118249-11-13-2014-morning-coffee-the-wild-night-edition

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Some coffee, because I was up too late last night, for reasons I'll enumerate....
 
 
So last night, I was at work until 8pm.  The life of an architectural designer is not always a pleasant one.  I was doing some elevation work for a remote file, which turned one hour of work into three.  Then I got caught on my way out and was asked to update a couple PDFs with new information and changes.  What can you do?  When the principle architect asks you nicely to do something because he needs it to get the office work, and you're salary, you're not leaving.  I finally got home and, in penance for having been gone so long, stayed to watch TV with the wife instead of logging in right away.  So I didn't get to log in until 10:30.  Figured I'd have time to poke around, then try the ring challenge in Grimvault.
 
So, somehow, doing Resonance Runner led me to essentially blow through the Defile quests and do Defense of the Lightspire.  Those quests are insanely good!  I really enjoyed the Defile quests.  On my way back, I ran through the 20 man zone and smack into a huge Dominion raid (yes, a huge Dommy raid on Entity, who knew?) doing the Siege of the Lightspire.  So I joined in on that!  Good times were had by all, though without a healer, that last boss fight's a pain on a warrior.  Still, downed him and got credit doing all the 20 man quests in the meantime.  It was awesome!  I hope every drop is like this!
 
And then, someone asked in /z for help killing Ely, and as a <Blazing Saddle>, I am obligated to never turn down the chance to backhand something for a cut of the profits (i.e., I'm pretty much down to kill anything for anyone).  So I dropped in to do that!  That went well, though I was there ostensibly to tank and ended up having a Dominion tank jump into the fight and pretty much own my threat.  But, you know, Ely died and no one else did, so no complaints from me.
 
Also, there was some guy in the party that the rest of the party thought was Pappy, probably because Pappy was in his name.  I didn't want to make that assumption, but I do wonder if that was really Pappy in that Ely fight.  I hope he didn't take my comments about him being a murderous overlord in my Nexus Report and 0-50 TLDRs too personally...
 
Anyway, hopefully I'll have more time tonight to... furnish some of the Shadowcaster!  So far, I've got a computer lab I have to make and an alchemy lab, in addition to moving the bar to where it's supposed to be from inside the housing plug.  See you on Nexus!	
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*yawn* Good morning. I also stayed up too late last night and am sucking down the coffee this morning. I'm dating someone new, and our schedules are very different, so unfortunately to spend any time with them I had to be up well past my bedtime. haha
 
Looking forward to getting some WildStar time in over the next couple of days before I have to go on a "vacation" for 5 days starting this weekend. I used quotes because it's a family thing and I don't really count it as vacation; I'd rather be at work than be stuck with these people for 5 days. lol!	
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I am ashamed to say that I started a new alt last night.  I made a "wandering blade" type of DPS Warrior.  I'm kind of excited by the prospect but I've got to get Malak to 50...so I feel so torn lol.  I've got a show tonight so I doubt I'll be leveling much of anything tonight except for my DJ level.  I need to rededicate myself to getting through the last couple of levels for Malak, but I'm just now entering Malgrave and the grind is starting to get to me I think.  it's not like it's been incredibly difficult; DPS Medic has been kind to me and I seem to have been avoiding the pitfalls that most people have by bucking the popular trend a bit.  I'm a Quantum Cascade Hipster ;)
 
Overall, I hate to bring down the wrath of the angered masses but I've felt that since the patch went live that this has kinda been how the game should have felt if it were given a little more time to cook.  The game feels better, plays smoother, and I'm having more fun in it.  I know that the sky is falling for a good number of people but I've actually felt a lot better about things since the patch hit.  How's everyone else feeling about things?	
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I am ashamed to say that I started a new alt last night.  I made a "wandering blade" type of DPS Warrior.  I'm kind of excited by the prospect but I've got to get Malak to 50...so I feel so torn lol.  I've got a show tonight so I doubt I'll be leveling much of anything tonight except for my DJ level.  I need to rededicate myself to getting through the last couple of levels for Malak, but I'm just now entering Malgrave and the grind is starting to get to me I think.  it's not like it's been incredibly difficult; DPS Medic has been kind to me and I seem to have been avoiding the pitfalls that most people have by bucking the popular trend a bit.  I'm a Quantum Cascade Hipster ;)
 
Overall, I hate to bring down the wrath of the angered masses but I've felt that since the patch went live that this has kinda been how the game should have felt if it were given a little more time to cook.  The game feels better, plays smoother, and I'm having more fun in it.  I know that the sky is falling for a good number of people but I've actually felt a lot better about things since the patch hit.  How's everyone else feeling about things?
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*yawn* Good morning. I also stayed up too late last night and am sucking down the coffee this morning. I'm dating someone new, and our schedules are very different, so unfortunately to spend any time with them I had to be up well past my bedtime. haha
 
Looking forward to getting some WildStar time in over the next couple of days before I have to go on a "vacation" for 5 days starting this weekend. I used quotes because it's a family thing and I don't really count it as vacation; I'd rather be at work than be stuck with these people for 5 days. lol!
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Overall, I hate to bring down the wrath of the angered masses but I've felt that since the patch went live that this has kinda been how the game should have felt if it were given a little more time to cook.  The game feels better, plays smoother, and I'm having more fun in it.  I know that the sky is falling for a good number of people but I've actually felt a lot better about things since the patch hit.  How's everyone else feeling about things?
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That's pretty much how I feel. Warrior tanking actually feels "right" and clear now. Still some refinement needs to be done, but I feel as though Drop 3 put the overall game in the proper direction. There are two things currently driving me up a wall though...1)my text in chat kept fading(ill look into that addon) 2)I don't know about anyone else but Entity has been very laggy recently for like 3 days...
 
Also sorry Vic if that was you at Elyona, I get competitive when it comes to threat, but also I wanted to see how well I did on threat and tried working on my rotations and such all yesterday, which seemed to pay off as I have a good solid feel for the new warrior tanking setup(S).
 
 
oh and morning all!
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Morning, all!
 
I'm kinda on the fence about this drop. The housing stuff is fantastic—so fantastic that I'd call the patch a success— but I didn't care much for the new content. People like to talk about how easy WoW is and how hard Wildstar is, but I brainlessly walked through almost all of the new content. The 20 person stuff in particular was just close eyes and mash buttons for an hour. It wasn't exactly bad, and I had some good times, but it definitely didn't impress me and will likely be old news in a week.
 
That said, nothing unusual there, and I must admit my bias. Level cap questing is almost always very boring for me. :P
 
The bug topic is kind of shaky ground. On the one hand I haven't experienced any critical bugs. On the other, I feel like anyone arguing this patch isn't buggy might be willfully ignoring the reports from others and not allowing themselves to register bugs that are there to be seen. All told I don't think the patch is in the negatives for this topic, because I have to assume a lot of bugs were fixed that didn't affect me. But I'm disappointed that almost none of the bugs I experience regularly have been properly fixed by D3.
 
1. Circle shuffle leading to MTs
2. Colour-swapping arrows in housing (apparently you have to blow up your house plug for their fix to work, not impressed)3. Decor bugging out (cannot place, even though it's in a good area), forcing the player to send it to crate
 
 
Some new bugs I've personally experienced: 
1. Colour fading on chat text
2. Neighbour list name-sorting borked
3. Mining nodes gone eccentric
4. Interactive decor breaks with scaling (perpetual run into the item)
5. Interior lighting options not always working (chua house specifically for me)
6. Gadget borked
7. Lore tab takes like 15s to load the first time after a log-in (don't understand this at all, other tabs work fine)
8. Whispers made through my neighbour panel not going through
9. Bugged or poorly designed CX results (repeat items, nonexistent items listed)
10. Having to repurchase trim we currently have active (if not a bug, poor design/lack of foresight)
11. No reputation with Crusaders earned for 20 person main quest (if not a bug, why?)
 
Given this information, I can't see how this isn't a buggy patch. If other games are also releasing content with a similar degree of bugginess, then I wouldn't say this is normal, I would say they're all releasing buggy content. :P   Personally, I've played games with minimal to no noticeable bugs (including reports from other players), so I don't think it's impossible or unreasonable to expect a higher degree of quality. When I get a really clean game, I state as one of its pros: "This game is polished". Blizzard has been producing a lot of polished content for the last 3-4 years, for example. Another example: I've played DOTA for about two years and have probably never experienced a single bug.
 
MMOs are quite different from single--player titles, so I keep an open mind and generally won't quit over bugs in this genre. But I have to say, this game definitely does not have "polish", as I interpret it. At all. :P
 
However, it does seem to me like WS is getting unfounded criticism in some respects. A lot of people are overlooking the pros of this patch because they don't fit into that person's narrative of fun. Which is a shame.
 
Funny though, I went to the release announcement for Warcraft's WOD expansion today and it was FLOODED with complaints. So many wild accusations and inane comments... it's sad to see, and Wildstar is not alone in receiving the "gimmegimmegimme" backhand of society. :rolleyes:
 
 	
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I haven't personally been having lag issues I've noticed.  I heard the server was crashing after the drop, but it was fine last night.  Where are you connecting from?
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*yawn* Good morning. I also stayed up too late last night and am sucking down the coffee this morning. I'm dating someone new, and our schedules are very different, so unfortunately to spend any time with them I had to be up well past my bedtime. haha
 
Looking forward to getting some WildStar time in over the next couple of days before I have to go on a "vacation" for 5 days starting this weekend. I used quotes because it's a family thing and I don't really count it as vacation; I'd rather be at work than be stuck with these people for 5 days. lol!
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Grats on the new girlfriend.  You're supposed to stay up for that.  Try to enjoy the family vacation, though.  I have a family vacation coming up to watch my mother, who's been a nurse for almost 30 years, finally graduate from Penn State.  I know how much that means to her.
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It's a guy, lol, sorry I was being intentionally vague so as to avoid awkwardness. Ah well :P
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It's a guy, lol, sorry I was being intentionally vague so as to avoid awkwardness. Ah well :P
 
I'm going to try, but my parents are just miserable to be around. We're going to see my great-grandparents, which will be good, and try to convince them to move to where the rest of the family is as they're pushing 90 and really should be where we can keep an eye on them.
 
Well hello fellow Virginian! :)
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Morning people!
 
As expected, I got on later that usual, but since mining and thicket resource plots are still kinda borked up I didn't bother with much gathering.  Ran into some interesting RP at the BHB.  "Small talk topics to avoid with Aurin" :lol:  At least it gave me an excuse to go work on Malgrave "Ah gotta go hit something hard, pref'bly Dom."  Just barely squeaked out level 46 and have one area left then it's on to Grimvault! 
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I need to rededicate myself to getting through the last couple of levels for Malak, but I'm just now entering Malgrave and the grind is starting to get to me I think.
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It's not that awkward.  He's not my boyfriend.   :lol:  No worries!
 
Yeah, my grandparents were living in Florida for a time.  All the rest of the family lives in Pittsburgh and Columbus, so it was always a worry that something might happen to them.
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Morning people!
 
As expected, I got on later that usual, but since mining and thicket resource plots are still kinda borked up I didn't bother with much gathering.  Ran into some interesting RP at the BHB.  "Small talk topics to avoid with Aurin" :lol:  At least it gave me an excuse to go work on Malgrave "Ah gotta go hit something hard, pref'bly Dom."  Just barely squeaked out level 46 and have one area left then it's on to Grimvault!
 
Heh... I think I caught some of that Malgrave fatigue. I pretty much played it in two parts and levelled an alt from 8 to 14 in between them.
 
 
I'm going to reserve judgement until next week to see how and if they handle a few issues.  My hot-button issue is the new? level-locking of resource nodes.  While it's sounding more like a goof there still hasn't been an acknowledgement if enforcing a character level was intended or not.
 
 
I was getting some solid 5-10 second pauses in Malgrave.  Saw it when trying to kill mobs, send my scanbot off to spy collect info or try to ride the dust devils in the Falkrin area.  This might be a Malgrave issue.
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I haven't personally been having lag issues I've noticed.  I heard the server was crashing after the drop, but it was fine last night.  Where are you connecting from?
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Good morning, all.
 
At the risk of being overly glib:
 
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A sizable portion of what Drop 3 was supposed to accomplish was QoL bug fixes. What I have to remind myself is that QoL fixes, when done well, are going to be all but invisible on patch day. It's kind of like putting a good stain on wood. It ends up looking polished, but very few people have an appreciation for the amount of time and effort it can take to get to that point.
 
However, with that said, I do hope that Carbine can fix some of the new issues pretty quickly. I was rather distressed last night to realize that the gathering issues are not only affecting lowbie characters. That was bad enough. I had originally assumed that I had lowbie neighbors gathering and leaving stumps (which isn't their fault). I just went through houses and cleared the stumps. But, in doing my gathering routine last night, I was able to test my own thicket, and it appears that thickets are actually spawning stumps instead of full trees. I suspect this issue is also affecting mining and relic plugs, but I don't have those to test.
 
My only real disappointment with this patch is that some of the lag issues are not fixed, and some actually seem to be worse. There are specific places in Illium where the game hiccups every single time my character passes, regardless of the number of players in the area or other factors that might normally be affecting game performance. The first place is about halfway down the ramp between Spaceport Alpha and the mount vendor. The second place is within a relatively small radius of the mount vendor's area. I was really hoping these places would be resolved with this patch, but they haven't. Hopefully they will be soon.
 
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I'm a Quantum Cascade Hipster ;)
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Hi everyone :)
 
I actually didn't do anything other than craft last night, because I wasn't feeling very well.  Hopefully tonight goes better.  I'm probably going to play the 'slinger tonight, rather than Neph, because I want to wait a week or two for the Defile to calm down before I take her in there.  I think one of the reasons people say the Defile quests feel really easy right now is just the sheer number of players running around and killing things.  I definitely want to see it but I'll wait for the crowds to clear a bit.
 
Anyway back to work for me but just wanted to pop in and say hello~	
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Still Stumps. Stumps everywhere! /BuzzLightyear
 
 
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NJ, seemed to occur primarily in Malgrave or at least everyone i was grouped with and people in zone were asking about lag. Abilities firing off late/not at all. Seemed really bad around 11pm eastern when we were doing R12. I feel it might be related to whatever has been causing entity to be so wonky lately.
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btw Typ, why do you have 2 warriors on Dominion? I have 2 espers too, but at least they are on different faction. :P
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I don't think the reaction to Drop 3 would have been so bad, but they supposedly delayed it in order to make it less buggy. 
 
For me, my garden is working again and Vendbots are restocked. The faded chat is still a problem and my gadget is invisible (I've started just hitting the button every time i look down to see if it's off CD).
 
I respec'd last night and got my DPS back to pre-patch level. Unfortunately it feels like I'm trying to tie my fingers in knots. 
 
A new Esper in the guild hit 50, so we took him on a vet adventure. We all agreed that WotW seemed harder than before, but in my case at least it may have been me still getting used to the new spec.	
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btw Typ, why do you have 2 warriors on Dominion? I have 2 espers too, but at least they are on different faction. :P
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That's the reason you swapped from Typrop? Aw... Well, maybe down the line Typrop could get a fresh RP start. Or not, depends on what you want really.
 
Good morning, everyone! Last two days (Well, last hour of two days ago and most of yesterday) I spent my time climbing exile-side. Where, you ask?
 
Oh? Don't know where that is? Perhaps this'll give you a better idea.
 
In case you still don't know (And I can't blame you, the fog/clouds do not help this at all), I managed to get to the top of the giant central tower in Thayd. And it took me a good 5 or so hours combined, although part of that was relearning the climb. But I have wanted to try this again ever since I heard about the explorer jetpack. It's been very helpful at the tail end of the climb, actually!
 
In fact, I focused so much on the climb I barely did anything Dominion-side yesterday, aside from try grinding for eldan runic modules via solo Kel Voreth. Not worth it, I'll probably try to get into some veteran adventures for those or something. Need 12 more for my damage set, and then I can figure out how to re-rune.
 
Still need to complete The Defile, too. I'll be dedicating today after work to that.
 
Finally, I feel I'm overdoing the pictures so I'll spoiler this, but I find this image kinda cute. In a dusty, sloppy kind of way.
 
 
 
EDIT: Oh yeah, one of the things that while I was climbing was that for some reason, I was able to hear the Black Hoods Bar RP during some of my climbing segments. In fact, I remember the line PlasmaJohn stated earlier in the topic. Say range is ridiculous in this game, I think it ignores elevation.	
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That's the reason you swapped from Typrop? Aw... Well, maybe down the line Typrop could get a fresh RP start. Or not, depends on what you want really.
 
Good morning, everyone! Last two days (Well, last hour of two days ago and most of yesterday) I spent my time climbing exile-side. Where, you ask?
 
Oh? Don't know where that is? Perhaps this'll give you a better idea.
 
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