It's turning out to be a lot more trouble than I thought it would be. I don't really expect the devs to change the process cause of this post or anything, its more a rant to get some stuff on my chest.
Namely, the Saving Skyscales part. It's proving to be remarkably tedious and annoying-or at least some of it is. Some of the magic absorb spots you need to find are either infuriating to get to or locked in maps that I don't have and would have to buy-guides i found gave me the impression I would only need two of the episodes for the collection.
I also can't seem to get into Bitterfrost Frontier for one of the ice ones, even though I've played through all of IBS. The portal to get there is blocked for me.
Now I've encountered a point were I have to somehow get up to a magic spot in the Blazeridge Steppes-all the way up on some stupidly difficult to target pillar on the wall....now I'm back to questioning if the skyscale is really worth all this trouble.
Don't get me wrong, it's fine for getting it to have a lot of steps. I don't even mind the prospect of grinding the currency-I have Dragonfall and the Bjora marches, so while that would take a while, that's fine with me. The part where I'd need to buy a lot of stuff from trading post I can always cheese with gems. If i do ever get to the part were you feed the skyscale, that part is one that I wouldn't mind either, as it sounds as simple as feeding the dragon daily, which is A ok.
My current issue with it is that if you missed lws4, you have to buy all the maps, just to access maybe three magic essences. I also really don't get why the part where you absorb magic into the eggs couldn't have been one magic spot for each magic type-or at least, been like the Spirit, Earth, Life, Air, and Blood ones. AKA, all of which were not a big headache to acquire and required only core PoF, HoT, and Tyria maps to get. Also not thrilled that one of the magic points is connected to the super complicated Augury Rock event with the dopplegangers.....
I basically don't get why this thing has to have so many frickin' substeps. I can only imagine what the part where you have to chase the dragon is like. From what I've also gathered, the part with the rifts sounds almost as tedious as the part I'm on now.
none of this is necessarily hard to do, its mostly just getting annoying. If all the magic essences were as simple to attain as the ones I listed above, I'd be having a alright time-those ones were actually pretty enjoyable to get.
In short, is the Skycale really worth all this? cause I've already got the griffon springer duo, and honestly, as much as I like dragons, I'm starting to remember why I switched to getting the griffon when I first started the skyscale and saw all the steps.