I want to start by saying that in general, I’m rather enjoying the new patch. The story mode content and the visions are really decent, but there’s one mechanic that’s really frustrating me into not wanting to play it.
Quests that require me to hunt rare monsters or rare, competitive things like pandas in cages/obelisks.
Even in a group, these things just feel terrible. A huge majority of the time I’m not actually playing the game, I’m not engaged with the story or the content. I’m frustrated and bored. My options are to either camp one spot and tab out until rarescanner alerts me of a spawn, or to fly around in circles, hoping my luck is better than someone else’s and begin to loathe the game as I do so.
I would love it if these sort of quests didn’t make a resurgence in Shadowlands or that they were at least improved upon on the live patch. Perhaps some people enjoy this sort of scavenger hunt, but I don’t want my time in game to be flying around bored or tabbed out. That’s not fun. It’s not engaging and if it wasn’t mandatory for raid progression, I’d never log in to play this stuff.
I am certainly not going to play any of my alts through this tedium right now, which is probably the first time I can say that since BC, and that’s not a good thing for my personal investment here.
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Seconded, this is a joke. Way to stretch out Content since there is nothing left until 9.0. Either change the quest to 1 Rare or make them respawn quicker. #unfun #pointlesstimesink
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I want to correct you here:
A huge majority of the time i am *flying around trying to spot one of the Rares which quite allot are super squishy and die before i have the chance to tag them.
Definitely not fun, especially considering in Vale of Eternal Blossoms there are(according to TomCat) 13 Rares and you need 4, in Uldum there are 29 where you need 6 out of.
No matter how you turn this … a Quest with Rares will make you do what Blizzard not want you to do … fly around …
I start to ponder to just ignore that Daily from now on. It’s a pain and not really fun on one Toon already.
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And for what it’s worth, I don’t mind looking for bowcasters or hunters in Uldum. It’s not the greatest, but it doesn’t frustrate me the way that hunting for rares does.
So if they could find a way to give me reasons to land, complete an objective and actually play the game more frequently during this quest, I think it would feel better. I just want to actually be engaged with the game. 
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The thing pissing me most is no Global Message that a Rare Spawned(like some Yelling from said Rare) and … they Supersquishy dying in moments mostly … i fly there and a Snowball in Hell has more chance then me targetting that Rare.