With this opportunity to get rare cloud serpents, I think adding an achievement to collect them all, or even key ones, is justified and wouldn’t be too niche. Reward would be a shifting thundering rainbow cloud serpent called Awakened Mist Cloud Serpent, and a toy that turns you rainbow and shifting.
There’s an achievement called Awake the Drakes that gives you a green drake for collecting the other colours. Many are 1% drops. So I don’t see why not.
There’s never been another mount meta-achievement LIKE Awake the Drakes since it came out. And that was back in friggin Cataclysm. I have to suspect that someone in the dev team doesn’t like a sought-after mount like that being tied to so many rare drops. Four of them are 1% drops, and two of them are tied to reputations.
Awake the Drakes has always been a bit of an unreasonable achievement to go for. And this is coming from someone that actually has it.
I have Awake the Drakes too and I agree that it’s a little too niche. In other words, not enough people will be able to go for it realistically to justify the resources invested in it. It wouldn’t be right or fair.
(Weird that collectors are expected to admit this while the top 1% of skill - mythic raiding and high keys - takes up probably 90% of development resources. But I digress.)
But cloud serpents now that you can buy 'em? That’s kind of the goldilocks zone for another Awake the Drakes. And the best part is, yes you can miss this chance, but you don’t miss out on the ability to get the achievement later; it’s just harder.
With the rare drop ones going onto the vendor during the remix event, I think this could be a pretty neat idea.
It came out with WoD actually.
I’m actually kind of surprised there don’t seem to be any new Cloud Serpents in the pile of mounts coming in the Remix. Heavenly versions of the Ivory and White models would be sick.
Wait, is the golden astral one the only new one? That’s insane considering how important they were (from a collection and/or lore standpoint) during real MoP.
It took me ages to get the Blazing Drake to drop, and Handmaiden’s STILL eluding me. Removing the Blazing Drake from the list of requirements would be fine in my book.
Didn’t they preview a gold constellation/star serpent on the rewind announcement page?
6% of players have emerald drake, less people have heavenly onyx cloud serpent despite his drop rate being buffed for almost a whole expansion now. Perfectly fair and reasonable expectation to collect all the cloud serpents (and I’m not just saying that because I have all of them except for ivory, who’s from a different expansion entirely)
I agree, especially since I have them all. The cloud serpent should be an ugly green color reminiscent of the national lampoons vacation station wagon just like the original awake the drakes mount.
Yeah, but I’m referring to the “standard” model.
It is now, when many of the 1% drop ones, including the Heavenly Onyx you mention that would block most, are going to be buyable through timerunning.
(I’m also not positive that people just don’t have him because he doesn’t look good. A bright-white-glowing, black thing. Any other colour looks nice in Heavenly but he looks odd.)
The astral golden is ONLY going to be up for this event. That’s less fair than a new Awake the Drakes that will be easy during the event, but still obtainable afterwards.
This one could always be excluded from the achievement. Not every drake is in the awake the drake achievement (for example, the albino drake that’s a reward for mount collecting, which is similar to the golden astral cloud serpent in that both are achievement reward mounts, is not a part of that achievement).
July 2022…
I did this thread that’s basically the same, I tried to push this into the Council with help from some of those members and during PTRs, forums in general.
Devs could embrace more family mount achievements besides the big # of mount achievements that we won’t receive frequently.
A lot of recolors from this event could be part of new evergreen achievements.
for the reward maybe… heavenly white cloud serpent?
Heavenly White Cloud Serpent might look amazing but it could just be kind of a white patch on the screen. Someone else suggested Heavenly Pink (Ivory I think it’s called) which might be better.
That’s if they won’t do the thundering shifting rainbow one.
im so into it.
pink power ranger was always my favorite.
Idk if they will ever do a meta achievement for collecting several 1% or rarer mount drops, ever again.
I have the green drake, I think I got it in WoD or Legion.
But, it was a terrible process lol. I don’t want to do Dragon Soul ever again, and frankly, I haven’t even stepped foot in there since completion.
People are still farming Invincible to this very day, I feel very bad for those still stuck on Awake the Drakes.
I hate to tell you this but by them allowing you to get them so easily they are no longer rare