Have you had surprising attitude changes?

I was thinking about this a little bit ago... I'm working on my cartographer title in conjunction with vanquishing (NF & Proph), and I'm having a lot of fun doing this. I'm watching my Sweet Tooth/Party points growing a little at a time, mostly from DP removal, giving myself morale boosts and goofing off with mysterious tonics in town once in a while. I'm making sure I do the bonuses and such for my Protector titles (have NF & Proph so far).

Basically, the same sorts of things many people are doing.

But I can remember when I first joined GW in October, and I remember how "pointless" I thought these things were. "I'm not ever going to try for THAT title... or any other... waste of time."

Yes, I would like a side of humility with my crow, please.

Survivor? Are you nuts??

Uber expensive armor? Puhhhlleeaasssee... what do I need that for?

Tormented weapons? They're UGLY! I won't want those!

ID a few thousand gold weapons? Hah! What a waste!

Mini-pets? Sure they're cute, but they don't DO anything... waste of money!

Yeah. *sighs*

So what about you? Do you find yourself interested in things you previously dismissed, much to your surprise? Are there things you thought would NEVER interest you or be a priority for you that you now are borderline obsessed with achieving/obtaining? Did you once scoff at people collecting q9 swords and now jealously guard your collection of blueberry daggers?

What is your serving of crow marinated in?

I didn't want to VQ. I still don't want to VQ, but I did Elona + cantha, still working on Tyria when bored (henches suck in Tyria). Nothing changed there, since Hard mode on an ele is painful unless you run AP + PvE skills.

I didn't want to do cartography but having been at 98% for a long long time I figured what the hell, loaded up Cartography made easy and scraped a bit.

I did get the party animal title to 9,999 even though I never thought it was a good use of gold. Cost about 200-300K since SD during Wintersday with my necro covered most of it. It's just that originally I had planned for all 20 armor sets but have no room to put it (80 inventory slots is a lot to blow).

I had blown tons of money on minis before HOM so when it came out I only had to buy 2 or 3. Even though I hit 50, I still buy minis because I can and I refuse to pay 100K+ectos for weapons that have the same stats as collector weapons. If it's vanity, might as well put it in something vain right?

In general everything since EoTN has made me much more cynical because I prided on playing a skill>time spent game and all the reputation tracks and cons are definitely not that.

I have Lucky and Unlucky 0 because I sat on rings for about 1 hour total in 5 years. I suspect this year it will be different since the HoM only needs rank 2, but only if breaking lockpicks over this weekend doesn't get me rank 2.

The only thing that ever changed was the HoM calculator giving people things to tick off, honestly.

My guild is just me and the leader and he wasn't up for titles and neither was I.
After boredom I started to solo some titles and he didn't like that at all, me showing them off that is
So finally he joined in and we both have 28 atm and working casually for 30.
And despite our initial thought we really did have a lot of fun doing them all.
Except cartho which I had to do on his account because he couldn't run texmod on his computer >

I think a lot of my changes have been due to updates in both content and builds. As much hate as Discordway gets on forums, I would have never considered VQing until I used it. The introduction of Z-quests made Protector Titles achievable with only moderate difficulty for the general public for the first time.
HoM gave us new targets to shoot for, getting a lot of people into PvP who had previously shunned it (not always a pleasant experience).
Increasing Faction rewards made the previously abandoned JQ and rarely populated FA very active again.

I don't think I'll ever get around to maxxing out more than 15 titles, but I find myself working more and more towards even those I will not reach. I get drunk at festivals now, where I never bothered before. I'm also going after party animal with renewed vigor.

I disagree with the poster on cartography. There is nothing worse than going to BFE to scrape .05% of the map.

Not implying that this was part of your message, BUT, Eye of the North pretty much changed everything for me from an attitude standpoint. Looking back, I suddenly realized that I hadn't really done that much over the past 4 -5 years of playing.

The plus side to that attitude change is that I'm really rediscovering some of that early excitement I experienced when I first started playing. Even now reading back over your post I'm realizing how much I still haven't done. so yeah, overall I'd say that I'm with you on this. Good post.

I have always been a goal orientated person...so when titles were added...yep, something my will had to do--and still working on them, however; I DONT pay for them (I got all the alcohol from either nic, special weekends or I did trade some party points for some)...I didnt buy any sweet or party points either. So yeah, it has taken me a bit longer to finish them (did finish drunkard, party and sweets on one character and even had enough party to almost finish a second!).

so the only thing that has really changed is the fact that there are more titles to finish than I had when they first came out

As of right now, I have amassed about 3200 minutes worth of Drunkard items prepared to sell them the next time a "Double Drunkard Weekend or Event" occurs. I don't have the Drunkard title nor did I ever plan to actually go for it. Right now, I may find myself getting it anyways.

Also, I've noticed more people bring Vampirism than any of the Asura Summon skills, if they do so.

When Hard Mode was first released, I started with Great Northern Wall, then Fort Ranik, where my team repeatedly died to the first team of Charr packing Power Block. I decided right then and there that Hard Mode was just beyond me. Eventually I changed my mind.

Similar experience based on PUGing DoA immediately post-release.

There was a time long ago that I thought Mending was a great wammo skill. (Then again, so did Ensign...)

I swore up one side and down the other that the only minis I'd ever get would be the ones that popped out of my own birthday gifts. HoM Calculator changed all that. Only approaching my second birthday, with a lot of duplicate First Years, I realized I probably won't have enough birthdays before GW2 comes out to even scratch the surface of my Devotion monument. I think I've sunk about 150k into minis just over the past month.

This. HOM didn't change it...actually coming across some that I really liked did. Royal gift harem, MOX, Mallyx, Yak...pretty much all entered my radar and I decided what the heck? Bought the harem, mallyx, a Marley to complete the harem, and a dedicated MOX because it's truly unique. Yak I got from a traveler's gift and although I've tried to sell it many times, nobody would buy. So I'm pretty much stuck with it.

I thought I'd never do the drunkard title, or work hard enough to get GWAMM on the warrior...but losing a job for a year tends to change things up a bit. I found myself actually having the time to play GW, and why not finish these titles while I'm at it?

Also thought that after the Dhumm update that my UW days were over, but I recently joined a guild/alliance that does it pretty regularly and doesn't have the elitism that pugs do. So I've been in there quite a bit too.

I'll say one misconception I had was that people with GWAMM put as much work and effort into it as I did. I was very wrong. There really is no need for skill in gaining GWAMM, just patience. Same for 50/50 and the mid level hero titles.

I've largely stuck to my guns. I never thought I'd go for Cartographer, but I caved and decided I would at least do Tyrian because my nostalgia bug. I still refuse Elona and Cantha.

I also never thought I'd do Guardian, but had racked up enough m+b that it only took the Zaishen rotations to get me interested enough to finish it. And now...

Hero parties might change my mind about VQ...but I'll probably just do them for fun. I have my 30/50, everything I do from now out is just for fun.

About to have my 3rd anniversary here and not much has changed for me.

I still think LDoA is utterly retarded. Survivor I have interest in, but my way. I refuse to ever do that Kilroy thing.. so I tend to lose them somewhere in r2.

I still refuse to play pokemon or pacman. Didn't buy this to play nostalgiaville mini game crap. My Elonian Cartagrapher will remain at 98% forever.

Ugly is eternal.. therefore most of the high value weapons and anything made with Ectos are as undesirable to me as the first day I saw them.

I have 30+ HOM pts.. and have never done any of the endgame areas.. and still have no interest. After 5+ years in EQ2 I just don't have any interest in camping dungeons. I do the manditory missions in them..that is enough.

The only thing I have changed my mind on is my Black Widow and moss spider pets.. they were all I needed to have all pets unlocked.. but that doesn't mean I use the disgusting things.

OH.. and I did make a necro. Costumes able to cover their abysmal armor choices made that possible.

3 and a half years..... i'm still a noob

but yes i have come to the realization that doing those "meaningless" things like trying to get titles, make a r3 survivor for once, VQ, etc are what makes the game even more interesting. originally it was about beating a game, now its about looking cool while doing it

I've been at the realization for a while now that I've been done with this game, but never really made any effort to relieve myself of all of the wealth that I've acquired that now has become unnecessary.

Only just a week or two ago did I finally open up my storage and dump loads of stuff onto unsuspecting persons in Shing Jea, in addition to passing my unded greased over to a guildmate of mine.

Yes. I've said things like that too. But once you accumulate some money or get access to it, it's inevitable. I didn't get my first set of elite armor until at least a year after i started. I made a ton of money and said, what the heck I have the cash and access to it, lets do it.

Said I would never buy FoW armor for my male warrior.... now it's all I ever wear and it's dyed black to top it off -.-'

F**king HoM Calculator

At first i basically played this game to powertrade. Eventually i got tired of it and started to play the actual game. (After 4 years of playing i finally beat factions last year lol.)

So i started to go for titles naturally and thought that vanquishing would take forever and would suck. But after joining a guild and doing the random vanquish here and there, i only have 15 total left to do so thats nice.

Pretty much im only playing to get 50/50 in the HoM and every vanquish/HM mission i do now just gets me angry when i die or it takes 30 minutes to find the last guy.

So now its pretty much me trying to get to 50/50 before i break my computer and before gw2 comes out although i probably wont have any time constraint with the latter.

I suppose my attitude has changed a little.

I never wanted pointless titles and any titles I wanted to go for were for role playing reasons.

I planned my ranger as an explorer so wanted cartographer on her.
I planned my ritualist as a hopeless drunk but decided the time factor was a little too much so abandoned it.
Never wanted elite armour.

When they revealed just what material rewards we could get for achieving 30 points in the HOM my attitude changed.
Now I have 29 points and when I pick up the kurzic armour I will have 30 and be happy.

I have 5 titles in all and that is it so far as I am concerned.
If they offer more material rewards I will reconsider.

I always thought obby armor was ugly, expecially with chaos gloves. Then I saw sin obby dyed black. o_o
Now I'm wearing black obby with chaos gloves all the time... I like other sets better, but I rather look 'ok' and rich rather than cool but poor.