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Today's coffee comes in the form of cake! Enjoy. 
 
Its been a kinda disappointing week all around from a WS angle and I'm starting to get a bit burnt out. Logged on for GA yesterday and managed to clear up to ohmna only to wipe on her until the raid ended. =( Really want to be moving on to SD and beyond before f2p hits. 
 
On the other hand, I have been drooling non-stop since the announcement of fallout 4 yesterday to the point I now have to carry a cup around with me. I am excited to a ridiculous degree. Now to set up a macro that spams war, war never changes in pvp. >.>
 
 
 
 
 
 	
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I understand the burn-out. I was starting to feel it earlier this week. I am considering just not playing during the weekdays for a while.
 
As always, my biggest complaint is the lack of leveling zones after Galeras. No matter what toon, what faction, what race ... the minute I step into Whitevale, I know I am doomed to see the exact same content that I've seen a hundred times since Beta. I'm just tired of it.
 
Back when we actually had low-level PVP queues, I didn't burnout nearly as often. I could quest, then do a BG or three, run whatever shiphand was level appropriate and then get back to questing.
 
Nowadays, it's pretty much quest, quest, quest, quest ... oh, a shiphand, yay! ... back to quest, quest, quest. And yeah, it has gotten really, really, REALLY stale to me.
 
I could probably do some of the endgame zones to completion, like the Defile/Grimvault/Blighthaven ... but I'm kind of saving them for when I've lost ability to entertain myself in other ways. :lol:	
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Morning :)
 
Ugh, the burnout :( I totally understand.
 
Some of the things I've been thinking about involving the lower zones is that with F2P happening, they will probably (eventually) 'fast track' the low zones by giving loads of XP with every hit and quest turn or after a new zone is opened and with level cap being increased. This is just what I've seen happen in other games that went F2P anyways.
 
Sophie is close to beloved in NW and then I need to start the whole Defile/Blighthaven sections. I still have all the quests out there because I leveled so fast. I just blew right past them  :P
 
IMO, leveling is very fast in Wildstar but will agree that it bogs down in a few places. Like, I enjoy Whitevale all the way until the squirg area but it feels like it picks back up at Prosperity Junction. You can zip right through the Bio Domes and Farside then its off on a whirlwind tour of Wilderrun!!
 
Wilderrun and Malgrave are 2 of my favorite areas  :)	
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Wilderrun ... favorite areas  :)
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It's here!! No morning coffee yesterday, I think it affected my real life because I didn't have any coffee until the afternoon. Whereas here we are and I've already had some coffee! Today is gonna be a good day.
 
In WildStar we cleared up to Ohmna in Genetic Archives yesterday (gotta love that stalker/scientist combo) and we're going to kill the worm tonight to get more people (me) cracking on the System Daemons. If you were watching anyone from Victorious Failures on Twitch then you probably heard my dulcet (mono)tones over mumble, or saw me get cleaved to death about a second before Phage Maw went down. Skillz, yo.
 
Now that the game has been out for a year and I've got many characters at 50 I can conclusively say that while the leveling experience is a hundred times better than it used to be I still don't want to go back and do it again... maybe once the population picks back up we'll actually have pvp leveling again! One can dream.	
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I understand the feeling a bit. I just reached Level 22 so I'm almost done with Auroria, just unlocked Whitevale. And based on some of Tex's posts, it sounds like I shouldn't be excited hahaha 
 
The areas are starting to get a bit more difficult because the enemies respawn faster and they're closer together. Went near an Exile tech lab coupled with Malverines and immediately regretted it. My friends were busy so I ran through Kel Voreth by myself.
 
The higher I went up, the more my framerate dropped and I realized how big the area actually was. xD Such a shame because I would never want to go back there ever again haha. The place reminded me fondly of Brutal Legend 
 
 
Plus side, with the hoverboard change, I got to use my Go-Go Hoverboard 3 levels earlier!  :D	
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Mmhmm. I agree. I think part of the issue of Wilderrun is that it only has one taxi so it feels like "you can't get there from here". So yeah you end up spending a lot of time just getting from one end to the other.
 
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I understand the feeling a bit. I just reached Level 22 so I'm almost done with Auroria, just unlocked Whitevale. And based on some of Tex's posts, it sounds like I shouldn't be excited hahaha 
 
The areas are starting to get a bit more difficult because the enemies respawn faster and they're closer together. Went near an Exile tech lab coupled with Malverines and immediately regretted it. My friends were busy so I ran through Kel Voreth by myself.
 
Plus side, with the hoverboard change, I got to use my Go-Go Hoverboard 3 levels earlier! :D
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Good morning everyone! Hope you're all in good spirits and having a lovely day.
 
I'm sorry to hear you guys are feeling a bit burnt-out, that's never fun. I'll admit I was feeling a bit on my way out because one of my biggest grips about this game is there is no tank/healer class and now that I've settled on picking a healer it's just bore now to level it without pvp to break things up like when I leveled my tank. Dungeons help for sure if/when they pop but they're not very constant and boss fights are nice, but fighting another player just has that bit of "Edge" that makes ya smile.
 
Maybe I just don't have the attention span I used to, but just been finding myself playing other games at the same time as Wildstar while I level.
 
What helped me lately get a large boost having fun though was finally fixing that red flash from holdouts myself.
 
Also yeah I decided on making my healer a mordesh medic after months of back and forth deciding on race and class. Tried the aurin, but they didn't quite click with me and humans are nice, but they're humans and i can't get the oen hairstyle I want because only Dominion has it. Granok look awesome too, but they(females anyway) have the most awward run cycle to me. So went with mordesh again.
 
@Pipchi - I found that leveling as a warrior when I would get into fights with a lot of enemies life drain helped a bit. Also using kick as general CC to give me breathing room. Also get power hitter asap if you don't have it, helps a lot. If you need some AMPs lemme know I have a few extra on my dominion you can have.
 
Happy as I am for another fallout, would have personally loved a new Earthworm Jim hehe. I'm also in great spirits because my phone interview went over well see where that takes me weeee!	
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*takes a sip
 
... yeah, burn-out...
 
i stopped raiding since 2 weeks ago, i.. i just can't do it anymore.
and i feel like most of the other stuff is just grindy (grind contracts basically, thats it) and housing is not for me (but i know there is ton of fun to have there if you're into it!)
so unless i start an ALT (which i won't do before the f2p release for sure).
 
i'm a bit "done".
pvp is probably where its at for me in Wildstar at the moment.
and then again... i wish i could play/try other builds class without having to re-grind everything for hundred of hours...
 
so. hmm..
playing Witcher3 and HotS...
 
and back to gw2's wvw and pvp. getting back the vibe before the expac :)
 
wildstar, ill keep subbing for pvp at the moment (and cause i'm cool) and will most probably roll an alt in the new F2P game. thats about it.	
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Morning :)
 
Ugh, the burnout :( I totally understand.
 
Some of the things I've been thinking about involving the lower zones is that with F2P happening, they will probably (eventually) 'fast track' the low zones by giving loads of XP with every hit and quest turn or after a new zone is opened and with level cap being increased. This is just what I've seen happen in other games that went F2P anyways.
 
Sophie is close to beloved in NW and then I need to start the whole Defile/Blighthaven sections. I still have all the quests out there because I leveled so fast. I just blew right past them  :P
 
IMO, leveling is very fast in Wildstar but will agree that it bogs down in a few places. Like, I enjoy Whitevale all the way until the squirg area but it feels like it picks back up at Prosperity Junction. You can zip right through the Bio Domes and Farside then its off on a whirlwind tour of Wilderrun!!
 
Wilderrun and Malgrave are 2 of my favorite areas  :)
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Oh, I ain't saying some of the quests in those zones aren't fun. Some of my favorites places include Wigwali village (hell, honestly ALL of the Lopp areas from Whitevale on are favorites!) and the Prosperity Junction environs. Also a huge fan of Farside all the way through. I never skip anything when I'm out there on the moon!
 
And even Wilderrun has good bits, they're just too few and far between to keep me interested for more than an hour at a time.
 
Malgrave though ... there is just something about the cowboy-desert-haunted ghost town-lonely beaches thing that makes my heart happy. Like Farside, I rarely skip much of anything in Malgrave. In fact, I hang out there longer than I need to, just so my time in Grimvault is shorter.	
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			Mordesh Medic master race. Did you choose the techno-dreds for your hair?? I hope so.	
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Come to think on it ... if I were going to design an alternate leveling zone, it would be mostly Lopp, Grumples, Ekose, Freebots, Marauders and Protostar clones.
 
Everything else has just been done to the point of not caring anymore, but each of those races is just a wealth of awesome that really needs to be tapped further. 
 
You know what would make an awesome zone? Another "Off World" area that takes you between the various arkships still in orbit. That way they could focus on each of those races in turn, and further plumb how they interact not only with the Exiles and Dominion, but one another as well.
 
CARBINE, YOU CAN STEAL THAT IDEA. I WON'T MIND, I PROMISE!!!	
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Runecrafting is weird for sure :)
 
Pipchi, do you salvage the drops you don't use or just sell them? You get a lot from salvaging or you can also buy the signs from the AH at a relatively low price.
 
Like I said though runeing armor that you are just going to switch out pretty fast isn't really worth it unless you have loads of plat.	
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Like I said though runeing armor that you are just going to switch out pretty fast isn't really worth it unless you have loads of plat.
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Well there is that second moon Pyria or whatever its called. I'd like to take a trip there. I keep seeing "redmoon terror" and while I'm sure that's more in reference to marauders, part of me hopes its for the other moon.
 
 
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Mordesh Medic master race. Did you choose the techno-dreds for your hair?? I hope so.
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I'm also in great spirits because my phone interview went over well see where that takes me weeee!
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even for crafting, its preferable just to reach max level and then rush the crafting locations/missions and get all you need on AH. boom, max level crafting.
don't bother with it while levelling up...
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Come to think on it ... if I were going to design an alternate leveling zone, it would be mostly Lopp, Grumples, Ekose, Freebots, Marauders and Protostar clones.
 
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The RNG gods hate the -Greater signs, at least for me  <_< I am ALWAYS out of Sign of Air and Water - Greater. 
 
Those are the ones I need to make general runes of finesse.	
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Well there is that second moon Pyria or whatever its called. I'd like to take a trip there. I keep seeing "redmoon terror" and while I'm sure that's more in reference to marauders, part of me hopes its for the other moon.
 
 
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Good morning all!
 
I like all zones, Wilderrun was just random crazy running for me. I like to do every single quest and I am not very good at figuring out which order I should be doing them in so I always end up re-visiting areas. 
 
The zones I don't like is end-game zones with ton of group-only mobs and group-only quests.  Defile is driving me bonkers, to be honest. It's cool and all, but the group-only quests and the several 20+-man quests are bothering me something fierce. Of course they are mostly dead because everyone has moved on from Defile now.  I had to untrack all of them (had to pick them up because I cannot stand ! on my map either LMAO) so they'd stop bugging me.  I still completed what I could, all sneaky like clicking on items and running like crazy when some mob noticed me.  Died a few times last night, was epic!  I think I might need to dedicate a day a week for Wildstar and look for a casual guild. Miss talking to people and there's rarely anything but Exiles around! I have Exile characters, but I'm very attached to my Mechari and want to enjoy Defile and Star-comm Basin right now. 
 
I'm hoping this weekend to have a bit of time to do OMNIcore-1 and get my arse handed to me.  I'm still wearing high Finesse crafted gear for the most part, but the random fluffing about this past week scored me some more defensive pieces (higher HP and shield) for when I'm asking for a hurting solo. I saw some 250 plat gun on the Auction House that left me drooling. o.O  The vet shiphands ARE FUN but I have no idea how to get gold to save my life. I'm thinking once I'm familiar with the shiphands again it will get better. I mean only crazy people expect to get gold on their first walkthrough in the shiphand, right? LOL
 
I need to stop being on my Mechari so I can give the chopshop a whirl.  My Mechari is too perfect to mess with :P.  The holowardrobe is the bee's knees, but I wonder... are colors and outfits now account-wide?  Will I see the costume pieces on my Exile toons?  Just something that I'm wondering now (that I'm not home to check!).
 
 
I haven't had coffee yet, what outrage!  I woke up late because I was up until 2am in Wildstar because I logged in "just for a minute to open my boom box" and entered a 2+ hours trance :P.  	
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The Redmoon Terror is the Redmoon flagship Ty. It's also supposed to be a ghost ship (ala The Flying Dutchman). It is also going to be the focus of the Redmoon raid that is supposed to be released later this year.
 
Pyria is on their list of places to go though I'm pretty sure. They've made reference to the fact that the moon is protected by an Eldan energy field and no one has been able to get to the surface of it yet, so I wouldn't be surprised to see that as a future zone.
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The moon would be a sweet zone; I've wanted to go there since I noticed it was flashing with Eldan energy during the login screen. I'm hoping the flora and fauna there aren't strain-corrupted though. We've got enough of that on Nexus already.
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As always, my biggest complaint is the lack of leveling zones after Galeras. No matter what toon, what faction, what race ... the minute I step into Whitevale, I know I am doomed to see the exact same content that I've seen a hundred times since Beta. I'm just tired of it.
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Why do you even wa- omg is that cake for breakfast? What was I saying?
 
Oh yeah, why do you even want to go to the moon?? I'd rather explore underground or even those unfilled parts of the map (like that gigantic zone under whitevale). The Eldan purportedly terraformed the entire planet, so think of what something like the core of the planet will look like. What about the underground caves and pools that Hydris lives in? I'd rather not get another Farside.	
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Why do you even wa- omg is that cake for breakfast? What was I saying?
 
Oh yeah, why do you even want to go to the moon?? I'd rather explore underground or even those unfilled parts of the map (like that gigantic zone under whitevale). The Eldan purportedly terraformed the entire planet, so think of what something like the core of the planet will look like. What about the underground caves and pools that Hydris lives in? I'd rather not get another Farside.
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Well I can't speak for others, but I'd like more space in general. Even if not the other moon, I'd love a zone made up from an asteroid belt.
underground, forests, jungles, deserts, etc are so common and given that Wildstar is a Sci-Fi game with spaceships and such I'd like to see more zones pushed toward moons, asteroids and such. I was disappointed in Farside in that the domes basically just shortened the time in space. Besides theres already 2 zones already known to exist that Carbine just has to open up.
 
 
 
Underground is more feasible since we eventually lear that the surfac eof nexus is a shell. I can easily imagine that beneath said shell there are different layers with different types of experiments, but afraid that too will be heavily strain oriented...
 
 
 
Thinking about it did we destroy the ENTIRE Ikthian fleet or would I be correct in saying t sounds like there are more and a bigger force on their way? IF the latter potentially a giant mothership large enough to be it's own zone. I really like the Ikthian aesthetic.	
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Leveling Chua Engineer on Dommie side.
 
It'll be sad to see the RP stuff go here, but Madda thinks Madda will enjoy it.
 
Maybe an Esper too.	
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Thinking about it did we destroy the ENTIRE Ikthian fleet or would I be correct in saying t sounds like there are more and a bigger force on their way? IF the latter potentially a giant mothership large enough to be it's own zone. I really like the Ikthian aesthetic.
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Leveling Chua Engineer on Dommie side.
 
It'll be sad to see the RP stuff go here, but Madda thinks Madda will enjoy it.
 
Maybe an Esper too.
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o.m.g.
 
-from your friend
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Leveling Chua Engineer on Dommie side.
 
It'll be sad to see the RP stuff go here, but Madda thinks Madda will enjoy it.
 
Maybe an Esper too.
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I NEED this mug.
 
No WildStar for me this week, but tomorrow's Friday and that means it's almost the weekend and that means some free time to game, yay! Housing?! Yes! Yes to all the housing things. I'm addicted (and have been for quite some time). 
 
Edit: I actually had to triple check to make sure tomorrow WAS Friday before I posted this. 
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How's your RP guild surviving?
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			The forums starting to have that same feel that it had back at launch. It's nice seeing all these familiar faces(avatars).	
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o.m.g.
 
-from your friend
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The forums starting to have that same feel that it had back at launch. It's nice seeing all these familiar faces(avatars).
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I would love to see underground zones. Getting down inside Nexus into the inner workings of an artificial planet would be amazing imo. 
 
Then again, anything space would be appreciated. This is a sci-fi mmo, give us space zones damit! Everyone loves Farside, why don't we have more places like that?
 
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I would love to see underground zones. Getting down inside Nexus into the inner workings of an artificial planet would be amazing imo. 
 
Then again, anything space would be appreciated. This is a sci-fi mmo, give us space zones damit! Everyone loves Farside, why don't we have more places like that?
 
Also can we have an Ikthian Raid pretty please. I really want to kick General Ironscale's tooshie after that cowardly showing on Farside.	
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Oh look a wild Madda has appeared.*tosses a protoball*
How is Madda these days? Welcome back
 
EDIT: Ooooh and a Dae as well! *hugs*	
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All this talk about other zones, moons and planets reminded me of these things I used to have hehe
Like soon as I saw the explanation on Nexus' creation first thing that came to mind...	
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All this talk about other zones, moons and planets reminded me of these things I used to have hehe
Like soon as I saw the explanation on Nexus' creation first thing that came to mind...
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I don't recall ever seeing this, but I looked up the commercial and the kid in me wants this.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73k-3iWQGlk
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That CGI, that "gyarr" scream that was in every stock video and cartoon... so 90s! Must have been mid to late 90s there.
 
Looked it up, and yes, 1996-1998. 11-year-old me would have loved these. But 13-year-old me would have been way too cool for it, must be why I never owned these masterpieces.
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			I was all about the legos. So many *cupcake*ing legos. 	
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1996-1998 and you guys were playing with LEGOs and Pokemon?
 
Holy crap. I was already a decade out of high school and five years into my career.	
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			I just finished graduate school last year, so 1998 and legos sounds about right. 	
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1996-1998 and you guys were playing with LEGOs and Pokemon?
 
Holy crap. I was already a decade out of high school and five years into my career.
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1996-1998 and you guys were playing with LEGOs and Pokemon?
 
Holy crap. I was already a decade out of high school and five years into my career.
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			We might want to get back on topic...	
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After being stuck on Vet SSM for attunment since October...?  I got it done last night and blew through the rest of my attunment! (Was a bit awkward standing next to Kezar as I completed monster hunting... Pretty sure I've killed twice as many world bosses as needed heh).  So while everyone else is burning out I'm revving up and getting excited to finally see a "real life" wildstar raid! 
 
Now It's time to just die miserably in RBGs for more amp points.	
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			Congrats, Xiun! :D	
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1996-1998 and you guys were playing with LEGOs and Pokemon?
 
Holy crap. I was already a decade out of high school and five years into my career.
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I intentionally decided to head off the burn out by not allowing myself to play like I normally would. I no longer have the same gumption to play one MMO and nothing else 8+ hours a day utilizing every moment of my spare time including that which should be used for sleeping.
 
So instead of making sure I'm doing every daily zone, every contract, etc each night when I get home from work I just do one set of dailies, maybe a couple of shiphands with my wife, and whatever contracts fit into that. Then on the weekends I'll crack out on the game, catch up on contract pts, and be about my way.
 
I know it means I will earn things slower, but I'm not looking to get into a raiding guild or really do anything serious right now so it's working for me. The key to fighting burn out is simply to play less, no matter how you look at it. Whether you need to play other games to stay refreshed or do something else IRL, don't force yourself to play when you don't feel it.	
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We might want to get back on topic...
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			I'm pretty sure if we just say Wildstar randomly every other sentence, no matter the topic, it will be on topic. Wildstar.	
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I'm pretty sure if we just say Wildstar randomly every other sentence, no matter the topic, it will be on topic. Wildstar.
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*looks around shiftily*
 
They're watching... waiting... one wrong move, and BAM you're in Off Topic!
 
So, to add some WildStar related stuff, I learned that it takes three times as many runic modules to add a slot to an item that you get from a token drop compared to the dungeon items and shiphand gear. No wonder everyone likes these new contracts so much!
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really good income for a scrub like me who doesn't need to reroll slots yet XD
Haven't sold any for awhile, but 3p+ each isn't a bad deal...well for the sellers anyway hehe
 
So I'm level 7 on my medic now...lets see how far i can get Friday and this weekend
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I'm back for the new stuff and I had just recently built a new rig and sold my old one for a discount price.  I am getting solid performance from the game now except in thayd. I dread the f2p transition will make both of the cities like vanilla wow ironforge. 
 
I've leveled 2 characters to 50 for each faction within a very short time period last year and now I plan on leveling more alts mainly for the path costumes. 
 
I did notice one thing about grinding and it's not nearly as bad as it was months ago.  
 
By a great measure I must say.  Yet I have to agree Whitevale, wilderrun, and all mid to late leveling zones can be very discouraging. 
 
"*cupcake* I gotta go back to this place goddammit"
 
However the devs seem to get the basic understanding of burn out from grinding. 
 
I've actually put off most end level content because of this.  
 
I also can't decide which character to really invest in just like in my old Cityofheroes/WoW days.
 
I'm an Altaholic.	
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I'm back for the new stuff and I had just recently built a new rig and sold my old one for a discount price.  I am getting solid performance from the game now except in thayd. I dread the f2p transition will make both of the cities like vanilla wow ironforge. 
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So I'm level 7 on my medic now...lets see how far i can get Friday and this weekend
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Man, I just started leveling a medic too and I think I'm in love! It's eclipsing my Engi as my favorite toon.
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