109086-how-is-the-game-at-50

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Hey guys,
 
So im closing in on 50 and while im worried about servers pop the main thing im concerned about is how available the game is at 50 for someone who will play for about 2 - 3 hours a night? the reason i ask is just that i am constantly hearing things along the lines of go hardcore or go home however is it really that blocked off to people with a job?
 
Any info would be great
 
Sparkz	
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Depends on your server and community.
 
My recommendation is if you need social interaction, join a large guild, see what they like to do when they're not attuning or raiding. Housing is a good way to occupy yourself, but if you're not interested in that, aside from dailies, there's little to do unless you're a completionist that wants Titles/Achievement points.
 
I'm not knocking the game, but if you can spend 2-3 hours a night, that's more than enough to get your attunement knocked out. You need dailies for rep, then adventures, dungeons, world bosses, and so on. 	
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			Personally, as soon as i hit 50, the fun and appeal was over. But there are a lot of people who love and enjoy wildstar.	
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			If you missed Attunements and "Hard" Raids then you've found your game.	
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			Sadly population is in such a decline it's hard to do things at level 50. I'm on the most popular PvE server in the EU and I have to wait about 30-60 min for a dungeon to pop - which lasts usually about 10 min as someone afk's/abandons the group/selected the wrong role etc.	
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i find it very accessable.
 
some days i found myself to decorate my house for hours straight, then you can pug adventures easily. or have a blast at pvp. also veteran dungeons are more pug able now. they lower the attunement requirements a bit on the dungeon part and are looking into the worldboss part.
so even for the more "casual" player raids will become more accessable.
 
people missunderstand that "hardcore" thing. they think "hardcore" is to sit 24/7 in front of the pc. imo carbine meant that "hardcore" to be more about the gameplay mechanics. if you screw up, you get punished. the way it should be imo.
 
carbine rewards heavy time investment tho (extra ability/AMP points), without making it a requirement.	
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i find it very accessable.
 
some days i found myself to decorate my house for hours straight, then you can pug adventures easily. or have a blast at pvp. also veteran dungeons are more pug able now. they lower the attunement requirements a bit on the dungeon part and are looking into the worldboss part.
so even for the more "casual" player raids will become more accessable.
 
people missunderstand that "hardcore" thing. they think "hardcore" is to sit 24/7 in front of the pc. imo carbine meant that "hardcore" to be more about the gameplay mechanics. if you screw up, you get punished. the way it should be imo.
 
carbine rewards heavy time investment tho (extra ability/AMP points), without making it a requirement.
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Depends on what you want to do.
 
There are plenty of differnt things that you can do.  In 2 hours / night , you could accomplish:
 
Challenge circles - Could go around to your favorite places and replay your favorite challenges.  Loot ranges from crafting mats, rune mats, item drops, and achievements.
 
Crafting - lots of different avenues to partake in.  If you're a completionist, you got lots of things to craft for achievements.  This of course, also turns into money when you sell items.
 
Adventures - a very casual, relaxed group play atmosphere.  Most runs require a tank / heal by designation, but that is not the case.  Can grab your buddies, have a nice relaxed time and mess around with the runs - lots of paths to choose so each run is technically like 40 runs.  Tons of variety.  Rewards are loot items, rare drops, etc etc.
 
Dungeons - more of a challenge then adventures, but still really easy.  Grab your friends, or make some new ones, and try to complete the optionals and/or challenges.  Go nuts, try out new specs / play styles.
 
Dailies - Single play more your style?  There are currently 3 zones in which we have dailies (more will be added).  Technically there are 6, if you don't mind content a couple levels below.  Rewards are rep loot (items, armors, recipes, etc).
 
Achievements - google up some of your missing achievements, and tackle a few a night.  Everyone is a little different, and kinda cool to have. 
 
Title farming - Same thing, find out how to get titles, and go get 'em.  Gotta catch 'em all.
 
Housing - Make yourself the biggest baddest castle.  Heck, you  can also use items to act as floors, so you can technically make yourself multiple layers on your plot.  Theme park anyone?
 
Farming - hit up any high end area, tackle some monsters, and hope for rare loot for big bucks! 
 
Path - Up your pathing level to max.  Youll have to backtrack a lot of areas, but its cool.
 
Costume design - Go hunting for some killer treads!	
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			ahh good to know cheers for the knowledge bombs guys helped restore my faith from the worries :)	
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50 is what you make of it. The game is still 2 months old, so there is quite a bit of content, but not the sheer volume there is in an older game (though the devs are great about getting out monthly content drops). 
 
That said, there really is a lot to do depending on what you like. Attunement and raiding is very rewarding. Heck even if you don't plan on raiding working through the attunement process can feel rewarding as you complete the steps. Some people complai nreal loud about it being a 'wall', but that just makes it feel like a much greater achievement when you climb that 'wall' imo.
 
PvP is decent; still some exploiting issues, but the devs are working to fix them. BG's are still very fun IMO, pug or with a group (as long as you have thick skin and can handle losing with dignity). The new sabotage map is pretty fun for a small group.
 
Instanced content is fun; adventures and dungeons are fun; running them on Vet is challenging and keeps them fresh at 50. Shiphands will be getting a veteran mode soon, which I'm personally super excited about. There are also the scaling expeditions which are fun to do solo or with some friends.
 
If exploration is your thing you won't be bored for a while. I've been actively exploring nexus since BETA and still find cool new things around Nexus. Even once you've seen everything in all the zones; the artists left things in the areas off the map that you can find; houses, stuff, ruins, etc. 
 
Extra quests can be found all over if you enjoy that kind of thing. There is a nifty quest you can get from the Strain Laboratory Housing plug that makes you run around Blighthaven and grimvault solving puzzles; it rewards some cool decor items and stuff. You can complete the museum quests (finding a rare item in each of the zones and returning to Belle / Zin). You get a nifty title if you find them all. Data cubes for the lore junkies; and for the super lore junkies (the scientists among us) you can search through all of the Exolabs for the Caretaker data constructs to scan for extra lore and some juicy story details.
 
I'm a huge fan of the Blighthaven dailies / large group quests. Sneaking / blasting through the nursery and watching the holorecordings of Drusera is BA; protecting the life tree from the Entity, also BA; Scorchwing is how World Bosses should be done (with a daily quest that incentivises groups to take him down).
 
Housing is probably the best out of any MMO; I can't tell you how much time I've spent redecorating my plots; I even maxed architect on an alt just to get mu decor fix a little cheaper :3
 
There are daily zones at 50 that revisit old places (Crimson Badlands is a 50 version of Crimson Isle; Northern Wastes is a 50 version of Northern Wilds). They are hit or miss; I love Northern Wastes; hate Crimson Badlands. They are good to cap your elder points for a week; make some Plat, and get reputation for some ok items from their rep. vendors. Don't have to do them if you dont like; you can cap elder points pretty easily running any content that gives significant exp. You can also cap your faction rep through other means if you are on that portion of attunement.
 
Theres completion of your path; depending on what path you chose this can be a long completion type activity or just a few extra days of killing stuff.
 
Crafting is a fun activity as well. Some folks either love or hate the crafting systems; I personally love them (compared to the crafting in FFXI / EQ1&2 / etc). even if it turns out you hate the crafting system; getting a craft that is synergistic with your preferred activities levelled is great for the items (e.g. if you love housing; maxing an architect to make your own decor).
 
There are world bosses, they are pretty underwhelming at the moment; but are still fun to take down with a small group (or a large one). 
 
You can spend time customizing your costumes / completing challenges.... I personally LOVE rolling challenges. There are some really fun ones around Nexus; and while some I can't stand; the ones I love I absolutely LOVE! 
 
 
I'm sure I missed some things; but thats my personal list of stuff to do at 50. You can as always; just hang around and socialize too. If you are on an RP server there are some great social communities that seem to have a blast.. Really 50 is what you make of it :)
 
Best,
Naz	
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ahh good to know cheers for the knowledge bombs guys helped restore my faith from the worries :)
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			Well you can't move like you used to, your hair starts going, and you have to start paying a lot more attention to your fiber intak-oh, you mean in Wildstar.	
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Join a guild, and make sure you just do what people say or you'll be "boycotted" out of any future groups.
And be left with pugs, speaking out of experience.
 
What I mean by do what people say is, if you don't fold on your roll when someone in the guild that has been there longer than you wants it, and either threatens to do whatever "guild wise", or offers to pay you to fold then well, you have choices or go find another guild, but who's to tell that won't happen there either..
 
Guild starts with a C if you want to know @ pergo.	
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Hey guys,
 
So im closing in on 50 and while im worried about servers pop the main thing im concerned about is how available the game is at 50 for someone who will play for about 2 - 3 hours a night? the reason i ask is just that i am constantly hearing things along the lines of go hardcore or go home however is it really that blocked off to people with a job?
 
Any info would be great
 
Sparkz
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There is something very important about being 50 in this game.  Make friends with game players.  The social aspect is so important because this game is incredibly difficult at 50.
 
In the responses here, you see the difference.  People that mastered guilds, circles, and have friends from PUGs, they're having a great time.  It's the best MMORPG in the world.  People who soloed, PUGed with single-serving group members, and expected to waltz into raiding are very disappointed.
 
More than anything else, hard MMORPGs require you to socialize; there's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.  Try to PUG vet adventures, be ready to roll the dice on whether you complete it.  Think you want world bosses?  Be ready to try and convince 20 people to jump that boss.  Forget about raiding if you can't join a raiding guild, there is no margin for error.
 
But between guilds and circles (the most underutilized function in the game), meeting people is actually a cinch.  Join some circles, join a guild, make some friends, and you'll be hard pressed to figure out where to stuff your time.
 
It doesn't take long on these forums to know who did what.
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Don't assume people's feelings with how they played the game. Kind of an insulting assumption to make about any player that feels they have constructive criticism of the game or are underwhelmed at the experience.
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Nothing you have said, Vic, is a justification for not offering enough solo content. You are under the wrong impression that everyone likes group content when, in fact, a lot of people do not. Worse, you seem to think that people would surely like that content if they tried! Oh, but they won't because they are whinny little babies with no merit in their criticism for the game. Because the game is perfect.
 
Actually, the worse part is when you try to write down the common criticism and purposedly misrepresent them.
 
In any case, you are right that if you don't like raiding/instances with static or semi static groups, you are pretty much screwed until the PuG friendly patch arrives who knows when. The game is HARDCORE right now, you see. Pretty much every other activity available is covered in RNG or grinding. Because that's HARCORE, you see.	
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Nothing you have said, Vic, is a justification for not offering enough solo content. You are under the wrong impression that everyone likes group content when, in fact, a lot of people do not. Worse, you seem to think that people would surely like that content if they tried! Oh, but they won't because they are whinny little babies with no merit in their criticism for the game. Because the game is perfect.
 
Actually, the worse part is when you try to write down the common criticism and purposedly misrepresent them.
 
In any case, you are right that if you don't like raiding/instances with static or semi static groups, you are pretty much screwed until the PuG friendly patch arrives who knows when. The game is HARDCORE right now, you see. Pretty much every other activity available is covered in RNG or grinding. Because that's HARCORE, you see.
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Nothing you have said, Vic, is a justification for not offering enough solo content. You are under the wrong impression that everyone likes group content when, in fact, a lot of people do not. Worse, you seem to think that people would surely like that content if they tried! Oh, but they won't because they are whinny little babies with no merit in their criticism for the game. Because the game is perfect.
 
Actually, the worse part is when you try to write down the common criticism and purposedly misrepresent them.
 
In any case, you are right that if you don't like raiding/instances with static or semi static groups, you are pretty much screwed until the PuG friendly patch arrives who knows when. The game is HARDCORE right now, you see. Pretty much every other activity available is covered in RNG or grinding. Because that's HARCORE, you see.
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