octagon.6504

OP, you're better than me. I saw the list of requirements and decided the work wasn't worth the reward. Hang in there you've come so far already I'm sure you're complete the tasks set before you.

I could see if getting the mount was another episode of the living story. That way you got accomplishments and additional rewards during the process. It's strange to have a big push to get people to come back to the game and then throw something like this at them for a mount the hovers and climbs, but not easily. For their sake I hope it works and they have a big influx of players. I've already shifted to playing other mmo's and will mostly watch this one to see if they continue with this version of entertainment.

My first thought is free flight will probably come with the next mount, if it's not an underwater mount.

The roller beetle was the one with the most work (even beating the griffon), however it was 5 time less work than the skyscale and without a time gate of a week. You're right. I don't play WvW. I didn't know this was going to be the new normal. Thanks for letting me know, perhaps it is time for me to move on as this isn't my play style.

The current mounts are just regular mounts. What will they do if they decided to create legendary, exotic, or rare mounts? I think they got ahead of themselves wanting to slow people down. The only other game I've seen mounts that required so much work to get is WoW, but that's to get rare exotic mounts, regular mounts are a lot easier to get as they should be. Currently for me the amount of work involved doesn't equal the quality of the mount. I may go for it one day but it took me a really long time just to get a few legendary weapons. I also play other games that have flying mounts and they are a lot less limited in functionality. I've played GW2 since beta but it looks like they're going in a direction I cannot follow.

I don't like jumping puzzles or timers. :/

It's starting to become an issue of effort being equal to reward. If this was a legendary mount I could understand all the requirements. But basically it's main talents are the ability to hover and ascend. Now it seems easier to get a legendary weapon then it is to get a mount. Or, are mounts considered legendary because they are... mounts?

This game is becoming more and more tedious, less fun.

I didn't get the last mount because I prefer not to do PvP. Now looking at what's required to get this mount I actually had a thought to A: Skip this mount also. B: Perhaps it's time to move on to playing just the other two MMO's I play regularly and leave this one alone, as at the rate I play I probably wouldn't get the mount for a few months. I'll work on the collections today and see. This game gets more and more restrictive and forced in how content should be played. Also I stopped doing daily's when they updated the format a long time ago. Perhaps this game really isn't for me anymore.