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YAY! WINTERFEST IS HERE!! Today is for hot chocolate, peppermint sticks and little buttery cookie-cakes!
 
I got up a little bit early, just so I could log in and soak in the splendor! Everything is all snowy and gift-wrapped and brightly colored and YAY! WINTERFEST IS HERE!!!!
 
Going to do my best to plow through this work day, so I can get home and start my adventures in gift-giving and commercialization!
 
So, post your thoughts, feedback, wishes and impressions for all to see!
 
Have a great day, Nexus! I'm cranking up the Bing Crosby and Perry Como today!
 
 	
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Logged on about a minute before it all hit.  Regular old illium, then it started to snow, lag, then the magic happened.
 
I LOVE IT.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
my internet has been dyign all night though, so still haven't gotten through the expidition, but im excited to try it out.  the little bit I was able to play put a huge grin on my face.	
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Did the Shiphand with 2 other persons. The different tasks were fun, but the Shade's Eve Shiphand was (IMO) better. Gold rewards are easy to achieve and while you don't get as much Cold Cash for finishing it, I still got the Papa Phineas Chest Piece on the first run.
 
Prices for Mount Parts, Costume Pieces, Toys etc. are reasonable and easy to achieve. Daily Quests are similar to Shade's Eve Quests with a Christmas theme. Thayd is filled with people. Snowtron-Smash was a Lagfest, but still nice. (Hit Player-controlled Snowman to get Score or control one by yourself until you're hit for a Cold Cash reward)	
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Illium is gorgeous! So happy so happy so happy...  (bouncing around like Agnes from Despicable Me)
 
Too bad they decided to turn on on the event 2 hours before scheduled maintenance. What a mood kill. WTH am I supposed to do now?
 
 
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Did the Shiphand with 2 other persons. The different tasks were fun, but the Shade's Eve Shiphand was (IMO) better. Gold rewards are easy to achieve and while you don't get as much Cold Cash for finishing it, I still got the Papa Phineas Chest Piece on the first run.
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I'm looking forward to actually do this event, I will unfortunately not have much time to enjoy it to it's fullest.
Probably have like only two or three days time to engage in it's activities :/
 
But I've been doing my best to not get spoiled by posts on Tumblr, forums, youtube or reddit, so I'm really curious what will be waiting for me in the event. Even avoided the live-streams to not get any leaked material.	
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Gold medal easy with 3 people, I take it? It was hard solo. What are the requirements for Gold anyway - is it complete all optionals/timer, or is there room for error like in Shade's Eve (shaded doesn't matter as long as fountain timer is met)? I ran it twice, once on each faction, and could only achieve Silver.
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Merry Winterfest all! =)
I'm loving the little I've seen so far. Will do my best to get some pieces of costume, need to put housing items on the side this year.
I haven't tried the dungeon, will see if I can try after work doing it alone... I'm maxlvl this time while I wasn't during shade's eve. Hopefully it will help =)
 
I noticed the snowglobe hamsterball mount, but I can't see it in vendor or in store... am I missing something? Would really like to get hands on that one	
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Morning folks!
 
We were originally scheduled for a GA farm run (Pure Major foci, yo) but apparently we had enough of the DS crew available to hit System Daemons so we did.  Since my back was bothering me I was considering bailing but since it was "only" GA it wouldn't matter if I was at the top of my game or not :lol:  Popped a couple Advil and put on my tanking pants.
 
We had a couple of new-to-the-fight people along and it took us a few more pulls than we have been getting it in, but things are getting super clean.  Heck we almost had the challenge too.  Next time!
 
Then I went and did something unusual for me, I logged out and went to bed.  I think the extra rest did a world of good too.  While the muscle pull is still sore I can bend more without the nerves screaming.  While there's nothing scheduled not sure how much of Winterfest I'll get to tonight.  Going to try to convince myself to go to be early again :ph34r:	
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Aaaaah and here I am waiting for students to be done with final exams so I can grade them. Dx Gah, wanna play! So excited!
 
Here, have some random Anne sketches I did last night:
 
 
 
			
				
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OH MAH GAWD, THE FORUMS ARE BACK!!!!
 
Man, I actually had to do actual work there for a couple of hours.	
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I raided last night!  So at least one thing went as planned though I was a few minutes late because nap + food seemed like good ideas.  Sadly the only light armor that dropped was the 120 glove token, pistols I already have, and a healing piece or two (bleh healslinger?  no thank you...) so I couldn't whine and try to sucker my guild into giving me all the loot.  Though it's not like I would have really tried anyway.
 
Waiting for the Wintersday patch to finish up on my end then I'm going to go run around Thayd.  I didn't explore everything on the PTR like I did for Shade's Eve mostly because I forgot.  Looking forward to new, shiny, pretty things to ogle.	
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I raided last night!  So at least one thing went as planned though I was a few minutes late because nap + food seemed like good ideas.
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Good morning/afternoon all, 
 
Logged in to try out the new winterfest event and its a mixed bag for me. So I shall get the good out of the way Thayd looks amazing and im loving all the snow scattered all over the place and with it bursting full of people it is an amazing sight to see. 
 
Unfortunately the event is a bit of a miss for me, they haven't done anything with the feedback given on the candy bowl event in Shades Eve for the new microphone event. The quest tracker still doesn't list what colors you still have to collect and its a bit of a crap shoot what housing plots have the microphone but luckily someone posted a list on reddit of the different housing plots and colors so I just followed that. The main instance event isnt really my style im not into the whole timed challenges and I preferred the combat instance that shades eve had provided, there is a little combat at the end but mostly its just jumping around through hoops doing challenges. Plus my snowball challenge to put out fires bugged out and no matter how many I threw at the flames it wasn't ticking up on the tracker that it counted.
 
I also took a look at the rewards and if your into housing and decor then there is a wide variety of stuff but for me nothing really caught my eye as I don't do any building on my plots. I think I will get the mount flairs and then be done with the event, I know im probably coming across as a Grinch and I do realize I wont like every event so I will give this one a pass and check out whatever the next event is.  	
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Then I went and did something unusual for me, I logged out and went to bed.
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I know im probably coming across as a Grinch ...
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Ran the dailies for Winterfest this morning, along with the instance. A few things are definitely a challenge on your own. There are some things that are "meh", but overall it was fun!
 
Lots of stuff in the vendor too! Going to habe to figure out what I want exactly and then go from there. Kinda sad there's no hoverboard like with Shades Eve, but that's okay I'll just go all Nightmare Before Christmas on everyone ~.^
 
Now for hopefully doing the sleep thing before getting back to it later!	
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There's a Grinch at every event-unless they want cigs and wiskey....then they're just had a hard day.
 
Gonna soak in this event now; have fun!!!	
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I'm sorry your back was hurting :(  I'm glad it's feeling better. And sorry for the fakeout with GA/DS. Kindof :P
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Haha- right before you logged on, I said to the raid "sometimes things that seem good from a hospital bed don't work out in reality". I really wasn't expecting you to be there, but I'm glad you were :)
 
(And your boyfriend got a token, didn't he? Doesn't that count a little?! :P )
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Like Scarran, I'm a bit mixed on Winterfest. Illium looks cool and I love the atmosphere, and there are a lot of decor rewards on the WF vendor. On the other hand, the colours of most of the new stuff are garrish and clash (not surprising, but makes them quite useless once this event expires), while the basic housing vendor didn't get as many items as I'd hoped. Mostly they're just ice variations. It seems like the new rocks/trees aren't available through basic purchases and have to either be farmed out (I'm guessing in the new instance) or bought from the auction house.
 
So I guess in summary, I like the feel and look of things, but content-wise, there's almost nothing for me from this event. Will have to wait and see how rare/expensive some of the more useful items are before deciding if I want to bother making another winter plot.
 
Hope folks enjoy the new quests and instance, though. Also... where are the cash shop items? I expected the Protohouse FAB, Snowglobe mount, and a dye pack. :O	
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Hope folks enjoy the new quests and instance, though. Also... where are the cash shop items? I expected the Protohouse FAB, Snowglobe mount, and a dye pack. :o
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I think they're still getting the Cash Shop up to date.
 
There is NO WAY they're going to not put that stuff up. GIMME DYE PACK!!!!  (Best purchase I've made to far was the Shade's Eve Dye Pack!)
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			I just hope the Dye Pack has a good White. Greens, I have plenty. Reds, meh ... but I need some white in my life that isn't some over-priced 20 Plat Greed-Grab.	
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			I feel like 90% of the dyes I get in this game is some kind of green :/	
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I feel like 90% of the dyes I get in this game is some kind of green :/
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Or brown.
 
So. Much. Brown.
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Yea, all that brown, who loves brown?
I have got quite some blue as well, especially that primal water blue :P	
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			Rowdowers slippers  :wub:	
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Rowdowers slippers  :wub:
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Rowdowers slippers  :wub:
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GO GET YOUR FREE TURRET TOY!!!!
 
http://massivelyop.com/2015/12/16/wildstar-giveaway/
 
Do it NAO!!!! :lol:
			
				
	Edited December 16, 2015 by Tex Arcana	
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Howdy y'all! I'm amazed that these Morning Coffee posts are still going and it's awesome! I played during closed beta and remembered when these got started.
 
I've decided to come back to the game and see how the transition to FTP has gone. I need a break from the other game I've been playing as the grind is just becoming meh. And really I missed having a double jump and hoverboards! :)
 
I've convince a friend of mine to play as well so we'll be wandering our way through Nexus together.	
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GO GET YOUR FREE TURRET TOY!!!!
 
http://massivelyop.com/2015/12/16/wildstar-giveaway/
 
Do it NAO!!!! :lol:
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Omg guys, 2 different shoes with NO KNEEPADS!
 
 
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Yes. Didn't try it solo, but with 2 others, it was pretty easy. Finished every optional task with large amounts of time left, so I thought it couldn't be much worse alone. Because we didn't fail any of the optional tasks, I can't say if you can get Gold with less than that. 
 
/Edit: Did it solo one second ago and got gold, too. No Optional Task was missed. In my opinion, it's much easier, than the Shade's Eve Shiphand.
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Oh man, oh man, I want to see this stuff so bad but I have a long work day today (I work in education and my students have final exams, ugh ugh ugh) :(. I'm done in a few hours, can't wait! I want those slippers!
 
In other news, last night a few of us on Entity (Dominion) did Grendelus with the intended group size (20). In other words, we did a world boss without 50+ people lagging it out :p. Had to do actual mechanics! It was fun and we didn't wipe or anything. I really enjoy doing the fights as intended...got to do Metal Maw with a small group (17) the other day. I wish there was a way to do these instanced with just 20 people but then maybe it wouldn't be quite as casual? I just desperately want to try some of these fights with all of the mechanics. And I haven't seen poor Scorchwing do Wing Buffet since F2P! He just sits there now :p.	
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. . . I love brown!  Green too.
 
Every time I read "dye pack," my mind immediately refers to wads of booby-trapped cash.
 
Thanks for posting, Tex!  This is the first "giveaway" I've seen a third party do that didn't require some sort of social media kickback.	
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The dungeon is a bit funny =) Got the feeling of "charlie and the chocolate factory" =)
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			The dungeon is a bit funny =) Got the feeling of "charlie and the chocolate factory" =)	
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Some WinterFest fun!!
 
 	
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I did two skymall runs. The first run I missed just about every optional objective. I got 37 cold cash and a purple reward bag that gave the caroler's cap (red stocking cap). The second run I hit all but one of the optional objectives, got the achievement for a gold run ... and got 37 cold cash and a purple reward bag that gave the caroler's cap.
 
This seems odd, at the very least.	
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