Elite Data Anomalies

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I was killing the anomalies in Mechagon and after a little while my husband and I were no longer able to loot any of the elite ones, even if we spawned them from the quest items. We are still able to loot the non-elite ones however. Some other people we were chatting with started having the same issue as well. None of us could find if this was a bug or if you can only loot the elite anomalies once even if you spawn them.

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Having the same problem. Even elites that it’s my first time seeing them today - I can’t loot them. If it’s deliberate, it’s kind of nonsense to have a recipe gated to having a specific quest up and then you can’t even loot on that day.

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I haven’t been able to loot any of the elites at all, even the ones I spawned…

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I am having the same issue. killed about 30 elites and not one had loot for me. how are we supposed to get the blue print if half the mobs i cant loot. my wife is able to loot the elite except Balnazzar.

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They prob. nerf’d them into the ground to prevent mass farming…

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Having this problem as well, especially with the Balnazzar one. All I want is the blueprint that lets you make the hearthstone toy :frowning:

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On 5 characters now the second I loot an elite anomaly I can no longer loot any more, except Baron Geddon one time only. So yeah, they nerf’d this. And to make it even more infuriating 3 of my alts got a Blue Spraybot plan instead of the Hearthstone. For something this rare now why in the world would you have a plan that’s already on the loot table of at least one other daily rare?

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Probably right, though there were some I was never able to loot even upon first kill.

IMO, nerfing this mid-day is an epic-level crap move. Everyone who couldn’t get online until later in the day gets shafted.

Assuming this was hotfixed, a far better solution would have been to fix it at the end of the WoW day and just accept that people that played today reaped the benefits of farming the mob.

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Holy hell, I feel so screwed.

I logged in after the stealth hotfix. 0 drops on my first kills, now I’m SOL. So what’s Blizzard’s plan here? This is the only time Anomaly has spawned since the patch. It’s the only mob that spawns the hologram blueprint, which is needed for the blueprints achievement, which is needed for the meta achievement. And you only get one exceptionally-low chance? People who DID farm the blueprint when you were still able often report farming times of over an hour. Now imagine all of those kills in that hour spread out over about once every week, which is what people like me who can only log in late are facing. Yeah, it’s looking pretty grim. Unless they up the drop rate, as well as the spawn rate of the quest, we’re pretty screwed unless we luck out big time.

I was already feeling demoralised. I’ve been to this island every day doing everything I can. I have missed a rare here and there, but I’ve tried to do absolutely everything I can and I easily have 10+ kills on all the common rares and multiple kills on the occasional rares like Furor. To show for it, I have a grand total of 2 colours and 4 vinyls. I’m also behind in blueprints. I haven’t had a new drop of any one of those in over a week now despite my efforts. At this point I’m about ready to call it quits. I was pumped to sink in a bunch of effort and get a cool mount out of it, but it feels like it’s entirely based in luck. Prior expansions had meta achievements with RNG components too, but never this prevalent and severe.

PLEASE reconsider this design, Blizzard. If you are going to have rare drops like this, at least do ONE of the following:

  • Make sure there is a daily chance at all the relevant items. There’s also a blueprint from the construction frenzy which has only been up twice since patch day. This feels extremely bad.
  • If certain drops are locked behind occasional dailies/rares, make the rares less occasional and/or have higher drop rates on those items
  • Make the achievements account bound
  • Don’t screw people over with mid-day hotfixes that make things much harder to get, and at least own up to the change when you make it instead of doing a stealth fix we have to just detect by ourselves
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In fairness, it seemed like we could loot each of the elite boss variations one time, so it wouldn’t be one shot per day the quest is up, but rather about 7 or 8. And honestly, if that remains the case, I can be okay with that.

However… screwing over anyone that couldn’t play until the evening because it “wasn’t working as intended” earlier in the day was a terrible move. I could possibly get behind it if the loot being dropped gave people gear advantages, but these are effectively cosmetics that only accelerate completing a couple achievements.

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I know this and I made sure to get all those chances yesterday. Still got jack all, and considering that it took many people over an hour of killing them when that was pretty much getting chances at a constant rate, it’s still unacceptable. This achievement could easily take over 10 weeks to complete, purely based on luck.

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So it’s up again today…

I thought we cluld ay least loot each elit once, but I haven’t been able to loot Balnazzar or Pummeler at all. I also “like” how there’s a list of about 9 bosses that can spawn and I get stuck fighting like a dozen Razorlashes and half as many un-lootable Balnazzars.

I’ve played this game almost since launch, and this is literally the first thing in the game that makes my blood boil.

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I’m gathering the drop rate is not increased?

Oh, well. I’ll try again after work but I’m expecting to be disappointed again.

I have, however, been more lucky recently. I got the Fixthis blueprint, finally, after killing him every day. I got all the colours except the one from Vaultbot. So I’m going to keep going since I’m pretty close. Crazed Trogg hasn’t dropped a spraybot blueprint for me since the first few days, though, and I’m still SOL on vinyls (4/6).

BTW, one of the blueprints is from the paragon chest. It’s not 100% droprate. Oof.

EDIT: I’m really hoping what I just read on WoWhead isn’t true, but it seems they have nerfed it again: you can only get ONE chance now. Once you kill your first elite, the other ones don’t drop loot.

They actually looked at this drama and thought it was still too forgiving and made it even worse.

Meanwhile people who farmed it on the first half of the first day have everything they need.

I wish I could say I was surprised but at this point this pigheadedness from Blizzard is par for the course.

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Same. No luck with any of the elites. This is a lousy decision. :frowning:

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I’m just hoping they increased the drop rate to compensate for this change.

Maybe if they had the balls to put this change in any of their patch notes you wouldn’t have so much consternation on the forums.

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few friends of mine received the blue print and are still unable to make the item.

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Off topic, but I’m getting kinda pissed about the Reclamation Rig as well. It seems it’s just always up and I can’t get a chance to contribute to its construction or participate in the event. This is also annoying since I believe you get a blueprint for your troubles if you do the trick with the Collider, which I can’t do if the Rig never re-initiates…

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I can’t loot the elite data anomalies. I went out of my way to grind a Large Storage Fragment before even attempting to kill other people’s elite anomalies, to make absolutely sure that I wouldn’t get flagged as looted. I kill Kromcrush, no loot. I then make some more recycle boxes, get another Large Storage Fragment, summon Balnazzar, and once again no loot.

I think this secret hotfix they did messed up the looting. The non-elites will not drop anything but spare parts and old gear, and the elites just don’t let you loot. So whats the deal? Those of us late to the party just don’t get the blueprint at all now?

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UPDATE:

I don’t know if changes were made, but this evening I was a) able to loot each distinct elite anomaly on the first kill and b) I got the two blueprints on my first and second kill.

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Today,

Before I never really had an issue, I was able to kill and loot the rares once each.

But today I could not loot ANY rares. I even spawn multiple rares with the quest items and not other peoples. It had the Dragon Gray mark on the unit frame as well. But it was like I had already killed it which i didnt. So I have missed out on a full day of rares and the pattern that I need…

The only thing I think why this happen is I was playing on WM doing the dailies and completed the first chain of quest on WM. Once I wanted to start farming the rares i switched to WM off. This is the only thing that could have triggered it…

Anyone else had the issue were they switch to WM then WM off and had the same issue?