TharpDaddy
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Seems fairly split. We have an NA PvE Dominon guild and an EU PvE Exile guild set up already. I imagine other server/faction combinations will pop up though.
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Seems fairly split. We have an NA PvE Dominon guild and an EU PvE Exile guild set up already. I imagine other server/faction combinations will pop up though.
Same for EU. I don't really care if it's Exile or Dominion but I think most people are going / prefer Exile so
honestly, with circles in this game...there's barely any point in a proper guild for something as casual and social as the gaf setup.
jaundicejuice
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So far Medic and Scientist seem to be my go-to class and path. Now I just need to figure out which faction and race I want to play as. So far it's not the furry things. The Mordesh look neat but not having to play with Aurin might be a strong push to play Dominion.
Well my thing is just wanting to be able to party with majority of GAF, so i'll just take a wait and see for now.
Also hope people talk about in general chat too / out in the overworld areas. One thing I don't like about modern mmo attitudes is that most people seem to just talk in their guild channels and that's about it these days.
Speaking of: How does fighting another enemy someone is currently engaged with work if they aren't partied with you?
Also hope people talk about in general chat too / out in the overworld areas. One thing I don't like about modern mmo attitudes is that most people seem to just talk in their guild channels and that's about it these days.
Speaking of: How does fighting another enemy someone is currently engaged with work if they aren't partied with you?
Yeah I don't see how the circle thing helps tbh. And you can kill mobs people are already attacking and it counts for you
You'll both get credit but it scales the completion % you get based on damage.
So if 1 mob usually gets you 8% completion for X quest when you kill it solo and I step in with my big D damage you might get 2% while I get 6% etc.
texhnolyze
Banned
What do yo mean by completion %? Quest progress?
Chatting while playing and having a place to ask questions and stuff is pretty valuable.
Yeah, quests in this game are always % based so that different levels of contribution or different difficulty enemies will give you differing percentages of completion. IE: instead of 'kill 10 dudes' it's 'kill dudes' and it might take 10 of the standard ones, 5 of the big ones, or 20 of the tiny shitty ones.
How does it not help?
We can either have 4 guilds, or 2 circles, obviously the 2 circles are going to be more active. Yeah you might not be able to group with everyone if they're on the other faction, but you can chat and you can stillgroup with as many people as you'd be able to in a guild.
In fact, you have MORE access because a circle doesn't prevent people from joining other guilds. A common issue in these kinds of MMO guilds that we have on Gaf is that anyone that wants to be more hardcore (the gaf guilds never are) is invariably NOT going to join the guild and not be part of the community. Wow gaf is scattered accross the world, GW2 and FF14 gaf both have tons of people that play the game but aren't in the gaf guilds. I'll join the guild, but if I start playing seriously there's almost 0 chance I'm staying there, but a circle has no opportunity cost for anyone.
That's what alt tab and gaf is for! x_x
texhnolyze
Banned
Indeed.
Perhaps people are fed up with world chat due to trolls, and stick to smaller channels like guild/clan chat instead. Some chat activities are still happening in lots mmo though, generally newbie questions and answers.
I see.
That's a nice change/addition to the questing system.
texhnolyze
Banned
Yeah works pretty well. The only letdown is how inconsistent Wildstar is with quest item pickups/drops in group environment. For some quests everyone gets credit while others force every group member to complete their own. Was really frustrating when leveling with friends.
Yeah AFAIK guest passes given now should cover people all the way into F2P.
Resident4t.
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They said there is a huge update going out on Monday. Anyone know at what time the update will be pushed out? I'm copying the files from a friend since I have shit internet, but I would rather copy over the whole thing fully patched.
jaundicejuice
Member
I know it's probably outdated but this class overview has me considering rolling an Esper instead of a Medic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSsE6_tcK94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSsE6_tcK94
I've been playing on and off for the past few months on NA PvE Exile. I'd love to join a GAF guild if someone created one.
texhnolyze
Banned
Well, I can imagine that. Yeah, that doesn't sound too god.
Nice!
Thanks for the heads up. I guess you can safely copy the client if you can play the game right now. Just don't delete it from your data transfer device so if there were indeed a huge patch today/tomorrow, you'll only need to update from the device and overwrite it to your PC. I'm copying the game to my USB from my office laptop as well, as I also have shitty internet at home.
jaundicejuice
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIuRoGiHlTE
Holy shit, there's an actual in-depth character customisation system. I realise this is probably pointless because after a while you're going to be covered head to toe in gear and won't see a character you spent an hour or two fidgeting around with but I actually appreciate this as someone who likes to create alts.
Holy shit, there's an actual in-depth character customisation system. I realise this is probably pointless because after a while you're going to be covered head to toe in gear and won't see a character you spent an hour or two fidgeting around with but I actually appreciate this as someone who likes to create alts.
Esper definitely seems like the most interesting class to me.
Esper is very flashy and very easy to enjoy early on. It's the opposite of spellslinger who all its spells look the same at least early on. Medic is also flashy, but not as much.
Might backtrack on my healing plans and play a engineer, I'm a pet fanboy anyway, and those healing stories from earlier scared me lol
Might backtrack on my healing plans and play a engineer, I'm a pet fanboy anyway, and those healing stories from earlier scared me lol
jaundicejuice
Member
I don't enjoy tanking, melee classes or incredibly long queues in the finder or trying to start a pick-up group for dungeons and raids. So that kind of leaves me with healing. You can rely on being needed if you're playing solo off and on.
Engineer is super fun, but the pet aspect isn't anything major, realistically it just means you deal with stupid AI from time to time and that you just use your bot attacks on cooldown. Artillery bot is a bamf though.
You can have two tho!
Edit: I could just play Esper or even medic dps tbh. I really like the Medic spells and as far as I know it can do fine as dps, especially for normal dungeons and solo stuff which is most likely as high as I'll go
I've done a lot of research on the healers and it doesn't seem like that's something that really happens. Especially not with medic, because medic is the only class that can heal shields, so they are very desired for main tank healing especially.
pretty much this... our two medic healers both mostly tank-heal for raids, though we have so many healers we all have to rotate between healing and dps somewhat
all classes seem pretty capable though, I tank heal occasionally as a 'slinger, and one of our tanks' regular healers is an esper... worth trying them all out, but you should be happy whichever class you pick (though one of our esper healers doesn't seem at all happy about the changes to his class come f2p)
GwyndolinCinder
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Do we have to download a different client than the "open beta client" for the f2p release?
Enter the Dragon Punch
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Yes. Go to the main site and download the retail client.
RedSparrows
Member
Aye. In my raiding experience we'd use the three different healers as we used the three different tanks: it depended on the fight and who was playing. All are viable, some more suited to certain types of healing and fights than others.
That said, in 20 man I'd often DPS if we had an overdose of healers, and on another night someone else would DPS instead of healing, which I'd take. It pays to practise both aspects of your class, and to get gear for both.
TharpDaddy
Member
I wouldn't opposed to going Exile if there end up being faction transfers in the in-game store. At this point though I have way too many costumes and housing things to abandon my Dominion character. The Neo Empire guild also has some money and items in the guild bank, as well as guild levels. Someone with an established character on the Exile side would need to make the guild as it will take a bit of time for a fresh character to reach the point they can do so. Should we create a google doc to see who wants to go what faction?
TharpDaddy
Member
Nothing! What's your character name? If you're online I can jump on real fast and invite you
Edit: Oh wait, servers are down now aren't they? I'll have to invite you when they come up tomorrow. New launcher looks nifty.
Yeah everything is down now, sadly.
My char name is Blutarch Mander.. wait, is this on the PVP or PVE megaserver?
TharpDaddy
Member
NA PvE.
I created a google doc for people to put their names and faction preference for those who are wanting to join a gaf guild.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WoOFeTWUR_XotOYX-WZKPkPcyp3sXImn_teWNRYDPPw/edit#gid=0
Nyteshade517
Member
go ahead and let the client patch now..it's up
it'll update the launcher then start the patch process
it'll update the launcher then start the patch process
There is no Warlock equivalent in WildStar, but the class with the most damage over time abilities is the Medic.
TharpDaddy
Member
The f2p patch has you log in on the launcher. Does this mean people won't hear the awesome log-in music anymore?
Whew, great! I'm on the PVE one.
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