Today’s drop is the information the hardcore of the hardcore have been waiting for…. the Raid Drop!
Time to gather 19, or 39, of your best equipped friends, and go punch a boss in the face!
Stay out of the RED!
Check out the Dev Speak for more raid-y goodness!
You know things are tough… when they describe the rooms as bosses on their own…Naxx’s Safety Dance has nothing on these raids…
Carbine has announced the dates for Open Beta… May 8th to May 18th!
You’ll be able to level to 30 for OB… Here’s a list from the Carbine announcement of some things to do on your way to 30:
- Farside – You ever want to go to the moon and float around while swinging a massive sword into badass, vicious, people eating extra-terrestrials? Me too. Now you that you’ve hit level 30, travel to Farside and get some space between you and the planet Nexus.
- Galeras Adventure – Tower defense just became a whole lot more epic. You and four friends are all that stands between an invading force and holding the fort before reinforcements can arrive. The opposing faction is going to throw everything they’ve got against you: Tanks, missile strikes, snipers, stealth assassins, and some hulking military commandos are trying to make your life hell while you are holding for reinforcements… maybe you should return the favor and kick some ass, cupcake!
- Two New Abilities – Kicking ass is pretty awesome. Now you can kick MORE ass with two new abilities that are unlocked for your class at level 30.
- New Ability Slot – Hot damn, at level 30 you can unlock the final ability slot! Why don’t you buy a new ability and throw that into your brutality rotation!
- Tier Points – Power up your abilities to continue to become an even bigger ass kicker. Or don’t. Whatever, that’s cool too.
We get a shiny new trailer for OB too!
Patch up that client…and I’ll see you on Nexus!
Arenas and BattleGrounds not HardCore enough for you? Can’t find enough people to challenge in Open World PvP? Well… How’d you like to take 39 of your closest friends into an Epic PvP match??? That’s a WarPlot… and today’s DevSpeak gives us the low down on how to deliver the beat down!
Also.. the disclaimer about Ganking Pappy is not funny, Frost… not Funny at all! #TeamPappy!
Warplots look intense… I can see them being great for those guild vs guild grudge matches!
Another awesome Flick from the Carbine Cinematics peeps today! This one is our first look at WarPlots!
These speak for themselves…nothing further needs to be said by me! 😛
Carbine has teamed with the folks over at PCGamer, and given us the opportunity to help design a weapon, and get some free goodies at the same time.
Head on over to the voting site here. Initial voting is which classes’ weapon it will be:
Esper Multitool:
Medic Toaster:
Engineer Beer Cannon:
Warrior Tombstone Sword:
There’s no pistols for SpellSlingers (Because, obviously, SpellSlingers are awesome enough they don’t need a gimmick weapon!)…so, vote for the Engineer Beer Cannon… K?
Voting will not only get you the winning weapon… it’ll get you a Monkey for your house.. a WildStar version of the PCGamer Coconut Monkey:
So…go vote!
Boom Boxes that is!
As a reward/incentive for hopping into beta (pre-order beta, and open beta) Carbine is offering us Boom Boxes!
Boom Boxes are the WildStar version of the various ‘lottery boxes’ that are present in other games.. the main difference being.. we don’t have to pay to unlock/open them!
The WildStar team has put up an overview of Boom Boxes here.
You can even get a boom box in your boom box!
It comes with it’s own DISCO BALL!
The WildStar article says no limit… so make sure you’re logging in daily to get your BoomBoxes… you could end up with all kinds of ‘free’ goodies come launch!