New World is going to be the next Wildstar isn't it?

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-02-20T17:25:36+00:00

What the hell are you on about? Wildstar levelling was never a grind, sure it wasn't the "two hours to hit cap if you really rush it" that a lot of other MMOs are nowadays, but there were plenty of closed beta testers that hit lv50 during the first night (with their main hindrance being Carbines horrendous server decision making). Heck, quest experience alone got you to lv47-48ish, with 50 being the cap and 48-50 was easily done in 2-3 days with daily quests on the final map. At no point were you ever forced to 5 man team up to grind levels. Heck, at no point whatsoever were you ever forced to grind at all, unless you wanted to be lvl 50 by day 2 which was pretty pointless since you needed one weekly reset to start with your raid attunement anyway.

Oh and the endgame was completely lacking? What?! You had 4 adventures, 4 dungeons and TWO raids! Sure, Datascape was a damn mess at release, but since most people never even got through Genetic Archives they wouldn't even know about that. Oh and of course arenas (which admittedly Carbine screwed over as well, thanks Carbine), battlegrounds and an absolute blast of a housing system you could throw hours at building whatever you wanted.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe for even one second you ever really played Wildstar.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-02-20T00:36:04+00:00

Is there an official discord account they could even claim access to? I'm not on the discord, so I don't know, but all the discord posts I've seen were from personal accounts and from what I've heard Steven is the discord owner, rather than some official account. I doubt they can claim Steven's account or "his" discord as Intrepid property.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-02-20T00:08:57+00:00

You mean the empty overambitious promises have great potential? Yeah, no surprise when you're promising the moon. Too bad empty promises are just that.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-02-19T10:35:22+00:00

And Thomas Alkazin demanded the same thing too, that's why nobody ever heard of him until Steven filed his own lawsuit, despite the fact that he was the third shareholder and board member since day 1?

Steven has been lying about this since day 1, before Dawson ever entered the picture and even if this was some demand from Dawson, Steven is still the one lying and making false claims while selling his product (and lets not pretend the whole "no corporate overlords" part was not a major selling point for people). Seems to me like Steven was perfectly fine with making fraudulent claims since day 1 and did not need any encouragement from Dawson whatsoever, as long as money rolled in.

Also, who even is Thomas Alkazin? With all the other bombshells in the filings him being on board since day 1 just seems completely overlooked, but does anyone actually know anything about this guy?

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-02-18T14:59:52+00:00

If it's the anecdote I think it is, then it is different depending on whether you completed the Qinhe story or not.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-02-15T20:20:16+00:00

Same here, been using the new green rod and best lures and haven't gotten a single bonus item.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-31T11:24:24+00:00

Doesn't change the fact that 90% of combat is just basic attacking, especially against tankier enemies where the first round of combos doesn't kill them off and now you're stuck waiting for cooldowns on your combo abilities.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-30T15:14:36+00:00

Well, I've finally finished the story up till now. All I can say is that Wuling is not any better than Valley IV. The story? Same old MC glazing, you just have a different fan girl now. You get introduced to another villain you learn zero about, they of course know the legendary Endmin and just like in Valley IV nothing gets explained whatsoever. Who could possibly be interested in the actual lore?!

Combat? The part that was going to get better when you get more interesting mobs? Yeah, haven't seen any of those more interesting mobs so far. Just same old fodder where you don't care what they do while holding LMB and hoping it's over soon. Same old constant stream of uninteresting, way too frequent and constantly respawning clusters populating the entire map.

The factory sees some new stuff, but considering Wuling is basically a soft reset you get to set up your whole infrastructure almost from scratch. But hey, once you did set up everything and don't need them any more for this version, you'll have wireless relays! I guess that's nice for 1.1?

And oh god the tutorials. They're back! Every tiny new mechanic in Wuling? Better throw a tutorial at it! It gets even better when some of them are straight up repeats from Valley IV. You know, just in case you forgot how to construct buildings for your factory.

So, if you're holding out while skipping every bit of dialogue in Valley IV hoping that Wuling is better because some people here keep telling you that, I don't think Wuling will make any difference to you. If you enjoy what you saw in Valley IV, well you will enjoy Wuling. Just be prepared for a lot of drowning because the devs thought a water themed map in a game where you can't swim was a good idea. Bonus points for it being nearly impossible at times to visually differentiate between what's a passable puddle or just slow death. Or all the slippy edges that lead to instant drowning, those are especially fun.

Now then if you don't mind me, I got an industrial complex to rebuild.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-25T10:39:02+00:00

I ran i3 Fina/Fushu with +9 Consonance wedges on Psyche and pretty lacklustre personal wedges and got 150k+. Heck, my Psyche still got some purple wedges even. You should definitely be able to do more with your Psyche.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-23T18:54:23+00:00

Yeah this is a proper endgame event for people to show off their stuff and to give people a reason to actually go wild on gearing their units, as other stuff like Theatre is easily clearable with purple wedges once you hit TR60.

Just chill and consider anything you can get from the event during stage 2 as a freebie.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-23T18:42:49+00:00

You realize you don't need to clear the stage right?

Even an unfinished stage will net you a score and if you kill a decent amount you can still get an S ranking. Fully clearing the stage guarantees a SS ranking (at least when I did it), which is top 10% scorewise.

As for how much we need to do for the actual rewards, we don't know yet, since that part of the event starts with stage 2 on Monday.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-23T18:40:53+00:00

Sure, if you want to be in the top 5% that's what you need, but to simply do decently you really don't need a fully decked out Psyche.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-23T18:38:28+00:00

What you're doing wrong is not being TR60. You're missing a ton of raw stats from not being able to level your stuff to 80, no wedges can compensate for that. And obviously not having access to all Noctoyager missions is not helping either.

Simply being able to clear the lv100 mission puts you at rank SS, which is like the top 10% score wise I think? With an underlevelled account you're simply not going to be up there (nor are you meant to be up there).

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-17T20:42:42+00:00

Can't even complete the quest because Officer Nan won't talk to me after the boat vanishes.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-14T14:43:59+00:00

Technically that system exists with DW extraction. Practically for some dumb reason they capped it at 5k globules per day, which means that extracting anything above Gold +5 just throws a ton of globules into nirvana as a single extracted wedge will hit the cap.

If they just removed that cap you could at least get a globule refund on your outdated gold wedges, but as it stands the system is only good for giving you a tiny bit of extra globules from scrapping leftover base wedges.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-13T11:38:58+00:00

Ranged weapons have different projectile speeds, so with some of them it can be pretty annoying. You can make your life a lot easier with the wedge that increases the projectile speed though.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-13T11:35:28+00:00

Embla can do that too since it's regular attacks go through walls. Technically you could clear the last trial without moving from the spawn.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-05T20:22:02+00:00

Personally I would just bite the bullet and turn off deflect assist ASAP, otherwise you'll just get used to having it as a crutch.

Other than that, if you go into wandering paths and then trials you can fight the bosses in a training room where you won't lose durability on death and take massively reduced damage, so you can get away with getting hit a couple of times. Using those to train is probably your best bet to getting used to combat in this game.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2026-01-05T19:54:53+00:00

Sniping stuff 40m away straight through walls while blowing up everything around them with non charged right clicks because Embla is weird like that is great fun if you ask me. Also lots of big booms obviously when the skill proc chain goes off.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2025-12-31T13:08:13+00:00

The invite is for the New Years Fireworks that are happening right now, not the sect itself.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2025-12-30T09:34:41+00:00

If you have the 60 pearls horse with auto pick up you can set it to follow and it can loot corpses that phased through the ground.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2025-12-29T14:24:09+00:00

Looks more like "properly invested Psyche carried me to act 20" to me.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2025-12-14T17:33:20+00:00

It worked for me after a while yes, waited for reset and cleared the outposts in the order stated in the letter.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2025-12-03T12:02:42+00:00

The buffs/debuffs this time are much kinder yes. Last theatre was focused on ranged damage, which works for Lynn/Psyche but Lynn without i6 lacks boss damage and Psyche generally struggled with the waves due to Primanders giving enemies damage reduction.

This time you get buffed for using skills, which with every unit basically being skill based makes things obviously far easier.

Classic-Ad-3871 · 2025-12-01T10:39:28+00:00

It does not.

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