The Daily Quest: Friday fixing and fun
by Anne Stickney 
Jan 6th 2012 at 8:30PM
WoW Insider's on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative, and entertaining
WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
I'm terribly happy that the Darkmoon Faire is back in town, largely because I finally scrounged enough tickets to pick up a Swift Forest Strider. There is something so completely ridiculous about riding around on a mostly naked, purple-and-green, giant, squawking chicken that I cannot help but be charmed every time I use the mount.
Today we've got a few posts from around the blogosphere, one about the Darkmoon Faire, one thoughtfully addressing a possible issue with the Raid Finder, and one regarding WoW on multiple computers.
Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment, and you may see it here tomorrow! Be sure to check out our WoW Resources Guide for more WoW-related sites.
WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
I'm terribly happy that the Darkmoon Faire is back in town, largely because I finally scrounged enough tickets to pick up a Swift Forest Strider. There is something so completely ridiculous about riding around on a mostly naked, purple-and-green, giant, squawking chicken that I cannot help but be charmed every time I use the mount.
Today we've got a few posts from around the blogosphere, one about the Darkmoon Faire, one thoughtfully addressing a possible issue with the Raid Finder, and one regarding WoW on multiple computers.
- Priest With A Cause is having a blast with the Darkmoon Faire arena and all the chaos it brings.
- Manalicious offers an insightful look into the rise of the Dungeon and Raid Finder tools and how they relate to the loss of community.
- Cynwise's Battlefield Manual has an excellent guide on how to sync WoW between two different computers using Dropbox.
Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment, and you may see it here tomorrow! Be sure to check out our WoW Resources Guide for more WoW-related sites.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
andrews Jan 7th 2012 1:26AM
They really need to fix things, like kicking you out of the whack-a-gnoll area like an intruder when your time is up or you turn in the quest, even if you were already out of the area. Why stun me for playing?
Spawn the targets faster in the tonk area if a few or many players are present.
Allow you to pick up a new "kill 250 things" quest even if you just turned one in. That way you can have the entire time until the next Faire to finish it, not to only do it every other Faire.
Though it is still a painful grind if you don't do all the other parts of the game.
sayling Jan 7th 2012 5:04AM
You can pick the quest up at the start of each Faire, giving you a week to get all the Grisly Trophies.
Vai Jan 7th 2012 5:11AM
Whenever I see complaints about the LF(x) tools destroying community I can't help but feel that they're the people who, prior to the LFD/R, had a nice network of mates who enjoyed dungeons and were able to raid regularly.
For the people who didn't and either had to spam for ages for a forming PUG, which could quite easily be full of ninjas and assholes anyway if you didn't keep tabs on server gossip, the tools were a godsend.
I agree with the comparison between some LF puggers and impatient bastards in shops, but I think the blog notices the symptom without recognising the disease. Some people get impatient and impolite in shops because it's a chore they hate and want to get done as fast as possible, anything which slows that down and makes them spend more time doing it is intolerable.
The system in WoW is currently the same, the game tells you your objective at end game is to gear up, then it gives you one path to do it. This means there are a large proportion of people in the LF tools which don't want to be there and get impatient and impolite because it's a chore they hate and want to get done as fast as possible. Anything which slows them down and makes them spend more time doing it is intolerable.
There needs to be alternate paths at endgame. No matter how easy and convenient you make finding a group for something there will always be a load of people who just don't like it and only do it because WoW tells them through achievements and it's general tone that you need to gear up at endgame. Skirmishes in MoP sound like a good start, but the LF tools will never be clear of the social detritus people complain about until the only reason people queue is because they enjoy it, not because they're christmas shopping for purples.
Philster043 Jan 7th 2012 5:56AM
I'm sad because I am going to be 5 tickets short of getting that same strider after today. My fault for missing two days the first month and one day this month. Ah, well.
Drahken Jan 7th 2012 6:40AM
I got the strider last month, before it was cool. Yeah, I'm a mount hipster. What of it?
And due to the extremely vexing bug on the two quest items, I'm going to be 3 tickets shy of getting the other mount this month. (If I'd thought to do the eighth set of dailies last month, I would have had enough. Ce la vie.)
Philster043 Jan 7th 2012 8:01PM
How was it possible to get 180 tickets in the first month?
Drahken Jan 7th 2012 9:12PM
They expect you to only get 20 tickets from professions. Because they don't expect you to drop a primary profession and level up all the rest to 75. If you get the other nine primary professions, you can get an extra 36 tickets a month.
Philster043 Jan 8th 2012 9:54PM
I see, clever. I couldn't do that though, took too long on my max professions.