tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post1306726597137161715..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Thoughts on Apexis Gear and the Coming Apexis GrindTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-74771929405091520882015-06-11T07:38:42.167-04:002015-06-11T07:38:42.167-04:00On no, on a populated realm, even more so with low...On no, on a populated realm, even more so with low key drop rates at the beginning, skettis was impossible.<br /><br />I remember doing it that first week and it took me 2 and a half hours to get it done, and I was in a group. We could not get any keys and when we did finally get one we could get no moral because everything was always dead.<br /><br />They did up the key drop rate a ton, and there are, what seems like, less than 10% of the players that were playing the first week, so it is more doable now.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-605219648174426812015-06-11T07:30:28.145-04:002015-06-11T07:30:28.145-04:00Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they a...Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't watching you. ;)<br /><br />There has to be something to it. It makes perfect sense that blizzard would try to make as much money from their product as possible.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-86427454426532390382015-06-10T23:37:00.651-04:002015-06-10T23:37:00.651-04:00Unless you are on a populated realm (faction is ir...Unless you are on a populated realm (faction is irrelevant). In which case skettis is not doable.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-73949706925457821912015-06-10T23:24:47.416-04:002015-06-10T23:24:47.416-04:00Heh, I remember I texed honey when apexis to gold ...Heh, I remember I texed honey when apexis to gold change was announced. I said 'buying and upgrading a piece is 35k. Coincidence?' (the EU token value). Maybe we're both paranoid :)Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-21094596524483373382015-06-10T15:45:36.773-04:002015-06-10T15:45:36.773-04:00That would work, so I could grind them on my main ...That would work, so I could grind them on my main hunter which is easy peasy and send them to the characters that needed them. Either way would work for me. Making the pieces BoA or the crystals BoA.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-9661754621603446282015-06-10T15:44:55.599-04:002015-06-10T15:44:55.599-04:00I sometimes think they do read my blog but only se...I sometimes think they do read my blog but only seem to take the bad ideas I come up with. lol <br /><br />And yes, while I'd like to think I've had a lot of great ideas over the years I have come up with some really really bad ones too.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-2050333473293212602015-06-10T15:41:09.911-04:002015-06-10T15:41:09.911-04:00Never thought about that one. Close, once you get...Never thought about that one. Close, once you get 5 keys it is done instantly really, not a bad one, thanks for pointing that one out.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-13765847752021139992015-06-10T15:23:20.974-04:002015-06-10T15:23:20.974-04:00We need to start thinking with the developer hive ...We need to start thinking with the developer hive mind, or they might come shut us down for being free thinkers.<br /><br />We must follow watchers lead and say flying is boring.<br /><br />Flying is boring.... I am trying, do I sound convincing yet?<br /><br />Of course not, because that is a crock and everyone except watcher knows it.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-36912208406312697442015-06-10T15:13:21.198-04:002015-06-10T15:13:21.198-04:00I wish we could trade the stuff so I could grind i...I wish we could trade the stuff so I could grind it all on my main. That would make it much better for me. As a hunter grinding Apexis will always be easier. At least as I see it.<br /><br />I don't see this as any content really. We are getting a new raid, that is it. Everything else is just filler, not really content. It is the great stuff that makes content seem fuller but it is not content on its own. But everyones definition of content surely differs based on their likes and dislikes.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-31110972140132423992015-06-10T13:37:33.206-04:002015-06-10T13:37:33.206-04:00I wish they would at least make the Apexis crystal...I wish they would at least make the Apexis crystals account bound. It would probably help a lot of people's alts. Sure would help mine.JC Swayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12580720277068633415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-81692676731907722882015-06-10T13:31:16.082-04:002015-06-10T13:31:16.082-04:00Figure you'll be happy to see the news on flyi...Figure you'll be happy to see the news on flying. Kind of funny. Blizz might read your blog after all and took your idea of attaining loremaster in Draenor as part of the requirement. Never know! lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-75012133868313955032015-06-10T12:50:21.997-04:002015-06-10T12:50:21.997-04:00For Alliance toons assault-on-skettis is by far th...For Alliance toons assault-on-skettis is by far the fastest repeatable daily.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05908688425325574778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-75419776156334700872015-06-10T12:30:36.772-04:002015-06-10T12:30:36.772-04:00"But fun really is a moot point here, because..."But fun really is a moot point here, because outside of me, I really do not see anyone calling what they have planned for us in 6.2 'fun'."<br /><br />You forget that "fun" is now defined as whatever Watcher says it is, no matter how tens of thousands of players might want to define it. As in, flying is not fun, it is boring. Running through annoying mobs dozens of times on multiple alts every day is fun and immersive. Waddling on the ground on your majestic flying mount is fun. <br /><br />(Sorry, the frustration remains, I'm afraid.)Fiannorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05808195500680797589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-48663404434390817452015-06-10T11:44:54.947-04:002015-06-10T11:44:54.947-04:00There is a daily quest in Tanaan for 2k Apexis Cry...There is a daily quest in Tanaan for 2k Apexis Crystals, plus the 'double dip' for 200GR on the 6.0 Apexis dailies gives you 3600 crystals per day.<br /><br />My hunter alt, who I am loving at the moment, will do that and get her upgrade once per week. None of my other chars will go near it until I get really bored and grind for the mount.<br /><br />Doesn't seem to be much there for the Heroic (or above) raider.<br />Biggest content patch ever? Don't make me laughSolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08193184689961780585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-82952303526497100162015-06-10T11:14:05.223-04:002015-06-10T11:14:05.223-04:00Lets say you have the attack shattrath harbor as t...Lets say you have the attack shattrath harbor as the daily, go buy the missive for attack shattrath harbor for 200 garrison supplies, now when you do it, you get it done twice for the total time it took to do it once and get twice the reward. I am guessing that he is rounding up saying he gets the others for killing stuff, but even if not, still getting more is not hard.<br /><br />For instance, the orc one in nagrand, forget the name, it takes 5 minutes to do. But a 200 garrison resource missive for it, do it. Rinse and repeat as long as you have resources. Bam, massive amount of crystals in a little bit of time.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-25728821693511967242015-06-10T11:10:26.000-04:002015-06-10T11:10:26.000-04:00How? The quest only gives 1000?How? The quest only gives 1000?vinciblegodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09388286593548449545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-56878122954922160682015-06-10T11:10:13.384-04:002015-06-10T11:10:13.384-04:00I can make that too in little to no effort. But I...I can make that too in little to no effort. But I am a well informed player with raid gear and "knowledge" from reading the forums and doing research.<br /><br />As I mentioned, this is not about me, and also it seems, not about you. It is about everyone else in the game. And to them the 5K you need to start the ring quest is a lot.<br /><br />Can't look at it from the "in the know" angle. We are the few and far between. You have to look at the bigger picture where the vast majority of the players are not us.<br /><br />Yeah, I noticed they lowered it from last I saw. Left the post as is however because it still works in theory. 150K or 250K, either way, it is a number that 90% of the player base will never see.<br /><br />Your comparison with valor, while valid, misses the point. Valor was a long term goal. Apexis makes it feel like you need to get it done all at once, because there is no cap. Apexis can, and will, burn a lot of people that try to benefit from it out.<br /><br />Argumentatively I could get all 695 gear for my rogue, a character that never leaves his garrison, if I bust my butt for one week, even less if I work hard. But is that design good for the game? I think not.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-49125896780859784922015-06-10T10:23:53.369-04:002015-06-10T10:23:53.369-04:00I dunno, without any effort I can make around 3k a...I dunno, without any effort I can make around 3k apexis in about 30 min in any of my character, even freshly dinged ones.<br /><br />So that's 21k a week, so one upgrade, more or less on par with what valor gave you, and it was caped.<br /><br />Granted Apexis comes from out in the world and valor came from dungeons, but you get the idea.<br /><br />(and the mount is "only" 150k btw :p)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com