Due to what I’ve been going through with not having an outflow fan on my computer’s
case, I haven’t really been focusing on.. what I call ‘Skyscale rep’. Yes it’s a series
of ‘Collections’ in the Achievements tab, but from what I’m doing reminds me of the hell I went through with Netherwing rep in WoW. ..Minus eggs in random locations and going insane seeing Netherwing Eggs everywhere I go.
The second stage involves the three ‘lanes’ that lead out of Pact Command in Dragonfall. Each of them is linked to a biome, and linked to.. I can’t believe I see the word since my years of playing WoW and doing dailies: Quartermaster.
Each of these Quartermasters want you to do a total of 18 Events in their respected
biome, before you’re allowed to buy from them. Unfortunately, these guys have the components needed for Skyscale Medicine. …And oh my god am I glad to be DONE with that hell. Having to rely on random people is PAIN. especially when the event looks fairly easy to solo… only for the game to throw a fucking curveball by having one enemy spawn multiple enemies.
And now I believe I’m getting close (if not at) the level that Melan is, when he last played the game and he was talking about an egg. There’s 12 eggs, and each of them need to be hatched by exposing them to certain elements. We don’t know what makes a Skyscale egg hatch, so we can only guess by running experiments. ..And I nearly lost my shit when the person on YouTube I’ve been watching for this thing, said they “ran an event”. After what I went through with Skyscale Medicine, being forced to do even more events that I can’t rely on help, will break me.
I do have a lot of questions for the game though, but I’m going to save them for later. For I’m going to be working (and releasing) a GW2 Spoiler blog post about things I absolutely have to talk about or they’ll drive me insane.
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EDIT: I’m finally done with the Skyscale Eggs collection and have started something that I swore, was going to cause me to uninstall the game. I’m not kidding.
Melancholy told me when I was still doing the previous collection, to “spend a lot of gold”. And he wasn’t kidding. I spent more gold on toys and food for this baby Skyscale than I’m comfortable with. But I guess ArenaNet wanted to show the “joy” of being a pet owner? Even though a Skyscale is a wild (mythical) animal– a dragon.. not a pet. But they don’t seem to care.
Spending almost 50 gold on a Skyscale, isn’t rewarding. But I guess watching my baby grow, is. If it was me, I’d shove fast growth vitamins down her throat (yes, it’s a her) and tell her “cut the BS, ArenaNet. I want my dragon mount NOW!! I’m done with this ‘feel you’ve earned it’ crap! I’ve been through enough torture!!” …This is worse than Netherwing rep!
And on top of that, I had to complete the ‘Skyscale Treats’ collection. Another 21 items. This time it involved going everywhere.. and fucking GRIND on a specific mob until it drops an item I need for the collection. And what’s worse, you don’t know if you have the exact item until it has a gold ring around it. And it isn’t even named the item you need.
And it also claims: 
…ARE YOU SHITTING ME?! This is literally Vanilla WoW all over again. This fucking broke me. Melan, you told me things would be easier for now on! But, thankfully the grind wasn’t too bad when I finally figured out what happens. So basically, you get the item in your collection after your Skyscale eats it. What you acquire is the item before she eats it.
And finally, no. I learned this the hard way. But the Skyscale Treats are NOT labeled as food. For my Skyscale is a true woman. Only wanting food that makes me financially broke! Fucking hell, bitch.
But, one last thing I have to say. Gorrik… how is one Skyscale, going to ‘save’ their race? That’s not how it works. She would need a mate when she gets old enough. You didn’t know how they hatch, so you had me do field testing. So… how in the fuck did you know what they eat!? What entertains them!? And most of all.. how they breed?! I get it, you’re a genius. But come ON, ArenaNet! Fill in the damn blanks!!