119620-09122014-morning-coffee-my-first-exile-edition

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			 As some people saw on my twitter over the weekend I decided to create my first Exile character, a medic. Until now I have been a devoted fan of Chua, and nothing but (I play an esper). Why the change? I'm not really sure! I'm having a lot of fun, managed to drag a few friends with me, and after two play sessions we're getting our first glimpse of Thayd and just hit level 12.  I'm a bit of a completionist, so it really made me very angry that I needed a specific path in order to get 100% zone completion on Northern Wilds. I asked in zone if anyone could help me out but apparently that path was in rare form when I was on. I picked solider path myself (my main is an explorer) and it was really hard to move past without completing the zone! Frustration!All that being said, I had a blast and can't wait for more. How did everyone else spend their weekends? Get any awesome game time in? :)	
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I've gone back to streaming. I'll start with dailies and see if I pick up more views.
 
Of course dailies now take up 2-3 hours of game time as I do all of them. Even R-12.
 
I tried a Vet Adventure to see how I do. I do just fine but missed silver by a hair because my fellow players did not understand how not to pick up fruit or how to turn off flowers or how to stay with the caravan.
 
RP wise Rocio's story arc is branching into players RPing the risen members of the tribe. Starting this weekend. So Excited!
 
My other character is going through a tough bout of depression. She'll pull through even if her friends are clueless as to what to do.	
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Welcome to the Exile side Chillia - am sure you will be able to kidnap an explorer to help unlock the extras - also need a scientist for a few of the datacubes.
 
The Mcleod clan did some good farming - anything with leather was being hunted down. Also made sure I gathered lots of seeds and helped out in some of the main events when was in right place at right time. Did my first 20+ Siege of Lightspire - and kept losing track of the enemy in all the flurry of graphics. Luckily we got gold even though took a few naps along the way. Fun had and looking forward to end of this week - then have 3 weeks off to focus on doing wildstar on a few more of my alts :>	
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No WS news other than to report that I am no longer in a Dominion Guild (all 12 toons kicked ) ... thanks VicVan for being more tolerant to my absence on the Exile side.
 
WoD is calling for me ATM ...
 
10th anniversary and all that ... (Ten years of investment vs. approx. 6 months of a new game = keeping up with both ). ;)	
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Always good to see both ends of the war, for deadly data!
While Thayd bit of a trash pile, for rebels to even make city out of it shows much dedication. Is enough to get bit of respect from me as chua.
 
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RP wise Rocio's story arc is branching into players RPing the risen members of the tribe. Starting this weekend. So Excited!
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Spent much of Sunday night and all of Monday in bed, discovering that the flu is no fun at all.
In Wildstar, Carshe has pretty much become my main, the espers playstyle suits me well.  Only thing I wish is that I had chosen Scientist for her path rather than settler, since the scientist path also suits me more as a lore junkie.  Ah well, perhaps one day we will be able to pick a sub-path or change paths (For Money! brought to you by Protostar)	
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No WS news other than to report that I am no longer in a Dominion Guild (all 12 toons kicked ) ... thanks VicVan for being more tolerant to my absence on the Exile side.
 
WoD is calling for me ATM ...
 
10th anniversary and all that ... (Ten years of investment vs. approx. 6 months of a new game = keeping up with both ). ;)
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Always good to see both ends of the war, for deadly data!
While Thayd bit of a trash pile, for rebels to even make city out of it shows much dedication. Is enough to get bit of respect from me as chua.
 
 
Interesting! Do risen members regain full brain, or do they act like hungry zombies?
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Good morning everyone! This is way too early for me, but work has decided to give me multiple morning shifts so I don't have much choice.
 
Didn't play a single bit of Wildstar due to sickness, but I think I've just about blown through that, so I'll have to see what I do today. Maybe some more attunement, I still have adventures to do exile-side, and I have Veteran Sanctuary of the Swordmaiden dominion-side to deal with. I've... yet to do that dungeon in any form, actually, so I dunno if I should try to pester people for a normal run first (even though it's hard enough for me to find people for veteran runs) or just try to jump into veteran immediately (Which, considering I know nothing about it yet, will just result in infinitely more deaths).
 
Bah, I'll just have to watch a video on it or something.	
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Mmmm, coffee. 
I had plans for last night, BIG plans!  Actually not really.  I was going to continue to work on my addon and maybe get in a run of NW but I wound up fiddling with some of my housing (and spending about a plat).  Then went and hit a couple of RP things.  Holy cow, it's like Land of Seasonal Affective Disorder. :blink:
 
What really took the wind out of my sails was this response [link] to yet another alt-hostile change.  Enough to quit over?  No, but it sure is a hell of a demotivator.	
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Good morning everyone! This is way too early for me, but work has decided to give me multiple morning shifts so I don't have much choice.
 
Didn't play a single bit of Wildstar due to sickness, but I think I've just about blown through that, so I'll have to see what I do today. Maybe some more attunement, I still have adventures to do exile-side, and I have Veteran Sanctuary of the Swordmaiden dominion-side to deal with. I've... yet to do that dungeon in any form, actually, so I dunno if I should try to pester people for a normal run first (even though it's hard enough for me to find people for veteran runs) or just try to jump into veteran immediately (Which, considering I know nothing about it yet, will just result in infinitely more deaths).
 
Bah, I'll just have to watch a video on it or something.
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Welcome to the Exiles!  We have pie!  Delicious, delicious deserter pie.  It's the tears that make it taste better!  
 
I've been having a rough time with the game lately and it's not really because of the effect that the game is having on me, but for what it's doing to other people.  Another of my friends is leaving the game next month and I'm starting to feel like it's turning into "the last one out hit the lights".  It seems like every time that I feel like things are turning the corner some other friend is disbanding their guild, or more friends are leaving the game.  It's becoming very difficult to stay positive and upbeat as everyone that I've been playing and planning with since long before the game launched has kinda wandered off.  It's been incredibly disheartening.  I'm not planning on going anywhere but it's hard to compete with the logic as people I've played with for years or friends that I've gained since I dropped dead into the middle of the community have wandered off to other games.  
 
I had considered suspending my Too Damn Early show until I could relocate it back to its original Sunday morning spot but I had such a huge response last week when I announced that that I decided to give it another go this week.  I love doing shows, don't get me wrong.  I'll still be broadcasting long after I decide that I don't want to play this game by myself anymore but Tuesday mornings are an awful time for an in-game broadcast.  Battling against the Maintenance boss, everyone is at work or off doing other things.  It doesn't make for an energetic start to the day.  So I may go back to the decision to suspend the show.  I've currently got two listeners.  One is the girlfriend and another is a guildmate.  I've watched listener numbers dwindle from averaging 30-40 to averaging 8 over the last month.  Again, I do this to have fun but it's sort of disheartening when you can see the decline backed up by numbers.
 
So I'm a bit down this last week and perhaps for the near future.  I'm still going to be fighting forward with the positivity and enthusiasm I've tried to maintain so far but it's getting very difficult as I watch more and more people that have been pivotal in keeping me positive and hopeful walk away without any desire to look back.  I'm not going anywhere but it's becoming a much harder fight.	
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Always good to see both ends of the war, for deadly data!
While Thayd bit of a trash pile, for rebels to even make city out of it shows much dedication. Is enough to get bit of respect from me as chua.
 
 
Interesting! Do risen members regain full brain, or do they act like hungry zombies?
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Welcome to the Exiles!  We have pie!  Delicious, delicious deserter pie.  It's the tears that make it taste better!  
 
So I'm a bit down this last week and perhaps for the near future.  I'm still going to be fighting forward with the positivity and enthusiasm I've tried to maintain so far but it's getting very difficult as I watch more and more people that have been pivotal in keeping me positive and hopeful walk away without any desire to look back.  I'm not going anywhere but it's becoming a much harder fight.
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Welcome to the Exiles!  We have pie!  Delicious, delicious deserter pie.  It's the tears that make it taste better!  
 
I've been having a rough time with the game lately and it's not really because of the effect that the game is having on me, but for what it's doing to other people.  Another of my friends is leaving the game next month and I'm starting to feel like it's turning into "the last one out hit the lights".  It seems like every time that I feel like things are turning the corner some other friend is disbanding their guild, or more friends are leaving the game.  It's becoming very difficult to stay positive and upbeat as everyone that I've been playing and planning with since long before the game launched has kinda wandered off.  It's been incredibly disheartening.  I'm not planning on going anywhere but it's hard to compete with the logic as people I've played with for years or friends that I've gained since I dropped dead into the middle of the community have wandered off to other games.  
 
I had considered suspending my Too Damn Early show until I could relocate it back to its original Sunday morning spot but I had such a huge response last week when I announced that that I decided to give it another go this week.  I love doing shows, don't get me wrong.  I'll still be broadcasting long after I decide that I don't want to play this game by myself anymore but Tuesday mornings are an awful time for an in-game broadcast.  Battling against the Maintenance boss, everyone is at work or off doing other things.  It doesn't make for an energetic start to the day.  So I may go back to the decision to suspend the show.  I've currently got two listeners.  One is the girlfriend and another is a guildmate.  I've watched listener numbers dwindle from averaging 30-40 to averaging 8 over the last month.  Again, I do this to have fun but it's sort of disheartening when you can see the decline backed up by numbers.
 
So I'm a bit down this last week and perhaps for the near future.  I'm still going to be fighting forward with the positivity and enthusiasm I've tried to maintain so far but it's getting very difficult as I watch more and more people that have been pivotal in keeping me positive and hopeful walk away without any desire to look back.  I'm not going anywhere but it's becoming a much harder fight.
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			DJ Malak, i can relate. Guildies seem to be wandering off. When i logged on Saturday evening, the guild had one other person online. We had four in last night, and there was a lot of "has anyone seen so-and-so?".	
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			I'll make coffee today.	
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