117274-10-29-14-0-to-50-tldr

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Right, a new 0 to 50, a day late due to them having to shuffle servers around to consolidate space.  Today's episode features Steve Engle, Lead Class Designer, aka Meerkat.  Of course, I missed the original stream because of a meeting.  Tony begins with some spark an energy, and so must have had his coffee that morning (not to be confused with getting his Morning Coffee).  He is also on a new larger screen when gameplay footage isn't up.  He will, fortunately, be keeping his clothes on.  He's also wearing a headseat so that he could commentate tomorrow on the Saints v Panthers game.  Steve will also be forced to keep his clothes on in front of the camera.  As usual, Non is wearing nothing but his traditional translucent raincoat.  There are benefits to being behind the camera.  Let's get started.
 
-If you are in the Anaheim area on November 6th, they will have an in-person roundtable.  They will pick you up from the convention center, feed you, and let you personally interview them.  They will force you to sign an NDA.  Why can't they do these things in Ohio?  If you want to go, make sure you are there at 1pm PST, as it is extremely limited.  Therefore, you are probably too late if you're finding out here.  Why are you even reading this?
 
-Tony finds out he is looking into the wrong camera the entire stream so far.  He tries to make up for it by giving us three seconds of his "Oh!" face.  He also has his own mouse.  So no excuses... right?
 
-He is now LEVEL 5 after leveling off camera and is close to level 6.  He recaps what he is doing.  I won't, because I went over it in the last TL;DR.  Read it there.
 
-Wildstar magazine is out.  Tony says they posted a link to it.  I don't see it in the recap.  I only pray I got the right link.
 
-Tony mentions he should cut down on his cursing.  Sarah (I think), having been given control of the nerf gun, shoots him, obviously for all the suffering of the poor children having heard his *cupcake*s, his mother*cupcake*s, and his *cupcake* monkey *cupcake*s.
 
-LEVEL 6!  Tony immediately curses and is shot.  The announcer is allowed to curse, not you, Tony.  You need to act like a professional.  A good way to do that would be TO USE YOUR DAMN CHARGE SHOT CORRECTLY!  HOLD DOWN NUMBER 2 TONY!  OPEN WITH IT!
 
-Tony's habit of walking up to random strangers and kissing them is coming back to bite him as the Dominion slaps him around.  Luckily, Dominion soldiers in Everstar Grove are idiots... and Tony is putting together a gang to help him level.  Like south California needed another one of those....
 
-Take the light armor Tony.... Take the LIGHT ARMOR Tony..... TAKE THE LIGHT ARMOR TONY, IT'S THE ONLY THING YOU CAN USE AND IT'S OBVIOUSLY BETTER!
 
-Steve Engle arrives and gets uncomfortably close to Tony.  Tony looks down and is surprised and impressed by the size of his notes.
 
-Steve conducts an advertisement for Fiji water.... and we find out that his headset isn't turned on.  I'm sure Madden wished he could have done that to Pat Summerall.  We find out as soon as his microphone works again that Steve is something called a Caucasian.  I wonder if that's contagious.
 
-On any given day, Steve checks the forums and balance as well as watching the raid streams and parses to see what changes need to be made with classes.  He loves to watch and interact with people on the streams.
 
-Tony remarks on his ZTF gang.  It's all Aurin right now.  It's sad to see gang warfare dividing us along racial lines.
 
-Steve's favorite class is the Engineer, but loves the Stalkers early on.  Tony and Steve talk about cereal.  They seem to hint that cereal might have caused them both to gain weight at some point.  I can only surmise that, as a person who has gained some weight in his day, the issue is not cereal.  It's BD's Mongolian Grill and that 1$ extra for unlimited bowls.
 
-Norcroft's question is taken.  They are planning on making sure that damage is more easily adjustable with the removal of DPS stances to help them bring the damage from light and heavy armor classes more in line with each other.
 
-Tony is left by his gang, mirroring the realization of many former gang members that the gang does not care about you.  He is lucky he learns that outside of prison.
 
-My question is taken (woohoo)!  What seems to make certain builds and classes OP seems to be based around effects (Shield Overload and the frequency it can be used is given as an example).  Burst on certain classes seems a bit high at times.  Also, it looks like Steve would like to increase some classes' survivability.  He dodges the question of which classes actually need to be buffed or nerfed.  THAT'S THE COWARD'S WAY, MEERKAT! #seppuku
 
-Pheophyr's (or apparently, Feofry's) question is taken.  Steve can't give much away as far as future development.  They are trying to make the skill tiers a bit more useful, though it is hard to do with healers since they don't hit procced abilities as quickly (because sometimes they don't need to fire a heal).  We can look forward to buffs to healing touch and barrage.
 
-DasMoose's question is taken.  Steve goes out on a limb for this one, and shouldn't be saying this (my question's not GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?!).  He wishes he could have gotten the Charmer class off the drawing board.  The original intent was to make a pet class without as much combat interaction, more pet ability management.  He is pleased with the classes he has though.  He did say there were interesting iterations of existing classes that could have been fun if they went that way.  They didn't.
 
-Steve wanted to be a lawyer and a politician earlier in life.  Apparently, he is too "crazy".  He says he's from Ohio like me.  I can tell you all right now he is not too "crazy", they just don't let people who like cheese from a spray can into Washington anymore.  That's why all we've done for the past few decades is put people like John "I Wish You Could Punch My Face Into The Back Of My Head, Too" Boehner there.  He's more exiled from the state than elected.
 
-Steve apparently got started in games by dropping 300 dollars on AOL.com's Magestorm.  He went into QA, and ended up working on DAOC and Warhammer.
 
-Party On Garth's question is taken.  They don't talk about methodology of class changes because they want more organic LAS builds instead of having us play follow-the-leader with their intended changes.  If an ability simply needs straight out nerfed and they don't tend to explai-LEVEL 7!!!!....  He would like to explain when they have been dumb.  If only Tony could do that...
 
-Their goal for the future is to try to add more variation in LAS mechanics while keeping their DPS constant or making their survivability and aggro management more interesting.  He brings up Particle Ejector's Tier 8 spam being so essential and easy and takes responsibility for it.
 
-Tony is accepting all friend requests.  Steve wishes he could come kill Tony.  That probably makes Tony feel very comfortable staring at his game screen with Steve hugging him from behind... especially considering how much Steve said he likes Stalker.
 
-Steve explains AMP and LAS setups to Tony.  You should all go to the Spellslinger subforum if you want to know how it should all works.  Tony nearly cancels all the work by not doing a "use set".
 
-Mae is Mean's question is taken.  Everyone at Carbine and beyond want all classes for all races, but he doesn't know where it is in the pipeline.
 
-Alfalfa's question is taken.  They're looking for alternative ways to increase light armor survivability.  They're also looking at changing the grit and HP ratios.
 
-Faust's question is taken.  The goal in the future is to get everyone in a closer situation in the amount of DPS they can do.  They're talking about uptimes, how dangerous it is to fight, and a number of other metrics.  Tony burst fires... into a gate ability, because apparently he's never used more than two skills.
 
-Rummykins question is taken.  Stalkers are being improved right now, especially Bloodthirst and more utility abilities to make them more useful in raids.
 
-PGGR's question is taken.  They would like to add more classes and more weapons if they can, but nothing is on the table yet.  They're just not high enough on the list.
 
-Grumpdogg's question is taken.  They look at metrics from GA bossfights pretty much every day, watch streams, and do parses.  He also lets its be known that he is in a raiding guild.  Erryday.
 
-Beckstir's question is taken.  They don't know if they can have engineers name their bots, but Steve would like that.
 
-Steve asks to come back.  Tony says he can.  Steve asks next week.  Tony says there's another guest.  Steve tells Tony not to offer something he can't actually deliver.  Tony says he's a developer, they do it all the time.  Somewhere, Pappy sharpens a scythe...
 
-Steve disappears, leaving only his headset as evidence he was even there.
 
-It's community news time.  There's another Warhound PVP event this Saturday (11/1) at 4pm PST.  Tony can't be there because he has to be at a wedding.  There's no joke here; we've all been there when our game we play every day isn't as important as some relative's wedding we don't even see on a daily basis.  Life's unfair that way.  For more information on upcoming Warhound PVP events, go here.
 
-If you're creating community events, let Tony know.  He wants to attend them, show them off in the stream, so send him your highlights.  He reminds people about the Anaheim roundtable.  Still not as good as the community town hall we did a few weeks ago.  Tony reminds people you need to be there at 1pm.  Needed to be there.  You're already too late.
 
-Tony would like his gang to rob a train.  He tries to activate the fan art title sequence.  It has no music.  Suddenly, we all realize how valuable Frost was to the stream.  For his failure, Tony is shot.  However, he is shot off camera, to his dismay.  He wants people to see it, not be killed off camera.  Like any good soap opera star...
 
-Tony reminds everyone to send their art to fanart@wildstar-online.com.  He reminds you to not send inappropriate artwork to that website, as they can't show it.  He would like inappropriate fan art to be sent to @tonyrey on Twitter.
 
-He returns to the game.  He has been joined by a Mordesh.  The entire gang is dancing.  Proof positive that Mordesh got that groove.  He spends too much time looking at obvious gear choices.  Sarah misses a shot.  She needs to hand the gun back to Deadeye Non.
 
-Tony needs to go ask the chat which AMP to take.  He takes Frost Snap at their behest, a PVP survivability AMP.  Frost wins from beyond the grave!
 
-Sarah has apparently expended her darts.  Tony can't fly a water sprinkler.  He will never pilot a Viper.  He can't even go to the bathroom.
 
-Tony only takes about 10 seconds to finally select the only type of armor he can use.  He's learning.  He then dodges a telegraph.  We feel proud.  Then he doesn't press T in the area he needs to hit it in, runs to it.... and runs past it.  He has a long way to go...
 
-He'll be leveling off the stream, but will be tweeting where he is.
 
That's it.  We're done.  I'm going to go do some RP, then play a Spellslinger.  Correctly.	
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I LOL'ed so much at this TL;DR
 
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-Tony is accepting all friend requests.  Steve wishes he could come kill Tony.  That probably makes Tony feel very comfortable staring at his game screen with Steve hugging him from behind... especially considering how much Steve said he likes Stalker.
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-Steve asks to come back.  Tony says he can.  Steve asks next week.  Tony says there's another guest.  Steve tells Tony not to offer something he can't actually deliver.  Tony says he's a developer, they do it all the time.  Somewhere, Pappy sharpens a scythe...
 
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			I guess I have to be meaner next time, but I'm glad he took my question, and answered it better than I expected. I'm glad it's something they want.	
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Did he actually say this? If so, lol!
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I will just copy and paste my q's for next time I guess :D
 
Thanks for the tl;dr, hope tony doesn't mind promoting EU events as well
 
Also, I lol'd so much during this TL;DR, don't stop what you're doin they're great :D	
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			I for one approve of Tony's hipster style to the SS class. #3SkillsTony	
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Thanks heaps for the write ups, there is no way I could watch the stream.
 
Hopefully Steve uses his metrics and makes good on his promises regarding DPS balance across classes.	
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They are planning on making sure that damage is more easily adjustable with the removal of DPS stances to help them bring the damage from light and heavy armor classes more in line with each other.
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Did he actually say this? If so, lol!
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			This was fantastically hilarious as usual.  Thanks for bringing the heat this week Vic!	
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This was fantastically hilarious as usual.  Thanks for bringing the heat this week Vic!
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