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So the Forums were down and no Coffee yesterday, so let's make up for it with a double shot of espresso ... feeling manly, yet? Oh, I didn't use water to make this, either. I used Red Bull and 5-Hour Energy. You should be feeling the effects any second now.
 
 
Oops. Ah yeah, there we go.
 
So topics. It's only fair we have two to pick from ...
 
How about Shiphands and other kinds of solo content. What is your favorite? Obviously, I am a huge fan of Space Madness. As an old trippy hippie who spent a summer on Grateful Dead Tour, that one makes me feel right at home.
 
Second topic: The Architect Tradeskill. WHY DOES IT TAUNT ME SO?!?! What's with that stupid "you made four of these in a row, but tough crap, that last one failed and hahaha you're out of materials now!" horsecrap. Is that changing in the next patch? I remember reading that the circuitboard crafts (armorer, weaponsmith, etc.) are getting an upgrade, but what about Technologist and Architect. The others aren't that bad, but holy crapsnacks, Architect makes me wanna scream some nights.
 
Have a great day, Nexus!	
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Can't talk about my favourite, but I'm currently starting to hate infestation... because I'm farming it to get enough renown for the cowboy hat ;(
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How about Shiphands and other kinds of solo content. What is your favorite?
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Completely not following your topics (sorry!), but raiding has had a couple of tough nights due to (mostly) things beyond our control. So I went for WS easy-and-relaxing. I started a slinger alt. Because it's class I already know, and revisiting content I haven't done in a year is kind of fun. I don't think I actually have done some of the starter zone quests since BETA. Pretty crazy. Anyway, I am having fun and getting some energy back to hit the end game hard next week.
 
Realizing that GA is about to get a bit longer (summon bug fixed and T8 OV not working on Kuralak any more) is not helping my mood, as is the idea that I'm about to spend loads of plat to get my toons in shape for raiding. And helping guild mates get THEIR toons in shape for raiding, espcially those have one or two plat.
 
I'm really not looking forward to F2P at this point- it's just going to be so much work to transition through; at a point we are working on one of the hardest fights in the game, setbacks are not welcome. But we do hard thing, so we'll do this too :)
 
But meanwhile, alt leveling is a nice break.
			
				
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I usually alternate between infestation and m-xx (I forget the name) to keep it fresh :)
 
And I've done the fist 5 minutes of fragment zero about 100 times.	
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Completely not following your topics (sorry!),
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Can't talk about my favourite, but I'm currently starting to hate infestation... because I'm farming it to get enough renown for the cowboy hat ;(
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Shiphands, I farmed a bunch of them for awhile and it seems like I'll probably have to head back in this week to get the renown I need for F2P housing. At this point I don't get much fun out of them because they're becoming repetitive, but I will say that Space Madness is my least favourite (too long and there are really only two enemy types), while the Gauntlet one is my favourite. I LOVE the gameplay diversity of that one and space-cyberpunk feel of it. I really really wish we had more content like that in general... I'm so bored of fantasy stuff. :/
 
Architect, well, that's a whole mess right now IMO. Can't say I blame CRB for the state of the profession though, part of me thinks it should have never exised. Basically it was cool at first, I enjoyed having something to develop that was aimed at what I love most in the game. But eventually it became very tedious. Most of the decor I use is bought from the auction house or vendor and so comes at the click of a button. Consequently I just gave up on architect and stopped using it, being more inclined to give money to low level architects who post cheap goods on the AH. At that point the profession's only use was the BOP stuff, and not too long after launch that stuff became BOE, so that there was really no point in any individual having architect (though obviously there was still a need for at least some folks to have it, so they could produce for the community). 
 
Since then I don't believe architect has seen any improvement or change whatsoever. And frankly, I'm fine with that. I wouldn't be upset if they pulled the profession from the game entirely and just put its decor on a vendor. It was a good theory when the game launched but when you need like 40-50 of an item, or even just 10 of a difficult to produce (RNG-based) item, the whole thing becomes a terrible practice.
 
TLDR, the rate of decor addition through new drops has far outpaced the usefulness of the architect profession, which has seen no real improvements... with good reason. At this point it's nearly useless and should probably be removed.
			
				
	Edited September 24, 2015 by EsperXIV	
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I am sorry for your raiding woes, though. I'd just call it off for a couple of weeks, but I'm just a dang dirty casual like that. Frustration does not make for a fun game night.
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You mean THIS cowboy hat?  :P
 
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I really like Deep Space (I think that's what it's called? xD) and Rage Logic - the former because it feels more involved than some of the easier ones (and if my husband and I accidentally over-pull, sometimes it can actually hurt!), and the latter because I like zooming around on a vehicle. Oh boy!
 
Went to bed a little grumpy last night after trying to get some rp in but then letting myself get chased off because holycrap there were so many people at the Boulder. >_<! And I had a really good excuse for my character to be there, too, that was gonna generate some interesting rp! qq Oh well. I'll have to come up with something else.	
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Finished farming, your teasing doesn't phase me :-p
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No WildStar for me at the moment :(
 
Currently spending 10 days in Prague with no access to the game unfortunately.
Not that I really mind, as I have to work, and also visiting the girl I love, so I have enough to keep myself busy :D
 
Reading up on the forums where possible, and basking in the glorious news that we get to keep out holosnark.
Really looking forward to hop back into the game though, as there's a huge list of things I need to finish....	
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Giggling to myself as the "I've Been Playing For Six Hours But Here Are My Suggestions" threads are ALREADY showing up.
 
TWO!!! TWO IN TWO HOURS! MU-HA-HA-HA!
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Drat! 
 
I like your granok, though. I think I'm going to start leveling a granok engineer once f2p hits. 
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....	
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			I went with a dark blue instead :P	
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			This is just something "not right" about a duded-up cowboy Granok dressed in orchid purple. :huh:	
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OMG I'm loving the red bull espresso shots. What genius, Tex, what genius. You should put that in your guild announcement, people need to know what kind of smarty pants they can sign up with! 
 
The topics... Well, I am a bad person and don't remember shiphands titles to save my life. I like the one in the space ship where you are a prisoner and liberate people with codes. And then you go around breaking stuff like a total douche. Lol 
Like my horrid description? Haha
 
Architect. I tried crafting in beta. Technologist and then I think I tried armorer, maybe. Either way, hated the experience, said "cupcake this" and paid other people to craft. I'm not touching architect with a ten foot poll. 
 
I feel like the last week has been a dizzying roller-coaster ride. I'm getting sick and pukey with Carbine's shenanigans. One moment up, next moment down. 
It's made it very hard to convince myself to log on to live. Beta is currently off limits as the last thing I need is to have my live addons messed with. Roller-coaster!!! Cupcake.... Grumble grumble grumble...	
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Speaking of Add-Ons ... maybe you guys can help me out.
 
Tuesday I got home early, logged in for a few minutes on Live, goofed around then remembered there had been PTR patch. Being nosy, I updated and logged in to the PTR for about ten minutes.
 
Then, when I logged out and back over to Live, all my Add-Ons had vanished ... and the Add-On Button at the select screen is now grayed out.
 
Has this happened to y'all before? Honestly, I refuse to play without TapThat. Like, at all.	
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			Have you checked your addon folder? Maybe the PTR client overwrote it.	
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I'll take a 6-pack of those Tex!
 
I love expeditions! I'm not crazy about The Gauntlet but I don't hate it  :P and Jeff is right, I've done the beginning of Frag Z a hundred times!	
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Speaking of Add-Ons ... maybe you guys can help me out.
 
Tuesday I got home early, logged in for a few minutes on Live, goofed around then remembered there had been PTR patch. Being nosy, I updated and logged in to the PTR for about ten minutes.
 
Then, when I logged out and back over to Live, all my Add-Ons had vanished ... and the Add-On Button at the select screen is now grayed out.
 
Has this happened to y'all before? Honestly, I refuse to play without TapThat. Like, at all.
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			Khandi, since I'm seeing your signature right now... being German, let me just say that the abbreviation for Spellslinger in combination with "Dominion" sounds very... uh... questionable. ;X	
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Speaking of Add-Ons ... maybe you guys can help me out.
 
Tuesday I got home early, logged in for a few minutes on Live, goofed around then remembered there had been PTR patch. Being nosy, I updated and logged in to the PTR for about ten minutes.
 
Then, when I logged out and back over to Live, all my Add-Ons had vanished ... and the Add-On Button at the select screen is now grayed out.
 
Has this happened to y'all before? Honestly, I refuse to play without TapThat. Like, at all.
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Never had that issue but I can't use addons on the PTR no matter what I try. My screen shot folder doesn't work on live or on the PTR though.
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Jawohl, I suppose it does  :D
 
Didn't mean anything by it though.
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Khandi, since I'm seeing your signature right now... being German, let me just say that the abbreviation for Spellslinger in combination with "Dominion" sounds very... uh... questionable. ;X
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But raiding is still fun- it's just some aspects of leadership that can be a grind.
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Heh I know I'm not making your life any easier. I will eventually come down off the ledge.
 
 
I'm trying not to demoralize people but we gotta rip off the band-aid one more time. Don't got nuts with the runes until the first planned post-drop patch at the very earliest. Class balance will still be in flux (and not minor adjustments either) until then. Obviously tanks are going to need to get their mitigation up and DPS will need to get their strikethrough up.
 
I'm hopeful that things will settle. Worse comes to worst I do have other attuned alts I can change to if necessary. Would hate to not use all that gear though.
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			Look for your addon folder and check if the addons you installed are still there. If they aren't, try installing them again. If that still doesn't work, delete the addon folder and make a new one.	
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			So, y'all think I just need to go find my add-on folder or make a new one then?	
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Heh I know I'm not making your life any easier. I will eventually come down off the ledge.
 
I'm trying not to demoralize people but we gotta rip off the band-aid one more time.  Don't got nuts with the runes until the first planned post-drop patch at the very earliest.  Class balance will still be in flux (and not minor adjustments either) until then.  Obviously tanks are going to need to get their mitigation up and DPS will need to get their strikethrough up.
 
I'm hopeful that things will settle.  Worse comes to worst I do have other attuned alts I can change to if necessary.  Would hate to not use all that gear though.
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			All this talk about raiding is so depressing to me. D:	
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Now I'm seriously on the fence about raiding Tuesday. I just red someone saying that runes account for maybe up to 75% of the raid's power- if that's the case, then even hitting the probes doesn't sound like such a good idea. I don't know- curious to see what other guilds are going to do. Maybe we'll just take the first hour of raid and have a rune party? :)
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Alright! Go, Community!
 
The first of the "Returning Player Wondering Why Everything Still Sucks!" threads!
 
Woooooooooooooo!	
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			What confuses me the most... if that guy is really a returning player, why the heck was he surprised by the control scheme? It's quite literally the same it was at launch, nothing has changed there.
			
				
	Edited September 24, 2015 by Wylf	
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What confuses *me* the most is how, instead of asking even remotely nicely, he just comes in, throws a tantrum and then expects the rest of us to just be nice and actually help him out.
 
When people started doing just that, I wanted to crawl through the inter-tubes and start slapping people. :lol:	
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So that's what's been screwing up with the addons, I thought it was just the numerous crashes. At least it didn't mess with the addon settings themselves, it just turned everything back on instead of leaving the one I didn't want off... still though, going through and turn selective addons on/off for certain characters is getting old.
 
 
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This is just something "not right" about a duded-up cowboy Granok dressed in orchid purple. :huh:
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There is something "not right" about YOU describing it as orchid purple. At least you didn't say amethyst.  :lol:
 
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			That's clearly Misty Morning, Tex. Tut tut.	
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So ... the new Forums. I like the new look, but man, I have a real problem.
 
The WILDSTAR header at the top used to take me to the Main Forums Page. Now it takes me to the actual Wildstar website.Two years I've been clicking that link and now it doesn't work like it used to work. I bet I've given the main website 100 hits in the last two days.
 
CRABINE PUT IT BACK PLZ!
 	
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So ... the new Forums. I like the new look, but man, I have a real problem.
 
The WILDSTAR header at the top used to take me to the Main Forums Page. Now it takes me to the actual Wildstar website.
 
Two years I've been clicking that link and now it doesn't work like it used to work. I bet I've given the main website 100 hits in the last two days.
 
CRABINE PUT IT BACK PLZ!
 
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I think there is an old dog/new trick joke in there somewhere....
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			They'll change it the moment you got used to the new way ;>	
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Favorite shiphand is Infestation because it's easy and fast, making it ideal for when I feel like farming. What? I never said I had standards!
 
I don't think architect's dart-board was changed for the F2P launch. I only poked my head briefly in the Beta, but I did not notice any changes.	
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So that's what's been screwing up with the addons, I thought it was just the numerous crashes. At least it didn't mess with the addon settings themselves, it just turned everything back on instead of leaving the one I didn't want off... still though, going through and turn selective addons on/off for certain characters is getting old.
 
 
 
There is something "not right" about YOU describing it as orchid purple. At least you didn't say amethyst. :lol:
 
 
 
You like Deep Space Exploration? I can't see the codes above the tanks, my UltraLow4Lyfe wouldn't allow it, so I rather just go around breaking stuff. The shiphand would be fine if the it was just the first half; the part with the repair bot gives me motion sickness... plus the whole place is too damn long. That's what she said.
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That's the one. I cheat.
 
Free the Galactic Observer crew by taking “Orders : Prisoner Security 144” that you can find on the left in the next hallway.
It contains security codes to desactivate the force fields :
 
Specimens Designated CUBIG/MISCELLANEOUS : 879
Specimens Designated ROWSDOWER : 441
Specimens Designated HUMANOIDS : 975
Species Designated PROTOSTAR : 3596
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			I honestly just put in "0" and hit enter. Twice. They blow up and I get Gold.	
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I honestly just put in "0" and hit enter. Twice. They blow up and I get Gold.
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It never occurred to me that this was possible. I figured it would just fail. xD
 
... I'll probably still input the codes, though. I feel like I'm the only person who actually really enjoys this shiphand?
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			I like it because it feels most like a 1-2 person dungeon than some little herpaderp jaunt in the park. I never felt like it took all that, long though? Maybe 20 minutes at most, though I suppose compared to <10 minute Infestation, if you're into plowing through shiphands willy-nilly, that may feel sluggish. I dunno. Deep Space is what I really want out of shiphands - 1-2 person content with a bit of meat on its bones. It'd be even better if the "bosses" you fought were actually reasonably challenging (a la the last boss in omnicore).	
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			Shiphands are neat when I'm in the mood for lighter content.  For me any sort of time investment starts edging into the not-so-light and for that I have better options.	
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Actually, I do like Deep Space Exploration. I don't run it often these days because I generally am only doing shiphands for contracts and to blow 10 minutes or so, but back when I was running them more often, I was happy to run it.
 
I do have some negative emotions toward it, because the first time I did it I kept thinking it would end, and it just kept going. And I was late and needing to get off. I just assumed all shihands were short back then :). So now I have an involuntary reaction that feels like it is longer than it is. But when I get past that, I always enjoy it.
 
And I think it is as you describe. A fun little duo adventure with meat on the bones.	
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