First WildStar Livestream This Saturday

The very first of the WildStar livestreams will happen this Saturday, November 9th, at 12PM PST. The stream will be focused on a particular class, though there is no mention of which one will be featured. The team did state that it would be one of the classes that are already known, but there is a ton of new info that the team will be showing off during the stream.

Make sure to tune in to WildStar’s Twitch Channel on Saturday to catch the stream. If you can’t watch the stream live don’t fret, the footage will be made available to watch on YouTube about a week after the livestream.

You can read the official announcement from Carbine Studios here.

First WildStar Beta Weekend has begun

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As you probably know, between pre-order going live and launch, WildStar fans will be able to participate in four beta weekends. While everyone else will be required to obtain a key to participate in the beta weekend, players who pre-order the game will have immediate access to each event, and today, is your first chance to land on the planet Nexus! This event lasts from Friday, March 21st, 7:00AM PDT through Sunday, March 23rd, 11:59PM PDT.
 
Before you jump in the game, don’t forget some tips shared by developers:

  • If closed beta participants reached 32+ you will not require a Pre-Order key. Otherwise, yes you need a pre-order or weekend key.
  • The Alizar Realm will be down for approx 60 minutes. New characters created with old character names will be renamed “OldName”Alizar.
  • If you are seeing “No Realm Available” and did not reach level 32+ in beta, please check you have applied your Pre-order/Weekend Beta key.
  • We recommend everyone to use the en-US, we will have a localised client for FR & DE at a later date.
  • Make sure you are using your NC account email address as your username.
  • Select the North America region on the game launcher as beta weekends will be on NA servers.
  • If you have just logged in and are seeing a queue, don’t wait! Use the Realm Select at the top of the Character Selection screen!
  • If you cannot see your previous characters, make sure to change Realm to the one you used previously
  • I’m getting a “No Data Center Permissions” error, what does that mean?
    That error means you’re attempting to connect to a region that is not yet active. For the current phase of beta, you should be connecting to the North America region, regardless of where you are currently living.

 
See you on planet Nexus!

Failed to connect to patch server issue

If you’re having the issue “Failed to connect to patch server” when you start the game, it means that your firewall or security applications may be blocking your ability to connect to the WildStar servers. You can try the following solutions listed below:

  1. Run the game as admin
    Right click on the Wildstar program icon – Run as Administrator
  2. In Command Prompt type ipconfig/flushdns, then hit Enter
  3. Add the following wildstar patcher URL lines to hosts file:

    174.35.37.197 wildstar.patcher.ncsoft.com.cdngc.net
    174.35.37.197 wildstar.patcher.ncsoft.com

    If you don’t know how to find hosts file directory location, you can type the following address into File Explorer: %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc

    • Right click hosts file and open it with notebook
    • Add two lines listed above and save

     

    host file location

Facesnuggler’s for all!

To celebrate one month of the game being live Carbine has decided to gift its players with a costume item. Item is called The Facesnuggler and it is a head piece costume. This will be an Account Level reward (so, available to all your characters). All you have to do is to have applied a retail key to your account by 12:01AM PDT/7:01AM UTC, Monday July 7th. Item should be on your account, and ready to snuggle your face by 12:01PM PDT/19:01 UTC, Tuesday July 8th. You can see the screenshot of the item bellow or visit this topic on the official Wildstar forums to discuss this reward.

facesnuggler

Esper Livestream

Did you miss the recent Esper class livestream? Did you watch it and immediately want to see all of it again? You’re in luck, because you can watch the whole thing as many times as you like since the event was put up on Youtube. There are two parts, so make sure to watch both videos!

Esper Dev Speak Video

It is that time of the week – time for another class dev speak. This time Carbine developers go into more detail about Esper, the ranged dps/healer of the game. It also has various crowd control abilities (snares, roots, knockbacks, knosckdowns, subdue, “monitor turn-offs”), buffes and de-buffs and a freakin’ psionic blade that he manifests into existence to kill enemies.

As always, the video has some easter eggs in the disclaimer section and we have ripped out the frames for easy browsing of what the Disclaimer guy had to say (and to find out what he had for dinner that night apparently).

Click here to see the Disclaimer guy’s rant

Esper AMPs Locations

While leveling, your character obtains skill points and AMPs points. The second ones can be used for unlocking AMPs. Tier 1 AMPs are unlocked by default, when you collect enough AMP points, but AMPS Tier 2 and Tier 3 are locked, and players have to unlock AMPs with corresponding AMP items first. AMPs items can be obtained as mob drops, quest rewards, or you can buy them from vendors.

Link to our detailed AMPs guide and vendor AMP Locations for other classes.

In the table below you can find locations for all Esper Amps, for both factions Exile and Dominion. By clicking on the links in the Vendor columns you can see map location for each vendor. You can also search the table by choosing vendor name, or location from drop down menus at the top of the table.
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