LucianDK.8615

> @"Graymalkyn.8076" said:

> I think ultimately the question people have isn't instant gratification, or cost, or effort, or any of that individually, but all combined so that this mount is so hard to get and offers so little compared to the other mounts.

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> Raptor = Renowned heart task = Fast ground travel

> Springer = Renowned heart task = Vertical leap

> Skimmer = Renowned heart task = Fast water travel

> Jackal = Renowned heart task = Fast ground travel / limited teleport

> Roller Beetle = A few relatively simple collections = Very fast ground travel

> Griffon = A few more difficult collections / 250 gold = Extended air travel

> Warclaw = ~8 hours in WvW = Usable in WvW

> Skyscale = Multiple collections / Timegated / Extensive grinding in old zones = Hovering at about the altitude a springer can jump / Cling (but not climb) to walls.

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> It just seems like our expectations were for this to be along the lines of the simpler mounts considering it's grievous limitations. Then to realize that we need to do what is akin to legendary weapon effort to get it...

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> We're just trying to wrap our heads around why. What was the reason behind why this one is so much more difficult, time consuming, and costly, than the others?

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The Skyscale does have a limited climbing ability. You can wall jump upwards twice with a full stamina bar. Pop bond of vigor after and its four times.

Theres way too many glyphs already, that it would be nice to use two at once.

> @"Graymalkyn.8076" said:

> How about an option (could be a mastery) to actually be able to scale the wall you are clinging to? Rather than just stick to it, you could walk up it. This might actually add some relevance to the mount.

With the third mastery you can jump up the wall, but it takes a lot of endurance. So you can do it twice.

> @"kharmin.7683" said:

> I want the tool that gives me all of the materials on the map when I enter the zone so that I don't have to do anything.

The new Reaper Glyph harvests all nearby nodes of the type at once.

The collection after the saddle is just to visit and use 28 rifts. Super fast. You recieve the mount and unlocked masteries on completion

I cannot agree with it being useless. It is a quite precise mount as long you dont overtax it. But even that can be improved with Bond of Vigor and Wall jumping as already said.

But I expected a mount good at scaling walls beyond the ability of the Springer, and that was right what I recieved.

I think people are dissing the Skyscale too fast. With wall jump you can get really high up, and chaining ocassional Bond of Vigor to push further. I managed to get so high up in Divinitys Reach that I could see the blue abyss behind the facade of the buildings. Neiter Springer or Griffon couldve gotten all the way up there. Which demonstrates why free flight is not good for the game, as the world simply isnt built with it in mind. Even with the skyscale we can push the limitations of the world.

Also, you only loose height if endurance is under 1 bar. Ive managed to scale multiple walls that was beyond the springer.

I want to have a cosmic skin for it, to fit with my other cosmic skinned mounts.

I ground the hell out of yesterday and collected the saddle. But it was too late for the last part, 5am, so I went to bed.

I am just upset over that they kept the 250 x6 bit a secret. We had -FOUR- days of doing nothing were we could have prepared at a more leisurely pace.

ugh. this is depressing....

I seriously wish they had told the specifics instead of giving this unpleasant suprise

is this something crafted that can be sold?

Seems far too mesmer oriented.

Doesnt sound too bad, this is not Serpents ire

> @"JustTrogdor.7892" said:

> Some people on Reddit are saying the new food is just to make the collection easier. You can use the food for example in Cursed Shore to attract whatever it is you have to collect or can do it the long way and do the JP for it.

Now that is interesting.

Noone has asked the important question. Do you now have to feed it over 7 days? Since you get a free food and have to make 20 more. The previous feeding being 3 a day.

This collection is fairly easy so far, and theres already reddit guides for it.

Sounds like people here is trying to make the skyscale a replacement for the griffon, which its not. Its just a situational mount. From my experiences and what I understand of the mechanics, it will mainly be useful for ascending flat horizontal surfaces that is far too high for the springer to jump.

Now thats just hyperbole. The events served so far takes 2-3 hours of the biggest one. No full day ones.

> @"Ashantara.8731" said:

> > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > Its quite doable in a multimap group

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> No one on the EU server has been doing this, though. It's a shame. I am sitting at 9 of 25, and it's majorly annoying.

I am on EU and Ive seen a few of them. It doesnt prevent you from taking the initiative and doing it. If you have a com tag that be.

Personally I have stopped doing more with Dragonfall until the Skyscale is completed. Just feel like a waste of time to earn exp that doesnt go towards the masteries.

Just follow a guide, it does not take that long. Even the biggest collection so far of x50 items took me around 2 hours.

Yep, wow have far worser timegating. And Squirrel.6318 you did not give the story time to unfold. You are examining skyscales and learning about problems they have.

Not a bug, they are just dying a rented skyscale. Look on the mount dye page, Skyscale is there.

I think you are overrreacting. I found all the scales myself, and I found it enjoyable enough. Only a few I had trouble with. I found many eggs myself from the hints, though I ended resorting to a guide to try make it before daily reset, but failed with 20 mins over time.

Its quite doable in a multimap group, which makes it a lot faster.

You get a large group with multiple subgroups that spreads out among the bridge zones on different maps. So if the event spawns for south bridge on map 3. Then people at south position on like map 1-2-4-5 warps to 3 and knocks it off, before going back to their previous maps and calling out if they get it there.

took me about 2 hours to get x25