ion has this on his coffee mug
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Well, I wish I was better at pet battles then.
Goodness.
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That’s on his work mug. His home mug has “you think you do but you don’t.”
His nigh time beddy bye shirt says “the Horde is waiting for you.”
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The daily grinding is bad as doing Bounties in Diablo. Its mind numbing and boring. It ceases to be fun and actually turns into a chore. I am not going to bother with it.
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I dunno.
For me there was definitely some grind for flying, mostly the Mecha rep.
I did a lot of it with my gf though and let me tell you it was the most fun I’ve had in WoW in a while. We did a lot of it separately but she was very helpful with helping me find ways of squeezing out every last bit of rep that I could. I took up pet battling, spent hours last night hunting rares in Mecha for the upgrade schem that awarded 500 rep, fished the rare fishes, all to get that sweet sweet flying.
Near the end I was 100 rep from flying and so she and I went and found me 10 wq to do since she’d made me a mecha rep contract. She’d unlocked flying earlier in the day since she’s way better at planning and has a deeper understanding of the game than I do so she flew me around, wq to wq, until I finished the 10th wq and unlocked flying.
I had a ton of fun and expanded my interests to things that I’d never really tried in game. We’re stoked for S3 of BfA and have enjoyed all the stuff to collect in Mecha(finally got the gold mechacat skin to match with hers) and really just enjoyed the journey to flying.
I guess I’m trying to say that the journey is what you make of it. I’ve seen a lot of posts scathingly denouncing Pathfinder and calling it a design that was made to stick it to players. For some of us however it’s a legit journey that we enjoy taking. Whether solo or with others for some of us it’s the journey that we live for while keeping the eye on the prize.
Not saying that anyone is wrong to enjoy/not enjoy it. Only that claiming something like one view being “the truth” is dishonest and misguided at best.
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I would not be surprised.
See, this is where I disagree. I had two very different experiences with 8.2
First, I go to Nazjatar because that was the first zone to open. It’s miserable. I hate it. I didn’t like being there. I did as little as I possibly could so I could get out of there.
Then mechagon. I was lucky to have my first day there have the armories construction. So when I got that jetpack, I was ecstatic. I explored every nook and cranny in that zone. I finished all my dailies, and then I STAYED. I stayed because I was having fun, I was EXPLORING. There are still places in Nazjatar I haven’t been. I don’t really know the layout that well. But Mechagon? I know it inside and out. And that’s specifically because they let me fly there on day 1.
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And then their vision for a world without flight was an expansion long content drought. And the same design decisions that made WoD unfun have just been redoubled in BfA.
The current dev team hates flying, Probably because it involves too much work on their part. They’d turn WoW into a side scroller if they could.
I don’t think the entire vanilla world was revamped to allow flying in Cataclysm because the dev team “hates flying”.
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You’re not alone with this experience.
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Yeah, that’s exactly what we want, after a year of waiting for P2 to unlock, a few weeks of grinding for P2, we also want a quest line to be licensed to fly. More gating please!
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I mean it could have been a quest. Get your rep up and they license you to fly. Otherwise grinding rep to fly doesn’t make sense.
It wouldn’t change the current set up, just make it make a little more sense.
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this made me lol
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Blizzard’s ideal version of WoW:
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You know, they say that all the time - people complained about flying - but I’ve been playing with “people” for 13 years now and I have never EVER heard anyone (except a couple PvP’ers) complain about being able to fly in the game. NOT EVER!
This Pathfinder garbage is death by a thousand cuts.
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Completely fabricated lie.
I barely have any time to play anymore what with RL being so busy these days. I still managed to get honored with Nazjatar already. I haven’t started Mechagon yet but I’m not in a race with other people. I will get it done when I get it done. It doesn’t matter if other people get it before me because my enjoyment doesn’t come from being first.
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If you play the game normally, you unlock flying within a couple of weeks of the new patch.
This is hyperbole and the uproar is silly. The game is perfectly playable without flying. It sounds more like people are just jealous they didn’t get it as fast as people that did more to get it sooner
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only if u care about rep and dumpy rewards. I still mine dark iron and arcane crystals and turn it into rare old craftables that sell well when people are around to see them.
Well said.
I’d add that flying overshadows everything else about the game, at least for me. It’s an issue that’s always there. No matter how good everything else is (not that it’s been that good in ages, mind you), there’s always this “thing” hanging out there, this thing that is flying.
What brings this to mind in particular is Shadowbringers, and really all of FFXIV. I’m sitting here playing FFXIV, like so many others, and just enjoying the story and the gameplay. I don’t have the spectre of “When the heck will I be able to fly?” hanging over it all, killing the fun. In FFXIV, you fly when you discover all the Aether Currents in a particular zone, some of which are quest rewards. So yes, you do have to do certain things, but if you do them on day one in early access, you’re flying. If you do them six months down the road, you can fly. It’s just a non-issue.
Sure would be nice if Blizzard hadn’t made flying into a giant issue, and something to be argued over, instead of just enjoyed like it was in BC/WotLK/Cata.
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And when you finally unlock it, you realise you don’t really need it anymore.
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