Since the patch went live the open world drop rates on greens, blues, and purples have drastically been reduced. Silithus farm for instance used to fill your bags in a 5 man group in less than a hour. Now, Over 2 hours and got about 20 items. I further tested it with a few more farms and found similar results, 2-5 greens an hour in some places. Whats worse is the open world treasure chests that you can go and loot such as the silken treasure chest that drops orb of deception, All of those open world chests are supposed to grant 1 item and some silver or copper, or gold. After looting about 5 chests, I started getting JUST silver or gold. I looted about 10 chests in a row and got no loot.
I spoke with some other farmers, and they all feel the same. Is this a nerf, Or is this an unintended bug?
Looks like they’ve implemented an internal CD on open world drops and I can totally see why they would’ve done that. 5-man bot farm groups have gotten completely out of control in several zones, it’s been wild.
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Probably because it got out of hand and the items were therefore devalued? Or because the transmog in them awarded too much raw gold and was the perfect farming opportunity for bots? Open world treasure chests in TWW seem to be untouched, they just continue dropping stuff.
That’s what I’m thinking as well was an internal CD on items. While I see the point in doing so by what you’ve said, Its also going to kill what a lot of people do and use to get gold. Which is transmog farming. It also punishes the people who are transmog farming for their own transmog and don’t sell any of it.
Idk, seems drastic. Why not get better with detecting botting? Why does it take reports, Why can they not just automatically know when someone is using a botting program. Idk how any of that works. But punishing normal people who farm these items for their appearances is a bit extreme. Ive not seen bots in farms like silithus since multiboxing software was allowed.
Dungeon and raid farming seems to be untouched by these changes (if they’re intentional changes), so the transmog can definitely be aquired elsewhere. Just not that extremely efficient like in Silithus, I guess.
It’s quite difficult. Bot farms nowadays are real businesses with huge profit, so they’re doing their homework and work in an extremely professional way. They have their own software with many different codings and when Blizz gets a hold of one of them and manages to wipe out all accounts who used Bot1, all the other ones like Bot2 and Bot3 still continue operating. Until Blizz gets to Bot2, Bot1 is already back in business in another disguise. Reports are obviously not the only thing that leads to actions, but it seems like it’s impossible to gain control over bots.
I just hate that people like me who enjoy farming in this game more than anything else, are being punished if this is a legit change. While yes, items will go up in value, maybe… You go and farm for 10 minutes to get your drops and wait for a CD just to get garbage, and some of us have farmed HOURS to get a teebuu for our tmog collection and NOT gotten it. Seems harmful to a group of players, while farmers who farm legit, and farm xmog for their personal collection are a small group of players compared to M+ or AOTC and CE groups. I still think a large number of players would feel some kind of way about this if its intended.
Not all Tmog can be acquired in dungeons and raids. And yeah dungeon drops seem great as usual. Idk, If its intended, the market is about to change