5 dungeons, no Tidalcore in Heroic. Is this Blizz’ way of punishing us non-leet peons?
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Its possible that the change from hydrocores to tidalcores caused them to be removed from the heroic dungeon loot table, it was after all a hot fix during season 1.
However, it is probably just bad luck. Blizzard wants players running mythics regardless of skill. They are the “new” end game, 5-man content, replacing heroics. With tidalcores dropping from mythics, players were limited to 10 cores per week, as that is the weekly cap on m0. There is no cap on heroics however, so the drop rate has to be extremely low to prevent players from chain-farming the easier content for crafted gear and other perks.
makes sense…sigh
You can theoretically get an unlimited number of the Tidalcores from mythic dungeons, since they also drop from every m+ key. Myself and some guildmates were spamming +2s for some extra TF chances and we’d gotten one a piece from every dungeon
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My guild was farming M 0 last week for tidal cores, we were each getting 1. M 0 is no different from heroic really other than stuff may hit a bit harder, so might want to get some friends together and do that one night.
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I really feel punished when something doesn’t drop – especially when I don’t need any of the things from the dungeon except the cores, and those only in order to craft something expensive so I can craft what I actually want.
It would be nice if they warned me they were going to punt this one on me. I’d have not wasted the time.
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If Blizz wants people to run more mythics, they need to make mythic grouping the same as heroic — part of the LFG process. There is absolutely no benefit to requiring a specific 5-man group for M+0 — forcing the extra (and often tedious and/or painful) step of either pugging or setting up a setpiece (tank healer, 3 dps) organized group. Face it, Blizz, there is no longer much that is “mythic” or “special” about M+0, it is what Heroic used to be.
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I understand why you feel that way, but that ease of access is exactly why they tied the 100% drop rate of Tidalcores to Mythics. They wanted to avoid having Tidalcores on the LFG process.
If you could repeat random Mythics and get loot every time, like you can with Heroics, you would have an unlimited number of Tidalcores. Which would be insane.
They could add Mythic dungeons to the LFG process, but they would most definitely change the drop rate for Tidalcores on that difficulty, and thereby increase the overal difficulty of getting them (which is what the complaint of the OP was to begin with). It wouldn’t be helping the situation.
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Why would it be insane? They are soulbound, and you can only use something like 30 of them, and that’s if you make both pieces of gear. Also the high level gear is SB, so it’s not even like you can make and sell them. So what if you get 500 of them, there is absolutely zero you can do with the excess.
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WTF??? The Tidalcore drop rate is pathetic. We healers have to heal the asses of bad groups in M+0 for a Tidalcore??? It takes 15 to make one lousy SB piece of gear.
Been playing WoW 14 years. Loved it until Mythics are absolutely now required to get anywhere. Sucks for healers. Don’t think I need WoW any longer. Ciao…was a great ride!
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Blizz says we put it in the game but we don’t want you to have it .
sure feels that way…BAD BLIZ
Y’know, as someone who’s kvetched about this until I realized that the scrapper completely refunds your tidalcores, bwomsamdi’s tears, and expulsum, let me be the first to remind everyone that you only really need to do fifteen mythics to make one piece of gear, which opens up the second tier, and if you raid even in LFR, you’re going to get the mats needed to create that stuff.
At worst, you’ll need to run thirty mythic dungeons if you intend on keeping your gear. If not, then you only need fifteen, then you’re jumping straight into the second and third tiers of BOP crafted stuff.
It’s certainly annoying, but it’s not that bad. Hell, it’s harder for me to collect Mistscale than it is to get anything else!
At the beginning of April I’d receive a Tidalcore once every five or so heroics. I’ve since done over twenty over the last two weeks and I haven’t received any. Has the drop rate been nerfed even more since the 16th?
RNG is RNG.
I am ilvl 400+ and have cleared all raids multiple time and have 0 tidalcores. Now I have to go back to old useless content to get tidal cores to craft a 385 piece of gear that I don’t need to be able to make the 400ilvl piece of gear that i don’t need to finally make the 415ilvl piece I want. Pretty much makes no sense. There should at least be a %chance off of raid bosses for tidalcores.
You are a geared player who obviously knows how to play your class. The system is setup so that you will run players who aren’t geared and don’t know what they are doing through 15ish mythics in order to get the BoP reagents you need. If the reagents dropped off of raid bosses, you would already have them and would have zero use for mythics. And in BfA, Blizzard wants everyone running mythics in order to build hype for the mythic invitational e-sports.
Also, most people were likely running dungeons for tidalcores before they got 400+ gear, so the mythics were a little more useful then they are for you now.