Even if Storm was every spawn and on an auto-respawn every time it died, between maintenance and launch, people could still fail to get the drop. Like I said, RNG sucks sometimes.
LOL storm lord was up for what 45 minutes after not spawning all weekend …
i wanna say do better next time.
but i know you wont.
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Boss popped and we were fighting it and it ended during the fight. Sucks too I just got home. Oh well enjoy dragon flight everyone!
While I appreciate that Blizzard went ahead and activated the Storm Elemental so people could farm him at the last minute (though it appears they’ve disabled the invasions as of 5 minutes ago), this is not the first time they’ve made this absolutely horrid judgment call of randomizing spawns. Did they not learn their lesson from, oh, I don’t know, the 6+ months that we never saw the fury hidden appearance boss in Legion? Random rotations are literally never a good idea, and frankly for a limited time event like this, they should have just all been up at once. Or at the very least, there should never have been the opportunity for more than one location to have the same elemental (I saw all 3 locations with the same elemental more than once over the course of the long weekend). Like I have a hard time giving them the benefit of the doubt on this. Very frustrating, and I wasn’t even one of the people stressing about it at the end (I finished my set of primevals a couple of days ago). Do better Blizzard.
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Im so frustrated. I saw this msg. but i still missed it.
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sucks to suck nerd boy
Are they not leaving it up until launch even? Where’s my feat you bums?
they barely played
Except it was known sometime before the pre-patch that a similar event and drops would be available again during DF. So potentially a lot longer than just 2 weeks and with far less RNG than some portions of Veilstrider, especially for people coming back shortly after the patch was announced. It’s a YMMV thing, There are some people that played the entirety of the last year (I am not one of them if it matters) and still have missing abom quests as well as missing certain ZM rares.
VS is just a *poof * and its gone thing, no chance to earn it during DF which is bunk, but it is what it is I suppose. I don’t know why people couldn’t work on the title or slimecat during DF, just let those that earned it during SL have a niffty FoS. Idk, feels like there’s a compromise to be had.
I do want to apologize to those in this thread that have been helped, I did not mean to digress this far from the topic.
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And upping the drop rate, I hope? I was lucky enough to get mine days ago but giving some players a couple shots at it before launch is a bit… eh.
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That’s wonderful for the people who could sit in the game all day waiting for a solution. Sucks to be an adult I guess. “Sorry you missed your feat of strength because we couldn’t get around to it earlier in the week or anything.”
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This. Cause to blizzard, their mantra is “throw it on live and if its broken, MAYBE we can fix it later? if we remember to. or care to fix it…something something, lie lie lie.”
then blizz comes out with a “come back! we’ve changed!”
yeah right.
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I think it would be best to mail everyone the missing shard since it was an admitted bug on Blizz end.
I personally got my trinket, but this isn’t fair to others who participated in pre patch and invested time getting the trinket.
Do what’s right and just give them a freebie in the mailbox
And if they deleted other shards cuz they thought they already missed the boat, give them back as well
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Because the RNG is garbage and the event was done in a stupid way.
Should have been 30 minute storms with the boss spawning within 4 minutes, and then a few minutes before the 30 minutes is up.
30 minute rotations, 2 bosses per.
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Last minute is waiting until Monday. Some people put aside the holiday weekend to get some gaming in and had planned to get the event done that Saturday/Sunday, before the launch at 6pm Monday. That would mean, surely, that out of 3 spawn points with 4 bosses resetting every 3 hours, so a total of 48 hours of resets - 19 resets or so, you would see the Storm Lord boss spawn more than 1 time. 19 x 3 = 57. 57 chances to spawn the boss and it didn’t freaking happen. You people saying “snooze you lose” are just misunderstanding the problem here. Luckily, the forced the spawn at 4pm today - and then de-spawned the entire event after an hour (mid-boss fight mind you). Blizzard allowing this to be obtainable after DF launches is the ONLY thing that makes sense for people who really wanted it but didn’t have time to monitor the game and had other things to do. Had they said ANYTHING about “Beware, one of the 4 will be extremely rare so you better do this early”, maybe someone would have focused on it more if it meant something to them. But they made it sound like it would be some evenly distributed event…and it clearly was not. I did get my trinket today, thankfully I lucked out on the storm boss kill at about 4:30pm for my drop. But this was just a BAD implementation, and if you don’t think so, then I really hope you never have a job that involves any sort of game design.
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sucks to suck 
I also would really like to know. I have a job and can’t get on everyday, so I missed it because of the bug.
This has never made sense to me, when it is used in conjunction with something that is completely out of people’s control. Like… you’re just being a jerk, becauuuussseee reasons?
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Good thing you know about that.
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Sucks to be a jerk, but there you are.
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