Rares and their Respawn Rates. Changes are needed

[Näamah-ragnaros]

You’re just proposing a lot of complexity using realm hop, something that won’t work on later expansions, this should be designed with gameplay in mind and provide something fun first. that kind of alterantives are also negative for the game, adding complexity to collecting like the army of alts that we needed to beat odds for so many mounts for years.

@Rhane-shadowsong

Because it’s an MMO. If everyone got everything they wanted in 2 weeks, they would stop playing, (or go whine on the forums), and that’s contrary to the way these kinds of games works. TBH I don’t know why these sort of threads keep popping up. It’s not a difficult concept to understand.

Because you don’t pay attention to the actual topic, if the rare respawn every 2 + hours is an issue because it doesn’t provide gameplay, a lot of players just open wow in a second monitor and do other things, that’s not gameplay. So, a solution as a I mentioned before, let us farm an item that trigger the rare respawn, that’ll lead to community engagement and actual gameplay instead of being afk.

@Zarkanar-emerald-dream

If everyone has something, is it really unique?

There’s multiple ways to do it rare, you don’t have to do a rare that just die without any effort but the rare part is that you’ve to waste hours afk meanwhile you’re playing other game or watching movies in your other monitor. You can add a rare item to summon the NPC, that item can drop from other mobs. Everything is about Frequency (amount of attempts) and actual drop %. you can reach the same results with a better approach for the community. You can also reach rarity by doing it hard content like Mage Tower did with the book mount, rarity is relative to the players mind.

@Ravij-wyrmrest-accord

The way WoW has designed their “time sinks” compared to other MMO’s is quite frankly absurd. Other MMO’s have tracks that you can work toward to eventually get that thing you want. They have bad luck protection systems in place to prevent you from going too long without seeing something you want.

The systems in WoW are outdated and need to be redone to fit the newer age of MMO’s.

True and Devs already acknowledge their own flaws like the Love Rocket because it has a limited amount of attempts per year (that’s frequency) and also a really low drop %.

The Love Rocket Mount NEVER Drops

Yep, this isn’t fun. I’ve done the event a dozen times a day on my characters before in previous years and probably would be doing it again this year if I didn’t have other real-life stuff going on. Right now, if you want to maximize your chance of getting the mount, it’s in your best interest to repeat this event every day on as many characters as possible. That’s… mathematically correct, but not a great experience. We hear this frustration and the good news is that we’re discussing this issu…

I don’t agree with the fix inplemented but Devs acknowledge the issue around frustating RNG experience. the problem with rares respawns is basically that you’re not doing any gameplay and I can’t understand how some people defend something that’s not providing fun in the game…Time lost, aeonaxx are also massive time sinks but at least you’ll get the reward 100%.

@Ravij-wyrmrest-accord

When you put a proverbial shiny on something there will be someone out there who is going to make it their goal to get that shiny no matter the cost to their sanity. With the rare system in WoW how it is now, players are wasting their time NOT playing the new content trying to get that shiny.

This is about a system that is in place, NOT about mobs and the loot. THIS is the prospect you are missing.

By combining the mob with the loot WITH the system, THIS is the time waster.

Exactly, I’d prefer to do BGs, Solo shuffle but I’m a main collector, then in order to invest my time in the most meaningfull way, I opened Crunchyroll or Magic Arena in another monitor and play/watch something else…Is that the goal from Devs? that we have afk gameplay…