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[conqq]

Drake mounts have gotten bored with gliding and will flap their wings again when flying forward.


NOOOOO, i loved the silence

Agreed, why should they flap if they didn't have to =S

[Sinra]

I somehow suspect that ghostcrawler will be laughing inside everytime someone dies to this.

[conqq]

I somehow suspect that ghostcrawler will be laughing inside everytime someone dies to this.

I hear he hits really hard and reduces damage and healing 20% per debuff

[Ghrog74]

I doubt they'll give another, additional title just for doing something before somebody else.

This is just like the mount debate, High Warlord/Grand Marshal debate, and other title debates (Light of Dawn, etc):

1. Blizzard introduces hard-to-get cool-looking thing.
2. A few players get hard-to-get cool-looking thing.
3. New content increases the ease to obtain cool-looking thing (new Dire Maul makeover, new raids, new Rated Battlegrounds system, etc.).
4. Some of those players get upset because they wanted to be the only ones to have the cool thing OR they wanted everyone to go through the same amount of work as them.

Let's face facts though. If I were to go kill LK25 heroic today and get Light of Dawn, I would have probably put in about 2% of the work compared to somebody in a guild like Paragon.

Basically, just because you get something cool doesn't mean you have a monopoly on said "cool thing". Eventually, the "cool thing" will get easier and easier to obtain due to leveling up (85 will trivialize Light of Dawn, Frostwyrms, and others) or gearing up or gold deflation (Mechano-Hog) or other changes. When it does, you can A) Keep using the "cool thing" because you like it and it is still cool OR B) Find a new "cool thing" (they're always adding new rare mounts, pets, and titles).

It's the nature of the game that old things get easier over time.

Look at it this way, though: You now are Exalted with a reputation that nobody else will ever be able to get Exalted with. You'll have an automatic head-start on any new Exalted achievements, and you'll even get a Feat of Strength to wave around to boot.

The difference being that the things you mentioned are not feats of strength. A feat of strength by blizzards definition is something that is perfectly acceptable to suddenly become impossible to get. The other things are standard achievements and as such there is the understanding that they will almost all be universally available for pretty much ever. Now what we have is something that wasn't outgeared but was in fact nerfed. To say it wasn't nerfed shows a lack of intellectual honesty and a certain degree of spin. Wether or not the nerf was a good thing or not is debateable, (I personally fall into the "slap in the face" crowd, although I wouldn't use such vulger termanology in describing it) but you cannot honestly deny that it was in fact a nerf of the achievement, and nerfing something that required such an amazing gut wrenching solo grind to obtain and showed true dedication to something so small as getting this Feat of Strength in which the only benefit is in the feat itself and the title, then nerfing the difficulty by about 30-40% of the time and gold spent on obtaining it letting others get it right after being told to hurry up or it's gonna go away by blizzard really is a poor move on Blizzards part, especially for those that did hurry up and grinded out the rep at the end when we were flat out told by Blizzard that it's going away.

Basically it shows a huge lack of integrity on Blizzards part. We questioned their honesty before, but after Blizzard pulled this on people multiple times regarding this one achievement, we can't help but wonder if maybe they will change their mind and go back to the other way, after all, Blizzard has given us zero reason to trust them so far, why should we start now.