Comments on: Do you want your gem recipe vendor as bad as Vendetta?

By: SuxToBU

SuxToBU — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:00:28 +0000

/cry I’m a tad short of lvl 50 and not gonna be there (70) in time for the draw. Still nice to know who to hit up to get some gems cut ;)

By: Pookies

Pookies — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:49:47 +0000

On my realm, Bonechewer (US), top guilds on the alliance and horde side held a similar contest where the reward was a full BT clear with certain T6 tokens guaranteed to go to the winner (if they dropped).

Of course, my guild was discouraged from participating (wearing gear you didn’t earn is frowned upon, plus none of us should be getting locked out of BT for a week anyway), but since we had a couple of JCs anxious to get their hands on the new patterns, we did the quest all the same.

By: Kheldar

Kheldar — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:36:08 +0000

we must have been lucky on our server as people were still driving up the percentage even after the badge vendor was available.

but i agree with itsnoteasy that the quest mobs etc are soo buggy.

iirc its a good quest to do though as the reward is one of the supply bags that can contain a badge of justice ?

By: Itsnoteasy

Itsnoteasy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:17:45 +0000

To be fair, I didn’t lose interest in it because we got the gear vendor… as of yesterday, I have a whopping 10 badges in total.

No, the reason I stopped doing it is because that quest is bugged to high hell and beyond. I’ve never seen a buggier quest.

First, the glands have an abysmal drop rate. I once spent *twenty minutes* grinding there without getting a drop. I just gave up in the end.

Then, let’s say you *do* get one of the glands to drop. You’re now faced with trying to use it. There have been three occasions where the gland just simply didn’t work. The mob wasn’t bugged, the gland just didn’t do anything.

But then there are the ravagers. 99% of them are bugged 100% of the time. They just stand there not doing anything, and evading constantly. Finding a non-bugged ravager is almost impossible if there’s anyone else doing the quest.

If, after all this, you’ve finally gotten a working ravager, you’ve got a few problems. As a hunter, the ravager makes a terrible pet. His threat generation is so bad, that I can pull aggro from him with just auto shot.

But the worst part of all? You go up to a root, hit the button to uncover the root… and the ravager bugs. And just stand there, perma-bugged. Nothing you can do to get him out of it.

The last time I did it, all of the above happened. I’d wasted about half an hour on this one stupid quest, so I just gave up, flew away, and never picked up the quest again.

By: Stale

Stale — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:35:44 +0000

Wow… I’m so glad im on a server that cared…

I’ve got all epic gems and have had for at least 2 months since we unlocked it… If I was Vendetta, I’d be pissed 2 :P

(tho if they are one of the best guilds on the server, they probably have an excess of gems in the Gbank anyways…)

By: Begbie

Begbie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:17:56 +0000

I first noticed they started doing it a week or so ago, at around 88%. I felt guilty that I hadn’t been doing it, especially that my hunter is sitting on a couple stacks of talasites ready to cut. I’ve done it several times since. Hopefully we can push past the 95% mark over this holiday weekend.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:52 +0000

One one hand in is a same (and typical) that people wont form up for “community” work without an incentive.
Other the other hand, it’s a great example of a portion of the community identifying a need and stepping forward to assist the rest of the community in meeting that need.
Good luck with the bear mount..

By: Nasirah

Nasirah — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:56:41 +0000

That is pretty cool. I used to do that quest (along with several others) every day, and was shocked at how slow that percentage was ticking up. Slowly I got burnt out on dailies and it was once every other, or every third day. And since the Fire Festival started, I haven’t done a SINGLE regular daily quest.

Bad druid.

But hopefully this thing takes off, and by the time I get back from our out-of-town weekend, gem lady will be there.