Why is the loot drop rate on island expeditions soooo low???
Ran so many and hardly any drops
Not even a freaking green
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Ah, a question for the ages. The devs donāt want to share the specifics about island loot because they want there to be some āsense of discoveryā or some such nonsense. There are a couple of YT videos you can check out with solid theories on how to improve your chances of getting loot.
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Which is why I stopped doing them over a month ago.
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thereās that one island i never get loot from no matter what i kill and how much of it i kill, iāve gotten something from the others each at least once (even if it was something small like some pants i canāt use)
idk whatās up with it either lol
It is very frustrating. I like them but I run them with my guild. They are great for leveling but the drop rate is ridiculous!!! I tried all the theories and still it is hit or missā¦mainly miss.
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Then couple that with the fact that they are mechanically super boring.
A dungeon that only has trash, no useful āgearā drops (character upgrades), and just overall boring gameplay.
I was already apprehensive when I heard the word āscenarioā ā¦ since I thought the MoP scenarios were pretty awfulā¦but not only do they suck as much as I suspected, but somehow they exceeded my expectations on just how terrible they would be.
I sincerely hope Blizzard can capture a metric other than āparticipationā. MoP scenario āparticipationā was really high ā¦ because it was the most efficient way to farm valor for upgrades. I donāt think anyone truly enjoyed them. At least I certainly didnāt.
Now Iām worried those of us leveling through expeditions, or collectors farming mounts/toys/etc. despite abysmal drop ratesā¦arenāt giving them the false impression that we like this non-sense.
MAUās may be on par (heck even higher) than Legion/etcā¦but player satisfaction is at an all time low. I hope they are measuring that too! It certainly doesnāt feel like it.
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The toys pets etc have a drop rate that isnt even set, so in all truth, you could run them till your eyes bleed and still walk away withā¦azerite.
They are putting SOME on the vendors, a scant fewā¦leaving the rest to RNG.
Not interested.
I might get the doubloons to buy the ones I want, then again we have also been told that normal IE doesnt even GIVE doubloons so you have to run it on heroic or mythic to even get them in the first place, which of course means repair bills.
Even then there isnt any gaurantee you will get doubloons because WOWhead says you have a āchanceā to get a pouch. More RNG.
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yea the loot chance is really really lowā¦
I am currently leveling my druid using IE until 116 then Iāll switch to quests.
On normal, we do get doubloon drops but they are rareā¦whatās new?
I go around killing rares, open chests and sometimes get the big boss with the bis chest but almost nothing.
Only got 2 pets out of it all and one pet is a duplicateā¦
At least gimme some green/blue items.
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you do get dubloons from normals
waitā¦Island expedition drops loot!? I havenāt seen anything drop and I have been doing it since it made itās debutā¦
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Ah see, perfect example here. Yes my friend, they have an enormous loot table of covetable mounts and pets, and some rather lovely transmog weapons. The fact that you havenāt seen anything of the sort is basically Blizzard going āTee hee, itās a secret and Iām not telling! Keep trying though!ā ![:sleeping:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/sleeping.png?v=6" ":sleeping:")
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I think Island Expeditions can be fun but theyāre not rewarding enough for me to seek them out very often. My brother and I were running them a bunch one dayā¦ cleared a couple mythics - got jack, cleared a single heroic - got multiple pets and more doubloons than the mythic! We were likeā¦ uh WTF?
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I wish there was more to them than there is.
I do them on alts, and the drop rates are awful.
And once again, Blizzard has done the double random. Loot is random by island, and random by spawn (weāre guessing, Blizzard hasnāt really said.), so there isnāt even any way to target your efforts for a drop you wanted.
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So I run a lot of these, my wife and I have thus far leveled two characters each using them as the primary source of experience.
I, myself, like them quite a bit, with some caveats that theyāre mostly addressing in 8.1, namely mob grouping (so theyāre not just peppered across the island and youāll actually be able to traverse it without starting an impromptu crocolisk parade) and the addition of the vendor so thereās some tangible progress metric for them at all.
Still, despite the relatively-enjoyable-yet-somewhat-mindless gameplay loop of āfind some rares or quests to help NPCs, kill Azerite elemental, more rares, then the invasion raresā with a couple encounters with the NPCs thrown in, the loot (or lack thereof) is the sorest spot. After easily over a hundred of these things together, neither of us nor anyone thatās queued with us has gotten a single mount, and thereās been only a smattering of other rewards. A decent few pets and a lot of incredibly bland quests for bonus Azerite (āsolve the riddle,ā it says, meaning āclick on the quest and itāll show you where to go on the mapā), and the odd bit of iLvL 310 transmog gear. Quite often we get nothing at all, even if we ignore the Azerite monster and only target specific NPC types, which seems to be the going theory.
I donāt need a reward every time, but when the cycle of 5 or 6 goes ānothing, doubloons (which do drop on normal, incidentally), nothing, rep token, nothing, nothingā with āplate transmog pieceā popping up on my Warlock every now and again, I can see where people would easily get burnt out. We donāt know how, exactly, to farm or Target rewards in an explicit manner. And we donāt get them with an estimable frequency, either. We literally went about nine or ten rounds, targeting rares, and although I got a couple quest items my wife only got a couple small bags of doubloons. Nothing really worth the time, if we werenāt also leveling the characters themselves.
So like I said, I like them! But I agree, the drop rate feels too low, or too hard to estimate because itās still quite a mystery how it even works in the first place.
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Blizz have gone out of their way to be jerks with IE. I used to do them weekly for the azerite and I was totally unaware that they dropped anything at all until I got a pet recently. When my alts that were leveled later ended up only a few neck levels behind and they never went near IE I gave it away as a bad joke. Joke on usā¦ grats Blizz.
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Agreed - there should be better loot. I personally hate doing them because its non-stop key punching, which makes my hands hurt, and far too stressful for me.
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Doubloons actually do drop from normals. I have 500 of them on my alt.
The drop rates are pretty bad. I would not be surprised if the mounts had a 1/2000 drop chance.
I gave up farming isles on my main and used a twink alt to farm rewards. By targeting certain types of mobs and farming more islands than I could count I eventually managed to get 18 types of pet, 3 toys, 3 mounts, and some t-mog gear.
But like I said I farmed up a lot of islands, a lot of islandsā¦ lots of islandsā¦ probably somewhere between 500 and 3,000 I lost count.
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Doubloons actually do drop from normals. I have 500 of them on my alt.
I stand corrected.
Thank you ![:grinning:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/grinning.png?v=6" ":grinning:")
It is low to keep you at the trough.
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add to that people want to run around kill rares only, kill everything for drops/xp or just do their own thing.
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