Continuing the discussion from Rare Elites in Zaralek Caverns and Forbidden Reach:
This is such a tone deaf take. The drop rates are already bad but that’s not the issue and you know it.
The issue is that these mobs need to be reasonably soloable by all classes, and no I’m not talking about tanks grinding their face across their keyboards for 20 minutes.
Nobody cares that the drop rates alone are bad. Farming rare drops is part of the fun.
What we care about is being unable to actually have a reasonable chance in farming these things to begin with.
There’s already a “these rares won’t be up today” rotation. Now there’s a despawn timer on top of it, and the cherry on top is you still need groups to solo. So let’s try this again shall we?
- Feedback has largely been “reduce the health and damage so we can solo these things reasonably.”
Blizzard’s response: Put the rares on a loot lockout, lie about buffing drop rates, don’t touch the health and damage, add despawn timers, and keep the “no rares in this zone for u today” rotation in.
Sure, they claimed for the second time recently to have increased drop rates, BUT THAT’S NOT THE POINT, especially if we can’t reasonably kill these things without posting Help Wanted signs four months in advance.