Voldeth
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I hope your interest in this thread means we can count on you playing a medic.
Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion
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Sutekh
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haha, god I don't know bro. I'm not sure I can take healing in another mmo. Maybe if the Medic is like WAR warrior priests!I hope your interest in this thread means we can count on you playing a medic.
Voldeth
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The real question you need to ask yourself is whether or not you can stomach someone else playing the healer while you not so subtly point out to him that if you were the one healing things would be going much smoother. I also think we both know the answer to that question!
Quaid
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This is why I ALWAYS roll a healer main. Unfortunately you're still at the mercy of terribad tanks.
I'm not discussing whether the combat is good or bad, as I've already said I liked it. My point is the actiony combat makes the game much more spammy. The nature of the system means one will be pushing a lot of buttons. I'm just not sure how you can say it doesn't, even if you streamline every option.
I have an N52 I use for Neverwinter and D3, although I haven't played those games in a while. I may dust that off and try it out here. I don't use it in WOW, SWTOR, or P99 simply because I don't need to with my G15 Keyboard and I tend to chat more. Also, whoever said this is the same as Rift is crazy. I can macro one G key on my Keyboard for that game, and with it's tab targeting system play for hours and hours and never need a break. Wildstar is grinding my poor hands down.
Raign
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The combat is spammy in so far as that your 'filler' skill needs to be activated vs. just being an auto-attack mechanic. Other than that though it is not different than most MMOs (even slightly less so since you have a limited action set). I just have my filler mapped to my mouse-wheel so it really does not bother me but to each their own.
Game feels very similar to GW2 for me with more WoW humor and flavour thrown in.. which is a good thing. I leveled a couple characters to cap in that game and had they had anything remotely meaningful to do at the cap I would still be playing that.
Game feels very similar to GW2 for me with more WoW humor and flavour thrown in.. which is a good thing. I leveled a couple characters to cap in that game and had they had anything remotely meaningful to do at the cap I would still be playing that.
Korrupt
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The Naga works great in Wildstar and taking the minute to rebind everything is really going to help including the sprint button. The APM dont feel like they are out of control or like someone compared even close to Rifts spam. My wrist and pinky were getting crushed on the prior CBT's but I feel fine playing now.
Mr Creed
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Pretty much the same for me, and I held out close to a year hoping for improvements. I think from the dev speak and previews they do take endgame serious, so the odds are good in that regard.
Does Wildstar have reputation grinds or other optional activities for fluff like mini-pets, titles, special skins or recipes, mounts or housing items? I think diversifying away from pure combat activities is a good way to lighten up the endgame.
Voldeth
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Can't comment on rep grinds but given how every npc you kill gives rep for an area, I'd say it's a safe bet that there will be rep grinds in some form.
I haven't seen any mini-pets, there are titles, droppable recipes, there are several unique mounts already, and there's a gazillion housing items/schematics that drop.
Zindan
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Yea, I imagine outfitting your house could fill the desire for optional activities quite well, since there are tons and tons of housing items you can get in various ways.
Miele
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That's why WoW invented Death Knights, awesomeness all-in-one package. I'm not reading much on WS yet, (I applied for beta, but no luck so far), but I hope they have some life leeching tank in there, or tank-ish healer at that.
Bondurant
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Hm I mostly play with normal mice / keyboard, maybe I should try one of those to see the difference.
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its going to be, thats why i rolled one.
just hopped in my cousins TS, he was doing some raid with his guild, mentioned wildstar they all literally had no idea what the fuck it was, i think this is a good thing.
rhinohelix
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I picked up with a Naga Epic for D3, TSW, and GW2. I love it to death. Its an amazing device for those games with limited action bars. Its my everyday-usage mouse now. In games with tons of actions, such as EQ2, etc. it might be of more limited utility but even aside from the buttons, it is an all-around great mouse with fantastic lighting.
iannis
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You must have played a warrior.
I played a mage in Rift. It's about the same level of button pushing. It really is. Just a statement of fact. I left Rift for a lot of reasons but one of those reasons is that they kept doubling down on mage button pushing. It started to get absurd. So I hope Wildstar doesn'tforcethat style of play onto everyone and then ramp it up every patch because they ran out ofbetterANY OTHER ideas.
I just play with a keyboard and a mouse. No fancy doodads. Buttons per minute is right around the same. WS might actually be a little LESS spammy than a warlo-burninator was.
Qhue
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I actually patched up Rift the other day and after logging in went to the forums to see what was what regarding Mage builds and promptly ran away screaming when I saw the sheer number of buttons present in a 'standard rotation' and that was with macros being used!
The presence of a finite number of action slots on the bar in the Wildstar vids makes me happy for this very reason. I never ever want to again be in a situation where I am tracking tons of different DoTs on seperate timers along with procs, cooldowns and reactives. I want to play the game, not the UI.
The presence of a finite number of action slots on the bar in the Wildstar vids makes me happy for this very reason. I never ever want to again be in a situation where I am tracking tons of different DoTs on seperate timers along with procs, cooldowns and reactives. I want to play the game, not the UI.
