She says it better than I could.
Why make Arfus such a stupidly low droprate after buffing things like Heartbreaker???
Very bad design, very disappointed.
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It’s a great design for the intent: keeping players pulling the lever on that slot machine for as long as possible.
As the video says, it’s engagement. Which is a terrible metric for player enjoyment, but a great one for shareholder satisfaction. Guess which one matters?
As long as they can get you requeueing and rerolling, they don’t need you to be happy about it. And even if they lose a few players, they figure they’re still coming out ahead.
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I had hand surgery last month, still recovering…that said, I couldn’t farm as much as I wanted, started with 1-2 toons a day, worked up to 5-6. The closer to got to the end (3 days before) I was running all my 60+ toons.
The drop rate was extremely lousy & I wound up with a longer healing time for my hand.
Hopefully, as with all other items & pets, they add this to the Trading Post.
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It truly was, which is why I made the video. 
Unfortunately, I don’t see anything changing anytime soon with how they handle pet battles/battle pets. The community just doesn’t have the pull to see any major changes. When they do occasionally change things, they don’t even bother putting them in the hotfixes / patch notes. Usually, we have to stumble on them ourselves.
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He’s cute and all, but fairly unusable in pet battles. Primarily beast attacks. Which are strong against critters. Which are strong against Arfus. So, yeah.
But he is cute though, so he does have that.
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I disagree. He has the capability to make himself faster and has a high power stat, a stun, a Shattered Defenses move, and a static damage ability with Bone Bite. Not to mention, not all critter enemies will deal critter attacks. In all likelihood he’ll be used in Family Battler fights.
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