This expansion’s legendary acquisition method has been nothing but feel-bad moments all around. RNG-heavy low drop rates, disappointing story around them, mostly just a gold sink combined with an abysmally boring grind in the middle, and for what? An undertuned item that either Blizzard had to buff into relevance, or which they never looked at again.
Heck, we cleared Aberrus weekly and the fist dropped so late that I literally replaced it two weeks later with Iridal. My raid had NO axe drops out of six eligible wielders until this buff, so it was starting to look like exactly the same situation what with S4 on the horizon. I had people who were so excited at the possibility that they have been sitting on all the needed materials for weeks already talking about not wanting to bother farming Amirdrassil anymore.
At least axe-wielders didn’t have to have it rubbed in their face every time someone else got it, though.
In short: this is almost the worst legendary acquisition method so far. Please never do this again.
Just seen 3 drop in a full pug, sadly i wasnt one of them.
I love playing arms and being tuned around having this leggo - my guild has all but quit playing and im back to pugging for it weekly.
24 Fryakk kills.
Multiple lesser blp from full clears every week - of which i need zero loot/crests - i do this just for the blp.
Seen a guildy that doeesnt raid, join our heroic 2 weeks ago and loot it. Seen a guildy that rerolled a brand new dk loot it. Seen a random ret pally we pugged loot it. Cant seem to loot it on this warrior, my main toon and the first toon i ever created in wow. I have seen multiple 418ilvl ret pallies with it though.
Thank you for making this game feel like a joke.
Back to farming timewalking for my timereaver since 2014…
Kind of sad that you do this hours after the reset where many people have already killed Fyrakk for the week. You should reset the Axe drop for the week for them.
So anyone see this axe drop in Normal? I been farming that on normal difficulty pretty much few months and idk if I just focus on getting it on heroic…Also
So blizzard had caved and to you it wasn’t enough…Maybe this is the reason why they been ignoring us with our complaints?
Good change, bad timing. As it stands if a new legendary of the same type is revealed to be for a class I play in the future I will likely reroll because I don’t want to deal with it after having a horrible experience on my evoker last tier. But this is a good change I hope in the future things like this are more timely, because we’re several weeks into the dead part of the season at this point and the damage is mostly done.
I hope everyone who is gunning for this drop, gets it.
Good luck everyone!
Be prepared for the grind that comes afterwards! If you need advice, hit me up! It can be unlocked in under a day if you’re smart and resourceful (and have a lot of gold).
When your bad luck protection … needs bad luck protection … do you finally admit that the design SUCKS???
The worst part of all of this is that toward the end of S2, when this Axe was announced, there was some discussion around here about time to acquire.
And I remember posting, all the way back before I even stepped foot in the Raid, that you can’t just give it away on week 1-2 … but that it utterly KILLS any FUN of the item if a person can’t be all-but guaranteed to have it until the very end of the Season. WHAT’S THE POINT by then??
And my compromise (for theorycrafting) was 8 weeks. By week 8-9, the drop rate should be in the 90th percentile.
And yet here I am, in week FOURTEEN (or is it 15???) … still no Axe.
The reason they are buffing the drop rate is for exactly the reason I stated, all the way back in S2: it doesn’t even matter anymore. What are we even going to do with it besides speed-clear MC?? All the S3 content is done.
This Season has been so utterly MISERABLE because all my class is good for is damage. The only thing I’m good for has been locked away behind an item that I STILL DON’T HAVE.
Considering that all 2h str classes were undertuned at the beginning of the season and have recieved significant buffs, the weapon has had to be buffed multiple times and its aquisition has undergone multiple buffs - this entire season has just felt like 1 huge joke.
Leggo axe and only leggo because of its low low low drop chance.
The fact that one of the best warriors in the entire world - Critcake - still doesnt have this weapon is absurd.
Another week, another ember. I got to watch a 468 holy pally fresh alt get it today though along with his AOTC achievement.
I’ve got to say - since I started in 2007, this is the most manipulated and preyed upon I have ever felt by the wow team. I don’t have a complex where I think I “deserve” everything (or even anything) - but watching random people get it from 1 LFR kill, and killing every week on Heroic and having nothing to show for it, feels absolutely terrible.
Who exactly thought this wasnt something that needed to be part of the weekly reset?? So many people still trying to farm this kill Fyrakk as soon as possible.
You could have at least said you were working on this so that people didnt lock themselves out for the week before the update.
The timing of this is just another insult to people who have been dealing with this broken acquisition system.
Also what about evokers? Why havent they received a buff like this??
It’s felt like a punishment, already, for weeks honestly.
When the community gatekeeps you from content for not having the random drop - it’s just terrible.
You’re not the sharpest tool in the shed. It actually implies it was slipped in LATE on Tuesday well after maintenance and I’m positive that’s accurate considering no one in my heroic run even received the axe. Again.