Dumb game? You sound like someone who is worried people are going to quit whatever MMO you are playing and come play Wildstar.
It's "challenging" in a platformer kind of way where you avoid red circles and lasers. I played enough of Rift & FFXIV to be sick of this kind of design, it's lazy and doesn't take much strategy to beat. And yes, it is a WoW clone except they did the circle/laser thing x100.
At level 11 try Psychic Frenzy, makes you mobile with lower dps and if you can't stand that either, reroll to spellslinger and save yourself some wasted time. TKstrike needs to become mobile, at least at T4 if not base. It just doesn't make sense to be penalized without advantage. Devs aknowledged the issues with the class, but stated they want the static part of TKs and MoB to remain. Somebody suggested a mechanic similar to wow's arcane mage: Arcane Blast, a bonus damage for every consecutive cast. I'd just make it mobile and save myself a headache, then make PF an equal dps skill at the very least.
Certain pieces of decor add a bonus to reset XP you get while at your house... may want to look to see if any of those in your crate give a bonus and place them...
I was dinking around on a Warrior alt (letting my Esper bank some rested XP at 30) and saw you, was going to hit you up for an invite heh.
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Leaving whether or not wildstar is a good game and will stand the test aside, you've never played an MMO that took more strategy to beat than this game, because the game doesn't exist. Go far enough back in time and you hit the point where content was only hard because you had no idea what was going on, come forward far enough you hit content with simpler versions of what wildstar has. If were going to demean a certain type of challenge lets look at this boards roots. Everquest was challenging from a how long can you sit on your ass without developing blood clots in your posterior and dieing standpoint. FFXI? How long can you spam zone chat before you give up because you didn't roll a white mage. My question is if you are downing content that is actually hard, where in the world are you coming from besides games with truly easy content that only required you to be there long enough to get through it?
I feel this way too, this game feels fresh but i think i'm just bored of the genre in general. I'll probably give WoD a shot and call it quits after that. ;_;
Back in the day, PF used to be the builder you got at level 1 and TK was unlocked at level 14ish. That's the last time I played an Esper (over a year ago).
In a completely different tone from the post above, I think a lot of people would agree that watching mmo development has become the mmo for a lot of us.
I had to stop playing quickly, daughter woke up in a teething frenzy last night.
Seriously, these games are about playing in a single game space with other people regardless of your goals. Last night sat in skype with Teljair and just shot the shit for an hour about the game.
Why when the game itself doesn't promote that? The entire leveling process is designed so that you play by yourself. That's a large chunk of gameplay where you're not encouraged to talk to a single soul.