How did you maintain your sanity doing the ARR Beast Tribes without flying?

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

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Just finished up after putting them off for so long. Even with flying it was suffering with the Sylph quests being by far the worse. I hated doing them - not a single one felt fun to do or interesting. Then the Sylph main quest... I wanted to strangle that scholar. He made everything 110% harder and more tedious.

Hats off to those that suffered this without flying.

[Sotaris]

Well not clicking random links but it was easy. We were used not having flying, then HW came around and changed that.

[Hatfright]

Who said we remained sane?

[Avatre]

Who said we remained sane?

Who said we started sane?

Edit: Especially those of us who have done/are currently doing all the relics....still 4 HW to finish off(at the dungeon crawl for a few), and Pyros+ to do for all but 2 of the StB relics. All combat ShB ones done, and at Diadem farming for DoH/DoL...I don't think I've ever had sanity to be able to work on all that without much issue(other than the books...I hate those books!)

[GrizzlyTank]

Who said we remained sane?

Not like anyone here can still be sane after doing all the quests in churning mists, and that is even with flying!

[Vahlnir]

Not like anyone here can still be sane after doing all the quests in churning mists, and that is even with flying!

Churning Mists made me hate moogles. And I hate myself for hating them because they're moogles.

[Arazehl]

Ohhh the many times I was doing my ARR beast tribe dailies back then with the Sylphs and I get aggro. There goes my invisibility grrrr! *runs back to refresh*

Those were the days I will fondly remember now. hehe

[Illmaeran]

Just finished up after putting them off for so long. Even with flying it was suffering with the Sylph quests being by far the worse. I hated doing them - not a single one felt fun to do or interesting. Then the Sylph main quest... I wanted to strangle that scholar. He made everything 110% harder and more tedious.

Flying's certainly a nice feature to have, no doubt, but doing the ARR beast tribe quests without flying is nostalgic. Like Sotaris said, we didn't have flying back then so the general pace was slower. Now that we've been flying for the past however many years, and the ARR beast tribe rewards aren't the New Hotness they once were, doing them these days without flying won't have a huge impact on money, etc. Personally, I love doing them without flying to enjoy the slower pace and relive the ARR days in small ways.

Flying everywhere makes the pace of the game feel faster/more rushed. Walking/running on the ground can help relieve tension and give a greater appreciation for the original content in a way that zooming everywhere via flight/teleportation doesn't provide. The ARR zones may be smaller, but they're dense with places to go, out of the way nooks to visit, flowers to sniff, and ambiance that's lacking in HW+ zones that are more open/sparse and designed for flight.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I remember the pain before flying was a thing. About a week after clearing them all, we received the words of getting flight in ARR zones in 5.3.

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[Keoeson]

One day at a time? You had less allowances per day anyway. The most annoying part was usually waiting around for fates to spawn.