Baneleaf wrote:
Faction change + server change there and back
Buying gold (big fucking no no)
Spending real money on TCG items to sell in game
All for 1 mount and 25 achievment points.
Is there really no way you could convince TB or Hero Squad to pull this off?
I guess I see the 100 or more dollars you spent on the server/faction moves alone as a complete waste plus it was that guilds first kill so they easily could have fucked it up and either kept you there for another week or possibly not given a shit/refund at all.
However, grats because I know that was one thing you have been after for a while.
I know you have a profficiency for making gold in game, but you have also openly admitted to buying gold. There is a point where enough is enough, just saying.
Zaryi wrote:
Baneleaf wrote:
I know you have a profficiency for making gold in game, but you have also openly admitted to buying gold. There is a point where enough is enough, just saying.
wat.
No, his points are very valid.
I understand your perspective and to a great extent I agree.
This is the only occasion I've actually bought gold (by proxy), and the only reason I did so was that time was up and I simply had no other options. Like I said, the pendulum can just as easily swing the other way. If there was any other way - even farming TK trash for months - I'd have done it. There wasn't.
Regarding the TCG, it wasn't quite that simple. What I actually bought was a Nether Rocket card. I already had an XTREME rocket, and the card gives both, so I kept the slow one and sold the one I already had. In effect, I double dipped - I accomplished an unrelated goal.
Bluntly, there's no way Hero Squad could do this - Anub P3 is insanely difficult now with the change to health pools and MS, almost unkillable even by top-drawer guilds. I asked TB - went to enormous lengths (you have no idea) to attempt to convince them to do this. They weren't interested; nothing I could say or do would change that (and believe me I tried). Even if TB agreed, they'd have no easier a time of it, they could just as easily fail because of the changes and their own disinterest (having obtained it already). TB offered to do it a while back, but when they made the offer I'd already committed to purchasing the head from Gwen Stefani.
The achievement is a Feat of Strength; it gives no achievement points. Makes no difference to me either way, and even if it gave no feat and the mount was a cardboard box I'd still want it because it is there.
I was very aware Vigil might not be able to accomplish this (and bluntly, if someone not me was present, even their own raiders, they'd probably have failed - I kept myself up through three pcolds with shield wall/LoH/WoG when their healers ran oom - you may see this as an apologia, or a rationalization for getting carried, which to some extent it is, but it's also true - just as it's true they made the unique decision to deny one of their own the achievement to do this for me for a relatively small amount of gold). If, however, Vigil failed, I knew the trip would not be a total loss - Mal'ganis has an abundance of other rare mounts on the AH, and I could simply resell the things I had purchased to sell for gold.
Like I said, I could simply buy and sell gamecards later, and the total cost is no more than a new computer or a cheap weekend in Vegas...and you'd be hard pressed to argue that those aren't anything but entertainment/discretionary expenses.
This is my hobby, and I don't mind spending cash on it any more than anyone else does for theirs.
That said, if your respect for me is diminished, I am genuinely sorry to hear that.
