Comments on: A Flying Mount is a Cheat Code

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:23:08 +0000

Ohh I share your friends excitement… I don’t regret buying the mount at all. I dare say it is a combination of things that is trivializing Outland, but the flying mount just seems to make life too easy…

It seems to be the tipping point.

BTW, I love to flying mount AFK when I get the call from my son too…

Wish we all got a free 10 minute levitate every hour… no matter what zone we are in.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:12:42 +0000

Damn.. there is some attention I can live without…

By: What's my main Again?

What's my main Again? — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:29:27 +0000

Hmm I’m not sure how to look at it. Yes I remember slugging through those quests 7 times on foot… but does the fact that I did it the hard way now make doing it the easier way cheating?

Sure you can say it isn’t how the developers intended… but then I look at a zone like icecrown and Storm Peaks… those zones were totally designed around using flying mounts. Yet the quests consist of the same trivial tasks that you had the previous 76 levels.

Fly to a guy, kill him. Collect some boxes around the area, maybe pick off guys for a kill quest. Then fly back for your reward.

Maybe the large number of vehicle/pet type quests in those zones make it feel different? Or that somehow you deserve to fly after running on foot all those levels?

Flying mount or not… I’ve done the content so many times that I’m on auto pilot anyway. This just means that when I have to check on my daughter or work on dinner that I can just mount and fly a few feet up in the air instead of wondering if I’m going to die to some respawn or random patrol.

Besides you should have heard how excited one of my friends was to be able to fly for the first time at level 60. Instead of hitting 70… flying around… and then putting the gryphon in the bank till 77.

By: Fish

Fish — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:14:12 +0000

LOL you’re totally right! I’ve missed reading your blog, they blocked it at work. Congrats, you have the notice of a major US brokerage firm lol

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:16:39 +0000

Yep, wallow in the muck!

Ohh I feel dirty… like an Orc!

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:13:17 +0000

yeah I was thinking of you last night… I got to drop in on my target… something I had to pick up…

Unfortunately for me there were mobs there that weren’t happy with the idea…

Unfortunately for them, 5 of them < one of me.

By: Troutwort

Troutwort — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:51:56 +0000

Yes, if anyone is cheating, it’s the druids. Ha!

By: Tamarind

Tamarind — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:27:20 +0000

Since struggling through Outland is a recent enough memory that I still bear the mental scars I think this is a ‘cheat’ I’m going to embrace whole heartedily and feel good about, dammit

By: Larísa

Larísa — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:24:16 +0000

I feel even more dirty on my druid!!!
All those “pick 30 things” where I don’t even need to get out of flightform, isn’t that cheating if anything? My poor old mage had to put so much more effort into this.

By: Klepsacovic

Klepsacovic — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:54:28 +0000

I feel less dirty with my druid flying. It somehow feels more natural, I suppose since it is.