I didn’t take the degenerate route so I didn’t do the 10 hour beach farm. I did try it but my brain started to leak out of my ears, so I went back to doing the scrap farm instead which isn’t anywhere near as bad as the beach farm. Plus the scrap farm is far more profitable in gold, crystals, pets and gear/mogs.
However since I took the slower route and didn’t go full degen mode, I only recently got exalted and am now working on my first paragon reward. My hope is that it will contain the mount so I can never grind this God awful rep ever again.
What about you? Did you manage to get the mount or did you bail? I wouldn’t blame you if you bailed. It’s truly a horrific farm. Made even harder now that nobody groups for scrap farms anymore.
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I just looked it up, cuz Im returning since the last patch of DF…and nope. Nope nope nope.
I think the reason I got burned out last time was because of rep grinds like this. I am planning on getting strong enough to go into Cobalt Assembly to finish that up really fast…think for now on Imma wait until next Xpac to do these types of rep grinds.
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i got the goblin waveshredder from the trading post, looks the same and no grind required
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Do groups actually matter for the scrap farm? They take the same amount of time to complete whether there are 5 people or 50
Paragon mounts are a scam
I got exhalted and then never did stuff with them again lol
I’ve about halfway through Revered with Darkfuse. At this point all I’m doing is taking alts there to do things while I wait for the Gallywix raid to pop so I can try for THAT mount. I don’t really have any interest in another waveshredder though, if I never get it, that’s fine. Once I’m exalted with Darkfuse I’m probably not going to continue turning things in for rep. I have like a sliver left of rep for the 4th Cartel and then I’ll be done that too. Once that and DF rep are Exalted all I’ll be doing is hopping on with alts and queueing for Gallywix to try for the Prototype A.S.M.R.
Darkfuse rep reminds me of Emperor Shaohao rep from MoP. Just something that is meant to be long and tedious.
Back in the day, it was almost prestigious to farm rep like that, showing you had the mount (in this case, the mount and the matrix black trench coat). But in 2025, nobody really cares. I don’t necessarily mind a long rep grind, but IMO, this is too much for today’s standards. Maybe boxes should give 750 or 1000 instead of 500.
EDIT, just realized OP is referring to the paragon mount. Eesh, good luck with that. Once I reach exalted, I’ll be done completely.
EDIT 2, just looked at the paragon mount. It’s the same model as what you can get at Sire Isle, Soweezi’s Vintage Waveshredder from one of the vendors for 10K ore (or whatever the currency is). If you don’t care about the color, then Siren Isle mount is probably a lot quicker to farm
There are over a thousand mounts in the game now and the number gets higher with every Trading Post and patch. I ain’t breaking my sanity for jack any more, especially when Blizzard gives us at least 3 recolors for every thing.
And what’s this one… a mechanical suit. Yep, there are 16 mechanical suits. PASS
Edit: Whoops, I was looking at the wrong mount. This is a double pass. You can barely tell the difference between the wave shredders and there’s soon to be four different color variations 
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Dark Fuse rep is worse to get than Laughing Skull
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Oh they matter alright. I tested it. Doing a scrap pile solo means you’ll seriously struggle to get to the 2nd break point where you get max darkfuse currency.
Gotcha. I don’t join groups but also never see them truly solo because there’s always at least a few other people doing them even at like 4am, but I’m on a big server so I’ll take your word for it.
I got the Darkfuse paragon mount, but there was no need to do extensive beach farming to get the research since you get so much farming rares or doing the scrap event.
I also have the other 4 cartel paragon mounts. 3/4 on the first pagaon box, and the 4th taking 3 boxes.
The mechanica mounts and pets sell for a pretty penny so while hunting for mechanica, I’ve also been selling the cartel pets and the 603 BOE gear I’ve gotten along the way.
I dislike everything about the undermine zone.
Mainly there is no flying, so getting around is quite a pain - meaning that I would prefer to spend zero time there.
So this is the first zone in a long time where I didn’t max the associated rep.
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I chased most of them in DF, got Taivan, etc. Was on track for that this expansion as well, but then the goblins came with so many different reps and miserable ways to get their rep, so outside of the main faction, I haven’t bothered with them.
I’m okay with this though, as it has put me in the mode to only go after things I really want. The new Hallowfall event? Did it once. Horrific Visions? Cleared enough to get the bike, purple is cool. Perfect timing to feel this way now that summer is here and I’m busy in the yard/greenhouses.
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I will never be baited into a Paragon box mount farm again, so if there is a mount behind one then I will likely never get it. One of the worst things to ever be introduced for collectors.
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I’m a little late to the party and I don’t intend to grind mobs … so at the moment I’m still not even sure I’ll even reach exalted.
How? I’ve gotten them to 500/500 solo before. Just pay the robot, grab the powerups, and ignore the vermin adds.
I’m done with this. Blizzard putting 169 mounts into one expac (Mountlands) made me realize they don’t respect mount collectors anymore. I only go after mounts I want and if something looks too annoying then I just ignore it completely.
Yep. This is one of the things that really, really pissed me off about Legion.
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I spend as little time in the zone as possible due to no flying. I have over 800 mounts, I can live without this one.
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Even on TI’s busiest days back when it was current, grinding rep wasn’t anywhere near as bad as this one. I even grinded the entire thing solo.