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Yes ladies and gentlemen, if Drop 3 arrives on time, it arrives tomorrow.  O fabulous day!  But I need coffee...
 
 
This weekend was insane.  I made it online for Friday night, but we broke and slept at around midnight.  Saturday, I spent all day going over songs with my stepfather's band so I knew how to mix them that night.  I ran sound for them and their opening act at a coffee shop in Westerville.  It was just a little place I filled up with one sub and cabinet, and it didn't pay much, but it felt good to be out with a band again.
 
Yesterday, I spent the early part of the day with my wife chain-watching Orphen: The Revenge episodes (great series by the way), then jumped on the game to run my RP event.  Not sure how everyone else enjoyed it, but I had a blast on our little train set!  Thanks to Kitty for dropping in and being our impetus for design for the event and to everyone who came along for the shootout!  Rocio and Travis didn't kill each other!  Karaaga didn't kill Seeger or Travis!  Rock Salt managed to only kill the people he was supposed to kill and not bust up my datachron!  Good times were had by all!
 
 
SMILES!
 
Today, of course, is the day before the big patch.  Tomorrow begins the arduous process of furnishing and equipping the Shadowcaster, which everyone in the event got to see in its incomplete state last night (we used it to bug out!) and the equipment of last night's event is meant to arm the colossal thing.  I'll have more pictures of it later when it's closer to done.  The idea is to re-arrange the space in the cabin, enclose the forecastle, set up armaments on the aftcastle, finish building the wheelhouse, build the drop pod bay and install the AA/SA railgun we got off the Dominion last night.
 
But tonight... I don't know what I'll be doing.  What will you do on this night we countdown to Drop 3?	
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			I am looking forward... but when? Downtime announcement would be awesome.	
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I'll probably spend part of the day stacking up supply satchels in every scrap of my inventory space to open after the patch.
 
I have so many bargain hunter awesome purples with minimal/skimpy slots that it's going to take TONS of fluxes just to bring them up to the new baseline, much less get the extra slot on each of them. But after that... critters of Nexus, FEER MEH!!	
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Goodmorning Vic, glad to see you feeling better. ^_^
 
*waves to all the coffee drinkers* (btw, aren't the coffee cups getting bigger and bigger? *chuckle*)
 
I actually had a good weekend of Wildstar playing. There was enough time to do Vet.Adventures with the guild, get new upgrades of gear (but I lost the roll on a BiS pre-raid glove *sob*), and even work a bit more on my secret skyplot house-lab. Doing group content has become easier now that my healing gear is a bit better and I can almost relax and enjoy the content without anyone dying! :D
 
Wish there was a way to visit houses in the NA servers from my EU account.. that would be just brilliant.
 
Hmm.. about the countdown.. I think we are going to play as normal (maybe even push it a bit with extra time :D) while hoping the downtime will not take too long tomorrow. But yeah, we'll try to make up by getting more things done today. :)
 
Take care guys.	
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			That looks like the size of coffee cup that I require this morning.  I've been up half the night fiddling with the station stream.  We've been having DDoS attacks on the stream and moved the stream over to a new IP and server.  Unfortunately I've had to reupload the DJBot and set everything back up.  I'm just thankful that there weren't any shows scheduled for yesterday.  I got Malak to 39 last night and am gonna push him toward 40 before the servers go down tomorrow.  	
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Good afternoon Vic, and good to hear the RP event went well!
 
For breakfast, consumed shredded wheats, a cozmotronic cereal.
 
Monday always busy for me, but am trying to squash things normally done on Tuesdays into today as well. Want much free time on Tuesday. Also making sure mailbox empty just to be safe.
 
Will likely be raiding again tonight in an attempt to beat Phagetech Prototypes, a boss we've been stuck on for some time. After tonight, will be taking break from raiding so that we can go through drop 3's content. Looking forward to soaking up more lore!	
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Am I the only one who is suprised by the fact that we don't know WHEN will start this new patch ? Ok it's tomorrow but what time ???
And a previsionnal end ? When we probably can start downloading ??
 
Or maybe I missed the news but I searched in vain....
 
Ps : no patch note ?	
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Am I the only one who is suprised by the fact that we don't know WHEN will start this new patch ? Ok it's tomorrow but what time ???
And a previsionnal end ? When we probably can start downloading ??
 
Or maybe I missed the news but I searched in vain....
 
Ps : no patch note ?
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A little WS here and there.  Made some stabs at Gold STL with some friends, and then a good silver KV run.  Then we all went and played Smite as a change of pace.
 
Fire Starter Runes are obscene, just wanted to throw that out there.
 
Everyone bundle up for the Arctic Blast of November Doom tomorrow.  Stay warm.	
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Patch notes usually show up after the patch.  Time's not super important to me and I'm not that surprised.  We know the game's going to go silent for the drop in the early hours of the morning (NA anyway).
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Yeah for me it's important. I don't know if in US you have an holiday tomorrow but in EU we have, and to be honest I didn't have anything schedule xD so I do want to know the time. It's not my 1rst MMO and we ALWAYS had the previsional time few days BEFORE the patch... But it's seems anusual for Carbine...
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			Today I really needed a large cup of coffee. Left for work at 7:30, got to work at 8:30. I live 10 mins away from my office -_-. I really hate snow and winter.Wildstar wise I decided to create a new warrior, only have him be a the Mordesh master race. Gotta say I'm enjoy him more than the Granok Warrior I made. I really don't like play a giant bolder.	
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Breakfast: Boring.
 
 
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... then jumped on the game to run my RP event.  Not sure how everyone else enjoyed it, but I had a blast on our little train set!  Thanks to Kitty for dropping in and being our impetus for design for the event and to everyone who came along for the shootout!  Rocio and Travis didn't kill each other!  Karaaga didn't kill Seeger or Travis!  Rock Salt managed to only kill the people he was supposed to kill and not bust up my datachron!  Good times were had by all!
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Tomorrow we find out if my raid leader and main guild tank needs to reroll as an engineer or stalker tank instead of his warrior.
I hope he doesn't have to. But it's not looking good.	
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Rocio is more cautious than Travis. He's an Esper not a tank. And his mind can't stop bullets.
 
Sorry I pooped out right at the end. I was so tired. I've got my mom here and we spent all day together. Plus, it takes forever for my brain to adjust to time changes. I hate any sort of change. Spring forward fall back... it all amounts to my being exhausted and unable to function.	
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			They said long ago that review and fixes for the support roles (tank & healer) would come after Drop 3. There shouldn't be new reasons to start a fresh tank tomorrow that don't exist today.	
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I had a small idea about a doodle given the upcoming content tomorrow. It did not take long to paint it but it was fun!
 
Provided everything goes to schedule, wishes for a happy new drop to all the Wildstar capcakes!!!
 	
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I had a small idea about a doodle given the upcoming content tomorrow. It did not take long to paint it but it was fun!
 
Provided everything goes to schedule, wishes for a happy new drop to all the Wildstar capcakes!!!
 
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They said long ago that review and fixes for the support roles (tank & healer) would come after Drop 3. There shouldn't be new reasons to start a fresh tank tomorrow that don't exist today.
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God day all,
 
Took the day off sick today so only a small cup for  me today.
 
 
Maahes made it to 46, only 4 more....lol. At the speed I level drop 4 may be here first. Honestly there is so much to do that I take forever. Oh and all the RL stuff gets in the way too....	
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Good morning, everyone!
 
The weekend was relaxing, which was nice for a change.
 
 
As I mentioned last week, I crated Scaarinen's house and started fresh with the same general concept, but with more knowledge of the decor items that are available. I think the thing I like most about the Chua houses is that the pod-based design with the open space underneath the pods offers a lot of possibilities for spaces that none of the other houses have. Unfortunately, as fun as those spaces are, they're cramped, so taking advantage of them is tricky. I did manage to make a space surrounded by force fields that reminds me of the translucent hamster tubing, which made me happy.
 
It's also fun finding decor pieces that the game doesn't consider lights, but still have glow effects that can help illuminate things. I also realized that scaling lights up also scales the area of their glow effect (logical, but I never tried it before). I think my biggest complaint about most houses is how dark they are, which is a direct result of such a small limit on lights. So, I'm trying to work around that limit with the non-light objects that have glow effects.
 
Honestly, I agree with everyone who's been saying that housing is their end game. I'm fighting boredom with just about everything else, but housing has kept my interest.
 
I have a fun idea for a jungle-themed Eldan temple, but it doesn't seem suitable for a Dominion character. Unfortunately, the idea also requires decor that's restricted to level 50 (why, Carbine, why?). Seeing as how cross-faction alts aren't getting any love, it'll be a long time before I get to try that idea out. It also requires the hatch option for the house itself, so yay for Drop 3! I also have an interesting idea for my Engineer's house that I will be working on after Scaarinen's, as he's the next character I'm leveling up.
 
I'm up to 90-ish survivalist neighbors now. I think I'm going to have to switch off auto-accept for neighbor invites for the time being. It's taking me over an hour to gather from that many plots. I'm running out of TV shows to catch up on. :P
 
The other big thing was that one of my alts purchased an unused guild from one of my neighbors, so I now have two guild bank tabs of personal storage space. Woohoo! Moar hoarding for meeeeee.
 
I hope everyone's having a good day so far.	
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Wildstar: Missed my goal of getting Kitty to 45 on what was supposed to be a relaxed weekend.  RL events took a larger chunk than expected but got to see Big Hero 6 (aside: I'm digging Fall Out Boy's "Immortals").  The movie was cute.  I liked The Incredibles better but BH6 has its charm.
 
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Morning/afternoon/evening all
 
After a week or so of lugging boxes up and down stairs, I am all moved into my new house and slowly getting my life back to its normal pace - which is to say work, wildstar, sleep :P  Comcast actually came through and I had internet pretty much the instant I got things put together here (color me shocked) so I was able to jump in on some things over the weekend with the guild.  Last night we were one signup short for our vet dungeon run, so instead of sending two groups in, we sent one group in, and I took the other group along with one of our newer players who had never seen it before and did Skullcano.  THAT was a ton of fun - I think of all the dungeons I love Skullcano best, mainly because of the voiceovers for Tugga, Octog, and Mordechai.  That's a dungeon you just *romp* through.
 
 Our group in vet STL got farther than we've ever done before - they had Stormie at 17% more often than not but we still haven't beaten him.  It's ok though, at this point we know our strategy is solid, and it's really just practice and execution.  If it wasn't hard, it wouldn't be as much fun or as sweet when we finally do get it down :)
 
This week looks fun.  I'm technically not working till Thursday, although I'll probably have to put an hour or two in each day so that Thursday isn't a total suck-fest.  But even with all the unpacking and stuff I'll be doing here at the new house, I should have plenty of time to play Wildstar.  I can't wait to see the Defile, and as usual the Daggers' calendar has a bunch of stuff on it, although we're slacking off a bit with the lead-up to the holiday season starting, and people having to drop out for weekends to do family things now.	
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Finally got my Metal Monday done on Canadian doom metal band Woods of Ypres.  It's a very personal band for me, and a review I've been sort of putting off for a while until I figured I could handle talking about them.  I feel better now that it's out of the way.  Hopefully I can do something a little lighter next week.
 
I also have a basic design for the new cabin and forecastle, so hopefully, this will work out.  I really can't wait for the blank housing plug in hopefully the next patch, since masking the damn housing plug into the Shadowcaster is a complete pain in the cupcakes.	
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The weekend was vet adventures, adventures and more adventures. 
 
Guild made a go at vet STL yesterday, but i wasn't able to get in at the start. Someone had to drop though, so they brought me in as a reliever. It was my first time, and they were already at the final boss. I don't know how many attempts they had already made, but we made close to 10 I'd say. Our tank who's actually completed it before said our DPS was lacking, and we weren't getting thru the phases fast enough. So we disbanded and went back to vet adventures hoping for gear.	
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Well, I've done my chores for the day and am now settling in for a night of checked impatience. :P   I think I'll keep trying to farm a bunch of renown for music/other unlocks... if any Doms on Entity want a healer for vet Crimelords farming, I'm your man!... er, mechari. Female. Or something. 
 
Just look up Proxima Dust. ;)
 
 
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I have a fun idea for a jungle-themed Eldan temple, but it doesn't seem suitable for a Dominion character. Unfortunately, the idea also requires decor that's restricted to level 50 (why, Carbine, why?). Seeing as how cross-faction alts aren't getting any love, it'll be a long time before I get to try that idea out. It also requires the hatch option for the house itself, so yay for Drop 3! I also have an interesting idea for my Engineer's house that I will be working on after Scaarinen's, as he's the next character I'm leveling up.
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Our tank who's actually completed it before said our DPS was lacking, and we weren't getting thru the phases fast enough. So we disbanded and went back to vet adventures hoping for gear.
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Vick, none of the decor level restrictions should apply, the 'required' part is a bug/misleading. Only FABkits actually require a given level, so far as I've seen; I've used level 50 decor on my level 20 alt plenty of times.
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Yes, you can place the mailbox before lvl 49. I didn't realize the bug extended to all decor, though.
 
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Vick, none of the decor level restrictions should apply, the 'required' part is a bug/misleading. Only FABkits actually require a given level, so far as I've seen; I've used level 50 decor on my level 20 alt plenty of times. Also, I don't think the hatch is coming in drop 3, though I haven't seen a confirmed date one way or the other so could be wrong. But I don't believe it was on the list of housing stuff Enki described last week.
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 :blink:
 
It looked like a crow or raven to me...
 
It's a Rorschach! :D
 
EDIT: I thought your post said bunny or cow...lol. So much for reading quickly.	
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			It's a chua.	
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			Draken Loremageddon was posted and I have to admit that they are undeniably the coolest, sanest and most attractive race of the Dominion. :D	
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OH. I meant to mention earlier that I also got the bugged Aggregor achievement over the weekend. Woot!
 
Hooray for being the first person out of 20-some to tag the jerk. :P	
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Hahaha! The Mordesh is missing from the Draken Relations page.
 
Exile: You kill our stuff! I kill you!
Aurin: You don't kill stuff! I kill you!
Granok: You kill stuff I kill stuff! Lets kill each other!
Mordesh: You're dead! I kill- no wait... I kill... no... wait... grr hang on...	
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I really like that the Draken refer to the Mordesh as "the Bloodless."
 
What an epic nickname for a race.
 
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RavenousA Mordesh infected with the Contagion. Both an adjective ("The Ravenous Mordesh are not to be taken lightly.") and a noun ("The Ravenous are coming. Hide!.")
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One thing I've noticed healing on this fight: There's less movement required than it seems. A lot of DPS waste time running around, but thinking proactively with a solid strategy can bump up DPS quite a bit, so you don't have to farm optimized gear all day. I burned through a pug run with some dudes who just blew the fight up, and while they had good gear I'm pretty sure it had a lot to do with their incredibly fast response to phase changes and persistent DPS up-time.
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Can't tell if bunny or crow...
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			The lamers who sabotage gold tree runs needs to die in a fire strain.	
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New thread is up. 
 
:) 	
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