The recent change that went into effect today to reduce Elite Rare Frequency is just bad. I don’t know what the drop rate on items was increased to but unless they were boosted to be 50% I don’t see how this change is a good one.
Some people like me would rather throw their army of alts at a rare for an 8% drop on an item and wait about an hour for a respawn on an alt than wait what looks like going on 2 hours for a rare to respawn. The drop rate doesn’t seem to have been significantly increased at all either after doing a few rares already.
Why not just admit drop rates were bad, increase the drop rate without having to decrease the rate at which rares respawn? Sharding also makes this 50 times worse than how it was originally.
I’d like to add that this change penalizes collectors who only want to collect mog, drakewatch scripts, toys, pets, and the one rare drop mount.
Edited for confusing wording.
Edit #2: I’d like to add that since this change today I see less people at rares in the caverns than before on weekly reset day. Literally killed Cavern Rares for people.
Edit 3: I’m more understanding how the new change works… which is now 5,000 times worse than what I initially thought.
This thread better explains everything thats wrong with the recent change to rares, plus more people and more feedback: You’re seriously gating the rares now?