Hitting level 50 isn’t the only step required to get into raiding. Heck, it’s not even just about getting right gear. Wildstar has a host of requirements before that’s possible. See the images below:
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Author: Sharden
From the Web: 50 Most Frustrating Video Game Moments
This video from buzzfeedpot is spot on. Though, admittedly, there was a few references I didn’t get. Did you get them all?
Blizzard Reacts to Wildstar Launch
Let’s face it: World of Warcraft is the standard to which other newly minted MMO’s are compared. It’s the elephant in every room in every competing developers office. Because, as we’ve no choice but admit, every other major MMO is competing with WoW. Sure, to some extent with each other as well, but the prize is the amazing subscriber numbers that Blizzard has been able to amass. While we’ve seemed to move on past the point where every significant launch is heralded as the ‘death knell of WoW’ (Aion, Rift, SWTOR, etc), there’s always still that cautious eye raised towards the king of the mountain. Will it be dethroned or will the latest challenger fail to even shake its lofty perch? Of course, even with its pet behemoth, Blizzard has to be concerned when a new contender arises. And they’d be fools to not take a few preemptive strikes… (more…)
From the Web: Wildstar Raiding Devspeak
If you’re like I am, waiting for a 3 hour queue to get into Wildstar, then check out this video about raiding in the game. However, if you’re not waiting in queue… you should still watch it cause it’s pretty funny. They did an amazing job with the devspeak videos.
Wildstar Launches Soon!
Less than an hour until Wildstar launch so I wanted to share some quick things to follow.
- If you don’t already have the game… get it here.
- If you aren’t going to get the game or want to find some others who are… watch some streams. See below for some streams.
http://www.twitch.tv/sharden0/
Yes… the top one is me. Obviously I’ll pimp myself on my own blog. Don’t judge me.
Preparing for Wildstar Online
So you want to play Wildstar? Me too. Since I’ve gotten some beta time and some other steps out-of-the-way, I wanted to share a few steps in what any new Wildstar player should do. I’ll cover race, faction, class, addons, and servers. If you’re not fully prepared – read this post!
Step 1: Pre-order the game. If you’re going to get it anyway, you may as well buy it sooner to get some cool perks.
- Exclusive Rocket House
- Exclusive Housing Trophy
- Exclusive In-Game Title: “Chosen of the Progenitors”
- Access to Beta Weekends (there’s also some weekday betas going on that you can still partake in as of the time of this writing)
- 3 Day Head Start
- In-game Storage Bag
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