115890-10-14-morning-coffee-green-eggs-and-ham-edition

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Good Morning Everyone!
 
It's Tuesday and the day before Mega Servers hit!! I am so excited to finally have us all on the same server!
 
While we all ponder what we will be doing once the servers come back up on Thursday, let's enjoy some green eggs and ham.
 
 
And of course coffee, lots and lots of coffee :)
 
Hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday!	
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I have physical therapy the same day as the mega server update.
Hurray?
 
Coffee sounds really good right now.	
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Morning!
 
*eyes the green eggs suspiciously*
 
Mega servers should make things better. I still wish we could have had an RP server.
 
I'm learning to craft! I'm doing tailoring and it's rather confusing at first.
 
Gotta run...stupid work.... 	
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Good morning, coffee people! How's the science?Nothing to report about real life. I had a peanut butter croissant with a glass of chocolate milk, which is my personal ambrosia. That's it. Nothing interesting to report.You trade Lopp, deals never flop! (or something like that)
 
In WildStar news, megaservers are coming this Wednesday. It will be nice to see people around the zones during daytime as opposed to being completely alone. However, megaservers will not fix queue times. I also learned that the itemization changes will NOT be coming with this drop and this BLOWS. That means adventure and dungeon items will be largely irrelevant until January/February just like they've been since, well, release. That was one of the changes I was looking forward to - running dungeons for loot! At the moment, I can just craft gears and move along. Adventures and dungeons are just a stepping stone in the attunement quest line. I guess I will have to find something to do until the next content patch, again. Levian Bay dailies, Blighthaven dailies and The Defile dailies + housing. This will be deja-vu all over again but at least housing with the new decor cap should prove to be entertaining for a while. Lastly, I got a new dye! Somehow! Got lucky and scored a Nova Grey dye out of a case of coordinated colors.System critical! Which system? ALL SYSTEMS!	
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
It's Tuesday and the day before Mega Servers hit!! I am so excited to finally have us all on the same server!
 
While we all ponder what we will be doing once the servers come back up on Thursday, let's enjoy some green eggs and ham.
 
And of course coffee, lots and lots of coffee :)
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Good morning, coffee people! How's the science?
 
Nothing to report about real life. I had a peanut butter croissant with a glass of chocolate milk, which is my personal ambrosia. That's it. Nothing interesting to report.
 
You trade Lopp, deals never flop! (or something like that)
 
In WildStar news, megaservers are coming this Wednesday. It will be nice to see people around the zones during daytime as opposed to being completely alone. However, megaservers will not fix queue times. I also learned that the itemization changes will NOT be coming with this drop and this BLOWS. That means adventure and dungeon items will be largely irrelevant until January/February just like they've been since, well, release. That was one of the changes I was looking forward to - running dungeons for loot! At the moment, I can just craft gears and move along. Adventures and dungeons are just a stepping stone in the attunement quest line. I guess I will have to find something to do until the next content patch, again. Levian Bay dailies, Blighthaven dailies and The Defile dailies + housing. This will be deja-vu all over again but at least housing with the new decor cap should prove to be entertaining for a while. Lastly, I got a new dye! Somehow! Got lucky and scored a Nova Grey dye out of a case of coordinated colors.
 
System critical! Which system? ALL SYSTEMS!
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Oh man, agree on the Chocolate Milk front. Cute Lopp is cute. And really? Itemization isn't coming yet? Well, damn. :( Grats on the dye! I'm still trying to get something other than "Shade of Brown".
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Morning Coffee:  Dulsao de Brasil
Breakfast:  Yogurt
 
Spent a while playing Lament last night, got her another level (slowly but surely), and added not one, not two, but THREE new folks to the roster!  And this before megaservers, no less!  (I was testing out a recruiting message for post-megaservers as a way to try and introduce non-RPers to RP/incorporate the idea that tabletop gaming is RP too and so not as frightening as one might think) - and well, guess it worked?  Now to see how activity levels remain going forward...*crosses fingers*
 
Out of game, watched some tv in the background, and trying to prep for the three-week trip to Hawai'i.  So if folks don't see me around during my normal hours as much starting Sunday, that's why - I'm six hours behind my usual time zone.
 
Finalizing some minor details for our ThaydFest contribution, prepping questions for a lore trivia contest along with an RP quest type thingamajig as well.  Stay tuned!  Should be a really good time for everyone, the whole day-long event. Looking forward to seeing how it all goes!	
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Also not much to report from yesterday, just work, work, work. Much more free time today though!
 
Breakfast consumed this morning: Brioche, philadelphia spread, milk.
 
 
Still haven't decided on surname yet for tomorrow despite making list, but am confident right one will be picked.
Going to stay hidden in house plot for a bit after server merge. Not shy! Just need to tinker with decors for bit while waiting for good time to take peek at Illium. Is just not the kind of chua to jump into crowd naked, you know?	
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Oh man, agree on the Chocolate Milk front. Cute Lopp is cute. And really? Itemization isn't coming yet? Well, damn. :( Grats on the dye! I'm still trying to get something other than "Shade of Brown".
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Still haven't decided on surname yet for tomorrow despite making list, but am confident right one will be picked.
Going to stay hidden in house plot for a bit on Wednesday. Not shy! Just need to tinker with decors for bit while waiting for good time to take peek at Illium. Is just not the kind of chua to jump into crowd naked, you know?
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You don't *have* to have a surname if your name isn't taken right? If you are the only Kagura on the server than you are fine....right?
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You don't *have* to have a surname if your name isn't taken right? If you are the only Kagura on the server than you are fine....right?
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Breakfast:  Leftover turkey, stuffing, gravy, corn and some apple pie.
Drink: Tall glass of 2% milk.
 
I've been struggling with a cold/flu bug.  I made myself a small plate of leftover Canadian Thanksgiving food which I had missed out on the night before with getting some much needed sleep.  It was all so very good the next day, especially the pie.  Let's hope I can keep it all down.  It was too delicious to say no.
 
Wildstar:  Battening down the hatches for the big server squisharoo.  No real roleplay to speak of yesterday.  I did manage to sneak a couple more plushies for supplementary swap-outs for my chess set (including a Dagun, Periwinkle Malverine and Sunfish).  But with my usual chess opponent offline until Saturday, I don't think my game board is getting much use.
 
I went fishing through my screenshots folder for a few choice images of some of the public, walkup roleplay we'd get within Thayd.  Found a couple where no less than twelve characters were playing within the Blackhoods Bar.  My hope is that with the megaservers, such continues healthily and doesn't become a snapshot I'll look at whistfully.  I'm thinking positive though, particularly with some great community contributors out there looking to host public events and keep cross-faction roleplay alive.
 
Aurin and Mordesh and Granok, oh my!
 
As insurance, like many roleplayers, I've been working hard to broaden my contact list and circles.  I've got a short list of public plots to roleplay on and I'm taking a deep breath while I wait for the hammer to drop and playing with my plushies.
 
Queue times for waiting to play chess games have been abysmally bad as of late.  Sadly, this is one fix the Megaservers cannot provide. 	
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Chocolate Milk is, as a friend of mine would put it, pretty much amazing. 
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Queue times for waiting to play chess games have been abysmally bad as of late.  Sadly, this is one fix the Megaservers cannot provide. 
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Chestnut will hate me for reminding her, but the grocery store a block from my house carries milk from a local dairy.  The kind that comes in glass bottles that you bring back for a discount on the next purchase.  And they do the most amazing chocolate milk you've ever tasted.  When she and her husband were here I think they were down there buying chocolate milk pretty much every day :)
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So, where is this place so that I might call and convince them to open something similar nearby my apartment building? There's a bakery in my building but they do not have quality chocolate milk.
 
Also, J-Tal posted interesting tidbits of information about the changes in itemization that are supposed to drop in January. It is not a long read but it would create a large quote so just hit the dev tracker.
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Good morning, all!
 
Did Northern Wastes again last night. About 7-8 more days, and I'll have that rep maxed, too. Although, for some reason I like Northern Wastes a lot better than Crimson Badlands.
 
Worked more on Scaarinen's house last night. Came up with a new idea for the tower that I'm really hoping will work, because it sounds cool in my head. :)
 
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I have physical therapy the same day as the mega server update.
Hurray?
 
Coffee sounds really good right now.
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What issues are you having with Living Stone? That was one of the ones I actually did get gold on because the quest for that area could take even longer than the challenge.
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This is awesome.  Is this your house?  You need to enter it in the housing contest if so :)
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For breakfast I was going to have just coffee, but the coffee machine at work is broke. :(
 
With Wildstar I haven't been on much lately. Just dwiddling my thumbs waiting to see drop 3 come down. I do hope for more PvPers to comeback to the game and start queueing for Daggerstone Pass again. I loved that battleground and it's rarely played. (I swear to Yog-Sothoth I can't do Walatiki anymore. I will go insane.)	
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Can't seem to kill them quickly enough. I am always short 2-3 of them even if I pull 3 at a time.
 
Northern Wastes are much more orderly than Crimson Badlands, not to mention much more compact. Everything is (relatively) close together. Plus you get to pick a reward satchel in every quest hub after the first, which is awesome.
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Morning loves.
 
Almost had a rather... interesting incident with maintenance coming into my apartment while I was going through my morning routine. Walked out of the bathroom to find a guy just sorta in the living room.
 
/facepalm
 
It could have been a lot, lot worse.
 
He looked as embarrassed as I felt.
 
Neph has me excited about getting to see all my loves on Evindra. I may sneak on tonight to craft the aurin decor goodies for Thursday (I assume that's when we'll be all together) at Thayd Fest!  I may need a list of things, which I'm sure I can find if I troll Neph again.  
 
Along with surnames, playing with everyone... I sort of wonder if I happened to have missed Bitwise posting about the changes to addons? I'd love to be able to have the same easy-breezy ability of hopping from house to house without neighboring people if possible, but I'm fairly sure the merger is going to break my addon.
 
If anyone knows, please PM me on the forums as I haven't time today to stay with this thread.
 
Love you all! Hope to see you in game this week!	
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Oh ok, so it's not buggy, just not quite making the time limit. That's fair enough. I usually got silver until I crafted my lvl 50 Epochos gear, and now it's not really a problem.
 
I do very much like that you can just pick your reward for several of the NW quests instead of having to roll for it. I also think the Kill 10 Rats quests in NW are also more reasonable in the number of things you have to kill. The Dreg daily in CB just always seemed to take forever, and the long cooldown on the laser you use on the boats irritated me a bit. Each of NW's hub's quests are also all served by killing the same mobs, which I guess is part of what you meant by compact. For example, you can finish 3 or 4 of the quests in the ice cave at the same time and then just do the drop point to finish the last one. It just seems far more efficient.
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Anyone else think that the lighting options for housing need some work? My overall impression of most of the houses I've visited is that they all seem very dark.
 
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It isn,t bugged, no. I have the majority of the pre-raid BiS gears for Espers (most are craftable or buyable) but Melee Mage just doesn't cut it. I have not tried the dungeon spec for Espers. It might deal enough damage. I think the problem lies in our lack of abilities that cause Moments of Opportunity. We have a grand total of 1 on a 30 secs (ish) cooldown.
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So I'm home today.  I'm not sick or anything, but we've had a lot of dead yellowjackets turning up next to our parlor window, and so I have to wait for the exterminator to get here so he can search the inside of our apartment to see where they may be coming from.  They're worried there might be a a nest in the building somewhere and the cold is driving them in if I've seen as many as I have.  So... burned a vacation day on a Tuesday just before the megaserver implementation.  Yay.... I think!?
 
Anyhow, I'll be in the game and playing as soon as I put away our clean laundry.  First, I wanted to check the dev tracker and saw the itemization changes had been pushed back to the next drop.  I thought, really?  Wasn't that the most important thing in the whole drop?  Then I saw this post... 
 
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Based upon our metrics, players who did any dungeon were significantly more likely to stick around.	We like how challenging the dungeons are, and would like to retain that challenge--without creating versions that trivialize it. Which is why we are working to create enough content to fill those challenge-gaps y'all have mentioned. Adventures and Shiphands (eventually Vet versions) and housing expeditions are there to help give folks content at all of those difficulty levels.	As has been mentioned, the rewards--especially for leveling dungeons--do not match the challenge they represent, so we are specifically looking to address that.
If there are any specific mechanics or creatures that you feel are too difficult or have poor messaging, please let us know and we'll look at those specific aspects of the instances.
 
Thanks for all of the continued feedback, though, please continue to do so =)
 
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People are leaving because all they know is the solo game, and they get to the end and leave without ever queueing up, PUGing, probably even guilding up.
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Damn, you got me. :mellow: Sorta. My Dominion toons were in a guild, but the Exile toon is a total shut-in.
 
In another news, deactivated sim card is such a pain to deal with omg! Talking to outsourced people drove me nuts; not because of the accents (I have no trouble with accents really), but rather the lies and misinformation. "Oh, even if you get another rep, they will tell you the same thing."  Of course, you guys are all trained to say the same damn thing, now please get me a supervisor. Then I called back and got a guy with British accent (or could be New Zealand), aaaaaand he has trouble with time zones conversion lmao. (some bullshit crucial 48-hour time limit)
 
I may have lost the number I've had for 12 years, without warning or notification. If I don't get it back, I hope it will go to a phone# graveyard, and not in the hands of some dirty pervs.
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What do you mean "trained" to say the same thing, they're trained to read the prompts on their screen, most phoneline tech support knows nothing about tech or support.  Essentially, they're just hiring people to read you what you'd read if you visited the website.
 
SIM card deactivation may have been a bit above the head of the "did you turn it off and turn it back on" crowd...
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SIM card deactivation may have been a bit above the head of the "did you turn it off and turn it back on" crowd...
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			So guys, 35 minutes until Nexus Report! I'm actually quite excited about this one. Got my questions ready to go!	
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Not doing dungeons doesn't necessarily equate to never trying instanced content. Dungeons are the fourth tier of instances, after shiphands, expeditions, and adventures.
 
From feedback I got in my Warbringer guild, people generally liked shiphands and expeditions. The adventures were generally where people stopped progressing, either because the player wasn't interested in the more involved dungeon mechanics, or because they disliked the adventures and simply never got past them. That situation got noticeably worse after the loot changes, because then everyone felt unrewarded for doing them. At that point, if they hadn't already, they didn't even bother getting into dungeons.
 
I would also imagine that a decent portion of the people who left without trying dungeons would be PvP'ers who have no interest in instances in any case. Therefore, tiered difficulty leading into instances wouldn't appeal anyway. From what I've seen, even with all of the changes theoretically included with Drop 3/4, there's very little improvement planned for PvP.
 
Of course, this is disregarding all of the people who never even made it to level 50 because they disliked the leveling process so much. Those people just probably wouldn't like Wildstar no matter what Carbine did.	
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That guy from Massively.com got his answers after writing that ragethread in editorial form last week.  Suddenly, I get why they took a while to get back to him.  The guy barely seems to know what's actually in the game; only what people outside it say about the game.  Most of this stuff obviously was said elsewhere (Hell, I answered some of these questions myself).  However, a few things perked me up reading the responses.
 
Donatelli stated the game has hundreds of thousands of active accounts, which puts the minimum number of subs in October at 200k.  In between having to tell the guy that there is, in fact, a game outside the two raids Wildstar has, we also learned that there are "aren't any current plans to change the business model."  That lets me breathe a little easier.  Also, the offer is still there.  If they definitively say they aren't going F2P or cancelling by November 3rd 2015 at least, I'll sub for a year.  Hell, I'll buy as many months as I know the game isn't going F2P.
 
Otherwise, the article just reminds me why the person who reviews FFXIV:ARR shouldn't be the one also covering Wildstar.  Can Massively not get someone for Wildstar alone, considering it has a few hundred thousand players?	
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I feel like if anything...its the bread crumbing that needs a bit of refinement for dungeons. Like quests and stuff which i think would help drag some folks in. Maybe even hav eit so the quests offer special armor models as well.
 
PvP from what I understand wont be seeing much love until next drop after or next year if i read correctly...	
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Morning Forumites,
 
In Wildstar news - Meagaservers tomorrow. Lanky's 24 characters will live on!
 
In WoW news - patch 6.0.2 today.
 
It's a good time to be playing MMOs.	
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			I think from previous TT posts they were/are planning on adding a quest to each dungeon to lead players into it.	
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			They've definitely announced dailies related to the instances. I just don't recall if it was specific to veteran adventures or dungeons.	
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I think from previous TT posts they were/are planning on adding a quest to each dungeon to lead players into it.
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Wow, they are synching NR with big content drops. :\
 
edit: NR will be replaced by weekly gameplay stream.... same day same time.	
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			Well that was a weird Nexus Report.	
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I wish I could watch nexus reports...
 
I think it'd be amazing if they did the entire thing with Lopp muppets.	
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Well that was a weird Nexus Report.
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I actually like that they're separating it into news vs. gameplay. I have no interest in watching someone play the game, so this way I'll know when I should tune in for actual updates.
 
Besides, with a 3-month drop schedule what the heck would they be reporting on every week?	
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I wish I could watch nexus reports...
 
I think it'd be amazing if they did the entire thing with Lopp muppets.
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But but.... it's TWO-HIT Tony. :lol:  Remember the KV run, guys?
Uh yea, watching someone level woud be seriously un-fun. Unless they can Lopp Muppet it or spice it up with something else.	
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I actually like that they're separating it into news vs. gameplay. I have no interest in watching someone play the game, so this way I'll know when I should tune in for actual updates.
 
Besides, with a 3-month drop schedule what the heck would they be reporting on every week?
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Oh, don't get me wrong, it's hilarious that Tony is terrible at the game that pays his salary.
 
However, I don't want visual spoilers from the PTR. That's part of the reason why I refuse to play on the PTR. I like having the anticipation and then the "Oh wow! This is cool!" moment when I log in right after the patch (that's part of the appeal of holiday events #stillbitter). Verbal spoilers don't bother me, they just give me an idea of what to expect.
 
I also prefer the verbal reports because I can listen to the verbal parts while I work, but I'm not actually watching.	
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			Nothing that wasn't already known or expected so I remain unphased. Nexus Report was strange, to say the least. Tomorrow will be a long day and since a certain game just released its pre-expansion patch, I think I will try that tomorrow. Timing!	
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Missed it while running around frantically trying to pack for trip.
 
What was strange about it?  Other than the chua wrecking the studio from last week (I didn't hear, so honestly curious, not troll attempt.)	
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It didn't last the full hour.
They didn't answer any questions.
They said/reiterated things about stuff they had already posted on the forums.
They didn't show any fan art.
They did announce a new show, same time/day, that's named Zero to Fifty. Tony will by playing the game while questions are answered from all sources. Twitter, Reddit, these forums, twitch chat, etc.
 
The only part that was good, was Mike Donatello doing his 'banter'. And Cougar being funny.
 
It was just weird. You will have to watch it to see what we are talking about.	
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			Yea Ciri, does it feel like a set of divorcing parents keeping a good face in front of their kids?	
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			I thought it was fine. I'm excited about Megaservers!	
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Wish I could partake in these reports. Oh, well I am work when it happens and luckily I can always watch it later. Or, better yet read the TLDR here to get the breakdown.
 
Rocio, I don't know if excited is the word, but I'm very ready to see the change in population. Two of my toons always had last names so it will be nice to have it in the system. I am glad to see some excitement though, things have been too doom and gloom for a while now.
 
As a goodby to Evindra I will be trying to get some play time in tonight. Hope to see some of you on.	
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Tomorrow will be a loooong day. The maintenance starts at 5am PDT which is 8am EST. I might be able to squeeze in my dailies before the servers get taken down. Once that happens, I will be bored until 6pm when I leave for the theater but everything should be in order by the time I get back at about 11pm.
 
It just dawned on me that if Thayd is not phased, my poor computer might flatout be unable to run WildStar. At release, I am pretty sure it was phased but I never paid attention...	
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It's phased :)
 
All of the zones are, I believe.	
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Well that was a weird Nexus Report.
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I'm still looking for your recap, as the official summary was pretty much a heap of PR blather I already knew about. Like bullet point for bullet point copy of text already in circulation.
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