this collection event has made me realize how bad RNG is…already done like 30 or 40 runs…some are not short either like Siege of Orgrimmar…I have gotten 1 mount that I already own.
I use to love doing mog/mount but runs this event has made me hate it.
Hopefully with how bad RNG is in general, and now that everyone person and their cat is farming stuff we now can all realise, things need changing.
RNG was fine 20 years ago, but the game, the community, stuff has moved on from the past and this game needs to also.
Was telling a friend of mine there is no faster way to burnout than doing mog runs. If anything would make a person quit…it’s holding w for hours for nothing. The login screen starts to look less and less inviting to the point I would honestly not even like to look at it for a few months. I’m glad everyone gets their pixels though. Eventually. Maybe. Probably not really.
yep…I think I am not gonna run transmog/mount runs I can tell that if I continue like this I will get burnt out especially if I don’t gain any momentum with drops that I want.
Unfortunately I’m at a point where I tried for the ones I want enough to simply not even care anymore. Like…the meaning has long left me. It’s no longer an achievement for anything I care about. I absolutely love the mech stuff currently in the game and I’ll try for some…but all that old stuff can stay where it is. I will always have a weird addiction to wow…but the walking simulator died years ago.
I got Mim’s Head after 13 tries. Not a mount I ever thought I’d get. I’m pretty happy with the event if that’s all that happens for me.
I just wish I could actually use all 338 mounts that Blizzard says I have…but the second I look at the achievement, I only have 292. Absolutely stupid. 338 is more than 300, and before anybody says it…I know it’s “usable on a single character” and that’s an ignorant standard to have when we have had account bound items for years and now we have the Warband system.
Absolutely no reason for the pointless restrictions.
You’re gambling on getting something cool with your time and/or money. That’s what collectables are and have been for decades in multiple aspects of online and real life. It baffles me that people still don’t realize that.
I know that feeling, the first days I was lucky…
Ashes in 3 kills
Karazhan green horse in 6 kills
Both Zul Gurub mounts in 8 kills
In the other hand…
Argus, 12 kills and nothing
Arthas 50 kills, Nothing
Onyxia 50 kills, nothing
Jaina, 20 kills nothing
Just thinking about not getting anything frustrates me, even with the buff, feels like I´m Sisifo pushing a stone and wasting my time
The stupid shoulders won’t drop cuz they have a lower drop rate than mounts for some reason
I’ve burnt out 3 days of multiple toons and differing raids. Half way through yesterday I just stopped and worked on other things. I got one mount out of it and will try a couple of times at reset. It would be nice to get more but I’m not burning my mind for them.
The amount of traveling needed to go to said locations makes me appreciate my mage toons more.
Blizzard needs to cap the bad luck to a reasonable amount. Pure RNG is too brutal. There is always a chance you will end up on the wrong end of the bell curve.
Scroll skips you to garrosh.
I mean, I’m absolutely fine with pure RNG to a degree, but at the bare minimum I think this need to either be an annual summertime event, or they link it up with the anniversary events and have it running then.
I can certainly relate to being on the wrong end of the curve: I was in Molten Core every week my account was active for three years straight before scaling back to every other week due to how sick of that place I had become. Finally got my second binding for Thunderfury just short of four and a half years in September 2024.
Things could be a 50% drop rate and you would still find people on the wrong end.
Or find people like me who spent 3 weeks in MC and got both bindings. Or 2 weeks in BT for both glaives.
Yeh RNG is crap and whatever can be done needs to be done.
Correct. That’s why they need to cap how many attempts it would take.
I gave up on the mounts an just decided to do the Mogs. Even that’s a bunch of BS. 5 chars and a few places I been too Im still stuck at like 120/146 and those numbers were back when you could only learn a single armor type.
So much for increased drops. That just means 2/3 more trinkets that never dropped when it was current.
so weird thing for me (and I agree with you) - a few years ago I was a few mounts short of the 600-mount achievement. I’ve bought all possible crafted ones and my alliance druid (whom I thought was my main) was stuck at that number.
Then one of those events happened (I can’t recall if it was the hearthstone or goblin one from a few years back) where you would log all your alts just to get the chance of a mount.
I logged a BE paladin I rarely played and at log-on, hit my 600-mount achievement.
What does that even mean. The stuff you want (or the game itself) being old doesn’t mean they should necessarily make it easier to get…especially if the method of acquisition hasn’t changed at all in those 20 years.
That is not at all what we are doing. We are renting time in a fake digital space. Collecting something means I get up…go out…buy it…own it…display it on my shelf. Play with it…being told I can’t have access to it after I’ve paid for it would indeed not be the same as “collecting”. Getting lucky isn’t the same as deserving something. If two people pay the same amount for access to the same thing and one of those people walk away with something the other never gets …that’s pure luck. Nothing to do with effort or skill…paying for luck…is dumb. Always has been and always will be.