In the past (heh heh), the Sands of Time item dropped in The Deaths of Chromie had an increased chance to reward Timewarped Badges during timewalking weeks. This seems to no longer be the case. The last time I saw this working was the last timewalking week (starting 4/30). I’ve opened several hundred Sands of Time since timewalking has started this week, with only a trivial amount (two?) of Timewarped Badges rewarded.
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I have noticed this too. I am hoping it is just a bug and not intentional because I don’t run dungeons so this was my only way to farm badges.
I’m having this problem as well. Would be nice to get it resolved soon so I can get in there and farm enough badges for the second mount before the week is through.
Also having this problem, I’ve used dozens of Sands of Time and have received 0 timewarped badges today
Having the issue as well. 2 runs with no timewarped badges. Definitely seems like more then just bad luck.
Does it count as a bug if Blizz just forgot to set the flag for WoD timewalking? I’m willing to bet that’s what the deal is here.
I need to farm badges u.u
Same issue. They will probably say it was never intended to work that day and now it is fixed. another unnecessary nerf.
Oh God no ![:frowning_face:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/frowning_face.png?v=6" ":frowning_face:")
I hate to say it out loud, but this definitely has the feel of a stealth nerf, if the intent is to drive players into Timewalking instances to earn the rewards. Wouldn’t be the first time, probably wouldn’t be the last.
I hope the devs prove me wrong.
I would love to be proven wrong, but unfortunately I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a stealth nerf because players aren’t playing exactly how we are supposed to.
Then again, several other holidays this expansion have had problems during their first run, like Brewfest and Hallow’s End giving the wrong ilvl gear, timewalking bosses bugged out, not spawning, or overtuned to one shot players; things like that to show QA is has seriously declined. I do hope it’s an oversight but it wouldn’t surprise me either way.
Have also noticed this, and I was really hoping to use this to finish farming up the 5k badges for the new mount so I don’t have to wait months for WoD TW to come up again (cause there is no way I’m spamming dungeons past the 5 you need for the weekly quest). Hopefully gets fixed quickly before the week is up!
Probably won’t be addressed until after the event’s over. I’m still banking on it being an oversight or something rather than a nerf. I bet badges can still be farmed from the Chromie scenario for every timewalking event except the WoD one because they forgot/didn’t bother to set a drop rate increase for it.
Sadly I have had the same issue. I was using Chromie as a way to farm out the 40k ish total badges I would need to upgrade all my BOA gear for leveling. I had gotten all my gear to go up to 110 by using the deaths of Chromie. I patiently waited for time walking to come around again and now I am lucky if I get 10 badges every 10 or so runs. I hope it isn’t a nerf because I love the game and want to farm them, but I don’t have time to wait in a queue for a time walking dungeon, and then run the whole dungeon, just to get 25 badges or so, and then have to go back an wait more in queue and do it all over. So hopefully it will be fixed soon before the event is over, but not going to hold my breath.
UPDATE!
I opened a ticket and I think the GM was confused and thought I meant I wasn’t getting the proper amount of badges from the time walking dungeons. anyways I decided to give the death of chromie another try. and I am now getting between 50 and 100 per little run I do. Hope it is working for everyone else as well!!
UPDATE
User: Greetings: As it is Timewalking Week for Warlords of Draenor, players have noticed that the “Deaths of Chromie” Scenario has not been dropping Timewarped Badges at all. We are curious if there has been any changes made to the scenario, or a major bug?
Blizzard Customer Service mentioned this on twitter: BTW: A hotfix should be out to address the drops. ~V
Looks like the fix is live. Been running it today and it is back to normal.