AT World of Warcraft Thread (Warlords, Where do you play, General BS and all that)

[Jax Omen]

Why would I ever want to do archeology? Shit was boring as fuck even with flying.

Raiding is the only thing that's kept me playing WoW for like the last 6 years.

 

[DarkRipper]

Right now with the 695 gear from Tanaan and my current busier life, I haven't done any raiding except for LFR (for ring upgrades more than gear).

I agree 100% on archeology.

it's really not that hard to do...

I know and I'm catching up, but I was gone for three months from March-June so I'm behind the power curve bigtime (wife agro).

 

[MustISO]

The time-walking event has really helped me get some needed gear on a sort of fresh 100. Between the drops and the tokens it's pretty nice. Would like it if the tokens were account wide so I could pool them up. The heirloom upgrades would be nice to buy as well.

Got lucky with medallions today, one have two level 100's and got 4 medallions today.

 

[BoberFett]

Why would I ever want to do archeology? Shit was boring as fuck even with flying.

Raiding is the only thing that's kept me playing WoW for like the last 6 years.

You asked why people would want to fly. You don't care about flying, so nobody should? Get over yourself.

 

[Anubis]

Why would I ever want to do archeology? Shit was boring as fuck even with flying.

Raiding is the only thing that's kept me playing WoW for like the last 6 years.

pretty much this

I leveled arch to max because it literally only took about an hour in WoD to do it

same with fishing, took 4 or 5 days of doing the daily. have not touched it since

 

[Jax Omen]

No, I made a sarcastic comment about flying being useless because the only time I spend in the world is transit from garrison -> raid, and was told to go do archaeology

Real talk though, why do people whose entire WoW experience is dailies, archaeology, garrison, pet battles, dungeons, and LFR still play WoW? NONE of those things require any skill, have any depth, or generally have any long-term engagement. PvP isn't my thing but at least those people have ways to not only demonstrate their mastery over the game, but a neverending quest to improve their play.

I just can't imagine paying $15/month (or it's ingame gold equivalent) to play a glorified facebook game, which is what the rest of the game feels like to me. Flying is ONLY relevant to the "I'm bad at WoW" portions of WoW.

 

[JujuFish]

LOL at implying that doing anything besides raiding means you're bad at WoW.

 

[BoberFett]

LOL at implying that doing anything besides raiding means you're bad at WoW.

Didn't you know? Linebackers are bad at football because they never kick a field goal. Outfielders are bad at baseball because they never pitch.

Snobs who fluff their own ego by telling other people that they're enjoying something in the wrong way (food, music, beer, wine, movies, video games) are usually pathetic losers in life. It's pretty clear they have no joy in their own lives, and therefore they do everything they can to bring other people down to their level of misery.

 

[lupi]

And yall are proving my point. If they withheld flying so long to increase "experience in the world", and the vocal support for such a measure comes from those mostly concerned with getting the FP near the current raid, is withholding flying actually doing anything positive for the bulk of the playerbase.

 

[Phoenix86]

And yall are proving my point. If they withheld flying so long to increase "experience in the world", and the vocal support for such a measure comes from those mostly concerned with getting the FP near the current raid, is withholding flying actually doing anything positive for the bulk of the playerbase.

MoP really had it right. Level on ground, fly at max.

 

[SithSolo1]

MoP really had it right. Level on ground, fly at max.

Edit:

And I realized about 2mins after posting I was completely wrong. Burning Crusade did it first, wrath was the first to offer flight tokens for alts.

#ifailatwow

 

[BoberFett]

MoP really had it right. Level on ground, fly at max.

I could do without the WoD rep grind portion of earning it, but I think completing some quest chain that indicates that you've done everything in the expansion is reasonable. Providing flying to alts for free is great.

Overall I'm satisfied with how WoD did flying.

 

[DarkRipper]

At least it's just revered with the factions vs exalted, sheesh.

 

[Aikouka]

I could do without the WoD rep grind portion of earning it, but I think completing some quest chain that indicates that you've done everything in the expansion is reasonable. Providing flying to alts for free is great.

Overall I'm satisfied with how WoD did flying.

The rep grind is pretty much the reason why I'll never do it. I almost always explore everything, and do all the quests, but I have no desire to farm rep by collecting a bunch of BS for dailies. That crap got old expansions ago.

 

[Phoenix86]

I could do without the WoD rep grind portion of earning it, but I think completing some quest chain that indicates that you've done everything in the expansion is reasonable. Providing flying to alts for free is great.

Overall I'm satisfied with how WoD did flying.

The rep grind is OK and even a couple "do this zone" requirements to show you actually did some content as opposed to grinding out boars or something.

The problem with WoD is the requirements that absolutely blow. Once you have flying in WoD you have completed everything you really wanted flying to do (those nagging completion stuff they already required). Like someone said about, woohoo I get to fly from my garrison to my shipyard.

I don't need to explore, the meta required it. I don't need to complete zone, the meta required it. I don't need it to grind rep, the meta required it.... Etc.

Then there's the timing. If we're to believe a spring/summer date we're getting flying for a whole 1/3rd of the expansion. The least useful 1/3rd.

It's a booby prize at best.

 

[Sonikku]

I still don't understand the hubbub over flying.

It takes like one minute to ride from garrison->warspear->tanaan->hellfire citadel.

Flying might save me 20 seconds a week!

It's pretty powerful with Stables. Zip from node to node, collecting without dismounting. Getting fel blight like crazy. Never mind that, you're going to save a DAMN lot more than 20 seconds a week when you're burning banners/completing tanaan objectives hovering above mobs and getting to 100% in a couple of minutes. Not to mention when a major tanaan boss spawns you can zip over in a blink, ensuring you don't miss out or are burdened in unending spawning mobs.

I'm getting all kinds of rep tokens on alts and am selling them for 8k each, raking in the gold hand over first. To alts this flying achievement is pure gravy. And after a couple weeks of this, my wow sub will be as good as paid for a whole year without a single dollar out of pocket.

The rep grind is pretty much the reason why I'll never do it. I almost always explore everything, and do all the quests, but I have no desire to farm rep by collecting a bunch of BS for dailies. That crap got old expansions ago.

You mean you don't want to engage in the ecstasy that is facerolling Saberstalker mobs for hours?! This stuff is demonstrating your mastery over content don't ya know!!

 

[Phoenix86]

You mean you don't want to engage in the ecstasy that is facerolling Saberstalker mobs for hours?! This stuff is demonstrating your mastery over content don't ya know!!

There's an elite mob in a cave there that gives 500 rep.

Get into the cave and server hop until you're revered, heard it takes an hour or so.

edit: the only bad grind is the one locked 100% behind dailies, it's about 20 days worth of dailies.

 

[ewdotson]

Mostly it's nice for leveling alts, imo. Other's may vary.

 

[lupi]

And it's a terrible daily having to go scour for 10 rares each day.

 

[Jax Omen]

And after a couple weeks of this, my wow sub will be as good as paid for a whole year without a single dollar out of pocket.

I've already paid for my WoW sub through 2016 just off Garrison gold rewards and raiding. I buy whatever mats I need to craft my raid consumables on a whim. I still have more gold than I know what to do with.

Regardless, to get the new flying you have to do everything it would be useful for in order to get it. At that point, why does anyone still care?

LOL at implying that doing anything besides raiding means you're bad at WoW.

No, but the things impacted by flying are SPECIFICALLY things that do not require skill at WoW to do. ONLY the lowest-common-denominator content can even be affected by flying.

All raids, all PvP outside of world ganking? Instanced content that you cannot fly in.

By all means, collect your 700 pets or become an auction house mogul if that floats your boat, but I cannot comprehend why you'd play a subscription MMO for that sort of content, instead of just a cookie clicker.

Me? I'll stay grounded and play parts of the game that are actual games, thanks. If I ever want to collect a billion thingnabbits I hear Hearthstone is popular.

 

[Pens1566]

And it's a terrible daily having to go scour for 10 rares each day.

Get 6 of those shards every day just by doing the 3 Rumble in the Jungle mobs. FYI.

 

[lupi]

someone asked the devs if they realized how long it would take to get the new badge mounts and basically got a it's content response.

 

[Anubis]

someone asked the devs if they realized how long it would take to get the new badge mounts and basically got a it's content response.

someone on reddit did the math, its 400-500 time walking dung runs to get all the rewards

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/3jfi18/a_comprehensive_analysis_of_timewarped_badges/



I told my guild that because flying now existed that warlocks were no longer summing people to raids
out of 30 or so raiders I think 6 people can fly - there was much bitching

"it takes a min for you to hearth from your garrison to tannan and run to the instance - there is no point to doing those aids dailys" was the most common response
and I cant argue with that, I did them because I was bored, I wanted the perma rune and it helped get the shityard updated so I could get free mythic loot from the cache mission

TBH im only ever in 3 places in the game anymore. Garrison, A raid, or standing at the AH

Jax you still playing a shaman? we are looking for an Enh

 

[Sonikku]

God I love flying. It's actually making Tanaan half way enjoyable. I get my 10 crystals with ease now. Combing for Silvers is no where near as sluggish and when the big baddies show up, I always make it. Downed Kazzak yesterday and finally got a piece of leech gear on my alt. She then proceeded to solo the cata raids that were previously giving her a hard time. 96% healing debuff? No problem!

The only one that gives me trouble sometimes is the spider boss in heroic firelands 25. I use seal of truth for the DoT, but sometimes even though I get her to 1% health, she still doesn't die 50% of the time when she drops down, then heals while I get permastunned. I guess there's a long gap between ticks?

 

[DarkRipper]

It sucks to not be able to fly now.

All the nodes are scarfed up by folks on flying mounts before I can get to them, and doing the ToK daily when 3/5 people can fly, ugh.

Does it confer to all your alts when one toon gets the achievement? I have one toon that's much farther along than the others.