Why not both? People collect rare trading cards and shiny Pokémon.
Some people collect rare things. Most collect things they like whether rare or not. Collecting rare things you don’t like because they are rare, why would someone do that?
Do you collect rare things because you want to try to make other people feel bad about not having them? In real life people would be laughing at you.
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All the devs probably enjoying a couple more weeks of time off like they seem to get for ANY holiday they like.
Man, you’ve never actually been in a collector’s group before, have you?
I am bringing this up for years now, just introduce progressive droprates.
Start small and add a small bonus for every time something rare does not drop so that one either is lucky and gets it faster or gets it pretty much guaranteed over time with enough dedication.
So a +0.1 or whatever bonus per try for each char individually.
This could even be implemented retroactively since the game keeps a statistic for kills, I am not sure if this extends to event-bosses though.
I have 8 chars alone with over 100 kills for this event now, two of these with over 120 kills, at least this is what I documented in a spreadsheet since 2014, so there were more kills before that.
At this point, given the limited availability of the event, I feel the dropchance for these characters should be significantly higher, if not almost guaranteed.
This year I am running the event with 19 chars, I did it over 1600 times now, this is self inflicted pain.
And nobody cares anymore, in, kill, out, no one is throwing a “hello” in the groupchat anymore, this is not exciting, this is a damn chore with very little hope for a reward.
And btw, https://www.wowhead.com/item=136911/knockoff-blingtron is not dropping either and I am using my one drop chance per account pretty much every day since I was able to build a Blingtron 6k back in 2016…
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This is ridiculous, ive tried and lvled a bunch of alts to get this mount and now they want to get thing easier… MMOs should have extremely rare drops, this mount does nothing special compared to others. It will just become a normal mount. Dont need to get a higher % drop chance, just make a quality life changes to ppl who is trying to drop it, remove instances cap, but DONT make the % any higher or will ruin the rarity of it, and that what makes it cool.
I guess I’m normal and so are all my friends and relatives.
We hear enough stories by FOMO addicts who get upset that the noobs they try to make feel bad by “brandishing” (literally using as a weapon, I was amazed to see that word used in this context) don’t respect them for it.
Take your custom made designer purse. The clerk at the grocery store says, “Nice bag. Where’d you get it?” Do you say, “I got it when I was traveling,” or do you say, “It’s an exclusive custom designer bag that you can never have! I got it in Paris on a vacation you can never dream of having!”
Get real. Trying to make random players feel bad because they haven’t been subscribing since before they were born is beyond tacky. People do nothing like that in real life.
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No mount, transmog, toy, pet, profession receipe, nothing and I mean absolutely nothing that drops from a mob, boss, holiday event should have less than 1% drop rate.
1% or 1/100 drop chance should be the absolute lowest for any drop in the game.
I would love to see them go through all drop rates for all items and anything lower than 1% should be increased to at least 1% or more.
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Making a lot of assumptions. Some people just like having rare stuff. Doesn’t matter to them if someone feels bad.
100% agree with this. 1% should be the lowest drop rate, otherwise you’re just punishing people who’ve been attempting to collect it for years.
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At least you’re acknowledging the issue finally. Hopefully the drop rates of all the holiday mounts are improved. Ideally anyone who really wants these mounts should be able to get it in a single season. I might even be enticed to run holiday events again if there was an actual possibility that I could get the mount. Right now there is no chance for me to get it.
Enforced scarcity on this within a game that has hundreds of mounts isn’t fun.
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You better not change the way you get this mount …I just got it today and have spent over 14 yrs farming to get it…you’ll going to take away my pride of finally being a owner of one of most exclusives mounts around…no thank you…
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Then you know how toxic the current drop rate is and can understand that a buff is quite welcomed.
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Yes the drop rate is low, meaning the feeling when you finally do get it is that much more amazing. My friend got it last week after 2,395 attempts, and she still hasn’t stopped talking about it. Probably will never ride another mount again. Yes it sucked, she put the work in over all the years (was running on 56 toons every day this year, that number kept getting larger year by year), and than she got it.
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Perhaps some people get a “omg yay” feeling after 2.4k attempts.
Many of us simply breathe a sigh of relief that the nightmare is finally over.
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Give him the rocket blizzard… come on
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Thank you Zreicia that is me right now …after getting it today…I am still shaking so bad I can hardly play the game right now with my alts dailies…I am flipping over the Moon about it…
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No …you folks want to steal other thunder its not right…I spent all this time and you want to steal it from me…NO.
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Can’t tell if serious or satire.
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If you get such a feeling from the game you should do something that’ll give you joy instead.
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