Glossary of terms and general hints WildStar Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

General hints

If you leave your character at home, after you log off, you obtain more Rest XP, than in any other location.
Once per day, next to the home teleport, you can receive one of three bonuses to experience.
Not every item can be fitted with a rune.
You gain levels in the Path only by means of completing the quests in the bottom-right corner of the interface.
Starting with the 20th experience level, you can have two skill tabs.
The larger the group, which you search for the party for an instance, the faster you will find it.
Moving along roads (the orange line on the map) increases your speed.
The Rest XP does not provide you with experience straight away but, if you kill a monster, you receive a small portion of it, as a bonus.
Vehicles, which increase your speed of exploring the world, can be obtained in the Capital City.
By clicking on the name of the quest, in the Questlog, you learn the direction in which you need to go, to complete it.
Challenges can be replayed, if you fail to complete them the first time around.
Never stand in one spot and do not take skills onto you, if you can avoid them. You can never know how strong the skill of the opponent is.
Sometimes, you can run into a hole in the ground, which glows gold. Interact with it to receive a reward.
To unlock a taxi to a specific land, you first need to reach there on foot and interact with that land.
To obtain the "Goldensun" aura, you are required to hunt for the golden buck with the Scientist. You can find this rare monster at 22 server time, in Softsnow Meadows on the Whitevale map. Once you find it, you need to scan it with the scanbot and each of you, should then receive the item that provides the aura.
from the moment, at which you reach level 50, and obtain 140 elder gems in a week, your experience points will be converted into gold.

Glossary

Both in this guide, and in the game, there are terms that the beginner MMO players may not be familiar with. That is why, the basic ones have been presented here and explained:

DPS - A character created to deal lots of damage.

TANK - A character created for survivability and for keeping monsters on him.

HEALER/ HEAL - A character created for healing the other party members.

Mob - A monster.

Skill - Skill.

Rest XP - The experience points that you receive whenever you are not logged in into the game.

Taunt - A Skill that provokes the enemies to attack you, instead of the rest of the party. One of tank's most important skills.

Buff - A strengthening spell with a temporary effect.

Debuff - A weakening spell with a temporary effect.

Tradeskill - The paths of crafting, like e.g. "Mining".

PvE - A player fighting against an AI controlled character.

PvP - A player fighting against the other players.