This issue keeps cropping up every year since the advent of the premade group finder, and sure enough … it’s here again.
Despite the fact that the quest to kill the Greench is designed to be a group/raid quest, it is NOT flagged as one. Meaning that unlike all other current group/raid quests like it, the green LFG tool “eye” isn’t made available beside the quest name in the objectives side bar (which, again … MOST similar type of quests DO have these days).
So either this big green jerk needs to be scaled down to be killable by smaller amounts of people … or you need to finally label this a group/raid quest so it can be attached to the LFG tool.
People have given up on this quest to such a degree that not only can you barely ever find ANYONE near the Growless Cave looking to kill him (at least on the servers and times -I- play) … but not even the Custom category in the LFG has anyone making their own groups to get this quest done.
The quest may as well not even exist at this point, really, with the way things currently are.
And before anyone asks, yes–I DID list a group for this quest and sat there waiting for over half an hour (I know this because I watched three YouTube vids that were between 14-17 mins long each while I was waiting for people to join). Not a SINGLE person signed up in that time. Not a soul.
Is this gonna be the year this gets addressed finally, or is it gonna take ANOTHER 365 days to MAYBE see some sort of change happen?
Sorry if I sound like a Scrooge about this, but this has been a problem in previous WInterveils and it still gets ignored. Patience doesn’t last forever, sadly. =/
Stop it, you’re making sense. I was hoping it would have been like Valentine’s Day with quick 5 man insta queue for quick in and out. Fortunately, my server had raids of people waiting to beat him down.
I ran 14 alts through there and got 3 toys and a pet. I was hoping for a better drop rate as this is the last holiday I’m trying to update after years of neglect.
It feels like you’ve come here with the mindset to be combative no matter what, regardless of what I or anyone else says.
If you care to know, I listed the group as “The Abominable Greench”, and in the description wrote “Boss for the “You’re A Mean One…” Winterveil quest.” Horde. Wyrmrest Accord.
And just to be even MORE sure of how long it was I truly waited (on the off-chance you want to try and gripe that I didn’t wait long enough in your eyes), I went back and checked my YouTube History to see which 3 videos I watched while waiting for the group to fill.
First was 17:40 long, second was 14:12, and the last was 15: 33.
So you got yours done nice and speedy on YOUR faction on YOUR server. Grats! Happy for you. Truly, I am.
But I’m willing to bet that your experience is NOT the one shared by most people trying to do this quest for the past few years, and it’s pretty nasty of you to come in coping a snarky attitude as though your perspective is the only valid one. Don’t know if that was your intention, but that’s definitely how it reads.
Oh, is it? All this time I’ve been assuming that “battle groups” of servers linked together for ques was still a thing, and that was what the LFG tool was working off of when matchmaking. Duly noted!
The only other reasoning for why it was so much easier for him than others might literally just boil down to time of day he made the group and sheer dumb luck.
I can say with relative certainty that at least speaking for myself and those I personally know, the past few years of Winterveil have made doing the Greench quest EXTREMELY frustrating, as we never end up being able to get it done (or, at best, on maybe ONE character and that be it for the entire rest of the holiday).
Fine and dandy for him that that’s never been an issue, but don’t see the point of him coming in here to sass people for a problem he hasn’t had, with the expectation that everyone who HAS had this problem is somehow to blame.
Thanks for the assist, though, you’ve been great. <3
I would have agreed with you as I noticed this too. But, then I flew up and killed him with like 3 other people just waiting for him to spawn. It was really easy compared to last year (at least for me).
I am confused. The greench location is in a zone that is cross realm. Whenever i go to his location, there are 20+ people from numerous different realms all waiting. Same with the garrison quest mob location.
Not everyone has the same experience as you. I certainly don’t on my server. CRZ doesn’t put you into a shard with everyone from every server. It’s based off of who they have linked. For me, it’s all the smaller RP realms. But even then, sharding can split us up, too.
CRZ and sharding make more of a mess than help half the time.
It’s all a mess. So many different experiences based off of realms and how sharding might mess with CRZ, times of day, etc.
It makes sense to me to just add it to group finder or at least give us the little button to make a group specifically where everyone else does, too.
Half the time, I find groups under “questing,” and half the time it’s under “other” or whatever the catch all category is. So I just kind of search around. And then if I’m lucky, during.my search or creating a group, people just randomly show up. lol
They definitely should add that option. I went and did it yesterday, there were a ton of people there. Though I am on a very busy server. Hope they add that for you op.