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Re: Trying a few things...

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From: Peter T.
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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