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Sick at home.  I don't even feel like coffee.  But, for everyone else...
 
 
SEEGAH SAYS HI!!!!!!!!
 
 
And I'm home sick.
 
Well, our train hijacking is being moved to Sunday the 8th so we could accommodate some schedules.  My weekend wasn't very Wildstar heavy.  My anniversary was Friday and I spent all Sunday with my wife.  Just had a little time on Saturday to play and bang around.  I did manage to down Pyralos, find out that the next step required me to get the thing he dropped in the lava, down him AGAIN, and get the primal pattern.  It's a fun fight once you get the hang of it!  Reminds me a bit of the Great Mighty Poo from Conker's Bad Fur Day.  Only more fire and less poo.
 
But, as I said, I'm sick at home today, and it's about to get Wildstar intensive.  How was all of your Halloween Weekends?	
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			Quiet and mostly not Wildstar-y.  Youngest son convinced me to give Smite a try, which I didn't think I'd enjoy but actually did end up enjoying myself with.  I like the skillshot aspect of it, which is indeed quite similar to Wildstar.	
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I  ran a crazy number of groups this weekend in Wildstar. It was fun. I'm tired this morning, though! I've had 2 cups of coffee so far, but it doesn't seem to be helping! xD  Maybe I should find some breakfast.
 
Oh, I also tried out Evolve. I'm still not sure what I think of it. First impression: not as fun as I was hoping it would be.	
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Good morning...
 
Yesterday the only major thing of note was that I took a guild group into Vet KV for our first time ever going there.  It took us a few tries but we got Grond down, and then Darkwitch Gurka.  We made a few attempts on Slavemaster Drokk, and got him as far down as 25%, but called it since fatigue was setting in and one of our folks had to go to work.  All in all though, very good run, and on par with our first few runs through normal modes back when we were at level.  We'll keep plugging away at the veteran versions of both STL and KV until we get them worked out :)
 
Also made a few decisions yesterday about the future of things we're doing in the Daggers, and will be implementing those over the next few weeks after I get done moving.  We've been sort of spinning our wheels since ThaydFest so it's nice to have a goal that we're moving forward towards for the next few months.
 
Outside of Wildstar I moved a bunch of stuff to the new house.  I'm down to just a few last things before all that's left is furniture, clothes, and necessities.  This'll all be over soon.  I'm off work all week and part of next to try and get this wrapped up, so hoping to finish it quick and have plenty of time left to settle in and unwind (and play Wildstar).
 
Apart from that, I stayed up very, very late, and now I am feeling it.  There is a nap in my future today - but that'll probably be this afternoon.  For now, coffee.	
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The Wildseeds are getting Revamped. Rather than be a good boy and get in line, after receiving official sanctions, Rocio bitterly turns to doing things to deliberately offend Aurin Society. If he could grow facial hair, he would. While he doesn't hang with Chua or burn trees, he does start studying the moodies.
 
Moodies aren't that bright, and having intimidated the bejeezus out of the Celestion tribe, Rocio is starting to experiment with their necromantic art. Being an Aurin, much more intelligent and just as in tune with the Weave as the Moodies, it's only a matter of time before he succeeds.	
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Chua dabling in PvP!
is weird, cause never had interest before in PvP. Guildies dragged Chua along and is having fun now with battlegrounds during weekend.
Chua even got paws on 6 pieces now. Chua working on collecting more, then reroll pieces for better runes.
Chua find funny how much difference makes. Stand happy in middle being beaten by 5 bunnies and Chua happy heal through.
 
Breakfast not so good for Chua.
Lately Chua find often not in mood for breakfast anymore.
Maybe good, maybe bad. Chua tummy growling, but Chua noticed also losing weight.
Confused. More Science needed to determine correct course.
 
Chua working on Phage Maw in Genetic Archives.
Best attempt still 10%. Chua hope make more progress tonight.
Chua also started working on dungeon runs again. Found can use few more pieces and reroll few.
Maybe get lucky, maybe not. Cozmotronic success when lucky!	
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Trying hard to keep my spirits up with this game, but it's reaching that stage where you know being happy and positive has become a near-constant battle. I'm not really worried about the game's future— there's plenty to enjoy, and IMO weaker games have lasted years— but the lack cooperative gameplay incentives and the general community are starting to get to me. The former issue will be alleviated somewhat with Drop 3, but the other one...
 
Since Evindra disappeared I've seen a lot of stupid/offensive names, and some stupid/offensive public conversations. It wasn't a thing at first but now I'm beginning to feel worn down. I was sitting in Illium yesterday and somehow ended up reading a very misogynistic conversation about backdoor sex. It was crude amplified to the level of "What am I doing? Why am I playing this game around these people?"
 
Worse, housing is not really something that seems to bring a lot of people together; in fact, it seems like it's getting harder and harder to find folks who are really interested in building or visiting houses. If this reaches a point where there's no audience, although it's still fun to make stuff, the incentive vanishes. Like, if Wildstar were a single-player game, I think I'd lose all interest in house design. Spent about five or six hours fixing my place up on Friday as a Hallooween-themed club but getting folks to come by flopped completely, for several reasons that left me confused and disappointed in a few of my fellow players.
 
Anyway, enough grousing from me. Hope everyone's continuing to have fun and are less sensitive to names like Dr Balloonknot floating around, or Cassians standing casual with their hypersexualized bodies and lingerie exposed. :P	
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Awww I hope you feel better soon Vic! Good morning to you all though
 
My weekend was special and fun...got into a bit of a fight with some older gentlemen trying to take candy from kids. Whooped their asses and gave their candy to the kids they were messing with, because seriously wtf. I don't like violence, but I'll be damned if anyone tries to hurt a child.
 
Thursday my video card blew out so I ordered a new one and it came on Saturday along with another treat for myself where I managed to snag a kid robot figurine of Noodle from Gorillaz(white edition) for really cheap!(it usually goes for 250 or more these days, but guy sold it to me for 50)
 
I went from a 570 to a 970 and dang, what a difference...lol
 
VERY happy with both purchases and the video card leads me into.....WILDSTAR where I began playing my new warrior.I've been having a lot of fun rerolling my warrior and even did a bit of roleplay off and on with random people in Deradune as I leveled up. I'm still getting a feel for her, but it's been a ton of fun so far!
 
 
I didn't get to do much else, but we did a run of Tempest refuge(vet) that went well, but lost gold because one of the sab bombs gave a LoS error(Doh!). I really love this adventure, but some of those combos are just pure evil.(I'm looking at you tank+bunker buster at the same time!)	
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Breakfast this morning was a toasted English Muffin with Muenster cheese melted on top with some grape jelly and chocolate milk. It may sound gross, but it's divine.
 
 
Obviously not my breakfast, but breakfast images were needed. And cheese... totally relevant to my breakfast!
 
Speaking of images needed, as Neph mentioned, we did our first ever Vet KV attempt and got Grond and Gurka down. Of course, we *did* get some help on Grond...
 
(As per "request" of a guildie listening in. "This reminds me of War Pigs! You need to add in an Ozzy Cardboard Cutout!")
 
Wouldn't you know it, though, finding an image of an Ozzy Cardboard Cutout is nigh impossible. So I did the next best thing and made one myself. 
 
WildStar has been fun the past few weeks in my absence from the forums. Got all my toons up to at least level 10, and the warrior to 15. Did some grinding on my cooking... /killmenow and just generally having fun in the little bit of downtime I've had.
 
Real life is the reason I've kinda "poofed" for the past few weeks. My contract at my old position ended, so I've been following up on interviews, putting in job apps, etc. But it's all paid off, as I just got an offer letter, and am off to go take care of that sucker.
 
Can't wait to see what else folks have done in WildStar this past weekend!	
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My weekend was special and fun...got into a bit of a fight with some older gentlemen trying to take candy from kids. Whooped their asses and gave their candy to the kids they were messing with, because seriously wtf. I don't like violence, but I'll be damned if anyone tries to hurt a child.
 
Thursday my video card blew out so I ordered a new one and it came on Saturday along with another treat for myself where I managed to snag a kid robot figurine of Noodle from Gorillaz(white edition) for really cheap!(it usually goes for 250 or more these days, but guy sold it to me for 50)
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My weekend was special and fun...got into a bit of a fight with some older gentlemen trying to take candy from kids. Whooped their asses and gave their candy to the kids they were messing with, because seriously wtf. I don't like violence, but I'll be damned if anyone tries to hurt a child.
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Chua dabling in PvP!
is weird, cause never had interest before in PvP. Guildies dragged Chua along and is having fun now with battlegrounds during weekend.
Chua even got paws on 6 pieces now. Chua working on collecting more, then reroll pieces for better runes.
Chua find funny how much difference makes. Stand happy in middle being beaten by 5 bunnies and Chua happy heal through.
 
Breakfast not so good for Chua.
Lately Chua find often not in mood for breakfast anymore.
Maybe good, maybe bad. Chua tummy growling, but Chua noticed also losing weight.
Confused. More Science needed to determine correct course.
 
Chua working on Phage Maw in Genetic Archives.
Best attempt still 10%. Chua hope make more progress tonight.
Chua also started working on dungeon runs again. Found can use few more pieces and reroll few.
Maybe get lucky, maybe not. Cozmotronic success when lucky!
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Good morning!
 
 
^ blurry pic, but I couldn't resist once I saw it.
 
Hope you feel better soon, Vic!
 
For a very busy weekend, it was surprisingly pleasant, despite not getting to play WS at all until last night.
 
In addition to being busy, my PC is slowly deciding that it doesn't like living...so...gonna have to do some work to fix that.
 
While I was not there in person (wasn't lying when I said it was a busy weekend...), the Skullkickers had an organizational meeting last night which was very positive and reassuring as far as the direction we're taking the guild.
 
Just a word for any Skullkickers lurkers here on the forums: in the near future, we will be cleaning out characters that still have single names in the guild roster. As always, people are welcome to return to SK when they start playing again.
 
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Chua find funny how much difference makes. Stand happy in middle being beaten by 5 bunnies and Chua happy heal through.
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You don't like names like Bawlzdeep? :rolleyes: (that's the most blatant one I've seen so far)
 
My suggestion would be to test different nameplate display options (such as turning them off completely out of combat), and try to ignore chat in Illium, or use Killroy to limit /s range. As far as people standing around naked, there really isn't much you can do unless there's an addon that can overlay a default armor set on everyone (I don't know of one).
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That's pretty much it, and I've started to do that. But as I'm not in a guild, it's feeling more and more like I'm isolated within this mostly bleh community, and I can't really explore that community without encountering more of said blehness. Whereas Evindra was predominantly great people and lots of interesting names, friendliness, chatter, Entity is... well, it's pretty close to what I'd expect from a PVP/militant gaming community, rather than an RPG.
 
Consequence of the 'hardcore' sell point of Wildstar? I would say, yes. :wacko:
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Breakfast: Boring.
 
Wildstar: I need more costume slots and why can we only have one loyalist's beret?  Can we pleeeeeeeease go back to the costume imprint system we had in beta? kthx.
 
Saturday night was awesome.  Got to go to Saturday Night Science then snuck out to Kalita and Windflower's HalloWeave thing (which was amazeballs).  I junkied a bit on leftover candy and Wildstar on Sunday.  Closing in Scientist lvl 25 (and a shiny new title) and made it to level 37.5. Sunday night I was a bit fried so I was a lump at the beach party.
 
I need to reread Aurin and Chua lore to see if I can tease out more details on the mutual hatred.  If it's "My name is Inigo Montoya, you messed with my trees, prepare to die!" I think I can work around that.  If it's something deeper than that... well that's harder to mitigate.  My last pass at the Chua Loremageddon entry confirmed my first impression that racially they're all sociopaths at best.  Their formative years sound like the worst form of survival of the fittest.
 
Yeah, I get it, they're a joke race but trying to figure out how their society is even functional is making my head hurt.	
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Yeah, I get it, they're a joke race
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(I googled 'sad chua' to get that, but I'm pretty sure it's a picture of Olivar...)
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Wait— that response was way too fast.
 
Olivar, have you been Tron'd into the forum software?	
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Wait— that response was way too fast.
 
Olivar, have you been Tron'd into the forum software?
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No, Chua was browsing forums when you posted
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			Character names are pretty bad. I was on Stormtalon before, but it was nothing like Entity. It's like the mega servers and mandatory rename lowered the average maturity level 5-10 years.	
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Character names are pretty bad. I was on Stormtalon before, but it was nothing like Entity. It's like the mega servers and mandatory rename lowered the average maturity level 5-10 years.
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I think that's why it takes me so long to come up with names...I like them to be humorous and/or meaningful, but I don't want them to *cupcake* people off. :unsure:
 
Like Oni Geary - I think that's my favorite name of all of my characters. Most people will read it as "Oh, duh, demon Mechari...that's not very creative..."
 
But not only is Geary an intentional misspelling of an architect's name (my naming theme for WS), but if you read the two names as a single word you get:
 
 
onigiri
 
 
 
...which I find humorous.
 
But, on the other hand, it's not a lore-related name either, so it's possible that my character names are just as irritating to RP'ers.
 
I guess at least my names aren't offensive or vulgar.	
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Yesterday the only major thing of note was that I took a guild group into Vet KV for our first time ever going there.  It took us a few tries but we got Grond down, and then Darkwitch Gurka.  We made a few attempts on Slavemaster Drokk, and got him as far down as 25%, but called it since fatigue was setting in and one of our folks had to go to work.
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I saw "Montka Grimjoy, Clan Lord of the Skullkickers" in another thread, and I was like "wtf...another Skullkickers...?" :huh:
 
 
*gears turning*
 
*looks at forum name*
 
 
"...oh, that's Ty."
 
 :lol:	
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Sounds like the attempt I was in a week or two back, and for the record, Drokk is a jerk. So much stuff going on during the end of that battle. I hear once you get past Drokk it's much easier, but I haven't had a chance to see that personally.
 
So then, good morning! Yesterday was... I dunno. Dailies. What I've really wanted to do lately is dungeons, but I'm really bad at trying to find groups for that. It doesn't help that I have to work during primetime. But that's the goal for today!
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Sounds like the attempt I was in a week or two back, and for the record, Drokk is a jerk. So much stuff going on during the end of that battle. I hear once you get past Drokk it's much easier, but I haven't had a chance to see that personally.
 
So then, good morning! Yesterday was... I dunno. Dailies. What I've really wanted to do lately is dungeons, but I'm really bad at trying to find groups for that. It doesn't help that I have to work during primetime. But that's the goal for today!
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I love the Drokk fight - it's really just learning the dance.  I think the only reason we didn't kill him was that folks were starting to get fatigued.  We spent a fair amount of time on Grond because we had to learn how to position so that we could get the fleas into the traps properly - and wow, is that a chaotic fight.  Fun, but definitely gotta think on your feet.  Compared to Grond, Drokk only has one or two moments where it's really touch and go, the rest is just knowing what to do when.
 
Definitely can't wait to go back and then push forward to the Forgemaster.  We still haven't mastered Stormtalon, either, so there's more trips to STL to learn things in our future :)
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EDIT: Also it seems I may have started a war with our IT department...
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If you ever want to run something feel free to hit me up on Typrop Tauzwei or Montka Grimjoy. Be more than happy to tank for you and sure some of Skullkickers would love to as well ^_^
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If it's the two abilities that I'm thinking of. The AoE that closes in on Stormtalon just knocks people back, but the other ability where a player becomes a safe zone you'll see a message pop up saying "Electricity flows through X". There is also an immediate knockdown when this occurs on veteran as well so have to dash to recover from it to get to the player asap.
 
I don't mind pugging at all really(though im more comfortable in a premade group). My anxiety doesn't help though lol so I often get a bit more nervous and paranoid then i should in pugs. I don't like being "they guy who screwed up the run", but also want to do my best to finish. XD
 
 
I'll primarily be on Montka though as I want to get her to 50 before other games release this month. However I always have time for friends and guildmates	
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Chua trying to raid.......
This what they do to Chua....
 	
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I can't make up my mind:
 
"Does this glow make my butt look fat?"
 
or
 
"Still not as sparkly as Twilight."	
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I don't like being "they guy who screwed up the run", but also want to do my best to finish. XD
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...does anyone have any spellslinger healing tips, by the way? I'm not exactly certain what I'm trying to do here, in terms of when/how to heal.
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Yeah, I'm using vitality burst for my basic healing maintenance as well, though I'm still forgetting to use voidspring. That could be it, I'll have to remember to use it more. Thanks for the heads up there!
 
Also now that I've gotten a taste of veteran dungeon healing, it's given me some insight on how to set things up. Looks like it's back to fiddling with my build.	
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Played most of the day with my wife.  Now it's my turn.
 
That sickening realization just hit me when I realized how much I have to actually do...	
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Yeah, I'm using vitality burst for my basic healing maintenance as well, though I'm still forgetting to use voidspring. That could be it, I'll have to remember to use it more. Thanks for the heads up there!
 
Also now that I've gotten a taste of veteran dungeon healing, it's given me some insight on how to set things up. Looks like it's back to fiddling with my build.
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I think that's why it takes me so long to come up with names...I like them to be humorous and/or meaningful, but I don't want them to *cupcake* people off. :unsure:
 
Like Oni Geary - I think that's my favorite name of all of my characters. Most people will read it as "Oh, duh, demon Mechari...that's not very creative..."
 
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			I haven't been able to post all day but you guys crack me up.	
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Gah.. I am late for coffee again.. *checks the empty coffee pots*
 
Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Vic and everyone who is under the weather!
 
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I went from a 570 to a 970 and dang, what a difference...lol
 
VERY happy with both purchases and the video card leads me into.....WILDSTAR where I began playing my new warrior.I've been having a lot of fun rerolling my warrior and even did a bit of roleplay off and on with random people in Deradune as I leveled up. I'm still getting a feel for her, but it's been a ton of fun so far!
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			Up to you guys to make coffee today.  My head feels like it's encased in concrete. >.<	
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New thread is up :) 
 
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