
Well, have a great day, folks. I'm off for more coffee!
 	
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Breakfast!!!!!
 
Thanks Tex! Noms a sausage...
 
The name change was odd and I'm sorry yours got taken! Doesn't matter though because there is only one Sheriff and his name is Tex!! It was wonderful to see you again and boy howdy I missed these breakfasts  :wub:
 
Vet Shiphands are so fun!! We've been doing them every night! 
 
Oh and make sure to check your amps! They got reset during Drop 4.	
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Oh and make sure to check your amps! They got reset during Drop 4.
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Yeah I'm struggling again to find a class I relate to. As I almost exclusively play Primal/Elemental classes or hand to hand martial, and this lacks all of those, so trying to give Esper a go since it's the closest I'm going to get.
 
Are "Melee" Espers viable anyone know?	
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I've been sitting here waiting for you to make this thread. 
 
*Grabs a cup of high test*
Sorry I missed you last night, but I was pretty sure the 2 step auth was going to vex you until today. 
I'm sure that the guild has a busy tour schedule for you, but I will try and hunt you down when I can. 
 
Vet ship hands are fun, though I haven't managed to get space madness to come up on the random roulette. 
You are going to have a massive number of Fighter decorations when you are done. I put my darkspur fighter up last night....Going to probably use the Ikthian one as a decoration. 
 
 
I happen to know a melee esper.	
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Hai WildStar peoples.
Glad to see people are still here.
 
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Are "Melee" Espers viable anyone know?
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I've been sitting here waiting for you to make this thread. 
 
*Grabs a cup of high test*
Sorry I missed you last night, but I was pretty sure the 2 step auth was going to vex you until today. 
I'm sure that the guild has a busy tour schedule for you, but I will try and hunt you down when I can. 
 
Vet ship hands are fun, though I haven't managed to get space madness to come up on the random roulette. 
You are going to have a massive number of Fighter decorations when you are done. I put my darkspur fighter up last night....Going to probably use the Ikthian one as a decoration. 
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			Maybe the person that got your name just liked it and it didn't have anything to do with your reputation, unless of course you know that to be a point of fact, anyway welcome back to the game Tex.	
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Welcome back, it's good to see this "many" people returning over the last week or two :)
 
Shiphands are definitely entertaining and rewarding to do now, get all 7 on gold and you got yourself an AMP point for starters.
Dungeons have also seen a lot more activity lately because of the new reward for quing random, so my experience so far has been that the ques have been lowered by a lot
 
Anyways, went for my second time to get some progression on System Deamons last night, got it to 40% without too many casualties, and we are definitely getting better and better at the different transitions in the fight, so I wouldn't be surprised they were to fall sometime next week for us :)
 
Can't wait to get into the game after this maintance is over :) 	
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Hai WildStar peoples.
Glad to see people are still here.
 
Fenzy Espers*
Fixed, and I don't think so, not anymore.
 
Unless you need to solo stuff that doesn't straight up 1 or 2 shot you.
Telestrike is mobile now, so there's no real reason to use psy frenzy over it.
 
Semi Offtopic, I turned 1/4th of a century old today. Not sure if happy or mildly worried that I'm getting older.
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Maybe the person that got your name just liked it and it didn't have anything to do with your reputation, unless of course you know that to be a point of fact, anyway welcome back to the game Tex.
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Hai WildStar peoples.
Glad to see people are still here.
 
Fenzy Espers*
Fixed, and I don't think so, not anymore.
 
Unless you need to solo stuff that doesn't straight up 1 or 2 shot you.
Telestrike is mobile now, so there's no real reason to use psy frenzy over it.
 
Semi Offtopic, I turned 1/4th of a century old today. Not sure if happy or mildly worried that I'm getting older.
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XD Thanks guys.
Puts a smile on my face, no means to make anyone feel old though.	
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Yeah, that *might* be it ... but I'd rather think terrible thought about some terrible person. :lol:
 
And for Fran!
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			Happy Birthday FranBunny!! 25 is a fantastic age!! Enjoy it  :)	
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			Happy birthday, FranBunny!	
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Guess with all the renown I grabbed from yesterday's vet runs I'm going to look at getting some of the Dominion Command armor
It looks really good on cassians, but right now my local cassian esper is on strike for low level pvp queues, and more esper races.
 
So I hope it looks good on mechari.
 
Crazy hover shoulders. It's not a glitch, it's a feature! 	
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			Hmm I'm at a loss then.I'll figure something out I'm sure.	
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Guess with all the renown I grabbed from yesterday's vet runs I'm going to look at getting some of the Dominion Command armor
It looks really good on cassians, but right now my local cassian esper is on strike for low level pvp queues, and more esper races.
 
So I hope it looks good on mechari.
 
Crazy hover shoulders. It's not a glitch, it's a feature! 
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Goober :)
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Just hopping in to grab some quick coffee.  Today is going to be a busy day at work, it looks like.  The PA in charge of phasing is back from two days of client meetings, and he's going to have markups galore.  But first, a voodoo breakfast!
 
 
Last night was a good night though!  I want to welcome Tex back for a ten day trial!  For all the Saddles around who don't know who he is (we've expanded quite a bit) Tex is our guild's founder, forum fixture, and all around great guy!  Tex is the person who really got me into group content.  If I recall correctly, he was the first one that got me out of my shell and into the <Blazing Saddles>.  What he was to me in those early days of the open beta and just after launch, I've modeled myself to try to be to everyone else.  Helpful, reliable, fun, he was one of those guys that really proved that what makes Wildstar fly far above the competition isn't just the content, but who you do the content with.  If you've got friends like him, you'll never have a bad run in your gaming life, no matter how many times you wipe or how long it takes you to learn.  If I can be half of what Tex was to this community and our guild, I'll consider myself lucky.
 
I ran a vet shiphand with a gaggle of guildies, we got Infection for the daily.  It really is what we've been asking for since launch.  I recall mentioning this in one of the first treatises I ever wrote, that veteran shiphands needed to happen, and they've delivered on their promises.  They're just fun to do when you're not feeling quite up to adventure snuff, but they're not so completely braindead that you can faceroll them.  I actually like how they're tuned, as stepping stones into veteran adventures, because it doesn't stress the trinity, it doesn't stress having 5 members, it's a really laid-back experience.  Hopefully, it helps people build confidence to walk into those adventures later, to know that they, yes, are capable of anything in this game.  It also helps when you don't have a 5 member group together and you don't feel like pugging.
 
Then, Parthenia logged on feeling healthy enough to level.  We got through the Osun area, and I have to say she's really coming along!  Parthenia's my wife, and her real video game experience pretty much began with WoW during the Wrath expansion and continued through FFXIV:ARR.  She's a healer first and foremost, but one who didn't have a lot of movement-gaming in her background.  I think she owned Sonic on Genesis back in the day.  Wildstar felt overwhelming to her at first because of everything in it that wasn't in WoW, but last night, she really made me proud.  She rolls like a pro, handles adds and packs like they were nothing.  I can't wait to get her back into dungeons.  It helps that healing's been buffed significantly, I think.  I always felt for the healers in this game; their heals could be so inconsistent.  Now, everything looks a bit more fluid.  I'm sure someone can shed light on that.  I'm really proud of her being able to help out, recognize things, tell me when things are happening before I even realize it.  This game has molded her into a better gamer.
 
She recently said she couldn't even think of going back to our older games now.  They seemed to move in slow motion.
 
Finally left to my own devices a bit later, I continued work on the Shadowcaster.  Things accomplished last night:
 
-Vertical circulation up to the aftcastle from the quarterdecks was installed.
 
-Added lighting to the starboard quarter garden area, private rooms, and crew bunk.
 
-Resolved bar enclosure (for now, I'm going to drag a couple of you over and talk about whether or not we should rock two smaller bars with a centralized entrance or one larger bar with an offset entrance)
 
-Resolved some partition issues in the port quarter training area
 
-Finished the Waist.
 
Still on the to-do list:
 
-Finish circulation to the aftcastle and build in all railings.  Finish the ramps in the Waist to fully finish that area.
 
-Furnishings.  Furnishings everywhere
 
-Relocate the drop-pod bay to its original position
 
-Finish out the coffee shop on the observation deck and the training/armoury area in the port quarter
 
-Finish and furnish the Flydeck.
 
I'm on track.  God willing and the creek don't rise, the Shadowcaster's abovedecks will be finished and open for business by the end of this weekend.	
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Semi Offtopic, I turned 1/4th of a century old today. Not sure if happy or mildly worried that I'm getting older.
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So I hope it looks good on mechari.
 
Crazy hover shoulders. It's not a glitch, it's a feature!
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Vic, that pic is kinda disturbing/gross for a morning watercooler thread... :P
 
Spent at least ten hours yesterday working on the Academy, it's coming along. Just hit 500 decor placed about 30 hours into the build. I'm playing with the idea of a newbie/crossover circle/guild attached to the plot, something to draw alts (especially Exile alts)... going to see what the interest level is for something like this when I finish in about a week. Right now I'm trying for a kind of Starfleet Academy vibe with the decor/themes, because I feel like Dominion gets the wrong end of the stick and I wanted to showcase the potential for futurism and benign collectivism; we're really more like Space Opera than 1984, I promise!
 
Anyhoo, going to go grab a breakfast bagel from Tim Hortons— braving the -37 Celsius temperatures (that's app. -34 for Americans). See what I do for easy-mode bacon and chocolate???
 
Happy b-day, Fran! On this special occasion, and this one only, the Dominion will try not to blow up your Aurin loves ones. ;)	
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Yeah I'm struggling again to find a class I relate to. As I almost exclusively play Primal/Elemental classes or hand to hand martial, and this lacks all of those, so trying to give Esper a go since it's the closest I'm going to get.
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Vic, that pic is kinda disturbing/gross for a morning watercooler thread... :P
 
Spent at least ten hours yesterday working on the Academy, it's coming along. Just hit 500 decor placed about 30 hours into the build. I'm playing with the idea of a newbie/crossover circle/guild attached to the plot, something to draw alts (especially Exile alts)... going to see what the interest level is for something like this when I finish in about a week. Right now I'm trying for a kind of Starfleet Academy vibe with the decor/themes, because I feel like Dominion gets the wrong end of the stick and I wanted to showcase the potential for futurism and benign collectivism; we're really more like Space Opera than 1984, I promise!
 
Anyhoo, going to go grab a breakfast bagel from Tim Hortons— braving the -37 Celsius temperatures (that's app. -34 for Americans). See what I do for easy-mode bacon and chocolate???
 
Happy b-day, Fran! On this special occasion, and this one only, the Dominion will try not to blow up your Aurin loves ones. ;)
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Happy Birthday to everyone doing that celebration thing!
 
This has been a pretty neat week for me, I've enjoyed watching people return and constructive conversations taking place. I like that we don't all (ever?) see eye to eye, but the discussions lately have been pretty good and interesting, and that's something that really makes me smile! 
 
With that being said, I have had zero time to game lately, and it doesn't look like I'll get any this weekend either. So, I continue to live vicariously through the forum-posters and twitter-talkers. :)	
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Vic, that pic is kinda disturbing/gross for a morning watercooler thread...  :P
 
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Dragged Cirindle, Kandi and Seeger along on Infestation then knocked Rage Logic off the "to get gold" list.  No new ships last night :(.  I have Space Madness in the cross-hairs.  Hit up the NW dailies.  The inventory issue is wandering into crisis territory so I might need to dub one of my 15's as a temporary bank alt until the alleged costuming improvements land.
 
 
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:blink: Doesn't get any more hand-to-hand than Warrior or hand to spinal cord than Stalker. Unless you wanted to heal. Medics are arguably melee range healers.
 
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I have 2 Warriors 43 Draken and 24 Human for some reason it just doesn't click with me like fantasy ones do.
 
I've also deleted 30+ Stalkers. Also just didn't click.
 
Also have a 32 Medic same deal.
 
Deleted a 30 SS in the past too
 
And hate Pet Classes so Never got far on Engi.
 
No idea what to do.
 
I dunno. *shrug*
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I have 2 Warriors 43 Draken and 24 Human for some reason it just doesn't click with me like fantasy ones do.
 
I've also deleted 30+ Stalkers. Also just didn't click.
 
Also have a 32 Medic same deal.
 
Deleted a 30 SS in the past too
 
And hate Pet Classes so Never got far on Engi.
 
No idea what to do.
 
I dunno. *shrug*
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Hmmm I'm thinking it may be that me and the games design and vision just doesn't click. (Which isn't a bad thing. Not everything resonates with everyone.) 
 
I gave it the college try. No bad feelings or anything.	
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I have 2 Warriors 43 Draken and 24 Human for some reason it just doesn't click with me like fantasy ones do.
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Oh I definitely have a problem.  I have yet to find any game that does men's clothes well.  Or maybe I just hate shopping for my own clothes.  I love costuming systems so much I implemented one for an NWN persistent world.  Release was delayed about three days because I was "testing" it  :lol:
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You don't like my new blue threads? ._.
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Stuck at work. The view out my window looks like whitevale......I don't like whitevale.
My taller half is dealing with mechari wardrobe. She wasn't pleased with the fit of the commander's coat, and so has gone on a quest for a good shirt. I'm rather curious to see what she has done when I get home. 	
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Uhm... Let's just say I notice women more than men? :ph34r:
 
I haven't really tried in WS.  Maybe when I work on Pykke.  Or the male Aurin that I'm desperately trying not to roll. <_<  (If they ever let us add more character slots I'm so doooooooomed).
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Speaking of costumes... I watched Jupiter Ascending last weekend and having recently got the GA boots they REALLY remind me of the Skyjacker boots that Channing Tatum has. Now all I need is a bug that makes my hoverboard disappear during use.... can any devs work that in? ;)
 	
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			Got a text that Avatus just got kicked over on entity. 	
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Got a text that Avatus just got kicked over on entity. 
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By whom?  Enigma again?
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			Yup it was Enigma	
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Figured I'd share my look for fun :P
 
My tag is the Hipster Raider, given to me by another forum-goer back during the summer, so I figured my character should reflect that :)	
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Figured I'd share my look for fun :P
 
My tag is the Hipster Raider, given to me by another forum-goer back during the summer, so I figured my character should reflect that :)
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Don't you kind of need a scarf, and a beard? 
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Aurin can't have beards, which make me really sad. Had another chest piece that actually had a scarf, but I liked the print and style of this vest better :P
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Aurin males can't. Aurin females do what ever they want. 
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Aurin can't have beards, which make me really sad. Had another chest piece that actually had a scarf, but I liked the print and style of this vest better :P
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Now that my Friday has finally settled down some, I can finally post something :)
 
Happy Friday Everyone!
 
Need more coffee .....
 
Ran a couple of VSHs last night with Plasma, Khandi, and VicVan, which was lots of fun. Did most of my dailies in the correct order of NW then CB (Khandi does them backwards :P )
 
I really liked the way Plasma's outfits look. Especially his 'going out' and 'beach' looks. So cute! Makes me want to change up a few of mine - colors on some and total outfits on others.
 
The best thing is getting Khandi to actually put on a costume, even though her ninja look is awesome :ph34r:
 
Tonight will be a good night. I'm thinking I will actually do all my dailies, some VSH, and work on my houses. Maybe not in that order.
 
Have a great weekend all!	
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Now that my Friday has finally settled down some, I can finally post something :)
 
Happy Friday Everyone!
 
Need more coffee .....
 
Ran a couple of VSHs last night with Plasma, Khandi, and VicVan, which was lots of fun. Did most of my dailies in the correct order of NW then CB (Khandi does them backwards :P )
 
I really liked the way Plasma's outfits look. Especially his 'going out' and 'beach' looks. So cute! Makes me want to change up a few of mine - colors on some and total outfits on others.
 
The best thing is getting Khandi to actually put on a costume, even though her ninja look is awesome :ph34r:
 
Tonight will be a good night. I'm thinking I will actually do all my dailies, some VSH, and work on my houses. Maybe not in that order.
 
Have a great weekend all!
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Lolz! Shush you! Just to prove that I'm right, I will do them backwards tonight!!
 
I went and made a costume late last night!! You'll see it tonight! (Hope you don't mind, I borrowed some ideas from you) ((Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....right?)  :wub:
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Doom Kitty from the Daggers is obsessed with in-game fashion (she won't mind me saying this).  She's devoting her blog to it and planning on hosting some kind of social event next weekend if I remember right.  She also said "Can I can I can I can I can I pweeeeeeeeeze???" enough times that I relented and told her she could be the hostess for the fashion contest at ThaydFest II next month.
 
Anyway Cirinde, Khandi (and anyone else) - I'm pretty sure she'd be happy to talk outfits with you all *anytime*.  It would probably make her day, in fact :)	
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Doom Kitty from the Daggers is obsessed with in-game fashion (she won't mind me saying this).  She's devoting her blog to it and planning on hosting some kind of social event next weekend if I remember right.  She also said "Can I can I can I can I can I pweeeeeeeeeze???" enough times that I relented and told her she could be the hostess for the fashion contest at ThaydFest II next month.
 
Anyway Cirinde, Khandi (and anyone else) - I'm pretty sure she'd be happy to talk outfits with you all *anytime*.  It would probably make her day, in fact :)
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I saw her tweets about it. For you all who don't follow her on Twitter or just refuse to use Twitter :wacko:  here is her tweet.
 
https://twitter.com/Doomkittyentity/status/565956094548115456
 
She is also getting QSR to stream the fashion gala on the 21st. Should be lots of fun!
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			Well this day turned out to be quite the special day afterall. Avatus has now been killed in both US and EU, granted US were a couple of days faster :P	
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Well this day turned out to be quite the special day afterall. Avatus has now been killed in both US and EU, granted US were a couple of days faster :P
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Who dropped him on EU?
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Codex
 
Per TimeTravel on Twiter: https://twitter.com/CRB_Timetravel/status/566316527368941568
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			Just curious, is Enigma the only guild to have actually beaten the Raids this far along?	
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Just curious, is Enigma the only guild to have actually beaten the Raids this far along?
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Just as a question.... Enigma has a Friday morning raid team?
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Yep.  Right before the changes to DS40 that turned it into DS20, Enigma killed Avatus.  That leaves them as the only guild to have ever completed 40 man Datascape.  Recently, they world-firsted Avatus 20 man, and I guess Codex followed right behind on EU.
 
They've got my respect.  People thought it couldn't be done.  Enigma got it done.  They're more hardcore than any other raid team I know of.  However, with Datascape now being a 20 man raid instead, it ought to be a little easier to digest for smaller guilds.  At the very least, the logistics get MUCH easier because your 20 man GA team can walk straight into Datascape, instead of needing to run two GA teams that combine into one DS team.
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Well, that's cool for them, to be certain.
 
Does that not seem a little ... I dunno ... odd, to anyone else that no other team has *ever* managed to beat a Raid in all this time?
 
I mean, I'm sure they're very good players (obviously), but to me (at least) that speaks of a huge problem with the content, when it's been all these months and NO ONE ELSE has done it?
 
 
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There are other guilds who are progressing through DS but at a much slower rate and don't have the realm firsts.
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I mean, I'm sure they're very good players (obviously), but to me (at least) that speaks of a huge problem with the content, when it's been all these months and NO ONE ELSE has done it?
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Well, that's cool for them, to be certain.
 
Does that not seem a little ... I dunno ... odd, to anyone else that no other team has *ever* managed to beat a Raid in all this time?
 
I mean, I'm sure they're very good players (obviously), but to me (at least) that speaks of a huge problem with the content, when it's been all these months and NO ONE ELSE has done it?
 
 
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Oh, I am sure there are. And I wasn't really talking about realm firsts ... I'm talking about realm (read: game) ONLY.
 
Wildstar has been out how long now? Eight months? And no one else has managed to beat this content?
 
Heh. That is ... special.
 
Either they are really, really good (obviously) and everyone else sucks - or they are really, really dedicated to the point that other groups can't even hope to equal. Either way, it just strikes me as weird that this far in, with so many "hardcore" players, that no one else has done it.
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You know, I never thought of it that way.
 
Leave it up to Tex to come back and insert rationalization in my game! :huh:
 
 
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Well, that's cool for them, to be certain.
 
Does that not seem a little ... I dunno ... odd, to anyone else that no other team has *ever* managed to beat a Raid in all this time?
 
I mean, I'm sure they're very good players (obviously), but to me (at least) that speaks of a huge problem with the content, when it's been all these months and NO ONE ELSE has done it?
 
 
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It just seems like EIGHT MONTHS in and only one, single group has managed to beat the Endgame ... just seems, I dunno, wrong to me.
 
 
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Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but I find it kind of refreshing that it's taken this long for people to beat the topmost challenges in the game.  I have fond memories of many games where it took years after launch for most people to reach and beat the top-end content, and I think that's healthy as long as the rest of the game has enough to it to keep people interested when they're not raiding.
 
If I ran an MMO, I'd much rather want to have subscriber retention numbers in the 12-18 month range, than have everyone "finishing" my game in six months and leaving to go play something else.
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Instead WIldstar hemorrhaged raid guilds because the content was too inaccessible and takes too long to clear. The fact that only one guild cleared 40 man DS is not a compliment to the game, just the opposite actually.
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If I ran an MMO, I'd much rather want to have subscriber retention numbers in the 12-18 month range, than have everyone "finishing" my game in six months and leaving to go play something else.
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Yeah, this is EXACTLY what I was thinking, but I'm trying to not use my free time here being overly confrontational. :lol:
 
And again, hopefully by compounding the changes, the smaller teams and the population spike, things will change.
 
Hopefully.
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If you weren't confrontational, you wouldn't be Tex. I have never quite understood the idea that just because we like this game we must be extra sugar sweet about everything. Sometimes we have to give Wildstar some tough love.
 
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Well, sure, but seems like there should/could be a happier medium in there, somewhere.
 
And not to put too fine a point on it, but I am certain that the "wall between the men and boys" is one very, very, very VERY big reason why the population is in the state that it's in.
 
Hard is fine. A long haul is fine. What is obviously not fine is making a wall high, then cover it with oil, then coat it in Teflon, then sprinkle shards of glass all over it.
 
Wildstar is a beautiful game, with content and community for pretty much every type of player. What Wildstar is not, is a friendly game for people who like to achieve but can't dedicate their lives to achieving. That's not "hardcore" to me. Hardcore would be trial and error, then enlightenment, then eventual success.
 
It's the "eventual" part that the game is (obviously) seriously lacking.
 
Again, that's from a non-Raider who just cares about the long-term success of the game.
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I am sure there were more reason for people leaving than the lack of raid success. I should know, because *I* didn't leave because of lack of raiding success.
 
But I am, admittedly, the minority in my game-time motivations.
 
I think those of us who stuck out through the first and second waves of exodus did so out of love for the community, not the content.
 
But when PVP went belly-up, I was done. That's the one thing I could do, and be terrible at, and still have fun. :lol:
 
Ultimately, I know for a fact that the RNGesus that early Wildstar worshiped did far more damage to the population than broken PVP or uber-hard content. And again, I realize that's not the issue it once was - and again, I hope the changes are enough to bring Wildstar back from the brink.
 
Or are we still kidding ourselves that this ship wasn't about to go belly-up? I forget. ;)	
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I am sure there were more reason for people leaving than the lack of raid success. I should know, because *I* didn't leave because of lack of raiding success.
 
But I am, admittedly, the minority in my game-time motivations.
 
I think those of us who stuck out through the first and second waves of exodus did so out of love for the community, not the content.
 
But when PVP went belly-up, I was done. That's the one thing I could do, and be terrible at, and still have fun. :lol:
 
Ultimately, I know for a fact that the RNGesus that early Wildstar worshiped did far more damage to the population than broken PVP or uber-hard content. And again, I realize that's not the issue it once was - and again, I hope the changes are enough to bring Wildstar back from the brink.
 
Or are we still kidding ourselves that this ship wasn't about to go belly-up? I forget. ;)
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Hey, the game's been doing pretty well since Drop 3.  Numbers started to turn around about December, it's been getting steadily better, but Drop 4 has really been a population boom.
 
The biggest thing Wildstar has to fight now is the Internet.  There's a knowledge lag, so Wildstar's reputation might not recover for months completely.  At least it's on the upswing.  We've got a lot of new players who said public opinion was what was keeping them out of the game, but new coverage changed their minds.
 
The challenge for people like myself and Cerinde is sweeping as many of those as we can into the guild to get them acclimated.
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I really think a lot of the changes I played around with are solid, my only wall now is none of the classes say this is Virtual Scott, and I won't say it's bad class design because I don't relate, because that would be awfully conceited of me. I can concur with Tex, I stuck it out as long as I did because of community, PvP going Belly up and Mega-servers is what killed it for me. (I will say I am super happy I was wrong about the dissolving of the RP community good job guys.) Now that the playability of the game is in a much better state, and I'm not as apart or attached to the community (Not that you all don't rule, you do I was just gone to long.) as I once was, the glaring issue of me not relating to any of the classes is overwhelming actually.
 
So I think I may be signing out for now again, I think the over all game is in a much better place and if they can PR spin themselves right and keep this course, the game should recover. I'll be back again when they release some new classes. Perhaps one of them will speak to me.
 
For now you all take care, have fun be be awesome to one another! 
 
Peace!	
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The community has been working hard to let people know, on social media, how the game has changed. However, there are still those people out there that will put it down no matter what is said.
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The community has been working hard to let people know, on social media, how the game has changed. However, there are still those people out there that will put it down no matter what is said.
 
The influx of new and returning people lately has been a good thing. The community has really stepped up to make them feel welcomed. That will go a long way to turning others around.
 
Along with trying to get people to join us in our guild, Vic and I have been letting people know that we are available to help them, even if they join another guild.
 
Again, it all boils down to community.
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Yeah, this is the wall I hit.
 
I came into the game with a dozen people. After one whole month, it was down to me and one other guy. Out of the DOZENS of founding members of the Saddles, who is left?
 
There is just no way I can convince anyone who has played, to play again. I've sent invites, I've told them about the trial. Deaf ears.
 
They came, the saw, they ran screaming back to WoW and will not be pulled back, no matter what. :(
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Unfortunately, we can't drag them back, kicking and screaming, to show them how it is now.
 
I had several people, I have played games with for the past 10 years, who started playing on release with me. They all lasted about a month. I am the only one left. I know how you feel.
 
I bounced around a little till I decided to join the Blazing Saddles. Now I have found a home.
 
I just wish I could make people see the game from my eyes. *shrug
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I just wish I could make people see the game from my eyes. *shrug
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Patience is the virtue.  I keep up my own little PR campaign, doing what I can. :)  If you don't let it go away, people will come around.  Nobody posts WoW snippets or news on Facebook, but I post Wildstar's now and then.  It works.
 
It also helps that a healthy chunk of my friends opted to play ESO.  There's a bit of disillusion in their camp.
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I think my problem is my friends DID see the game through my eyes. :(
 
I freely admit to being fairly critical of a good many things here, while simultaneously being a huge fan.
 
But it takes a certain level of investment to be able to enjoy a game like this, warts and all. Having been in Beta for almost a year prior to Launch, I wanted to know that my time and efforts weren't wasted. So I was a huge fanboy/cheerleader even when I saw the writing on the wall. At some point, I waffled from cheerleader to critic, due to what I saw as wasted potential on a monumental scale.
 
Maybe I shouldn't have been so harsh. Maybe I should have left sooner. :lol:
 
One thing I can say for certain, I knew Vic was the only man for the Guildmaster job once I had decided to go. He's done remarkable work, and I've never been more proud of someone I've never actually met. ;)
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I feel like I'm the only one who came with people that stayed XD. Then again I only showed up with two other people, and we're all pretty down for a challenge and love most of what the game has to offer. 
 
I also know several people who have heard of the game but haven't tried it yet, so now that they've brought the game to a point where I'm not embarrassed that I play it on occasion, I'll see about bringing them in. 	
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There is just no way I can convince anyone who has played, to play again. I've sent invites, I've told them about the trial. Deaf ears.  They came, the saw, they ran screaming back to WoW and will not be pulled back, no matter what. :(
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I think my problem is my friends DID see the game through my eyes. :(
 
I freely admit to being fairly critical of a good many things here, while simultaneously being a huge fan.
 
But it takes a certain level of investment to be able to enjoy a game like this, warts and all. Having been in Beta for almost a year prior to Launch, I wanted to know that my time and efforts weren't wasted. So I was a huge fanboy/cheerleader even when I saw the writing on the wall. At some point, I waffled from cheerleader to critic, due to what I saw as wasted potential on a monumental scale.
 
Maybe I shouldn't have been so harsh. Maybe I should have left sooner. :lol:
 
One thing I can say for certain, I knew Vic was the only man for the Guildmaster job once I had decided to go. He's done remarkable work, and I've never been more proud of someone I've never actually met. ;)
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I'm here because of mechari, well their feet to be precise. 
 
As much as I wanted into the beta, and signed up months and months beforehand. I had to slug it out to get those weekend beta passes from Alienware/ComputerGamer.....ect. Check the twitter, then try and be there on the dot to get a ticket so I could make my opinion known. I talked to one of the Devs during the time that I could not get in, and it just made me want to get in more....Also I was terrified that when I was silent that changes would be made. So I came in with an agenda to give the best feedback I could. Now I was never as prolific as CleverClover, but I was still invested in trying to help this game do well.
The cancellation of the holidays was irritating, but really I was burned out trying to solo this game. I'm too stubborn to give up my mechari even when the rest of you are exile.
 
I'm still invested, and will be here fighting to the last if they let me.
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I'm here because of mechari, well their feet to be precise. 
 
As much as I wanted into the beta, and signed up months and months beforehand. I had to slug it out to get those weekend beta passes from Alienware/ComputerGamer.....ect. Check the twitter, then try and be there on the dot to get a ticket so I could make my opinion known. I talked to one of the Devs during the time that I could not get in, and it just made me want to get in more....Also I was terrified that when I was silent that changes would be made. So I came in with an agenda to give the best feedback I could. Now I was never as prolific as CleverClover, but I was still invested in trying to help this game do well.
The cancellation of the holidays was irritating, but really I was burned out trying to solo this game. I'm too stubborn to give up my mechari even when the rest of you are exile.
 
I'm still invested, and will be here fighting to the last if they let me.
Other games are not this game, this is my game. 
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True facts, I was going to main Dominion before Tex contacted me to take over the Saddles as GM.  That's right, Trajan Spenser was going to be my main.
 
 
 
 
Sorry Trajan, the light of day must seem like a million miles away...
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I'm here because of mechari, well their feet to be precise. 
 
As much as I wanted into the beta, and signed up months and months beforehand. I had to slug it out to get those weekend beta passes from Alienware/ComputerGamer.....ect. Check the twitter, then try and be there on the dot to get a ticket so I could make my opinion known. I talked to one of the Devs during the time that I could not get in, and it just made me want to get in more....Also I was terrified that when I was silent that changes would be made. So I came in with an agenda to give the best feedback I could. Now I was never as prolific as CleverClover, but I was still invested in trying to help this game do well.
The cancellation of the holidays was irritating, but really I was burned out trying to solo this game. I'm too stubborn to give up my mechari even when the rest of you are exile.
 
 
 
I'm still invested, and will be here fighting to the last if they let me.
Other games are not this game, this is my game. 
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Now I just feel guilty for leaving When I was running Skullkickers. >_<;
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I have terrible luck over on Dominion. I was starting to warm up to the idea of a guild again when Tyroprop got sick. 
 
Hurumph. 
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I'm here because of mechari, well their feet to be precise. 
 
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Might as well contribute with today's activities:
 
First of all, I've taken over the IconLoot Addon :D
Released a new version today that reduces the amount of callbacks made over time, effectively optimizing the Addon :)
Send a PM to the author, and he was happy to let me tinker around with the Addon.
So those of you using it, get downloading :D
 
No WildStar today for me, at least not much.
Got my Birthday tommorow, and took my parents and some friends out for dinner.
They made me a really awesome present:
 
 
They made me a Custom Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.
I'm so happy with this gift :D	
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You are here because of Mechari feet? I would like to know more.... =p
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I saw they left Skullkickers and started a new Guild is Skullkickers still a thing? Or are they lost to a bygone era?
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I dont think its around, my medic is.guidless now, but id be willing to help restart it. Did you at least try to play Jacosta again?
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No, I'll give her a whirl tonight though who knows maybe it's a race/class combo issue.
Her name is Keraya Skulltaker now. 
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You changed some stuff on your plot it looks like. That or I just never saw it at the very end. 
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A bunch of Skullkickers left to form Red Bastion (Belegnole was among them IIRC, and Typrop ran it).  I'm not sure what happened to the Skullkickers. I don't know who the Dominion counterpart to us are on Entity lately, things have been muddy since Typrop got sick.  Red Bastion may still be around, but I'm not sure.  I've been recommending the Old Timers Guild in the meantime until I know who that other guild is and who they can contact.
 
We try to funnel people into the guilds around.  Right now, if we don't work out, I tend to send people to the BDS or Veil on Exile.  Dominion I send people to OTG first (willing to take suggestions).  EU Jabbit I send people to the Voidrunners (I think I can also send people to Om Nom Potato now) on Exiles and refer people to Venus Rising and Nihilism on Dominion.  The PVP servers I tend to recommend specific people, but so many refugees are on Entity until the PVP changes start to rain in.
 
I hear those are supposed to start even before Drop 5, but it's going to be a pretty involved process.	
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One of the Devs let it slip that there was a thread trying to get the feet changed. As enamored as I was with mechari, it was akin to telling a kid that they were about to torch Disneyland. It's kinda silly in hindsight, and I doubt that they would have changed the model so drastically at that stage, but it put a fire under my behind to get my opinion known. 
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Oh haha, I was playing a joke at feet fetishes. Nice to know though, they can use it.
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I saw they left Skullkickers and started a new Guild is Skullkickers still a thing? Or are they lost to a bygone era?
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			Btw Vic if the people you find have any interest in raiding we are always happy to see more applications at Delve Deep ^^ (dom side)	
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I see.. *ponders*  *squirms a bit* I dunno if I can expect anyone to trust me to lead a guild until I've figured out if I can find my groove. I'll still hop on Keraya, but I don't think I'm going to try to start anything for the time being. I felt horroble when I left the first time, I'd have to be 100% sure I was back before I would commit to try something like that. 
 
TBH until they say City Of Titans will never be a thing any home I take is ultimately temporary (as we know Super Heroes are where my heart lay.)	
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You were going to quit without giving your badass, chua hating Drakken warrior a try. wth Scott. ...
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No, I'll give her a whirl tonight though who knows maybe it's a race/class combo issue.
Her name is Keraya Skulltaker now.
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Did they ever put a barber shop in so I can change her hair?
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Did they ever put a barber shop in so I can change her hair?
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Btw Vic if the people you find have any interest in raiding we are always happy to see more applications at Delve Deep ^^ (dom side)
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