Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

Kirun

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Valderen_sl said:
I'm reading some of the healing spells, and while there seem to be regular targeted heals...there are a lot of heals that require freeform targeting, people running into specific areas for heals, or even the healer running around marking players for a heal when the effect wears off.

They mentioned in a video that targeted heals would be less efficient/powerful then the other heals since they are easier to cast, this will either be total chaos and annoying or extremely cool.

They really seem to be pushing the idea of movement and freeform targeting even in the healing department.
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Being aware of your environment/surroundings is fine, but it's a tough balancing act trying to teach players to "get out of the bad shit" and "stand in the good shit!". Especially when the effects of both are usually pretty indistinguishable.
 
Quaid

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Looking like Esper for me. Unfortunately explorer was the path I was most stoked to play, but their path abilities look pretty garbage compared to the others.
 
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Kirun_sl said:
Being aware of your environment/surroundings is fine, but it's a tough balancing act trying to teach players to "get out of the bad shit" and "stand in the good shit!". Especially when the effects of both are usually pretty indistinguishable.
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The wildstar telegraph system seems to color-code everything though, so it shouldn't be a matter of "Ok, that green glow, is it a heal zone, or is it the mobs poison cloud?". It's going to be a matter of "Red bad! Blue good!"

I'm curious how some of the medic abilities work. Most of their abilities seem to be "Send drones, detonate for increased effect". I wonder if that means they're a timing focused class more than a skillshot focused class. Like your drones auto home on people, but you need to reclick the ability to detonate them at the proper range to get full effect? Maybe I'm reading too much into too little actual data. The heavy use of telegraphs in Wildstar makes seeing this datamined list even less informative than it would be in WoW or the like.
 
Valderen

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My first character will be most likely be a Sexbot - Engineer - Scientist.
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Abefroman

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Draegan_sl said:
I don't even know why that article was written. It's super long and the TLDR is: "this game gives you stuff, we need reasons for you to give up stuff to get other stuff. see: housing, repair, AH taxes."
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It's probably for the people that make GET rid of repair fee threads on the beta forums. You can find that thread right above the is there hoods and cloak thread.
 
Kreugen

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I have no fucking clue what a "skillshot" is but I'm guessing "ground target with a travel time"?

Or what we called a "lead shot" since always.
 
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Skillshot is common from LoL. Its any ability that doesnt have an auto lock on mechanic attached to it. So something you have to aim with travel time yes.
 
Caliane

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skillshot is basically anything without autotarget. ground targeting, as well as directional targeting are both skillshots.
 
xzi

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Yeah they did, crazy news flash, LoL is a gigantic game and most people are familiar with it or other mobas.

Their skillshots don't sound too bad, of course I was only looking at some of the healing ones.. so I guess I may not know the best. But none of usreallyknow currently.
 
Ryanz

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I don't really care. I've never played LoL and have nothing against those who do. I just wanted to see who would get their butt feelers hurt first.
 
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