🚀 go-pugleaf

Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in news:cdt00lFmpojU1
@mid.individual.net:

> 
> 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. 
> 

I wonder how the atmosphere will change when the raids start opening
up. At the moment, we're in a bit of a pause - most of us have our
mains at 100, we're doing the dungeons, and the Apexis Crystal daily,
but there isn't much else. 

I'm playing with the Garrison - it seems less useful than I hoped,
though the body guard is welcome.

But... I sort of feel that the Garrison thing will soon outlive
its usefulness. The followers aren't much help except in the 
non-instanced world, and the benefits derived from it don't seem
to be significant to even a low-level raider.

I'm using it mainly to generate AC to buy gear, and to build up
my bodyguard. I wonder if I'll essentially abandon it at some
point.

pt