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WildStar: Reloaded |OT| Full Steam Ahead!

So close to being done with work! Ready to hop back in since last night servers were down. See if I still get lucky with the queues like I had been earlier.
 
The whole point of this launch is to attract new users with their f2p model. Stick me into another 1 hour+ queue and I'll be gone forever. I'm sure I'm not the only new user thinking this.
 
racketpunch said:
The whole point of this launch is to attract new users with their f2p model. Stick me into another 1 hour+ queue and I'll be gone forever. I'm sure I'm not the only new user thinking this.
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The huge queues are understandable for me day one, the fact that there seems to be no activity on the PvP server kills it for me.

I want to play this game, but having to choose between a PvP server and end game content is not a choice I want to have to make. =/
 
TharpDaddy said:
I've been in queue for about 20 minutes now. It started at 1:20 wait time now it's down to 34 minutes. I don't think the timer is very accurate.
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After 15 minutes or so, it's down to 3000. From 2 hours to 40 minutes left.
Yeah, it's not accurate at all.

Rhaknar said:
not only do I not think thats true, just the fact that subs have to wait at all is ridiculous. How are companies STILL not prepared for these relaunches, in 2015, is beyond me
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It's normal.
I've already played some F2P premium games with queue (ArcheAge, Blade & Soul, etc), and early days are always like this, even for premium players. They made people think that premium players will be able to skip the queue so everyone is getting it, and this is the result. Usually it take a week or a month until everyone can play without queueing.
 
I don't know how much longer I can stomach the lag. Makes the game unplayable for me.

Anyway. I'm still on my Mordesh Medic, Nikola Kasparzov. If anyone is on in the Exile guild, please shoot me an invite!
 
I remember my times in B&S China. Free players had to queue for 6 hours to get in lol, while premium ones took an hour or so. And they had like 20 servers or so at the time. While in ArcheAge NA, it took 2 hours to get in for premium players at peak hours.
Queue is a good thing, people are coming.

Enter the Dragon Punch said:
WildStar Operations ‏@WildStarOps 27s27 seconds ago
We'll be taking down NA MegaServers for a quick maintenance in 10 minutes. Estimated downtime: 15 min http://ow.ly/SOXZ5
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Nice, at least there won't be a queue for a moment after the maintenance.
 
I'd just gotten into my first instance when they announced maintenance. But it's needed... the lag in there was actually far worse than I was experiencing out in the world.
 
Rhaknar said:
Warrior - the standard warrior class, uses a 2handed sword but can tank. Has a wrist wepon that shoots grappling hooks and shit to pull enemies

Stalker - the stealth / rogue class. Can also tank

Engineer - the pet class. mid range dps or tank. can have 2 pets out, uses a shotgun

Spellslinger - the mage of the game, although its more of a cowboy. uses 2 guns and has a variety of shots and stuff, charge shots, aoe shots, etc. Heals by shooting people if you go healer.

Esper - the second healer, uses psychic manifestations as attacks and heals, such as psychic birds, knives, blades etc. Can also summon temporary psychic pets (which go away after a few seconds, not like the engineer with its permanent pets)

Medic - the third healer, uses 2 guns and does a variety of matrix-y / tech looking spells both to attack and heal. Dont let the name fool you, they pump out serious dps if you go that route

as you see there are no pure classes in the game, every one can be either a tank or dps, or a healer or dps
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Intriguing. I'm tempted by Stalker, Engineer, and Medic. I'm not generally interested in healing classes but the Medic seems pretty sweet (I'm a sucker for dual-wield guns). Thanks for the descriptions!
 
I was just in the middle of trying to create a character when I got the notification about server maintenance. The create-a-character stuff is pretty robust and kind of nice.
 
Do taunts work in PVP? Please say yes.

I don't get how SWTOR is the only MMO ever to make taunts work in PVP. In SWTOR taunted enemies deal less damage to everyone but the tank that taunted. Should be a staple in every MMO.

EDIT: I know a couple of others have done it before.
 
Spiritreaver said:
Do taunts work in PVP? Please say yes.

I don't get how SWTOR is the only MMO ever to make taunts work in PVP. In SWTOR taunted enemies deal less damage to everyone but the tank that taunted. Should be a staple in every MMO.
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Taunts lower the damage of enemies in PVP on everyone but the taunter. So, yep, exactly like SWTOR.
 
Medic had a very nice flow and aesthetic when I played it at launch. Also, it was nice to have a healing class that was practical and wasn't based around religion or nature like every other game ever made.

I just liked having a healer that wasnt deeply stepped in magic. Magic is fun, but it runs amok so hard in fantasy games that it can be hard to appreciate. Instead more practical classes are oddly what become novel.
 
AmethystEnd said:
Gonna be jumping in as soon as this install is done. NA PvE Exiles, right?
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The servers just went down for 30+ minute maintenance but yup NA PvE Exile is one of the guilds.

Yushi said:
your spamming 1 till you are done with the game . I'm not joking too.
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You won't get very far in any sort of group or instanced content if you're just spamming 1. Doubly so if you're a healer, that'll send you out of focus pretty fast.
 
Details on the current maintenance:

Very shortly we're going to be bringing the servers down for another hotfix. We think that this may help to improve our queue times. Our plan is to first try this on our NA servers, and if it works as planned, we will follow up with the same fix to our EU servers. Expected downtime should be approximately 30 minutes but we'll keep you updated if maintenance is longer or shorter.

Again, we're sorry for the inconvenience and getting you back in game and experiencing all that Nexus has to offer is our highest priority.
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Hope it works!

source
 
I think I'm starting to rethink esper for healing just because of the number of targeted heals and how much targeting is weird in this game compared to other MMOs. And you can't eve do mouse over healing in this? The only reference I found for that is the grid addon which is no longer updated.

Does anybody here do high level esper healing? Just curious about how cumbersome the targeting actually ends up being.
 
Information on what they are doing on this downtime, should help Queue times.

Hello All –

Very shortly we're going to be bringing the servers down for another hotfix. We think that this may help to improve our queue times. Our plan is to first try this on our NA servers, and if it works as planned, we will follow up with the same fix to our EU servers. Expected downtime should be approximately 30 minutes but we'll keep you updated if maintenance is longer or shorter.

Again, we're sorry for the inconvenience and getting you back in game and experiencing all that Nexus has to offer is our highest priority.

Thanks,

Team WildStar
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Damn you Tharp!
 
Quonny said:
Yup. Get a mod for that ASAP. The default party UI is dreadful.
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I've heard a lot of good things about Wildstar's dungeons/raids, and what I played Fragment Zero before the servers went down was fantastic. But yeeesh. Fixing that UI should be priority #1 for the development team.

Definitely gonna grab myself an addon once I can get back on. ForgeUI looked really good, a lot like WoW's TukUI/ElvUI.

Also is there any mouseover support/addons for healing? Would be nice.
 
Aeana said:
I think I'm starting to rethink esper for healing just because of the number of targeted heals and how much targeting is weird in this game compared to other MMOs. And you can't eve do mouse over healing in this? The only reference I found for that is the grid addon which is no longer updated.

Does anybody here do high level esper healing? Just curious about how cumbersome the targeting actually ends up being.
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I was a Esper healer main. I never did raids but I never ran into issues with targeting people. I think I used that Grid addon or something like it, but I also did it the old fashioned way of clicking on portraits for a lot of the time. For what it's worth, I really enjoyed it.
 
Aeana said:
I think I'm starting to rethink esper for healing just because of the number of targeted heals and how much targeting is weird in this game compared to other MMOs. And you can't eve do mouse over healing in this? The only reference I found for that is the grid addon which is no longer updated.

Does anybody here do high level esper healing? Just curious about how cumbersome the targeting actually ends up being.
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Yeah, I've found Esper healing pretty rough so far. Hopefully there are some addons that remedy the issues I have with it.
 
Kade said:
Yeah, I've found Esper healing pretty rough so far. Hopefully there are some addons that remedy the issues I have with it.
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Esper healing is very hard early on. You need to be able to choose your spells accordingly otherwise you're putting yourself oom incredibly quick. Unless they've changed it drastically since I leveled on release then Esper only starts to really come together as a healer in the later levels.
 
Aeana said:
I think I'm starting to rethink esper for healing just because of the number of targeted heals and how much targeting is weird in this game compared to other MMOs. And you can't eve do mouse over healing in this? The only reference I found for that is the grid addon which is no longer updated.

Does anybody here do high level esper healing? Just curious about how cumbersome the targeting actually ends up being.
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Back at launch I was an Esper healer, did all the heroics.

Unless something has changed, Esper healing is mostly about using 1-2 frontal abilities, then using the points you accrue to either do a burst of healing to your group, one member, or put up a HoT. The only real targetting you do as an Esper is your Banner heal, which is a burst heal, and the Phantasmal Armor, which is a shield.

It was challenging, but I wouldn't say it's any more challenging than any other healer. And Esper has some of the best "oh shit" heals in the game.
 
TharpDaddy said:
I was a Esper healer main. I never did raids but I never ran into issues with targeting people. I think I used that Grid addon or something like it, but I also did it the old fashioned way of clicking on portraits for a lot of the time. For what it's worth, I really enjoyed it.
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The addon situation for this game is really weird right now. There's great sounding addons out there but they were abandoned long ago when people quit playing the game. I sure hope some of the better ones get revived.
 
TharpDaddy said:
Esper healing is very hard early on. You need to be able to choose your spells accordingly otherwise you're putting yourself oom incredibly quick. Unless they've changed it drastically since I leveled on release then Esper only starts to really come together as a healer in the later levels.
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You just described medic :p

I think healing is just hard overall in the game. They did just change up the order of some spells and opened up the skill slots (you have all 8 slots at lvl 10 and you get 3 support spells unlocked at level 6 for example). Also don't forget that like dps, you should experiment with different spells and choose the ones that fit your playstyle. There's alot more heals than you can actually use between the stuns that even as a healer you should have, some sort of escape etc.
 
Aeana said:
The addon situation for this game is really weird right now. There's great sounding addons out there but they were abandoned long ago when people quit playing the game. I sure hope some of the better ones get revived.
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Are the abandoned ones incompatible now or something?
 
Sophia said:
I've heard a lot of good things about Wildstar's dungeons/raids, and what I played Fragment Zero before the servers went down was fantastic. But yeeesh. Fixing that UI should be priority #1 for the development team.

Definitely gonna grab myself an addon once I can get back on. ForgeUI looked really good, a lot like WoW's TukUI/ElvUI.

Also is there any mouseover support/addons for healing? Would be nice.
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Oh man, thanks for this! I wasnt even looking for UI stuff yet, but I used tukui in WoW for so long.
 
Sophia said:
Yeah, I was a religious TukUI/ElvUI user from Wrath to the end of MoP. It's so good.
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ForgeUI looks nice, but the author posted on reddit yesterday about not having time anymore so I kinda worry about getting attached to something that's gonna fall by the wayside like everything else that's cool :(

F2P really needs to revitalize the addon arena for this game. Fingers crossed.
 
I made a new account earlier btw and it gave me no option to choose US
 
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