There´s several players with doubts regarding holiday drops, since June 2024, it was changed for Summer Festival but it´s not clear if it only impacted that holiday or all holidays.
Currently, there´s a tool tip in the epic box for Love is in the air:
The first of these earned by your Warband each day has a chance to include rare rewards.
But the drop item is still an epic box in any other attempt, the visual is already confusing and there’s not any mention of a possible drop in an alter attempt.
Can we get a response? there’s some players running a lot of alts because it wasn’t clear enough.
This would probably be classified as a game hint, which CS is explicitly not allowed to give.
I get wanting the info, but you’ll likely have to wait for the devs to decide to clarify, but I see no reason why the 2024 update wouldn’t have superseded the 2023 update.
There´s still confusion among some players, that’s why there’s threads asking if it drops in alts, the 2024 post looks like something specifically for summer festival for some players
For example, there´s reports that Hallow’s end worked different:
They are not likely to clarify, as it is considered a game hint. Having said that, IF there were to be a response, it would not come from the Customer Support Forum, as they have no connection to the dev staff. Any possible response would be on the General Forum.
Also…
It’s not very smart to try and find patterns in a super rare drop. No drops isn’t an indication of anything because it’s so rare, and it’s easy for a lucky streak of 2-3 drops to be blown out of proportion.
Asking how to kill the boss would be a hint, asking for clarification on words said outside the game by game devs is not.
Anyways, seems like this is the answer:
We’re changing the way the loot system for the holiday boss drops work. We have increased drop rates significantly for the first boss kill on a single account. Only the first attempt on a single Battle.net account will be eligible to receive the item drop, however. For each subsequent daily attempt on the boss with a single Battle.net account, the chance for the item to drop will increase and continues to accumulate for each failed attempt. This change will allow players to spend less time working to earn a specific dropped item while providing an increasing opportunity to get that item during the holiday.
Because the epic loot box says this:
The first of these earned by your Warband each day has a chance to include rare rewards.
However, clarification would be nice since two Wowhead users have two very different responses from GMs:
Both pictures were posted on Wowhead in the last 24 hours.
This should tell you something relevant: CS isn’t where you go for clarification of game mechanics. GMs don’t know, presumably because the developers didn’t tell them. So certainly, no one here would have any better insight. This is a players-helping-players forum. The very few Blizzard employees here are primarily forum moderators. If they have information about game mechanics from the developers, they would share, but as the GMs situation illustrates, they don’t.
If you want the answer, ask the developers via a post in General Discussion. If they answer, they probably won’t answer directly (although it does happen, via posts from Community Managers in forums like General Discussion). Or they might create or update a support article. Or leak word to sites like WowHead.
But they can also opt to not address the questions at all.
The first is discussing the drop rates when killing the boss (looting the corpse). The second is talking about the loot box that is given as a reward for finishing the dungeon encounter.
Yes, I know that. I’ve pointed it out quite often in other threads. It seems extremely clear to me. Others are simply looking for the “yes, that is exactly what it means.” But two GMs have given two different responses to it and their hope was an SFA clearing up the yes or no.
No one wants the formula. Just whether these two things still hold true:
The two responses were in reference to two different things. The first response was about loot off the boss, and the second response was about the reward box.
That’s why the response is different. These two things are not the same, and they act in different ways.
We’ve to figure it out like a secret finding, I wish there was a reward dev post like Chimes did back in 2022. The lack of communication in the last year…
