I'm doing world bosses and ashran so I see mounts all the time. Personally I don't see the difference between sitting in a city and sitting in your garrison.
I think they probably made a mistake of not just pushing BFR's release a few weeks and had it come out with 6.1. Most people already thought that is when it was coming out to begin with and all the time effort they took to tell people it was not part of 6.1 only to have 6.1 have very little actual content is a real head scratcher. Had they pushed it a few weeks and had it come out with 6.1 I don't think anybody would have gripped about 6.1 lacking content at all.
Heh the funny part is the other hunter still has a 645 weapon. Which is really his own fault for not pugging extra shit every week or just buying one because that's what I did (and STILL do. Fucking Butcher.) But we've gotten so much protector that I should have saved my tokens. Maiden's cloak and Blackhand's trinket is all I have left in all of heroic.
Fuuuuck.
That's what a real MMO does - you know, massively interactive? Ultima Online occupied us meaningfully for an extreme amount of hours in 1997, almost 2 decades ago. EverQuest did it. Camelot did it. Gameplay was focused around players interacting with each other in the context of the game world.
I spent 8 hours today farming some events with about 60 other people today in WOW.
My understanding is once you have two followers at 660 you can get the mission. So you'll want to delay doing that until you have the required 21 heroic kills.
I'm hearing that if you level up your followers after getting the kills for the week it doesn't count either.
It should pop within a minute. If you want to optimize gear updates, look on Master Plan which 2 followers are the most commonly used in all 4 missions, raise them to 660, then look at which mission pops to raise the last needed (if lucky).
I like that I can log into WoW on Wed/Sun/Mon and on the other 4 days of the week I can jerk off, watch tv, do housework, jerk off, or play other games.
They apparently hotfixed some stuff on raid missions. I had my first three level 100 have their raid mission pop within a minute or two of raising a couple followers to 645. However, last night, I did it on my fourth level 100, and the mission didn't show up, even in the morning. I've raised a third 645 follower, but it still didn't pop immediately. Curious.
You don't have many alts, do you? With 7 90+ chars, it takes me almost 2h to do the full rounds of the garrisons, and that's without doing any daily quest/dungeon/whatever. Just gathering, picking work orders, and resubmitting missions (which is the least part of it).