Is it time they updated the RNG factor for mounts?

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For a small % of the playing base we love collecting mounts, some of us are now past 1000 mounts on the in-game journal. This means if we want to collect those last couple of mounts for our collection we need to be putting in a lot of effort doing the same content over and over again, meaning we are effectively missing out on other aspects of the game.

Now go ahead and say the infamous words, I won’t bite, I know that we don’t have to do this.

Yesterday I got one of my last RNG mounts, I got the RNG mount from Queen. I don’t PVP for reasons so I don’t consider ever trying to get those seasonal mounts and saddles, but I do have all the other ‘PVP’ category mounts.

I still have mythic Fyrakk and Queen and the current raid achievement as the only 3 that currently require a group. And because I am not good enough for CE, I literally now have 2 mounts left that require a group that I can actually attempt, Fyrakk and the current raid achievement.

For those very small times I have playing WoW I can no decide to do something else. Catch up on mogs and achievements, collect those missing pets I want, level some random alt, whatever it is I can now enjoy other parts of the game, and it’s good, no stress about missing an LFR attempt that could have been, no more waiting hours in queue, just now a relaxing time playing.

We have mount and pet collecting, achievements and mog farming, why is it that mount collecting is the worst of those and has never really been changed since the games inception? You cannot sell spare mounts on the AH like pets, mogs were changed to allow any class to collect mogs for your account, even achievements can be done years later with almost no effort.

But you go back to any raid, any dungeon, any rare, or anything that is RNG and it’s just as tedious now as it was when it was first released. Why is it mount farming is still the only thing that has never really changed?

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Because mounts have always been “flex” items.

They’re unlikely to change that.

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I think the scarcity is what makes them fun. But I think that was a big factor in why they let us buy mounts in MoP remix that carried over.

So I think they do kinda account for rare mounts but it’s gonna be a farm weekly or be there to be sqaure approach which I don’t mind. I look forward to the other remixes did the same reason.

I got Ashes today! It looks great but also feels nice cause it was a long time farming.

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One could argue mogs, pets and achievements are also flex items or things you use to show off, but they make those much easier to obtain.

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They should just do what FF14 does with mounts or similar.

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This would be ideal, but also to keep in mind that we have upwards of 60 characters per account. While FF can also have more than one, people generally don’t do so as much as WoW since in FF you don’t need to.

So they would have to take that into consideration, make a currency or some BLP that is not overly hard to get, but also not cheesable by people running 60 characters in the same raid and walking out with a mount in 2 weeks.

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I’ll stop you right there. You’re wrong. You do have to do this.

Just think about those last few mounts out there. Waiting to fill that spot in your journal. Unloved. Unmounted. Probably pretty hungry too.

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They could make it so the BLP only applied to the first run of reset. Then alt runs would be < 1% or whatever.

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Idk whats there to flex, that you farmed a mount for literal years?

If anything i kinda feel sorry for these people, the RNG of this game can be so idiotic at times, cause the fact that it can take actual years to get a mount, its just criminal.

Thats why i have largely refused to farm those rare items, i just cant be bothered, i might do the event ones, but stuff like Invincible and such, yeah not happening, if im farming the raids its cause of the transmogs and thats it.

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Your best hope is that remix hits an expansion you are missing mounts from so that they are easier to get.

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just make a bad luck mitigation like other games have done

something like for every kill your character dose (not per character, just that 1 character) the % slowly goes up . even if its just 1% or even .1% each time. if you dont get it by X kills its automatically given to you

would make everyone happy, or at least the people that have been farming X mount/item for years, lol

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as someone who spent 15 years farming for invincible only to watch people get it in three tries out of a chest during time walking I don’t think they need to change anything. I think if you want a better chance at it, you should do it during time walking.

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That’s the entire point, we flex on things we have because it annoys people like this:

The one rando who wants nothing to change because they are sad and angry about other people getting an item before them. Frankly I don’t care, if someone goes and 1 shots a mount I don’t have or one that took me 1000 attempts to get then good for them.

But I am here asking for a change because I am ‘done’, I have obtained all but 1 RNG mount that I consider I am able to farm myself, 2 others being CE mounts.

I have put in the hard work, I know how bad it can be, and I don’t want it like that for others.

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Only thing I want them to change is to make the Mythic raid mount drop with the Cutting Edge Achievement.

You get Keystone Master, you get the mount.

You get Cutting Edge, you get to farm the raid for months until you get the mount.

It’s stupid. Tie the mount to Cutting Edge.

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Mount should honestly be tied in with AOTC or heroic kills, not CE. Do you really think KSM is anywhere near as hard as CE? Not even KSH is as hard as CE, hell, 3K THIS season is still not as hard as CE is and I haven’t even checked the stats, but let’s do that.

There are roughly 70,000 players with 3K rating or around the M12-13 range of keys, in a real tough season that scales hard after M10.

Now I don’t have exact numbers for CE except what DFA gives, and that’s less than 1%, with only 1260 guilds now registering CE you would wager just on that number alone somewhere around 35-40K players, add in the pugs and those who pay, you would have maybe 50-60K with CE.

Also considering anything past KSH gives nothing at the moment, no doubt there are tons of players who hit KSH and just give up, I have 3 characters with KSH, never bothered going higher.

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Having done both every season, I know perfectly well that they are not, but if I compared to KSH, somebody would have gone “hurr durr KSH dun give mount”.

But thanks for completely missing the point of my post, I guess. :roll_eyes:

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Going through and facerolling an old raid is nothing like spending 300+ pulls progging on a mythic end boss for a CE mount. And considering these sorts of mounts are still prestigious/sought-after items (just ask anyone still farming Invincible), there’s no reason for them to make them easier to get than they already are.

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Why would they do that monk? This is the World of M+ didn’t you know?

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Every farmable mount should drop some sort of totem (yes, stolen from XIV) that can be exchanged for the mount. 100 totems = 1 mount, can only get 1 per week per account. This way, you cannot cheapen the odds by running it 100 times in a week on 100 characters or something crazy like that.

So if you’re farming Invincible every week, for just under 2 years, you will get the mount, instead of potentially running it every every week for 15 years across dozens of characters and never seeing it.

If people are worried about prestige, note that it took someone 2 years of farming it each week. I think that’s enough for prestige.

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whatever they do they need to at least do something that so it doesnt take more than 2 years to get a mount. theres really no reason people have to spend years farming for a mount on well over 10 toons a week. the end of df and earlyish in tww i finally got invincible and the death charger. with the exception of the time i stopped playing during wod and sl i was farming them this entire time. i only got it because the tw raid chest has a small increase drop chance and wild dumb luck for the death charger since the first time i saw it drop was back in mop leveling a alt and lost the roll and this time leveling a alt i won the roll. but those were the only 2 mounts that had a feeling of joy every other mount usually takes so long to get its not yay i got it its more of a finally im done with this farm

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