A Slight Change of Plans

Hi,

I decided that the goal of getting Chewwy through Auroria so that all my characters would be done with it was a bit pointless. With all the other characters, getting to 30 is important for Tier 3 Housing Plots. But with Chewwy not having any gathering tradeskill and no Plots, there really is no point. He can craft all the Armor and Weapons no matter what level he is.

So, the new plan is to level Slinger and Teccy. Get them both to 30, and then get them both to 40, and 50.

So, that's what I concentrated on this week, stopping playing Chewwy when he/she hit level 18. Slinger finished off Whitevale and even went out of her way doing Scientist missions there too. She hit Farside Bio Dome 3 to get to 30, and then I concentrated on Teccy.

She's part way into Whitevale right now, and because I'm so used to Spellslingers now, having a relatively easy time of it. She's also getting quite a few Relic nodes, so that's good too. She only made level 24, so still a bit of a way to go to 30, so that I can get the Tier 3 Relic Plot for her.

Cassy has been continuing to do the Crimson Badlands and Northern Wastes dailies. She's not quite Beloved with Crimson Badlands yet, and a fair way from Beloved Northern Wastes, but she'll get there eventually. From the tip from Missy about hiding the interface, Cassy features in the new banner for the blog:

New Banner

Other than all this. I'm making tons of gold. Cassy is making tons after getting Elder Gem capped doing the dailies. I'm making Refined Diamond Power Cores with Teccy and sending them to Chewwy. Chewwy makes a Fine Platinum weapon that vendors for 1g30s by spending 20s on Medium Flux. Teccy is also making money by vendoring Octopod Serum and low level ones from plants she grows in the Garden. Octopod Serum vendors for over 19s, so one craft comes to more than 95s. Slinger is just vendoring the wood from the trees, and is now getting Augmented Hardwood, as she's upgraded to the Tier 3 Thicket.

With all this gold, I bought another CREDD for 6p.

Account

I'm now all set for months.

Dominion on Thunderfoot:
 
Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 15/14/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 22
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Architecture Tier 4
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 23
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 3
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 18
Bags: 10/7/7/6 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 4 Armorsmith Tier 4
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 24
Bags: 10/9/8/8 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 5 Technologist Tier 5
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 30
Bags: 10/10/9/9 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 4 Tailoring Tier 4

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 3
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A


For Dominion, I'm now 167/300. For Exile, I'm 3/300 :)


The plan for this week is to continue with the dailies on Cassy, and level Teccy and Slinger. Also, to continue to make tons of gold gathering from all the Housing Plots.


Cheers.

Hobbled!

Hi,

That's right. I was sick for quite a bit of the week. It hit hard Monday night with chills and fever etc. and knocked me out for Tues, Weds and Thurs. I didn't play at all during that time, and only felt like playing again on Friday. So, not much progress at all this week.

On Fri, Sat, and Sun, Cassy got the Crimson Badlands and Northern Wastes dailies done. She hasn't hit the Elder Gems cap yet, but should tonight. Up to nearly 18p again though, so still making some good money. Quite of bit of it this week was vendoring Augmented Hardwood.

I did continue with my plan of getting everyone through Auroria. I got Esper to 22, and just started playing Chewwy again, the last to not have made it through.

In my shortened week, I just worked on Crafting a bit too. I did quite a bit with Teccy, getting into the Artisan Tech Tree, and got Technology to Tier 5. This is excellent, because now I can make tons of money with all the Tier 5 herbs that Cassy has been getting doing the dailies. Also, Teccy can now make Diamond Power Cores, which will allow all the other crafts to get through Tier 3.

Another money making scheme I have right now is crafting Sapphire Power Cores, getting Titanium from the Housing Plot, and sending those to Chewwy. With 6 Titanium, and a Refined Sapphire Power Core, you only need to buy a low Viscosity Flux to make a Fine Titanium Roomsweeper, that vendors for over 70s.

So, that's about it for this week. Just for Missy Mojo, who commented how cute Slinger was, here's another pic of her:

Slinger in shorts

Dominion on Thunderfoot:
 
Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 14/13/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 22
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Architecture Tier 4
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 23
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 3
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 14
Bags: 10/6/5/4 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 3 Armorsmith Tier 3
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 22
Bags: 10/9/8/8 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 4 Technologist Tier 5
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 26
Bags: 10/9/9/8 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 4 Tailoring Tier 3

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 3
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A

For Dominion, if you think of my goal to get everyone to 50, I'm currently 157/300. I'll report on this total each week too.

Next week, the plan will be to get Chewwy to 22, and continue to do dailies on Cassy. Then I plan to level Slinger and Teccy more.

Cheers.  

A Little Bit of Everything

Hi,

Yep, did a lot of stuff this week, all over the place.

First, Cassy continued to do the Crimson Badlands and Northern Wastes dailies. She made tons of gold after Elder Gem cap, and bought another CREDD for 5p75g. CREDD is hovering between 5p50g and 6p on Thunderfoot currently. I thought it might go down a bit after July 3rd, but it held steady. I'm now paid up through October 1st, and still have about 14p to play with. Cassy also actually visted Blighthaven for the first time. Here's the proof:

Blighthaven

Blighthaven is pretty fun, and it's fun getting some regular quests again other than the dailies.

Cassy didn't do anything much to the house this week, but the front of it is just getting more cluttered :)

Home

The other characters that got play time are Teccy and Slinger, other than just farming the housing plots.

I decided that Slinger should be my next 50, so I spent quite a bit of time on her, and got her well into Whitevale and up to level 26. I'm leveling Teccy also, and decided to get her through Auroria. I got her to level 21 and she should make 22 tonight. I kind of like the idea of getting all the characters done with Auroria, so I may level Esper and Chewwy next.

Every time I log on, I go farm the plots on my 5 plot characters, before doing anything else. Here's what they have currently.

Cassy - Survivalist Tier 3 plot, Garden Tier 3 plot
Esper - Festival Tier 2 plot, Mining Tier 2 plot
Meccy - Survivalist Tier 2 plot
Teccy - Relic Tier 2 plot, Garden Tier 2 plot
Slinger - Survivalist Tier 2 plot

When Slinger and Teccy get to 30, I can upgrade to Tier 3 plots for them. It was smart of Carbine to tie plot levels to real levels, or everyone would just get to level 14 and then farm farm farm.

I've also done a lot with Crafting this week. Teccy got to Journeyman Technology and I farmed some herbs for her on Cassy too. Meccy and Slinger are almost done with the Tier 2 Tech Trees, and are using the Sapphire Cores from Teccy. Chewwy is crafting stuff with the Refined cores from Teccy and making lots of gold.

Dominion on Thunderfoot:
 
Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 13/13/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 20
Bags: 10/8/7/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Architecture Tier 4
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 23
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 3
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 14
Bags: 10/6/5/4 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 3 Armorsmith Tier 2
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 21
Bags: 10/8/8/8 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 4 Technologist Tier 4
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 26
Bags: 10/9/9/8 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 4 Tailoring Tier 3

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 2
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A


Next week I plan on leveling Teccy and Slinger some more. I plan on doing the dailes on Cassy, and have her finish up with Blighthaven.

My Technical Issues

Hi,

Well, let me tell you about how I play the game. I play on a Mac. I use bootcamp to boot in Windows 7. Wildstar runs OK mostly, but when I'm in a heavy memory hoggy zone, I crash a lot with out of Memory, or bad memory references. I've verified that this is because I'm on a Mac, because I downloaded on my Windows laptop, and have no similar issues. What I do, is every time I need to go to Illium, or Grimvault, I quit, log into my laptop, do what I have to, and then go back to my Mac. Not perfect, and I really wish they'd have a native Mac port.

On to my play this week. I needed Ancient Wood for Esper for Architecture. I was shocked when the Tier 2 Thicket didn't give any, so I decided to level Meccy some more, to get to the Tier 3 tree zones. Well, it was really frustrating. I don't know if I can play an Engineer very well. I kept dying in Whitevale. Especially in the cave with the Hazmat suits. Arrgggh. So, I had a brilliant idea. Why not just replace Relic Hunting on Cassy with Survivalist instead? Indeed, that's what I did. Zoomed through the first couple of Tiers, and found lots of Tier 3 trees in Southern Whitvale, and Farside. And then ground out to get to Tier 5.

The Strain dropped this week, and I immediately started doing the Northern Wastes dailies along with the Crimson Badlands ones. I get Elder Gem capped in 3 days! Now, after getting EG capped, you get 2g38s each time you would have got an EG. So really, every quest is 3g or more. That's about 70g from the two daily areas, not to mention any drops (got a purple rarity dye and sold it for 1p), so I'm now sitting at just over 12p.

BTW: I have not even got around to doing Blighthaven yet :)

Cassy has made some changes to her house:

The outside

There's a large Falkrin Gate at the entrance, and a Pell banner over on the left with some type of Exile ship.

Inside, right

I bought a couple of Cassian Walls (on the right) and moved the bed behind them. I also learned how to use advanced controls, so I'm now hovering the Eye.

The rest

Pretty much the same as before, with the bad gone, but there is a Hooded Stove that Esper made at the back there. I eventually hope to have walls separating most of the space, and maybe a second floor.

So, what else. Well, after I found out that I couldn't play Engineers, and because I realized that maybe my Tailor could make some great gear at endgame, I decided to focus on Slinger. I got her to 20, and will be planning on her as my next 50 now.

I'm also leveling Teccy a lot, and really loving Technologist right now. I wanted to make Power Cores for my troops, but she's selling the Refined Quartz ones for 30-40s, so my other characters are just buying the cheap ones from the vendors to level their cratfs instead. It really looks like Power Cores will be a nice little earner for Teccy, so I plan on leveling her too.

Dominion on Thunderfoot:
 
Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 13/13/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 20
Bags: 10/8/7/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Architecture Tier 4
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 23
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 2
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 14
Bags: 10/6/5/4 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 3 Armorsmith Tier 2
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 15
Bags: 10/8/7/7 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 3 Technologist Tier 3
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 20
Bags: 10/8/7/7 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 3 Tailoring Tier 2

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 2
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A

Next week, I plan to do more dailies on Cassy, level Slinger a lot more, and make tons more gold. Teccy will likely get more play too. Maybe Cassy will even get to do Blighthaven this week :)

Cheers.

My First Level 50!!

Hi,

That's right, Cassy finally made it to 50 on about Wednesday I think. Just knocking off the quests in Western Grimvault got her there. And here she is:

Cassybrit at 50

Then, she immediately went to Crimson Badlands to do the dailies there. I was pleasantly surprised. They were more fun, and slightly easier than I expected them to be. I look forward to doing them every day, and every day on each 50 when I have more. Cassy also finished up some more quests around Grimvault to get even more Elder Gems. She won't cap this week, but will next week, hopefully. She's also up to about 4p80g now.

I'll be using this guide for what to do at 50:

Level 50 Guide

Well, I had 5 Dominion, and all Crafts covered except Tailoring. So, I decided to make a Tailor. Meet Slingerbrit, another Cassian Spellslinger:

Slingerbrit

I just love Spellslingers, so on the Dominion side I'm now full, with 3 Spellslingers, 2 Engineers, and 1 Esper. I took Survivalist to pair with the Tailoring, and got Slinger to 14, so she could start harvesting wood on the Thicket plot.

What else I did was get Meccy to level 20. That's so she could upgrade to the Tier 2 Thicket. She's still only get Ironbark Wood though, which is a bit annoying. I'm asking about this on the Wildstar forums. She's got the most gold out of any of my toons at level 14 because of just vendoring the wood. She's got about 20g, whereas my toons usually have less than 10g at this point. The leather and meat will just go to Meccy for Outfitting and Cassy for when I decide to level up Cooking.

I also got Teccy to 14 so she could get a Relic plot and Garden plot for fun Technologist materials.


Dominion on Thunderfoot:

Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 13/13/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Relic Hunting Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 20
Bags: 10/8/7/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Architecture Tier 4
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 20
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 2
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 10
Bags: 10/6/4/3 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 3 Armorsmith Tier 2
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 14
Bags: 10/6/5/4 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 2 Technolgist Tier 2
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 14
Bags: 10/6/5/5 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 3 Tailoring Tier 1

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 2
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A


The plan for next week is to get Chewwy to 14 (just so he/she can log off immediately :)) and do dailies and grind Elder Gems on Cassy. I will probably work on leveling Meccy further, so that I can at least start getting Ancient Wood from regular play.

Cheers.

Almost There!

Hi,

Yep, Cassy is almost level 50. Level 47 in fact and so close to level 48. She did tons of Malgrave before going to Grimvault and is now questing there. Most of my play this week has been on Cassy, and I'm pretty sure she'll make it to level 50 next week. While questing, she was able to amass a lot of gold, and I put in a buy order for CREDD at 3p when the top sell order was 3p40g. It was filled the next day, so I'm now good to go until Sep 1st.

Cassy was also adding to her house, which I will show you here:

Outside:

Outside Brit Abode

There's a hammock between my Mineral Plot and Garden with an overgrown cactus behind it. There's a Sentinel by the entrance to the house.

Inside:

Inside right

There's a bedside lamp by the bed and a huge ocular eye. A screen shields the bed from the sitting area, and there's a lamp and some coins on the table.

Inside left

There's a stuff bookshelf and a dart on the wall. Also a table and some crates with some plush pillows in the corner and a keg to the right of it.

I don't know how to make walls and everything because I've been so focused on getting Cassy to 50 and making gold. Once she's 50, I'll try to work on the house a bit more.

In other news, there were reports that Technologists could make a good bit of gold, so I started one:

Teccybrit

A Draken Spellslinger. I got her to level 10 fairly quickly. But the next day, they nerfed Technologists, so the money making wasn't there any more. Oh well, I planned on doing all Tradeskills, so no harm done. Only Tailoring to go now.

I also worked on getting Esper's Tech Tree filled out so that she could make Tier 2 Fabkits. So she made a Tier 2 Mineral Plot for Cassy, and one for herself, and made a Thicket one for Meccy. However, you can't use Tier 2 Kits until level 20, so I did spend some time getting Esper to 20 this week.

Dominion on Thunderfoot:

Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 47
Bags: 13/13/12/11 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Relic Hunting Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 20
Bags: 10/8/7/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 3 Architecture Tier 3
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 14
Bags: 10/8/6/4 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 2
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 10
Bags: 10/6/4/3 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 3 Armorsmith Tier 3
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 10
Bags: 10/6/5/4 Crafts: Relic Hunring Tier 1 Technolgist Tier 1

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 2
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A

The plan for next week is to get Cassy to 50, and then see what gearing up is like and what money making is like at 50. Then she may work on being a scientist a bit, having totally ignored it all this time. I also wan to get Meccy to 20 for the Tier 2 Thicket, and I could really do with getting Chewwy and Teccy to 14 so they can get houses.

Cheers.

It's All About the CREDD Baby!

Hi,

Yes indeed. CREDD went live last Tuesday, and I couldn't to wait to see what price it was. I had about 2p90g and was wondering if I could get a CREDD for that. Well, indeed I could. CREDD was 2p50g and that came out to 2p65g after taxes. Yay! All payed up through Aug 2nd now. I'm well on my way to my 2nd CREDD too, sitting at 2p1g. The current low Sell on Thunderfoot is 2p44g, so I'm almost there.

Well, my money making was cut back a bit, because of all the Architect nerfs last week. They took all profitability from crafting stuff with Iron and Titanium, so I had to look for other alternatives. I saw that Weaponsmithing looked good for Iron Ore, so I immediately made:

Chewwybrit

Chewwybrit, a Chua Engineer with Exploration. I got it (him/her??) to level 10 fairly quickly, and decided to go with Weaponsmithing and Armorsmithing, freeing up my other two slots for Tailoring and Technologist.

Well, Weaponsmithing wasn't good for making gold. I was not taking into account the high price of power cores that you need from a vendor. So, you're spending about 16s on the mats, and then 6 ore, and the weapon vendors for 26s. So, it works out about 1s33 for each ore. That's barely above vendor cost. Oh well, at least money's not that important now that I've already got a CREDD.

Most of the play time was on Cassy. She had a tough time at the start of Farside (Bio Drome 3), but it gradually got easier, and she finished off Bio Drome 4 and the other part of Faraside now problem. Wilderun wasn't an issue at all. Maybe I've just improved my play since Dio Drome 3 :)

Of course, along the way, Cassy picked up odds and ends for her house. Just used whatever dropped and haven't bothered spending any money on it. Here's the outside view:

Outside Brit Abode

There's some fencing, a cloths line, some overgrowth, a spindly plant, a metal platform, and a Container. I'll show you how the inside's coming along next week.

The other thing that Cassy did was get her AMPs sorted out. I really hadn't looked to see what the best Tier 2 were, and settled on needing Deadly Chain. I saw that 8000 Deadrune Watch rep was needed to purchase it, so Cassy spent one evening in Deadrune knocking that out, as she had quested in Ellevar previously.

One thing I really like doing is using the Plots on the Houses as often as possible. Both Cassy and Esper have Mining Plots, and Meccy has a Thicket plot. The Mining plots are used to feed Chewwy's Tradeskills.

One other thing. Thunderfoot was down for an hour on Sunday. So, I started up my band of Exiles on Avatus. Bunnybrit was born (sorry about the pic, but she really hasn't got any gear yet:).

Bunnybrit

Here's the current state of play:

Dominion on Thunderfoot:

Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 39
Bags: 13/11/11/10 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Relic Hunting Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 14
Bags: 10/8/7/6 Crafts: Mining Tier 3 Architecture Tier 3
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 14
Bags: 10/8/6/4 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 2
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 10
Bags: 10/6/4/3 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 1 Armorsmith Tier 1

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 1
Bags: 0 Crafts: N/A

The plans for next week are to get Cassy to higher levels and hopefully buy another CREDD. Also, to finally get Esper and Meccy off their butts and out into the world, a leveling them higher. I don't know if I'll play Exiles at all, but we'll see.

Cheers.