Honestly, if they instanced that portion of the quest it wouldnt be nearly as bad as it is. Sure its easy for someone who has the scepter to come onto the forums and act like they’re the king but not everyone has a consistent 40+ players behind them. At least instancing the nightmare drops would level the playing field for the rest of the people attempting, including pugs.
It’s still a group-wide effort to do this quest.
Maybe they put in a ton of work to get carapaces done then a lot of others come in later once they had an easier in and are now complaining.
I myself and my team put in a lot of work for the carapaces as well. Either way there are others who were 1st week into this and still havent gotten the drop so at this point Blizz can throw this one bone.
Opening the crystals is what has ruined the SL quest. It let everyone skip the bug turnins, crashing the price of fragments and bottlenecking everyone on the drop quest.
It’s most certainly been buffed now, not sure the last time you tried grinding them. We saw 3 fragments in Ashenvale within 15 kills, then I did hinterlands with a group of pugs this evening and we saw like 6 fragments in the matter of a couple hours. I had already finished the Feralas ones yesterday but there have been people reporting running in and getting the fragment on their first few kills today lol.