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Anyone else interested in WildStar?

If anyone has a spare guest pass, I'd really appreciate it. I've been wanting to give Wildstar a try but I'd like to get a hands-on before I buy it. Thanks.
 
Any newcomers to the game or try before buy, keep in mind that the starting areas are slow and not combat-oriented... this is pointed out in many reviews and criticisms. I urge those to keep going forward and get to at least 14+ or higher before really judging whether or not you like the game.
 
b14z3 said:
Any newcomers to the game or try before buy, keep in mind that the starting areas are slow and not combat-oriented... this is pointed out in many reviews and criticisms. I urge those to keep going forward and get to at least 14+ or higher before really judging whether or not you like the game.
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I'm 6 now. The starting area isn't as bad as I thought. Still looking forward to 14+, though.
 
Thank you. Bottom one used.

Now I have to figure out how to keep the girlfriend away for a few days. Maybe I'll just tell her that she can come over and watch me play Wildstar...lol.

ashmelev75 said:
NA Passes for grabs
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Tol said:
Thank you. Bottom one used.

Now I have to figure out how to keep the girlfriend away for a few days. Maybe I'll just tell her that she can come over and watch me play Wildstar...lol.
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My gf and I have been living together for 4 years now so I'm pretty much an expert at sneaking away.

Start watching a bunch of different girly/drama/stupid TV shows with her and stop watching 2-3 episodes in. So when she's hooked onto those dumb shows, you can go pwn in Wildstar.
 
Anyone got a spare NA guest pass? Would like to try this out.

EDIT: got one
 
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Looking for an NA trial code if anyone has it. Figure Ill give the game a try and most likely play it till ArcheAge launches.

Thanks ahead of time!
 
ashmelev75 said:
At level 14 or 15 you go to the capital city (Ilum for Dominion) and there will be a quest to tour things and acquire the house. Pick up the riding mount at the same time as well.
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yeah, it's 14 for the house, 15 for the mount - so if you can power through 14, do it all at once at 15

also, note that a mount at 15 costs 10g 67s or so
 
I had a weird bug happen to me today. For the life of me, I could not find Armorrer Thaako. I literally looked for him for 30min. Turns out he was just invisible. Well I restarted the game and he's still not there. I even had someone jump repeatably at the location he's at and I couldn't see anyone. Da fuq?
 
played my trial till 10 or so, just couldn't keep going... reminded me of classic wow starting area progression all over again
 
I've got to level 50 over the week-end. I guess WoW had spoiled me.

While zones, story and quests seem interesting to me, the level of grinding and elitist expectations are just disappointing. Killing a mob that gives 2% to overall quest progression just speaks of the poor design.

Quest rewards weren't class- or role-based. Most of the rewards I saw were pure DPS gear. Kinda hard to get a tank or a healer ready for level 50 adventures or dungeons.

If you don't have a guild or friends to play with together, then the veteran adventures and dungeons are freaking hard. Also most of them take hours to complete. Thinking of Stratholme or Maraudon in vanilla WoW. As a DPS you have to wait in the queue for 15-20 minutes, and then if the group loses the chance to get a gold medal either tank or healer simply leave to requeue for another insta-dungeon and you're left to sit on your ass again. Adventure and dungeon rewards are based on the medal you get. One random death = lulz, you get no epics.

Level 50 daily quests = same set of quests on badly phased Crimson Bay aka Crimson Badlands, no randomization or variation.

Raids = I read it requires getting a gold medal in all dungeons. Well, good luck with that.

(I doubt I'm going to sub for this).
 
yeah WoW spoiled you with it's easy loot and mechanics - this game isn't for the casuals when it comes to group content, just like WoW wasn't when it came out originally and even years after...

There is no Timeless Isle with free epics.

I just hit 47.5 last night, getting pretty close to 50, so I can't comment on the dailies... but the quests are pretty much what you would expect - 2% or not, a lot of what you can do is AoE based by default since you telegraph everything... so pull a lot and use the stuns/interrupts!

the gear choices from quests definitely has tanking options, not sure where you got the DPS only notion - I passed up a ton of tank gear for my engineer the entire time questing... I'm guessing you had this notion because of the unfamiliar stat names like Tech and Insight (tanky) vs Finesse, Moxie, and Brutality (DPS)


regarding Raids - yeah, getting attuned for the first 20 man raid is not a cakewalk, but not impossible - just requires some dedication and time
 
ashmelev75 said:
Raids = I read it requires getting a gold medal in all dungeons. Well, good luck with that.
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oh yeah and it's only Silver for the attunement quest... not that it's that much easier as the difference between silver and gold is not dying at all, I believe the time to complete requirement is the same, like 30-45 minutes depending on the dungeon.
 
Wow, ash... you managed to get level 50 within 2 weeks of release, and then complain that you aren't already raiding end game content.

I don't really have anything else to say.
 
b14z3 said:
the gear choices from quests definitely has tanking options, not sure where you got the DPS only notion - I passed up a ton of tank gear for my engineer the entire time questing... I'm guessing you had this notion because of the unfamiliar stat names like Tech and Insight (tanky) vs Finesse, Moxie, and Brutality (DPS)
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I play a spellslinger, so most quests had only one armor piece, usually Finesse/Moxie (DPS). Only rare in between there were quests offering weapons with Insight/Moxie(Heal). Only later in the game (45+) there was some gear variability. Just comparing to leveling in WoW when you always had a choice of gear for any spec - dps/heal/tank.

Yeah, I had a feeling during leveling, that grouping with other people was pretty much required. Too may elites, quests were taking too long to complete, but once you grouped with someone it all became a joke really. Facerolling everything in seconds.
 
Cmustang87 said:
Wow, ash... you managed to get level 50 within 2 weeks of release, and then complain that you aren't already raiding end game content.
I don't really have anything else to say.
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I'm not complaining that I can't raid end game stuff. I haven't even seen all dungeons and adventures yet. I'm just pointing that this game is pretty much like vanilla WoW. Not much conveniences for players and progression requires some serious effort. I don't have time for that... maybe 15 year ago, but not now.
 
Putz said:
played my trial till 10 or so, just couldn't keep going... reminded me of classic wow starting area progression all over again
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I felt exactly the same way as you did, I tried but I just could not get into it also a big turn of for me was the animations they are very floaty which is not for me. I may give it a shot at a later time.
 
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I was so hyped for WS, then as I started playing through early betas I lost interest because it's so much like WoW and other themepark mmo's
 
I'm loving it so far, about 9 hours in. I am kinda getting sick of the engineer, though. But I don't feel like starting all over again.
 
ashmelev75 said:
Just comparing to leveling in WoW when you always had a choice of gear for any spec - dps/heal/tank.

Yeah, I had a feeling during leveling, that grouping with other people was pretty much required. Too may elites, quests were taking too long to complete, but once you grouped with someone it all became a joke really. Facerolling everything in seconds.
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I think you're exaggerating quite a bit on the quest choices and WoW didn't change their rewards for quests until Cata or even more so in MoP when everything was specific to your character and not even same rewards for different classes of the same quest.

not to mention there are plenty of other ways to get gear besides quests while leveling, for instance each zone you quest in typically has a quartermaster for a related faction with gear on it.

there's 1 quest I've come across when you have to kill elites, other than the specific quests that say 2+ or 5+

but I agree there are quite a lot of similarities to Vanilla WoW regarding difficulty and I welcome it regardless of the extra time I have to put in - that's the game... WoW is a joke right now. If you don't have time that you did 15 years ago, well that's kinda expected? times change your priorities, stick to wow if you want, but don't give out misinformation tweaked by your opinion
 
GOD'SlittleSERVANT said:
I'm loving it so far, about 9 hours in. I am kinda getting sick of the engineer, though. But I don't feel like starting all over again.
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Since you're on the trial I'd suggest trying a few other characters out. Maybe try to get to level 15 on a couple that interest you.

I initially wanted to play Stalker then last minute decided to play Medic (I'm a tank in ESO.) Got the Medic to 31 and their DPS rotation just kept getting clunkier. Now I'm playing Warrior and having a lot more fun. Redoing everything sucks, but I just keep telling myself the game's only been out for less than 2 weeks.
 
AudioCow said:
Since you're on the trial I'd suggest trying a few other characters out. Maybe try to get to level 15 on a couple that interest you.

I initially wanted to play Stalker then last minute decided to play Medic (I'm a tank in ESO.) Got the Medic to 31 and their DPS rotation just kept getting clunkier. Now I'm playing Warrior and having a lot more fun. Redoing everything sucks, but I just keep telling myself the game's only been out for less than 2 weeks.
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yeah, I agree... also some key abilities for classes (I think spellslinger is one) don't unlock until level 18 even, so a lot can change in play style
 
I like watching the streamers like Kungen, Towelliee, and Riggs from Blood Legion wipe for hours on in doing Veteran Dungeons. Reminds me so much of Vanilla WoW, I was going to grab the game this weekend for nostalgia alone! Unfortunately I heard that the Steam Summer Sale is happening soon, so it will have to be after that.
 
ashmelev75 said:
I'm not complaining that I can't raid end game stuff. I haven't even seen all dungeons and adventures yet. I'm just pointing that this game is pretty much like vanilla WoW. Not much conveniences for players and progression requires some serious effort. I don't have time for that... maybe 15 year ago, but not now.
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That's a intended design choice by the developers, as they have stated.

There is casual content for the casual player and hardcore for the hardcore. For those that fall in the middle, there's dungeons and hardmodes, for the casuals, ship hands and adventures. The "Key-ing" process to get into the raids is hardcore by itself.

I understand from your statement that you are not complaining, but it is of note to people who may not be aware what they are getting into. This statement and yours should be more of a PSA, it's not what WoW turned into, it's Vanilla WoW with polish and it's own personality.

I do contend that there are player conviences, but there are some design flaws too, it's not perfect.

All-in-all, and enjoyable experience.
 
cageymaru said:
I like watching the streamers like Kungen, Towelliee, and Riggs from Blood Legion wipe for hours on in doing Veteran Dungeons. Reminds me so much of Vanilla WoW, I was going to grab the game this weekend for nostalgia alone! Unfortunately I heard that the Steam Summer Sale is happening soon, so it will have to be after that.
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I need to check this out, I didn't think they were that hard!

Perhaps they need more Crimelords adventure farming, you can get that down to an insanely low time gold completion of less than 20 minutes.
 
Troub said:
I felt exactly the same way as you did, I tried but I just could not get into it also a big turn of for me was the animations they are very floaty which is not for me. I may give it a shot at a later time.
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Yeah I finally gave up. Everyone said get to 15 or so, but I just couldn't do it. I leveled 6+ alts to 10 and none of them grabbed me. I tried the four classes I was remotely interested in and every starter and second zone just to make sure it wasn't the zone.

It didn't scratch the itch for me either. If anything it made me wish I liked it since now I feel like playing something.
 
Endgame is pretty broken, especially when aiming for attunements.

Mobs and allies bug out on veteran adventures, pretty much rendering some runs impossible to get Gold (or even silver for attunements).

Some WotW "optional" objectives are bugged. Capture 3 points! Yup capturing enemy or neutral points dont count to it, cant make it to 1, let alone 3. Not the only bugged optional quest.
Malgrave trail bugged out on us twice. We set up camp, and we can't uncamp them, forcing us to restart and take another route hoping it doesnt bug when we camp.
Crimelords enemies sometimes rubberband and evade-reset, making the KILL THEM ALL part of the quest impossible, cannot complete.


And the fact that Carbine isnt really responding to the issues and just saying "we're working on it" while they recently broke WotW in a hotfix is the worst part. "It's so hard for us to unfix the issue, blah blah blah" bullshit. I'm a software engineer, if they easily cant undo the ruleset change they made recently, then they're in for a world of hurt for any development further in the game.
 
I don't see a trial anywhere on their website, how do you get in it?
 
I wanted to love this game so much. I wanted it to pull me away for wow. I wanted this to be my next big game. I bought the collectors edition and played an engineer to level 20 and I'm done already. I just don't see much of a difference between this and other mmos that I've invested time in. The biggest deal breaker for me is that this js the first game ever in my 33 year old life that a game makes me seasick. I can't play it for more than 30 min before I get a splitting headache and want to puke.
 
lloose said:
The biggest deal breaker for me is that this js the first game ever in my 33 year old life that a game makes me seasick. I can't play it for more than 30 min before I get a splitting headache and want to puke.
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you're not the only one....it gave me a headache after an hour's worth of play...i swear this game was made for a console to be sitting 15 feet away from the monitor and treated more like an RTS game...its almost like they took an RTS game and melded it with a 'mmo'...I can't deal with 'action oriented' mmo's...rolling around ALL THE TIME is not fun to me

eqnext, is the next big mmo i'm waiting for...probably a 2015/16 release
 
Patch notes:

https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/73484-update-notes-build-6731-6132014/

General
Items in a guild bank will properly transfer when a new guild leader is promoted.
Added a way to filter guild invites. This can be turned on from the Interface Options menu or the invites themselves. The filter blocks invites from players who are not in your friends list or share a guild/circle/arena team/warparty with you.[/size]
A new report spam feature has been implemented for the Mail system. This functions similar to the right click report feature in chat, and players will be able to smite those pesky gold spammers via this system. Buhbye spammers!

Clarified the realm transfer error messaging if a Player Character is the leader of a guild or a Warparty.
Fixed a crash that could occur during the shutdown of one instance of an instanced world.
Fixed a user server crash that sometime occur when a guild is disbanded.
Fixed a world crash related to realm transfers and character deletions.
Fixed an issue that could cause players to be charged multiple times when buying the Advanced or Expert Riding Skills.
Fixed certain issues pertaining to settlement reputations improperly reading parent faction ("The Exiles" or "The Dominion") reputation values.
Lower-case j spacing has been fixed. LOOK UPON MY LOWERCASE J AND DESPAIR!
Subtitles on cinematics will now use word wrap.
There is now a new marker for when an item is not multi-redeemable, which basically means you can only use it once.
We will no longer display your IP Address when you are disconnected for some reason. Sorry streamers! :(
Characters

General
Fixed a bug that where the "In Combat" state on the client differs from the server after a reconnect. This affected Espers innate ability, other similar combat-only abilities, and weapon animations.
Fixed a bug which enabled players to equip multiple unique bags.
Fixed a crash related to summoned pets.
Renown and guild influence now requires more than one party member to be involved in the kill.
Items
Platinum Igniform and Platinum Glaciform crafted weapons’ Assault and Support Power bonuses have been adjusted to their intended amount.
Classes

General
Modified tether physics to reduce the frequency of painful wall collision deaths.
Engineer

General
The synergy between Bolt Caster and Bio Shell was so strong that it allowed Engineer to output DPS numbers considerably higher than other classes. While we enjoy the play style, the damage output was unfair by comparison. Here are the changes we made to address this issue:
Bolt Caster was changed from 5 lines to 3 and the damage per line has been increased (but the total damage possible decreased.) This will make the ability a more consistent performer regardless of the size of the target
Bolt Caster
Base
Shoots 3 projectiles, down from 5.
7.25 damage per level, up from 4.92.
22.87% Assault Power , up from 15.51%
Minor Tier Bonus
2.02% Assault Power per tier, up from 1.26%
Bio Shell’s cast time and damage have both been decreased due to the strength of the Tier 4 bonus and partially due to its synergy with Bolt Caster.
Bio Shell
Base
1.9s cast time, down from 2s.
19.1 damage per level, down from 20.18.
60.29% Assault Power , down from 63.76%
Minor Tier Bonus
7% Assault Power per tier, down from 8.35%
Medic

Abilities
Emission
Fixed an issue where the Tier 8 Bonus would sometimes break and allow the Medic to heal others with the bonus on every tick.
Spellslinger

Abilities
Dual Fire
Fixed an issue with cooldown getting reset if the Player toggles Spell Surge.
Stalker

General
When a Stalker with the Assassin AMP equipped takes damage, they still won't lose stealth, but they will be force detected.
Abilities
Neutralize
Fixed an issue that would cause its Suit Power cost to not reset when mounted.
PvP

General
Deaths in PvP matches no longer get double counted.
Fixed a bug which was causing players to be marked as AFK upon death while in a PvP match.
Fixed an issue in the PvP scoreboard where player stats would stop updating.
Items
Items with faction requirements will now properly function (provide stat bonuses) within PvP matches.
Walatiki Temple
The Medic ability “Extricate” will no longer work on mask carriers.
Content

General
Fixed an issue with daily quest turn-ins not functioning as intended.
World Story
Drusera Instances: Fixed issue where players who dropped a Drusera instance quest were not offered it again
Drusera 3 - The Hidden Dark: Players should no longer be prevented from changing their costume after being cloned.
Drusera 4 - Revelations of Power: Creatures can no longer get stuck on the Exanite pillar buildings, thus preventing players from completing the event.
Achievements/Challenges
Fixed a rare crash that could occur if a challenge is started before the character is fully loaded.
Auroria
Fixed an issue with Buzzbing Zone Boss King Honeygrave that prevented him from healing while casting Mending Swarm.
Dominion Arkship
Dominion Arkship Tutorial - Adjusted the explosion spell on the Primal Fusion Device in the Holodeck so it only appears for the player detonating it.
Ellevar
The rock for the quest "Raving Ravenok" now has a ten second fail safe for a very rare case where it can never be activated again.
Farside
When you don't do what Kezrek Warbringer tells you during the quest "To the Dishonor", the quest will automatically fail and be available to you to try again immediately!
Galeras
Skywatch Settler Payoff now able to be accessed directly.
The quest "Taken Away" in Galeras can now be completed properly if you logged out in the middle.
Grimvault
Players no longer have to carry around the Deletion Grenades available during the System Sweep Quest in Grimvault any longer than is necessary to complete the objective.
Malgrave Hellrose Bowl
Fixed an issue where the third quartet of Emberclan Moodies would not spawn.
The vertical Protostar sign will now draw correctly.
Wilderrun
Gamma Watcher in Wilderrun will now spawn at the same rate as most other rare spawns.
Deathbringer Kala will no longer get stuck if someone 1-shots her.
Deathbringer Kala has ended her Wilderrun walkabout. She should now remain at her post so players can challenge her.
Adventures

General
Partial Primal Patterns are no longer a guaranteed reward from Veteran Adventure Medal rewards.
Riot in the Void
Fixed an issue that caused the events "Demented Demolition" and "Hidden Agendas" to spawn too many waves of rioting prisoners in Riot in the Void.
Updated the durability stats of Rioting Prisoners and Max Sec Inmates to more closely match their spawn timer in Riot in the Void.
Crimelords of Whitevale
Players are able to leave Sub-Basement 101 after attending the Protostar Consumer Conference in Crimelords of Whitevale, and Instances no longer remain busy after completing the Protostar Consumer Conference in Crimelords of Whitevale.
The Malgrave Trail
Fixed in issue in The Malgrave Trail that could cause the wrong achievements to be completed upon finishing each destination's encounters.
Dungeons General
Most creatures are now immune to root and hold effects, preventing their spell casts from being interrupted while they still have interrupt armor.
Stormtalon's Lair
Players standing outside of Stormtalon's den will now be killed when Stormtalon casts Static Wave.
Skullcano
Mordechai Redmoon:
Fixed an issue that was causing his challenge to fail incorrectly (Veteran)
Pin/Big Bang should no longer be cast on Pets.
Sanctuary of the Swordmaiden
Players will no longer be able to resurrect while in combat with Moldwood Maulers and Corrupted Veteran Swordmaidens in the central hub.
Raids

General
Added achievements for the raid attunement quests.
Genetic Archives
Malfunctioning Piston
Dash will no longer target players outside of the area.
Base Interrupt Armor has been reduced from 6 to 0.
Datascape
Added Realm-first achievements for all boss encounters.
System Daemons
Health disparity now has a story panel
System Restore
Now only occurs during a health disparity
Applies a stacking damage buff on cast complete
Purge
Is no longer a channel
Now also occurs on a normal cooldown outside of a health disparity
Updated VFX
Updated timing and cycle order for holdout spawns.
Added 10 second delay before the first stack of Radiation Sickness is applied.
Removed the Cooldown Sequence.
Invalidate
Escalation is now tied to boss HP instead of firewall power.
Updated VFX.
Updated holdout creatures' HP values (most went up).
Overload now properly increases damage dealt and taken.
Increased boss auto attack damage.
Upload and Download
No longer chain casts
Occurs more frequently (~20s).
Disconnect now pauses while the holdout is paused during the enhancement phase.
Covered an edge case for the second enhancement phase triggering during the first one.
Paths

General
In the Arkship Tutorials, we made it so the path representative would call players about the path quest again if players did not interact with the initial call before logging out.
Path Abilities with long cooldown timers have been adjusted to now count down while logged out.
Explorer
The fallen explorers for ‘SCAVENGER HUNT: Forgotten Treasures’ are clickable again.
Soldier
Auroria:
Assassination: Hivestrike Protector - Fixed the difficulty of the enemies so players could complete the mission solo.
Economy Auction House/Commodity Exchange
Fixed the Commodities marketplace ‘Buy Now’ confirm button tooltip to show that tax was added, not multiplied into the total price for the order.
Tradeskills

General
Brigade Archaeologist Renwall and Commission Agent Excavex vastly overestimated the number of Eldan Data Fragments in stock and will now only offer them to a Player once that Player is in a crafting career.
The Brigade and the Commission will now only allow the Player to complete a single Eldercraft daily per day. They congratulate Players that have capitalized on this opportunity, and apologize to those that were unable to profit from their oversight.
Tradeskill talents which reduce crafting costs will now be honored when determining if the recipe can be crafted.
Architect
Architect crafted items were a little too profitable. We adjusted the sell prices of Decor items and FABkits, and adjusted the required materials for some blueprints.
The item quality of some Architect crafted items is still too high. Lowered lots of purple crafted items to blue, blue down to green, and where we needed to upped some whites up to green and green to blue.
Cooking
Chefs Cecilia and Theok should no longer offer cooking quests in Illium or Thayd that reward Eldan Data Fragments.
Outfitter
Fixed an issue where references to Hunter's LitheTek Advanced Legs were not appearing properly in the Outfitter tech tree.
User Interface
Added a background to the Loot Notification window so you'll know when your mouse is over it. Made the Loot Notification window ignore the mouse when it's not moveable.
Fixed a bug that caused the "Reset" button on the Costume/Dye vendor to cause the preview window to display the incorrect dyes.
Fixed a crash occurring on the Northern Wilds Adventure map.
Fixed an issue that caused various parts of the action bar to not behave correctly if the player reference wasn't loaded fully.
Fixed issue with telegraphs sometimes not showing up through portals.
Fixed some cases where activate icons and nameplates might not show up.
Mouse and Keyboard sliders have been added to Combat Options. You can now set some low speeds for epic video capture or some high speeds for epic dance parties!
The quest tracker will no longer steal mouse inputs when it's not marked as "Movable".
Changed friendship LUA event FriendshipRemoved to FriendshipPostRemove for clarity.
Fixed the sorting of quests by distance option so that it updates in quest tracker, zone map, and mini map.
Auction House: Tooltips for items in search results will no longer display incorrectly in certain circumstances.
Occluded hostile PvP units will now report the last known position to the UI.
The ‘Select Parent Décor’ popup now clears after linking décor, when using the housing interface.
Addons
Fixed issues with addons that were caused by recent changes to mouse input.
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I want this game. I really do, unfortunately i just bought a brand new car and am moving which has whipped out my savings and put me on a tight budget for the next few months. I dislike coming into MMO's late, everyone else is already built up with gear and cash and its next to impossible to really catch up
 
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