I hate dailies but you don't see me moaning on the forum all day long about it...so please go ahead and keep hating whiny children. Though if a friendly person comes along with the brains to have a decent discussion about it, give them a chance aswell.
B-but the mounts aren't required. I can understand if you're some mount hunter, in which case you should be used to long grinds, right? But otherwise it's an entirely self imposed mandatory-ness. I totally agree that certain parts of gameplay are mandatory, leveling if you've bought MOP sure as hell is, but there's a huge part of the playerbase that hasn't bought MOP, yet still play. I just don't consider mount-farming to be mandatory for anyone bar a mount collector, who should be willing to put in the time, long grinds for mounts is nothing new. For the other 90% of the playerbase, mounts aren't mandatory to play.
Now you're asking good questions, why ARE you playing the game?
Your driving factor seems to be getting mounts locked behind content you don't enjoy, unless I'm misinterpreting your posts, which is entirely possible, since that seems odd even by my standards.
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I don't have an issue with 'harder to obtain' > but here the answer is [AGAIN] dailies. And that bugs me.
There is no alternative to dailies. I wanna work for them.. but now as it stands, everything I want is locked behind dailies.
okay you earn gold by mining, I did by using enchanting. We do things differently and wow has many more players than the two of us :-)
There should really be alternatives. Not everybody is raiding nor does everybody enjoy the same thing.
hell, we are discussing (and reading mmo for a while now, quite heavily discussing) a game???????
It should be something what people enjoy. If I read the fora it seems quite a lot of people are not enjoying it at the moment.
I personally find it strange. After all this is still a game we all pay for.
The main thing is enjoyment, getting away from the day-to-day tensions.
Wow is not doing that for me as it is now.
Since I hit 90 I started complaining about dailies, before that i never complained about anything in wow (playing since tbc btw).
You should already have the effect of softened blows if you quested in MoP. Tabards took things overboard and the only way they'd work is if they slowed the gains from them to the point where people complained that they were too slow. Hey, I guess that could be done. Or the equivalent of "Instanced Dailies" or other things Blizzard has done in the past.
It will take you months until you get lucky enough to fill ALL yout slots from raid drops (specially in 10 man).
And we dont know how valor gear will impact next patches.
So yeah, for months it will be a big advantage. It wont be an advantage anymore when you are in full normal gear.
And yes, the head enchant continued to be ana dvantage till the end, but it was so tiny it didnt really matter. This one last less time but its bigger, which still makes it mandatory.
And actually no, the most cutting edge raiders will probably need them less than John Doe and his guild struggling with normals.
"I was a normal baby for 30 seconds, then ninjas stole my mamma" - Deadpool
"so what do we do?" "well jack, you stand there and say 'gee rocket raccoon I'm so glad you brought that Unfeasibly large cannon with you..' and i go like this BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA" - Rocket Raccoon
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They can have fun and not do dailies. You can still do BGs, LFD, LFR, Pet Battles, solo old Raids, work the AH, achievement hunting, and even just general questing. 5.1 is adding fighting pits too. So your points might be wasted but that's a choice you make for not doing some of the dailies.
They really need to reduce or remove the reputation needed for VP gear to stop people whining.
You dont need one just like if you want PvP gear get your ass into bgs and arenas. optional content and choosing or not choosing it have consequences plain and simple, You dont hear people that dont want to do BG's and Arenas cry everyday on the forums that they cant get Conquest gear.
You, like another poster I responded to, probably need to stop playing. I don't mean that in the sarcastic angry sense. I mean that in the genuine "I think this game is no longer fun for you" sense. If the easily completed, decently constructed dailies of MoP are too much, then it's because you're tired of the game in general. Particularly if you played in TBC as you claim, which was much more grindy. Take a breather, go for a run. Play another game.
As we've addressed and as some posters have already said, they're ready to raid, and haven't done all the dailies. Dungeon drops and craftables from other players who have the recipes is enough.
Aye, what do you think about if they gave us the tabard system, but put restrictions on how much rep you can get per day across the board. That way, the people who don't want to dungeon grind can do their dailies. And the people who hate dailies can dungeon grind for the same amount of rep per day. Wouldn't this be a solution?