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Article #351758Re: Trying a few things...
From: Peter T.
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 16:04
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 16:04
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Den 26-09-2015 kl. 16:04 skrev Lewis: > In message <d6icte...@mid.individual.net> > Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:56:07 +0000 (UTC), Lewis >> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > >>> In message <mu0q0l$552$1...@speranza.aioe.org> >>> Peter T. <pinoc10@hotmail.cum> wrote: >>>> Den 24-09-2015 kl. 14:11 skrev Lewis: >>> >>>>> Most of them I'll never use. I have some set as favorites and I have two >>>>> bound to specific keys (water strider and travelers mammoth) and that's >>>>> all I need. I don't foresee ever going for the next level of the >>>>> achievement. >>> >>>> Same here. My hotkeyed mounts are the waterstrider, the grand >>>> expedition yak and the flying cloud. The flying cloud because its small >>>> and doesnt cover my sight when I fly. >>> >>> Flying? You're flying? >>> >>> You bastard. > >> It's really not that hard to get; > > In two months of playing I've made almost zero progress on it. You have > to explore every zone and complete every quest chain (why? Because we > want to make sure you've done all our content before we let you use the > majority of your mounts). > > 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. > > 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. > > And, to top it off, you have to complete all the randomly available > quests out of a raft of 12. > >> 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. > >> so if he can do it, anyone can ;-) >> Just chip away at it a bit at a time, most parts are easy enough, > > 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. > >> 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. > >> to loremaster/exploration for a start - exploration goes really >> fast if you can get some mug with flying+vial of the sands to fly you >> around... yeah, *I* did that bit for him :-P > > Sure, exploring is easy if you have flying, which is why the ratbastards > make it a requirement to GET flying. > > 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. That is bullshit. You can swim to the islands. And in your garrison you can get a quest which will send you to the Darktide Roost and get the FP there which makes it even easier for you. > What the fucking fuck? Are they *serious*? > > Who the hell is in charge over there and can we get some new people that > don't hate the player base? Or at least who don't hate flying? > > (yes I know, no, we can't) > I'm sure youre playing the wrong game. Sorry to say.. -- Peter T.
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