🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 14:04:15 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>You have to go hunt down treasure chests all over filled with entirely
>useless crap. Many, if not most, of these chest require playing some
>variation on Super Mario Brothers (jump here, run and jump here,
>pirouette here, then mount up and jump onto that pixel there so you can
>run across that rope (Don't fall or you start over!)... yeah, that
>sounds like fun. Oh wait, no it doesn't.

Eh, outside of Nagrand, which did overuse that, the vast majority are
sitting on the ground, or inside huts you go to anyway while doing
quests. There's over 200 available, you need 100, less than 50%, and
there's not *that* high a percentage of annoying ones :-) And if
garrison resources and free gold are "useless", well... you don't seem
to play the game much if you don't have a use for either of those?
Collect them on an alt (rogues/druids are good, stealth past
everything); most alts are starved for resources and need all they can
get; it's also good exp so that alt can skip doing all those quests
you hate so much ;-)

>You have to max out the rep with about 10 factions, which means more
>entirely pointless farming since these factions do nothing at all for
>you.

No, you have to max exactly zero factions. Get revered with three, all
of which take a maximum of 3 weeks, or 2 minutes if you use all that
"useless" gold from the treasures on buying medallions on the AH (1k
rep to every faction on use) :-) 

>And, to top it off, you have to complete all the randomly available
>quests out of a raft of 12.

All but one of which can be bought from a vendor for garrison
resources, at which point it takes a few minutes each to clear them. I
did 7 in a row with my bf the other day, took us not much over an
hour, would've been less if one hadn't been Skettis (now THAT one
sucks...)

>> my bf got it a couple of days back and he HATES any kind of grind...
>
>Obviously not since everything required for flying is a grind.

Nope, if you play the game at all, then only a very small amount of it
is a grind, since you've already done most of it. If you don't quest,
don't explore, and spend your entire life in queued-for instant
teleport instances, then I don't really see much need for flying
anyway... 

>The definition of grinding is doing pointless simple things over and
>over again. Grinding is never hard, it is tedious, repetitive, boring,
>and almost entirely pointless.

Well, in that case, none of it's a grind except possibly the
reputations. Do the questlines ONCE (they don't even all have to be on
the same character, as long as you do all of one zone on one alt!).
Explore places ONCE. No repetitiveness in that at all ;-)

>> unless you levelled doing nothing but instances you'll be 90%+ of the
>> way
>
>I was nowhere near 90% of the way there at level 100 and after months
>at level 100, I still am nowhere near 90%. In fact, for the lore
>master achievement, I don't have a single zone complete. For the
>exploration achievement, I don't have a single zone complete.

Wow. I find that utterly incredible tbh, I know you *can* skip to a
new zone immediately on levelling but I've never thought anyone would
do it to the extreme of not finishing a single zone, even on alts (if
you have any, I don't know your character situation) It's mindboggling
to me :-)

>I was reading up on Shadowmoon valley because I really though I had
>explored everything. The solution to get the exploration achievement was
>to go to the south coast, us the feather to launch yourself into the air
>and then fly over the otherwise inaccessible island off the coast.

Eh, what? Have they never heard of... swimming??

>What the fucking fuck? Are they *serious*?

Erm, no, they're either trolling or really stupid, that might be a
"faster" way of geting there but it's not the *only* way.  Either,
that's the island full of lobsters at the south coast, which is so
near the mainland that you can walk through the water maybe swimming
about two strokes before you reach it. Or it's Darktide Roost, which
you get a mission for in the other part of the achievement (so are
going to anyway), and get given a flightpath to for free (my new lvl
90 horde alt can fly there right now, despite never having set foot in
SMV); if you don't get it for whatever reason, then swim/waterwalking
mount there.