WildStar release date announced

IMPORTANT NOTE:
WildStar Release Date is announced for June 3rd, 2014. If you want to find out more about preorder start and bonuses read our latest breaking news

Today Carbine unveiled a little upsetting news for all WildStar fans – WildStar’s release is officially pushed back to Spring of 2014. Jeremy Gaffney, Carbine executive producer, confirmed that the main changes to the game depend on the feedback provided by beta players, and that all content must be polished before the launch.

It’s very dependent on our players though. We reserve the right to flip-flop around, because we have to have people in the beta going ‘Yeah!’ and we have to have all of our content in and tested in the beta, but right now we’re targeting early 2014, spring 2014.

Although the fans will be a little disappointed with this decision, it’s good to know that Carbine’s number one commitment is a high-quality game with polished content and deep top-level gameplay.

WildStar Rare Mob Locations Guide

Are you in the mood for hunting rare mobs? If your answer is yes, and you need a hand, take a look at our WildStar Rare Mob guides where you can find all rare mobs available in a particular zone, their spawn locations with coordinates, their abilities you should be aware of, and possible loot. And when we talk about loot you can expect a wide range from 16 slot bags to unique items with Imbuements. List of mobs categorized by zones is included below:

WildStar Quests Database

We are proud to announce that we have launched our WildStar quests database, in a form of searchable list of all quests found in WildStar. Each quest contains basic information, like quest level, zone, category and objectives. We went one step further and provided screenshots for each quest objective, which main goal is to help you resolve given tasks much easier.

Our idea is to provide screenshots for as many quests as we can, and you can be sure that we will provide full screenshot walkthrough for the toughest ones to complete. Since this is all manual work it might take a few weeks to enter all the information we collected during the beta period. Any suggestions and feedback are welcome, but in the meantime feel free to browse our Quests Database.

WildStar price for Standard and Deluxe Editions

Starting March 19th, WildStar fans will be able to pre-order the game on Amazon, BestBuy, GameStop and other retailer. The game is offered in two packages, and while there is no official info about the price of the game, we dug out some interesting information:

Gamestop has Standard Edition listed at $59.99 (gamestop) and some local retailers told us that the price in Europe will be 35£
Digital Deluxe Edition is 15£ more than standard and this was confirmed officially by Wildstar Twitter account.

This is still considered a rumor, but this sounds quite plausible.

Find out more about bonuses for each Edition

WildStar Post Launch Summary

During the yesterday’s Nexus report and some interviews after Nordic Game event numerous post launch questions popped up, and we decided to make a summary and give you a brief report about what you can expect once the game launches.

Monthly updates – over 200 people are working on post launch content, and another team is working on the live game.
Monthly game updates can be described as combination of different content styles. One month it will be a new zone with casual zone content and quests, another month might be PvP month, and the next one might be dungeon month.
Guild Player housing it’s currently in development
There will be something similar to Google Authenticator for launch, but there will be no physical devices.
Head start has a weird time because it will be timezone neutral as much as possible.
Servers will be pretty large, much larger than those we used to see in other games, but smaller than a megaserver. It will be busy, healthy servers with enough space for everyone.
If a server crashes, 95% of the time they don’t need human interaction to come back up. They’re built to do it themselves very quickly.
Probably no server statistics pages for a while, but they would like to do them eventually.
Game Surveillance Unit will be using active and passive spam/bot detection for Cheat detection logs called JRK logs.
About Multiboxing: if you’re doing it yourself without the use of 3rd party programs/bots/macros, it’s allowed. One keypress for multiple characters is not allowed.
No set downtime for maintenance (i.e. weekly etc). Prefer to deploy patches on Thursday or Tuesday. Probably higher concentration of patches during launch month.
Raids reset 10AM UTC Tuesday.
They have the tech for realm transfers, but they don’t know when they’ll be available.
Preorder keys have a grace period after head start of three days (ends June 5th 23:59) to enter full game key if you’re getting a physical copy.

Source: Game Reactor, Frippety @ reddit, http://www.twitch.tv/wildstar/b/532722816

WildStar patch notes July 16th

WildStar fans will be delighted with today’s patch notes that basically increased item drops from bosses in Dungeons and Adventures, and the chance to get AMP and Ability Points as drop in World Loot.

Characters

Items

When moving a Soulbind-On-Equip item in your inventory, the “Confirm soulbind” dialog will now only appear if the item would become soulbound.
Items transferred to the Guild bank now properly validate uniqueness.

Stalker

Shred should now deal damage as intended.

Esper

Visual effects should once again show up when casting “Crush”

PvP

Gear in the buyback list now counts towards the gear score when queuing up for PvP matches.

Arenas

The Deserter debuff now properly applies to AFK players who go AFK in an Arena.

Economy

Loot

Several rewards from Stormtalon’s Lair, Kel Voreth, and Skullcano normal mode have been increased in item level.
Several rewards from Hycrest, Astrovoid, War of the Wilds, Siege of Tempest Refuge, Crimelords of Whitevale and Malgrave Trail have been increased in item level and rarity.
Bosses in Stormtalon’s Lair, Kel Voreth and Skullcano normal mode will now drop at least 2 items, instead of 1, when defeated.
Reward points in Hycrest, Astrovoid, War of the Wilds, Siege of Tempest Refuge, Crimelords of Whitevale and Malgrave Trail normal mode will now drop at least 2 items, instead of 1, upon completion.
Dungeons and Adventures no longer have unique rewards on Bronze, Silver and Gold Medal rewards.
Bronze Medal will no longer sometimes award good-quality loot.
All excellent-quality and superb-quality items that were previously only available on the Silver and Gold Medals are now available from the final boss.
Medals now also multiply the amount of money awarded from the final encounter:
- No Medal – 100% money reward
- Bronze Medal – 150% money reward
- Silver Medal – 200% money reward
- Gold Medal – 250% money reward
Medal rewards now confer additional loot rolls on an instance-wide loot table. Each of these rolls has a flat bonus chance to select from the final boss’s superb item list.
The reward structure is now as follows:
- No Medal: 1 roll on the final boss table
- Bronze Medal: 1 roll on the final boss table, 1 roll on an instance-wide loot table
- Silver Medal: 1 roll on the final boss table, 2 rolls on an instance-wide loot table
- Gold Medal: 1 roll on the final boss table, 3 rolls on an instance-wide loot table

AMP and Ability Points are now more likely to drop in World Loot.