🚀 go-pugleaf

In message <e9pgnt...@mid.individual.net> 
  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 23:39:33 -0000 (UTC), Lewis
> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>>Well, at least for me.
>>
>>I have 5 (or maybe 6) quests that require Mythic dungeons. I am on the
>>Rumor quest in Surmar which appears to be impossible without a
>>relatively well-coordinated group, and the only other things I have
>>available to me are running a minimum of 8 heroics a week for 8 weeks
>>and doing random world quests, nearly none of which give me anything I
>>need (resources? Gold? Level 835 gear? Meh).

> The world quests are still enjoyable for me, as the 845 gear upgrades
> often enough to have a chance of being an upgrade, but yeah, I mainly
> do it for AP on my main now.

I guess they want me to swithc to an alt, but It's been a long time
since I got a gear upgrade froma  wrold quest. The only things I have
that are 835 are a ring and... no, that might be all. Everything else is
840 or higher and my ilvl is 848.

> That quest requiring the 80 drops from heroic dungeons is just
> ridiculous, apparently people doing high end mythics need far far less
> runs, but for us... well I'm not even going to try. Blizz will cave in
> and add a catchup mechanism in a few patches,

Yep, I'm not even trying. I've done 5 or 6 heroics and I only sometimes
get the drop, so I think I have three? not sure, as I'm not tracking it.

> I'm sure; they did with the legendary questchains in the past, and
> this grind is worse, while the Illidan story is one they've promoted a
> lot, so they'll surely want everyone to see it. As such, I'm waiting
> for the catchup mechanism lol.

All they need to do is have the items drop for every boss in heroics
100% of the time and not have a 10/week cap.

>>I have looked a bit for mythic groups, but the only one that looked
>>promising required ilvl 875 which makes me wonder why they were doing
>>mythics at all.

> Lol. Yep. I haven't even tried mythics, pug attitudes are why many of
> us won't go near the group finder for anything more than a world boss;
> it is not a good tool for arranging instanced content. I'm afraid the
> main answer is find some friends or a guild... well, my friends play
> alliance and I can't be bothered with guild drama, so I'm just not
> doing mythics!

I do not mind the LFG at all. There's no drama, nearly never any
discussion at all, and they go quickly. But I am not going to go join
another guild as I am quite happy in my decimated one where I am nearly
always the only one to login. I get the few perks of being in a guild
without any of the BS.

>>Yeah, my Artifact isn't QUITE maxed out, but it is close enough.
>>
>>I've checked for three days for a group on the rumor quest in surmar, no
>>go.
>>
>><http://www.wowhead.com/quest=43313/rumor-has-it>

>>I did try to solo it, but too may of the mobs instantly break your
>>disguise, they have 7 million health, and there are multiples. By the
>>time I get a group killed, there's a pat or a respawn. Ugh.

> I remember reading those comments about that quest and yet... I had no
> trouble lol (not saying that to show off - I was extremely surprised,
> considering all the horror stories I'd heard about it!). I'd suggest
> doing it on a day where there is a nice lucrative world quest in the
> area (ie, people are killing stuff nearby already); get your 4-piece
> order hall setbonus equipped (so you can live long enough to either
> kill mobs or escape), and then dodge the packs. I was perhaps rather
> lucky, as the day I did it there were always people killing stuff, so
> almost all the time I only needed to run from clear spot to clear
> spot, and just keep moving before something respawned - biggest
> problem was when I guessed wrong on the map spot and went in an
> occupied building, but my order hall setbonus saved me and I could
> just kill the pack in there (slowly :-P) 

The times I've been over there I'm the only one there, and I haven't
noticed a world quest in that particular area, but I will look again.

> Another option is careful use of goblin gliders from the vineyard
> area, I often use those for getting around that area when quests send
> me there. Oh and a tip; the canal bit (where you kill the named guy
> for the other quest in that chain) is pretty much out of leash range
> of most stuff so you can always jump in there to reset :-)

Yeah, if you can get to it. But then you're basically starting over on
trying to get through the area. I could certainly do it with a few
corpse drags, but I have better things to do, like scrub the bathroom
tiles with an old toothbrush (not that that is something I will ever
do!)

Also, I have 12 Ancient Mana now. That's pretty damn annoying too, and
it is a pain to grind up, which makes that whole rumor quest even more
annoying.

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