House of Plagues Cauldron is Impossible (and How to Fix It)

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First, I have to ask.

What brainiac on the dev team thought the cauldron where you throw in red, blue, and yellow slimes was a good idea in its current state?

It is next to impossible to get things done if you’re trying to get a specific monster out. The only time I’ve been able to do it is during off peak hours late at night/early in the morning when most people are asleep, working alone. But even then it’s no guarantee.

But when the world quest is up forget it. You’re not getting anything productive done.

Here are the problems:

1 - I’m guessing you wanted this to be an event where people would come together and work to summon a monster. Stupid. One, people rarely cooperate in that manner, you should know this by now.

2 - Even if you try to communicate with other people, sometimes they don’t care and will ignore your request to work on a certain combination of slimes.

3 - If the other faction is around then there is NO WAY to communicate what you might be working on to them to prevent them from screwing you up.

4 - Even if you manage to summon the monster you’re after you have the added frustration of low drop rates for the mount or the quest item to get the backpack transmog. So have fun being frustrated as hell again tomorrow!

This entire thing was a bad, stupid, idiotic idea and I hope whoever came up with it is no longer in any position to create or authorize the creation of stuff for the game.

Here is my solution though:

Add the option to talk to Foul-Tongue Cyrlix, tell him which combination you’d like to work on so that it gets locked in. That way, if you’re trying to summon for example, the Oily Invertebrate (Requires 10 of each color)? Nobody can come along and either accidentally or otherwise add more than 10 of any one of the slimes and ruin all your work.

That or make the mount/backpack quest items guaranteed drops so that a person only need kill them ONCE and then NEVER HAVE TO DO THIS BULL#$&% AGAIN, BLIZZARD!!!

Really though please fire the moron who came up with this concept. People don’t just randomly and spontaneously work together like they’re thinking they would in games in the vast majority of cases.

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They need to make more exactly like this, if only so we can see more people rage on the forums over something completely inconsequential to the game lol.

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It wasn’t thought out very well.

I had someone get all salty at me because I was doing the quest there and they were trying to complete a set of colors. I had no idea. I was just getting my thing done and moving on. In the end I left because it’s not werth getting yelled at in game. :smile:

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This thread is a bit of a blast from the past but here’s the my recomendations when I did it:

  1. Post a group in the LFG so people can join you to get it done faster.
  2. Join a dead server shard.
  3. Do not attempt it on days where the WQ is up. Not while the expac is current anyway.
  4. You can get virtually the same backpack mog much easier off the slime rare up north.
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These types of comments are when I lose respect for the topic completely.

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Especially over a player created issue. I don’t find fault with Blizzard adding things for people to do together. If it’s not working because people are jerks, that’s not a design issue… that’s a people issue.

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I dunno, I take your point but at the same time Blizzard should be expecting players to behave in certain ways and design around that.

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I get your point, I am just always going to be against game design based around people being jerks.

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I will say, the faction communication wall is a real issue there. If a community project that requires coordination can be done at the same time by two groups of people who physically cannot communicate that’s kind of a problem.

I’ve tried many times to get stuff out of the cauldron, with middling success. I don’t know about the “fire that dev” angle but I do agree that it was poorly conceived and frustrating. I’m at the “I give up, I’ll try again when it’s abandoned next expansion” stage at this point.

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Coss faction communication needs to be a thing across the board, I agree.

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That’s definitely a fair point. For that reason, I could see it being changed, just not because of player behavior. Again, I get why people feel that way, it just really bothers me.

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It’s funny to run over and throw the wrong one in.

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The world quest and the repeatable quest there make it harder too. If people had literally no reason to go participate in that event unless they were interested in angling toward a particular combination, that’d be one thing. But having a quest there means that a lot of folks are just going to auto-pilot through, potentially not even knowing that different combinations do anything. All it takes is one person wandering by who doesn’t care to throw off 10+ minutes of coordination.

Or apparently someone being purposefully obnoxious, as seen above.

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This is the part I have a problem with.

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It Doesn’t work well because the cauldron has multiple purposes and players have different reasons for using it.

The player just trying to do his quest doesn’t care ghat the guy nearby specifically needs harder to find blue slimes. Quest guy is just going to dump in red ones.

Basically don’t try to do the achievements or mount farm on a day the world quest is up.

Try not to do it solo. Even one other person helping can ensure you get the right combo.

If you see another person in n the area whisper them if you can. Be polite. Tell them what you’re doing and what colors you need.

If you see an opposite faction person try pointing atg the color. Idk. Last time I did this I had an alliance guy randomly show up and start helping, it is possible to work together.

But yea. Its a pain, but the biggest prob isn’t cause by it being open world, it’s because it’s multipurpose.

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Do it when the expansion is over duh.

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I’ve had mostly positive experiences with it. Sure, a few times I’ve seen people throw the wrong one it, but overall, people have called out which rare they want in Maldraxxus chat and everyone has worked together to make it happen.

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Sounds like it might be a better activity for next expansion.

Not ideal, but somethings just work out that way.

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Yeah they didn’t consider a lot when making it. It should be a mixture that only counts for your and your party or something. I gave up on it.

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I also think one of the main issues also around that cauldron is there is also that quest to dump 3 in.