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Holy crap, I've been here since forever and this is my first time to start the Coffee thread! :O I feel like a new person.
 
Okay first I think I need an obligatory breakfast-related image.
 
 
Except I don't drink coffee, so... oh well! It looks like there's chocolate in that image, so no wonder the coffee is happy.
 
This week has been a fun mix of roleplay, art, and almost-but-not-quite raiding. The latter was a bit disappointing, but the not-quite part did result in my finally getting around to knocking out the Vet Adventure contract I'd been holding onto for over a week. So I guess that was a win? Sure, I'll take it.
 
Fridays for me are tough but also fun, as I get to run the earth science lab with my kiddos in the morning. Today they're learning about ore and mining for minerals by simulating the process with chocolate chip cookies! Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and be that age again. A little bit like how I wish I could go back in time to my early raiding days. xD Ah the terribleness, but such wonderful terribleness it was.
 
Anyway, we need a topic starter! So, uhm, what have you accomplished this past week in WildStar that you're most proud of? Maybe it's finally taking that first runing step, or venturing into that first dungeon. Or heck, maybe you just didn't die to a mob that's been murderizing you forever and ever. And because I'm feeling nostalgic, what accomplishment in-game in the past are you most proud of?
 
I think my major accomplishment this week has been finishing a big scene drawing I've had in my head since the weekend. I struggled with several false starts, but I am SO happy with how it turned out. Not sure if I'll color it (either with my markers or digitally), but for now I'll just bask in the happiness of seeing my artistic progress represented in my, my husband's, and our friend's WildStar characters. :3
 
 
 	
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Good morning!
 
I have accomplished NOTHING in WildStar this week. Nothing at all.
 
Well, I did log in and claim my daily rewards, so I guess that's something to be proud of. :lol:
 
But the weekend is here at last and I am 8 hours or so from finally being able to start playing again. Not even sure what the hell I was doing last weekend ... Building something, seems like. :ph34r:	
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Good morning! Happy Friday Yaaaaay!
 
Lovely drawing and good progress Naunet, looks like you had a lot of fun with it. If you're not sure about colouring you can do a mock colouring digitally first as like a guide and then go marker if you're not feeling in the mood to continue digitally. Long as ya have fun! :)
 
As for my accomplishments in Wildstar, I can't say I've done much other than finally pick what characters I want to play. I ended up making a new Draken to RP with some friends and I helped some people get through proto academy which was fun. OH oh oh actually! I failed protostar academy for the first time...that was interesting XD	
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I have done dailies.... and that is it. No one has been on lately so I have just been doing dailies and since i have never ran a expedition i have no idea where to start lol. I think I am going to try and get some done this weekend though cause found a nice guide for each of them except one. 
 
Also am i just wasting my time running back and completed all quests i have missed? I still need to do Deradune and everything beyond Malgrave. I know its decent to do for EG and coin, plus i am ripping through the areas pretty quickly, but I feel like i am wasting time.	
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I don't think finishing zones is a waste of time.
 
Also, I just learned that we can walk into low-level "Normal" instances as level 50's ... I did not think this was possible and my unfamiliarity with the layout of those places has kept me from wanting to do them as Vet content. If you're around this weekend, we should team up and blow through some adventures and dungeons with our 50's. I'd feel a lot more confident attempting vet dungeons if I just knew what to expect first-hand.
 
I'll be around tonight, tomorrow evening and all day Sunday. We're going to the Renaissance Festival on Saturday, but I expect we'll be home by 5-6PM.	
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I don't think finishing zones is a waste of time.
 
Also, I just learned that we can walk into low-level "Normal" instances as level 50's ... I did not think this was possible and my unfamiliarity with the layout of those places has kept me from wanting to do them as Vet content. If you're around this weekend, we should team up and blow through some adventures and dungeons with our 50's. I'd feel a lot more confident attempting vet dungeons if I just knew what to expect first-hand.
 
I'll be around tonight, tomorrow evening and all day Sunday. We're going to the Renaissance Festival on Saturday, but I expect we'll be home by 5-6PM.
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As I understand it, we can walk into any "normal mode" dungeon or adventure as a level 50, we just have to hoof it out to the area. I know where most of them are located and only Stormtalon is really out of the way since we have to run from Whitevale to Galeras but it's not that big a deal.
 
Just can't queue into them like that, since the queue makes you rally down or run the vet version.	
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Kick the crap out of the con flu
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As I understand it, we can walk into any "normal mode" dungeon or adventure as a level 50, we just have to hoof it out to the area. I know where most of them are located and only Stormtalon is really out of the way since we have to run from Whitevale to Galeras but it's not that big a deal.
 
Just can't queue into them like that, since the queue makes you rally down or run the vet version.
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Kick the crap out of the con flu
Finally caught up on Agents of Shield and the Voice
 
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If you walk into an instance, you'll be given an option to rally down or not. Yes, doing it through the queue will automatically rally you.
 
I actually did this with Stormtalon for the pure goal of practicing the tornado phase on Aethros because I got hit every single time.
 
Tex, if you ever want a "tourist mode" dungeon run, don't be afraid to ask :) I can throw together and exile group and run you through anything you want, even if you haven't runed :D And even explain all the mechanics!
 
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As far as my game in WS- it's been a chill week. We did a full clear of GA in 3 1/2 hours. Would have been three but for some people-are-clearly-tired fatal mistakes on Ohmna (who we normally one shot).
 
Then last night on my alt had some fun in a pug with x-89 and Kuralak. My wife got her glory unlock and some nice tanking claws for her alt. I got shoulders and some token gloves. We didn't get Kuralak down, but it was a lot of fun. I find I put pressure on myself to get bosses down quickly for the sake of progression when I'm leading. When someone *else* is leading I can just sit back and enjoy the mechanics. So repeated wipes on Kuralak didn't bother me, and I got to practice the pillar phase (we don't really *do* the pillar phase in our main raids because we can dps her down fast neough so no one ever has to run back out).
 
My wife works Friday nights so doesn't get to raid with us, so it was nice being able to do a pug and spend some time raiding together. Yes, we are an odd couple- lol.
 
She had the (new) experience of pugging with someone who looked up her logs and praised her for her numbers. Said essentially they want to learn to play like her. She was flattered- haha. I told her she needs to start her own twitch now and become famous!
 
I then joked that she could even put out a runing guide. The humor is that I do all her runes because I enjoy it. We figured her "guide" would be a video that is basically her saying "Ok, so here's how you rune your gear." then yells "HONEY, I GOT A NEW DROP- CAN YOU RUNE THIS FOR ME PLEEEASE?".
 
Tonight we are trying a new strat on System Daemons- really ready for that boss to go down. It's a LOT of fun, but ready to see Datascape (and get that glory gear!)
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My accomplishments this week so far have been....
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Kick the crap out of the con flu
Finally caught up on Agents of Shield and the Voice
 
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I am trying t get my wife to play Wildstar, so far its been a no go. She liked DAoC cause of the housing element so I have been using that angle, but she is still too hooked on WoW and Sims 3&4. 
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This week in Wildstar, I played in my first PVP "premade" groups and I grinded out all of my AMP and Ability Point unlocks for my toon. I bought a "Spike" hoverboard along with the nose and tail flairs, and I won a "Marauder" Orbitron last night from top-tier contract reward. Next weeks major goals are to get the wings for "Spike" (50 Platinum) and to get the hawt new "Hellion" outfit from the Season 2 PVP vendor. (24,000 Prestige) A big secondary goal I have for the next few weeks is to get a set of support gear imbued and runed so I can also learn to heal instead of always running DPS.
 
Oh, and I keep meaning to snap moar screenshots so I can post them in the costume thread, lol
 
 
I love this game :) (and great drawing Naunet!)	
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Maybe take her on a housing tour? 
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I have, I showed off EspersXIV's awesome housing area. She likes the housing but I guess it has to do with starting fresh in a new game.
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Remember me whining and complaining about Thanksgiving ads last week?
 
I am now working two weeks into the future because I have nothing else to do at the office. :angry:  The bad part is, week after next, when I start actually producing these files, is a three-day work week and all my hard advance-planning will come crashing down just in time for Christmas ads to hit.
 
*sigh*
 
I would much rather be workin' on mah Plot!	
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I have accomplished.... work! yaaaay :/
 
Also lots of SWTOR.
 
But anyway, I suppose I did get my first set of class runes from my guild last night, and I was busy for a couple of hours parsing builds. I'm trying to find a build using powerlink and the Unity set that can still produce high dps. I have a theory that running both Unity and Burning Rage for warrior can produce more damage than just Burning Rage with equivalent gear, but without both sets I can't really parse it to find out.
 
And if all else fails then I end up as powerlink warrior forever, but hey I'm the only dps warrior that shows up regularly for our raids anyway so more likely than not I was going to be required to do it one way or another.
 
Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the build I've come up with so far, I'm only marginally behind our other dps warriors and my Innate now has ~22 second cooldown down from 60 seconds :D (and does 8% more damage than normal)	
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*yawn* Good morning.
 
Erk, thank goodness it's Friday!
 
Looking forward to the weekend, because I didn't get really any time for Wildstar this week. Though I did half-run of The Siege of Lightspire, though haven't never really looked at it before I had no idea what I was doing.... and also I was the only dominion guy there... with a bunch of Exiles. Kind of hard to coordinate, plus I wasn't really sure which telegraphs I should run out of, and which were 'safe'. 'We' didn't get very far :rolleyes:.
 
Sadly, I don't think I have any moments in Wildstar of which I am particularly proud! Yet. I am sure I will, and it's just going to be a matter time /optimism :D. From the few dungeons I have done, I am really looking forward to doing more. Way back when, when I did progression raiding, getting The Undying title out of Nax was super exciting. Well, Forgemaster Trogun was way more difficult than that in my mind, and way more fun. Like seriously, great job with every boss fight I've done. Even the 'awful' ones were always a treat. I could probably run Wildstar dungeons until my eyes bled out, if not for me enjoying leveling each class and doing other stuff so much.
 
My fear right now is Fallout 4. I have resisted its siren's song until now, but I can feel myself growing weak for the new-aged retro-50s vibe.
 
Naunet, I really like that picture! But I have to ask... what's in the cups? Coffee? Tea? Hot Cocoa? (acid? unlikely, that armor is clearly not fit for a Chua :lol:)	
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I am trying t get my wife to play Wildstar, so far its been a no go. She liked DAoC cause of the housing element so I have been using that angle, but she is still too hooked on WoW and Sims 3&4.
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Why does that coffee face look haunted rather than cute...
Those deep dark roasted black holes are just staring at me! Ahhhh!
 
My guildies are too busy playing Fallout 4 these days so it's pretty quiet in my corner of Nexus...	
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Why does that coffee face look haunted rather than cute...
Those deep dark roasted black holes are just staring at me! Ahhhh!
 
My guildies are too busy playing Fallout 4 these days so it's pretty quiet in my corner of Nexus...
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My accomplishments this week so far have been....
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Kick the crap out of the con flu
Finally caught up on Agents of Shield and the Voice
 
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My accomplishments this week so far have been....
WORKED ON NEW CLASS ANIMATIONS FOR GRANOK STALKER
CLASS BALANCE CHANGES FOR NEW DARK-WEAVER CLASS
FIX PROBLEM WHERE WHIRLWIND WAS NOT ACCURATELY KILLING EVERYTHING IN RANGE
Kick the crap out of the con flu
Finally caught up on Agents of Shield and the Voice
 
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Hello Everybody - 
 
Been kind of a weird week for me in Wildstar.  Volunteered to sit out the Wednesday night raid session since we are starting to get more than 20 signing up.  Wouldn't have been a big thing, I've been part of clearing the entire first floor in one night several times, but then they went and decided to kill the Rhino.  Bah, disappointed I missed that.  So without the raid night, just kind of floated around doing contracts, helping Guild members with stuff.  Looking forward to the weekend so we can get back to working on the second floor of GA.
 
When I hear Renaissance Fair, all I can think of is giant turkey legs.  Man those are awesome, you can walk around and those things will feed you all day.  Have a weird affection for food on a stick, guess in this case it is food on a bone.  Yay for portable all day food.
 
And another great drawing Naunet.	
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I associate gator on a stick with the Ren faire, strangely enough. xD Because that's one of the things the Texas Renaissance Festival serves and I hardly ever get to eat it even though it's delicious! Mmmmm... fried gator. :3
 
I, too, and greatly looking forward to tomorrow's Phagemaw attempts! :D
			
				
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			Best food on a stick I have ever had was at a state fair.  It was spaghetti and meatballs on a stick.  A giant meatball on a stick with pasta in the center of the meatball.  You basically ate part of the meatball so you could have access to the pasta.  Then you could alternate eating the pasta and meatball, all while walking and using only one hand.  Genius!. I have no idea how they made it, but I consider it one of the greatest engineering triumphs of this lifetime.	
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			My wife is obsessed with Turkey legs, and really there are no "normal" place you can buy them. So we end up going lots of places we normally wouldn't in search :)	
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The Faire is my happy place. I have been every year (most years multiple times) since I was 13. I am turning 46 this year and haven't missed a faire in all those years.
 
I was a LARPer for over 20 years and the faire was the one place I could walk around in any one of a half-dozen different costumes and feel at home.
 
Many years, I traded a couple hours of labor for free admittance and all-weekend passes as an employee - though I was never actually paid. I would just work the Gutenberg's Press for a bit or carry someone's banner in the parade and the rest of the weekend was all about the mead, girls in chain mail, more mead and as much debauchery as the law allowed.
 
In my parenting years, those long weekends have turned into typical one-day family-friendly trips. We still go in costume, of course, but the mead and debauching has taken a back seat.	
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My wife is obsessed with Turkey legs, and really there are no "normal" place you can buy them. So we end up going lots of places we normally wouldn't in search :)
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Interesting about the alligator, I never really noticed it at the fairs.  But probably because I was born and raised on the east coast of Florida and ate it probably once a week. 
 
But keeping this thread on track, in Guild chat I am often cracking jokes and Naunet is usually the one telling me to shush or be quiet.  Last night while completing the Grove event for the contract, one of the enemies said to me "Quiet you!  I instantly thought, hey they put Naunet in the game!	
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			I love turkey legs, surprising enough they sell turkey legs at Seaworld which i found a bit odd. Everytime i go to the Ren Fair i always get turkey legs. I had no clue they had Alligator though, which i haven't had in a while due to Razoos stop selling gator tail  :angry:. 	
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Heh. I just got the message that this is going to be another PVP Double Prestige Weekend.
 
Which is funny, given how rampant the bots are now, compared to last month when they did this.	
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Heh. I just got the message that this is going to be another PVP Double Prestige Weekend.
 
Which is funny, given how rampant the bots are now, compared to last month when they did this.
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Yeah, Lana (50) only needs one upgrade to shoulders to be in all oranges, plus the final AMP unlock I need to max that out.
 
After that, I'll probably just level Pam (Warrior, 26) until the weekend is over.	
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OH HEY!!!
 
REALM TRANSFERS ARE BACK!!!!
 
(See News Forum!)	
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Good morning/afternoon all,
 
My main accomplishment this week was getting past those awful bio-domes, luckily I survived them and thankfully back to better areas as they have picked up again. So far the bio-domes and the ship mission where you have to keep getting oxygen or risk going crazy are the only ones I have disliked so far, everything else I have thoroughly enjoyed.
 
Stalker is coming along nicely and im still really enjoying the class although I would be further along had I not created a bunch of alts at the start and got each of them upto lvl 15 before deciding I enjoyed Stalker the most.  Im also trying to take everything I possibly can in whilst leveling so its more a marathon than a sprint at this moment.  The higher I am getting up im noticing the 2 shielded mobs are really starting to hurt me, before I could take them on easy now im having to be alot more careful, so it might be time to juggle up my amp points a little. 
 
Plus cant believe its Friday, where on earth did the rest of the week go, it just feels like yesterday was Monday.	
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... and the ship mission where you have to keep getting oxygen or risk going crazy are the only ones I have disliked ..
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the ship mission where you have to keep getting oxygen or risk going crazy
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O. M. G.
 
Space Madness is my absolute FAVORITE shiphand. I'd rather do that one than any of the others.
 
If you need some pointers, let me know. ;)
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I think it was the constant back and forth to the tanks. I might try it again and do like Jeff said and go crazy and see what happens hehe, I do know I got to 25% at one point and there suddenly was no shortage of mobs to dispatch.  
 
Just finished the one where you are taken prisoner and have to break out the ship.  That one has been my fav so far as it had a mixture of everything, plus I really liked infestation (I think thats what it was called), not sure how many more are remaining but they are fun and you get some really nice loot out of them.
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I think it was the constant back and forth to the tanks. I might try it again and do like Jeff said and go crazy and see what happens hehe, I do know I got to 25% at one point and there suddenly was no shortage of mobs to dispatch.  
 
Just finished the one where you are taken prisoner and have to break out the ship.  That one has been my fav so far as it had a mixture of everything, plus I really liked infestation (I think thats what it was called), not sure how many more are remaining but they are fun and you get some really nice loot out of them.
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 Last night while completing the Grove event for the contract, one of the enemies said to me "Quiet you!  I instantly thought, hey they put Naunet in the game!
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As I understand it, we can walk into any "normal mode" dungeon or adventure as a level 50, we just have to hoof it out to the area. I know where most of them are located and only Stormtalon is really out of the way since we have to run from Whitevale to Galeras but it's not that big a deal.
 
Just can't queue into them like that, since the queue makes you rally down or run the vet version.
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I actually played the Gauntlet recently- the last Expedition, as far as I know?- and that one immediately became my favorite. It has charm.
 
My WildStar accomplishments for the week have been "I'm almost finished with Wilderrun" and "I've given away over 50 Decor and FABkits that I earned from challenges to any new or old players who asked for them." And trust me when I say that's actually an accomplishment because it is surprisingly hard to convince people in Housing Zone to accept gifts. I had a few people showing up and sending me items to hand out.	
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Logged in. Got my non functional sky from daily reward. Logged off and played guild wars 2 for several hours. I am not dedicated player to any game. Which does not stop me from saying that I love them all.
 
My worst fear is, I will end up in wow once legion comes out because demon hunters, melee hunters and artifact weapons :( That I hate.... but still want them. Cuz they are artifacts.
 
Also was leveling with two other people in grimvault two days back nad we cleared a lot of group content. One would forget how much more fun is to play Wildstar as a multiplayer game!	
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I actually played the Gauntlet recently- the last Expedition, as far as I know?- and that one immediately became my favorite. It has charm.
 
My WildStar accomplishments for the week have been "I'm almost finished with Wilderrun" and "I've given away over 50 Decor and FABkits that I earned from challenges to any new or old players who asked for them." And trust me when I say that's actually an accomplishment because it is surprisingly hard to convince people in Housing Zone to accept gifts. I had a few people showing up and sending me items to hand out.
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Lets see.....I am proud of getting my stalker through the level 30-40 content....it was rough and my warrior is gonna have a harder time >_<
 
Oblivion here I come	
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Hah, that's so cute!
 
I am so impressed with the housing zone chat, your story really warms my heart. You've probably got a lot of thanks already, but thanks for doing a small bit to make that area great. :D I've noticed a downturn in positivity since F2P (as expected), so I guess we all must work a bit harder to keep things stellar.
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Sorry, zero WildStar accomplishments this past week. Other than not writing a scathing post on why I spent 100 dollars this week NOT on WildStar. Sigh. 
I've been addicted to Taiwan blade and soul. Boyfriend can attest to the brutality of trying to solo some of the dungeon content at level. I swear those bosses cheat. Lol. Maybe I should pay attention when the game claims "advanced". Also who has ever heard of a game really hating ranged? I play melee range even tho ranged because bosses loveeeee to do some messed up charge up attacks at ranged combatants haha. Cheaters! 
 
Biggest achievement in wildstar in the last month was getting through the Halloween expedition without swearing once or throwing the mouse at the wall. Haha. And then the same day Halloween was over! 
I really want to get some dungeon action but I have to wait for the next weekend. Guildies expect some beta action this weekend. 
 
This thread was hilarious to read, thank you all. Reminds me what I love about WildStar still.	
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Good err, morning I guess? It's half past 4am and that's neither here nor there. I suppose it's morning somewhere.
 
Anyway, no real WildStar accomplishments so far this week. The people I'm usually playing other games with asked me to spend some time with them so what little free time I had this week was spent on Skyforge.
 
With the PvP event I do have my eye on getting the Blackhood costume so there's still some potential achieving to do this week.
I'm usually really terribad at PvP though so I don't know how realistic that goal is going to be in the end.
Can anyone chime in on how effective it is to spend the weekend being bad at level 20ish BGs?	
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Can anyone chime in on how effective it is to spend the weekend being bad at level 20ish BGs?
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How bad can it be? Chances are it will be you + 19 bots. :lol:
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I'm in a day late, but perhaps that's ok since we rarely have weekend coffee together?
My biggest win this week was getting 3g for housing bunker and 30g for strain ground :D It took a while of savings, but I'm there :D
Not it's back to wall building again for a while :P
Have been rolling in bgs, since they announced double prestige weekend (sweet!) and I'm thinking about the new limited mounts. They are both so epic, and I can get the pink pony for omnibits but think I need to open wallet and throw money at screen for strain cat as well... it's so cool isn't it?
Last night was a late night, me and my bf followed the terror attack in Paris and news about that, have been following it some during the day as well.... really aweful =( 
Will hit the store soon to get something for the evening, and then try run as many bgs as possible. I have work and studies to be done tomorrow so this evening is most time I have to take advantage of the prestige event. 	
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