152727-level-50-character-boost-guide

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The level-50 Hero Hyper Jump is here! Whether you’re a new or returning player who wants to check out everything Nexus has to offer at max-level, or a total pro looking to add to your roster of level-50 characters, there are a few things you should know before making the jump. We’ve got several of the basics for you covered below, and our good friends over at Gamepedia have put together a full character boost guide to help you navigate Nexus.
 
Boosting to Level 50
There are no prerequisites for boosting to level 50. Anyone can do it! Simply load the WildStar game client and click on “Purchase a Character Boost Token” at character selection. You’ll need Protobucks to make the purchase. Use the token to go through the standard character creation process and determine your Faction, Race, Class, Path, gender, and appearance. You’ll be prompted at the end of the process to confirm that you want to spend the token to boost your new character. Note that while we’d like to expand Hyper Jump functionality to existing low-level characters on your account in a future game update, for now you’ll need to access the boost by creating a new character.
 
Level-50 Care Package
Every boosted level-50 character comes equipped with some basic level-appropriate Assault gear (optimized for dealing damage), as well as a care package to help you get started on your journey across Nexus. The package contains:
Bag of Support Gear: Full set based on Class Support role (Tanking or Healing).
Bag of Path Rewards: Goods roughly equivalent to what’s earned while leveling 1-50.
Rune Token x50: Can be exchanged in your capital city for any one-power Rune set (excludes class sets).
Mount: Increases movement speed (mount type based on your character’s Race).
Medishot x20: Provides emergency healing in a pinch.
Platinum x3: Standard currency equal to 300 gold.
Elder Gem x1500: Max-level currency for purchasing upgrades, supplies, and more.
Protostar Housing Teleportation Unit: Consuming this item will transport you to your housing plot and provide a Recall button to the left of your Ability bar.
Capital City Transmat Coordinates: Consuming this item will provide a Recall button to the left of your Ability bar which transports you to your capital city.
How to WildStar
If you have little or no experience with WildStar, or MMOs in general, it’s crucial to understand the choices you’re presented with during character creation, as the Faction, Race, Class, and Path you select will dramatically impact your experiences on Nexus. If you’re boosting to play with friends, make sure you choose the same Faction (Dominion or Exiles). You might also want to seek friendly guidance on picking your Class and Path, in case there’s a mutually beneficial role you can fulfill when grouping together.
 
Classes & Class Roles
Each Class has an Assault role—focused on dealing maximum damage per second (DPS)—and a Support role—Tanking or Healing in group content. If you’re new to WildStar, it’s best to learn the gameplay fundamentals in an Assault role before trying a Tank or Healer. However, you should still consider which Support role you’d be most interested in playing when first choosing your class, as well as whether you prefer meeting your enemy face to face in Melee combat, or blasting them from a distance in Ranged combat. For instance, Engineer is the only Ranged Assault Class with a Tank Support role. Stalker and Warrior are both Melee Assault with a Tank Support role, though these two Classes play very differently. Likewise, Esper, Medic, and Spellslinger each provide unique options on the battlefield, even while all being classified as Ranged Assault Classes with Healer Support roles. Check out Gamepedia’s detailed Class breakdowns, and visit the official WildStar Classes & Combat forums for player-made tips and tricks.
 
Paths
In addition to choosing your preferred class, make sure the Path you pick complements the way you want to interact with the world and other heroes around you. Brave the wilderness and discover the unknown as an Explorer, study the world and unlock secrets as a Scientist, tame the land and expand your influence as a Settler, or slaughter your enemies and conquer territory as a Soldier. Each Path has distinct gameplay to suit different interests, and provides benefits to you and your Faction. Boosting to level 50 will also boost your Path to max-level 30, and you’ll be given the following selection of rewards specific to each Path and on par with what you’d earn while leveling:
Costume Set
6-, 8-, 9-, 10-, 12-slot bags
General & Faction-specific Titles
Festival FABkits Tiers 1-6
Décor item
Ground Mount Flair
Upgrade Kits (awarded at Path levels 15 & 30)
Path Abilities
Ability Points
Once you’ve gotten into the game with your badass new level-50 character, you’ll want to get setup for battle. You have 41 Ability Points to spend in the Action Set Builder (default hotkey ‘B’). Ability Points are used to modify your Class abilities and customize your experience in WildStar. From the Action Set Builder, press the button at the top right of the Action Set Builder panel marked “Abilities.”
 
The Abilities section is divided into three tabs labeled Assault, Support, and Utility.
 
Assault: Contains abilities that are geared toward a DPS role and all skills scale with Assault Power.
 
Support: Contains abilities that are geared toward a Tank or Healer role and all skills scale with Support Power.
 
Utility: Contains abilities that are geared toward Crowd Control, Buffs, and Debuffs that scale with both Assault and Support Power.
 
Ability Points can be spent to improve or even modify the function of a skill by increasing its Tier level. There are two types of Tiers on abilities: Minor Tiers—Cost 1 Ability Point and generally increase the effectiveness of the skill; and Major Tiers—Cost 5 Ability Points and can modify the use of the skill or provide a major boost to the skill.
 
Once you have carefully considered your options, selected all of your abilities, and delegated your Ability Points, click “Use Set” at the lower right of the panel. This will save all of your ability selections. You may come back to the Action Set Builder and adjust your ability selections freely as long as you’re not in combat.
 
You can also increase your available Ability Points up to a total of 48. Ability Point unlocks can be attained by the following methods:
Reputation Vendors at Level-50 Daily Quest hubsMust attain Beloved status to access the one-time purchase
PvP VendorsRequires Prestige (currency attained through PvP) to purchase
Elder Gem VendorRequires Elder Gems to purchase
Renown Vendor
Requires Renown (currency attained through group PvE content) to purchase
Can buy a one-time-use purchase Ability for Gold Medal completion of all Adventures
Drops from completing Veteran Dungeons
Drops from killing NPCs
Advanced Modification Protocol (AMP)
In addition to Ability Points, you have 47 AMP points to spend in the Advanced Modification Protocol (AMP) system, also accessed through the Action Set Builder (default hotkey ‘B’). AMPs are used to unlock passive and reactive bonuses to further enhance your gameplay experience. From the Action Set Builder, press the button at the top right marked “AMPs.”
 
The AMP section is divided into three distinct wedges (Assault, Support, and Utility) and three hybrid wedges (Assault/Support, Support/Utility, and Assault/Utility).
 
Assault: Contains options that will enhance your DPS role.
 
Support: Contains options that will enhance your Tank or Healer role.
 
Utility: Contains options that will provide situational bonuses that can be utilized in both an Assault and Support capacity.
 
Hybrid A/S: A combination of options that enhance both Assault and Support roles.
 
Hybrid S/U: A combination of options that will provide situational bonuses for Support roles.
 
Hybrid A/U: A combination of options that will provide situational bonuses for your Assault role.
 
Each wedge is divided into three sections: Inner Ring (Tier 1), Middle Ring (Tier 2), and Outer Ring (Tier 3).
 
Each wedge’s Rings are gated by the following rules:
To access the Middle-Ring AMPs, you must invest at least three points into the associated Inner-Ring AMP section.
To access the Outer-Ring AMPs, you must invest at least eight points into the associated Middle-Ring AMP section.
After you’ve selected all of your AMPs and are sure of your selections, click “Use Set” at the lower right of the panel. This will save all of your AMP selections and deduct the available AMP points from your pool. If you wish to change some of those selections, then you can either use “Buy Full AMP Reset” on the bottom left to clear your selections for gold, or you can remove selections individually for gold by right-clicking the selection you wish to clear.
 
As with Ability Points, you can also increase your available AMP points up to 57. AMP point unlocks can be attained by the following methods:
Reputation Vendors  at Level-50 Daily Quest hubsMust attain Beloved status to access the one-time purchase
PvP VendorsRequires Prestige (currency attained through PvP) to purchase
Elder Gem VendorRequires Elder Gems to purchase
Renown VendorRequires attaining Renown (currency attained through group PvE content) to purchase
Advanced Gear VendorRequires Gold Medal completion of all Expeditions for a one-time-use purchase AMP
Drops from completing Veteran Dungeons
Drops from killing NPCs
Embarking on Your Adventure
Now that you’ve created your character, jumped to level 50, and prepared for combat by customizing your Action Set, your first stop should be your faction’s capital city Elder game hub—Conqueror’s Square in Illium (Dominion) or Champion’s Corner in Thayd (Exiles). This hub is home to vendors with PvE and PvP rewards, the Protostar Contract Dispenser, live event NPCs (when limited-time events are active), and a special vendor who sells rewards for Elder Gems. We recommend you visit each vendor to browse their wares and glean what currencies are needed to obtain them. If you’ve played WildStar before, you might notice that your XP bar has been replaced by an Elder Point bar at level 50. Earning Elder Points works just like XP, but when the bar fills up, you get an Elder Gem instead of a level. Elder Gems can be used to purchase important character upgrades, cosmetic unlocks, and Runecrafting supplies.
 
Nexus offers a plethora of content options for level-50 characters. If you want to jump into PvP combat, pick up a set of starter gear from the PvP vendors in your capital’s Elder game hub, then queue for Battlegrounds or Arenas through the Content Finder (default hotkey ‘N’). Your Content Finder will also let you queue for Veteran Expeditions (instances for solo or group play) or World Story content (story-focused instances revealing the secrets of Nexus). Help your faction conquer Nexus by completing daily Quests for allies in Crimson Badlands, the Northern Wastes, Star-Comm Basin, Blighthaven, or the Defile. Challenge Arcterra’s deadly Iceblood Coven through Quests and Public Events. But before heading out, don’t forget to visit your capital’s Protostar Contract Dispenser, which offers rotating Contracts for completing all types of PvE and PvP content. If you have trouble deciding, Drusera will contact you through your Datacron with series of Quests introducing all of your options.
 
You Want to Know More, Yes?
Don’t forget to check out Gamepedia’s in-depth character boost guide, which includes detailed information on how to optimize playing your class and specialization. Don’t be the noob who enters the Veteran Dungeon queue and asks the rest of the group what that one button does, or how AMPs are meant to be spent.	
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Good Morning,
 
Thank you for the level boost update Also thank you for answering a question I had in regards to boosting an existing character. I look forward to that functionality being added at a later date. I will have to boost a character or two this week so I'm glad I didn't level them to far lol. That being said, I can't wait until the function of having a Chua Warrior and Aurin Engineer is added, although those two combinations I think I'll level them solo. I look forward to testing out the new update.
 
SK	
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			I purchased the boost, but when I make my character and hit Finalize, I get error:  "Created invalid character state"  and the game boots me off.... 	
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Same message for me
 
Dominion Female Cassian
Stalker / Explorer
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It works like a charm while creating normal character but I got this boring message each time and tested many times from server restart
 
It's realy boring	
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			The boost seems to be bugged, just bought it to boost myself a Spellslinger, It works like a charm until you select name and press enter game where you get the popup, "You have entered an invalid character create state" you press confirm on the popup and get booted off the game.
			
				
	Edited July 14, 2016 by Reavth	
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			Same Issue with me cannot get past naming my new character, any idea when they will address this issue?.	
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			We're looking into the "invalid character state" issue players are experiencing when attempting to log into a boosted character. We'll update you once we have more information.	
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Reputation Vendors  at Level-50 Daily Quest hubs
Must attain Beloved status to access the one-time purchase 
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We're looking into the "invalid character state" issue players are experiencing when attempting to log into a boosted character. We'll update you once we have more information.
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			Why were the Elder Gem AMP/APs not switched to account bound?	
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Four hours later and still no word. Could we have an update on when we can use the new feature added to the game that many of us paid good money for?
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We're in the process of testing a resolution for the issue. If all goes well we'll be deploying the fix as quickly as possible.
 
This definitely isn't an ideal situation and I apologize for the inconvenience.
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Four hours later and still no word. Could we have an update on when we can use the new feature added to the game that many of us paid good money for?
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			I'm only confused as to why some are affected and others are not...i hope its not due to Addons? 	
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I'm only confused as to why some are affected and others are not...i hope its not due to Addons? 
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			Still can't use my boosted token for a Chua warrior..... so much for hoping to play tonight.......	
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			I am having same issue.. hope it gets fixed. otherwise give me my photobucks back.	
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			https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/152764-hotfix-all-realms-15-july-2016/	
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			EDIT: they already fixed this, ignore me. that was fast ^^ (temporarily had 4x transducer requirement than normal for crafted stuff)
			
				
	Edited July 17, 2016 by Stalk	
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			Logged in today to finally figure out that the free boost was only for new characters, as it was with the one you could buy. They had said, long ago, that they were hoping to make this something to boost characters you already have as well, but I guess they never got around to it. It's a shame, too, because I was hoping to hop back in with one of my characters I had been working on. But now figuring out I would have to start from scratch with things like wardrobe, housing, and everything else except the boost items, it makes me FAR less inclined to do so. Polly won't be coming back to the game now. I wish it the best, because I had fun when I was here long ago. I am just not willing to start over on everything. Best of luck!	
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			I opened my care package and I'm pretty sure I didn't get some of the items that I was supposed to. For example I didn't get any platinum or medishots. Has this happened to anyone else or are these things somewhere that I'm not seeing them?	
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Bag of Support Gear: Full set based on Class Support role (Tanking or Healing).
Bag of Path Rewards: Goods roughly equivalent to what’s earned while leveling 1-50.
Rune Token x50: Can be exchanged in your capital city for any one-power Rune set (excludes class sets).
Mount: Increases movement speed (mount type based on your character’s Race).
Medishot x20: Provides emergency healing in a pinch.
Platinum x3: Standard currency equal to 300 gold.
Elder Gem x1500: Max-level currency for purchasing upgrades, supplies, and more.
Protostar Housing Teleportation Unit: Consuming this item will transport you to your housing plot and provide a Recall button to the left of your Ability bar.
Capital City Transmat Coordinates: Consuming this item will provide a Recall button to the left of your Ability bar which transports you to your capital city.
I didn't get the Medishots, PLat, Elder gems or rune tokens.  What's up with that?
 	
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Logged in today to finally figure out that the free boost was only for new characters, as it was with the one you could buy. They had said, long ago, that they were hoping to make this something to boost characters you already have as well, but I guess they never got around to it. It's a shame, too, because I was hoping to hop back in with one of my characters I had been working on. But now figuring out I would have to start from scratch with things like wardrobe, housing, and everything else except the boost items, it makes me FAR less inclined to do so. Polly won't be coming back to the game now. I wish it the best, because I had fun when I was here long ago. I am just not willing to start over on everything. Best of luck!
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Hi TurboRaptor!This is an old thread specific to the boost on the Store. For the Primal Matrix free 50 event from March 8-12, 2017 the differences between the store bought boost and the event boost were clearly stated:
 
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The free character boost offered with the Free 50 Frenzy differs slightly from the paid-for version, but still includes all of the following:
Full set of Assault (DPS) gear already equipped
Bag of Support Gear: Full set based on class Support role (tanking/healing)
Bag of Path Rewards: Stuff you’d normally get for your Path while leveling
Mount: Something to ride around on!
Protostar Housing Teleportation Unit: Use this item to transport to your housing plot, and it’ll also give you a Recall ability to get back to your house if you leave it
Capital City Transmat Coordinates: Use this to add another Recall button, but this one transports you to your capital city
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			Damn I missed it! I saw the advertisement on my FB feed and saved it for later. I downloaded and installed the game on the 16th only to find that I was too late. I didn't see the promotion ends on the 12th.	
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Hello, I have one question regarding the level 50 boost GIFT that is going to be tomorrow. The situation is like this. I had one character in one account with only one character slot. After a while, I deleted the character and I have the character slot available. The question is: will I receive the level 50 boost gift even tho I don't have any character associated with that account? ( only one character slot in that account).
 
Thanks for the reply!	
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Is  the boost avaiable now? 
I don't see the option to create new lvl 50 :(	
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Do you have an open character slot available to claim it with?
Alternatively, if you claimed one during the first 'free 50' event around the Primal Matrix launch, you can't get one this time. It's a one-per-account gift.Official post here.	
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			I don't have that boost too. I have some available char slots. I've even deleted some old characters to claim this boost and still don't have one. There is only option to buy boost token. 
			
				
	Edited November 2, 2017 by Orxidz	
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			If you are looking at the Character Login screen and have an open slot available, just under the open character slot you should have the option to create a level 50 character.Image credit: Thiefje	
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