Players: “Blizz, we’d really like to be able to go kill the Zaralek Caverns rares by ourselves since the zone is pretty dead. Could you make them soloable so we have a reason to go there?”
Blizzard: “We’re going to despawn the rares after 15 minutes.”
You’ll recall during my early tenure of becoming a CC member about the release of the Z.Caves and drawing to attention the lack of change to drops when they initially butchered the zone not even a week after its inception and claimed they increased the drop rates to compensate for the change. I listed Karokta as an EXAMPLE. And they took that and ran it through the finish line without doing anything else. And how much of a buff did they give that mount drop? A meager penny about.
Exactly…and they never do follow ups at all… you asked for the purpose and it was ignored, same for the Love rocket for a mount that was so controversial, when Chimes replied here:
I expected some discussion before implementation or at least some kind of conversation after the event finished, instead they implemented the same approach for the next holidays…
the reward devs literally treated this RNG issue like " You Think You Do…But You Don’t" meme…Ignoring players feedback.
I haven’t, but I still don’t see how it will affect anything. We didn’t kill the rares before/now, and we’ll continue that path. Now the rares will only be there when people are actually there and wanting to kill them. Again, I don’t agree with the change. I just don’t see how it will really do anything at least in my own gameplay
That doesn’t fix the issue, which is there are things to get, and they have done nothing but make it harder to do so. It’s old content at this point. They need to stop “fixing” it with crap like this and actually make some meaningful change.
I literally started going back to ZC last night to get all the dragon manuscripts from the rares. I don’t want to look up what each one drops. I don’t want to sit and make a list and pick each one to wait for.
Last night I went in, every rare was up, and we cleaned the zone out. It was fine enough fun. 3 people joined my group I listed and we vibed.
Now I feel like when I go, the odds of all the rares being up is way way lower, and I don’t want to be bothered to make my little list and sit around and wait for them. It was cool being able to just delete the zone in one go and get back to other content.
And I still need the mount from Karokta. Now he’s less likely to be up across the board, making this already dog water content that much more annoying.