115763-positive-player-experiences-while-we-wait-for-megaservers

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OK we all know I can be one of the pariahs of these forums.
 
I am a card carrying curmudgeon ( so, yeah git orf mah lawn *shakes cane*). ;)
 
But, today something very wonderful happened to me.
 
I did a /who on one of the low pop servers I play on.  I was looking to finish my last settler mission in Garalas ( kill dribbles and the Osun ).  So in doing that /who I selected at random a person that was a settler and because there were not many in my level range ( actually none at the time to duo these quests ) I asked someone 16 levels above me for help.
 
They actually responded.  They conveyed their reservations to responding to blind messages but, after we conversed and I convinced them I was not a scammer they agreed to help me.
 
The person asked how I found them and I said I used /who.
 
They remarked that they didn't even know about that feature.  I told them about it and how it could be adventitious to finding people to group with while they wait for mega servers and how it may help them in the future.  They were very pleased with learning about this.
 
So this post has a two fold purpose.
 
1) There are still people out there to play with so, take a chance and go "old school" and use /who to find new friends.
 
2)  Remember not everyone that is playing "knows about all the features" of a ubiquitous MMORPG and are not all veterans of this genre of gaming and sometimes taking a chance to converse with some one will help them out, help you out and you may make a new friend.
 
So while we wait for megaservers go "old school" and use that /who and pad your list with account friends so you can find them when megaservers go live.
 
 :D
 
Please add yours.  And please don't make this a flame thread.  Heck we have enough of them. ;)	
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I'm regularly prowling the lower level areas lately with my 50 getting the "I like it rare" achievements finished off. While I'm in lower level zones I just about always respond to zone chat requests for help doing the bounty critters. If you're on level they're pretty much right of reach of solo gamers. The loot for the quest is uniformly excellent, and ultimately we all benefit from more well-geared, happy players.
 
My other fun bit for this week was fully mapping the all the Dominion Zones with my Exile. I see Domies in Thayd all the time. It was fun to go blazing through their capital (both ways!) to map Deradune. I may go back and practice soloing normal-mode Kel-Vorath with my 50 now that I know I can get to the door.	
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What a lovely thread.
 
I've been having plenty of positive experiences the last few weeks. I'm from Lightspire, the english EU RP server, and the place has emptied out quite a bit with server transfers to the big PvE realms being open. However there's still new folks walking into Thayd from time to time and it's been fun catching them and talking with them about the game. Explaining how certain game aspects work, discussing what they like about the game and what is in store for them beyond Thayd. They tend to be quite excited about the game despite barely meeting other players. I also roam around the world zones from time to time, mostly working on my cooking hobby, and occasionally /zone requests pop up regarding group content and I go and help out, seeing I'm level 50. Same type of pleasantness with those people. Plus I run a small guild and we've been getting quite a lot of recruits as of late. Guild chat is lively and has a great atmosphere and tonight we are doing guild runs. Some people will get to see an adventure or dungeon for the first time. Looking forward to blowing their mind with how great the dungeons are in this game. As a result of the growth we have a nice guild RP story blossoming as well. And slowly but steadily I manage to progress in the veteran dungeons, both with people from my guild and friends in other guilds that are still around.
 
There's still so much to do and great experience to have, low pop server or not. Just takes a bit of effort and initiative. Wildstar is a joy for me each and every day.	
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Wow, it's kind of difficult to just name "one"...
 
Wildstar's combat system is so fluid and movement oriented that even when I'm just tooling around by myself out in the open world I can't help but enjoy myself.  I also love all the little jokes and the personality that I get from reading the quest text (like the hungover Lopp groomsman standing next to two dead Granok women, some bras, and and empty bottle of wine saying, "What has Lopp done? What has Lopp done? You saw nothing!").
 
When I smoothly dodge and weave, circling and circumventing large attacks as I dance the dance of death and take down a Prime mob or one of those named mobs for the Group Quests by myself... I feel... like a... TOTAL BADASS!  Which is great, because I leveled after killing a prime once, and the level up voice said "I see you just got your degree in Advanced Ass-Kicking!", which was perfect because I felt like the professor for the course after killing that thing by myself :)
 
Shiphands.  I love those things!  The atmosphere is great.  Skulking through a dimly lit derelict spacecraft looking for salvage then next thing you know xenomorphic aliens are busting through the vents hissing for blood.  It's great!  Love it, love it, love it :)
 
Got a great group together for the WotW and we just destroyed that place, I mean we smashed the area like a veteran SWAT team... it was just a beautiful sight to see, gave me a little bit of a half-staff 0_o
 
I have also had a lot of random interaction experiences just out in the open world while soloing.  I'll be out doing my thing and next thing I know, there's another player there, doing the same thing and we start to shadow each other moving from objective to objective and before you know it we have cleared the area and completed our tasks and without a word will work together to take down some massive target in a well-coordinated attack.  Sometimes, after my silent companion finally disappears, I get a friend request :)
 
It's the little things that make this game great.  Like sitting in the middle of Whitevale just listening to the serene and somewhat mystical music of the zone, or the upbeat but earthy music while tinkering with my Halloween display on my housing plot, or when I walk into a solo instance for a quest and that crunchy-guitar rhythm starts hammering in the background and I find myself picking up the pace just before I reach the quest mob and exterminate them with the raw efficiency of a Ninja Assassin.
 
I have a great experience every time I log in, hard to pinpoint just one XD	
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Capping flags in Walatiki: oh Walatiki, how I love you <3
 
Been playing since launch but only just hit level 50 on my first toon today, leveling through Walatiki mostly. I'm such a filthy casual ;)	
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I finally could convince one of my buddys to play wildstar, I started with another alt (chua again because SCIENCE!). And we played until lvl 20 in one Session.
It was awesome. We found so many quirky little NPC moments and conversations to laugh and watch. Playing with someone together is the best, we even read some
of the Questlogs and still discuss some of the Datacube Logs together.
 
I'm looking forward to the session next weekend :-D
 
And then I have all those small little moments from my single player experience when I still couldnt make up my mind what class to play and
on which side. Like.... after Artemis Zins expedition was attacked by exile forces and was forced to retreat I found a Exile Aurin  wounded on the ground
being patched up by a Cassian Medic, that scene was so cute and fun to watch listening to both speaking about their conviction.
The superb music and  the exploration in all arias in the beginning of the game, stumbling upon forgotten remains
of dead people.
 
I love the narration of the Datacubes If I'm playing alone and the Datacube isn't in an area thats surrounded by enemies then I love to take my time to listen and to make sense of
it. Piecing together what i heard with what I learned previously.	
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I finally could convince one of my buddys to play wildstar, I started with another alt (chua again because SCIENCE!). And we played until lvl 20 in one Session.
It was awesome. We found so many quirky little NPC moments and conversations to laugh and watch. Playing with someone together is the best, we even read some
of the Questlogs and still discuss some of the Datacube Logs together.
 
I'm looking forward to the session next weekend :-D
 
And then I have all those small little moments from my single player experience when I still couldnt make up my mind what class to play and
on which side. Like.... after Artemis Zins expedition was attacked by exile forces and was forced to retreat I found a Exile Aurin  wounded on the ground
being patched up by a Cassian Medic, that scene was so cute and fun to watch listening to both speaking about their conviction.
The superb music and  the exploration in all arias in the beginning of the game, stumbling upon forgotten remains
of dead people.
 
I love the narration of the Datacubes If I'm playing alone and the Datacube isn't in an area thats surrounded by enemies then I love to take my time to listen and to make sense of
it. Piecing together what i heard with what I learned previously.
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Had an awesome KV PUG. I've bene working on my healing gear and have had a hard time in some of the dungeons. Drokk in particular is a test for healers as the targetted player in the chase phase takes a *lot* of damage.
 
Anyway, we has a true PUG, with two guilded DPS and 3 randoms (including me). There was some banter and a bit of conversation about interrupt rotations and quest/challenge completion, but we one-shotted everything and got a silver with only a few deaths on the way.
 
It was a great run through, more of that please :-)
 
P.S. What makes a run like this so sweet, is that the difficulty of dungeons means that all players have to work to succeed, and silver runs are not face-roll material. I sorely hope they never take this away, the challenge is everything in this game!	
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