[Stupid] Druid mount progression summaryFollow

Level 40: buy Apprentice riding skill and 60% ground mount
Level 60: buy Journeyman riding skill and 100% ground mount
Level 68: Do not buy Expert riding skill, get it for free when you train flight form at trainer like any other skill; laugh at friends of other classes
Level 70+: buy Artisan riding skill and either complete extremely difficult quest for swift flight form or plunk down cash for epic flyer

Is this right?

I know there's a bazillion places that talk endlessly about all this but I need to make sure I have the summary straight in my pea brain. I just hit the Outlands (yay me) and as I'm a casual player and don't have time for raiding and whatnot, from now through the level cap and beyond I'm going to focus mainly on making sure I have my riding skill, professions, and gold stash where I want them when WoTLK comes out and if I can make any extra between now and then, farming gold to fund alts.

Hang on so you don't need to buy expert but you do need to buy artisan? I didnot know that... and it makes no sense

heroic sethekk just needs the right kind of CC and a good tank to make it easy. bringing a priest to MC helps immensely, and shackle doesnt hurt either. for a tank, druids can do it just fine, but warriors are nice to have just because disarm helps loads on the ravenguards after the first boss, and tclap is great on melee in general. that doesnt mean a druid cant tank it, just that you need to bring a good warrior along to make life a little easier.

and even thats not necessary if your armor and avoidance is high enough.

A follow up question, just out of curiosity, is there a reason you need swift flight form vs. an epic flyer? Supposing a person wasn't in a position to run a heroic instance in order to complete that quest, and just bought their mount instead? It isn't like they're the warrior who never got defensive stance, right? Is it just the coolness factor? I wonder if in the next expansion they'll make it a prereq for something.

(edited cause I never spell curiosity right the first time)


Edited, Nov 30th 2007 4:01pm by teacake

Jump on the test server and try it out, then see if you feel you "need" it :)

I love it sooo much! I hate my alts with their stupid slow motion flying mounts (it feels like it would be faster to get off and run!)


The balance boss that is mentioned above is quite difficult to beat, but the simple answer is just to bring a friend or two and it becomes trivial. (it is satisfying to beat them all solo though and have to use all the tricks of all the facets of our class).

Damn. I misread the original statement. In that case, the way I look at it is, you have already spent the money on the training, why not do the easy (with friends) quest chain and a heroic dungeon (most people are regularly running heroics anyway). It's ususally not too hard yo get a group together, particularly when you mention their is a chance that the bird mount will drop :)

Also, if you hold out for a week or two and do all the Netherwing daily quests, you end up getting a free Netherdrake anyway (and make a heap of money from the quests as well).

I see zero reason not to get epic flight form, even if it did have a cast time.

Can't recover from a fatal 'edge-of-the-world' fall in Outland with a regular epic flyer. Also can't pick herbs.

As far as the prerequisite aspect, Blizzard has a bad habit of making old, hard-earned stuff obsolete to accommodate the (inevitably) larger playerbase who never actually achieved those goals. So I'd be surprised if they did.

Hee. I so wish they'd put some sort of checkpoint system in instances that would enable a group to pick up where they left off another time. There're a million ways you could organize a system like that for people like us who are forced to be casual players by virtue of not being able to sit at our PC's for 3 hours straight. I think the last end boss I saw was Van Cleef.

(Edited cause "QQ" should at least be spelled right.)

Edited, Dec 3rd 2007 6:58pm by teacake