Wildstar Begins Second Stage Of Free-To-Play Testing

The second phase of Wildstar's closed free-to-play beta test begins around 1AM PDT on September 03, 2015. In a post on the Wildstar forums, Carbine Studios' Community Manager stated "the purpose of Phase II is to focus all testing on the financial aspects of free-to-play, and we’ll be asking players to spend real money to purchase NCoin." So, pry open those wallets and stock up on NCoins. But don't worry purchased NCoins during the closed beta will not be lost to the void. The "real" NCoins will be allocated to your account, to be freely spent on other games, such as Aion or Lineage, or used when Wildstar's free-to-play servers open their flood gates.

Also announced, Runecrafting will be seeing a massive overhaul to be implemented in the free-to-play update, and will compliment combat stat changes.

You can read the Phase II announcement post on the Wildstar forums.