118074-drop-3-so-that-happened

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Between the bugs and the missing reward incentive for The Defile, I've completed the area once and am frankly unlikely to continue playing outside of dungeons and raids. Decent quest and event concepts but felt pretty stale in many cases, a large portion of this is due to me gibbing mobs after one rotation I'm sure, but elsewhere like the 20+ quests just felt like a cluttered, boring grind. Whacking away at a big HP mob with little in terms of mechanics is bad enough; couple that with a terrible reward you'll not see me play that content. Some 'meh' armour pieces and an ability point at exalted. Really?
 
Omni core was a refreshing change of pace but not scaled to your character and play level so was fairly easy. Would like the inclusion of optional hard modes for these kind of things because after going through it a second time, I'm glad it's only once a week I'll be doing it as the unskippable dialogue and insta-gibbing the bosses in MOO set me to sleep. Not to mention I rolled pretty terrible blue items in the process. Choosing paths were a great addition and made for repeat playing more exciting to see what would happen, more of this in the future please! Rewards? would rather take coin and vanity over salvage gear. At the moment, it's likely I'll get bugger all for my time, I assume there are epics? It's got some cool scenarios but they are just simply too easy to accomplish a gold.
 
Wildstar isn't feeling Hardcore for me right now, all the new Defile content felt tuned for a fresh 50. Give players like myself the option to make things harder if you want to appeal to the casual audience so much. No idea why the bugs people are reporting on PTR are going through to live when so much time was allocated for Q&A to do their magic. Now that the community can smell the B.S I think it's high time you guys started scaling back your release sizes and work on the important bugs as and when they appear.
 
Do I feel that drop 3 was worth that wait? Not as long as it's been and the community shouldn't suffer another for drop 4. I hope that you will focus on smaller, contained group and solo content with quick turn around times and little room for error. That or make the content designed for max level and beyond more challenging and engaging. I don't know if my standards are too high, but at times I felt straight up bored. More unique challenges like speed hoops & math consoles, less tic-tac-toe where I would need to intentionally fail to lose the game. More element swapping, less wailing on scorching's egg 2.0. Give me engaging content if you want my interest. I can perform a rotation on a target dummy.
 
How do you guys feel?
 
Cheers.	
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			I like you. You logically look at the issues and explain them in a concise way. I haven't been home until now and have been seeing this cluster*cupcake* of a disaster explode all over the forums today. Sad to see everyone is pretty much saying the new content wasn't worth it.	
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Wildstar isn't feeling Hardcore for me right now,
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Wildstar isn't feeling Hardcore for me right now, all the new Defile content felt tuned for a fresh 50. Give players like myself the option to make things harder if you want to appeal to the casual audience so much. No idea why the bugs people are reporting on PTR are going through to live when so much time was allocated for Q&A to do their magic. Now that the community can smell the B.S I think it's high time you guys started scaling back your release sizes and work on the important bugs as and when they appear.
 
Do I feel that drop 3 was worth that wait? Not as long as it's been and the community shouldn't suffer another for drop 4. I hope that you will focus on smaller, contained group and solo content with quick turn around times and little room for error. That or make the content designed for max level and beyond more challenging and engaging. I don't know if my standards are too high, but at times I felt straight up bored. More unique challenges like speed hoops & math consoles, less tic-tac-toe where I would need to intentionally fail to lose the game. More element swapping, less wailing on scorching's egg 2.0. Give me engaging content if you want my interest. I can perform a rotation on a target dummy.
 
How do you guys feel?
 
Cheers.
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I feel like if you haven't completed all the hardcore content this game is already overloaded with at the expense of things for the rest of us to do, you really have an interesting perspective about how much it sucks that there was a drop aimed at the largest subset of players in the game so that they'd have stuff to do at endgame too.
 
So--done all the raids yet, Hardcorrior?
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It is not necessary to be a hardcore player to feel Drop 3 is a disappointment. I raid in a kind of semi hardcore group (like 2-3 Days, only like 25 people for 20 man raid, no flaming, no kick if someone better comes along) however I like only to raid, go gold dungeons or to craft stuff for sale. I do not like farming, grinding or leave Illium for ony other reason than getting to the raid.
 
For me the current content, I waited months for to come, did not address the problems I see in the game (balance, itemisation, missing content for 10-20 people, ease farming need for raiders) and added stuff I do not enjoy (more farming for vouches, runes and ANOTHER farming area). That is not bad as a such since the content was meant for farmers and co. However every bit of farming Carbine makes necessary for me to complete to be competitive (like new recipes for my technology profession or elder gems) lowers my fun in the game, eventually I decided not to do that anymore and watch as people who do it outperform me and I loose access to game content, my guild accepts that luckily.
 
In a consequence in the current way Wildstar progresses people like me will loose interest in the game while it becomes more interesting for others. That can be a economic decision for Carbine since my kind is low in numbers but it s a fact worth stated. My hope that carbine could choose a different path than the standar MMO crumble (there is no fixed rulestet for an MMO!).	
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Hello,
 
Please keep in mind we already have a drop 3 feedback thread here. To prevent duplicates and to keep all information in one spot I'm going to lock this thread and request you please keep the conversation going there. 
 
Thank you.
- Team WildStar 	
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