For a limited-time Protostar will match your experience point for point, which means you earn twice the XP every time you earn XP during this special event. The XP X-Plosion runs from February 24 at 2am PST until 11:59pm PST on February 27.

Keep in mind that the double XP from this Double XP X-Plosion! event stacks with the bonuses from Signature, and Signature offers a ton of other great benefits too!

We recommend maximizing Protostar’s very generous Double XP X-Plosion! by tackling adventures, expeditions, and dungeons, which you can queue for by using the Content Finder (N). Already level 50? During the event you can earn Elder Gems twice as fast to purchase items like Ability or AMP points. When you hit the weekly cap of 350 Elder Gems, your XP is converted to gold. It’s a good time to make good use of your time!


Don’t have any WildStar characters yet? The Double XP X-Plosion! event is the perfect time to start, and it’s completely free!

With the upcoming Power of the Primal Matrix update we’re expanding Signature benefits, continuing our monthly in-game rewards, and rewarding players who are continuing subscribers. Check out all the key details below, and if you’re not Signature already, you’re sure going to want to be! Start getting everything you can from your time on Nexus with a Signature membership.





We’re keeping the monthly rewards rolling with the Dream Fawngrazer pet, and Magic Fun Stuff dye. These exclusive rewards are automagically delivered to those with an active Signature membership during these months—you won’t want to miss out!


Signature membership already provides a ton of great bonuses and benefits, improving upon the already spectacular free experience of WildStar. With the upcoming Primal Matrix system we’re adding even more value to Signature by increasing member Essence drops by 50%! That means with every 2 Essence a non-Signature member would receive, you’ll get 3! Gain Essence faster to progress through your Primal Matrix unlocks faster, and get to those sweet, sweet bonuses.




The Starfall anniversary event this June is going to bring back a month of weekly events and rewards to celebrate another great year on Nexus. In addition, those that have been a Signature member for at least 90 days* between January 1 and June 1 will receive an extra special gift—firework mount flair!

In addition to the great Signature bonuses and benefits you get every day—including the new Essence bonus—and in addition to the new upcoming March and April monthly rewards, and in addition to the other gifts and rewards for the event itself, our dedicated Signature members will be receiving this amazingly explosive set of mount flair.

*Reward will be delivered based on used Signature time only, and not time purchased. Used Signature time does not need to be contiguous (e.g. 30 days could have been used January 1-31, and 60 days from March 1-April 30).

In case you missed our Primal Matrix Deep Dive livestream or have been living under a girrok the past couple weeks, we want to give everyone a more in-depth look at the new character progression system coming in the next major content update. At its core, the Primal Matrix unlocks the latent power in every hero on Nexus, allowing for additional advancement at level 50. Through Drusera you’ll be able to further increase your power by way of Primal Essence—an element that’s collected in and spent through the Primal Matrix interface—allowing you to customize and unlock your newfound potential, including new class abilities.

Keep in mind that this content is currently available for testing on the PTR. Some details below are subject to change before the Power of the Primal Matrix content update is officially released. If you haven’t already, we encourage you to hop on the PTR and help us test!


When viewing the Primal Matrix, it’s helpful to understand how it’s arranged. Six color-coded nodes form each hexagonal node cluster, Violet nodes bridge those clusters, and the clusters themselves are arranged in tiers—the central cluster is tier 1, the three clusters connecting to center are tier 2, and the outer ring is tier 3. The further you work your way from the center of the Primal Matrix, the more costly it becomes to unlock nodes, and the more power you gain for doing so.

All players will begin their Primal Matrix progression in the central node cluster. After the first node is unlocked, it’s up to you to choose the path you take around the matrix, based on which stats and abilities most appeal to you. The color of each node on the matrix corresponds to the type of Essence needed to unlock it. There are three Common Essence types (Crimson, Cobalt, and Viridian) and one Rare Essence type (Violet). Common Essence is spent to unlock the nodes in each cluster, and Violet is used to unlock the nodes that bridge clusters. Spending Common Essences will boost stats—some individual nodes have multiple tiers, allowing you to place additional Essences in them to further boost their benefits—while each Violet node grants you AMP Points, Ability Points, or one of two new abilities for your class, as well as boosts to those new abilities.

Here’s a look at some of the new class abilities you’ll be able to unlock:


Black Hole - Engineer


Nano Spike - Stalker


Fusion Probe - Medic


Locus of Power - Esper


Rive - Warrior


Magnum - Spellslinger




Primal Essence is collected by engaging in a wide variety of content, including instanced PvE, PvP, Daily Quests, Contracts, and throughout the world itself. The most lucrative way to attain Primal Essence is to use the Content Finder (default ‘N’ hotkey) and complete the objectives found in the new Bonus Rewards tab. Here you’ll find content options that offer Primal Essence with reward multipliers, meaning you’ll get extra Essence of a given type for completing that content. These bonuses are on a steady rotation and there’s a refresh timer to let you know when they change. The various Essence rewards also rotate, so you don’t have to worry too much about doing a type of content you don’t want to do in order to collect a particular color.

Signature members will also gain a significant bonus to their Essence gains—in addition to all of the other bonuses Signature Membership offers.




In the event that you do run short on a particular Essence type that you need to advance through the Primal Matrix, there’s an Exchange button toward the top right of the Primal Matrix interface that allows you to exchange Essence types for a Service Token fee. Common Essences (Crimson, Cobalt, and Viridian) can each be exchanged at a 1:1 ratio, while exchanging any Common Essence for Violet Essence is 20:1.




On every node of the Primal Matrix you’ll see an assigned Heroism Rating value. Unlocking the node grants you that value, and your cumulative Heroism Rating is reflected at the top center of the interface. This stat is important, as it’s a reflection of your character’s power derived from the Primal Matrix. As you attempt to tackle Prime Dungeons and Expeditions with scaling difficulty settings, you’ll first probably want to have reached the recommended Heroism Rating reflected in the Content Finder.

1. Run content to gain Primal Essence.
   
2. Spend Essence to gain more power and new abilities in the Primal Matrix.
   
3. Increase the difficulty by bumping up Prime Level difficulty settings to get even better rewards and further increase your power.
   
4. Flex.

We’ll cover more details about content and reward scaling in a future article. Until then, we look forward to hearing more of your PTR feedback!

Madame Fay is fixing to refresh her inventory again with all sorts of new goodies for the fortunate among you, and for this round she’s going medieval on her supplies! There are many items with variable rarities, providing you with the opportunity to count your lucky stars, kiss those shiny coins, and take a spin of the wheel.

If you’re still hoping to get your mitts on any of the Winterfest Fortunes, be sure to do that as soon as possible. The inventory will fully refresh with this most medieval of updates.


They’re fierce! They’re ferocious! They’re fast! They’re quite possibly the most Hell-bound Hellhounds you’ll find on Nexus! The newest premiere mount in Madame Fay’s inventory is a beast of immense claws, mean eyes, and no shortage of luxurious bling. You can saddle yourself up on any three superb Hellhound variations, in addition to the ultra-rare gold version.

It’s worth noting that their dentist really deserves due credit too.



As with previous rounds, the Hellhound mount variations in the Madame Fay Fortunes will be rotating approximately every few weeks; beginning with the red version, followed by blue, green, and then all color variants will be available until the next Fortune inventory refresh. We’ll be providing updates on our @WildStar Twitter for when these rotations occur.

After collecting all three non-gold variants, you can purchase a Hellhound Gilding Catalyst for 1 gold from the Madame Fay Far-Traders (found in Illium and Thayd) to consume the mounts and spit out the gold version. It’s important to note that when turning in the color variants for the gold version, the unclaimed mount items must be in your inventory. If the mounts are claimed by a character to be used, they cannot then also be used to create the gold version. Of course keep in mind there is a rare chance to win the gold version directly from a Fortune, and it isn’t on a rotating schedule like the other variants.


There are mounds of other loot to win besides the Hellhound too, of course. Let’s check a few of ‘em out!






Fortune Coins are purchased directly from the In-Game Store, and can be redeemed for Madame Fay’s Fortunes (accessed through the golden carrot icon), which can include a wide variety of items, décor, mounts, currencies, and consumables. Hit your ‘N’ key inside WildStar to bring up the In-Game Store.

Harizog Coldblood has died, but you can’t keep this bloodthirsty Osun warlord down for long. His primal echo, trapped between the physical world and the Great Dark, is about to be brought back to life by the witches of the Iceblood Coven. Informed of these events by the Tower-Engineer and offered an alliance of convenience with the Pell, it’s up to you to ensure that Harizog’s resurrection is violently interrupted.




The remanifestation ritual is taking place in Coldblood Citadel, Harizog’s holdfast of old before he relocated to the Hall of the Hundred. The Tower-Engineer has already ordered his Pell army to lay siege to the citadel, providing you with the perfect distraction. As the Pell and their hulking enemies clash, you must cut your way through the remaining Osun and their slaves if you intend to save Nexus from the meanest warlord north of the equator.

We’ve seen an Osun dungeon before, of course, but with the addition of Arcterra and some fabulous new frozen visuals we found ourselves with a great opportunity to revisit those themes with a frosty flair. The strong theme also allowed us to put some of our newer spell effects to good use, such as the ability to slide players around.

Within the dungeon you’ll find three boss encounters and one miniboss encounter:

• The Hailstone Gatecrasher (Boss) – a siege-breaker ice elemental summoned by the Pell has turned against them thanks to the vile power of the Iceblood Coven. Dodge the spikes, quell his rage, and above all, keep moving - don’t freeze up!
  
• Kherax the Soulrotten (Miniboss) – The Tower-Engineer’s long-lost colleague has been corrupted by the Osun’s soulrot. Now he fights for the enemy – and will turn that soulrot against you and your companions! Avoid infecting your friends and put him out of his misery.
  
• The Iceblood Coven (Boss) – Bust up the ritual of Darkwitches Golag, Ulfrid, and Katla and deal with their respective powers of Soulfrost, Soulrot, and Blood! You may start off facing just one, but more will join the fray in due course – dodge their insidious curses and take them down!
  
• Harizog Coldblood (Boss) – The Frost King returns to life, imbued with the essence of the fallen Darksisters before him. Now he’s summoning the primal echoes of the many Osun frozen around him to infuse him with unimaginable strength! Keep away from his glaive, free your fellows from his soul anchors, and stop him here and now before he threatens all of Nexus!

Coldblood Citadel is one of our quicker dungeon experiences, more comparable to Stormtalon’s Lair or Kel Voreth in completion time, and like those two classic dungeons, it also comes with the Prime Level scaling options. Challenge your group as you slay bosses, earn exciting rewards, and master this frozen fortress!

For a limited-time Protostar will match your experience point for point, which means you earn twice the XP every time you earn XP during this special event. The XP X-Plosion runs from January 27 at 2am PST until 11:59pm PST on January 30.

Keep in mind that the double XP from this Double XP X-Plosion! event stacks with the bonuses from Signature, and Signature offers a ton of other great benefits too—including new monthly login rewards!

We recommend maximizing Protostar’s very generous Double XP X-Plosion! by tackling adventures, expeditions, and dungeons, which you can queue for by using the Content Finder (N). Already level 50? During the event you can earn Elder Gems twice as fast to purchase items like Ability or AMP points. When you hit the weekly cap of 350 Elder Gems, your XP is converted to gold. It’s a good time to make good use of your time!


Don’t have any WildStar characters yet? The Double XP X-Plosion! event is the perfect time to start, and it’s completely free!

They're the biggest of the baddest, and the baddest of the biggest. They're world bosses, and it's time somebody took 'em down!

From January 20 at 2:00am PST to 11:59pm PST January 23, get extra rewards every time you or your party slays a world boss or legendary champion.

World bosses allow groups of players to take on formidable foes for high-end rewards, but you don’t have to be in a coordinated raid to jump in. Anyone can attack a world boss and reap the rewards, so head out and start hunting. Our world bosses article can help in tracking them down.



During the Boss Hunter Challenge, every time you or your party slays a world boss or legendary champion, they have a guaranteed chance to drop a Shiny Token. You can then turn it in, along with a lockbox key purchasable from the In-Game Store for OmniBits, at a vendor in your capital city. Normal creatures you find in the outdoors of Nexus have a small chance to drop a Shiny Token as well, so it’ll pay to get some other questing done during the event too.

But you don’t have to stop at just one boss; you can continually kill each of the world bosses if you have the Progenitor Access Particles needed to respawn them. And lucky for you the number of Progenitor Access Particles needed is lower during the Boss Hunter Challenge as well. Legendary champions will be spawning much quicker during this event too.
When in doubt, get out there and hunt down a world boss!


Head over to your faction’s capital city to turn in your Shiny Tokens. For Exiles go to Nate Baydock in Academy Corner of Thayd, or in Illium as Dominion go to Titian Nepian in Spaceport Alpha. You can turn in a Shiny Token along with a lockbox key for a Lucky Lopp Lockbox, which has a chance to contain some awesome goodies:

• Veggie Launcher Toy
  
• Garden Green Dye
  
• Lopp Hunter Pet
  
• Lopp Grinder Mount
  
• King Plush Décor
  
• Meta Maw Décor
  
• Mini-maw Pet
  
• 24 ‘Carrots’ Toy
  
• And More!

So, dust off your bandoliers and get ready for some sporting-good fun! But hurry, the hunt is only here for a short time. Get into WildStar now, for free, and let the challenge begin!

This hoverboard is paramount, Berserker
Would you like some riding mount, Berserker
This hoverboard is higher count, Berserker
BERSERKER
The Berserker is on the store
It’s very beastly lookin’ hoverboard
It shreds almost anywhere you wanna go
It’s never slow
Would you like to ride some mount, Berserker
This hoverboard is higher count, Berserker
Would you like to know its fount, Berserker
Would you like some riding mount, Berserker






If you’re not a Signature member and you’ve wanted a Loftite Girrok and Trapper’s Togs costume of your very own, the wait is over! The mount and costume are both off Signature Preview and now available to everyone on the In-Game Store.

• Launch the game
  
• Click on the Phineas icon on the bottom left, or press the letter “U” on your keyboard

Most everything on the store can be purchased using either OmniBits (a free currency earned in-game alongside XP) or Protobucks, so get your Protostar-approved items today!

All this icing looking pretty sweet? Then dive in today and get yourself a galaxy-sized slice of WildStar cake—no subscription required.

A Mordesh cruiser—the Zarkhov’s Shade—is drifting towards Nexus following the vessel’s mysterious disappearance from Grismaran space. The last time the ship was seen was when it attempted to run the Dominion blockade around the Mordesh home world. Before the Dominion could intercept her, the Shade disappeared from all sensors and scopes... almost as if she had never existed.





Now the Shade has been found by an ambitious Ekose captain named Biron Weir and it must be investigated. What mysteries are hidden within the hull of the enigmatic vessel? How did it disappear, only to reappear once more just a short distance from Nexus? What is the fate of the ship’s crew and their brilliant captain, Katja Zarkhov? All this and more waits to be revealed in Evil from the Ether!





Expeditions have proven widely popular with players who are interested in short-session gameplay. When coming up with a new concept for an Expedition, we like to mash together our favorite sci-fi tropes with stories or bits of WildStar lore that might need more attention. The tragic story of the Contagion’s ultimate effects on the Mordesh is one that’s only touched on in a few places within WildStar’s questing experience. Since it’s such a key element of what drives the Mordesh, we felt it was important to introduce it to a wider audience.





There’s plenty of combat to be found in the corridors of the Zarkhov’s Shade, especially for those interested in challenging themselves within the new Prime scaling system. Plus, Evil from the Ether will be joining The Gauntlet and They Came from Fragment Zero! as an Expedition that can be scaled for increased difficulty and rewards. So grab some friends—or go it alone, if you dare—and see how far you can climb before the Ravenous beat you down!

Returning in all their glory are two very ethereal Equivars—the floral and purple variants. You can ride wistfully around to your heart’s delight with a simple purchase of either companion, and the offer is available whether you’re a Signature Member or not!




While you may fight the Entity to protect this wretched and imperfect universe, it doesn’t mean you can’t borrow a little fashion from the Skurge. Pick up the Skurge Blue Dye and give your gear a perfect tint. It’s guaranteed to leave no trace of corrupted matter, aside from whatever weird ideas are floating around in your head.




There’s never a bad time to enjoy a sleigh ride! We assume? The fortunate among you who visit Madame Fay now have the opportunity to collect the blue Ho Ho Ho Mobile, which you can combine with the green version to create the rare solid gold variant. In the next Fortune inventory refresh both the blue and green versions will be obtainable, and in rare circumstances the gold variant can be found straight from a Fortune. Got it? Golden! Check out the original article for full details.

• Launch the game
  
• Click on the Phineas icon on the bottom left, or press the letter “U” on your keyboard

Most everything on the store can be purchased using either OmniBits (a free currency earned in-game alongside XP) or Protobucks, so get your Protostar-approved items today!

All this icing looking pretty sweet? Then dive in today and get yourself a galaxy-sized slice of WildStar cake—no subscription required.