Crazy this is even a discussion. They should just be nerfing these mobs.
I can solo them as BM hunter but its painfully slow and certainly can’t do it on my warrior or evoker.
I played most of S1. Started S2 and quit, then came back shortly after S3.
While S2 was great for the story a big reason for quitting was Zaralek Caverns is poor design and execution. Agree with prior posters, they should be making these easier not making them despawn.
Side note…They need to get off this rare mob kick when they aren’t even rare. Make rare, rare again and not needed for anything but a single rare hunter achievement. Not sure when it got out of control on the “rare” hunting but it felt like Legion and its spiraled towards this tipping point for a while.
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Those Zaralek caverns rare NPCs have a better union than other rare NPCs, 'eh?
Only things I see in Zaralek are mining bots.
And I’m on a pretty high pop server.
The only time I see more than 1 other player around in ZC is when I join a group for researchers under fire. It’s otherwise barren. The rare changes, if anything, made things worse.
I’m less likely to go there outside of researchers under fire and profession weeklies than if the devs did the right thing and made the rares soloable instead of forcing them to despawn. It’s hard enough getting some rares to spawn. Forcing them to despawn leaves me feeling like “why bother?” It’s not worth it. Players won’t magically group up for these rares, especially in old content. They’ll leave and do something else.
RIP. Gotta say the last world zone I enjoyed was Mechagon.
It doesn’t help that the zone’s FP’s to out of the zone are also “bugged” and have been so for quite some time.
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Yup. There was something about it that was awesome but can’t really put my finger on
There was a ton to do in Mechagon and the rare structure wasn’t oppressive.
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I still do Mechagon as a leveling zone for my < 60 toons.
dunno, having fun with world pvp in the caverns.
lots of ally bots running around in war mode. my hunter finds them tasty.
Dont worry blizzard will eventually nerf them and tote it as one of their big patch notes
“Return to Zaralek Caverns!” - players can return to the caverns to explore and collect rare manuscripts and transmogs because now rares will have nerfed health and will not despawn. But wait, we nerfed the drop rates to 0.0001% because we want you to enjoy the content for a looooong time.
We are Blizzard. We listen to player feedback.
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Right? I don’t know exactly why, but I absolutely loved Mechagon. It’s the only endcap zone I actually went out of my way to get the meta for, just because it was fun.
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I was in there over the weekend and saw lots of folks flying around. I suppose they were farming herbs and ores as I didnʻt notice any battles happening anywhere.
I use the ZC for Pet Battles for more pet charms and the Dragon Racing …not throwing away over 1,000 gold to do 2 races…but dang it fix the Bloody Flight points out of the ZC its a damn pita to have to hearth out of there …and no its not my damn addons…its a bug known for players that completed Emerald Dream stuff completely…
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600+ kills on Rustfeather would say otherwise 
but I do agree with you.
I also think the size was pretty good, so at least while it was current you could generally make it to most rares if they were called out
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I really wish they would open up end game content in Chromie mode earlier. IE levels 10-40 normally, then 40-60 could be done with end game content like Mechagon
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To add to this travesty, they have a lockout longer than a day. I assume it’s weekly but I have seen other comments saying it’s bi weekly or whenever the zone resets.
Pretty freakin’ lame. I enjoy soloing these rares. Subterrax has something I want.
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Seriously. It’s annoying on my warrior main. My warrior cannot see the flight points out of ZC while my druid can and I use the same addons on each toon.
So many toys and pets and mogs on the Zaralek and Forbidden Reach rares! 
Too bad there’s no good way to kill them anymore.
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