You know what’s fun? Making use of my time doing dailies, running dungeons, and going for achievements. Otherwise known as progression
You know the opposite of fun? First, you stumble upon an epic item that allows you to capture a creature for you to ride upon. Then, you wait hours upon hours on a rare mob spawn. Just to find out you were just a little too low in altitude and someone else used the item to capture it and it just disappears into thin air. So now you have to wait a couple weeks for a specific invasion to appear just for the chance to wait hours upon hours to spawn and be stolen from you again.
Some of you might recognize this as the Ivory Cloud Serpent. Or some of you might be reminded of waiting for other rare mobs to spawn just for a low drop chance for a pet/mount/toy.
I’m here to plead my case for the following. Adopting one of these would greatly reduce the frustrations of current players instead of them feeling like they’ve wasted hours just… waiting.
- Increase spawn time of rares.
- Put a spawn timer on a window for all rare creatures on a minimap or even a toy that lets you do that.
- Put any future vanity items in a more stable farmable way. I don’t mind rares giving you equipment because… well there’s more than one place to farm equipment from. It’s just a nice bonus at that point. But exclusives? That’s just a low blow.
Personally, transmog, pets, toys, and mounts is the only way for a casual player (2-6 hour a day) like me to play. Asking players to spend 1/3 of their free time to just wait for mobs to spawn is a little too much