Dear Blizzard,
Your adorable tool tips tell us to bring our friends to Azeroth but not to forget to spend time with them outside Azeroth too. But how can I possible do either with the RIDICULOUS grind you have created for us with Mecha-done. I could speak to many of the component parts of this achievement but this post will concentrate on just one of the grinds; the rares ONLY AVAILABLE during the Drill Rig event.
It’s ok to have rares be tied to a quest or event. It’s also ok for them not be up all the time. And, it’s ok for them not to have guaranteed drops. But what you have created with these Drill Rig Rares is ALL THREE AT ONCE. This creates a situation where even if you sit here for hours, which is BTW what I have been doing, the rare can possible just NEVER SPAWN.
RNG LEVEL 1: Drill rigs are up. This seems to happen around twice a week.
RNG LEVEL 2: YOUR Drill Rig actually spawns. This might even be ok if they were rotated but they are NOT. While sitting at Caustic Mechaslime’s location for hours, OL BIG TUSK has spawn FOUR TIMES, Germacide TWO TIMES plus the assorted others. Caustic hasn’t even spawned once.
RNG LEVEL 3: You actually get the drop. I run WM ON, which means there are typically less people around for kills. I have completely solo’ed Caustic Mechaslime at least twice and still don’t have the Utility Mechanoclaw plan which means it didn’t drop at all, for anyone.
This is beyond ridiculous. And it’s only one of the many RNG wrapped in RNG and stuffed with RNG grinds in the Mecha-Done achievement. I have nearly 30k achievement points. I am not grind-shy or grind-fearful, but THIS IS EXCESSIVE. Stop doing this to us.
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I agree. I stopped even trying anymore for the last three items I need. Life isn’t long enough to keep at it.
Blizzard - people want to actually be able to complete achievements. Ones with this much RNG layered are only going to burn out players like us. The only achievements that should take years to accomplish are ones like 100 exalted reps, 250K HKs, or 400 mounts. Expansion specific achievements should never take more than a few weeks to a couple of months at worst.
Note - I am still working on Going to Need a Bigger Bag. I have the annoying crab pet left. Two layers of RNG keeping me at that stupid Island. Been working on that for nearly 4 years now. Please stop making RNG dependent achieves. There’s no skill involved, just luck.
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If you don’t stop doing them they won’t stop putting them in. This is like a crack addict asking their dealer to stop selling them crack.
Hi, I am making this post because I am worried my character can somehow be bugged and is ineligible to loot the “Blueprint: Utility Mechano-Claw” from the Rare Elite “Caustic Mechaslime” in Mechagon. There are a few reasons why I am inclined to belive it:
The drop rate stated on Wowhead is around 27%, which assuming some people have killed the rare even after they got the item, could also be higher, but not lower.
I have around 50 kills of this rare, which would make it highly unreasonable for the item to not have dropped yet.
I have questioned multiple people about it, and they all seems to have got it between the 1st-5th try, which would fall in line with the drop rate stated on Wowhead.
I have played during BFA and did quests/killed rares in Mechagon, so I am afraid I might have deleted the item after it dropped, or it might have been in my mailbox, and not picked it up.
I know that there might be a hidden internal “quest” that might be flagged positive after looting the item, and thus making me ineligible to loot it again, even if I have not completed the quest.
It’s the LAST item I need for the entire Mecha-Done meta achievment, which took me months to put together.
I just want to know:
If it can be verified if this character I am posting on is eligible to looting that quest item.
Maybe to verify the “real” drop rate of said item, so then it’s simply an RNG bad luck, and not a bug.
EDIT: it seems to be happening to a lot of people on WoWhead, game versions 9.1 or 9.2 and so on, please look into it.
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Seems to really have some trouble looting this recipe. I should have approximately 100 kills on this npc, no takedowns. I’ve also noticed that several other players have been having problems looting the recipe. It seems that since patch 9.2 no one has looted the item anymore. I’ve made friends with several players during the time they’ve tried to loot the item, and all without exception have tried several times without success. I also notice that on wowhead there are several reports of people who have not been able to loot the recipe without success. It would be nice if support checked.
I and a group of people killed the rare more than 10 times today and no drop for any of us. I have been farming this rare for months and not a single drop. Something wrong with this rare??
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I see this is the support group. We just want our mount, Blizzard.
Chiming in to say I have not seen it drop either, for anyone. At this point I have given up on the mount for the time being and just check wowhead comments to see if the bug has been fixed.