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I'm closer to half a century than to 1/4 century. Stop worrying about getting old. Makes the rest of us feel ancient. :P Oh and: Happy Birthday (on friday the 13th... o_0)


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Having now tried an Engineer, I can say two things: Your pets are barely pets (they're sort of mini-helpers whose natural help is far dwarfed by the activated ability they leave on your bar) You don't even need the bots to be effective Give everything a whirl. Let your mind go free, my brother. I love my warrior, even though it's a lot different from the arms warrior I played in WoW.


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That's okay, hipsters often can't grow beards. That's why the other half of the hipster crowd that can have to go full lumberjack to make up for them.


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Hey, I'm on that train that the normal and vet content was very casual-accessible, but Datascape? Datascape had #hardcore all over the video. It's why people came. Not weird at all that it was too hardcore for the modern raider. Apparently, people forgot that hardcore raiding comes with hardcore drama and hardcore scheduling and hardcore logistics.... etc.... And DS is HARD, a real glass-cutter. We'll probably see Avatus dropping to guilds like Diplomacy soon and it'll hopefully be on farm by the time the new raid is released with Drop 5 (tentatively). New itemization makes gearing, especially for the slew of DPS you need, a lot easier, and attunement's been made a lot easier since you left (including the inclusion of a 100% drop called a Pristine Genesis Key from Ohmna, which completely skips it, meaning raiding guilds can very quickly attune alts). Drop 4 is going to probably grease those wheels. But no, I've seen Datascape videos (it's the one thing I'll actually watch on Twitch besides 0-50). Datascape doesn't joke around. It's the endgame raid, and it's harder than anything I've ever seen in an MMORPG. And I played FFXI, EVE, and raided the old 40 man content in WoW. Datascape's the creme de la creme. I'm looking forward to getting attuned one day and seeing the inside. Feida and his merry men in the Veil have offered to work with us in our alliance with BDS in case anyone wants to be attuned and work on some raids. I'm still deep on my housing and not even through attunement on Seeger, but reports are that Datascape is about the same level of difficulty, if a bit easier with the logistical issues and half the chances of someone screwing up (with half the players). It sounds like fun!

Yeah, Datascape but a massive lead wall in between the men and the boys when they talked about hardcore raiding. I think people got a pretty big dose of reality when it comes to 40 man groups when they started trying to field a team that large. And, honestly, I don't think anything I ever saw in my 40 man days in WoW was in Datascape's league.


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You know, I never thought of it that way. Leave it up to Tex to come back and insert rationalization in my game! :huh: EDITED: because Vic and Plasma pretty much said it all.


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Unfortunately, we can't drag them back, kicking and screaming, to show them how it is now. I had several people, I have played games with for the past 10 years, who started playing on release with me. They all lasted about a month. I am the only one left. I know how you feel. I bounced around a little till I decided to join the Blazing Saddles. Now I have found a home. I just wish I could make people see the game from my eyes. *shrug


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It takes a community to raise a guild. Cerinde came into the guild not really knowing how to move forward. Don't let her fool you, she's been on a massive recruiting drive ever since and has been a huge member of our little community herself. While I've been trying to find enough time to play just to work on the Shadowcaster, she's been out there running content, keeping everyone engaged. Vanica has also been a huge help. Khandi's been extremely active herself all over the forums. Mythilt's been willing to run just about anything, his level nonwithstanding. The entire guild really tries to be helpful, gracious, and welcoming because we all know it will come back to us in the end when we are. I mean, Cerinde was just a person in Coffee who needed a guild. A little kindness and an open hand in this game can net you one of the best officers a GM could ask for. Sometimes it does mean my attunement will take longer because I don't focus on it. And I've run a LOT of normal STLs, KVs, and Hycrests. I run a lot of Nurseries I don't need and Black Focuses I've already completed. There are two things, though, I don't think everyone understands. First, doing that has made a lot of people's gaming experience better, and that is a kind of feeling you can only get from having probably developed the content people enjoy. I feel like part of a development team, sometimes, it's very gratifying knowing that I'm essentially part of the content. The other is that, it doesn't matter if I don't need it. One of the deep abiding lessons of this game is that 50 STL runs in a row with the people you love to run with is better than a single run of something you need with four strangers, even if you win. The latter is just another link in a chain, part of a grind, while the former has been an absolute pleasure every time we run. I don't think I can get this anywhere else. I've certainly never had a guild operate this much like its own little community before. It's just been absolutely worthwhile to be around with everyone. In any case, one major thing it's done is make a lot of the more common criticisms of the game far less relevant for me personally. I'm not often worried about dungeon queues or not getting people for world content. We swap AMPs, decor, and schematics freely, so I rarely even drop by the CX anymore to buy anything. I'm never alone in the game world, never far from someone who wants to go out and do something. I guess you could say the community makes this game great, but then again, it's an MMORPG. I daresay that, instead, this is how a game community should be in an MMORPG. It's the communities in the other games I played that weren't what they should be. All I can hope is that, through determination, continued development, and better news, Wildstar will build on that foundation. God only knows Timetravel's been very vocal lately about upcoming PVP changes and he seems pretty serious about making it all work. I mean, if PVP gets a shot in the arm the way the casual PVE scene got one from Drop 4, I think this will be Wildstar's year.


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They are not around so far as I've seen. Typrop started another guild called Red Bastion and that lasted a few months, but Ty left not that long ago and I haven't heard anything about RB since then.


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Yes they did. And, I feel you on the City of Titans thing,

I was a city of villains beta tester. Hmm she looks familiar....hmm who could it be?


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