Explain Legacy Loot mounts to me like i'm a 5 year old

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OK so legacy loot. As far as I’m aware, when a raid tier is defunct but not added to legacy loot rules, it is actually better the more people you get for the purposes of mogs and mounts etc. Since the raid doesn’t assume you have the max number of players and therefore may not give you any drops at all.

But when legacy loot comes into play, the opposite becomes true. I.e. The less people in the raid, the better for you since the raid now assumes you have a full compliment of players and drops loot accordingly despite maybe only you being solo.

Yes? Ok. Good. Now for the confusing part: Mounts. Some mounts seem to be immune to the aforementioned rules. Like, all the mounts from WoD backwards drop like regular loot. So if you want the maximum chance of getting the mount, the fewer players you run with, the better your chances of you getting it if it drops. BUT, there also seems to be personal loot mount drops. I.e. mounts where, if they drop, the chance of you getting it is the same regardless of how many players are in the group. These mounts automatically get put into bags. There is no actual item you loot. E.g. the one that drops off Mistress Sassz in ToS or Mekka’s GMOD mount in BoD in BfA.

However some mounts that drop in Legion seem to operate the old way. e.g. the one that drops off Argus in ABT appears to drop like regular loot in the loot window.

Now remember, i’m NOT talking about the drop chance. That’s the same regardless. What I am talking about is IF it drops, the chances of you getting it vs someone else in your group. So if you run with 1 other person and a mount drops, you have a 50% chance of getting it. But if you run solo and it drops, you have a 100% chance of getting it.

Am I missing something here?

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I think that historically Blizzard is deliberately vague or flat out refuses to talk about stuff like this, for some reason they think it adds an air of mystery to the activity but really their lack of clarity and consistency just frustrates us.

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Yeah that sounds right. If a mount had a 100% chance to drop, but only one of them at a time and you were alone, that’s a 100% chance you’d get it and a 50% chance if you had another person with you, and so on. Things that pop up on screen without you actually looting the corpse have their own set of rules and percentages.

I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a mount drop more than once at a time. I never really thought about it, but I’ve never seen that. It may never happen.

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Actually I’ve seen it happen. It’s rare but I’ve seen multiple GMOD’s drop when bfa was current content. I think it only happened once.

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Oh wait, I’m wrong. I forgot about the bronze drake from Culling of Stratholme. If you timed it, everyone got one. That and the Obsidian Sanctum mounts. :grin:

Or wait…did those drop one at a time??? My brain hurts. :sob:

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Farming for pixels you’ll never use because most people have a favorite mount xD

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nah im farming a dopamine high. that sweet sweet feeling when you get a mount that took hundreds of alt runs.

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Haha, jokes on you. I favorite all my mounts.

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but…super big mounts make navigation annoying. i wouldn’t subject myself to that suffering

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Insert that meme of confused lady with math all around her