Posts Tagged ‘Frustration’

We are now a week into this year’s Hallow’s End holiday event and I still don’t have a squashling pet on Amradorn, or any of my other toons for that matter. I’ve seen it drop once, from a Headless Horseman kill, and I lost the role.

I knew going into the event that it would be filled with anxiety and frustration since the Sinister Calling achievement, and specifically the Squashling Pet, are all that I need in order to complete the “What a long Strange Trip” achievement and earn the Violet Proto Drake mount which is a 310% speed mount.

An achievement like “What a long strange trip”, is sort of like running a marathon. It’s tough and grueling. Sometimes during it you might wonder if your going to be able to finish but you keep running toward that ultimate goal and reward.

I can’t help but give Blizzard credit for at least giving us multiple ways of obtaining the pet. The problem is that they are all tied to a random number generator. So succeeding or failing at this achievement isn’t about skill, effort, or dedication to the game, it’s about simple luck, and so far the last week has shown me that I have no luck.

I know, it’s just game, and I shouldn’t get myself all worked up over some lousy pixels on my computer screen, but I worked hard over the last year to get all of these achievements done for this mount. I’ve ran through all the hoops, PVP’ed even though I hate it, I’ve done everything that was asked of me to get this mount for Amradorn. It’s like running that marathon, getting in sight of the finish line, only to get tripped up by some callous bystander and seeing the guy you had been struggling neck and neck with for the last few hundred yards break through the tape instead of you.

UPDATE:

Thanks to several guildies I now have a Squashling and my mount. WOOOOOT!!!!!!!