Quote Originally Posted by JamieRose View Post
That was because the way to unlock things, particularly mounts, were tied to wins which were nigh impossible to secure if you weren't with the Maelstrom back then. Forgive me for feeling like this game has incredibly poor PvP, because it does.

And if I lash out, it's because I'm constantly being attacked and in some cases, stalked, by people who are trying to bully me into silence.
Huh, I've got the mounts and my Grand Company was - and is - the Immortal Flames. Same goes for my partner. If I remember correctly, we spent a couple of weeks with a few matches each evening to get our mounts - not "nigh impossible" at all.

...specially because for one of the Mounts Frontline didnt even matter, you had to play Feast (8 vs. 8 at the time, I believe). For a second mount, both wins in Frontlines and Feast counted, so again: Your GC didnt matter. Only the last mount required Frontline-wins - but even back then we already had the freelancer-option, so you could have ended up in maelstrom matches purely by chance.

Maelstrom always winning or you having to be with them is also closer to a meme than to the truth - winning as part of the other GCs was and is still possible, specially if you have someone to coordinate the team (that someone could be you, as long as you know enough about the modus thats played and how to do callouts there).

Stop blaming missing out on this on anyone but yourself - and stop putting out missinformation. For two mounts you didnt even have to touch frontlines, so Maelstrom or not doesnt matter.