119937-121514-morning-coffee-the-insanity-continues

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It's a war out there.  Have breakfast.
 
 
So, yesterday.  Yesterday turned into some real insanity.  I played almost all day with my wife, and we just 100% cleared Galeras.  You know what's better than having a wife that plays Wildstar?  One that shares your passion for clearing EVERYTHING!  She had to get off to write lesson plans, and the plan then was to join Carshe out in NW for dailies.  However, I happened to drop a guild spam recruitment message that got the best kind of response!  I had a great conversation about guild conditions with a potential recruit representative who turned out to be one of the more pleasant people I've met through those messages.  Normally, guild recruitment returns shrapnel, and I keep kicking off discussions about Mel Brooks, mostly.  But no, completely productive discussions with completely decent people!
 
Poor Carshe eventually had to do the dailies solo, though.  It took a while.  Still, one of those things about being a GM that must be done (and one I'm not usually particularly good at, so I try not to waste the opportunity to actually try to tell someone about the <Blazing Saddles>).  Wife logged back in and we finished up crafting.
 
I know Carbine tends to take a drubbing even from its fans, but let me say, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU FOR CHECKPOINT FLAGGING DATACUBES FOR SCIENTISTS!  After my wife, who was using it, logged off, I jumped on Nightengale Donne to try it out.  It made getting Datacubes in Whitevale so much easier.  Also, thank you, Carbine, for the new goofy smileyface on the minimap for players.  It seemed like such a small change, but keeping track of party members in open world, as we were doing in Galeras to clear some of the late stage group quests, is a lot easier.
 
We did run into a bug with Doomthorn (yeah, we put together a Doomthorn raid) where we weren't getting the achievement , but we did kill two Doomthorns in a row.  Then a third spawned.  It was a little intense; and I'm assuming that's not how it's supposed to go.  Still, it was an entertaining bug!
 
And, of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't thank Carshe for coming along on that fool's errand, as well as Khandi for rolling to do the shiphand with us, then coming along as we did circles in Galeras quests mowing down primes and rares.  That was a blast!
 
Not sure what's on the docket tonight, but I'll see you all in Nexus!	
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Breakfast: Nature Valley Blueberry Breakfast Biscuits, Milk (no chocolate), soon to eat a Banana
 
What I Wish I Had for Breakfast:
 
 
This weekend was a lot of fun with gaming. First, I have to pimp out the Lifestyles of Nexus II competition (which everyone should go check out--you can win cold hard WildStar cash!). It's obligatory! Saturday into Sunday the Daggers ran a boatload of Veteran Adventures to help gear newer 50s up to start running Veteran Dungeons, as well as running some normal Skullcanos (es? s?) for folks that had never run it before (plus, it was cool to go do a dungeon we don't do very often). Sunday a few members put together an ESPer Pow-Wow to help folks learn more about their Espers for both DPS and Healing, and then we got two groups together for Veteran KV! Oh, and dailies and Aggregor with various guildies. :)
 
It was definitely a busy gaming weekend. :) It was lots of fun. It was definitely exciting, but it isn't much to write about in details, haha. At least for today.
 
Tonight's WildStar plans include a guild PTR Night, as well as some dailies with some guildies on live later on in the evening.
 
On the real life front--I started a new job about a month and a half ago, which has taken some adjusting to, and I finally got a work around so I can access the official forums again! Hurrah! So I'll be back to morning breakfast, which I'm happy about. I've missed it. :)
 
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1 apple was breakfast today. Sadly I have no appetite!
 
In the game I'm just having too much fun RPing to even do dailies. Why is this game so awesome to RP in? I don't know!	
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Breakfast: Nature Valley Blueberry Breakfast Biscuits, Milk (no chocolate), soon to eat a Banana
 
What I Wish I Had for Breakfast:
 
 
This weekend was a lot of fun with gaming. First, I have to pimp out the Lifestyles of Nexus II competition (which everyone should go check out--you can win cold hard WildStar cash!). It's obligatory! Saturday into Sunday the Daggers ran a boatload of Veteran Adventures to help gear newer 50s up to start running Veteran Dungeons, as well as running some normal Skullcanos (es? s?) for folks that had never run it before (plus, it was cool to go do a dungeon we don't do very often). Sunday a few members put together an ESPer Pow-Wow to help folks learn more about their Espers for both DPS and Healing, and then we got two groups together for Veteran KV! Oh, and dailies and Aggregor with various guildies. :)
 
It was definitely a busy gaming weekend. :) It was lots of fun. It was definitely exciting, but it isn't much to write about in details, haha. At least for today.
 
Tonight's WildStar plans include a guild PTR Night, as well as some dailies with some guildies on live later on in the evening.
 
On the real life front--I started a new job about a month and a half ago, which has taken some adjusting to, and I finally got a work around so I can access the official forums again! Hurrah! So I'll be back to morning breakfast, which I'm happy about. I've missed it. :)
 
 
It's Monday! It's War! The image is quite appropriate. 
 
Sounds like you and the wife had an awesomely fun and productive gaming day yesterday! Those're always the best. :)
 
I just recently discovered the joys of having Datacubes on my map on Friday as I was leveling a new scientist toon. I was SO. FLIPPING. EXCITED! They stay up after you find them, too. :)
 
I've done Doomthorn a few times, now, and still have yet to get the achievement off of him. I think it's bugged, because some guildies *do* get the achievement when we kill him. I keep putting in a bug report each time, so hopefully it's on the table to fix. :)
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Figure I may as well poke my head in here. With the semester drawing to a close - students taking their exams tomorrow, and then I just have to grade and get all those fancy averages submitted - my WS time is about to skyrocket... for a couple of weeks at least. xD Looking forward to maybe hitting 50 on my warrior alt. Yesterday I finished Wilderrun, and she's 42 now.
 
The problem will be getting through today... feeling extremely nauseous, but... my students need me. @.@ First kid in half an hour, so hopefully it subsides by then. Urgh.
 
Once this is all over, winter break will be filled with roleplay, WSing, and WS roleplay.	
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Chua not had Breakfast today.
Busy, Busy, more to do!
Chua busy collecting special sticker for transport device. Apparently needed for transport devices out of country too.
Chua family visiting, so needed sticker to place on windshield of transport device.
 
Chua also think getting sick.
Exhaustion from LARP + cold weather make Chua weak and sick.
Then again, LARP worth it, Chua many many fun.
2 new entries on Blog to read, new entry next weekend for final play!
 
WildStar being good too!
Chua and guild one-shotted Kuralak. Seems team getting better now at killing.
Chua tweaked tactics.
 
 
Chua also convinced sacrifcing Cassian to Chua gods helped.
Chua do reseach and see if more Cassians bring more shinies!	
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Breakfast: sausage and apples
Coffee: office mystery brew
 
Game time: shipbuilding again!  Friday I discovered that you can type numeric values in for the pitch, yaw, roll, and coordinates, and it blew my mind (and wrecked every inch of the ship I'd already built).  No more jiggling handles trying to true up décor items, HOGOD.  So now everything I had built has been realigned, and it looks so much better!  The contest has given me a target date for completion, so once the corridors are installed I'll finish one compartment at a time so it's fit to show even if it's not finished.	
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Well at least there's coffee. Life seems to be imitating art as I've been feeling kinda off all weekend.  My main is sick IG.  My motivation to do content has taken a skid (still need to do Omnichore-1).  On the flip side the Exile War Memorial RP event on Entity was fantastic and as mentioned above Kitty's dealing with Hug-bola or Nexus Flu (link for the morbidly curious).  How the heck does somebody with Strain-resistant nanites succumb to this sort of illness?  That remains to be seen :ph34r:.  I did finally get around to setting up a tank spec and ran CB & NW dailies to practice it.  Still seems a bit clunky and stuff... dies... soooooo... slooooooow... now.
 
Caught up with Seegar on Saturday night and managed to clear some old 5+ missions out of my log :lol:. I really need to hang out with those guys more often.
 
Tonight I have to deal with an every other week errand so probably won't get to OC-1.  What I do will depend on who's around.  Kitty will be more or less pathogen clean but will be dealing with an immune system trying to make up for lost time.	
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Morning all, hope you're well and good job Olivar and kin.
 
Red Bastion did our first vet run together of war of the wilds and tempest refuge, both went rather smooth but that silly level requirement of WotW caused us to get bronze first time around(which honestly makes me go "ugh I'm being punished for over-performing...").I was really happy to introduce several people to them since they'd never stepped foot into anything but riot in the void prior to that. They seemed to have a lot of fun and that made me happy as I love teaching people new stuff(and learning as well myself) and looking forward to doing more. 
 
This time of year gets a bit busy for me as I get a bunch of "hey can I get X painted as a xmas/hannaka gift for Y" in addition to sending out thank you letters to clients. However chipping away at recruitment and our guild website in between all of it with varying degrees of progress.
 
RP wise I find myself doing "artisan" role play a bit more lately. It started out as a commission, but then it turned into a small little event with a few others and hosting a drawing class(that was an in-game and out of game workshop), which...sadly ended with a Chua having their back broken. Typrop got a little too enthusiastic posing the Chua for her class and forgot her own strength...
 
I might do that type of stuff more as it was fun for a bunch of people who were in-game and those who were watching via stream.
 
Outside of Wildstar HEX had a launch party/tournament event for shattered destiny and was a lot of fun meeting new folks and also seeing a few of the illustrations I did be part of the game. Though I'll admit it feels awkward to be defeated by a card you made, yet awesome when a card you made destroys others XD	
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Well at least there's coffee.
 
Life seems to be imitating art as I've been feeling kinda off all weekend.  My main is sick IG.  My motivation to do content has taken a skid (still need to do Omnichore-1).  On the flip side the Exile War Memorial RP event on Entity was fantastic and as mentioned above Kitty's dealing with Hug-bola or Nexus Flu (link for the morbidly curious).  How the heck does somebody with Strain-resistant nanites succumb to this sort of illness?  That remains to be seen :ph34r:.  I did finally get around to setting up a tank spec and ran CB & NW dailies to practice it.  Still seems a bit clunky and stuff... dies... soooooo... slooooooow... now.
 
Caught up with Seegar on Saturday night and managed to clear some old 5+ missions out of my log :lol:. I really need to hang out with those guys more often.
 
Tonight I have to deal with an every other week errand so probably won't get to OC-1.  What I do will depend on who's around.  Kitty will be more or less pathogen clean but will be dealing with an immune system trying to make up for lost time.
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Rocio and the Kits also have hugbola. Rocio has been chased from his home. His six month old kit is starting to manifest Esper abilities. What's a 6 month old Esper with a fever do? Cry. In your brain. So Lamaya Silverroot is caring for herself and the youngsters. The nanites are fighting the illness so her own immune system is asymptomatic.  Only problem is, she's stuck in stealth. After the kits' fever broke she left them in the care of the Wildseed Matria and went out to a dojo that Rocio recommended. She was horrified to see all these people punching each other.
 
She almost gave up, thinking she didn't have any fight in her.  But she tried to picture something that made her angry: A motorcycle being ridden through her flowers.  
 
She punched the target dummy through a wall. Nanite assisted of course.
 
Suki Stillriver made a killing selling her green tea elixir and is reinvesting in much needed repairs for her house.
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Yay Chestnut made it back into the thread! :)
 
Now we just need more Daggers here :P  But soon enough.
 
 
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Red Bastion did our first vet run together of war of the wilds and tempest refuge, both went rather smooth but that silly level requirement of WotW caused us to get bronze first time around(which honestly makes me go "ugh I'm being punished for over-performing...").I was really happy to introduce several people to them since they'd never stepped foot into anything but riot in the void prior to that. They seemed to have a lot of fun and that made me happy as I love teaching people new stuff(and learning as well myself) and looking forward to doing more. 
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Yay Chestnut made it back into the thread! :)
 
Now we just need more Daggers here :P  But soon enough.
 
 
 
We get bronze nearly every time we do vet WotW because we're too fast.  Last time we tried leaving the other side with a couple of totems and going for the shrines while we waited - but after the second shrine our Skeech overwhelmed them and got into their base.  So, yeah.  Bronze again.  I wish vet mode were more like normal mode with all the additional control points.
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Morning all, hope you're well and good job Olivar and kin.
 
Red Bastion did our first vet run together of war of the wilds and tempest refuge, both went rather smooth but that silly level requirement of WotW caused us to get bronze first time around(which honestly makes me go "ugh I'm being punished for over-performing...").I was really happy to introduce several people to them since they'd never stepped foot into anything but riot in the void prior to that. They seemed to have a lot of fun and that made me happy as I love teaching people new stuff(and learning as well myself) and looking forward to doing more. 
 
This time of year gets a bit busy for me as I get a bunch of "hey can I get X painted as a xmas/hannaka gift for Y" in addition to sending out thank you letters to clients. However chipping away at recruitment and our guild website in between all of it with varying degrees of progress.
 
RP wise I find myself doing "artisan" role play a bit more lately. It started out as a commission, but then it turned into a small little event with a few others and hosting a drawing class(that was an in-game and out of game workshop), which...sadly ended with a Chua having their back broken. Typrop got a little too enthusiastic posing the Chua for her class and forgot her own strength...
 
I might do that type of stuff more as it was fun for a bunch of people who were in-game and those who were watching via stream.
 
Outside of Wildstar HEX had a launch party/tournament event for shattered destiny and was a lot of fun meeting new folks and also seeing a few of the illustrations I did be part of the game. Though I'll admit it feels awkward to be defeated by a card you made, yet awesome when a card you made destroys others XD
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Is the WotW trouble because you finish before the optional objectives pop? 
 
Got the honey bee world boss over the weekend. While i was waiting in Wilderrun for a summon, i was looking thru my achievements and realized there's a ship hand mission i haven't done. The boss took forever and over half the group bailed before we finished.	
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Is the WotW trouble because you finish before the optional objectives pop?
 
Got the honey bee world boss over the weekend. While i was waiting in Wilderrun for a summon, i was looking thru my achievements and realized there's a ship hand mission i haven't done. The boss took forever and over half the group bailed before we finished.
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My problem with the optional objectives that Breeza sends out is that they're often counter to what you're actually doing.
 
For example:
 
- We've taken all but two of the enemy totems and Breeza says:  "Hey go get three enemy totems."
- We'll be in the middle of a fight down one on side of the map and Breeza says:  "Hey go kill this particular Dominion NPC waaaaay on the other side - in three minutes."
 
Essentially, the only reliable way I've seen to consistently fulfill those objectives is to grab 4-5 totems and then sit there and hold off the attackers and wait for the objectives to appear.  Basically, stop trying to win.  It's... boring.
 
On the other hand, if they added the additional totems that are in normal mode back into vet mode, suddenly the adventure becomes much more complex, and many (though not all) of those optional objectives would become more viable and fun to complete.	
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For my group the issue is the "levels" aspect.(which i hate)
 
One of a couple things happen that cause us to get bronze:
We forget about the levels thing(because it's not really touched upon and quite...forgettable unless someone goes "what level is everyone!?"
The skeech overwhelm the other team so much that we can't get leveled up due to champs...just not being around.
 
The objectives tend to be easy for us and we rarely have issue with it unless something is wrong like the NPC being targeted was already killed and we have to wait for the respawn of said NPC, though I'll admit it fels like you're being punished for performing well in an awkward way. As Nephele pointed out what we do is we cap 5, wait for objective...do objective cap 10 do second and wait again(we've had 2 cap 3 totems in a row before lol). That forced waiting just doesn't feel right...	
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My shameless self plug for the week if anyone is interested ^^
 
 
 
 
Remember that ship I posted on yesterday's coffee? Here's the rest of it.
 
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/119928-custom-spaceship-galens-insight-warning-many-many-many-pictures/	
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			I've got this morning's coffee! (that is unless someone else is posting?)	
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