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whoever bought me this avatar is a fucker and i want my chocobuddy back LAUNCH IS ON JUNE 3RD, EARLY ACCESS FOR PREORDERS STARTS MAY 31ST, 12:01 AM PST YOU DO NOT NEED TO DOWNLOAD A NEW CLIENT FOR LAUNCH IF YOU PLAYED BETA GUEST PASSES GO HERE YOU FUCKS http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3640209 EURO GOONS ARE MOVING TO CONTAGION. CONTAGION. C O N T A G I O N. Wildstar is a new action-oriented MMO that takes place on the newly discovered planet Nexus, developed by Carbine; a studio founded by 17 members of the core vanilla WoW team. There's opposing factions, unique races, a combat system involving telegraphs (see below), a path system to point people towards the content they enjoy, player housing, and the whole thing looks like a Pixar movie. ______________________________________________________________________________________ SERIOUSLY, READ THIS SERIOUSLY, READ THIS OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR ALL GUILDS: http://wildstargoons.com/ AUTHENTICATE FOR THE OFFICIAL SITE ----->HERE<----- YOU CANNOT JOIN ANY GOON GUILDS IF YOU DO NOT AUTHENTICATE NA PVP guild is Goon Squad, on WARBRINGER/DOMINION at launch NA PVE guild is Space Jam, on EVINDRA/EXILES at launch EU guild is Terrible Secrets Of Space, on CONTAGION/DOMINION at launch Have a friend you want to sponsor? Read this: http://wildstargoons.com/forums/index.php?threads/how-to-sponsor-people-the-definitive-guide.71/ #wildstar on irc.synirc.net : mibbit link for the lazy _____________________________________________________________________________________ Combat in Wildstar is done differently from your standard MMO fare (and is one of the primary selling points of the game). It's not tab-targeting, and it's not hack n' slash; it's done through telegraphs. Wildstar's combat system gives you plenty to do. The ability to end CC prematurely, like picking up a weapon after being disarmed, breaking a tether anchor on the ground, and holding movement keys to end stuns. Dashing and rolling to get out of telegraphs that you wouldn't be able to walk out of. And most importantly, almost everything is mobile. VIDEOS Combat Mechanics Crowd Control Aiming ______________________________________________________________________________________ RAIDS Raiding in Wildstar is a 20 and 40 man affair. Your first steps are into Genetic Archives, a 20 man raid with 2-3 tanks, 4-5 healers, and 12-14 dps. Featuring Bosses, minibosses, challenges, and Base Population (Fancy words for trash), the instances are an affair into practicing loot management. At the end of Genetic Archives, every member should have gotten 1-3 pieces of loot for a full clear. After you tackle Genetic Archives, you get to go into the Big Boy Raid, Datascape. Datascape is a 40 man raid with x tanks, x healers, and x dps. Again, the loot is set up to give every player at least one item a run. Bosses, minibosses, challenges, and rooms-that-are-bosses await you in this Tron/Molten Core hybrid DUNGEONS Dungeons are 5 man instances, with both Normal and Veteran modes. Normal modes are done while leveling up; they normalize your level and scale back any abilities you may have. Veteran modes are level 50 versions of the instances with endgame equipment and harder mechanics. There is 4 Normal and Veteran dungeons at launch. The first two are unlocked at level 20. ADVENTURES Adventures are 5 man instances of open world zones, also coming in Normal and Veteran flavors. Adventures are mixups of different games (War of the Wilds, for example, is a huge parody of DotA/LoL), with non-conventional gameplay. Adventures unlock at level 15, and you get quests leading into them whenever you hit the correct level. There is 6 Normal and 4 Veteran Adventures at launch. Veteran adventures award you with level 50 loot and Elder Gems (Think WoW's Valor Points/FFXIV's Tomestones of Mythology/Soldiery) Shiphand Missions Shiphands are scalable instances, starting at 13, for a party of 1-5. Shiphands are neat dungeons that are gimmicks of sci-fi shows. Shiphands are spread out as you level, giving you alternatives should you grow tired of Nexus. You find these ships around Nexus leveling hubs and hop in to go gently caress around on asteroid mining colonies and space stations. Shiphands currently have no Veteran content, although that could be a possibility in the future. VIDEOS Raids PAX Raid Footage Experiment X-89 20m Raid Boss Kuralak the Defiler 20m Raid Boss Phagetech Guardian C-148 Raid Boss Adventures ______________________________________________________________________________________ BATTLEGROUNDS Battlegrounds are modern twists on MMO classics. 2 maps, 10v10, with objective-based gameplay. The first battleground is the Temple of Walatiki, a capture-the-flag based map. Masks are found near the centerpoints of the map, and taken back to your base. You can also steal flags from the opposing team's base. You need 5 points to win. The second battleground is Hall of the Bloodsworn, an Assault and Defend objective map where one side pushes and the other defends through three different arenas. You have a main control point in the center of the room, and two secondary control points scattered about the room. The secondary control points do not capture the room, but they give the controlling side massive buffs and increase the capture/decay of the center point while held. ARENAS Arenas are 2v2/3v3/5v5 deathmatches where teams share spawn pools. You get a maximum of 5 lives per team (Split between all of your members), last team standing wins. WARPLOTS Warplots are massive 40v40 battle royales, accessible to all players once they hit level 50. Each team starts with a fortress that they can upgrade and customize with a vast assortment of modifications using special currency called War Coins. The upgrades include adding in raid bosses (that defend your base), robot cannons, gigantic rocket launchers, tanks, and more. Victory is achieved by either destroying the enemies’ generators or through killing players and disabling structures. At the end, both teams are rewarded with Loot Bags, Prestige and Elder Gems. Warplots are a seamless blend of life’s two greatest pleasures: Property ownership and loser ownership. You can take part in Warplots in two ways; One, form a Warparty, which, essentially, is a 40 man raid. This gives you total control over your Warplot and all of your members. The second option is becoming a Mercenary, where you fill in for Warplot parties that are short a few members. Mercenaries have no say in who they fight for or how base defense works, but you get all of the rewards of a Warparty with none of the logistical nightmares. http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/game/features/warplots/ WildStar Flick: Warplots _____________________________________________________________________________________ WildStar Flick: Classes WARRIOR - (TANK/DPS) - Video For ages, warriors throughout the galaxy would slice and dice their enemies with swords, only inevitably to find themselves confronted with something uncuttable. But then someone came up with the crazy idea of hooking a blade up to a fusion accelerator. The result? A marriage made in slaughterhouse heaven. Today's power swords come equipped with ten megatons of liquid awesome hurtage. In. Your. Fist. A power sword, arm cannon, and brute force means the warrior is ready for all comers! SPELLSLINGER - (HEALER/DPS) - Video For centuries, the number of bullets Spellslingers could shoot per second was an infuriating bottleneck. Then, belatedly recalling that they were ambidextrous, they added a second pistol to their arsenal. The rest is exit wound history. With pistols, sigils, and agility, Spellslingers are as tough to hit as they are quick on the draw! STALKER - (TANK/DPS) - Video Guns may have better range and cause less muss, but where's the fun in that? Claws of every conceivable length, shape, sharpness, balance, and reflectivity give the discriminating Stalker no end of options when it comes to slicing open every artery at once. Just because you're invisible doesn't mean your opponents' innards have to be. Claws, devices and nano-skin gives Stalkers more assassination options than you can spray an artery at. ESPER - (HEALER/DPS) - Video While others waste time swinging clunky metal swords at you, you'll be ventilating them with an indestructible wit-sharpened stiletto forged from 100% superego! Unlike their flimsy milquetoast steel counterparts, your psy-blade projections be flung with deadly abandon among your cerebrally disadvantaged victims! Espers use psychic abilities to charge up their psyblades and projections. Brain power never felt so good! MEDIC - (HEALER/DPS) - Video Does shocking others "resonate" with you? If so, your aspiring inner intern will be Delighted Upon Arrival with the Awe-n-Shock Resonators Mark IX. Heal your enemies and boil your friends with last year's prize-winner for Most Excruciating Surgical Appliance! Smells like this wild-cardio just got wilder! Medics user resonators, auras, and probes to deal and heal damage. Bedside manner? MISSED THAT CLASS! ENGINEER - (TANK/DPS) - Video "Concealed" weapons are for grandmas! Grow a pair by grabbing LaunchCorp's Launch-O-Matic QT-Pi Ultra-Standard and fire some rocket-propelled attitude adjustment into the awe-struck face of anyone who gets in your way. Sure, the launcher's sheer power might just dislocate the joints in both your arms, but wait until you see the other guy's! Launchers, bots and exo-suits mean engineers are more than just grease monkeys: they're blood monkeys! ______________________________________________________________________________________ It isn't a themepark MMO without arbitrary factions: (WARRIOR/ENGINEER/STALKER/MEDIC/SPELLSLINGER/ESPER) OUTCASTS. RENEGADES. SCRUFFY. After centuries of wandering the Fringe in their ramshackle fleet, humans are ready to settle down on Nexus using grit, backbone, and some old-fashioned elbow grease. And if those Dominion bastards are looking for a fight? Bring it on! (WARRIOR/ENGINEER/MEDIC) ROCK-SKINNED. FEARLESS. HUNG OVER. Banished from their homeworld after a bloody war with the Dominion, the Granok are a race of skull-cracking, hard-charging galactic mercenaries that have come to Nexus to kick rear end and drink beer. Not necessarily in that order. (STALKER/SPELLSLINGER/ESPER) SMALL. SCRAPPY. TREE-HUGGING. YIFF. Small but scrappy, the Aurin are a race of forest dwellers whose homeworld was ravaged by the Dominion. They might be into hugging trees, but they're more than ready to bare tooth and claw to defend their new home on Nexus. (WARRIOR/ENGINEER/STALKER/MEDIC/SPELLSLINGER) INTELLECTUAL. MOROSE. DECOMPOSING. Cursed with a degenerative disease after delving into the forbidden secrets of alchemy, the Mordesh have come to Nexus to find a cure. Being a space zombie can be complicated. Unleashing dark and deadly disciplines on the Dominion? Much simpler. (WARRIOR/ENGINEER/STALKER/MEDIC/SPELLSLINGER/ESPER) WEALTHY. DISCIPLINED. SUPERIOR. Long ago, the Cassians were chosen by the Eldan to establish the Dominion - and they're going to make sure the pathetic vermin infesting the galaxy don't forget it. Destiny is a terribly heavy burden, and the Cassians bear it with style. (WARRIOR/ENGINEER/STALKER/MEDIC) CALCULATING. EFFICIENT. REMORSELESS. Engineered by the Eldan themselves, the Mechari are a race of highly-efficient killing machines that make it their business to eliminate traitors and spies on Nexus. Sense of humor? Not one of their strong points. (WARRIOR/STALKER/SPELLSLINGER) SAVAGE. BLOODTHIRSTY. BRUTAL. Forged in the heat and dust of their savage homeworld, the Draken have come to Nexus to prove they are the most badass warriors in the galaxy. Eviscerations, disembowelments, and decapitations will definitely be involved. (ENGINEER/MEDIC/SPELLSLINGER/ESPER) TINY. BRILLIANT. PSYCHOTIC. THE BEST. Nearly as brilliant as they are sociopathic, the Chua are mischievous inventors who develop advanced weapons and technology for the Dominion. Science has never been more fun – or agonizing. WildStar Flick: Meet the Exiles Exile Gameplay Video WildStar Flick: Meet the Dominion Dominion Gameplay Video http://wildstar-online.com/en/game/races/ ______________________________________________________________________________________ Your path is a choice made at character creation which determines what extra content the world dishes up for you. Generally, they respond to the player personalities in the Bartle test (killer, explorer, socializer, etc). It also gives you access to certain unique abilities late game (Scientists gets capital city portals, Explorers gets air brake, etc), and unique Path specific costumes. Wildstar Flick: Paths [*]THE EXPLORER - Video Exclusive Content:
[*]THE SCIENTIST - Video Exclusive Content:
[*]THE SOLDIER - Video Exclusive Content:
[*]THE SETTLER - Video Exclusive Content:
Housing gives you neat little benefits like improved rested experience, modified dungeons, passive gathering nodes, skateparks, portals to raids, buffs for friends, and much more! Seriously, housing in this game owns, and there is a good chance you will spend a stupid amount of time playing dollhouse. Dev Speak: WildStar Housing The Great Beer House in the Sky ______________________________________________________________________________________ Thank you a cat on an apple for this tradeskill write-up No MMO is complete without crafting! In WildStar, crafting is done through Tradeskills: once you reach Level 10, you will receive a Quest Notification via your Datachron from various Craftmasters, who will give you a short tutorial on how manufacturing and harvesting Tradeskills work, and you will be able to choose a total of two from either category. Additionally, you will unlock your two Hobbies, Farming and Cooking. Currently, the Tradeskills are as such: Manufacturing
Harvesting
Here is an interactive chart which denotes what you can gain from each of the Tradeskills / Hobbies, as well as how they all relate to one another. For a simple picture: Q: That's great and all, but why should I do this dumb crafting thing in WildStar? Quite simply, properly crafted gear and items offer some of the highest stats in the game, and will even outperform Quest rewards and standard PvP rewards. At Level 50, crafted gear is going to be the first step to take into both Elder Game PvE and PvP. Is that not enough for you? Well, the Architect Tradeskill also offers Decor items for your all-important House that you sure as hell be keeping pretty, for Rest EXP (Which benefits level 50s as well) and for your swanky pad. Q: Oh, so to be powerful, you have to grind your Tradeskills? Not at all! Following the basic path of crafting on Tradeskills, you will unlock at least to the fourth tier, Artisan level crafting, without even completing all of your tasks! Additionally, you can take miniature daily quests, called Work Orders, to receive benefits just for doing what you would have done anyway. If there's ever a part that feels tedious, it might be harvesting, but there's no need to do it for hours at a time, or even an hour! Resources come quickly and can be obtained whilst you quest. Not only that, you can get resource plugs for your house, for guaranteed, uncontested nodes. You can also harvest your neighbor's nodes for exp while they get a cut of the reward. Q: You mentioned a maximum of two (2) Tradeskills. Are they locked in forever? Nope; however, whenever you swap a Tradeskills to another that is not the first tier, Novice level, you will incur a cooldown. Additionally, after your first free swap, subsequent swaps will cost you 5 Gold. The cooldown is dependent on how long since you last swapped. This is very important. If you swap from one skill then immediately to another as it is off-cooldown, your cooldown will skyrocket to up to 9 days. However, if you wait two days after your ability to swap is off-cooldown, then you will only need to wait 22 hours before your next swap is available. More importantly, your progress will not reset if you swap a Tradeskill. With careful planning and a little bit of patience, you can easily perform everything yourself, but naturally things are infinitely easier if you have a crafting buddy to cover your needs! Q: Still not convinced. Did I mention that crafting is an interactive mini-game? Crafting anything that does not use a Power Core, you have to use additives to guide your crafting schematic to a target, and each individual craft becomes a puzzle by its own right! For things using a Power Core, primarily gear, you are able to choose from a selection of stats in a sort of matching game and control the power of the stats, where over-charging becomes possible but can cause you to sometimes fail crafting! Is that 1 extra Moxie worth a 5% chance of failing the craft? Give it a try, cupcake. We dare you. ______________________________________________________________________________________ WildStar has a $60 box cost and a $15 a month subscription fee - but there's a catch. The Pricing Plan WildStar will have a typical subscription system, but with the added layer of the C.R.E.D.D. system, which is somewhat similar to EVE's PLEX. Players will essentially be able to earn currency in-game that they can then sell for gold to other players, allowing them to pay for time. This will both extensively cut down on the amount of gold sellers in the game, and allows you to purchase game time without having to spend a cent. Doublestep fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Tupper posted:So while I'm sitting here bored and waiting for Headstart because I otherwise have no life, I wrote up a list of addons that I've used or found interesting in digging around Curse and related sites. But first, a primer on Wildstar addons! Doublestep fucked around with this message at 06:17 on May 31, 2014 |
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All open beta players get the full Highwayman costume at release, which was originally just handed out over a period of 4 weeks to CBT players. CBT players get the Back to the Future hoverboard if they got a character to level 10. Plus boomboxes for logging in daily.
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# ¿ May 23, 2014 20:45 |
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Lemon King posted:Hopefully that applies to CBT1 & CBT2 players for the Hoverboard. If you got the hoverboard at any point I'm pretty sure you have it for launch.
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# ¿ May 23, 2014 21:16 |
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Atari teenager posted:Doublestep could you correct the op with the EU guild name please? Alrighty done.
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# ¿ May 23, 2014 23:46 |
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Lionguild posted:Anyone else having problems with keybinds not working sometimes? Just wanted to ask around to see if it was just me or not. I have my interact bound to Mouse4 which sometimes just won't interact like it should and other times it works fine. Also have problems holding down my right mouse button to rotate the camera just flat out not working at times. the mouse buttons seem to dislike being used while you're holding rmb, think its a bug.
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# ¿ May 24, 2014 03:48 |
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Sophism posted:So yesterday I found out why Stormtalon's first boss seemed mega hard for me on the last phase... (Well, other than me being awful at vidya gaems.) my ping on Nexus was hovering around 260 ms, dipping no lower than 250 and getting as high as 270. That made getting out of the boss' biggest telegraph really difficult for me. That makes 0 sense, they're both at the same data center.
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# ¿ May 24, 2014 22:58 |
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Cyster, if you're reading this, please add a street fighter adventure before launch. *tosses hat*
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# ¿ May 25, 2014 03:32 |
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Kresher posted:Oh poo poo, does that mean I've been wasting the opportunity of getting crafting components out of my old poo poo by vendoring them away? Yeah. Salvaging items gives you random parts that would be used to make that item. Ore, power cores, etc. Weaponsmithing is actually kind of funny, you can pump out a bunch of items to level up, salvage them, and end up getting higher level cores than what you put in.
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# ¿ May 25, 2014 10:08 |
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Tenasscity posted:I just heard about name reservations but can't find any documentation on it. Can anyone fill me in? It ended almost a week ago
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# ¿ May 25, 2014 22:48 |
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Look at this and tell me it's not the best god drat race in this game. Chua excluded.
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# ¿ May 26, 2014 04:44 |
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The prize is me not killing myself during launch trying to invite all you fucks
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# ¿ May 26, 2014 07:00 |
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folgore posted:What kind of bizarro world is this where the MMO class called "medic" is second most popular and the one called "warrior" is least? Warriors got a lot of poo poo for being bad tanks since they require you to do the old "wait for two sunders" Medics are considered OP by the pubbie masses because they couldn't beat one 1v1 with their poo poo-build spellslinger
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# ¿ May 26, 2014 07:35 |
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Eschatos posted:I prefer to not have to use mouse for turns other than reversing. You're really picking the wrong game for this
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# ¿ May 26, 2014 20:04 |
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Interstellar Owl posted:When's the last day you can pre-order to get the headstart bonus? June 2nd, 11:59 PM PDT June 3rd all preorder bonuses are gone forever~
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# ¿ May 26, 2014 20:29 |
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Interstellar Owl posted:Cool, so I can pre-order May 30th and still get in early access on May 31st? Yes
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# ¿ May 26, 2014 20:34 |
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ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴘMaxmaps posted:Is there a way to put the remaining people who keyboardturn into a wildlife preserve so humanity never forgets the fact that one day they did roam the earth before the vast majority of them stood in fire and took too long to get out of it? That wildlife preserve is named Everquest
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# ¿ May 26, 2014 21:38 |
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If you preordered and reserved your name, please pay a visit to http://auth.wildstargoons.com/ and add that name as your main character This will make launch a lot easier for you and my sanity if you didn't get a name reserve for the love of god don't do this
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# ¿ May 27, 2014 00:34 |
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The enjin forum looked like the wildstar ui from alpha
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# ¿ May 27, 2014 04:09 |
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Orvin posted:Will there be a way to have multiple specs saved on a character? Something like how in Rift each character could have up to 5 (or maybe six) specs that could be changed out in the field as long as you were out of combat? You get an additional spec at 15. Two additional specs after that are purchasable at level 50
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# ¿ May 27, 2014 18:06 |
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It's weird, the draken stand up perfectly straight when they hoverboard They're CAPABLE of doing it but they choose not to.
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# ¿ May 27, 2014 23:44 |
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Space cowboys with unlimited ammo and magic and you're questioning the dude with a gigantic power sword Why don't those loving Jedi idiots use swords Doublestep fucked around with this message at 01:33 on May 28, 2014 |
# ¿ May 28, 2014 01:29 |
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They also have arm cannons that shoot projectiles. And saws. And giant bungee cords made out of energy
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# ¿ May 28, 2014 01:51 |
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40 aurin warriors in on the rp server raiding a warplot
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# ¿ May 28, 2014 05:05 |
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Oh great. 5 bucks says multiple goons roll on Pago because reading is hard.
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# ¿ May 28, 2014 17:09 |
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RiffRoff posted:Can this be Goon Squad's slogan? Crisis Wave can't crit.
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# ¿ May 29, 2014 00:35 |
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Holyshoot didn't even post the tears from the other reddit thread/4chan's /vg/ board.
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# ¿ May 29, 2014 01:37 |
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Gurgle. Can't pick Stalker or Warrior. Stalker felt so much more satisfying to play once you get the on-crit ability.
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# ¿ May 29, 2014 23:31 |
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Does stalker have any glaring issues at level 50? After my PvP session today I'm really considering rolling with it.
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# ¿ May 30, 2014 00:48 |
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Windchilla posted:With regard to PvP? The current state of Stalker has them on the lower-end of effectiveness in Arenas. In Battlegrounds they are very effective at some roles, especially mask running/stealing on Temple and general disruption in Halls. The issue with Stalker right now is they have seen both their burst and sustained damage reduced in a number of patches leading to release. These balances were largely PvE oriented, but they have a major effect on PvP. This coupled with the recent change to T4+ Preperation, namely making it break your stealth on cast, put them into a spot where they don't really excel at any one role, but can fill most of them only adequately. How's the PvE side of things?
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Tholias posted:For sure, but these people are on a non-goon server. I'm not sure I've even heard of a lone, rouge goon, let lone a squad going to Widow, and they are still freaking out. I simultaneously made a post declaring Pergo the PvP-RP server while also saying Goon Squad is rolling on Widow on Reddit a couple of days ago. Made a few pubbies lose their goddamned minds.
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# ¿ May 30, 2014 21:28 |
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You can buy a hoverboard for 7k renown, which is literally one adventure, the deluxe really doesn't save you gold in the long run.
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# ¿ May 30, 2014 23:59 |
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Bauxite posted:The pink CBT hoverboard is just given to us, right? Like, we have to level up to use it but it's free? Yes, you get it in item claim just like the Highwayman's costume and deluxe items.
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# ¿ May 31, 2014 00:35 |
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Goon Squad is rolling on Warbringer, Carbine asked us to move because we'd be a healthy population base for the server to build off of. The server will be up within the next few minutes.
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# ¿ May 31, 2014 11:59 |
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Mystery Prize posted:Have we started up <Goon Squad> yet on Warbringer? Nah, still gathering money/strawman went to bed. Guild will be up in a bit.
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# ¿ May 31, 2014 13:15 |
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Lothire posted:e: /\/\/\ - what this man says. The devs acknowledged it because they asked us to do it :v
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# ¿ May 31, 2014 21:31 |
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Kerrrrrrr posted:I would like to point out that the guild hopefully-soon-to-be-renamed-Space Jam has the best guild holo graphic: Just flat out WRONG.
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2014 03:51 |
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After a long day of inviting 350 goons I decided to go grind rep for some amps. Got myself Clone. xbox armor not included
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2014 12:00 |
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Mide posted:That is a lot of goon invites. I'm gonna make my character on the goon server later today. What is the guild member cap in the game? Are we going to be able to fit all the goons in a single guild? Is this the return of the swarm? Supposedly the cap is 500. If it is, I'll make a guild for alts instead of letting them in Squad.
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2014 12:41 |
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Ridinspinnaz posted:Any chance of getting an invite to the Dominion guild on War? In game name: Aspergers. Any chance of you reading the OP?
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2014 07:42 |