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

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 ^_~

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.

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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.

*cries* Why won't you let me play???

Urgh, so I'm once again kicked out of my game :P

I got back in after my earlier issues and promptly teleported from the lab to do some other quests in the area, but obviously I have to return at some point. Went back in, finished off some stuff, but now I'm once again waiting to get back in.

Away from that for the minute, I have to say that this area is damn hard. LOTS of elite mobs in the area and the regular mobs pack a punch. Loads of quests are requesting 5+ groups to do which at the moment I just don't have. Might have to ask my guild for some help with them. I feel this area is rather difficult for your regular player. Maybe it's because I'm spellslinger and they aren't the tankiest role that I'm having issues, but I am dying a LOT.

Not much to report on today aside from my issues with this lab. I'm level 48 and so close to 50 I can taste it. Really wanted to reach it tonight, but this lab doesn't seem to want to let me. I do keep getting calls from my home-girl Drusera about various bits and pieces. And i ran into this little joy.

See the green and red caretaker? One always lies and the other always tells the truth. Ever seen the movie the Labyrinth? Yeah, it's basically that scene with Sarah and the doors, only this was Lyghtning and the consoles that had to be turned on in a certain order from the instructions they give you. The achievement I felt at cracking it was immense. Even if I was ready to punch them both by the end.

Also did a quest to grab some eggs from a ship wreckage and that was an acrobatic feat worthy of cirque du soleil. See that green water? Yeah you go in that you die pretty much. So I had Lyghtning leaping about, using her Wall ability to make jumps I was missing, nearly overshooting some leaps, all to grab some eggs for a blasted Chua.

And in my lab, aside from the crashes, i have the following bugs. See that floating console. See it? I'm supposed to activate that. HOW? It's above me. Even on Rexy I can't reach.

And this happened while I was running. both Lyghtning and Rexy fell into this blue void. We fell for a bit and then died. Fun times to be had in this lab.

Site Layout

So currently I can't access the game at all. I'm in Western Grimvault and I am stuck. I can't log on. Everytime I do the game crashes. It's been laggy on me for about an hour before, but nothing game breaking. Well now i just can't get in. It crashes as it's loading. Thing is though i don't know at this point whether it's something on the servers or on my computer :P

So in the meantime i may update my layout. It's very basic at the moment and i think it needs more Lyghtning on it lol.

Grimvault lives up to it's name

Seriously this place is grim.

The Strain is EVERYWHERE. Like a whole landscape of weird mutant animals and eyes watching me. Literally The Hills have eyes here (to quote a movie title)

But there is work to be done and one of Lyghtning's first tasks here was to drive a tank. Oh hell yeah! I loved it. Those strain nasties didn't know what hit them when I started launching rockets assaults at them!

Awesome section was awesome.

My next task was to raise the morale of the troops. Now i realise that EVERY other player will have to do this task, but I couldn't help but snigger at being told that seeing me would surely raise their spirits. Of course it will. I'm rocking an off the shoulder coat and booty shorts. That combo will probably raise more than just their morale.

Oh and I have to kill these things. Starship Troopers brain bug anyone?

Malgrave and Artemis Zin

Been finishing up on some quests in and around Malgrave and is it just me or is the zone chat REALLY quiet round here? I mean almost every player I see is Exile so I suppose that doesn't help and any Exiles I see tend to be in my guild. Are people still on the lower levels? I thought most people would be around my level, at least those in the first wave of players would be. Got a few group quests hanging around, but i'm not even seeing anyone talk let alone say they're looking for a group.

Anywho, away from the chat or lack there of, I ran into a rather interesting quest involving an Elder cube controlling some pell. Artemis Zin rocked up with her cameras and got absorbed by the cube, Kevo went nuts at me...and then things seemed to go back to normal. Is this foreshadowing? I feel this is foreshadowing. Either that or it's a really random story segment lol XD

Got another call from my home girl Drusera, so Lyghtning is getting her pink assed booty shorts over to Illium to go and check what's going down now :)

Team speak issues and WIND SURFING!!!

No post yesterday...so sorry XD I literally spent an age trying to get Team Speak working on my computer so I could talk to my friends while playing. Finally got the damn thing sorted though and yay for being able to talk to others while playing! Even if said people haven't bought dinosaur mounts. I mean really, who cares about any of the other mounts when you can ride a dinosaur :)

So not much happened yesterday...though I did spend an awful lot of time dead. And this wasn't through mobs, or anything like that. It was through me throwing myself off of cliffs. Admittedly once or twice it wasn't my fault. Once I was getting chased by a dozen mobs, took a wrong turn and fell. And another time I got picked up by a tornado and the land was a loooooooooong way down when it dropped me off lol. Other times it was totally my fault because I wanted to see Rexy fly XD

But I did actually get a quest in the middle of all of this where I HAD to throw myself off the cliff and then wind surf all the way to the ground. That was pretty damn cool :D

Also got a fifth costume slot :D So i spent about an hour going through ALL the costume pieces I've collected up till now and deciding which looked good and which didn't XD Still not 100% happy with costume number 5. Think it might be because she's in booty shorts, but i wanted something a little different to her others. We shall see :)

Anywho, enjoy the pretty-ness of the area I'm in :D Look at all the crystals. Or as the Lopp would say, the shinies.

Drusera's music

Because I loved this piece in game. When a piece of video game music makes you pause playing and think 'wow!', then it's a good piece of music :)

I really like Drusera's character lol XD

Fluff!!!

Because basically my last post was pretty sad, this is a fluff post. As in, nothing heavy, just light hearted fluff XD

That and because I've basically been running round Malgrave doing errands for malevolent bunnies all day. Those little critters know how to work you.

Though aside from everything else, i did visit my house today. I don't actually have a house yet, what I have is a floating plot of land with space for a house and some grass. Is there like an in-game tutorial for this because I was thoroughly confused how to visit a neighbour. Even more confused when I tried to place my first bit of decor in my garden. It's a giant Osun forge if you're interested XD Got it doing an adventure type thing today with some friends. An event which gave Lyghtning this rather interesting choice of outfit.

I mean seriously??? I'm Cassian people! I look like a friggin' Aurin/ Jane of the jungle here XD

Also found an awesome quest in Malgrave where you have to sing karaoke. Yes you read that right, Karaoke. It gets a little more involved when you get attacked while singing, but I thought it was a fun little thing to happen upon :D

And I got a head piece I actually like. Up to this point ALL my headpieces have been helmets and have therefore been hidden on my costumes (because my costumes are important lol) but finally I got something cool, a headband :D Don't I just look badass here? Perfect accessory for my fashion concious Lyghtning. And of course it's dyed pink ^_^

Bravo Wildstar...you made me cry

Ok so this is another spoiler post. I'm level 42 so if you aren't at that level, be wary.

You have been warned.

Ok so my favourite spirit/god got back in touch with me today. Drusera called me into what can only be described as her own personal paradise.

Now I'm not going to lie, this section started off amazing. I got given awesome god like powers and could run around and make flowers and trees grow and it was EPIC. I totally loved it. The scenery was gorgeous and the music was beautiful.

But then it got quite sad and touching. See Drusera admitted to Lyghtning that as a god, she's lonely and that where her real body is, it's dark and cold, so she made this place. It's sort of like her playground I guess where she can come and use her powers freely and create beautful things. And it is beautiful, not even in an obvious sort of way. There's no blue skies or lush forests. Not waterfalls or things you might thin of when you think of a beautiful scenery. It was like something from a dream where everything just is beautiful and you can't put a finger on why.

The whole area, from the scenery to the music to the way Drusera talked made me think of A Bridge to Terabithia, and aside from that movie having an ending that made me sob, I loved the whimsy that it had. It was so childlike in the way the characters approached things and created their fantasy world and I felt like that here. I felt like I was being shown something very personal like someone's childhood memories. There is literally no way to describe how I loved this section.

Even the things I had to do, like making a village and watching Drusera create the creatures to live there while I created guards, it was like a childhood fantasy game and it was lovely to be a part of. To make them houses and gardens, while not only fun game play wise, was also quite enchanting. I'll admit I had a little lump in my throat just from making these characters happy.

But the bloody Strain came.

God damn Strain.

And just like that the dream was shattered and the music, which I don't think actually changed, went from being calming, to heart wrenchingly tragic. All the little villagers became infected and it was up to Lyghtning to defeat them.

Is it bad I wanted to apologise to them?

 Even getting some bad ass looking armour didn't make it better because it was just so tragic. I can't even describe how close to tears I was over this. I hated doing it but at the same time saw it as putting the poor little things out of their misery. How silly is that? I bet some players, most probably, raced through here, but I also bet there are some that will have found it just as upsetting and beautiful as I did.

And it wasn't just because of the villagers. But also Drusera. This was her hideaway, her safe place almost, to go to when she was sad or lonely and the Strain destroyed it.

Well done Carbine because it has been a LONG time since a game got to me like this. I was so caught up in it I didn't even notice someone in my guild say they liked this very blog in my chat. Sorry Niliana, and I'm glad you like it ^_^

I'll tell you what...I'm going to f***ing murder the Strain now. That disease is about to get a huge can of whoop-ass opened on it.

God even writing this is making me emotional...seriously well done to the game writers. Story is always my favourite factor in a game, partially why I want to be a game story/lore writer, and this was done brilliantly.

Well done.