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Okay, here's something I don't understand...
Two things, really.
Playing around with a druid character. (Yes, Alliance. Yes, Argent Dawn server.) Up to level 16.
Now, I understand why, at level 10 there is a semi-long, semi-involved quest for Bear form. It is the first animal form you get, and it's not like other classes don't have quests for some of their abilities. No problem there, it wasn't a difficult quest at all.
Why is there an even longer, even more tedious quest for Cure Poison? I mean, come on, it's Cure Poison. Get the quest in Darnassus. Teleport to Moonglade. Find out that you have to go back to Auberdine (which is a mousefart away from Darnassus) to actually talk to the person who gives you the quest, because God forbid that you not waste time in Moonglade for this shit. Get the real quest. Make the special magic poison curing salve. Get the real, real quest. Go around using the salve to cure sick deer. Yes, you cure sick deer. 10 of them. Because this is supposed to teach you to appreciate the spell all the more. Teleport back to Moonglade. Talk to the NPC there who tells you "Congratz! Now go back to Darnassus and talk to your trainer, because I'm just a fucking placeholder who can't possibly give you the spell." Go back to Darnassus, learn the spell. Now I have Cure Poison. And it doesn't cure the deer. I checked. I'm at a loss. I can cure the deer with the salve, which doesn't work on anything else, but I can't cure the deer with the spell, which does work on any poison. What the hell, continuity is shot in this game anyway.
Second problem: Sea Lion form. Yes, you read that right. Sea lion. This is useful when you want to stay underwater for a long time and not die, and you don't have access to a Warlock in your party, a water breathing potion, or a diving helmet. In other words, NEVER. And it's completely useless, because you can't cast any spells in Sea Lion form. You have no special attacks in Sea Lion form, unlike Bear form or Cat form. So you really can't do anything but not die. But hey, you don't drown. Which is completely logical, as Sea Lions are the only known mammals with gills. OH WAIT THEY'RE NOT!
Amazingly, that's not the real problem. The quest to get Sea Lion form is the problem. First, shockingly, teleport to Moonglade, Because this zone has to have some purpose and it is to drive people who play Druids completely fucking insane. First and foremost, god forbid they should lay out the druid town in straight lines or something. Second, hey, druid fuckwits, signs would be nice. Even the fucking Horde managed literacy to the point where they have signs and direction posts. Anyway, go to Moonglade. Find out that you need to find a magic bubble in the big lake and take it to a specific NPC. You have 30 minutes to search the bottom of a big lake (and not drown) and once you find the magic bubble, you have to swim/run to the NPC before the bubble pops. Yeah. Then, you find out this was not really the quest to get Sea Lion form, because it was way too easy, searching a big lake and not drowning. No, you have to find two parts of an amulet to prove that you can turn into the mighty Sea Lion, ruler of the waves. Where are the parts of the amulet? Oh, we can't tell you. That would be easy. But if you talk to the people in the crazy druid village, they might could tell you.
Do any of the people talk to you? NO. Two specific people can tell you, but the rest of them are fucking idiots who can't even give directions, unlike everyone else in the entire goddamn world. You can't go twenty feet in Stormwind without a guard wanting to tell you how to get to the Auction House, but druids are a quiet, contemplative, and retarded bunch... at least the guards are. When, at last, I track the two specific people down (mind you, no names are ever given as to which two I'm supposed to be looking for), I find out one piece is off the coast of Darkshore (which has about a hojillion miles of coastline), but at least I'm told a limited area to search. The other piece? Off the coast of Westfall. On the other fucking continent.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Okay, until the events in Warcraft 3, no one even knew there was another fucking continent, Night Elves, Tauren, or Druids, at all. And yet, one half of the amulet is halfway around the fucking world. I mean, this has to be a recent thing, but who the fuck thought this was a good idea? After getting the first part of the amulet, it's like this. Catch boat to other fucking continent. Run from Menethil Harbor to Ironforge. Take tram from Ironforge to Stormwind. Run from Stormwind to Westall. Swim around off the correct chunk of coastline in Westfall, avoiding the monster that is 6 levels higher then the quest AND ELITE, find the other piece of the amulet (oh, and don't drown while doing all of this). Hooray. Teleport back to Moonglade. Run from the teleport point to the "special magical place" in Moonglade which is completely indistinguishable from the rest of the zone to put the amulet together, just to run back to the teleport point so I can talk to the same retarded NPC as from the Cure Poison quest. The same NPC whose only purpose in life, as mentioned, is to say "YAY! YOU DIDDED IT!" and send you on to your trainer in Darnassus. And then you get the mighty Sea Lion form, which lasts as long as you stay underwater, and don't mind not casting spells, or doing anything but piddly damage.
At least I don't have to go through this shit for Cat form.
Playing around with a druid character. (Yes, Alliance. Yes, Argent Dawn server.) Up to level 16.
Now, I understand why, at level 10 there is a semi-long, semi-involved quest for Bear form. It is the first animal form you get, and it's not like other classes don't have quests for some of their abilities. No problem there, it wasn't a difficult quest at all.
Why is there an even longer, even more tedious quest for Cure Poison? I mean, come on, it's Cure Poison. Get the quest in Darnassus. Teleport to Moonglade. Find out that you have to go back to Auberdine (which is a mousefart away from Darnassus) to actually talk to the person who gives you the quest, because God forbid that you not waste time in Moonglade for this shit. Get the real quest. Make the special magic poison curing salve. Get the real, real quest. Go around using the salve to cure sick deer. Yes, you cure sick deer. 10 of them. Because this is supposed to teach you to appreciate the spell all the more. Teleport back to Moonglade. Talk to the NPC there who tells you "Congratz! Now go back to Darnassus and talk to your trainer, because I'm just a fucking placeholder who can't possibly give you the spell." Go back to Darnassus, learn the spell. Now I have Cure Poison. And it doesn't cure the deer. I checked. I'm at a loss. I can cure the deer with the salve, which doesn't work on anything else, but I can't cure the deer with the spell, which does work on any poison. What the hell, continuity is shot in this game anyway.
Second problem: Sea Lion form. Yes, you read that right. Sea lion. This is useful when you want to stay underwater for a long time and not die, and you don't have access to a Warlock in your party, a water breathing potion, or a diving helmet. In other words, NEVER. And it's completely useless, because you can't cast any spells in Sea Lion form. You have no special attacks in Sea Lion form, unlike Bear form or Cat form. So you really can't do anything but not die. But hey, you don't drown. Which is completely logical, as Sea Lions are the only known mammals with gills. OH WAIT THEY'RE NOT!
Amazingly, that's not the real problem. The quest to get Sea Lion form is the problem. First, shockingly, teleport to Moonglade, Because this zone has to have some purpose and it is to drive people who play Druids completely fucking insane. First and foremost, god forbid they should lay out the druid town in straight lines or something. Second, hey, druid fuckwits, signs would be nice. Even the fucking Horde managed literacy to the point where they have signs and direction posts. Anyway, go to Moonglade. Find out that you need to find a magic bubble in the big lake and take it to a specific NPC. You have 30 minutes to search the bottom of a big lake (and not drown) and once you find the magic bubble, you have to swim/run to the NPC before the bubble pops. Yeah. Then, you find out this was not really the quest to get Sea Lion form, because it was way too easy, searching a big lake and not drowning. No, you have to find two parts of an amulet to prove that you can turn into the mighty Sea Lion, ruler of the waves. Where are the parts of the amulet? Oh, we can't tell you. That would be easy. But if you talk to the people in the crazy druid village, they might could tell you.
Do any of the people talk to you? NO. Two specific people can tell you, but the rest of them are fucking idiots who can't even give directions, unlike everyone else in the entire goddamn world. You can't go twenty feet in Stormwind without a guard wanting to tell you how to get to the Auction House, but druids are a quiet, contemplative, and retarded bunch... at least the guards are. When, at last, I track the two specific people down (mind you, no names are ever given as to which two I'm supposed to be looking for), I find out one piece is off the coast of Darkshore (which has about a hojillion miles of coastline), but at least I'm told a limited area to search. The other piece? Off the coast of Westfall. On the other fucking continent.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Okay, until the events in Warcraft 3, no one even knew there was another fucking continent, Night Elves, Tauren, or Druids, at all. And yet, one half of the amulet is halfway around the fucking world. I mean, this has to be a recent thing, but who the fuck thought this was a good idea? After getting the first part of the amulet, it's like this. Catch boat to other fucking continent. Run from Menethil Harbor to Ironforge. Take tram from Ironforge to Stormwind. Run from Stormwind to Westall. Swim around off the correct chunk of coastline in Westfall, avoiding the monster that is 6 levels higher then the quest AND ELITE, find the other piece of the amulet (oh, and don't drown while doing all of this). Hooray. Teleport back to Moonglade. Run from the teleport point to the "special magical place" in Moonglade which is completely indistinguishable from the rest of the zone to put the amulet together, just to run back to the teleport point so I can talk to the same retarded NPC as from the Cure Poison quest. The same NPC whose only purpose in life, as mentioned, is to say "YAY! YOU DIDDED IT!" and send you on to your trainer in Darnassus. And then you get the mighty Sea Lion form, which lasts as long as you stay underwater, and don't mind not casting spells, or doing anything but piddly damage.
At least I don't have to go through this shit for Cat form.
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