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In honor of our brothers and sisters in France, this morning's breakfast is croissants and coffee.
 
 
Honestly, I didn't play a lot on Friday. Shortly after I logged in, the news started trickling in and once the details starts emerging, I kind of lost heart and spent the evening listening to the live news-feeds and hugging my kids. I'm still kind of in shock this morning.
 
Saturday was the Renaissance Festival, and it was glorious in every way. The weather was perfect, the kids were well-behaved, the crowds were manageable and the wife doesn't have pockets in her garb, so I got to hold all the money! :D  Which basically means we had a great time spending too much cash on knick-knacks, foods-on-a-stick, riding assorted mammals and generally experiencing everything we could in eight hours of faire. Passed out on the way home, woke up stiff and sore and once I got home, played some PVP for a couple hours before calling it a day.
 
Yesterday was touch-and-go. Played a lot in the morning and early evening and PVP'd my Warrior from level 24 to level 31 (32? I forget) over both days, doing little more than PVPing and the Lopp Wedding Quest chain in Whitevale (just can't not do that one!)  I keep forgetting how much I like Warrioring. LEAP, SMASH FACE, KICK, SMASH FACE, GRAPPLE, BUZZSAW TO THE FACE. :lol:   Good times, good times.
 
So, what about you, Nexus? Anything exciting to report? I am honestly ready for a nice, quiet week before the insanity of Thanksgiving week and Christmas ads take over every waking moment starting next Monday.	
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Exciting to report? Well, we got System Daemons down to ~13%, and that felt pretty awesome! We have basically one mechanic we couldn't quite figure out how to manage, but I think we have some good ideas the morning after. Hoping for a kill our next session. Sadly, with the holidays coming up we're having trouble putting our optimal kill team in together in the next two weeks, which is frustrating because we are SO CLOSE. It was *such* a good group last night, I hope we can get it together soon!
 
Time to focus on gearing up other people for a fatter, geared roster I think. On to more GA!!!!
 
We're also trying out a joint second raid with another guild (maybe two other guilds) on Wednesday to get some newer folks some GA experience/gear. Will probably only be a two hour thing, but should be fun!	
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Yes, croissants and pain au chocolat for the french people. I lit a candle and put out in the window on saturday as well. It's terrible =(
 
Nice to hear you had a fun festival in all of that, seems like there were lots of fun stuff going on there =)
I've reached lvl50 on my pink chua, got all purple pvp gear and should probably start messing around with runes until I go legendary for cheaper rerolls. 
Got quite much to do this week though so will have less time to play, need to get an assignment done. So will be a bg here and there and perhaps putting up some walls in the house.
I got the strain snarflelynx mount for cash, it's adorable and I've been looking for something to spend real cash on and finally found it. Hopefully it's a little boost to next quarter financial reports. 
Having coffee now and soon starting work, hope you all have a nice evening =)	
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			Well it was an interesting weekend to say the least. Other than solo queing pvp all weekend i also did my first veteran expedition. I would have gotten gold if i would have remembered where the black box was at and didn't waste 8 min trying to find it. I have all my pvp gear now but still need to get most of them upgraded. I also noticed even though I am a warrior I was getting shredded in group encounters. 	
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I would have gotten gold if i would have remembered where the black box was at and didn't waste 8 min trying to find it.
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Well it was an interesting weekend to say the least. Other than solo queing pvp all weekend i also did my first veteran expedition. I would have gotten gold if i would have remembered where the black box was at and didn't waste 8 min trying to find it. I have all my pvp gear now but still need to get most of them upgraded. I also noticed even though I am a warrior I was getting shredded in group encounters. 
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Good Morning/Afternoon all, 
 
Spent the weekend working on my Stalker some more and he is coming along well, that's me at level 44 and a bit, not long now till I hit max level with him and ive thoroughly enjoyed the class.  I am a bit of an altaholic so once he is done I will start working up his gear and switch out between doing that and leveling up another class.....think I might try Engineer next as I want a range class and its either that or Esper.
 
One thing I have noticed is Malgrave is alot busier than alot of the other zones, I have bumped into more people in this zone than alot of the other zones combined. I also continued my story in Thayd where you go through the portal and I kinda wished I got to keep those extra skills you get within it, especially the one where my character felt like Guile out of SF2 with what looked like his boomerang throwing.  Now I would not consider myself a bad player and im probably not the greatest ever but even with a Stalker im pretty sure my healing done was not as bad as this: 
 
 
Ignore my chars last name because im not used to doing last names and every one of them is awful lol. Overall still having a fantastic time and just when I think ive seen it all in a zone I stumble across something else which keeps me occupied for even longer. Normally when I get to this stage in other MMO's it just feels grindy but in Wildstar I haven't had that feeling and I think its simply because of the abundance of quests you get it never really feels like you are grinding as its broken up into smaller numbers rather than kill 100 of x. Next stop is max level and deciding wither tank Stalker is my scene or DPS Stalker is for me......I have heard it can be really costly to rune up so if I make the wrong choice it could end up setting me back a bit. 	
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I spent PVP weekend farming double prestige. I mostly PUG'ed, but I actually made my own group a couple times..."Premades" aren't easy to get into, I think our guild is looking for a bigger guild to roll into so we can get into groups more often. I farmed enough prestige to buy a full set of season 2 support gear and all the imbuements- I have about half of the rune fragments, so runes will be done sometime this week depending on how much more I grind and if/when the CX comes back. (Oddly, I was the most bummed about the CX crash because I wanted to go shopping for dyes this weekend- I really want to rune this new set of gear using mostly fragments from loot.)
 
I also made a new outfit, and snapped my most desktop worthy screenshot to date:
 
I really do love this game! (Hats of to the art department, I especially love to do outfits and housing decor between my matches :)  )
			
				
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Vunne's parents are ok, but you can imagine we didn't get much time to play.
Work is also picking up, so I probably will not get much time to play in the future. At least the circumstances will be more pleasant. 	
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Ha- I actually did make a new outfit for my alt (turns out that making outfits for female characters is more fun- I think they just look better).
 	
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I'm quite happy I was able to actually take advantage of the double prestige this weekend! Didn't get to last time but woo boy. Husband and I spent like 6+ hours running battlegrounds (and ventured into 3s a few times... that was painful, sorry Cast! xD). I managed to finish out my entire ilvl 70 set and fully imbued 3 pieces - weapon, legs, and chest. According to the website, it's still going on today, so we may try and get our remaining imbuements done when I get home from work. Then perhaps we won't splat in arenas and we can start working toward those costumes...
 
Also played around in the BnS closed beta a bit on saturday with some friends. It'll probably end up being a side thing for us, though the stink of NCSoft is... very strong with that one.
 
Oh! And saturday night, I was able to raid, and... we killed Phagemaw! :D It was awesome! And we even took a few cracks at Phagetech Prototypes afterward! I actually did almost 50% of the total healing on Phagemaw, which amuses me as one out of four healers. Finally feeling pretty good about my contribution to the raid group; up until that night, I was unsure if folk took me seriously, but surely they must now?? :O	
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Ha- I actually did make a new outfit for my alt (turns out that making outfits for female characters is more fun- I think they just look better).
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Oh! And saturday night, I was able to raid, and... we killed Phagemaw! :D
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I ended up playing BnS beta for a bit with some friends and then went back to doing PvP on my draken which was a lot of fun.
 
Most exciting thing though for me was that I finally got a new mic and I convinced some people to do some RP during our quests and PvP time. It's weird to some people but I'm far mroe comfortable roleplaying a character with voicing rather than text. They were very hesitant and shy at first, but they ended up wanting to do more of it. I think the best part of it all is hearing how people try to interpret their character voices. 	
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My System Daemons role has changed again :lol:  I went from kicker to adds management to dedicated adds tank.  I'm having fun with this incarnation although I probably need to take a hard look at my tank runes or somehow scrape the cash together to invest in a Waller set or even Furor 4-piece.  I haven't had tooo many issues with threat but our top DPS can rip aggro like no tomorrow (Jeff's wife does better DPS than him :shh:) and I'm not even a main tank.
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Oh! And saturday night, I was able to raid, and... we killed Phagemaw! :D It was awesome! And we even took a few cracks at Phagetech Prototypes afterward! I actually did almost 50% of the total healing on Phagemaw, which amuses me as one out of four healers. Finally feeling pretty good about my contribution to the raid group; up until that night, I was unsure if folk took me seriously, but surely they must now?? :o
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I think the best part of it all is hearing how people try to interpret their character voices. 
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I've been back-and-forth between WildStar and Fallout 4 the last few days. Fallout 4 in the afternoon, WildStar in the evening, if I have time for either of them. I don't get burned out on either of them with the current system (I'm Steamsharing off of a friend, so when they come home at night and play Fallout, I hop off and play WildStar) and I still get in some good questing time. I'd probably be level 50 now if I hadn't started playing Fallout, but I'm not racing there anyway. Still just taking my time, doing every quest in every area.
 
Oh, and I found a Discovery in Malgrave yesterday that gave me a very nice, very simple handyman's smock-- which is just what I was looking for, because the only other decent smock I'd seen was the medical smock sold by the Renown Vendor, and I didn't think the (+) on the front made it an appropriate costume for a character that wears it while building furniture/homes.	
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I ended up playing BnS beta for a bit with some friends and then went back to doing PvP on my draken which was a lot of fun.
 
Most exciting thing though for me was that I finally got a new mic and I convinced some people to do some RP during our quests and PvP time. It's weird to some people but I'm far mroe comfortable roleplaying a character with voicing rather than text. They were very hesitant and shy at first, but they ended up wanting to do more of it. I think the best part of it all is hearing how people try to interpret their character voices. 
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			Hey, speaking of Discoveries, I joined a Star-Comm group yesterday for the event and just as it was ending, a Discovery opened up under me. Got me a Prosperous chest piece. Also got the Northern Wastes pumera pet this weekend, too.	
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Oof... My trying to do Kitty's mangled speech?  Coupled with the cognitive dissonance of a male voice, don't think I'd be able to pull that off :lol:   I'll admit it's probably easier to speak than type though.
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I've been back-and-forth between WildStar and Fallout 4 the last few days.
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That moment when you took a break from wildstar for the weekend (and well most of last week as well) and realize it's a 2xprestige* pvp weekend.  
 
 
 
Yeah.   That sums it up.  But man on the whole crossiant thing, do I love them glazed in something sweet :).
			
				
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Have you seen the CRONUT?!?!
 
 
That's a donut made with croissant dough instead of regular yeast dough.
 
Oh. Mah. GAWD.
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Yeah.   That sums it up.  But man on the whole crossiant thing, do I love them glazed in something sweet :).
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That moment when you took a break from wildstar for the weekend (and well most of last week as well) and realize it's a 2xp pvp weekend.  
 
 
 
Yeah.   That sums it up.  But man on the whole crossiant thing, do I love them glazed in something sweet :).
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Well, it was double prestige weekend- I heard double XP is this next coming weekend if that helps you feel better....
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Have you seen the CRONUT?!?!
 
 
That's a donut made with croissant dough instead of regular yeast dough.
 
Oh. Mah. GAWD.
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They are... SO GOOD. I've had a couple... but oh my god are they oily (a friend put one of a piece of paper for a moment, and the stain it left.... 5 pages deep!).
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Hello Everybody - 
 
Yep, a really fun weekend in Wildstar.  The raiding circle is making progress faster than expected.  After a couple of just for practice attempts on Phage Maw at the end of last week's Saturday session, we go and down him on the 6th pull this time.  We then completed the ven diagram challenge, that was cool.  Ended up with more than enough time for several attempts on Phage Tech Prototypes, which was both a blessing and a curse.  Blessing because Yay for new content, curse because none of us had expected to get to them so fast so no one really had a strategy prepared.  We did some on the fly research and came up with a plan and had a lot of fun on the pulls we attempted.  I got to visit ghostland!  Oh next time Prototypes, you will be ours.  And you did so much healing on Phage Maw Naunet because you were healing the group I was in, so all that healing was more than likely going to me  :) .
 
Sunday I did some PvP with Guildies.  3v3 with Jack and Antimony, yeah so umm won some and got slaughtered some.  My PvP gear is not so good.  Picked up a few more Guildies and then ran some battlegrounds.  Did much better in there, I really like the Temple with the masks, the match we had in there seemed to last a good while and it was a real back and forth affair that we ended up winning.
 
Sp question for all the folks who raid with a pretty static group.  Our circle is made up of three Guilds and is starting to encounter an interesting dilemma.  We have progressed enough that we are able to clear the first floor in about 2.5 hours, which sets us up nicely to work on the second floor only Saturday nights, maybe even start working on the second floor a bit Wednesday nights if we keep on this pace.  Killing more bosses and mini bosses means more loot, so much loot that trying to make sure the high end loot (gear tokens and Major Class set foci) gets distributed evenly among the participants is getting to be a bit of a chore.  Now keep in mind that we are still new enough that the higher end stuff is an upgrade to most of our members.  So when you were coming up through the ranks while raiding, how did you guys handle the higher end loot distribution?	
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Ended up with more than enough time for several attempts on Phage Tech Prototypes, which was both a blessing and a curse.  Blessing because Yay for new content, curse because none of us had expected to get to them so fast so no one really had a strategy prepared.  We did some on the fly research and came up with a plan and had a lot of fun on the pulls we attempted.
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Spent the weekend getting my medic geared up. I've been doing as many world bosses as possible with him and it's finally paid off, got a support helm, support shoulders, and a nice shield. I also redid my AMPs, they were kind of a mess from leveling.
 
Funny story: I had whined all summer about not ever getting the Scorchwing pet. I had been trying to get the darn thing since it was released and I had killed Scorchwing SO many times (including non-contract days). I finally got it a few weeks ago on Reekah and was so happy! Well, last week Milo got it on his first Scorchwing kill. Figures :p. I considered selling it but decided to just keep it, haha. Milo actually has a nice variety of pets since I actually did challenges with him while leveling (which was honestly because I was playing with someone new to the game who wanted to do them).
 
In general, I'm enjoying the fact that progenitor access particles drop from contracts now. I really like hunting world bosses and this encourages more people to contribute.	
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And you did so much healing on Phage Maw Naunet because you were healing the group I was in, so all that healing was more than likely going to me  :) .
 
Sunday I did some PvP with Guildies.  3v3 with Jack and Antimony, yeah so umm won some and got slaughtered some.  My PvP gear is not so good.  Picked up a few more Guildies and then ran some battlegrounds.  Did much better in there, I really like the Temple with the masks, the match we had in there seemed to last a good while and it was a real back and forth affair that we ended up winning.
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Ah yes, Castark the Damage Sponge, I believe is your birth name? ;p You did fine for having so little PvP gear! Need to get you in the i70 stuff at least before we really dive into 3v3s again, though (outside of contracts). Battlegrounds are easier to gear up in cause THE SWARM protects you. :D
 
Walatiki's fun, but I was so sick of it by the end of yesterday. Over 6 hours of PvP and we got Halls a grand total of 4 times - the rest, Walatiki. @_@
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A little late here but stuff! Work mostly.
 
Anyway, whenever I've do DnD and Deadlands and stuff in the past I try to voice my characters properly, but I've found its a lot harder for me to stay in character. I tend to gravitate toward making decisions I would make and that the character wouldn't make. Granted that always happens, but the closer and closer I get to being there myself the more I tend to act like myself. Hence why when I finally tried LARPing I prettymuch just played myself.
 
In even more System Daemons news, I am very disappointed with how our DD raid went this weekend. This is the third night after our first SD kill and we haven't managed to do it again. Usually there's a down period after the first kill but this is getting incredibly ridiculous and frustrating for me since I'm basically at the point where I'm 95% doing everything right and we still lose. And since I wasn't there on the first SD kill I still can't pick up my free DS gear. So yeah. Not so happy. I hope this week will be different but I'm really just disappointed at the moment.	
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