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Hi all!  My name is Vic Van Meter (sort of) and I've been around on these forums since around open beta.  I heard about the game a while before, but had never thought of playing it (reports said it was "WoW in space" and I was already playing WoW on Azeroth).  However, I got an open beta invite from nowhere and I decided, Why not?  I'm looking for some excitement.  I've been a huge fan ever since.
 
The reason I'm saying all of this is that a lot of people are new and are probably wondering what the Hell these coffee threads are.  Well, as I came to find out, on the General Discussion forum, someone would make a fresh thread daily so that we could have water-cooler conversation about the game and what we did that day.  Everyone is welcome and encouraged to take part in the conversation!  But there's no schedule for how to make things.  So you may be wondering what goes into making one of these.  Well, it's easy!  The first thing you do is post in the old thread that you will be making coffee (to avoid people dropping two at once).  If it's locked, just pre-make your thread saying that you're making coffee and it's coming.  Just to keep us from having more than one at once.
 
You then need a title such as the above, displaying the date, coffee, and a starting topic for conversation (rarely adhered to).
 
Next, you post a picture of breakfast and/or coffee!  Such as this:
 
Word yo!
 
 
Then you tell us what you did last night, like this:
 
Last night, I logged in almost braindead, but people were asking for help.  So in order, I did a Scorchwing, a Gargantua, and a Lightspire (I was so excited it was going on!)  I also figured I'd go ahead and do the Star-Comm basin stuff.  That was highly entertaining!  I imagine that it's Hellfire and brimstone on a PVP server, with how small and crowded it is.  I also unlocked contracts...
 
AND SPENT THE REST OF THE NIGHT DOING CONTRACTS!  I love contracts!  :D  I did Lightspire again, blew through zones I hadn't done for a while, it was great!  I totally forgot it would be easier to do the Skeech and Crimson Badlands contracts while doing the dailies.... I forgot to kick them off.  But great content!  I'm hoping I can do more tonight!
 
And now, you know about Morning Coffee!  Welcome!  Pull up a chair and pour a cup, tell us how your day went and maybe introduce yourself!  We're all friends here!	
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Hey Vic that's a great idea for a coffee thread! :) Thank you for starting it. 
 
I'm .. Chillia, forum moderator. While most people probably see me pouncing in forum threads when things get a bit heated, I also spend a good amount of time in our tech and bugs section trying to help out where I can with questions and gathering information for our team and reporting on various bugs. Despite what most people may think, I don't actually drink the tears of forum members for breakfast, and I leave that to BusterCasey. *innocent* 
 
If new players haven't checked out our code of conduct yet, it's over that way. 
 
In game, I play an esper, a warrior, and a baby medic on the PvE server, and I play a spellslinger on the pvp server (NA). 
 
I don't really do breakfast, but I love tea. 
 
Next! 	
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Morning!
 
I'm Khandi and I've been with Wildstar since November 2012  :o but only been on the forums since just after CBTs.
 
For me, Wildstar is just this awesome game that offers me so much to do that I never feel bored. It's a beautiful world that offers great lore and awesome music. In so many games I would just blow right past the lore and turn off the music and turn down the sounds until I could only hear what I needed to hear so I wouldn't get killed and listen to my own music but not Wildstar!  :wub:
 
Anyone know what happens when you reach the top of the contract tier? Are they repeatable and can you continue to chose rewards? Do they reset?
 
I'm not so much interested in breakfast today because dinner is going to be this Tripletail:
 
 
Lots of people, even avid anglers, don't know what a Tripletail is but for those in the know it's highly prized. YUMMY!!
 
So I won't be online this evening  :( but I will be online Wednesday  :D	
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Hi, I'm Mae! I have a variety of Mae names, but just Mae is good enough. I too found out about WS during open beta when a friend told me to try it. I was instantly in love, and by launch, I had quit EQ2 after nearly 10 beloved years there.
 
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I totally forgot it would be easier to do the Skeech and Crimson Badlands contracts while doing the dailies.... 
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Heck, I'll jump in on the introduction train.
 
Hi, I'm Caydiem, a senior game designer on the team. I'm responsible for the Shiphand team and a bunch of other bits and bobs around the game. I've been involved in MMO game dev in some way or other since 2000, and I've got a couple years under my belt here at Carbine.
 
In game I have a max level Engineer and Esper on Entity, one on Dominion, one on Exile, and I enjoy playing with you folks all incognito-like. ;) Last night I did the heck out of some contracts and poked at my forever-in-construction house. One day it shall be complete. One day.
 
I don't drink coffee, but I raise my cocoa in a toast to the thread. ;)	
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Hi!  IRL I'm a sarcastic engineer.  At my age they call it curmudgeon.  IG I play a bunnygirl (well, catgirl) who's not so sarcastic.
 
RL house project day *blearily checks the calendar* 4.  I think.  It's all a blur.  At least I don't seem to be as Advil dependent.  Still have a punchlist of things to take care of tonight but last night should have been the end of the heavy lifting.
 
I did manage to get IG but I missed tea (well stinko).  Did catch the tail end of one of the LS runs so got credit for that contract.
 
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Anyone know what happens when you reach the top of the contract tier? Are they repeatable and can you continue to chose rewards? Do they reset?
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Why not?!
 
Heyo, Malzek Rainfury here, despite what the forum name suggests.  I've been playing WildStar since about the week after launch and have been with the game ever since. I started out the game as Malzek and fell in love with Stalker for a while when I made Kelzam for the sake of having another housing plot to build on. Eventually my guild's raid composition lead to burn out because I was spending more time running from telegraphs than DPSing because of having way too much melee. But now I'm back to being a 'Slinger and loving it.
 
I have a rep for being the housing guy and write articles on it for WildStar-Core.com and I'm totally okay with this. For the better part of 15 years I've been doing custom maps for id Software titles like DOOM 2, Quake 3 Arena and DOOM 3.  I even made a few Portal 2 maps when the editor went live on Steam. Game and world design are a huge passion of mine, so that hook came naturally coming from World of Warcraft to WildStar (despite 10 years of time investment in the former) and it's why I love practically making housing plots into their own zones.  I have many alts, several which are 50 and Aurin, and a single Exile Human, DOOM Marine, who yes, looks like the DOOM Guy. Most of them are housing mules - they exist for the purpose of housing, or crafting Flux mats.
 
Right now I'm rebuilding Malzek's plot to make it better than ever. I have a few housing contest rewards under my belt (I think I'm up to 5-6 total) and looking to stay on top. Anyone can feel free to visit and see what's up =)  Currently attempting to be a Healslinger and potentially start healing raids as opposed to DPS, because I want to see the content and everyone is drowning Spellslingers.
 
Also, here's a Strain Beholder.  Your arguments are invalid.
 	
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I should probably add, by way of introduction (since I do play this game, I don't just exist on the forums) that in the course of my play I've also become GM for the Blazing Saddles, an Exile guild on Entity specializing in random casual play and giving a home to new players.  I started as a DPS warrior, but due to a lack of tanks about six months ago, I decided to start tanking.  Today, I'm one of Entity's most heart-attack inducing warrior tanks!
 
In real life, I'm an architectural designer specializing in health care.  That's why my patient bays on my airship are so tidy!
 
 
Gotta have that headwall unit!	
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I'm SlyJeff (Chet Awesomelaser). I got the game as something to do with my then-fiance since we both have kids and lived an hour apart. We would see each other maybe once a week if we were lucky, so I wanted something for us to do together when the kids were asleep. I asked what the next MMO coming out was, and my sister pointed me this direction.
 
I didn't intend to do much beyond leveling and hopefully run a few dungeons. Certainly never raid . . .
 
For the most part, I didn't even think about raiding for the first few months of the game. My wife and I played some together, and I really got into my slinger. After playing STL normal, I was hooked on this game. I thought it was so cool to have that kind of content that I didn't have to rush to 50 to participate in!
 
Later on, since my wife works weekends, my guild started to raid and I got a taste of GA. After the guild broke up (in the "dark days" of drop 3), I wanted to keep raiding, so I started a circle that conveniently raided whenever my wife was at work :D  The circle progressed and we got bosses down, and now it expanded too far so we had to split out into guild runs. Crazy time!
 
I like the action, I like the fight designs, and I love experiencing group content with people. I love being OP and destroying stuff, and I love going in with new people who don't know what's going on. I love introducing people to dungeons in Wildstar and watching them be successful. I'm the guy who was still queueing for STL normal mode as a level 35 and was the last to hit 50 in my guild because I just couldn't stop doing dungeons (which gave almost no xp at the time). But I always wanted to go at my own pace.
 
And finally, recently my (now) wife has gotten into dungeons and raids, and she's going to move to an ever-other-week schedule, meaning soon she'll be able to start raiding with me! I'm a pretty happy guy.
 
IRL I'm a software developer and musician. And "SlyJeff" is a play on words on my real life name. I'm not very sly, TBH.	
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*waves at people* Hello, folks I know and folks I don't know. :)
 
I'm Naunet! Or Antimony Stibine, in-game. Or Ariadne. Or... well, a bunch of characters. IRL I'm two years out of grad school and teaching science at a little private academy, all the while hoping some day I can break into the museum/zoo field. I'm married to an amazing sci-fi and fantasy writer and editor who also happens to share my interest in MMOs and has been my gaming partner for many years. If I'm in-game, more often than not, it's attached at the hip to him! I dragged him into WildStar after "returning" to it when I heard they'd fixed the female model busts back in the closed betas. (I'd written a very sternly-worded feedback in the closed betas about my feelings regarding the character models... was pleased to see changes!) Yes, yes, very silly, I know. XD But we've stuck to it ever since!
 
And oooohhhh my gosh last night was so productive! Knocked out a couple of the shiphand dailies that had been sitting in my quest log for a good while. We ventured to the Defile with a close friend intending to to Lightspire for the contract, but then my brain wouldn't let me leave without doing the dailies, which is weird because I haven't done those dailies in ages. Of course, one of the dailies took us to the Black Focus, and my brain latched onto how there was three of us, and none of us had finished the group quests there. So we did those! And oh my god I didn't know you got a decor item off that last boss! On the way back to turn in a quest, we past Gargantua, and I guess I was in a "get stuff done" mood, because I asked around in zone and managed to get a group to help us finally kill the darn thing (yay bye bye quest that's been sitting in my log since last year). THEN the three of us went to Star-Comm for those dailies, hopped over to Crimson Badlands for a few contracts and quests while waiting for the Star-Comm event, did the Star-Comm event, went back to finish the CB dailies... @.@ Wow, that was a lot of stuff done yesterday. I haven't felt that productive in WildStar in a while!
 
The only thing we didn't get to that I'd been wanting to do is the NW dailies, and there's a vet adventure contract that I've been sitting on for a couple days. Oops.
 
Today I may poke around on my warrior or engineer while the husband takes his Latin exam. There are some plans between us and our friend to try and do the vet adventure contract today, too, so we'll see how that goes!	
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Hi I'm Fiskerton and I'm a Wildstar addict.
 
I've been in MMOs since EQ1, most recently Rift before starting Wildstar about 2-3 months ago. I came for the aurins and stayed for the amazing gameplay and combat system. I have a level 50 esper and currently leveling a medic (human not aurin T_T). Currently 1/6 only from pugging but once finals die down I can hopefully commit to a guild and raid nights for some progression. In the meantime you can find me shouting random things in /lfg.	
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Hi! I'm Cercie Dupre. I love coffee and breakfast, though I often skip one or both. xD I'm GM of The Crimson Cross, and that keeps me pretty busy as a hobby :) We are having an IRL meetup in my hometown in AZ (near Phoenix) in 23 days! OMG! So excited!!
 
Last night, I did some dungeon running, and spent a fair bit of time laughing with my guildies in TS and gchat. I also attempted to figure out how to DPS on my alt medic, Amely. It was pretty fun. ALL THE QC!
 
Tonight is raid night. We are working on getting a few more attuned DS raiders, so we'll be hitting GA this week. Our 2nd raid team is also coming along nicely, and I expect they'll start smacking GA with regularity in the next week or two.
 
I attempt to house, but I get distracted by dungeon running frequently. LOL Someday, I'll actually get my guild hall built. Someday.	
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Hi! I'm Cercie Dupre. I love coffee and breakfast, though I often skip one or both. xD I'm GM of The Crimson Cross, and that keeps me pretty busy as a hobby :) We are having an IRL meetup in my hometown in AZ (near Phoenix) in 23 days! OMG! So excited!!
 
Last night, I did some dungeon running, and spent a fair bit of time laughing with my guildies in TS and gchat. I also attempted to figure out how to DPS on my alt medic, Amely. It was pretty fun. ALL THE QC!
 
Tonight is raid night. We are working on getting a few more attuned DS raiders, so we'll be hitting GA this week. Our 2nd raid team is also coming along nicely, and I expect they'll start smacking GA with regularity in the next week or two.
 
I attempt to house, but I get distracted by dungeon running frequently. LOL Someday, I'll actually get my guild hall built. Someday.
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Howdy.
 
I'm Tex. I've been here since early Closed Beta (in one form or another). I started Blazing Saddles but bequeathed it to Vic when I left for (at the time) greener pastures. He's done a bang-up job, and I'm proud it's still going so strong.
 
I'm a 45 year old marketing and graphic arts professional, who has been in the industry since desktop publishing was invented. I have three kids, three ex-wives, a current wife, four cats, a lap-bunny, a pacman frog, a bearded dragon and a box turtle. I've played pretty much every decent MMO of the last decade, including (but not limited to) World of Warcraft, DC Universe On-Line, RIFT, Tera, Archeage, The Secret World, Guild Wars and Neverwinter.
 
I am an Altoholic, but have been focusing on Warrior and ESPer since my return, though Tex is a level 50 Stalker. I am a "damn dirty casual solo player" for the most part, though I have recently seen the light and plan to make the plunge into group content, time permitting. I play maybe three nights a week for an hour or so, and off and on all-day on the weekends.
 
The time on spend on the Forums far outweighs my in-game time, because I'm at the office 8-9 hours a day, but once I get home, all those adult responsibilities start piling up pretty quick.
 
Oh, and I *love* making the Coffee threads, but usually try and limit myself to one per week, so others have a chance to do it.
 
Otherwise, I am *always* willing to help out in-game or out of game, with advice, support or just to make you laugh.
 
Anyone is welcome to send any of my Alts an Account Friend Invitation. I love having people to gab with.	
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Hi, I'm Kolba, and I'm bad at introductions. You may or may not have seen me around Dominion-side as Kolba or as my engineer, Rikson Cutts (As opposed to any of the other Cutts characters that are not me, a bit of a guild running gag.)
 
Oh yes, I joined Wildstar in preorder closed beta after someone in another community pointed the game out to me, and just from seeing it, it looked like a game that hit all my liking points. Actiony? Check. Nice, cartoony stylistic setup? Check. Sci-fi stuff? Okay that's pretty cool. I like the race variety too. Also, this is pretty much my first MMO, so it's pretty different from what I'm used to (I've generally played solo console games most of my life). Took me a fair bit until I was able to get into the groove of group content.
 
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So last night I learned of the horror of the 30 interrupt contract with an Engineer. It's such slow going when you can only use one interrupt for the contract, having to wait at least 25 or so seconds to interrupt again. And that's not counting if I miss the stun. I DID try to use Bruiserbot for the challenge as well, and while it did cause an interrupt with the purple health bar and everything, it didn't add credit to the contract. So that was pretty annoying.
 
Oh yes, I also got Silver Screening on Kolba! Not to mention my first time healing past Shalaos in Sanctuary of the Swordmaiden. Went pretty well aside from Shalaos's set of first waves being a jerk and not being used to healing Selene's spotlight phase. Keeping everyone together for that (And trying to heal stragglers) is tricky. I know I have enough problems trying to stick with the healer as DPS on that phase sometimes.
 
I have some nice plans for the decor holograms awarded from Silver Screening in my housing plot.	
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Hello everyone!
 
I am Cirinde (aka SpousalUnit Fitch IG). This is how I came to Nexus: One day I was very bored with the games I was currently playing, Rift and TSW, so I did a google search for any new MMOs that were in beta or coming out. I found several things about WildStar and decided to check it out. I read everything I could, then found a few Twitch streamers who were in closed beta. I started watching them and found I was very interested in playing this game. I eventually won a closed beta key from one of the streamers, and I have never looked back.
 
I stopped playing all other games and stayed with WildStar, even through the 'down' times. It was housing that got me through those times. I am addicted to housing LOL.
 
I came to be with the Blazing Saddles shortly after mega-servers hit. My old guild switched to Exile, then most of the members stopped logging in. I didn't want to play the game by myself, so I talked to Vic and decided Blazing Saddles was a good fit for me. I couldn't have asked for a better a bunch of people to play this game with. :wub: my guildies!
 
Work calls, maybe more later. :)
 	
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Hi~  I'm Bianchia also called Coinshot Misting also called Haydee Tebelin also called Nynaeve Almeara also called.... Well, I'll just stop there because the list of my IG names can go on for quite a length.  I jumped into Wildstar during beta, bought the Deluxe Edition as soon as I could, and have been playing near-religiously since day 1 of head start alongside my amazing boyfriend Steel Inquisitor.
 
Honestly I didn't expect to get as far as I have in this game.  I figured we'd stick around until 50, maybe try a few adventures, some dungeons, and then eventually start game hopping again like we've done with every game since our first together.  But instead we hooked up with the awesome Crescent Order guild, got attuned, started raiding and became addicts.
 
Yesterday I killed a few world bosses with my shiny new stalker then hopped over to one of my housing alts and worked on his gambling parlor for a bit.  I really like how the inside is turning out but the rest of the plot has me banging my head against a wall trying to shake loose some ideas.  Thinking of showing my sister so she can give feedback (and pester her to pick up the game herself even if she does just want to RP.  I almost have her!).
 
Taking the aforementioned sister and our mom out and about today then hopefully looking forward to hitting up the new raid this evening.	
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I am...Gorenkillchua
 
I am your everyday player of Wildstar, I heard about the game, kind of ignored it a lot and mainly just played WoW. I then started seeing twitch streamers and such like Zybak or Towelliee playing the game, and I got HYPED..
 
Thats the short version of my story. I am just an ordinary player who is proud to call Nexus home (even if I am a bit more disliked on the forums nowadays since I dislike "certain" ideas people have for the game and actively speak out against them)
 
I don't like coffee that much, I typically wake up and get a Arizona Iced Tea on the way to school so...
 
*raises Iced tea can*	
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My likes seem to be on vacation today. So +1 likes to all you posters in this thread! :)
 
I like reading all of your 'how I came to wildstar' stories. Keep them coming.	
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My likes seem to be on vacation today. So +1 likes to all you posters in this thread! :)
 
I like reading all of your 'how I came to wildstar' stories. Keep them coming.
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Hey, I'm Prince Cocoon. I played through closed beta (getting that key was like christmas) and a few weeks after launch, but my life got a little hectic so I had to quit. I just resubbed a few weeks ago, and I've already made a 50 aurin esper and a 50 human medic (I don't have classes this month... nothing better to do :)). I'm still pretty newbie though. I like PvP and messing around with housing and costumes. School is starting up again soon, so I'll probably play pretty casual.
 
I slept 2 hours last night, then drank way too much coffee and puked. So yeah.	
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Ah well, why not.
 
Hi, I'm Cheesypuff and I'm a software engineer in real life - not that fancy stuff that leads to "Holy Cupcake!"-effects, but instead the stuff that stays in the background: if nobody realizes it's there and subsequently does its job, I'm a happy bundle of caffeine imbued nerves.
 
Today I finally read a naming guide on Chua and decided to rename that nasty rodent of mine, went to Blighthaven to see what Scorchwing is all about (don't pull that guy to the respawn point, seriously. :o), saw an Aurin lady get a pet drop from said Scorchwing (it's so weirdly nice not being able to read what exactly was said in chat due to different factions, but everything is clear when you see the linked item - congrats if you read this!) and cleared up my inventory, which was long overdue. Oh and also Starcom-Station - no idea what was going on in the public event over there, but it certainly was fun. Stuff was exploding, what could possibly be any better?
 
For breakfast, I had some, well,
 
 
...bun.
 
It was delicious.	
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Huh.  Okay.
 
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.  I have a number of characters in the game, but generally go by Remillard in most places on the interwebz.  In game I am Remil Malik, a Mordesh engineer, primarily a tank, and gun running weaponsmith offering discounts to anyone interested in blowing up as many Dominion as possible.  I also play Glory Mindstar, an Aurin esper deeply involved in Black Hoods shenanigans, Morgan Sinclair, a normal human medic dude, and Sidiox Hellhammer, Granok warrior, and of late, Anathema Devyce, a human spellslinger.  I've played since late closed beta.  
 
In real life, I'm an electrical/electronics engineer, specializing in high speed digital hardware (board design, FPGA design, embedded design, etc.).
 
Hopefully that was what was desired, it's been a long day already.
 
Anyhow, moving onto regular news, Final Frontier fell completely by accident onto Ohmna and killed her.  Not kidding.  We we just chatting away via Mumble, main tank asks raid lead a question then "Oh crap, I fell in."  So we all piled on in afterwards and actually one-shot killed her.  It's quite a transition.  Weeks of work to get the first kill, and then two weeks later we're one-shotting it on an accidental pull.  Now, wasn't the prettiest kill in the world, but hey, loot dropped and I got Ohmna's head, so what's to gripe about?
 
Spent the rest of the evening in Initialization Core and we refined our strategy there and analyzed the mechanics further.  Believe we've got it nailed, just have to get that practiced ease that lets you fall on top of a boss and live. ;-).  I took a little time this morning and updated my diagram.  I <3 Visio (did I mention I am an engineer for real? ;-))
 
 
Have spent the rest of the day wrestling with DPS theory with my padawan (who is better at DSP than I am) and catching some boards up on repairs (i.e. lots of soldering of baby ant sized components under a microscope.)  Tonight, it's Attunesday and I don't know if we have anyone working on attunement so we might just fart around with contracts and dungeons and who knows what.	
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I'm ObviouslyLost. I'm a 28 yr old Network Admin. I also handle the majority of backups and DR for my company.
 
I started playing in CBT2 and found the game prior to that from searching for future mmo's. As soon as I saw the combat I was in love. It's really my favorite part of the game. I started out as an Esper, but decided to reroll after taking a break from the game. I'm now playing a Spellslinger and am almost lvl 50.
 
I didnt get to play last night or any of this past weekend. IRL has been busy lately with random stuff so I have been leveling slowly, but I'm almost there. :P I may be having WildStar withdrawals at this point... -_-	
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Hi, I'm Vince and I'm a medic.  Outside of Wildstar I'm a QA specialist for an up-and-coming game studio working on something big.  I keep my work and personal life pretty separate so I won't talk much more about that.  When I worked at ArenaNet, I saw the option to be a part of Wildstar's Pre-Alpha, so I leapt at it.  I like what I saw, but at the time couldn't afford to buy the game on Launch.  A friend graciously gifted it to me in June and I haven't stopped playing since.
 
Except for that two week stretch where I had to work overtime.  I have a YouTube channel and I'm extremely opinionated because I'm game QA and I've seen the workings of companies like this from the inside.  I'm on Entity as Vince Blood (Exile)/Imperator Deathgrind (Dominion).  Hit me up if you want some free fart jokes.	
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First time coffee thread poster (I think), occasional lurker though.
 
I'm Kaeret (or Kae, for short). In the real world I'm a frumpy housewife with too much free time on my hands. I was introduced to the game by my son who'd seen the Flicks. By good luck, we managed to get ourselves invited to the Closed Beta and while he ultimately decided to stick with his friends in LoL, I've been playing WildStar ever since.  I am an avid housing advocate. One can most often find me posting in the housing section of the forum, sharing pictures of things myself or others have made, promoting public homes I consider outstanding and deserving of visitors, etc. In-game I play an Aurin Stalker and spend most of my time piddling with decor either on my own plot or someone elses. I recently started up a Twitch livestream project as another way of promoting the housing system of WildStar. Most days the content of the broadcasts are housing-related, i.e. house tours, live building, etc (especially the scheduled Wednesday shows), but I do occasionally run amok with contracts or challenges, just to break things up a bit.
 
Like a few others here, I don't drink coffee, but I'll raise my glass of water in salute to this great community of players.	
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			Sno Angel, Holly Golightly, Goodnight Moon, Anne Bonney, Perynn Meadowsong, Crazy Jane and Mouse Whisperwind all present and accounted for, been with the game since CBT and have been loving nearly every minute of it, would love to see the sub 50 pvp become a viable way to level a toon again but other than that having a grand time.	
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