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Yes, these are zombie flapjacks. :P
 
So it's out with the old as of today, with Shades Eve finishing, and in with the new...
 
 
 
 
 
It seems like Winterfest stuff is up on the PTR and I hear it's looking pretty great. Overall it seems like Shades Eve was a success, so let's hope the next holiday can match it!It won't be here soon, but I figure they'll start it a couple of weeks before Christmas, so maybe in a bit more than a month?
 
 
Until then, it seems to me like some folks are going through a bit of burnout. I think the post-F2P rush has died down now, a lot of builders have been pushing out their new plots, and I've personally been feeling the exhaustion this week. Trying to construct a 2500 piece plot can be super taxing on the brain— especially when you're trying to finish it in a couple of weeks!
 
To remedy this, I'm going to go lite on Wildstar over the next few weeks. I've got a fair bit of coursework in November anyway. So it'll probably be Fallout 4 for fun next week, but I know that won't satisfy my social cravings or have quite the same fulfillment that the longterm nature of an MMO can bring. So I'll still be logging into WS to finish Proxima's plot... but I'll be taking my time about it. :P Then when December hits and I have more free time I can start up a new plot. I'm thinking, since I avoided the Shades Eve theme, I might very well do a winter/Winterfest style for my next build. :D
 
What's everyone else up to? Have you felt the burnout with all of the excitement and things to do since F2P? Have any ways to deal with it?
 
			
				
	Edited November 4, 2015 by EsperXIV	
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Oooh. I might have to go check out the PTR. I didn't wanna spoil Halloween but I'm okay with spoiling Christmas.
 
(That's kind of weird, ain't it?)
 
As for burnout, not yet, not really. I have been so busy with the wedding and holiday work that I haven't gotten to play nearly as much as usual. Mostly I've just been noodling around with dailies and stuff to earn enough money to finish my runes and start paying for my House.
 
Really looking forward to this weekend. No plans, no kids, no wife ... just me, the lap bunny, a pack of cats and WildStar!	
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			Good morning, coffee people! How's the science?PB&J with a glass of orange juice in the morning. I am original like that.I have been on and off Wildstar lately, mostly because I haven't found a guild to do dungeons with nor can I transfer to Warhound to play with my friends. As a consequence, I have tried out Guild Wars 2 and although the leveling process is sweet, combat feels incredibly sluggish in comparison to Wildstar's. I am not burnt out but I can feel it trying to creep on me for a jump scare. I suppose it is due to the fact that progress feels stagnant. I did get a kill of Zoetic last night and it was amazing. There must have been like 200+ people in Wilderrun.Anyway, I am short -3- non-cash shop dyes. Armored, Dominion Red and Black-Hole Black. The first two I will buy eventually once I feel like spending platinums on them. Black-Hole Black, I just have to hope to be as lucky as I was with Supernova White and get it from a Case of Coordinated Colours. I have also been on a flair/mount collecting frenzy lately. I currently ride a Cat Rocket hoverboard (glitterkitty + rosie) and it is amazing.Danger ahead! Danger behind! Maybe danger sideways...or not because Winterfest is coming?	
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I'm going to pretend that shade's eve is still going. 
 
I really really hate snow. Also you can't kiss a mechari when it is cold, you might have to sew your lips back on. 
#Justmordeshthings. 
 
My husband got a job with a local engineering firm, so for a few weeks I am going to be posting. 
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I really really hate snow. Also you can't kiss a mechari when it is cold, you might have to sew your lips back on. 
#Justmordeshthings. 
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I like snow but hate the cold and darkness of winter, so can relate. :(
 
On the upside, that observation about kissing mechari is hilarious— think I'm gonna run around on Prox smooching people when the season comes in full. :P
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I like snow but hate the cold and darkness of winter, so can relate. :(
 
On the upside, that observation about kissing mechari is hilarious— think I'm gonna run around on Prox smooching people when the season comes in full. :P
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I've been trying to decide whether I want to continue working on my housing plot as I consider it "normally" or if I want to start integrating a snowy winterscape. It hasn't even snowed yet in the Midwest so I am wondering how long I want to hold off. 
 
In real life, my boyfriend flew out to go cover a Big Gaming Convention for Another MMORPG That Shan't Be Named and so it's just me and the cat this week. Little lonely. (But more time for Wildstar!)	
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Y'all are crazy. Winter is the best.
 
Of course, I live in Houston, where "winter" is 72 degrees and clear blue skies, so I might be slightly biased.	
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			Yeah, we get snow heaped on us and have terrible knife-cold winds up here in the frozen north. It's not anything to sneeze at!	
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Good afternoon!
My bf will soon prepare a pot of coffee, and I will soon start working.
I'm working on my house, had to rebuild a part I spent hours on... but I think the result became a bit better, at least I tell myself so :P
I got a real hype for the winter event, those slippers... they must be mine! Then I will never have to worry about what my pink chua will wear on her feet :D 	
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I hope you are only going to kiss people you don't mind having attached to your face for some time.
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Winter in my hometown. :lol:	
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Y'all are crazy. Winter is the best.
 
Of course, I live in Houston, where "winter" is 72 degrees and clear blue skies, so I might be slightly biased.
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Good Morning/Afternoon all,
 
As im relatively new to Wildstar im not burnt out yet. Leveling is going slow but that's mainly due to me because that's how I like to play especially on my first toon. Im not a speed leveler I prefer to try and take everything in and roam about the world to see what mischief I can get into and so far im having alot of fun. 
 
Just hit my mini milestone of lvl 25 with my Stalker and im really enjoying the class, there tends to normally be one class that stands out for me in any MMO ive played.  Having tried the other classes they are not too bad but something about Stalker just feels right to me when im fighting and clicks with my playstyle. My only concern is when it comes to end game, im hearing alot of stories about people getting kicked from stuff that I hope it isn't going to become an issue for me.
 
I used to play GW2 and was a Necro and my gameplay was pretty much restricted to WvW because no one wanted to have a Necro in PVE.  In the end it kind of drove me away from the game because there was only so much WvW and night-capping I could take before things started getting tedious and in the end I moved onto pastures new. 
 
Looking forward to the winterfest event as that and halloween events are normally my two favorite ones in an MMO.	
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Good morning!
 
I've barely squeezed in a couple hours on shade's eve and bns beta. Still have to get a couple more silvers for the shoulder when I get home today. 
 
Been studying for certifications but I'm done now and certified so I can stop and smell the roses. 
All the games I wanted to play last night were offline, woe is me so I played Dragon age inquisition instead. Still haven't finished everything because I wanted to do the dlc with solas. My own fault for always picking the messed up dudes. It's a trend!!! 
 
I'm thinking of doing a dungeon this weekend and getting back to shiphands. Sadly I hated shade's eve... Expedition... All that wondering around in the dark made me rage so hard. I guess I'm not into puzzles (having simon says add-on should testify enough to that) and I hate the dark. And those shadelings.... Omfg... I wanted to murder them. Anyway, I did it for the outfit and also the end fight was fun. My new build is awesome imho, might need to make another build for single target only for dungeons. 
So yeah, after a run or two of that expedition, I would normally log out in disgust lol. That running around in the dark feeling lost sapped me of any inspiration to go do contracts (which I need) or anything really. 
 
I'm sure I'm the only one who hated it. The decorations in ilium were awesome and I did the quests once towards the end. Omg, I can't imagine some of those with other people doing them too. Jesus. 
 
I like snow and sunshine, but all I'll get this year is probably more cold and rain. Vancouver is some depressing BS. 
 
Back to work this morning. Been off studying haha. I literally have 1000+ emails.	
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Y'all are crazy. Winter is the best.
 
Of course, I live in Houston, where "winter" is 72 degrees and clear blue skies, so I might be slightly biased.
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Winter in my hometown. :lol:
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Morning. Why are we talking of winter already?!
It was getting chily but the temperature went back up this week, so we're having mild weather. Doesn't look like we're getting snow again any time soon... yet.
 
I am so looking forward to the Winterfest content. Hopefully I'll get my plot finished by then!	
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No burnout here :)  We got System Daemon's down to 20% last night, so having a blast. We're all very excited!
 
Been enjoying gearing up my second slinger, and having another option to raid on a slinger as the opportunity arises.
 
Also enjoying the world bosses and other new things. Basically, still behind on TWD cause I'm playing too much WS!	
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What about thanksgiving!? Does Wildstar have a holiday for that? Maybe the day that they founded Nexus? Pilgrimage Celebration Day or something? Where we dress Chuas/ Aurin like Turkeys and hunt them for dinner?
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			What about thanksgiving!? Does Wildstar have a holiday for that? Maybe the day that they founded Nexus? Pilgrimage Celebration Day or something? Where we dress Chuas/ Aurin like Turkeys and hunt them for dinner?
			
				
	Edited November 4, 2015 by Dumort	
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Things are going well here to. I'm feeling a bit of the burnout and haven't really done much when I log in except the shade's eve shit. Hopefully we are going to get some pulls in on SD tonight. We were in there last week on sunday and even short with a mediocre makeup, we managed to make it to pillar phase 1 consistently w/o problems. Hopefully we have a full group to go in and wreck face tonight, maybe even down it >> <<.
 
My burnout mostly comes from the annoyance of having to pay *cupcake*ing money to get upgrades raid ready. Got to use service tokens to pull runes out of old gear and all that BS. Really, really irritating and I'm about to lose a real quality player to FFXIV because of this *cupcake*ing stupid policy. *cupcake* cash-grabbing, money-grubbing... well I shouldn't say more because I'm really pissed and I tend to express that with inventive and offensive curseword-chains. 
			
				
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My burnout mostly comes from the annoyance of having to pay *cupcake*ing money to get upgrades raid ready. Got to use service tokens to pull runes out of old gear and all that BS. Really, really irritating and I'm about to lose a real quality player to FFXIV because of this *cupcake*ing stupid policy. *cupcake* cash-grabbing, money-grubbing... well I shouldn't say more because I'm really pissed and I tend to express that with inventive and offensive curseword-chains. 
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Sounds exactly how I wanted to respond to Tex.  Dude, get out of my head! 
 
Rumors that the for-plat removal costs are now live on the PTR and it's not pretty.  Looking at 20-25 plat to pull all of the runes.  Ayup, it's a Service Token wonderland.  CRB pushing the Service Tokens sales so hard is really making me sour.
 
*sends a defib to Jeff* Don't worry, you'll be stuck with more for awhile yet. :lol:
 
That last pull on SD was super clean.  Of course since we hadn't seen the 2nd pillar phase (er, which pillar do I go to next?) things kinda fell apart but heck that was great seeing them down that far.  Progress!
 
To decompress from the Service Token follies, I've been focusing on some RP this week.  Took "Ghost Mom" to the Villa to catch up with a few people there.  :wub:   *wanders off humming "Halo"*
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So far, I've ben able to handle the service token issues pretty well. I flatly refuse to buy them, so I'm making do. But I've capped my omnibits every week and was able to buy the 300 token pack with them, and that helped a lot. I'm halfway on to my second stack now.
 
There was a lot of painful rolling of slots for plat initially, but now I've been using the tokens and it hasn't been to bad. I think eventually peolle will start having an abundance of tokens, and that will make life easier.
 
Course, it helps that I don't care about cosmetics :p
 
I'm not at all surprised how hight the tune extraction price is, given it costs 45 tokens currently. They made it so you'd really only ever do it with a class set.
 
Best of luck Melawen, hope your guys get far on SD. It's gonna be so great when we all get over that hump. I'm just glad is such a fun fight!
 
And I'm not worried John- I know where you stand :). You couldn't leave after last night, I know that much! Also, Criss said your work on the add room made a HUGE difference, so good work there :)
			
				
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Sounds exactly how I wanted to respond to Tex. 
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Ah, well, I feel that. Y'all know how much a LOATHE the single-toon horseshit. I just won't give them any more of my money until things change.
 
Sadly, that is still probably 3 months or more away. They gave away so much free Signature Service, that everyone else will be expected to cough up the money for the difference.	
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Wait, what'd I do now?  :lol:
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Ah, well, I feel that. Y'all know how much a LOATHE the single-toon horseshit. I just won't give them any more of my money until things change.
 
Sadly, that is still probably 3 months or more away. They gave away so much free Signature Service, that everyone else will be expected to cough up the money for the difference.
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I'm also done with giving them money, but I'm on the verge on not wanting to give them my time anymore either. I love wildstar, but its not the only mmo out there. Maybe a week of fallout 4 will help.
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Tera, SWTOR, Aion, WoW, DC Universe, Secret World, Final Fantasy, Skyforge, Archeage ...
 
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7p to remove runes, 35p per piece. *cupcake*that. This is going to be signature/veteran players soon. 
 
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. . . Trove? 
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No burnout here :)  We got System Daemon's down to 20% last night, so having a blast. We're all very excited!
 
Been enjoying gearing up my second slinger, and having another option to raid on a slinger as the opportunity arises.
 
Also enjoying the world bosses and other new things. Basically, still behind on TWD cause I'm playing too much WS!
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			Sandbox is my thing.  They've done a few things with it - there's an AH you can access from anywhere, and PvP and a raid instance, and you can buy the classes with one of the gameplay currencies now.  It's still terribly shallow compared to W*, mind you.	
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			If we are to speak about winter coming. Here in north of sweden I spotted a wasp outside yesterday. A wasp in november is not a common thing tbh. So it has been pretty warm up here. Think we will get minus degrees celsius this weekend, so winter might be coming. I don't mind having a long fall though, I just want snow during week christmas - new year and outside of that I manage just fine without it =)	
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There was a lot of painful rolling of slots for plat initially, but now I've been using the tokens and it hasn't been to bad. I think eventually peolle will start having an abundance of tokens, and that will make life easier.
 
Course, it helps that I don't care about cosmetics :P
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Just know that the 2nd pillar phase is a dps race, so split your dps accordingly and push it as fast as possible.  Pushing it faster allows more dps time on boss before going back down :).  Just have to time it right with the dc's.
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			manged to farm hoveboard from 0 to 500 shade silver in one day. Dinged two levels so I am now 48. Yay!	
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Where do the wasps go when it's so cold?  :(
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If we are to speak about winter coming. Here in north of sweden I spotted a wasp outside yesterday. A wasp in november is not a common thing tbh. So it has been pretty warm up here. Think we will get minus degrees celsius this weekend, so winter might be coming. I don't mind having a long fall though, I just want snow during week christmas - new year and outside of that I manage just fine without it =)
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We actually got down the 2nd pillar phase very fast with time to spare- it was a missed wipe on one of the daemons and the upload/download mechanic that people weren't ready for that wiped us. I mean, really, we hadn't talked much about that area of the fight, since we hadn't actually GOTTEN to the 2nd pillar phase before.
 
I was planning to just go for a full out burn after the second pillar phase- is that too optimistic? Do we need to go down and deal with the adds?
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LoL, GW2 and Trove are my current options apart from WS. I myself wasnt obthered by those rune troubles everyone seems to be having but still according to what sort of players are complaining (not just the usual whieners but actually players I know are aware of real issues) I canceled my subsribtion too. It was no matter since majority of us have it subscribed to january but still... carbing is CUPCAKing in their own nest. Who wants too much ends up having nothing or so the proverb say..
 
And I really dont need to pay 15 bucks per month to hill out on my house plot.	
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Happy almost end of day!
 
Wow late post. Super busy, but I just needed a moment to escape from work for a few minutes.
 
Holy crap, I saw some screenshots from the PRT with the Winter Event... OH GEEZ IT LOOKS GREAT. I've never actually been excited for a Winter event in an MMO before now; I feel like a kid at Christmas getting an N64 and Mario Kart.
 
Tonight will mark me dragging my flu-ridden *cupcake* through the Shade's instance a few more times for a few more 'doswer statues. But then it's back to my regularly scheduled programming; my Engi is 44 and I have to say the rotation has really smoothed out, I am loving it. I mean, who doesn't love lasers from space on demand?! Back in Malgrave with him, which is not exactly high on my list of 'awesome zones' only because I find the quest chains break down easily in terms of it being clear were to go. Not that I am against exploring (which I definately did, and enjoyed in Malgrave), but wanting to complete everything 'in order [of level]' makes me mentally catalog what I think I should be doing... Malgrave made that tough. Maybe I'l just hang out at the beach party for a while. :lol: Personally I enjoyed Wilderrun a bit more- I also really like the Osun areas.
 
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I like snow and sunshine, but all I'll get this year is probably more cold and rain. Vancouver is some depressing BS. 
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Happy almost end of day!
 
Wow late post. Super busy, but I just needed a moment to escape from work for a few minutes.
 
Holy crap, I saw some screenshots from the PRT with the Winter Event... OH GEEZ IT LOOKS GREAT. I've never actually been excited for a Winter event in an MMO before now; I feel like a kid at Christmas getting an N64 and Mario Kart.
 
Tonight will mark me dragging my flu-ridden *cupcake* through the Shade's instance a few more times for a few more 'doswer statues. But then it's back to my regularly scheduled programming; my Engi is 44 and I have to say the rotation has really smoothed out, I am loving it. I mean, who doesn't love lasers from space on demand?! Back in Malgrave with him, which is not exactly high on my list of 'awesome zones' only because I find the quest chains break down easily in terms of it being clear were to go. Not that I am against exploring (which I definately did, and enjoyed in Malgrave), but wanting to complete everything 'in order [of level]' makes me mentally catalog what I think I should be doing... Malgrave made that tough. Maybe I'l just hang out at the beach party for a while. :lol: Personally I enjoyed Wilderrun a bit more- I also really like the Osun areas.
 
 
 
I am afraid I do not know what you are talking about, winter in Vancouver is lovely! Grey, wet, foggy, it's great. Not to mention with PDT ending, I can wake up and go home from work in the dark. What's not to love? :P (I actually do enjoy it, but I can definitely understand why some people wouldn't.)
 
At least the mountains have some snow though, maybe skiing this year? *fingers crossed*
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We actually got down the 2nd pillar phase very fast with time to spare- it was a missed wipe on one of the daemons and the upload/download mechanic that people weren't ready for that wiped us. I mean, really, we hadn't talked much about that area of the fight, since we hadn't actually GOTTEN to the 2nd pillar phase before.
 
I was planning to just go for a full out burn after the second pillar phase- is that too optimistic? Do we need to go down and deal with the adds?
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