Random questing

Not so much random as in rather just charging about. I did get a lot of quests done in Blighthaven, but with me not knowing whether the ones I have left are group ones or not, I don't really want to risk doing anymore there.

Though I will admit, Drusera's tree is lovely when you aren't getting ripped apart by strain creatures. I especially liked the datacube from Drusera herself. It's a nice touch to know what she herself was thinking back when she had just been created.

Though I have to ask, what is with the weird cooking quest back in the nearby village? I mean i'm used to odd quests by now, but this was just really, really random. I mean i talk to a guy with a mark over his head and he wants me to get some steaks for him. Easy enough just kill some mobs. Then suddenly I have to cook them and there's this whole weird scene with judges talking about cooking. The whole thing just struck me as totally odd and rather rushed in there. Like they wanted some lighthearted quest here and this was the best they could come up with. Though why no voice acting? One of my biggest bugs with this game has been the lack of voice acting. Considering this cut away as sort of like a mini cutscene, it was bland to watch given that there was no voices.

All in all just very odd.

Oh and while filling in a gap on my map back in Malgrave, I'm running along when a meteor hits the ground before me and suddenly there are all of these fire monsters about. I'm quite impressed with myself that I took them all out. Especially the giant rock thing that was a elite monster with something like 150,000 hp and little Lyghtning totally smashed him. Very happy victory ^_^

Blighthaven Bugs

So Summer has finally arrived here in the UK and with it my computer is hating me every time I time I turn it on. Still I have been able to get back into things with regards to Wildstar. No last minute cosplays to play at the moment.

So, back to Blighthaven. I don't know whether this is an issue for other players (if it is please do comment and let me know) but Blighthaven seems to have it's fair share of bugs for me. I mean, again I don't know if it is just me, but the latter stages of the game seem to have far more bugs than the earlier stages did.

And they aren't like ground-breaking bugs, or bugs that make the game unplayable for me (like that Biolab in Grimvault did) but they are annoying.

The first one was to do with collecting essence from some floaty blue wisps near the start of Blighthaven (after the holo-deer quest but before Cankertube swamp) Now to do the quest you basically jump into said floating wisps, they explode into blue shiny fog, and then you've collected something. Now the other week I ran around this area for ages doing just that and not getting anywhere with the quest. Today I ran back and it worked first time.

Then I've had the issue where getting new quests isn't bringing up all of the text. See people are contacting me, I can see the options for clicking to accept the quest, but I don't actually have any words there.

This might not be so much of an issue, except that I'm also not being told when quests are group quests. Hence me accepting the quest from my home-girl Drusera to protect her tree and then getting my ass smashed several times over as I realised that this quest is likely a multi-person one. Like I said, it's not game-breaking, but it is annoying. Especially in the case where I have no idea how many people quests need. All other quest text is showing up fine from older quests or new quests that I missed in older areas. It just seems to be the ones in Blighthaven.

I got so much of an ass kicking here

Then I has this issue. Please note that this death scene greeted me when I first logged in. How can I have died before even entering the game???

I did actually have some fun with the quests, it wasn't all doom and gloom, but I'll post about those separately


later on this evening :)

Drusera Cosplay

So....my video post didn't happen. There is a reason for that. Mostly because I was having derp issues with Camstudio (i wanted pretty video clips) and secondly because on Friday afternoon I had something of a madcap idea and decided to roll with it.

See I was at the Manchester expo this weekend and on the Friday I thought, 'hmmm, why don't I cosplay as Drusera???' So i grabbed my sewing machine and made a costume that afternoon lol XD I do crazy things like that.

I had to slightly alter it to include a wig as I couldn't get the hood to completely obscure my head like hers does and my facepaint admittedly wasn't great. But as I said, I decided the Friday before to do it.

Know the best part though??? Being Drusera was awesome. I mean I was cosplaying a god. And a damned badass one at that :D Plus people recognised me. Even if I did have to close my eyes for every photo, people recognised me. It made me so freaking happy. And those that didn't but wanted a pic anyway, were awesome because when they asked who I was I got to gush about how awesome a character Drusera is and how brilliant Wildstar is as a game.

I'm not going to lie, I love fangirling about characters I love and I love Drusera. I think for my next project I might have to cosplay as Lyghtning....but which of her costumes to do lol.

And I'm back :D

Hiatus over. I'm back :D

Not really a post post per se, more along the lines of a I'm here and haven't fallen from the face of the earth. Though I'll admit I haven't played much Wildstar since returning from France. Mostly due to work commitments going on after my usual hours and being oh so sleepy from my week away lol.

But regular posting will commence again this weekend :) Maybe even tomorrow....might even try and do a video entry lol. Now that will be interesting lol.

Week Hiatus

Hey guys, just to update you all that I shall be away till Friday so no new updates to the site until then :)

Gate Crashing Thayd!

I know, I know, I'm a Dommie so what the heck was I doing in Thayd?

The answer to that is, quite simply, while running round Blighthaven, I happened to notice my guild chat asking if anyone wanted to join them on a mission. After realising that my guild (or members of) had managed to get into Thayd and not be killed instantly by the guards, I decided to join them. What then followed was a crazy, mad run through Thayd and, when we died through Galeras, taking part in PvP battles and general silliness. Seriously, not sure what I'd think if a group of about ten Exiles ran into the centre of Illium and started dancing, yet that is what we ended up doing in Thayd. Gotta admit it was a while mess of crazy fun XD Also, Illium > Thayd any day of the week XD

Had a fun charge around Blighthaven too. Only just started in this area, but I'm thankful there's new content already. I can see the dailies becoming very boring very quickly lol.

I did rather enjoy the quest where I got to be a holographic deer complete with hoof sounding deer noises (simple things). Not to mention said holographic deer was called Lightning. It was clearly meant to be XD I also found out that once in the holographic deer form, you could actually go quite far as it. Always more fun to run round as a deer rather than yourself XD

That's pretty much all I did today. Pratting around in Thayd took up a good portion of the day. Totally worth it though. I'm all up for random craziness like that :D

Blighthaven

I found it ^_^

Strain Ultra Drop

How the heck do you get to Blighthaven???? Am I missing something obvious??? Is there transport to it or do I need a quest??? Why is this so hard to work out???

Drusera's Statue and off the map

I know, I know, 2 days without a new post. There has been a reason though. See on Friday it was my birthday, and as such I spent Friday and yesterday doing birthday things. So I do have an excuse for not updating.

I also applied to be an Official Wildstar Fansite...but got turned down :/ Apparently I need to have my own domain name and on minimum wage that isn't going to happen. Plus it doesn't really need to happen as blogger suits my needs just fine.

Anywho, back to my gaming...basically I've been running round kicking the asses of creatures that originally caused me issues. My fave was helping a group of level 24-26 players take down the Exile Ravager. Despite being DPS, as the highest level and therefore the one with the most HP I somehow became the tank for the group. It was beautiful to take that sucker down though.

Also casually been running round. I found out that the quests in Crimson Badlands and Northern Waste are things that the other players call 'Dailies' in that they repeat every day so you can farm exp from them. I'm actually quite glad I did find that out as I thought there was a glitch or something. Couldn't understand why I had to repeat quests.

In Grimvault, while filling out my map, I found a rather interesting area called Drusera's Statue (my home girl has a statue) And a rather pleasant area totally off the map. There were no enemies there and I could get from the top of Southern Grimvault all the way to the lab at the top of Western Grimvault without going anywhere near an enemy of evil exploding strain pod thing. In fact it was a rather pleasant journey :)

A wander round Whitevale also turned up a few quests I'd missed out on as well as an Exile camp I found (damn Exiles) and some Eldan ruins underwater. See it's the little things like that, that I'm really loving in this game. There is no way the creators could have thought that someone would go swimming in some water practically of the map, and yet they put some ruins down there. I like random things like that :)

Go Wild, be a Star!!!

This song. Just this song.

I was playing this going to work this morning. I LOVE the video, it's so well done, and the song is awesome. Huge kudos to the guys that did it.

And my favourite bit?

'Descendants of the Eldan race

Cassian 

Mechari

Gone for a thousand years but now they'll build an army'

Because you all wish you were Cassian too ^_~

Pimp Chua

Seriously, what am I looking at here????

Ding, ding, Level 50 :D

Say Oh YEAH!!!! Dinged level 50 today and travelled to the Northern Wastes. Now i think i need to get Elder gems or something to get the genesis key. Something like that. It's 150 things (whatever the things are i need to get)

Also...new costume slot :D Awww hell yeah!!!!!

Oh My God, I can play again!

Seriously. I can actually play again. I somehow (like 4-5 hours of somehows) managed to defeat that freaking robot as Drusera and GTFO of that lab. Now in Crimson Badlands where I can actually play again *cries* More info coming tomorrow, but for now know I can play and this fact alone makes me so happy XD

Still stuck...now unable to play at all

Apparently it's the Bio Lab that is where the issues are occurring for me. The whole thing is just being buggy as hell for me. I've had issues where my entire UI goes bright blue and remains like that until I leave the area or restart the game, my mini map has crashed several times not to mention that floors just vanish. Oh and my favourite, stepping onto a teleporter and dropping into nothing but air until you die.

Getting through took every ounce of my sanity. Once into the Phage labs however, I was actually able to play thankfully. In fact it was all going rather well until I died and got kicked back outside the Bio lab because there are no holo-crypts once you enter. I've been at this part of the game for HOURS now. It's really frustrating. Especially as the new content patch came out today and I can't see anything of it.

See the phage labs was actually really quite cool. I had fun in there and hit level 49. But now this whole issue is just souring the game for me. I've felt like I've been walking on egg shells all day, afraid of doing anything in case it kicks me out again.

Now I'm actually at the end of my rope as the last quest of this area,


 (SPOILERS)


After defeating the Entity which, in all honesty was a bit of an anti climax, you don't even fight him, you play as Drusera and have to stop some robot. Well I got kicked out and now I'm back to the game crashing each time I try and get back in. And I have been trying for the last two hours.

(/SPOILERS)

The annoying thing is that I'm not the only person to be having these issues. I think they're linked to the memory leak issues other's are reporting. Certainly looking through the forums other people have had similar issues, but support isn't saying anything about them. All I can find from Carbine is that 'It's under investigation'. Well that's brilliant. I have a game here that is literally unplayable. I'm not talking about a bug with seeing people's names, or a dye not working, an item having a stupid drop rate. I'm talking about being unable to access the game. Something from Customer support would be nice here.

So yeah...not happy right now. In fact I'm pretty annoyed by the whole affair. Not to mention a really bad experience with a flower delivery company IRL has just put me in a really bad mood.