{"id":125,"date":"2009-06-13T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powerwordbubble.wordpress.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-06-13T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T17:33:19","slug":"back-in-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wow.tartdarling.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Back in my day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Blizzard annouced The Great Mount Changes of &#8217;09 the intertubes have gone crazy. There was rioting, people were injured&#8230; oh wait this is WoW not RL so I guess that should be people threatened to cancel subscriptions and the forums blew up. Apparently people were angered; I, however, was not one of them. In case you&#8217;ve been living under a rock the changes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Regular land mounts trainable at level 20 (was 30, down from 40)<\/li>\n<li>Epic land mounts trainable at level 40 (was 60)<\/li>\n<li>Regular flying mounts trainable at level 60 (was 70)<\/li>\n<li>Regular flying mounts speed increased to a 150% gain (was 60%)<\/li>\n<li>Also, Travel Form\/Ghost Wolf\/Aspect of the Cheetah trainable at 16<\/li>\n<li>Warlock and Paladin mounts\/epic mounts will be trainable at 20\/40 respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Had a chance to absorb? Good. Here\u00c2\u00a0 are my thoughts on the whole deelio:<\/p>\n<p>Regular mounts at 20? FUCK YES.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m leveling a bebeh shaman right now and let me tell you, the barrens? That place is fraking HUGE. I leveled in ghostlands because at least there was some sense of reasoning to where those quests were and it didn&#8217;t look like the quest devs splattered paintbrushes at a map of Azeroth and went &#8216;well that looks good for the placement of the drops.. especially given that people will be RUNNING AT AN INCREDIBLY SLOW PACE.&#8217; And yes, I am aware that I have Ghost Wolf at the moment, but my leveling partner is a Rogue and well, he is still running, so I run with him. And it sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Mounts at 40? Sweetness. This would have been so helpful in those places like feralas. or the crater. or tanaris (epic mount + carrot on a stick? sign me up!) Again with Blizz&#8217;s let&#8217;s see if we can put the quest givers any farther away from the quest drop locations only this time they added an element of LETS MAKE YOU GO TO A DIFFERENT ZONE FOR A QUEST DROP. (see: Hinterlands\/Feralas horde side. and the noggenfogger quest. srsly blizz? SRSLY?!) Any less time that I have to spend schelpping my ass on a slow mount is time better spent getting exp.<\/p>\n<p>Flying Mounts at 60? You mean I&#8217;m less likely to get squashed by a Fel Reaver? or attacked by 859,156,120,5261 hellboars on my way to turn in a quest? AMAZING. And improved flight speed? I&#8217;m DOWN. Lemme tell you, my priest had normal flying FOREVER. Cuz yanno <a href=\"http:\/\/powerwordbubble.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/07\/on-farming-or-my-lack-thereof\/\">I don&#8217;t like to farm<\/a> on my priest&#8230;and that shit is SLOW. really slow. When you would rather take the taxi with all it&#8217;s godforsaken loops and random pathing than fly because the taxi is still faster then you know you need an epic flyer and well my priest isn&#8217;t the person to earn that money.<\/p>\n<p>Travel Form\/Ghost Wolf\/Aspect of the Cheetah at 16? Good news for my druid, though I&#8217;ll be mounted soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Lock\/Paladin mounts at 40\/60? Again, woot. Even though both my lock and my paladin already have these things it&#8217;s still cool. Now, here is where I admit something. <em>I didn&#8217;t do the quest on my paladin.<\/em> I waited until 61 and just bought the mount. I know, I&#8217;m a horrible Paladin. But fact of the matter is, those Pristine Black Diamonds you need for the quest? upwards of 150g on my server. NO THANK YOU. Plus I know that finding a group for that shit is damn near impossible now. I rememember helping a friend with her lock quest in TBC where she had to wait for 3 weeks trying to get a group. ugh. I know everyone says the lock\/paladin quests are the best in the game. Well here&#8217;s where I have another confession. I did the quest on my on my lock (in Vanilla WoW!) and I DIDN&#8217;T EVEN READ THE QUESTS. Just oh go here and kill some guys, then drop a buttload of money? ok just give me my firey horsey kthnxbai. So I say, give people the horses, that&#8217;s the reason they rolled a paladin\/warlock in the first place most likely. Those that care about the quests will go back and do them (they count for loremaster remember? And I have some achievement whoring friends who would do it for the 10 points, even if they waited until 80 to do it) and those that don&#8217;t, well they won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Summary? Good Job Blizz. I&#8217;m on my 6th character that I&#8217;ve leveled through Vanilla, I know where Mankirk&#8217;s wife is (and yes I remember doing that quest before Quest Helper\/Carbonite\/LightHeaded and thinking WOW BLIZZ COULD YOU BE ANYMORE VAGUE?!) and if I can get to her quicker for my sweet, sweet exp than I&#8217;m all for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Blizzard annouced The Great Mount Changes of &#8217;09 the intertubes have gone crazy. There was rioting, people were injured&#8230; oh wait this is WoW not RL so I guess that should be people threatened to cancel subscriptions and the forums blew up. Apparently people were angered; I, however, was not one of them. 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