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#hardcore Who's up for raids?	
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I turned the two options on and everything turned purple.
 
I like it better that way, then I turned off all telegraphs because #hardcore.
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#hardcore Who's up for raids?
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I disagree completely. Dailies already feel like a chore for EG and as of right now its the most efficient way to acquire them. Mists of Pandaria (WoW xpac) failed largely due to their emphasis on daily quests and their reward system.
 
The problem with EG isn't so much how long it takes to cap it but how frequently you would need to do it and the length of time. Extra ability points/amp points is an absurdly good reward, but 9/10 months of capping EG every week is down-right brutal.
 
It means at best my main wont be "maxed" until Feb 2015. Forget maxing alts. Forget "new players" they are already 2 months behind. What does that mean for world-first guilds, etc. I'm sorry but they pretty much need to change this.
 
I like the wildstar "hardcore" mentality. Its refreshing to play a hard game. The flip-side is that there is no alternative. WoW had a regular and heroic dungeon - where even heroic was too easy. This game just has hard and hard. You could argue veteran vs. normal...but remember most normals aren't level 50 content and do not give level 50 rewards.
 
Say what you want but an MMO requires the first M to be successful. You need casuals if only as adversaries in pvp, replacements for a group in a pinch, or at the least to buy your wares from the AH.
 
WoW is in its biggest lull in content in years ...Wildstar really needs to capitalize on it. As I said before WoW is riding its "longevity" success. Many Wildstar players came from that game an basically gave up 10 years worth of progress to come here. If this game doesn't hold weight, they will just go back the moment WoW has new content.
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#hardcore Who's up for raids?
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			Can anyone explain why I always see people bring up Rift in these discussions, are we taking tips to MMO success from Rift or something?	
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Can anyone explain why I always see people bring up Rift in these discussions, are we taking tips to MMO success from Rift or something?
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			Remove  grinding, im sick of this excuse "is grindy because is MMO", no *cupcake* that, thats why the genre is dying, because nobody wants to understand crappy desgns like endless daylies and rep grind etc. are BORING	
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name one game that had a Mega server added that didn't go free to play?
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after only two months the game is already floundering.
pull the plug.
remove and replace all the terible systems and wallls.
add more content
fix bugs.
relaunch and call it a universe reborn or something.	
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Can anyone explain why I always see people bring up Rift in these discussions, are we taking tips to MMO success from Rift or something?
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after only two months the game is already floundering.
pull the plug.
remove and replace all the terible systems and wallls.
add more content
fix bugs.
relaunch and call it a universe reborn or something.
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eve online.. 600k subs.. ONE server.. mega server  and is past 10yrs old.. and still getting subs
 
even has a system like CREDD.. just a better economy tho. cause everything except skillbooksare player made... pure sandbox
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Remove  grinding, im sick of this excuse "is grindy because is MMO", no *cupcake*that, thats why the genre is dying, because nobody wants to understand crappy desgns like endless daylies and rep grind etc. are BORING
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The game still needs to be optimized for one. I'm currently running on an i7-860 r7870x with 8gb of ripjaw series. I'm constantly having to reload my UI due to UI errors on a regular basis and still can hardly manage to get over 30 fps half of the time. 
 
Secondly the drop rate on epics in adventures needs to be adjusted. I ran over 20+ adventures the other day and witnessed only one epic drop. I like a grind but that is quite absurd. Half the time I feel like the medal ranking doesn't even matter considering the majority of the epics that drop aren't even after a gold run. So what's the point of getting gold? 25% drop rate on gold adventures. Make people feel like they're playing for something. 
 
The group finder needs to be adjusted. It'd be nice if it allowed you to search for multiple dungeons or adventures rather than all or one. 
 
I play on Widow which is a pretty high pop server and most of the time my Q's a pretty quick but if I and a friend que for something reaches upwards of an hour. 
 
Basically my only issue with Wildstar (as someone who raided Vanilla WoW and TBC full clears, and yes I know I don't like bringing up WoW either) the game actually feels like it takes too long to get anything accomplished. And like I stated I love a grind and I hate hand holding, but with the crappy latency I get doubled with the fluctuating FPS I receive and the lag.. I guess I just feel like everything takes forever. 
 
And one last thing. Half the time I reload my UI to fix the choppy performance (which does work) the game freezes. So everything takes forever. And ever. 
 
Not a smooth game in my experience. 
 
Oh and I realized today that the dyes I have been collecting aren't showing up in my color palette and yes I did the dye quest at lvl 11 and yes i'm right clicking in my inventory. So there's bugs. Which all games have at first. But ffs even ESO has managed to fix the majority of theirs. 	
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			Fix the people using 30+ charged shots in 5 seconds in PvP.	
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No....just no....
Humans should learn not to be so entitled and learn how to make feedback.
WildStar has potential and is fun, yes has flaws, and can only be fixed if people address flaws properly.
 
Running around like Troll with bum on Fire not helping.
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			Competent class representatives. The medic and esper class reps have no idea what they're doing and if you don't believe me, just visit the class forums.	
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now listen up here ratboy unlike you im the one giving constructive ideas on what could be done for this fine game here. there is actual precedent for what im sugesting and that game is probably one of the most succesfull mmos atm.
why dont you stop running around the forums foaming at the mouth and shilling in every thread while flinging ad hominem at posters with legit ideas and criticism and instead come up with something of your own?
all ive seen from you is "hey guys if we ignore everything it'll fix itself"
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Can anyone explain why I always see people bring up Rift in these discussions, are we taking tips to MMO success from Rift or something?
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To be honest Carbine will keep adding things, it's the nature of a fluid game. However what would "I" like the top of my wish list to be completed first?
 
1. More items on the outside housing plot please, even if I have to pay an expansion upgrade price, would totally go for this!
2. More housing items in general, there are lots, but would love lots more...especially building block type things, fences, accessories different coloured curtains all that jazz.
3. Mini pets, and more mounts. Different coloured ones of the ones we already have, would love a black equivar. I like to collect
4. Livestock on our housing plots, if you made us able to breed them you would NEVER get me off this game FYI, don't think this is gonna happen but ya never know. Would love an authentic techno/western ranch.
5. generally Carbine just keep adding stuff, I like that, WE like that.
 
Sarah
 
Oh....I see this turned into another bash bash thread, gods...don't I feel stupid :/	
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To be honest Carbine will keep adding things, it's the nature of a fluid game. However what would "I" like the top of my wish list to be completed first?
 
1. More items on the outside housing plot please, even if I have to pay an expansion upgrade price, would totally go for this!
2. More housing items in general, there are lots, but would love lots more...especially building block type things, fences, accessories different coloured curtains all that jazz.
3. Mini pets, and more mounts. Different coloured ones of the ones we already have, would love a black equivar. I like to collect
4. Livestock on our housing plots, if you made us able to breed them you would NEVER get me off this game FYI, don't think this is gonna happen but ya never know. Would love an authentic techno/western ranch.
5. generally Carbine just keep adding stuff, I like that, WE like that.
 
Sarah
 
Oh....I see this turned into another bash bash thread, gods...don't I feel stupid :/
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4. Livestock on our housing plots, if you made us able to breed them you would NEVER get me off this game FYI, don't think this is gonna happen but ya never know. Would love an authentic techno/western ranch.
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Always happens...no worries people are "cupcakes". I like your ideas but for number 4
FarmVille in space and you know it. Though I think they are working on a Firefly game so that may get your fix in lol.
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			Sell the game to Activision.	
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1) Character appearance re customization like hair style/colour , skin colour, eyes colour etc. (for money).
2) Fraction change (for money).
3) Cross faction mail to alt characters.	
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1. More items on the outside housing plot please, even if I have to pay an expansion upgrade price, would totally go for this!
2. More housing items in general, there are lots, but would love lots more...especially building block type things, fences, accessories different coloured curtains all that jazz.
3. Mini pets, and more mounts. Different coloured ones of the ones we already have, would love a black equivar. I like to collect
4. Livestock on our housing plots, if you made us able to breed them you would NEVER get me off this game FYI, don't think this is gonna happen but ya never know. Would love an authentic techno/western ranch.
5. generally Carbine just keep adding stuff, I like that, WE like that.
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I'd even pay a higher subscription if this came to pass. I miss my WoW pets and mount collection so much. Not to mention the huge swats of gear sets I collected for transmog. Or all the little toys. Loved summoning my crate of puppies with their tiny hats. There were months when I subscribed purely to continue battling pets and run old content for vanity gear with friends. I heard they're planning to implement pet breeding in WoD. :wub:
 
This game has very few armour skins (yes, even compared to vanilla WoW), very few fun items and nothing to collect. No pets and only about fifteen mounts if we count all the hoverboards. The low decor limit on your plot also means you quickly run out of things to do with housing. If you don't care about the gear grind or the #hardcore dungeons and raids then WildStar has very little to offer once you've gone through the leveling content.
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Let us change the color of our eyebrows.
 
Seriously, how the hell did that make it past beta?	
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Oh god... selectively breed animals for optimal traits; the more you improve them, the more high end materials they drop when slaughtered... and you can sell the ones with excellent breeding traits to other breeders!
 
...well this sounds like a pretty complex system. But hey, one can dream. ;)
 
 
 
What's wrong with that? Farmville is bad because its sole purpose is literally to squeeze the maximum amount of money out of gullible/loose wallet customers, not because there's no fun to be had in running an economic sim.
 
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Oh god... selectively breed animals for optimal traits; the more you improve them, the more high end materials they drop when slaughtered... and you can sell the ones with excellent breeding traits to other breeders!
 
...well this sounds like a pretty complex system. But hey, one can dream. ;)
 
 
 
What's wrong with that? Farmville is bad because its sole purpose is literally to squeeze the maximum amount of money out of gullible/loose wallet customers, not because there's no fun to be had in running an economic sim.
 
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 Not even for Knights of the Round.
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In hindsight I can barely believe I suffered through that crap...
And even less that some people no doubt suffered through that crap without a how-to guide in an age where access to internet FAQs wasn't a given.
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			I would love a weekly video post about new idea concepts from players (even if it's ten minutes) devs reading forums and discussing. There is nothing telling us their listening	
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Nah that will send it F2P and NCsoft likes to Sunset their F2P games.
 
They can start actually listening like they claim and take suggestions on how to fix things and bring people back.
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I would love a weekly video post about new idea concepts from players (even if it's ten minutes) devs reading forums and discussing. There is nothing telling us their listening
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Tenner I am saying talking about forum posts of problems too. Aka "oh we notice that people been complaining about pvp offense we are taking a look into it to make it better effect output" 
Simple statement lets me know they are listening	
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Tenner I am saying talking about forum posts of problems too. Aka "oh we notice that people been complaining about pvp offense we are taking a look into it to make it better effect output"
Simple statement lets me know they are listening
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Dude no. Too early. Way too early. They need to fix what's already there first.
 
 
 
I know paper guides existed. I had a big stack of gaming mags taking up space only for their guide sections. But you know some crazy folks managed without them. ;)
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The "cupcake" they did  :P. Be honest you know you had to ask your parents to call the tip lines. Don't lie....
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			Besides fixing the broken texture when you dye equipment, the broken custome UI and making dye account-wide instead of per characer, one thing that Carbine could do to improve the game is get rid of the bleeping flying neutral enemies that fly far above your camera in certain areas. You know, those that get accidentally hit when you use any of your ranged abilities on something else. But the game considers you shot them too, even though they weren't anywhere in your field of view and there was no indication whatsoever that they existed.	
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I DID CALL THE DAMN TIP LINE (yes, after begging asking nicely).
AND IT SUCKED AND DIDN'T HELP.
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I know paper guides existed. I had a big stack of gaming mags taking up space only for their guide sections. But you know some crazy folks managed without them. ;)
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			For the love of God put in faction transfers.	
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Nah that will send it F2P and NCsoft likes to Sunset their F2P games.
 
They can start actually listening like they claim and take suggestions on how to fix things and bring people back.
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I DID CALL THE DAMN TIP LINE (yes, after begging asking nicely).
AND IT SUCKED AND DIDN'T HELP.
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Me too. Although all i remember is a lot of heavy breathing and not many tips.
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So basically you're agreeing with me? That people do indeed like full-loss games?
 
You can also make the argument that DayZ/Unturned are MMOs. Rust/7d are definitely MMOs.
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			Carbine needs to drop the progress blockers. People are looking at them and saying "Screw this. It'll take me months of solid grinding to get anywhere."	
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Oh yeah and remove randomness from rune slots (both in number and type).
 
I've already given up on the idea of raiding. I have no desire to do the same thing week after week only to eventually end up with the mediocre version of the item earned. There is already randomness in the sense that each boss drops more than 1 gear type of item for more than 1 class. With 40 people in a raid it will still take a while to gear up.
 
If Carbine is concerned that a non-random rune slot system  would lead to people gearing too quickly, then lower the number of items that drop and/or change around stat distributions so that items are more class/spec specific. Even though this could increase the tail on the getting the item you want at least you take solace in knowing someone is getting their BiS. Having an item drop that no one in the team wants because the stats/rune slots are no good is frustrating and belittles the effort it took to down the boss.	
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			 Mega servers.. remove the class/race restrictions the sooner the better...and find a way to balance out the factions a bit.. introduce more races maybe?	
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Loot changes. Specifically, have dungeon bosses drop epics and adventures be just blue items.
 
Merge some servers. We have too many.
 
Some GOOD rep grinds. (factions that have mounts for beloved, etc...)
 
3D rendered nameplates.
 
Fishing.
 
Barber shop.	
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Please let us know your idea of "What could Carbine do to improve wildstar", what do YOU think Carbine needs to do to make wildstar even more successful?
 
(let it all out)
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GW2
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What I understand of the definition of Megaserver is a server so big there is no realm divisions, and GW2 definitely have realms.
 
Edit:  And the proof, taken today.
 
A megaserver divided by realms which have different community sizes, yeah sure.	
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			And the fact of the smaller player base lately, it can be a temporary or final decision among those players.  I'm personally probably returning this month to WoW to get my free horde bike.  But I'm not cancelling Wildstar, still like better the combat here.	
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			I feel like my Chua Engineer would be way more fun if I had a FPS mode like Team Fortress 2. I would blast so many knees and crotches with my cannon.	
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I think they could stop listening to the small % posting in the forums and have exit polls when people are stopping playing for their session...
 
people posting in the forums are FAR from the majority
 
that will help them improve the game. NOT forum posters	
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I posted this in another thread, I'll repost here since it's relevant:
 
They need to focus less on content drops and focus more on fixing what they have in game and closing the gaps of minor content or features that SHOULD have been included at launch but weren't. They have also mentioned that if people call for changes that they didn't plan on doing they would adjust their schedule to make what the players want priority, this needs more focus.
 
This is a conversation/discussion I've had with many people on various topics that can boil down to one simple analogy: don't base the success of an original on the success of a sequel. Put simply, don't save your best features for the future or you will lose the opportunity to ever use them. Plans for future features are great but when a system you have implemented currently is a hinderance  for the SAKE of those plans, people won't stay around long enough to see the grand vision.The best example I can think of currently for this is housing decor limits: they have grand plans and the limits in place are for the benefit of those grand plans, but in the meantime people are frustrated they can't do what they want and based on the pace that housing stuff gets completed those plans will be in production a long time even if things go well.
 
So, things to fix that are already included:-Reversing unneeded nerfs, implementing some basic but not extreme ones instead
-Fix and organize the auction house and commodities vendor. Add previews for items so you can see what your buying, add a better search function.
-Kill the bugs as quickly and efficiently as would be reasonable(subjective opinion and Carbine probably feel they are doing this)
-Fix the collision errors
-Add Mechari and Mordesh housing
-Fix the PvP gear and the raiding/ adventures loot system and tables
-Fix the RNG crap for crafting in technologist and architect for certain items
-Fill in missing schematics and drops
-Clear up confusion regarding PvP vs pve vs crafting gear
-Fix the customization vendor/ui panel to display proper items, textures colors
-Fix speed upgrades
-Make the exit button exit properly not just in certain circumstances
-Please stop putting redundant notes in the patch notes. If its being done by accident please double and triple check against old patch notes. If on purpose, people can see what your doing, and padding the notes will just annoy people.That's all I can think of currently.I really love the potential of this game and the worse thing about it is that's its so close to something great but just missed the mark due to small (and a few not so small) issues that pop up a bit too often to instill true confidence in the devs quite yet.People can come back after being bored if their experience was good but they felt there wasn't enough to occupy them. Frustrate people and all the content in the world won't make them stay and won't bring them back.	
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I think they could stop listening to the small % posting in the forums and have exit polls when people are stopping playing for their session...
 
people posting in the forums are FAR from the majority
 
that will help them improve the game. NOT forum posters
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No....just no....
Humans should learn not to be so entitled and learn how to make feedback.
WildStar has potential and is fun, yes has flaws, and can only be fixed if people address flaws properly.
 
Running around like Troll with bum on Fire not helping.
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The "cupcake" they did  :P. Be honest you know you had to ask your parents to call the tip lines. Don't lie....
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Fix the buggy arse costume stylist panel.
Make it so that the when you click on the commodities broker, you can click on 'my listings' and then select one of your listings and have the commodities broker update it's screen to that item immediately.  You shouldn't have to do a search.
Make dyes account bound or make the entire dye system account bound or allow us to sell dyes that we already have on the AH or vendor them for much more.  Soulbound dyes are idiotic.  If you want 'special dyes' for the 'special people' that kill 'special bosses' to placate the hardcore, then have bosses drop soulbound dye and make those the ONLY soulbound dyes in the game.
Make items that are farmable like leather and fish? - actually drop.
Fix pet AI and pathing on Engineers
 
Don't ever go F2P.  Ever.	
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			Carbine could offer a one time transfer server token IMMEDIATELY!!!! This would allow people on dead servers to consolidate quickly and infuse life back into the game overall. And this would buy them time to rework what the masses consider to be horribly broken.	
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			They could advertise the game for starters. I have never once seen an ad for this game anywhere. I never would have known it existed if I hadn't seen it mentioned in a thread about housing on the WoW forums over a year ago. 	
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Advertise the game - I came across it by accident, Im sure many others did as well.
 
Consolidate servers - Sorry, I know there are the people who claim everything is fine, but its really not. Servers may not be dying, but there has definitely been a massive decrease in the number of players logging on, making it nigh on impossible to do anything. The guild Im in has gone from over a hundred active players, to 11.
 
Get rid of attunement - It didnt work. Admit it, and move on. Make raiding gear dependant - have a certain level of gear, or you cant phase in. Easy. Attunement was a great idea, but its pretty obvious that aside from the few, the many went 'hmm...nope' and left.
 
More solo/small group player content - And by this, I dont mean dailies. Daily quests are Notte Funne. They never have been. Put in more ship missions or something interesting.
 
Better loot from Dungeons - Nuff said.
 
And I hate to say it but - lower the difficulty. Yes yes, I know the game was marketed towards the hardcore. Its why I started playing. But it is plainly obvious that while people CLAIM to want hardcore, they dont. Not saying to lower it to WOW levels, but it needs tweaking.More PVP maps - Because yawn. Also, skills need to have two abilities. One for pve, one for pvp.
 
Anyway, my two cents. I honestly love Wildstar. But it's getting to the point that Ill probably ride off into the sunset before long as well....there's just no one to play with.	
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Fix the science bots so they stop spawning the basic one.  
 
Keep the arrows in crafting when you're trying to discover a recipe.   If you've already burned the mats and tried to discover the recipe, leave the arrows there indefinitely, until you actually discover the item
 
Make seperate tabs for plat, gold, silver and copper on both AH's.  Stop making people type 210000 for 21 gold.  O.o	
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I think they need to change their release scheduleas it currently looks any change they want or need to make "right now" is like 3-6 months off at best because of the way they set it upand they seem to have this circular thing going on where they re-apply the same patched components repeatedly which ends up breaking more stuffIf I had to skip a major drop one month in exchange for every patch not being a fiasco anymore I'd take it in a heartbeat 
The artistic side of the game is top notch but they really need to get their programming side up to par in a hurryEven things promised before release like a semi-reliable way to get tier points that would leave elder gems as no more than an emergency backup is like a distant mirageOr how technologist was released with no endgame at all for the first 3 months and maybe even moreIt feels like everything left unfinished or broken is being pushed aside in a mad rush to push out more content but the new content is all rushed too and full of bugs and breaking old mechanics and creating new exploits. Old things are being left unfinished far too long and new things are being released all messed up and broken and things that were perfectly fine are getting corrupted.A game that is theoretically super solid is just getting littered with all these little holes. It's the whole death by a million pin pricks problem and it really feels like it can all be avoided by slowing the *cupcake*down and getting the bugs, old promises, and current content stable and complete before throwing more potential problems in the mix 
Like if they put in a weekly quest that rewarded your choice of amp/ability point it would excite me 1000x more than the entirety of the sabotage drop.The tiny patch that added rune slots to gadgets got more excited chatter out of my guild than the entire sabotage drop evenThere are guildies still bitter that skurge blue and ichorous orange don't have a source related to the strain drop content tooIt also seems like your entire QA department needs to be replaced. Like I personally know at least 12 people that actually submitted the bug report for wild barrage during drop 2 PTR.Which means a whole  heck of a lot more must have done so also if for nothing more than a shot at that title and then we hear carbine saying "If only we knew about it we would have fixed it" If you really are listening get the wax out of your ears	
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