A Little Bit Casual, a little bit Hardcore
Hello
Exiles and Dominion of the planet Nexus and beyond! My name is
Zilvis. This is my end of the week community spotlight that I’ll be
doing each and every week to delve a little more into who a certain
member of the WildStar community is, learn the what and why of their
choice to migrate to Nexus, and maybe some surprises along the way.
The way I looked at it we're all community bound like brothers and
sisters in this game of WildStar. Why not get to know someone a bit
better? Once again welcome, sit back, and prepare to meet this week's
community member. This week is slightly different, we have not one
but two community members! A gamer couple this week, let's meet
Kataryna and Licurgo. Welcome to Sunday Sit down.
I’ll
let you write a little introduction.
If
you have other monikers some may know you two by, feel free to throw
them out there. Mainly just tell where people can find you both
online and any background you'd like to share we might not know.
Our
Real Names are Amy and Clay. I’m Random Kat, Kitty or just Kat,
and Licurgo got the nicknames Iggy/Ig or Licorice/Licurice because
it’s apparently hard to say Licurgo (Le-sir-go)?? We met in
college and that’s that. We have 2 wonderful kids and our daughter
starts kindergarten this year!
Question
1:As this is a WildStar themed project, we'll get those underway
first. As most of us at one time or another have asked ourselves,
what is WildStar to you both?
Wildstar
is our next stop on the MMO circuit – WoW, Rift, SW:ToR, GW2 and
finally Wildstar – it may be my final MMO if all goes right in the
world!
Question
2: What is one thing in the game you’re both hoping to be perfectly
done, whether because it's needed or just something for your
experiences specifically?
I’m
hoping that the Raids are awesome and really hard – even though I
have to be a casual player right now because of the kids and Lic’s
job. And also housing – I’ve never played a game that had
housing, as I quit Rift before they put in the housing – and I
really hope it turns out great.
I’m
hoping that the PvP is done well – I’ve always liked PvPing from
when I started WoW onwards, I had an Orc Warrior that was a few ranks
from getting High Warlord.
Question
3: I did a blog post discussing maybe why someone might pick one race
over another in WildStar. What race do you two identify with and why,
even if it won't necessarily be either of your mains?
I’ve
always always always played a smaller character – from Gnomes, to
Dwarves, to Asurans – so from the moment I saw the Chua that
Innocent Civilian posted on the Last Dominion Race Speculation thread
I knew that I was going to be a Chua.
When
Kat showed me the Wildstar trailer I liked the Granok right off the
bat – they’re big guys who drink beer, kick ass, and take names.
Question
4: I'm sure everyone has their WildStar moment, as I call it, that
quintessential thing that cinched in each of your decisions on the
game.
I
saw the First trailer a couple years ago and really liked it, but
then forgot about it because there wasn’t much more information out
there about the game. Then at the end of last year (2012) I read one
of the Wildstar Wednesdays that said they were going to be announcing
more stuff at the beginning of this year. I started lurking around
Wildstar Central until they announced when they were going to be
showing the Dominion – once they showed off the Race Reveal
trailers I was hooked for good.
Kat
pretty much told me, “Hey, we’re going to be playing this game
when it comes out.” So I looked into it a little bit – though I’m
not one to devour all the information on a game this far out from
release – I leave that up to Kat.
Question
5: What aspect of WildStar are you two most excited about and feel
you'll spend the most time on such as Questing-Housing-PVP?
PvP
and Dungeons are most likely what I’ll be doing the most out of
everything outside of leveling/questing with Kat.
Leveling/questing
with Licurgo, and Housing with Nyxis *Waves at future Roomie –
Nyxis #PumpkinHearts!* Lic won’t be into housing at all so I had
to find a someone to be a roomie with me
I would LOVE to raid hardcore like I did back in Vanilla WoW – but
with 2 little kids it’s hard to have that time without cutting into
the time that the raid has set aside.
Question
6: Out of everyone from Carbine that you two have interacted with,
who has surprised you the most for one thing or another by what you
have seen that they have said or done so far?
I
love all of the Carbine-ites I’ve interacted with! They’re all
awesome and I’ve been impressed by how often they take time to
actually talk with people that are interested in their game! Bardic,
aka Jen Gordy, is always in Turntable.fm/wildstar hanging with us,
and Tom Servo, aka Jeff Kurtenacker, is summonable with a flip of the
Ke$ha switch!
All
I know about the Carbine people is what Kat tells me – she’s much
more active in the community than I am, I just listen to her and nod
my head.
Question
7: If you each were given the power to either alter the game in some
way or add something to it that has not been mentioned or rumored,
what would it be and why?
I
don’t really like the single weapon type for classes – I’d like
to have more types. I know there are lots of styles of each weapon
but they’re still the same type of weapon.
I
would actually like the ability to make an official “Neighborhood”
circle (or just call it a Neighborhood) where anyone you add to that
circle is in your neighborhood and you can only be in on
“Neighborhood” at a time.
Question
8: What is the one thing you two want Carbine on a personal level or
business level to know that you both have enjoyed from them?
II
would tell Jeff Kurtenacker to keep up the wonderful work on the
soundtrack for the game – I’ve listened to what he has on his
sound cloud so many times I can click to my favorite parts of each
song the first time every time!
I
would tell all the Wonderful Community people at Carbine that putting
up with us crazy fans is a crazy job and they are crazy-awesome for
attempting to do a job this huge! And I’m sorry to Scooter for
still
bugging him about my stuff – if you’re reading this, you know
what I mean Scooter, lol, I might even send more cookies!
OK,
that's it for the cross section on WildStar Q's. Next is a few Q's to
get to know Kat and Licurgo a bit better besides their amazing
exploits across Nexus!
Question
9: First off you two, have you both always been into gaming or did
one get the other into it?
I
played games when I was younger (Starcraft, Warcraft, etc), but as
for MMOs, I had a friend in college that started playing World of
Warcraft and got me and a few other friends into it, and then I got
Kat into the game as well.
I’d
had the first Nintendo that I had to share with my sisters when we
were little – we were allowed to play 30 mins to an hour at a time
then had to go outside to play! For MMOs Lic got me into them with
WoW.
Question
10: Do you have some top gaming moments together or separately that
are fond memories?
One
of the funniest things I remember from gaming was doing the Lava
Packs in Molten Core in WoW – I was the Warlock class leader and we
would banish switch when one was almost dead – causing everyone in
the Vent chat to go, “KAAAAAT!!!! WARLOCKS!!! STAAAAAHP IIIT!!!”
We would die laughing every time!
(WoW)
Being a hardcore combat rogue and evasion tanking the boss long
enough to get the battle rez on the dead main tank because the
off-tank could never get the aggro off me after the MT died –
‘cause I’m a hardass like that.
Together,
I’d say my favorite thing was when Lic, me, and a friend of ours
making level one toons that we than ran by foot from Stormwind up to
Wetlands, to Southshore, back down to the Wetlands, across the ocean
to Theramore, and all the way down to Tanaris. Took all night to do
that, but it was a blast – we also had rules like “No Rezzing at
a graveyard” and “No Flight points.”
Question
11: Besides Gaming what are each of your other hobbies?
Besides
gaming? We have kids!! And I love to watch College Football (Texas
A&M Aggies First, then Arkansas Razorbacks).
Yeah,
we have 2 kids, there’s not too much time for much after that. I
love to bake – check my thread on Wildstar Central about my cookies
I sent to Carbine! And I’ve taken to making up my own mixed drinks
– my favorite still is the Low Grav – Jack Daniels and Cream
Soda!
Question
12: Do you have any tips for other gaming couples or gamer parents
that might be helpful?
Find
a game that you both enjoy so you aren’t having to explain
everything to the other person about the game you are playing. And
make sure the kids have a set bedtime so that you can get your game
on without having to worry about what the kids need!
Question
13: Is there any hidden talents or trade skills you two would like to
share? Is there something new either of you'd like to learn?
Neither
of us can really think of any hidden talents or the like that we
have. Besides Licurgo being a former Lumberjack – he built log
houses for 5 years. And I make the World’s Best Sugar Cookies –
or so some that have tried them claim. Something new? I would love
to go to school to become a massage therapist.
I
can play Chess pretty well? That’s something most people don’t
expect from me. Metalworking would be pretty cool to know, I guess.
Question
14: Simple one now I promise. Do you two have any pets? If you could
have any real or made up pets, what would they be?
No
pets, our landlords said no. I’d love to have a cat or a Corgi –
the Corgi would be named Ein, naturally.
I
would love to have a cat again – they’re the best pets ever!
Question
15: Finally, If there were one person living or dead, real or fake
that you could sit down and have a long discussion with together or
individually, who would it be and why?
I
really have no idea who I would want to talk to –
How
about Jim Butcher – Author of Dresden Files and Codex Allera – he
would be fun to talk to, we both love his books and I would hope to
get more insight into the worlds and characters from his books.
OK,
Kat and Licurgo, I hope that wasn't too painful for you. I appreciate
you being guests for the Sunday Sit down. Now, I’ll let you have
free reign. If there's anything else not asked here that you'd like
to get out there that you think would be interesting for us to know,
feel free to share. Things like plugs for your twitters or anything,
and of course feel free to give shout outs of any kind!
You
(usually) won’t find Iggy anywhere near Twitter or Facebook –
I
figure that if anyone wants to find me they’ll just tell Kat
they’re lookin’ for me. Oh great! – Kat has now told me that I
have a twitter account @LicoriceQuips …really, Kat? –
Yes,
really! And I’m @KatarynaWS on Twitter and you can also find me on
Wildstar Central as Kataryna.
That's
it Folks. Everything you'd want to know about the gaming couple
supreme Kataryna and Licurgo and hopefully more! I thank them again
for putting up with me as well as you the reader. Each and every week
we will have a new and fascinating community member to learn about
and see what really does make the WildStar community tick inside and
out. Feel free to contact me anytime on twitter @zilvis78, comment
below, or if you bump into me on the interwebs say hi!
