Questions About High Mountain Tauren Racial

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Hello!

Hopefully I am post this in the right forum (I posted about this in the general forum but other players didn’t seem to know either)

I just race changed to High Mountain Tauren because I really wanted to take advantage of the “Waste Not, Want Not” racial passive (gotta farm them meats). And I just want to make sure I am understanding the ability correctly and that its working as intended.

  • I started with some fishing in shadowlands. After about 700 catches the passive proc’d 59 times so about 8.3% which was awesome!

  • I then started to farm up meats (focusing on Tenebrous Ribs and Phantasmal Haunches). I farmed up a good 150 meats (was around 500 kills or so) and the racial did not proc once. (its super easy to tell if it does proc since a raid loot window pops up and the “you receive loot: meat” text turns into “you receive item: meat”.

  • I then went to BFA and farmed up a combined 100 of paleo steaks and meaty haunches (around 300 kills or so) and the racial again did not proc a single time.

  • I then went to Legion and farmed up a combined 190ish Lean Shanks and Big Gamy Ribs (about 350 kills, but only about 100 of those had meat on them) this time the racial DID proc 3 times. So about a 3% proc rate (Sorry this sample size is so much lower)

So I guess what I am wondering is if the racial can proc from Shadowlands beasts/meat and is the proc rate supposed to be so much different than the proc rate from fish? The skill description doesn’t give much info (and I couldn’t find much about it on the interwebs either). I don’t think I would have made the race switch to High Mountain if the racial passive is currently working as intended and my experience wasn’t just a super unlucky one. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and have a wonderful day!

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That isn’t exactly something that blue’s can clarify, as it is considered a game hint. About all they might say is it is not known to be bugged.

Looking at wowhead, it seems like it does not work very well in a lot of low level zones, if at all, and that the benefits are mostly for current content, but even there the benefit is larger for fishing than for meats. Googling a bit, your complaint along with similar results have been posted to the forums a few times over the years.

You can make a bug report about it, or make a suggestion that the proc rate is improved either in game or by posting in the most related forum, perhaps general. But given it’s been posted before I think it’s likely working as intended.

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As far as I am aware it should work in all areas, Pandamoose, but I’m afraid Customer Support doesn’t have any specific information on proc rates (not that we’d be able to provide them if we did).

We have received reports of the racial not seeming to proc, but nothing so far that was verified.

I’d encourage you to post the testing you have done in the Bug Report forum so our QA team can take a look.

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Tofflemire and Varkthris,

Thank you so much to the responses and the help! I’ll definitely post it on the bug forums! anndd For The Horde! (or the Alliance if that’s your jam)

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