109153-the-diary-of-a-wimpy-gamer-i-like-this-game-and-will-sub-at-next-xpac

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Introduction
I am mid 20's gamer, Who started out when he was 12 or so on EQ1. I am unable to enjoy most games unless they are MMO's especially MMORPG's. It is my genre and is the only genre that has really kept me wanting to come back and play more!
 
I love leveling. I love experiencing a new world or plane of existence and to immerse myself. I have lvled through most big MMO's that have come and gone and enjoyed them all for that experience! I do usually lvl through a game experience some end game dungeon content and then often find myself board and moving on for the next MMO to lvl a character in. Some games offer great lvling experiences where i lvl 3-10 characters to max before i am bored or While i wait for guild run end game stuff to happen!
 
I wanted to give a little nice blog of why i like Wildstar and am excited for a new expansion but till one happens I will be enjoying my free time in other MMO's.
 
 
 
 
Great Things about this game and why it is worth playing
This combat system has been one of the greatest i have experienced. With my first lvl 50 character being a medic. It was fantastic lvling through. Getting to experience all the different mechanics was thrilling. I even made a 2nd character i liked it so much.
The quests and story line  How could you not enjoy the story of nexus. It has been such a great time with learning the story of this world and why we are here. The story has blown me away. No other game is better in story other than SWTOR ""IMHO"" Simply because of how fun and hilarious some of this content is.
The guild setup  They did a great job designing the guild perks and lvling. I for one enjoy it over most games and hope they continue to expand it.
Housing   Holy smokes, Housing and having resource nodes and farming and the design of hitting stuff to farm it... I really enjoy this type of housing over Rift / eq2 / swtor / etc etc  housing HANDS DOWN is fun!
The mounts  This game has done a good job at the start of giving nice mounts. And because of it i cannot wait to see what they addon in the future for cool looking aesthetics.
Double Jumping and Dashing      need i say more? seriously? now every game i try and do this I am sad when i cannot!
Circles  What a good idea that more MMO's should take advantage of to establish clubs for people
Boss mechanics   Really well designed and fight and battle and "learn with"!!!!
Melting face with Constant AE and Tellie combat!   
Trade skills  The armor / weapon making   trade skills are fantastic. It is so nice to have a game where you can make crafted gear for PVE and it actually be decent enough to take to dungeons at endgame!
 
 
 
 
Why I am going to go play other MMO's till we get more Xpac's to lvl with and experience world content
Dungeons: Though these dungeons are fun to play with there is simply not enough Adv / Dung for diversity atm. As well i am sorry but i am a casual gamer and i enjoy taking my time. Killing everything. And not having a time limit over my head.
Time Limit: People need to afk, Bio, change a diaper, or the DC / Linkdead things happen. and i do not appreciate a timer over my head. It just makes a dungeon/adv stressful and unappealing. It also brings out the elitist in people. Oh we died so /quit.  and makes it more difficult for people trying to learn the game and train on these mechanics to become better!
Weekly EP:  Nty,  I am now going back to playing EQ2 / Rift and having more fun. I enjoy end game Alternate Advancement lvling without a roof or cap. I do not like the feeling of.. Ooohh Boy i better get both my lvl 50's max EP before tue's... Its another time limit stress that a dumb casual like myself does not enjoy!
Endgame Content: Outside of stressful time limit dungeons/adventures. There is nothing to do but the same 3 Dailies areas. Which after doing them 2 times each day on both 50's for the past few weeks. I am sincerely bored! it feels more like a chore now than a fun log in time. I am sad needless to say!  I really enjoy Rift's / Warhammers dailie quests.  Man just the ability to switch around content to what i wanna do is fun. Oh time for Adventures in rift oh i am going to switch to quests. Oh i will switch to solo foot holds. Oh i will try PvP.  Oh i will do non stressful dungeons.  There just is loads more to keep me entertained in some other MMO's atm and why i need to just take a step back and wait for more content updates Preferably a Xpac.
PvP: Will always be broken in every game. But yes some games can break it more than others. And Some games can give to much allowance to players as well as making gear gaps far to silly to play competitively. And that is all i will say because there is far to much on this atm! so please dont reply about it ty!
Botters: This happens in every game to an extent. But there is a threshold for each of us that once it goes past. We lose the enjoyable time we can spend on a game! WoW's botters are still going strong and i cannot subscribe because of it. And Because P2P games make money off botters whether casual botters or not. They make a dime. They are less obligated to destroy them!
Customer Service: I used to think P2P Model gave a guaranteed quality of service. I feel though that is changing in this big world of ours. I feel that F2P models have more cause for concern over exploiters / botters and in the process give a better response to issues such as those. It is interesting that SOE's games are moslty F2P and i was able to chat online and Call on the phone in a surprisingly timely manner that i never thought possible!
Live Action Set: while i did mention i love this combat system more than any other game atm. I am sorely saddened by the limitations it also offers. Having such a small amount of abilities to play with and than an even small room for customization because of how required 4-5 abilities are to be slotted. Takes away some the enjoyment that this could have offered! I was hoping for more abilities to be slotted but to be able to even have that. We would have to have a Plethora of abilities to be offered in each Tree! which sadly we do not have as many in each tree that would make more than 8 abilities possible. 
I would be happier if they took the time to make each character have more abilities in each tree. Rather then focus on a new class in the next Xpac!
Stat Locking trees / Abilities: When i first watched the Wildstar vids. i thought it was so cool how a developer showed that with just switching your Live Action Set you could become a tank / Dps / hybrid so quickly and flawlessly. I do feel this was misrepresented. Because of how AP and SP works it is a wash. You must switch entire gear sets to make any 3 viably work. Why AP and SP were not combined so that there could be more flavor and flair. I am not sure.  I thoroughly enjoy Rifts system. while it still has hiccups i can switch from heals and dps and not have to necessarily Re gear my self!
Trade skills:  Yes i know some feel they are fine and others disagree. I wish to just give my opinion please. I have a expert Technologist / Architect / Outfitter / Weaponsmith.    While i think The outfitter / weaponsmith Skills are fun.  The technologist and Architect needs severe work. I enjoy making all of those things that these classes offer. But the RNG combined with the amount of currency needed to randomly make each item takes away from the enjoyment of creating and selling these items. As well as having no endgame Tech progression is such a wash atm i am sad. Why they chose a log in once a day get a quest to get an item system i am not sure. But i do not have fun timing a log in for my chars each day! I would have much rather been forced to do interesting quests and gathering services / intuitive and immersive content to gain recipes.... Than hey... did you log in and run from point A to B.. then run back to A to get your daily item for the past 7 days so you can maybe get that next recipe? not fun i am sorry but not fun!
Linear Content: After two characters to 50 i find it harder in this game to vll another character than others. In Swtor I lvled every class to 50+ it was just that fun! In Wow i have every class 80+ except monk. It is just that fun over the years!  This game i am not sure why. It just the rerun of this content wasn't as fun dunno what to say.
 
 
 
Summary:
I am sure there is more to talk about and i am sure you have things yourself. The 1 thing that irks me so is that I really like this game. I really loved playing it and questing through it. The story was fantastic and the game play fun!
Once i hit endgame it just went down hill from there and made me sad!
 
I have never loved a game so much but decided to quit so quickly because i have either Ran out of things to do or the same content runs over and over have become stressful / a chore to do.
 
I wish you all the best and the developers to fix and do what they think is right. I will happily resub once there is a xpac. however till than i will be bouncing about with Swtor / Rift / EQ2 having fun till then.	
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I was always on the side of "Casual gamers don't hurt the hardcore"
 
If anything it gives you "something to do"
 
Another thing to add is that this game is new and WoW was filled with the same crap when it came out a decade ago, if steared in the right direction just give the game some time :)	
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I was always on the side of "Casual gamers don't hurt the hardcore"
 
If anything it gives you "something to do"
 
Another thing to add is that this game is new and WoW was filled with the same crap when it came out a decade ago, if steared in the right direction just give the game some time :)
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I'm only in the 20's and followed the forums and videos and know what to expect at 50; as a hardcore WoW player I have high hopes, I'm taking my sweet time to 50; almost at my first platinum pre 25 from gathering because chua master sellers; and by 50 there will be something to do; stuff to smash.
 
Maybe a guild that's willing to raid and is serious but if the content is just dull and unrewarding (how i hear it is at the moment) I don't know what to say. Even Vanilla/TBC was rewarding and considered hardcore and had fun things to do outside of grid/grind/grind.
 
Attunement was not a pain, well it was but it was stuff you would be doing on the way to gearing (if you followed the chart) but I hear it's crap here.
 
Well I'll have a better opinion when I test the waters, but less than 1k (sub 500) wildstar viewers on twitch and all realms on low [i'm on Pergo, a high pop realm dominion side] and still feel like I'm on a dead wow realm pre realm stitching 	
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One thing you missed in your post, the content are "not rewarding enough" and "Very bad itemizations". Almost all the gear you got from the adventures/dungeons/raids, crap blues or epics, are mostly worthless to Crafting items where you spend 5min in town. When there is no reward content, there is no activity. Simply as that, especially when the content are so freaking hard, people need to be reward right not facing another huge RNG wall with a worthless junk items.
 
And yes PvP which should be backbone of any new MMO, suck ball. No sense of balance at all. And the 1500/1800 both gears are weapons are extremely OP. The fact that some people "already" got their super duper great 1800 gears with fire/fusion slots made it even worse for newcomer to start. And hey what's Carbine did? They nerfed the PvP runeslot and buff the rating even more severe lol. That's just a total wrong move mate!	
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It is hard for the casual guy like me atm, The Lockouts and anti-casual timers make me sad.
 
I played a druid in WoW in TBC and i liked to tank. So i played one of the dungeons over 30 times to get the then best Druid Tank 2hammer in the game. It was a chore but i still enjoyed it.  Ive never faced a game that at high lvl if you died one time. it was time to /quit.... they gave you a vote disband button. so i dunno its hard atm.
 
Vote disband button / Timers / Medals determining gear is a hard lock out for new players/alts/ guildies to run new players through content.
 
As well as once you do the current dung / adv,  Gear wise there is not much reward for someone already with decent gear because i have a 50 stalker tank and my epochos / adventus  weapon is just about as good as the purple from a dungeon. So because there is a less of a need to run a dungeon + the stress of doing it over. Makes most people not want to do it as much as far as re run it over and over.
 
 
just my opinion tho	
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			Well everything is subject to change over time, the game is still new; as far as I know it's still the first month the game was out and we're all on box time	
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			Well if the dungeon gold rewards is a piece of crap now then I don't see any point adding timers in vet dungeons, that way at least I could take my time and farm more loot while killing mobs and mini bosses for elder gems/gold coins. At least combat in wildstar isn't spoon feeding you with very easy mobs and bosses.	
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