I started day 1. Been checking multiple times a day ever since. Saw him 1 time, and it didn’t drop for me. I do think it’s completely asinine that it’s RNG on top of more RNG. It could at least be 1 or the other. Random drop or random spawn. But both just feels really bad.
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I’d even settle for the existing “3 up at once” if:
A: They were all different ones, so we didn’t have situations where the same element “doubled” or “tripled” up and split up the people who are seeking certain elements.
And B: The “skipped” one is rotated in on a fixed cycle. If one set is Earth, Fire, Water, then the next is Earth, Fire, Storm, then the next is Earth, Storm, Water, then the next is Fire, Storm, Water, then finally back to Earth, Fire, Water.
The duration could be adjusted up or down from the 3-hour mark so that it isn’t always the same set at the exact same times of day.
By this logic, the event should have ended 2 days ago. Then people who tried to farm it two days before that would complain, and you’d’ve told them to start farming it earlier than that, so then by that logic, the event should have ended 2 days before 2 days ago. Eventually, we’ll get to the point where we shouldn’t have the event at all, because it turns out that people should have been farming it before it existed otherwise they have no right to complain that the bad system is bad.
The RNG system is bad. The fact that the last full day hasn’t seen one of the 4 elements in the last 12 hours is a joke, and it’s not really defensible. Heck, I managed to get 4-6 Storm kills in the stupid overnight hours when I saw him up. Didn’t get the dimmed. Nobody offering to trade (or even sell) except one person and I wasn’t the fastest with the whisper to the kind person offering.
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Alas, Storm was not up. Again.
RNG spawn with RNG drop . surely nothing will go wrong
Alright champ.
My guess is this…
Someone at Bliz “Hey… Let’s have Tristfall Glades be permanent Storm Lord”
Someone in another room “Hey… Let’s get rid of Tristfall Glades. We don’t need it.”
Compartmentalization. Tada.
That one spawn series did not drop the trinket part over four boss iterations and the fifth one timed out at the end of the window.
Ice fire earth again. I sleep now, I am sure as soon as I do an Air Ele will spawn for everyone. I will take this for the team.
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Don’t worry, the Blizzard apologists will be around to say it’s perfectly fine that it’s been 15-18 hours since one of the four things required to have a chance to complete the event has spawned.
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What crappppppp. This is some really really bad RNG or something.
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Blizzard really needs to extend this event… Fire, Earth, Water AGAIN
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Yup. Blizz, if you want, just cordon it off to Pandaria. Got the other 3 done the first day. Check every day, no Air to be found.
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Any idea how long the event is up tomorrow? Would be nice to actually get a shot at the trinket…just need the boss to actually spawn to do that XD.
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You need:
A. The event to spawn
B. The Boss to spawn
C. The loot piece to drop
The one time that A. happened on Steamwheedle Cartel (last night) the boss spawned four times, did not drop the loot four times for anyone, and then the event timed out during the fifth boss.
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It’s quite disappointing that this hasn’t been addressed by Blizzard. Unless I missed something.
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You haven’t missed anything Medria, I don’t think they plan to extend or do anything. There’s a large group of ppl defending the RNG and others saying “Well, you had 2 weeks” while forgetting some of us work long hours or multiple jobs. Each time I was afforded time to log on it was always Earth,Fire, Water. The one time I dedicate the entire day and my only day to play the entire day I saw , Earth, Earth, Earth; then Earth, Fire, Fire; I saw a ,Water , Water, Earth but no Storm air, not once. It really sucks, but serves me right for having to support my family.
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The completionist in me is sad to not finish it because of a game error. I was busy spending time with family over Thanksgiving to give a video game a second thought, lol. Oh well. I’m gonna call it and go to bed.
Here’s to hoping the launch of Dragonflight goes more smoothly than it’s prelaunch.
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To shed a little light on the reason a fair few of us (I am assuming) are doing this ‘last minute’ (according to some) is because we were invited to yesterday. An email was sent out by blizzard warning us we have a short time to participate.
It is a little frustrating to find out we may miss out anyway because their system is using ‘True’ RnG. Meaning there is a chance that for the 2 days we had left we may never see to spawn unless we are lucky enough to be online within that window if that window occurs at all. I know I feel welcomed back how about yall?..
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The first few days I didn’t bother with it because it was laggy as all hell— even with top of the line GPU. Then a week or so ago I tried again a few times on my evoker and wasn’t too pressed about it. I mean, anyone with any common sense would be like, “yeah, four elements so 25% chance give or take”.
So I figured a few rotations a day and I’d be good to go. I was enjoying playing some Evil West with friends. But I’ve been trying for 4 days now, the first two about 3 rotations a day, and the past two days every rotation save for two a night for sleep. And I haven’t seen him at all.
If YOU can do it in a couple of rotations in one day at the beginning of an event, why can’t others do it at the tail end? RNG is fine, but there’s an obvious problem here when one element has been scarcely seen and the topic for many of these posts.
You’re being purposefully obtuse for some reason.
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