Wildstar Attributes Guide

wildstar attributes Once you open the Character Screen (P) you’ll find a list of stats completely different from the ones you get used to in other MMOs. In WildStar, you can’t easily define Stats (Attributes), since they have different roles for almost each class, and provide subtle character development. On the Character Screen, Attributes are divided into two tabs: Primary Attributes and Secondary Attributes.

During the character’s progression your stats will automatically increase per level, and additional stuffs that also affect your attributes are Gear, Runes, and AMPs.
 
Before we continue with detailed explanation of Primary Attributes, I would like to draw your attention on definition of base stats: Assault and Support Powers, since those powers have the main role in many spells:

wildstar assault powerAssault Power affects damage and determines the effectiveness of Assault abilities and is subject to diminishing returns.
wildstar support powerSupport Power affects damage or healing effectiveness of Support abilities available in the Second Skill Tree under Support Tab.

 
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WildStar graphics comparison

Ever wondered what’s the difference between the lowest and the highest video settings in WildStar? Well, somebody compared WildStar graphics and posted a video on YouTube today.
 
For a work in progress it doesn’t look bad at all, even at the lowest video settings. You can check the video here:
 

 
Click to read more about it and system requirements

Community Beta Key Giveaways

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Giveaways for everyone! That sums up pretty much yesterday in Wildstar. Community websites across the globe got a chance to give away beta keys to their visitors. This is the first time Wildstar fans can get a chance to test the game before release, without being picked by Carbine’s random number generator. We are very honored to be among the websites given the opportunity to make their visitors happy. Just in case you want to increase your chance of getting a beta key you can apply for it in various ways on different fansites. Here is the list of all websites giving out keys separated by region (and as seen on the official website for the USA, for the EU, for German fans and for French fans).

Click here for a full list of websites doing the giveaways

Wildstar Beta Key Giveaway

beta key giveaway

Although holiday season is behind us there is no reason not to give gifts and boy do we have some gifts for Wildstar fans. Thanks to great help from NCSoft and Carbine we are able to give away 15 Wildstar Beta keys that will grant you access to the ongoing beta of the game. This will give you the opportunity to see and test the game months before it is released. In addition to this main prize we decided to also give away a couple of Wildstar items we got during gaming conventions. This includes a size XXL hoodie with Wildstar logo on the back, Wildstar T-Shirt with a Granok on the front and a Wildstar mouse pad. Use the widget bellow to enter into the giveaway raffle.

Click here to find out who our winners are

WildStar Guild Basics

One of the most important features in every MMO – guilds, has standard options we’ve seen so far in other MMO games and a few new, interesting ones. In WildStar, every moment spent playing with your guildmates means a lot to you and your fellow guildies.
 

How to create a guild in WildStar?

Ask a guard in your capital city about Guild Services and he will show you location of a guild management NPC on the city map. Prepare 10g and bring no one but yourself when you are level 12, because that’s all you need to register your guild. And some design affinity, since you have to create your guild emblem using one background and one foreground icon, found on two long lists. If you change your mind about the look of your guild emblem, you can always change it later for a small sum of influence (more about this later). You can also change names of three starting guild ranks (leader, council and member) while creating a guild.


 

Guild basic functions

  • Guild bank – unlock and rename guild vault tabs where you can deposit and withdraw items, deposit gold, set gold withdrawal allowance and repair limit, log tabs with every guild bank action displayed. You start without guild vault tabs so you have to spend influence to unlock the first one.
  • Customizable guild ranks – allow you to create and customize existing guild ranks and their permissions – chat, bank logs, invite, demote, rename guild ranks, etc. Although it says that you can enter 25 characters, max of 16 characters is allowed (it is a typo or a bug).

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  • Guild tax – optional 5% tax that applies on every amount of gold looted by every guild member. Your money will get contributed to the guild vault if your guild leader decides to turn this on. For a leveling guild it might be the best to skip this until everyone gets to mid levels.

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Weekend Wildstar Livestreams – The Stalker class and some PVP action

The weekend behind us finally saw a premiere of a dev speak video about the Stalker class. We already wrote how the livestream was postponed couple of times due to holidays and sickness, but this Saturday everything was ready for the big show.

The Stalker was also the last class to be shown. To mark this occasion WildStar also decided to hold big PVP, “Battle of the Century”, event which was lead by Lead Narrative Designer, Chad Moore and the producer, Stephen Frost.

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WildStar’s Winter Beta 2 patch

wildstar winter beta patch
 
The latest beta patch for WildStar brought light visual improvements, bug fixes and some significant tuning of classes.
 
It might sound disappointing that there’s no real new content here, or that level cap is still the same, but for some that won’t be the worst news they got. Developers actually made female characters more realistic reducing their, until now, flatteringly curved figures. Based on further feedback, developers may change this decision in the future.
 
Additionaly, mmorpg.com did “Ask Me Anything” with Stephen Frost, Design Producer of the game, and among many interesting things Frost said, MMORPG was inclined to estimate Wildstar release date somewhere between March and May, this year.

This is the final third, where features are being locked down, content is being packed in and tailored, and bugs are being brutally squashed. Tie that in with the announcement schedule I mentioned earlier, and it’s possible we’ll be seeing WildStar launch sometime between March and May

Here’s hope that those words are true.