132209-morning-coffee-922-the-countdown-begins

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The One Week Countdown Begins!
 
Tacos para desayuno! Chorizo, huevos, salsa y queso fresco. Muy awesome.
 
Alright, alright, alright!
 
So, here we are, with one week left until the Freebot Invasion begins! Very exciting!
 
While we're out here on the Forums, yucking it up and enjoying ourselves, the dev team is chained to their work stations, forced to perform three days of programming without even a potty break. All the while, the NCSoft Task Mistress stands menacingly in the corner, barbed scourge in hand, looking for signs of weakness in the exhausted team.
 
I don't have much to talk about today other than my anticipation of the transition. I just wish they'd drop it on us today, like pulling off a band-aid, instead of making us wait any longer. I expect the Task Mistress would end up killing some poor engineer if that happened. :lol:
 
So, are you anxious? Worried? Crabby? Concerned? How do you feel looking down the one-week barrel?
 
Have a great day, Nexus!	
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			I just came back yesterday after a year off so I'm just curious to see the changes the game have gone through and whether or not they are enough to keep a healthier playerbase/game going.	
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Currently not in the mood for Wildstar, so I'm back in the cockpit of my trusty Cobra.
 
 
 
Aaaah, Space. Can we get spaceships for Wildstar? That'd be swell.	
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I just came back yesterday after a year off so I'm just curious to see the changes the game have gone through and whether or not they are enough to keep a healthier playerbase/game going.
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I'm having a weird day, think it's nearing that time of month  :P
 
Also QQ the elemental pairs suck this week, we won't be seeing Avatus before free to play xD
 
I want this week to go by really really quick so I can work on my project for my costume contest grr xD
			
				
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
 
I am looking forward to having new people come play this beautiful and fun game! (fingers crossed that we get a lot of players!)
 
I am NOT looking forward to figuring out my gear and runes during the first few days. I have the present rune system down pat, but the new one (on the ptr) completely confuddles me. I just can't wrap my brain around it. I will figure it out, just may take me a few days. :D
 
What I am looking forward to the most, is the housing changes. I can't wait to redo my plot!! I have already begun to make some changes to the existing plot. I have been busy using Katia's Housing Addon to save some of my structures, like my tree bar, so I can rebuild them.
 
I told my hubby that I was planning on redoing my house plot. He told me to tell my guild that I will be incommunicado for 2 weeks and to just leave a message. LOL He knows me too well!! :P
 
@paashaas Welcome back!!
 
@Tex I'm still waiting on you to accept the account friend invite. Sheesh man!! :wub:
 
Have a great day!
 
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I don't have much to talk about today other than my anticipation of the transition. I just wish they'd drop it on us today, like pulling off a band-aid, instead of making us wait any longer. I expect the Task Mistress would end up killing some poor engineer if that happened. :lol:
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			I to have been gone a while and now I'm back.. had a great time this morning working on a few contracts..  I hope the game has a big revival w the new format...	
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No breakfast, only Zuul.
 
And by Zuul, I mean a cup of buttered coffee.
 
 
As for how I feel about launch: I feel like I have a project in the shop to complete before launch and I need to get on it, but keep getting distracted with fixing cars and helping family...There's always a slight wall half way through that takes it's toll, without fail. 	
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 @Tex I'm still waiting on you to accept the account friend invite. Sheesh man!! :wub:
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I to have been gone a while and now I'm back.. had a great time this morning working on a few contracts..  I hope the game has a big revival w the new format...
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			Yeah 7 days and im hyped and i still don't know if i stay Dom or go to the dirty Exile because atm most players are exile but what will happen when f2p goes live .	
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WildStar related because it's in space. :lol:	
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Mixed feelings..Few things I am not excited about (runes, unlocking gear again etc). But for the most part I am excited. We lost 6 of our raiders recently who went on to "greener pastures" so am hoping with the ftp we can recruit people and eventually fill up our ranks again.
 
I have to admit though..my guilty pleasure is fluff. I am so looking forward to the fluff! So far am loving what I have in my claims from the cosmic points and I am anxiously waiting to see all the stuff they bring in.	
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Yeah 7 days and im hyped and i still don't know if i stay Dom or go to the dirty Exile because atm most players are exile but what will happen when f2p goes live .
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WooHoo!! Dentist clean teeth!! I love it!!
 
I'm nervous over F2P  :(  I hope with all my heart the transition goes smoothly! I'm nervous about having to re-rune my gear, re-learn all the amps, figure out where to put all the inventory  :mellow:
 
Does anyone know if the stack amount is still 99 on the PTR and if it will remain at 99? Because that has me worried too.	
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Morning everyone, just got out of an engineering meeting.  Eeek! 
 
I am looking forward to F2P.  Advertising on my fb page etc.  I'm hoping to get new people in, get the old ones to come back.  I have a year sub but my friends all left because the game was a pain at end game and getting there was a chore.  I've been having fun, will even try a Draken stalker again once I don't have to go through the tutorial.  And I'll level up my cute kitty girl esper too.  I'm finally having fun with spellslinger and have spread the word.  Seems everyone I know loves the spellslinger, dual pistols ftw.
 
I believe Wildstar as a free game can succeed.  Carbine is moving in the right direction.  Tex, make sure you advertise your dominion leveling guild.  Once I can hop on Dominion side (after the F2P), I'll join. 
 
I was one of those players, who quit the game because it was a real pain to level in and all my friends said it wasn't for them.  I was the first of all of my friends to come back.  I do have one friend who won't be back.  There is too much on the screen and it is too difficult for him to see what he's doing (vision problem).  Is there any way this can be fixed for him, any options, like draw distance. What do you think?	
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Morning everyone, just got out of an engineering meeting.  Eeek! 
 
I am looking forward to F2P.  Advertising on my fb page etc.  I'm hoping to get new people in, get the old ones to come back.  I have a year sub but my friends all left because the game was a pain at end game and getting there was a chore.  I've been having fun, will even try a Draken stalker again once I don't have to go through the tutorial.  And I'll level up my cute kitty girl esper too.  I'm finally having fun with spellslinger and have spread the word.  Seems everyone I know loves the spellslinger, dual pistols ftw.
 
I believe Wildstar as a free game can succeed.  Carbine is moving in the right direction.  Tex, make sure you advertise your dominion leveling guild.  Once I can hop on Dominion side (after the F2P), I'll join. 
 
I was one of those players, who quit the game because it was a real pain to level in and all my friends said it wasn't for them.  I was the first of all of my friends to come back.  I do have one friend who won't be back.  There is too much on the screen and it is too difficult for him to see what he's doing (vision problem).  Is there any way this can be fixed for him, any options, like draw distance. What do you think?
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I'm not feeling much about it. I figure in a month, hopefully all of the hype will be over and things can return to normally (in my world).
 
Mainly, I want to see System Daemons die, and I'm mildly annoyed that this is happening during this important piece of progression that will probably set us back a bit.
 
Sunday was frustrating because we had a great groove with the add room, but tried to change things up a little (based on some feedback I was getting) and made it much worse. So we lost some time. Then we finally back into our grove to work on the pillar phases and one of our tanks had a real life super important issue come up (I know what it was, and yes, it was legit), so we had to stop an hour early. Always frustrating during progression.
 
I feel like we have the gear, the mechanics, and the strat. We've seen every bit of what we have to do, and now it's just putting it together. So having the next drop in the middle of this exciting time just annoys me as a raid leader, because I know we'll have to contended with people figuring out runes, farming class sets, people not being runed (or at least not properly) because they can't afford it, under/overtuned challenges, etc. I'm sure there will be imbalances and issues right out of the gate, I think it's naive to think there wouldn't be, but I just wish it wasn't happening at a time when we are working on this really great fight.
 
But then, there's never a good time, is there?
 
Anyway, I'm just not thinking much about it. It is what it is- in a month, we'll be back to pushing on SD and hopefully closing in on a kill if we don't have it already. For now, I'm focused on raiding tonight and blowing up GA :D	
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WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED TO THE FORUM?!?!?!  :lol:
 
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I thought it was just me!
 
Someone flipped a switch LOL	
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I thought it was just me!
 
Someone flipped a switch LOL
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WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED TO THE FORUM?!?!?!  :lol:
 
Mmm. Impact font ...
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Yeah, I kind of like it. At least it's not as monochromatic as the other version.
 
Could do without the Impact font though. It's hard to read.
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I had to go out of mobile mode to see what the excitement was about. Interesting... But omg are your signatures bright!!! 
 
Mmmm coffee... Tacos... It is bad idea to have home made tacos from your bf's Mexican mom cause you never look at fast food tacos the same after that. And can't exactly say Canada has amazing tacos at every corner to begin with. I am now a taco snob with no great tacos available *sob*. 
 
Moving on from the ridiculous first world problems haha... How do I feel about f2p in a week? 
 
Dreading. I seriously became depressed, not angry, depressed! after an hour with that rune system. I had unlimited resources and gear with 5 slots... And I was just frustrated and lost. I can't imagine doing this on my existing gear that isn't all 5 slot perfection. Might have to just wait for a guide and the rune master addon because I'm not throwing money out the window figuring out this rune system. Sigh. 
I'm still not feeling confident on where my gear will be and I am dreading that I might not have the gear or confidence in it to go into group content for a few weeks after f2p. 
Casual problems right there. 
The shop also is meh to me... Need more costumes and pets, geesh. 
 
What I am looking forward to is more people! Pugs popping and being full of newblets instead of raid geared vets. No offense but I look forward to having to discuss strats and wiping a few times. It will be fun to learn with new batches of people. 
 
I'm very meh about the class changes. From the pov of someone wanting to solo some things, the changes to the bots are pure shit but whatever. Anything to avoid OP engi cause that was just laughable back in the day. 
The raiding meta changes too damn much, good thing I didn't plan to raid. Things like "we don't want X class" or "X class doesn't bring anything" are depressing. 
 
Excited about possibly getting cool stuff in the shop.	
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Currently not in the mood for Wildstar, so I'm back in the cockpit of my trusty Cobra.
 
*snip*
 
Aaaah, Space. Can we get spaceships for Wildstar? That'd be swell.
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The raiding meta changes too damn much, good thing I didn't plan to raid. Things like "we don't want X class" or "X class doesn't bring anything" are depressing.
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Oh now you're just being a show-off, Zub.   :lol:
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By the Emperors glorious arse, this new forum design is bad. o_O That can't be intentional, the buttons are barely visible at times.
 
 
The report button is almost indistinguishable from the background for me. And using Orange for the names and the outline of the "like" thingie is a terrible idea as well.
 
/edit: The forum looks like... something I could throw together with a free forum hoster in a couple of minutes now. Dunno, the old one looked a lot more "professional" and less "lookit muh crazy fan forum for teh great gayme of woildstar lololo xDD".
			
				
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Yes, the look is great. Much easier to read.
 
But that font is way too small for these old eyes!
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Ya'll clearly have no taste >;(
 
/edit: Seriously, this strains my eyes just looking at it. The blue is way too bright and the black way too dark.
			
				
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This is exactly why I hate the idea of meta AND the people who cling to it in nearly every game. Freaking power gaming cupcakes. It's not enough to have a good time and if you make the content so everyone can play, then they get fussy because it's too easy.
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To be fair, for some people the challenge of the content IS the good time. Wildstar drew a lot of raiders because it promised its raids would be tough. I know that I personally enjoy the fact that I have to put in some effort during boss fights, and I can't just afk, eat dinner, and come back to find the raid finished for me.
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Ya'll clearly have no taste >;(
 
/edit: Seriously, this strains my eyes just looking at it. The blue is way too bright and the black way too dark.
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Ya'll clearly have no taste >;(
 
/edit: Seriously, this strains my eyes just looking at it. The blue is way too bright and the black way too dark.
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The style, I like.
 
The font, font size, and overall coloring needs an upgrade.
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To be fair, for some people the challenge of the content IS the good time. Wildstar drew a lot of raiders because it promised its raids would be tough. I know that I personally enjoy the fact that I have to put in some effort during boss fights, and I can't just afk, eat dinner, and come back to find the raid finished for me.
 
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			I'm probably in the minority here, but I kinda wish the forum would disable poster's ability to change the color of their text.  Because people who use it usually don't take into account the different color scheme for mobile devices and then make eye-scratching posts :/	
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I'm probably in the minority here, but I kinda wish the forum would disable poster's ability to change the color of their text.  Because people who use it usually don't take into account the different color scheme for mobile devices and then make eye-scratching posts :/
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			All I'm hoping is that the influx doesn't break the servers too badly, and that a few of the lingering patch issues get fixed before it goes live. I'm already counting on next Tuesday being a wash as far as raiding goes, what with everyone having to re rune their gear as best as they can and redo their amps and abilities while contending with the uptime issues that I know will be present.	
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That's all lovely but... Meta in this game is ridiculous.
 
I wanted to level a Medic healer. Oh no, medic healers are useless, spellslinger or esper only.
Oh I wanted to play medic dps, oh medic dps is crap, get out of here.
Honestly... Just can't keep up with the BS and just made it very unfriendly to want to get into dungeons or raids.
 
I'm still bitter lol a year later.
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Medic healer is a lot harder than esper or Spellslinger with very few tradeoffs. We can take more hits thanks to medium armor and we don't have focus issues (which will change with the f2p patch). Aside from that it is incredibly difficult to heal a raid when they are spread out, which is why we usually stick to tanks. Some fights like limbo are very difficult as a medic, but not as bad with SS or esper.
 
Edit - and I should add that the "don't make everyone stack on the medic" goal of group buffs is basically a "let's keep medic healers as tank heals only" goal, although I doubt anyone at CS thought that far out. 
			
				
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It's strangely amusing that the class that quite literally has "healer" in its very name is apparently the worst at healing :X
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			It's strangely amusing that the class that quite literally has "healer" in its very name is apparently the worst at healing :X	
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It's strangely amusing that the class that quite literally has "healer" in its very name is apparently the worst at healing :X
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"Medic" is just the worst name they could have gone with. Medic implies HEALING, not any kind of DPS. Our "Medics" should really have been "Technomage" or "Operative" or something generic like that.
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I think it was an attempt at humor and not taking itself seriously. "Lets have a class called medic that shoots people with paddles".
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I think it was an attempt at humor and not taking itself seriously. "Lets have a class called medic that shoots people with paddles".
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			Is medic good for healing small group content though?  I love medic but keep deleting them because I have a spellslinger and an esper.  Might just do one for small group content.	
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Well we also heal. I think the idea was to make us a dot based healing class, but somewhere along the line that changed to what we are today. The class is still a lot of fun, that's why I play it instead of my esper and instead of leveling a SS. But it definitely suffers from a lack of clear design or understanding of its mechanics.
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			I should have just waited haha. But unless I'm mistaken then a big part of the medic dps theme was that radiation is used for medicine but can also fry you. Ipso facto: gamma rays, quantum cascade, Et al.	
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Is medic good for healing small group content though? I love medic but keep deleting them because I have a spellslinger and an esper. Might just do one for small group content.
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I'm the opposite of Jeff in that I tried to level one several times and couldn't get into it haha.
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Same here. My problem with Spellslinger is really very simple.
 
The basic Interrupt skill doesn't work like any other interrupt in the game. It not only moves you THROUGH the target and out the other side, but you're facing the completely wrong direction and have to re-orient yourself before going any further. That, all by itself, is why I have made and deleted more Slingers than any other type of toon in my MMO history.
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Eh, either that or just make it so the mobile version only shows a colour that works. Shouldn't be too hard to do.
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Same here. My problem with Spellslinger is really very simple.
 
The basic Interrupt skill doesn't work like any other interrupt in the game. It not only moves you THROUGH the target and out the other side, but you're facing the completely wrong direction and have to re-orient yourself before going any further. That, all by itself, is why I have made and deleted more Slingers than any other type of toon in my MMO history.
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Just lookit all the new posters in Coffee today!
 
So exciting!
 
And thanks for the update on Slingers. I am squatting on a name Dominion-side and fashioned him as a Slinger, but maaaaaaan ... I've tried SO MANY TIMES to even make it to level 20 and so far, no luck. I just keep making it to like level 14-15 and then deleting them.	
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			If you haven't had luck in the past, don't bother- lol. There are already soooo many slingers, at least in my experience. I've only had three raiders switch mains, and they were all from slinger because we just had too many (I think at one point we had 9 raiding slingers, and that was after one had already switched- that lucky guys got two tokens on his warrior first week he raided, and more the next week, all while the slingers he left behind rolled against four or five others). Perhaps it's me, the market is saturated. Not that you do group content much anyway, but I'm just saying :)But, for my money, spellslinger is the most fun class I've ever played in an MMO (which isn't saying too much, as my experience is only WoW, and SWTOR, but it sounds impressive to say).	
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"Medic" is just the worst name they could have gone with. Medic implies HEALING, not any kind of DPS. Our "Medics" should really have been "Technomage" or "Operative" or something generic like that.
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			I like spellslinger, lots of fun now that I did some research and know that the elite needs to be popped all the damned time.  I actually like all the classes except warrior.	
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Holy moley!
 
FOUR PAGES OF COFFEE!
 
When was the last time that happened? On a barely-there topic?
 
Nice!	
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I hated warrior dps at launch, but I've really been enjoying it recently. And I've always enjoyed warrior tanking, even when it wasn't very effective.
 
And I'll have to admit, using T8 whirlwind may be dumb, but it sure is fun :)  And very OP on Ohmna adds.	
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Let's be honest here, it mainly happened because we were bitching at the new forum layout :P
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Holy moley!
 
FOUR PAGES OF COFFEE!
 
When was the last time that happened? On a barely-there topic?
 
Nice!
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Holy moley!
 
FOUR PAGES OF COFFEE!
 
When was the last time that happened? On a barely-there topic?
 
Nice!
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Well, it helps that the forum is so broken that general is about the only thing I can get to on the forums :D  Ironically the thread for discussing the forums was moved to off topic and I can't figure out how to get back to it :P
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			Either way, I'll head to bed now. My sleep cycle is once more boringly normal for european standards. *sighs* Barely 8pm!	
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Well, yeah a little, but also we had like three or four new posters, plus we've shifted topics like five times.
 
I'm calling it a win. :lol:
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I'd play a tech priest. Glory to the Machine God!
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I'm still sad that there won't be a warhammer 40k MMO. Oooh... or a singleplayer RPG, done like the Inquisitor tabletop RPG. =][=
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I'm pretty happy with engi to be honest. I think for my style only medic works to heal because I love esper but I hate those single target heals. And spellslinger hasn't managed to jive with me... Tried one for a few levels and was a bit bored. 
 
Also doesn't help that Mechari can't be esper. 
 
I miss healing. I do not miss the pain it is to level 50+ on priest in Tera, but I miss healing. Been playing games that are not Trinity or WildStar the single person rpg lmao.	
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I never post in Coffee threads, time to start :). I'm mostly excited about F2P. I have a few friends that are returning or trying out the game for the first time and more people to play with is always a good thing. I also never got attuned but might finally do it in F2P since it's much, much simpler. Believe it or not, I struggled with Pyralos, because my computer HATES that huge tower in Wilderrun. Wilderrun always lags for me (only zone to do it) and the top of that tower is nearly unplayable. I'm also really, really excited to see the new world boss fights (I haven't checked them out on the PTR so they'll be brand new for me), holiday events, and new silly vanity stuff (that I don't go out of my way for but secretly love, ha).
 
The stat/rune changes worry me a bit, it'll probably take me forever to redo my runes and figure out which stats I need to focus on. I'm sure the new stats are fine, I'm just really used to the old system and it was never confusing for me. I'm also kind of bummed out about Contracts, it looks like the rewards just aren't as useful (going by PTR). I'm also not a huge fan of the new Challenge system but I honestly didn't do Challenges that often so it's alright :p. Overall, though, I'm excited, especially about playing with old friends who had quit last year.
 
The best part is that lots of people are going to be learning veteran Dungeons for the first time. This allows me to blend in and learn them without annoying people too much :p.	
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So, are you anxious? Worried? Crabby? Concerned? How do you feel looking down the one-week barrel?
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So I asked earlier about the stack size for F2P. When I was last on the PTR it was a stack size of 99. As in, 99 fire runes or 99 cloth.
 
Anyone know anything about whether or not that will remain??	
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But, for my money, spellslinger is the most fun class I've ever played in an MMO (which isn't saying too much, as my experience is only WoW, and SWTOR, but it sounds impressive to say).
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I'm pretty excited about the f2p launch. hopefully it gets nexus as busy as it should be.
 
On a side note: what happened to the forums? It's like someone barfed over-saturated colors on everything then slapped a bunch of black everywhere to make it "edgy" or something e.e	
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Only takes a few hours to get an alt to 14!  Then a few minutes to copy your plot over with the upcoming KBT :)
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not that anyone will ever get to see it because screw you no cross-faction housing... 
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Doesn't help for rp. :(
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So I'm finding the threads from returning players to be very... interesting. Particularly the "is this the live client" type stuff, and the "can we start playing f2p early" or "will our characters copy over?"
 
Honestly, the game was done-zo without f2p, but I'm wondering how things will look when the launch hits. Hopefully the servers won't crash too much and the gear issues will get fixed, and then I'll consider it a success.	
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