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WildStar |OT| The biggest MMO since the Big Bang
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CyberPunked
Member
Is anyone else finding the quest tracking/map a bit confusing. When the quests are numbered in the map screen, the numbers are different from the quest list when in-game. Also if you want to read the description of a question you can't do it when you're looking at the map, meaning you have to keep switching between interfaces.
Tried this, just made biji shit itself and throw some errors, eventually killing the addon and making nameplates not respond.
Robobandit
Member
I don't use Bijiplates and there is still a huge memory leak.
I have 16GB of ram and after several hours of play, windows said Wild Star was using 3GB but also that 50% of my ram was being consumed and Wild Star was the only heavy program I had open. The usage dropped considerably after I closed Wild Star.
Stephen_drewz
Member
Just hit 15. Little bit lost on what I am meant to be doing now. One quest I have wants me to go to Ilium but I am not quite sure how to get there. My other quest I am pretty sure is for the Adventure that you unlock but again not really sure where to go.
Gotta figure out how to get my mount when I jump back on tomorrow too.
Gotta figure out how to get my mount when I jump back on tomorrow too.
flashburn2012
Member
Taxi will get you to Ilium.
The Quest numbering does seem to be buggy, especially after you complete some of them and clear it off the list.
Just hit 15 myself, so I can't add much on what to do next, but the game keeps pushing you to go to Hycrest; there's just no specific breadcrumb quest to point you that way. Once you take a taxi to Ilium, you can exit the NE side to get to Hycrest.
For mounts, just buy one from the vendor at Ilium. No specific training necessary, it seems, and no racial restrictions on any of the mount types initially available.
I remember people saying the cost is 10g, but the cost was actually 10.7g. I had barely more than 11g, so I was only able to just afford it.
When you report in during the last zone quest, there's an NPC there who has a quest to meet someone on the Hycrest taxi stand. Don't know if you didn't pick that one up.
JennyTablina
Member
Playing as a scientist esper, in the beta went with Artemis Zin, went with Mondo Zax this time, slightly regret it as it's a bit less fun for me, but oh well. I assume the game world opens up to me allowing me to choose my routes a bit more right?
The quest numbering changes depending on distance (default configuration) as far as I can remember. You can change the behavior in one of the setting. Don't know exactly where I found it and I am at work right now.
TharpDaddy
Member
Which? EU gaf or NA gaf?
EmptyCanO'wupass
Member
Any chance I could get an NA guest pass? I want to give this game a try and see how it runs on my PC.
From what I read during the beta they were really good at tanking. I liked the Stalker over the warrior in beta, but I only played up to about level 6.
Tharp, How are you playing while Soloing or are you always in a group?
Engineers are great tanks from everything I've heard.
I played Warrior to 15 in Live and about 18 in beta. I really liked them. They can solo pretty well as well.
They are fine, between me and my bot, I usually only die when my pet bugs out, I get hit by a telegraph I shouldnt, or the healer runs out of focus. Oh and I started soloing as tank spec around lvl 15 because I got tired of carrying an extra set and swapping to that gear. My single target damage is terrible, but i kill groups of mobs at a time and solo rares/group quests with no real problem.
Crimsonsky
Member
For AMPs I went brutality, lifesteal, cd reduction, crit chance, and now I'm into max shield capacity. Crit severity is the old Lethality talent from rogues and thusly just as insignificant. Tier 2 AMPs are a bit questionable at the moment, the only good ones I've seen are from the PVP vendor and I haven't done any PVP as I've heard it's slower than questing. So I can't tell you much about the tier 2 AMPs and can't recommend them.
For skills you want shred and download an addon called ActionControls. What it does is let left mouse to cast shred and right mouse button to dodge. Making this a third person action game and infinitely more intuitive. You'll need a mouse look button and sometimes interacting with objects is slightly quirky but it's worth it.
Your remaining skills, are pounce, Cripple, Neutralize, Stagger, Punish and Razor Disc. You then throw the disc, pounce, and Neutralize till the end of your energy, punish and then finish up with Cripple. Not the most efficient use of energy, but effective. If you wanted to be efficient then you disc, neutralize twice, cripple 3 times, neutralize till the end of your energy, punish, disc, then cripple or stealth then neutralize if the buff has fallen off. Far easier to just spam neutralize though, I admit.
Also a tip for everyone DO world bosses, the doom flower in the second zone in particular gives up 31k xp which is an enormous amount. You probably won't get loot(I've done it twice with no loot and top dps), but that doesn't matter, the xp is more than worth it. Just don't wait too long. Switch to lethal stance for it and drop pounce for impale.
At first I thought this same thing, I grabbed the two professions and didn't give it much thought. But after level 20 you don't get many weapons, and the ones from challenges I never win because my luck is horrible. I also haven't done the dungeons. So I actually started leveling weaponsmith and for about 4 gold I had weapons for level 21, 23, and 25. Took about 30 minutes. All the supplies I needed I already had except low fluxes which were 5 silver each from the vendor. After you get your mount, if you get the free hoverboard at 25, you don't really need the money so just salvage everything that yields drops for your profession. So for me I salvage all weapons, and Vendor everything else. My second profession is mining and a tip is that your map will show you the nearest node if there's one around.
Overall I'm having a great time.
I tried Hycrest Insurrection, ended up with a guild group from Ravenous. They obviously knew what to do because they were fast as shit. It was my first time, I didn't understand anything of what we were doing or why. Couldn't see shit during combat. Didn't loot shit except for a portrait for my house.
I don't want to do it again :lol:
I don't want to do it again :lol:
On reddit some EU folks said they got their codes.
TharpDaddy
Member
For soloing i have a bit of a strange build. I run Psychic Frenzy, Crush, Restraint, Geist, Telekinetic Storm, Blade Dance, and Mind Over Body. I just grab a handful of mobs and go to town with AoE, and heal myself if i get low.
Bought mine from GMG and still waiting too (UK).
Carbine haven't sent out everyone's codes yet. Purchase source doesn't matter, just region.
bloodyroarxx
Member
Anyone have a Guest pass for NA I can have? it would be much appreciated.
None in my email either. I haven't checked the website.
I had a pretty fun time when I did it with a PuG, but I think that was because we didn't really know what we were doing and had to work really hard to get past some of the early parts of the mission.
We eventually clicked, but there was a hiccup when I clicked rez instead of waiting for one.
Crimsonsky
Member
Coordinating interrupts is the most difficult thing to do in pugs. Heck, we're having a hard time doing it in a prebuilt group because it's something new to the table, something we've never had to do in a mmo before. Previously you assigned one guy to interrupt duty and that was it, nobody else had to take it into account.
Also, the window to interrupt is like second or two before the interrupt armor comes back, so you need to be really good at it too
It's definitely something to learn and practice in dungeons and I'm glad they're introducing it early.
Never played WoW, eh? Black temple and reliquary was particularly brutal.
I'll do this when I get home, I don't so much notice the memory leak as I do disappearing nameplates.
I'm not in a rush, with the queue times on my server it would be pointless to send them to my friends. They would quit before ever actually seeing the game
TharpDaddy
Member
Yeah i think it's a really nice looking game. I've seen comments saying that it looks no better than 2005 WoW which i disagree with heavily.
Quick Mustard
Member
With regards to Guest accounts, does anyone know if they can be upgraded straight away with the boxed code or do they have to wait the 7 free days first?
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Caveat: the game isn't Raid Or Die, though.
Took the last one.
TerryLee81
Member
Thanks, took the middle one.
GuitarGuruu
Member
So I usually like to dive into brand new MMO's at launch especially ones that are as big and offer as much promise at Wildstar seems to be offering. I played multiple betas for it the last one being towards the end of April. Only got to the cap they had set for everyone being 20 I believe, liked what they had to offer overall.
Just was wondering if anyone could give me any good reason to dive into this right now based on a few things,
1) Is the FPS better and more optimized now that it has released? Before my Frame Rate was good around 40-50 FPS on medium or so settings, but every now and again for no good reason it would dip into 9-12 FPS.
and
2) I don't feel like giving my life to this MMO, is this game during end game friendly to people who aren't able to give every single days worth of available time to them? I just don't want to be at a disadvantage due to not being able to play non stop.
Just was wondering if anyone could give me any good reason to dive into this right now based on a few things,
1) Is the FPS better and more optimized now that it has released? Before my Frame Rate was good around 40-50 FPS on medium or so settings, but every now and again for no good reason it would dip into 9-12 FPS.
and
2) I don't feel like giving my life to this MMO, is this game during end game friendly to people who aren't able to give every single days worth of available time to them? I just don't want to be at a disadvantage due to not being able to play non stop.
NA GAF
Performance is markedly better than even a month ago.
"Friendly" yes, if when you say you don't want to be disadvantaged you mean not able to set a schedule to raid, then no you won't have the best gear in the game. But there is other shit to do of course.