03-13-2006, 08:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-17-2006, 04:59 PM by MongoJerry.)
lfd,Mar 11 2006, 04:56 PM Wrote:I'm not sure why people are saying "you knew what you were getting yourself in to", unless you're suggesting Mongo had some premonition of the fishing contest, the AQ scepter quest line, the tier 0 upgrade system - all of which are inaccessible to pirates - and now the elite goblins on the zep towers to further hamper them and, it seems, to dissuade anybody in the future from going for the hat+parrot.
For full disclosure, I knew the fishing contest was going to be added and suspected that goblin reputation might be important in the future. That's why I was always careful not to kill the Gadgetzan bruisers whenever I landed there. At the end of the killing spree in Booty Bay, my Booty Bay reputation was 0/36k hated but my Gadgetzan, Everlook, and Ratchet reputations were about 23k/36k Hated. My plan all along was to eventually get my Gadgetzan reputation back to neutral so that I could use the bank there and maybe do some of the quests that I figured would be added later to the game. I'm at about 31k/36k Hated with Gadgetzan and am Hostile with Ratchet after a number of evenings spent running around throwing low rank SW:Pains on the pirates near Ratchet. I figure getting my Booty Bay reputation back was a long lost cause or at least something to be retrieved in a distant future.
But this situation is different. First, the bruisers are "Steamweedle Bruisers." At this point, I don't know exactly what reputation I'm going to need to not get attacked by them. Is it possible to still be Hated by Booty Bay and not get attacked by these guys? If so, how high does my reputation have to be to not get attacked? Or, do I have to get back to at least Unfriendly with every faction of the cartel?
Second, we're talking about the zeppelins here. Yes, I had a good notion that some quests would be added to the game that I might not be able to participate in or that I knew I'd have to bust my hump and kill a lot of pirates if I *really* wanted to do those quests. However, quests in the end are optional, and I could always choose to skip them. The zeppelins are different. They are an important transportation device whenever I want to head off to the plaguelands, go to Zul'Gurub, or want to get to Blackrock Mountain. This is not a matter of, "Oh, well. I don't get to see new content." This is a matter of, "It's going to be a lot harder to participate in the content I've already seen."