🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:50:26 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
wrote:

>Den 10-12-2014 00:32, Catriona R skrev:
>I can see the grindfest will stop within 2-4 months depending on each 
>player's situation and progress.  Raiders will get gear so they dont 
>have to grind apexis for 655 gear anymore. 

Hah, most of them won't be grinding it anyway, unless stats on other
gear types are much better than those on cloth - with the emphasis on
secondary stats this time out, I look at the apexis gear and think
most of it's worthless :-/ Got 2 pieces, and upgraded one to epic, but
with most of them the stats mean that unless I got them up to 655,
they're worse than if I don't get them and keep my blues.

So removing reforging was supposed to improve things... nope, made a
lot of gear into trash instead lol.

> Followers are geared up etc.
>After the initial garrison phase where you build and level up your plots 
>your mats and resources will explode in your bags once your have more 
>than 1 lvl 100 char (thats what is happening here with 3 100s).

Heh I'm finding that with 1 lvl 100 and a couple of low 90s tbh, only
thing I'm much short on is herbs, but once prices came down enough to
just buy them instead of trying to feed my scribe from my main's harb
garden, that was fine :-)

>The follower/mission aspect is fun.  But it reminds me too much of those 
>games you can play and facebook and/or your phone (farmville etc.).  If 
>you want progress and level and gear up your followers you have to check 
>the game all the time.

That's about the most fun thing in this expansion - I really do enjoy
it, but yes, feels like my phone games. 

>I also miss the main city where I see other players.  I *can* move my 
>arse to Stormshield (ally), but I spend most of my time in the garrison. 
>  So I feel a bit alone.  The /trade chat is shown when youre in the 
>garrison.  but its still not fun.

I don't greatly mind that bit as I've always hated crowds anyway, it's
nice being alone. I do however miss having reasons to go out into the
open world, there's just not much that's very compelling to get me out
there - there's my fairly pointless apexis daily, now I've built the
stables I have those dailies too, and that's it, anything else means I
have to feel like bothering to do a mindless grind for a bit. Even on
a super high pop server I don't see huge numbers of otherpeople
aywhere other than the apexis daily areas, so I guess I'm not alone in
not having much reason to get outside, a real shame when so much of
the world looks fantastic!

>Luckily Blizzard has hotfixed the hc dungeon quests acquired from the 
>Inn so peeps cant leave and hand in their quests anymore without also 
>killing the _last_ boss.  Many players still havent found out that and 
>yesterday I was in 4 or 5 dungeons where players just left after they 
>completed a hc quest.

That's a good fix for people who were doing them in groups, and
needed. It's a bad fix for people like me who were having fun finding
ways to solo many of them - invis pots plus that temp stealth ring
from SMV to grab an item was fun!

I do need to actually do the rest of those quests sometime, but my
usual dislike of 5-mans has held me back; the levelling normals were
pretty fun tbh, but I hit a bad group in Everbloom and that put me off
again (I don't get why anyone would want to walljump to skip a few
packs on *normal* mode, and if they really had to, perhaps bothering
to explain the route to the other four members of the group who were
clearly new to the place, it being normal mode, one week into a new
expansion, might've helped... as it was I quit after several minutes
trying to get up this stupid wall, and never went back)