🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:08:15 -1000, red...@lava.net wrote:

>I do most  of my playing in the 'casual' battlegrounds. The my initial
>response is that the personal 'fort' and the supplies it provides,  is
>that it is well suited to a PvP player.

In all fairness I really like the garrison, it's just a shame
everything in it involves waiting for stuff to happen, it feels like
the free games I play on my phone. Fun, but the kind of thing you log
in, do your tasks, and log out again. And it's disappointing to find
my professions, which I used to love, are now also in that category:
wait for cds, you can't do anything else until you've waited for
enough cds to finally have the insane amount of mats required to make
one thing... :-(

>I have a friend who rarely, if ever, is a PvP player. His analysis
>mirrors yours, Catriona R.

I was perhaps feeling a bit negative when I wrote it - there *are* fun
things, it's just I don't have the level of interest I usually do at
this stage in an expansion. Perhaps my tolerance for massive grinds
has reduced... or perhaps in the past the grinds were mixed in with
other stuff so didn't feel as intimidating: right now all I can see is
huge grinds, or dungeon quests, which aren't really very appealing
either (I've actually tried a few dungeons this time out, out of 6
tries, I left 2 early due to awful groups, not a very good hitrate to
encourage me to keep trying...)

On a more positive note, I've just brought Nat Pagle to my Fishing
Shack, that was a grind to get that far, but fun to feel I've achieved
something! Also got my lovely blue peacock pet from the catching all
the battle pets achievement, I love pet battles and I'm glad to see
there's plenty to do with them here, I really need to get down to more
battling so I can get my mengaerie lvl 3 :-)

>One of my big questions, when and how do we learn to fly? 

Right now, we don't. Possibly, in a future patch, possibly not,
depends how Blizz think it's working. At present, I'm enjoying being
on the ground, so have no objection to it lasting a while - had they
not ruined gathering by making the Mine overproductive, and
professions so gated by cds that nobody needs much ore (where's my
prospecting? That'd create an instant market for ore!), then I'd be
missing it more, as there'd be a ton of competition for veins, and I
much prefer flying when I'm gathering. However, as it is, nobody cares
about veins and I can pick up tons on the ground anyway! Never thought
I'd find myself just ignoring any which take the slightest effort to
reach but... they're not worth anything.