Are you kidding with the "Nightmare Corruption" quest?

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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Why is everything in SOD so ill-conceived? You modified the rep rewards by adding more Brood rep to the crystal. This allowed more people to move past the reputation block - YET there was no improvement to the drop rates from the dragons that drop the shards to move on with the green shard quest line.

Add to that, launch a new anniversary version of classic - leading to drop in the SOD population - leading to less number of layers active on a populated server - leading to completely camped spawn points outside each nightmare portal.

And the cherry on top, the RND 0.5% drop rate. My guild and I have killed 381 dragons in hinterlands waiting for this thing to drop, not to account for the 9 hours of camping in the other spots.

How does the dev team have this little foresight into the cause and effect of each change?

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maybe its changing

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So 80% og the world is a Desert, the last 20% is total overcrowded.

How could this happen? Well, it’s simple: we open new servers where we already promise TBC, but provide no information about what will happen after SoD.

So the only ones spending time beyond a bit of farming are the Scepter quest players and the heroes helping them, who can be found in SoD. Everyone else in SoD is leveling on fresh servers so they can have a character ready for when SoD ends. “Technically, there’s nothing to do until AQ is released, and even then, most of us just raid-log.”

First, they need to fix layers/hyper spawns so that people actually feel like farming rep and helping the Scepter quest runners.

Right now, I think the devs should be forced to stand in one of these zones for 10 hours a day over several days as a Warrior, trying to tag mobs against Warlocks spamming Searing Pain with instant casts and no travel time. Then they can tell us how fun it is.

Sod It has mostly been fun, but again and again, we see massive mistakes that leave the player base completely baffled as to why nothing is done about them. Just letting them rot is beyond me.

Imagine if everyone who helped a Scepter bearer obtain the Scepter received a special tabard never seen before.

turning in 100 Silithyst Dust could reward a toy “banner from your faction.”

Or if you defeated 100 players while carrying Silithyst Dust, you could earn a pet.

There are so many great ideas that would require so little effort but would make open-world activities far more appealing for players.

Many players love the start of an expansion or the launch of a new game because there’s so much to do when it comes to pre-raid gear. Classic does this well and will once again attract a lot of people to play on fresh servers. However, time and time again, we see massive drop-offs after BWL, as nothing new is introduced, and players fall into the trivial loop of raid logging.

Now is precisely the time to add a variety of new content, not just raid-based, but it need to be in the classic style, not the retail M+ cluster fish!

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It’s just a huge beta server where ideas are being tested with thousands of live players. I just feel like the game designer make changes to the game without largely thinking about what happens to other parts of the game with them.

Changing 1 little thing about the reputation block opened up so many people to get taste of the SL quest line which is good but then they didn’t think about what would happen when a huge mass of people get to the nightmare questline and never “upped” the drop rate or the spawn rate.

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I think you should be happy you don’t have to do the bug grind.

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as gimped as theyve made the scrub lord quest they should have or still should just add the nightmare shard to the nightmare dragons. otherwise it was a cruel trick to make brood rep so easy a ton of people thought they had a chance. because the green shard is by far the worst of all of them. tough mobs you have to talk people into farming for you with no benefit to them. basically have to pay people to help.

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totally agree we farmed over 12 hours yesterday at ashenvale and feralas a solid group we were killing basically non-stop with some breaks at ashenvale due to how camped it was but otherwise non-stop killing with not a single drop

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I’m so sorry you didn’t have to grind bugs like the rest of us did. Life must be so hard for you.

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Grinding the bugs the OG way and being stuck on a single frag sucks. It sucks even more that we did the bugs the hard way, and now the people that had it easier are also trying to get the same frag we’ve been stuck on.

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Yea those rates need to be changed/buffed.

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Blizzard has totally screwed over people who farmed the rep the right way, handing it out for free after people grinded all week so the crystal farmers can bottle-neck the people who did it legit.

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They already trivialized the “right way” by cutting the requirement in half, so the mount was already far less prestigious before it was launched. You also needed much bigger parties to do fragment farming/raid bosses in classic than you do in SoD lol runes make the fights so much more trivial.

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You’re right, but there’s no getting through to these people. Blizzard gave them an inch and they’re taking a mile here. I wish they didn’t do anything to make getting the mount easier, because all it has done is caused more crying from the regular FOMO babies.

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Its a re re re release of classic…if you couldn’t get it any other time and still cant get it now then just wait and get one of the free ones that drop from AQ! :slight_smile: Scarab grind isn’t for everyone its a tough grind there’s no shame in throwing in the towel my friend its only a seasonal server after all! Hope you have a great day Orginsup :people_hugging: