115063-feedback-what-i-need-to-resub

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TL;DR: I am cancelling my subscription for now, but will continue to follow WildStar and hope to find myself playing again in the future.
 
Let me start by sharing my experience with the game, good and bad, and end by stating the general conditions I am looking forward to when I resub.
 
I actually enjoyed leveling. I know a lot of people complained it was grindy or monotonous, but I liked the different areas and enjoyed doing the tasks and quests. I did not blitz through to hit cap, but I got there within a week. Overall, the single thing that I enjoy most about WildStar has been the combat. Recently I was playing GW2 again some, and had a moment of rage:
 
WTF YOU MEAN THAT DIDN'T HIT ANYTHING with my AOE SKILLSHOT?!!?!?! Because for some reason you have to have something tab selected or it hits nothing, despite clearly passing through multiple hitboxes...
 
It felt so clunky and archaic. WildStar combat feels good. Feels good like drugs, man. The sound effects are satisfying, the animations are fluid, the skill cap is satisfying, and I found myself enjoying every class- for the first time ever. I even played a good deal of PvP which was a shocker for me. WildStar combat ruined other games for me.
 
So I started with a good experience, and then I hit 50 and started doing Dungeons and Adventures with my guildies. What basically happened is this: I log on and see who is around. If there happen to be 4 of my friends who are geared as Tank, Healer, and DPSx2, then we immediately hop into content together and have a great time. Otherwise I log off within 4 or 5 minutes. 
 
The group content is fun! But it feels like a collosal waste of my time to sit in Thayd for 2 hours hoping everyone shows up. Then the tank has to go to dinner right before our healer pops on... and then what do you know, I spent an entire evening not having any fun and feeling like I accomplished nothing. I would rather play some other game, or even do my dishes. I don't want to queue with randoms, I want to play with friends.
 
What else is there to do? Dailies. And the dailies are shitty. Not because they are repetitive or boring, etc. They are, but that in themselves doesn't make them shitty- it's the rewards. Elder Gems. Elder Gems we use to max specs for raids which my guild is not going to reach in the foreseeable future. It's not near enough motivation to mindlessly grind through dailies for an hour. It's not exciting, or interesting, or fun.
 
In essence, there is nothing for me to do in this game unless the stars align and all my friends show up at the same time so we can do the awesome group content together. I spend most of my time in WildStar not having fun and being very bored. This causes me to log out pretty quickly to spend my time elsewhere, and that only feeds the problem.
 
 
So anyway, now to the feedback part of the kind of things I need to see to bring me back.
 
Plain and simple, I need solo-content shinies.
 
I want to kill 10k chompacabras to get a cute Chompacabra trophy hat.
I want to camp rare spawns in hopes of getting a baby animal to put on my housing plot.
I want to collect 100 stupid feathers to give to an NPC for a component to make backwings.
I want to grind out 5k Elder Gems for a dragon egg that I can hatch and care for and have flying around my house.
 
These are the kind of things that I can do all by myself while I wait for my friends to show up and run group content with me. These are the kind of things that will bring me back into the world zone and get me interacting with other players who are also on a mission for shinies. These are the kind of things that will having me spending hundreds of hours in game and feeling like I accomplished something (lol). These things are cosmetic, they don't affect balance, they are fun, they are shiny, they are badass. I feel like they are in the spirit of what WildStar already has going on.
 
It worked for Diablo 3; it could work for you too, Carbine. :P	
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Thank you very much for your feedback. Perhaps you'll be back to check out the changes in drop 3 - and if not, safe travels no matter where you find yourself! 
 
- Team WildStar 	
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