#32 - Sept. 14, 2008, 6:32 a.m.
Okay, clearly this has caused an outrage beyond what we expected. The designers called an emergency meeting and while we discovered that it's too late to back out this poorly-conceived implementation, we are exploring a couple of options for all you non-casuals out there:
-- A clam-stacking trinket. You have to equip it like your riding crop.
-- In addition to cold-weather-flying, you can learn clam-stacking in Dalaran.
-- A long attunement that involves trips to LBRS for Horde and BRD for Alliance.
-- Tediously crafting a clam-stacking gear set that will be useful for certain encounters.
-- An Achievement reward for collecting 20,000 clams to be titled "How do you like DEM clams?"
-- A bonus for reaching Exalted with Timbermaw Hold AND Wintersaber Trainers.
-- Beating Captain Skyshatter. At level 60. With a bad ping. In the rain.
-- The clam book has a 0.02% drop rate on Dead Man's Pass or Blade's Edge ogres.
-- Collecting "Clam Scraps" from AV that you feed to the NPCs in order to summon Oystolar the Mollusc Lord in the Field of Strife.
-- Getting 100 other players to sign your clam charter.
-- Collecting 1,000,000 linen from Ragefire Chasm in order to open the Clams of Ahn'Qiraj.
-- Kind of like paid character transfers, but for clam-stacking.
-- You can respec to clam-stacking in between respecing for raids and Arenas.
-- A buggy clam-stacking mod that you will need to update after each and every patch.
-- You see, there's this clam-stacking book in Dire Maul as a rare drop. You get the book, do all sorts of crazy stuff that ends up with the book being breathed on by Mutanus the Devourer.
-- A clam book lying in plain sight in the Barrens next to Mankirk's wife.