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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE BLAZING SADDLES AND ALL THE OTHER GUILDS WHO CAME ON-LINE DURING HEADSTART!
 
Cake and coffee for everyone!
 
Such a busy weekend in WildStar! Low-level PVP queues! Server lag from so many players in Thayd! Daily zones over-flowing with people getting in my way!
 
Honestly, it seems just *announcing* the F2P transition and finally putting the rumors to bed was enough to bring a veritable shipload of people back - or to give the game a try. The Saddles picked up a dozen new and returning players - and Fitchy turned into a power-mad overlord and purged the roster of a couple hundred of defunct accounts.
 
So, if you *were* a Saddle and find you aren't, just shoot one of us a line. We hadda make room for the newbies!
 
Have a great day, Nexus!	
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It's been a helluva ride Tex!! 
 
I never even looked to see if I had any alts booted! I had so much to do in game it was crazy! I got my AP up to just under 2900 and I need better boots, gadget and....weapon attachment. So maybe that will push be over the top of 3k, and that would be amazing for me to hit that goal! Of course that will mean I need to raise the bar again  :ph34r:	
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It's been a helluva ride Tex!! 
 
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It certainly has.
 
I told myself last night that I was gonna commit to digging my headset out and *finally* getting into some group content in the coming weeks.
 
I can't stand the thought of freebots coming in and them being better off in a month, than I am after a year. :lol:  Summer vacation is upon us, the kids will be off visiting relatives and I'll have a couple of hours every evening to myself. It's time to actually see the rest of WildStar.
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Yay! It's my anniversary too. 
Destiny has directly connected me to most of the head-start guilds. ^.^	
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I'm with ya Tex. I have a list of thing to get done in Wildstar as well. I might even try some PvP :) I remember you taking me through my very first (and last) PvP run!
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I do. It's not so painful if you just set your mind to the "I know I am going to die over and over" speed. :lol: I know I'll never be as good at those youngsters with their twitchy reflexes and eleventy-million button gaming mice with re-coded key binds and years of uber-leet PVPness. I just like to fight and I don't mind dying.
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Hey gramps my mouse only has 17 buttons!
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I do. It's not so painful if you just set your mind to the "I know I am going to die over and over" speed.  :lol:   I know I'll never be as good at those youngsters with their twitchy reflexes and eleventy-million button gaming mice with re-coded key binds and years of uber-leet PVPness. I just like to fight and I don't mind dying. 
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LOL!
 
I used to only PvP. I was with Aion from CBT's all the way through their F2P transition. When I left, I was full eternal, full attack +5, dual speced chanter. So I'm not sure what happened to me avoiding PvP  :huh:
 
Oh, I have plenty of buttons  :D I use a Razor Naga, Anansi and an Orbweaver  :P
 
Maybe I just got soft in my old age  :( or maybe I'm just worried about it consuming my life again.
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Yeah, I also have a Razr Naga ... but I use the two regular buttons, the middle button and the scroll wheel. I sadly discovered post-investment, that my thumbs are too fat and untrained to use the other eleventy-million buttons on the side without pressing four of them at once.
 
Which is fun every once in a while, but woefully inadequate for survival.	
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That's plenty of buttons indeed o.0
 
I am over happy with my 3 extra buttons on the mouse hehe.
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Yeah, I also have a Razr Naga ... but I use the two regular buttons, the middle button and the scroll wheel. I sadly discovered post-investment, that my thumbs are too fat and untrained to use the other eleventy-million buttons on the side without pressing four of them at once.
 
Which is fun every once in a while, but woefully inadequate for survival.
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Wow, it is good to see this thread still going strong. Been gone almost a year and first thing I see is this thread this morning, awesome.
 
So I'm one of the (apparently many) returning players to WS after the F2P announcement. Although why that was the catalyst for my return I cannot say, as I plan to be a paying sub while I play. Playing MMO's is always more engaging as a sub.
 
Several of my guildmates from SW:ToR are coming back as well and we're going to rebuild a guild here, likely on Warhound. Though I gather from the forums that it is pretty much dead, most folks seem to want to be on a PvP server. Hopefully it's not too dead to rebuild and recruit there.
 
Really looking forward to my weekend so I can return to Nexus and see whats changed. I'm on the fence as to whether I want to re-roll my Engi, I'm thinking probably yes, but I may wait to see if the charter members of our guild want to play Exile. Right now it seems split pretty much 50/50 Exile/Dommie, but if our female (eventual) raid leader wants to be Aurin, we'll be doing Exile. I'll miss my Mechari, but I guess Mordesh wont be TOO bad..
 
And Happy Anniversary to your Blazing Saddles Tex!	
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Several of my guildmates from SW:ToR are coming back as well and we're going to rebuild a guild here, likely on Warhound. Though I gather from the forums that it is pretty much dead, most folks seem to want to be on a PvP server. Hopefully it's not too dead to rebuild and recruit there.
 
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Yeah, man. Stick to the PVE servers while waiting for the F2P transition. Maybe once the crowds start funneling in, take the free transfer before the madness hits. Thing is, you're not going to find anyone to recruit or even to fight against on the PVP servers right now - but there is PLENTY of PVP happening on the PVE servers. Heck, we actually had low-level PVP queues popping this weekend for the first time in months!
 
Oh, and welcome back to you and all of yours!	
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You may be ok when F2P hits, but I'm telling you now that playing on a PVP server is a death sentence. Just transfer to the PVE realm and leave your flags up if you wish. Everyone consolidated to those servers when transfers opened and the population isn't growing fast enough to support.
 
By all means be a trailblazer and try and revive the PVP servers, but I don't want you or others to hate the game b/c you are in a ghost town.
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			Yeah, I'm going to be suggesting that. From what I gathered browsing the forums this past weekend, all the PvPers just went to the PvE servers & perma-flag themselves.	
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Yeah, I'm going to be suggesting that. From what I gathered browsing the forums this past weekend, all the PvPers just went to the PvE servers & perma-flag themselves.
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You should try a Logitech G600 then. It's the best MMO mouse I've used. The buttons are larger than a Naga, more 'weighty', and generally much better for people who don't have tiny Aurin hands. If you have a Best Buy or any computer stores around, they should have one on display so you can put your hands on it.
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			I use my old WoW cataclysm mouse, mostly because all the buttons aren't thumb buttons, but are evenly spread out across the mouse in easy to use places. On the other hand, no HtCC except on the LMB and RMB so, thats less good. I have a couple of guildies who use logitech gameboards and swear by the things, so I might give one a try eventually. 	
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Yeah, I also have a Razr Naga ... but I use the two regular buttons, the middle button and the scroll wheel. I sadly discovered post-investment, that my thumbs are too fat and untrained to use the other eleventy-million buttons on the side without pressing four of them at once.
 
Which is fun every once in a while, but woefully inadequate for survival.
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Wow, it is good to see this thread still going strong. Been gone almost a year and first thing I see is this thread this morning, awesome.
 
So I'm one of the (apparently many) returning players to WS after the F2P announcement. Although why that was the catalyst for my return I cannot say, as I plan to be a paying sub while I play. Playing MMO's is always more engaging as a sub.
 
Several of my guildmates from SW:ToR are coming back as well and we're going to rebuild a guild here, likely on Warhound. Though I gather from the forums that it is pretty much dead, most folks seem to want to be on a PvP server. Hopefully it's not too dead to rebuild and recruit there.
 
Really looking forward to my weekend so I can return to Nexus and see whats changed. I'm on the fence as to whether I want to re-roll my Engi, I'm thinking probably yes, but I may wait to see if the charter members of our guild want to play Exile. Right now it seems split pretty much 50/50 Exile/Dommie, but if our female (eventual) raid leader wants to be Aurin, we'll be doing Exile. I'll miss my Mechari, but I guess Mordesh wont be TOO bad..
 
And Happy Anniversary to your Blazing Saddles Tex!
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			Not that making fun of Tex for being in his 80s isn't fun, but in WildStar news my one and only goal is to get into Genetic Archives and kill some baddies a few nights a week. I haven't gone into a real non - raid finder raid since Wrath of the Lich King, but the content in this game is just too good to pass up.	
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Not that making fun of Tex for being in his 80s isn't fun...
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Yup, we are still here and chatting about everything Wildstar :)
 
If you really have been gone for close to a year you may want to leave your toons right where they are and just remake some alts to get to know all the changes that have been made with the last few drops. Or if you have a high level alt on the PvP server, bring that one.
 
From what I have seen in Blazing Saddles is we have a lot of returning (as well as new) players trying to 'fix up' their level 50's and it seems to be quite a maddening chore. You can always pick up your original toons again once you get all the new stuff sorted out.
 
Oh and welcome back to Nexus!!
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Thanks Khandi!
 
I think I will just remake my Engi, he's only lvl 32, so it's not like I'm loosing much. And like you said, with all the changes, it's definitely gonna be easier to start from scratch and not try to figure out what's different mid-leveling.
 
And what happened to Evindra??! Is she OK, or did she just stop playing??
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Evindra the server is gone, like all the rest. Lost in the great server purge of '14. I guess with some people's return they are hoping that Carbine reopens it, which is highly unlikely.
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Ok, derp moment, lol. Thought it was someone who posted here back in the day.
 
I'll go back to (not) working now..	
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EVINDRAGONS FOR LIFE, YO!
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			Seems like it might be time to log in regularly again..	
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But Evindra was really a great community.  It was the first time I rolled on an RP server and even though I didn't participate directly myself, I thoroughly enjoyed the ambiance, the characters, and the people behind the characters.  And still play in a RP-friendly guild that started on Evindra.  So I remember it fondly :-)
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			I used to love a good RP-PVP server, played on Twisting Nether for the longest time in WoW. I'm pretty hooked on mega-servers now though. I got involved with Wildstar RP after the server merge so no recollections from the before times, seems like I never have enough time anymore though. 	
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Blazing Saddles and Everyone! I am so happy to be part of such an awesome community! :)
 
Yeah, I did go a little crazy with cleaning out the guild roster, but it was worth it. Especially kicking HubbyUnit Fitch and making him watch me do it :wub:  We have so much more room now for all the new and returning players to join our rag-tag, fun loving bunch of adults. :D
 
Welcome back Lord Vryce and Company!
 
There are so many new/returning players, I am loving it!
 
Hope you all have a great day.	
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Man I wonder who came up with that awesome moniker for the denizens of Evindra... well whoever it was I'm sure he's both brilliant and rakishly handsome.
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Honestly I haven't noticed much change in RP levels from Evindra to Entity. Lots of the same folk and lots of newer folk. A bunch of it is in housing, but I still regularly spy (and occasionally participate in) roleplay in the open world - and not just in Thayd/Illium! A lot seems to happen around that lopp camp in Whitevale for some reason...
 
So this past weekend, the husband had his writing grind to a halt because one of our cats decided to chew up his laptop's power cord and he doesn't write very well on the desktop (has to get away xD). On the upside, we've gotten our Dominion alts through Whitevale and the first biodome of Farside! Looking forward to more leveling, though it's been pretty disappointing seeing first-hand how copy-and-paste the faction experiences are once you hit the squirg place in Whitevale. :/ The biodomes really baffle me. Why create a circular map and split the factions into two different parts of it only to completely duplicate the mobs and quests on either side?? *facepalm*
 
At least medic is fun. xD Wish we could get a Siege of Tempest Refuge to pop, though. We queued up Fri, Sat, and Sun but never once managed to get a group. Medic healing is pretty darn fun so I'd like to get a chance to do more with it.
 
Today we're going to get hubby a passport photo, because my dad keeps making suspicious suggestions about getting him a passport. >_> What is he planning... <_< Then I've got some drawing to do (decided to reblog an art challenge on tumblr... and now I have asks xD). Hoping to get some more leveling in on my medic, though!	
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Good Morning and Happy Anniversary to all you awesome people of Nexus!!!
 
I too have returned after a long hiatus of real life....Oh how I missed you Wildstar!!  Since I am a forum lurker I did keep up a bit on the news...SOOO glad to see Morning Coffee is still here though!!!
 
 I renewed my sub, logged in and the sight of my aurins made me grin from ear to ear and the music in my house brought back a flood of wonderful memories!! I am super happy to be back...but I am incredibly lost :unsure:  so if any of you have any suggestions, advice or room in a guild it would be greatly appreciated!!
 
Have a wonderful day!!!	
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That's not a mouse. It's a one-handed keyboard.
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Hello Everyone!
 
Haven't really been around for a while, but some exiting in-game news!
 
I've been working on a marketplace where I hope to be holding events at least once a month, as well as potentially hosting events that don't have a home. I'll be finishing it up today most likely, but in the meantime, here are some photos!
 
Since its supposed to be in like a suburb of Illium, arrive in comfortable Cutts Co tram cars!
 
 
Enjoy the square and fountain! The town has been freshly imported from Cassus by Cutts Co for your shopping and viewing pleasure!
 
 
And of course, eat at the fabled Dominus Pizza! Home to the Empire's most secret and well hidden pizza recipes! (Now with Cutts Co Expediated Delivery Cannon! From Cutts Co! If it ain't a Cutts, it don't make the cut!)	
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Happy Anniversary!! The Crimson Cross was also a headstart guild. I remember our early joining members pooling together our meager savings to get the 10 gold to start the guild as soon as we hit the right level. LOL
 
What a year it's been, huh? I had no idea how challenging, at times heartbreaking, but usually heartwarming and fun running a guild can be. I'm not sure I would have signed up for it if I had known, but I certainly wouldn't trade it now.
 
I'm so excited about the upcoming anniversary event (when it gets turned back on and isn't server breaking!) I'm even more excited to meet several of my guildies this coming weekend as we celebrate our Wildstariversary IRL! Good times incoming!! :D	
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Good Morning and Happy Anniversary to all you awesome people of Nexus!!!
 
I too have returned after a long hiatus of real life....Oh how I missed you Wildstar!!  Since I am a forum lurker I did keep up a bit on the news...SOOO glad to see Morning Coffee is still here though!!!
 
 I renewed my sub, logged in and the sight of my aurins made me grin from ear to ear and the music in my house brought back a flood of wonderful memories!! I am super happy to be back...but I am incredibly lost :unsure:  so if any of you have any suggestions, advice or room in a guild it would be greatly appreciated!!
 
Have a wonderful day!!!
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			I saw settler improvements in Algoroc yesterday for the first time since before I left the game back in October... so that is pretty awesome. Tons of new folks leveling up in anticipation of f2p!	
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			Been reading the Entity forums. I see a lot of new and/or returning players going for the Dominion side. This makes me very happy!	
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Dudes! the 6-14 PVP bracket was popping.
 
When is the last time *that* happened? Drop 2, at least?	
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Been reading the Entity forums. I see a lot of new and/or returning players going for the Dominion side. This makes me very happy!
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			So in other news, Carbine's staff has finally figured out that "Tex" and I are actually the same person, and have begun merging our posts like they rightly should! Well, it was fun while it lasted, y'all (I'm from TEXAS)!	
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So in other news, Carbine's staff has finally figured out that "Tex" and I are actually the same person, and have begun merging our posts like they rightly should! Well, it was fun while it lasted, y'all (I'm from TEXAS)!
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So in other news, Carbine's staff has finally figured out that "Tex" and I are actually the same person, and have begun merging our posts like they rightly should! Well, it was fun while it lasted, y'all (I'm from TEXAS)!
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Weeeelllll, I'm gonna re-roll my Engi. On my lunch break I decided to run home for a bit and play a bit. I'm lvl 32, and I'm on my housing plot. Do a bit of investigating, reorient myself with the UI (and make notes of what I'm going to change/alter when I have time to sit and do it), then head out to Illium. My quest log shows quests for Wilderrun, so I head to the star port.
 
Message window pops up when I select travel, telling me the level is beyond my current level, am I sure I want to proceed. I think to myself 'I should be ok, I have a tankbot and as long as I'm careful, I should be able to handle things and eventually level into the zone requirements.' So off I head to Wilderrun. 
 
Everything starts off OK, first few quests are just running around, performing tests for the Church and healing some sick people (by the way, the whole thing of getting puked on by these folks in the starter camp is both hilarious and disturbing. I approve). Then I start heading out to the wilds, chasing down Zin. I notice that quest is level 35. Three levels below content is pretty significant as I recall, but so far I've been doing ok, some mobs have been rough, I died once, but on the whole, I'm doing well enough and getting massive xp gains.
 
I follow Zin around, snap her picture a few times, the she tells me to follow her to Giants Gate and snap her pic in there. Oh boy.. This area is FULL of Aurin NPC's, Thorin something-or-others. Everywhere. Every pull is multiple lvl 35's, sometimes 36's. I die. A LOT. I can't even find a back way to get where Zin is. 
 
'OK', I think to myself 'lets take a look at the 'ole LAS and my AMPS and see if I can change some stuff up, get more stuns or debuffs on these furries and take it to 'em!' 
 
No AMPs are selected, they've all been refunded at some point. Includong ones I remember paying for, Volitility Rising & I don't even see the AMP for the dash Volatility boost. 'Well *cupcake*', I think.. I know there's no way I'm gonna survive here, AMP's or no, so I dig through my quest log to see if I have something for lower level zones.
 
Nothing. The quest for Wilderrun is the only available quest I have. Not sure how I could have possibly recieved a quest for a zone three levels above me and I don't have any quests for a level appropriate zone (which I have no idea what is since I have no quests and it's been a year since I've played..), and since I have several friends and guildies coming back, I decided to shelve the toon and start over.
 
Kinda bums me out, because I have the hoverboard mount and the costume that was given out to players who signed up for 2-step identification last year and when I stopped playing I turned that off. So I loose that (imo, anyway) awesome costume and my hoverboard.
 
Oh well, c'est la vie.	
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ok Cirinde....I 'think' I sent a friends request....I tried with cirinde, that's ur forum name..oops...then tried with yalanna fitch.. but kept getting invalid message or something like that...soooo...I sent a couple more requests without messages...anyway, I hope you got one and not 20 gazillion requests from me....im such a noob sry lol
 
in case you didn't get any of them...my in game names are Nyte Shadow and Vishous Vyper...those are the 2 I play the most....ty so much :D	
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ok Cirinde....I 'think' I sent a friends request....I tried with cirinde, that's ur forum name..oops...then tried with yalanna fitch.. but kept getting invalid message or something like that...soooo...I sent a couple more requests without messages...anyway, I hope you got one and not 20 gazillion requests from me....im such a noob sry lol
 
in case you didn't get any of them...my in game names are Nyte Shadow and Vishous Vyper...those are the 2 I play the most....ty so much :D
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Kinda bums me out, because I have the hoverboard mount and the costume that was given out to players who signed up for 2-step identification last year and when I stopped playing I turned that off. So I loose that (imo, anyway) awesome costume and my hoverboard.
 
Oh well, c'est la vie.
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I ended up doing that once too Lord. Best way IMO to do it is to just find a few people and run a dungeon or two, that will straighten out your level and get you some nice gear to boot. Try seeing if you can find some guildies or friends to run Siege of Tempest Refuge or Skullcano with you.
 
Alternatively, what are you having problems with AMP wise? Are you saying you have no amps unlocked now or something? I know some engies that could probably help you out in terms of whats best for leveling.	
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