Simply put, WildStartelegraphs (shows) all its attacks from both friends and foes. Friendly attacks are designated with a blue color on the ground (in the shape of the attack), and enemies are red. This gives you a chance to not only dodge attacks, but coordinate heals, stuns, and group attacks with teammates. It feels more action-oriented than most games, but still retains that tactical overhead MMO feel that other games have.

It really comes together when you're having an intense fight with lots of dodging involved, only to find out that you have to furtherdodge other world hazards, which are also telegraphed. It's not as fast-paced as TERA‘s combat, but it's a great middle ground for those of you who feel like the old style of MMO combat is outdated. Jumping puzzles and even dodge puzzles are fully intact, which also breaks up the monotony.


WildStaris a particularly pretty game, mostly because of the cartoony art style that isn't afraid to use more than dark colors. It's reminiscent of World of Warcraftfor sure, but much worse from an optimization standpoint. In other words, if you have an older PC and are attempting to run WildStar, you likely won't push a frame rate over 10 FPS. It's strange, because the game doesn't lookas incredible as say, Final Fantasy XIV, but it runs slower on the same machine. Hopefully more optimization will occur in future updates to alleviate the problem with older machines (I'm currently achieving 60 FPS consistently with a high-end laptop, but a lot of fellow players have been complaining about poor optimization as well).

Carbine Studios has responded to early access server issues by opening up new ones, though queues for the old servers (where your friends likely are), are huge. I'm talking five hours or more, and it's clear that they will need to ensure that this doesn't happen with the game's launch tomorrow. Of course, after about a month when the game loses some subscribers (standard practice for MMOs), things will likely even out. It's not ideal but it's far from a complete disaster in terms of an early launch. We'll keep you posted.

Nothing about WildStar‘s early game experience blew me away, but there's not a whole lot wrong with it either from a traditional MMO perspective. As we all know MMOs open up the more you play them, and with the dynamic choose your own adventure events coming up as well as the always crucial endgame test, be sure to stay tuned as I work my way through all of the content. For now, I'm having fun — but we'll see if it's worth paying a subscription for. If you want to buy MMoexp POE currency trade please visit https://www.mmoexp.com/Path-of-exile/Currency.html