The problem is these changes are slooooooooooooow to come out. I understand their original plan was fast as hell but also had the barest kind of QA possible, but now we're back to Blizzard Slow patch speeds.
And hell, maybe that's the only kind of speed possible. Maybe this genre isn't all that sustainable.
It's certainly tough, but it is doable.
I think it's definitely doable to be faster than Blizzard (FFXIV is the obvious example), but I think in the future I'm going to have to laugh if a company says they'll be able to keep up with monthly content patches.
Fortunately I think they've bought themselves a bit of time with Drop 4. Most raiders have an entirely new zone to work on, and shiphands/glory provided more casual PvEers more to do. The path removing PVP ratings from current gear should hit Tuesday which will give anyone who wanted those skins but didn't want to do Arena a goal to work toward for a bit.
Finally, drop 5 seems to have the contract system, which is another thing targeted at the non-raiding crowd to give them something to do. Hopefully they talk more about it before too long.
The problem is these changes are slooooooooooooow to come out. I understand their original plan was fast as hell but also had the barest kind of QA possible, but now we're back to Blizzard Slow patch speeds.
And hell, maybe that's the only kind of speed possible. Maybe this genre isn't all that sustainable.
It's certainly tough, but it is doable.
I think it's definitely doable to be faster than Blizzard (FFXIV is the obvious example), but I think in the future I'm going to have to laugh if a company says they'll be able to keep up with monthly content patches.
I don't think it's at all impossible, but it depends on your tools and how much you're putting out. Unique tileset and tiers of progression or something, no, that's not happening monthly.
This patch, at least temporarily, has really breathed some life into BG queues. Most were popping in under a minute. With the reward bag for doing randoms and the extra prestige for doing the daily, even getting a bad string of losses still lets you feel like you're making some progress.
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The first pass of Drop 5 has hit the test server. In addition to this there are many class changes.
1.3.0 Features Summary
Quest Sharing Fixes, Levels 42-50
Quest sharing has been streamlined throughout Malgrave, Grimvault, Blighthaven and The Defile. Additionally, Blighthaven features a fast travel destination from the capital cities at the Nursery Trading Post, and new soloable daily quests. The Defile’s Dominion and Exile suppliers have moved from their original homes in the Sonic Plaza to new locations at Final Light and Hope’s Dare in the Dread Traverse. These new locations feature a transmat terminal, crafting and engraving stations, and a fast travel destination from the capital cities.
Arkship Updates
The Destiny and The Gambler’s Ruin tutorial experiences have been streamlined.
Levian Bay Adventure
Bay of Betrayal: Get ready for a brand new adventure. Harness astonishing new powers in a frantic race against the Ascendancy’s greatest champions.
Bind on Pickup Items Are Temporarily Tradable
Bind on Pickup items can now be traded within 2 hours after the item is looted, and can only be traded to other characters that were eligible for the item when the item was looted. The item can only be traded to other characters which were eligible for the item when it was looted.
Contracts
Protostar invites level-50 players to participate in their Protostar Contracts program, which tasks participants with the completion of various PvE or PvP-activities across Nexus. Completing Contracts awards players with progress on the reward track and with unique loot bags filled with fabulous prizes! Find a Protostar Contract-Dispenser in Thayd or Illium to learn more!
Holo-Wardrobe System
Players can now store the appearance of a piece of equipment at the account level, rather than have each character acquire and equip specific items. Players also no longer need to interact with the stylist to edit their costumes.
ICComm Rewrite Work In User/Party
ICComm now supports group and guild channels with better defined and more accessible limits for addon developers.
New 20-Person Raid
Initialization Core Y-83: A single-boss, 20-person raid instance has opened up within The Defile. This encounter comes with an opt-in challenge mode that increases the encounter’s level of difficulty.
Initialization Core Y-83 Raid
Nurton, Kaffee, and a group of Freebots have come to The Defile to locate and destroy the source of a signal that is broadcasting the techno-phage on all channels. To succeed in their mission, they need your assistance. Find Nurton in Hope’s Dare or Final Light in The Defile to participate in this optional, soloable prologue to the new 20-person Initialization Core Y-83 raid.
Levels 3-6 Zones Streamlined
Levian Bay, Crimson Isle, Everstar Grove, and Northern Wastes have been streamlined to make quests easier to understand and to reduce travel times between playspaces.
Objective Tracker Improvements
A new interface has been added to better track quests, path missions, challenges and other content. This new tracker includes a lot of customization for players to decide how much content they want to see in the tracker.
Optimized Raid Frames
Raid frames have received an optimization pass.
Red vs. Blue Same Faction Battlegrounds
Same-Faction Battlegrounds – Battleground queues can now pit groups of the same faction against each other.
PvP Rewards Season 1
Season 1 is now coming to an end. The top 1% of players in 2v2 Arena, 3v3 Arena, 5v5 Arena, and Rated Battlegrounds will receive an achievement and title for their hard work. For 2v2, 3v3, and 5v5 Arenas, high-ranked players will earn the Achievement and Title of “The Warlike." For Battlegrounds, high-ranked players will earn the Achievement and Title of “The War-Forged."
Levian Bay PCP
Enter Star-Comm Basin, a new level-50 zone set in Levian Bay, and participate in its dynamic, daily, event-driven playspace. The Caretaker has sent out a call for help after getting caught in the middle of a dust-up between the Exiles and the Dominion. Too bad the creepy cavalry includes Ikthians, Marauders, and the Strain. Ready to throw down? Triple the threat, triple the corpses!
Taxi Unlock Changes
Taxi kiosks will now unlock automatically as players reach the minimum level for a zone’s content.
Vanity Pets
Players can now collect and summon companion pets in WildStar. Accentuate your personal style with a pet rowsdower, pumera or even a cute little probebot!
Overhead Icons for Vendor Variants
Vendor Icon Callouts: Vendors across Nexus will now have unique Icons above their heads to better indicate their specialized wares.
Optimization
We reduced some of the Hard Drive reads that happen while moving around and while looking around.
We removed some massive frame rate drops that could occur if players were running on objects and into a wall.
Man, I forgot how detailed this game could be sometimes. Either way, picked it up again, leveling a new character though. One day, i'll do GA / DS. One Day.
So, tempted to come back to this. I'm still subbed to wildstar reddit. I played a beautiful granok medic before. Not sure where PAers are nowadays, but I'd like to find a home. Playing solo is boring and kind of is what turned me away in the first place.
Any old hats around? I'd like to stay exile, buuuuuuttttt I could turn Dominion without too much fuss.
TL;DR : Looking for friends to play with!
Rock-people out weigh all of those things. Literally.
Also, I miss you core.
I sent all of my plat to Kragor(Tayrun) prior to my departure. Possibly the worst news upon return. Mostly because I had to re-purchase skills. What the heck, carbine
Rock-people out weigh all of those things. Literally.
Also, I miss you core.
I sent all of my plat to Kragor(Tayrun) prior to my departure. Possibly the worst news upon return. Mostly because I had to re-purchase skills. What the heck, carbine
I miss you too Eisen. I'm pretty much full on long term committed to FF14 now, especially with it's first expack coming out this June and my plans to give livestreaming another shot starting next month, so that's where I'll be if you ever wanna stop by Eorzea and say hello.
I might play Wildstar again one day but it's going to be a while.
Rock-people out weigh all of those things. Literally.
Also, I miss you core.
I sent all of my plat to Kragor(Tayrun) prior to my departure. Possibly the worst news upon return. Mostly because I had to re-purchase skills. What the heck, carbine
I miss you too Eisen. I'm pretty much full on long term committed to FF14 now, especially with it's first expack coming out this June and my plans to give livestreaming another shot starting next month, so that's where I'll be if you ever wanna stop by Eorzea and say hello.
I might play Wildstar again one day but it's going to be a while.
I hope you do get back into streaming.
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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Rock-people out weigh all of those things. Literally.
Also, I miss you core.
I sent all of my plat to Kragor(Tayrun) prior to my departure. Possibly the worst news upon return. Mostly because I had to re-purchase skills. What the heck, carbine
I miss you too Eisen. I'm pretty much full on long term committed to FF14 now, especially with it's first expack coming out this June and my plans to give livestreaming another shot starting next month, so that's where I'll be if you ever wanna stop by Eorzea and say hello.
I might play Wildstar again one day but it's going to be a while.
I hope you do get back into streaming.
I do too; and I intend to try and make it a full time thing to see if it goes anywhere, as an alternative to not finding a summer job again.
It's kinda crazy the money some streamers pull in, and even a fraction of that would be super helpful. Not to mention the fact I always enjoyed it when I did it and now I am in a better position to do it better with higher bitrates.
Rock-people out weigh all of those things. Literally.
Also, I miss you core.
I sent all of my plat to Kragor(Tayrun) prior to my departure. Possibly the worst news upon return. Mostly because I had to re-purchase skills. What the heck, carbine
I miss you too Eisen. I'm pretty much full on long term committed to FF14 now, especially with it's first expack coming out this June and my plans to give livestreaming another shot starting next month, so that's where I'll be if you ever wanna stop by Eorzea and say hello.
I might play Wildstar again one day but it's going to be a while.
I hope you do get back into streaming.
I do too; and I intend to try and make it a full time thing to see if it goes anywhere, as an alternative to not finding a summer job again.
It's kinda crazy the money some streamers pull in, and even a fraction of that would be super helpful. Not to mention the fact I always enjoyed it when I did it and now I am in a better position to do it better with higher bitrates.
Yea, no one was recruiting for anything on the dom side, so I traitor'd up. Levelling a stalker, and a medic. Good time so far. Thayd >>> Illium. It's insane how different they are from a concept view.
I always did enjoy thayd/orgrimmar more than I did illium/whatever-that-alliance-place-was. Storm something?
Noiz, I'd be interested in levelling something with you or anyone. Just to get the ol' finger twitch and UI stretched out and warmed up.
If not, I'm always down to help with shiphands or whatever, if you needs it.
Ironhide Prime is IGN.
@Corehealer I might fool around in eorzea again, at some point. I have a few friends that still play. I'm mostly looking for long-lasting community . If Anarchy-Online wasn't so awful, I'd still be there with the guys I played with as a teenager.
Naw, I came back because I really enjoyed the mechanics, gameplay and content. I like the game.
There *is* a community, I just want to find it, haha. I mean even the guild I came in on was farming Genetic Archives, I guess they couldnt pull enough. Dominion, apparently, PuGs GA weekly
Limbo Infomatrix is probably the single most bug-concentrated encounter I've ever seen, but we got it. It's so bad, guys. I mean, the fight itself is really cool and would be pretty easy if it worked correctly, but in one encounter we had:
Telegraphs that would appear around 3 party members and then disappear and follow you anywhere ticking damage until they killed you
A telegraph that looked like it was going to be on one person during its wind up and then start dropping from someone else
particle effects that refused to dissipate over the course of the encounter, leaving the entire fight area covered in electricity effects
positive ground effects placing on the ground below the temple instead of the temple floor and not reaching anyone
The real question is if the game is improved enough that people will stick around after it goes free. Long enough to spend on... not sure. Cosmetic items I would assume,
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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I think it's definitely doable to be faster than Blizzard (FFXIV is the obvious example), but I think in the future I'm going to have to laugh if a company says they'll be able to keep up with monthly content patches.
Finally, drop 5 seems to have the contract system, which is another thing targeted at the non-raiding crowd to give them something to do. Hopefully they talk more about it before too long.
I don't think it's at all impossible, but it depends on your tools and how much you're putting out. Unique tileset and tiers of progression or something, no, that's not happening monthly.
https://www.wildstar-online.com/en/freetrial
Man, I forgot how detailed this game could be sometimes. Either way, picked it up again, leveling a new character though. One day, i'll do GA / DS. One Day.
My guild downed the daemons last night as well! Gratz, feels good yeah? Which guild are you in?
Any old hats around? I'd like to stay exile, buuuuuuttttt I could turn Dominion without too much fuss.
TL;DR : Looking for friends to play with!
Robot vixens.
Sexy horned huntresses.
Minibars and gold plating everywhere.
Whatever Chuas do besides blow things up.
Basically the only thing they don't have is a sense of humour.
Also, I miss you core.
I sent all of my plat to Kragor(Tayrun) prior to my departure. Possibly the worst news upon return. Mostly because I had to re-purchase skills. What the heck, carbine
Dominion has the best music too!
I miss you too Eisen. I'm pretty much full on long term committed to FF14 now, especially with it's first expack coming out this June and my plans to give livestreaming another shot starting next month, so that's where I'll be if you ever wanna stop by Eorzea and say hello.
I might play Wildstar again one day but it's going to be a while.
I hope you do get back into streaming.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
I do too; and I intend to try and make it a full time thing to see if it goes anywhere, as an alternative to not finding a summer job again.
It's kinda crazy the money some streamers pull in, and even a fraction of that would be super helpful. Not to mention the fact I always enjoyed it when I did it and now I am in a better position to do it better with higher bitrates.
Also actual content.
Noiz, I'd be interested in levelling something with you or anyone. Just to get the ol' finger twitch and UI stretched out and warmed up.
If not, I'm always down to help with shiphands or whatever, if you needs it.
Ironhide Prime is IGN.
@Corehealer I might fool around in eorzea again, at some point. I have a few friends that still play. I'm mostly looking for long-lasting community
Literally the day I re-activate, the guild I was in puts up a MotD that they are done and looking for a new game.
Come on.
It's a sign, you've been warned.
There *is* a community, I just want to find it, haha. I mean even the guild I came in on was farming Genetic Archives, I guess they couldnt pull enough. Dominion, apparently, PuGs GA weekly
Ya don't say
Still fun.
Thinking about going F2P, apparently.
Sadly if this is true I don't think anyone would be surprised.
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It's a good way to get the playerbase back after the fix things up a bit.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
If I thought they still took too long, I'd ignore them. I don't mind a challenge but I also have limited time/energy.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.