I managed to get the Hearthstone and the toy.
I’m still wondering why this place is not even used here: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1bcsle3/its_really_quite_a_shame_the_new_hearthstone_toy/
This is the perfect event to use it!
I find it very disappointing that only two out of three of these locations are inclusive to all players.
It feels as though there is a faction bias, because Horde players are forced into PVP, not even mentioning the guard presence, if they try to complete the portal in Stormwind while Alliance players have no issue going to the location in Durotar.
This of course is from someone who isn’t on a PVP realm, so I won’t speak for them, but essentially Horde players will have less chances to do the scenario unless they can hold their own in Stormwind (or everyone plays nice).
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I might not care for the situation overall, but I don’t think bias has anything to do with it. I just don’t think they thought it through in any capacity.
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After not even being able to loot the boss twice despite definitely hitting him I rotated in two new characters, and went back to getting loot. So my unscientific take on it is that either it has changed to one loot per character per day (I hope, I hope it’s not once during the WEEK) or I was extremely unlucky four times in a row, and then had weirdly good luck again the next four times.
It is entirely possible to go 3-4 kills and not see anything, but as things currently stand you can get multiple drops on a single character.
Fair, mostly stating it feels biased to me, rather than implying that there is an inherent bias. The utter lack of foresight leading to this probably shapes that feeling.
Maybe, but this is what it has looked like for me. All attempts were after midnight server:
Character A, Attempt 1: Belt, Bag
Character B, Attempt 1: Mount, blue card
Character A, Attempt 2: Nothing, no loot on boss at all
Character B, Attempt 2: Nothing, no loot on boss at all
Character A, Attempt 3: Nothing, no loot on boss at all
Character B, Attempt 3: Nothing, no loot on boss at all
Character C, Attempt 1: Hearthstone
Character D, Attempt 1: Bag, blue card
Character E, Attempt 1: Mount, blue card
Character F, Attempt 1: Tabard, bag
Yeah, I’m still going to say RNG is to blame. I’ve participated in about 4-5 portal spawns after midnight, and my drops have ranged from nothing to a few blue cards.
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Yes, BUT…
Did you try it with a new character and see if any epic items dropped for them?
That’s pretty hard to do when I’ve already gotten them all. 
But I did get the bag on my pally, who has also gotten other drops today. The bulk of my drops were on my Alliance hunter which I used to participate in the cluster of SW portals early yesterday evening. If it isn’t green vendor cards, it’s a genuine loot drop. Or nothing.
Maybe Blizz is modelling this event after the recent Willy Wonka experience in Scotland?
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Yeah, see, I think they hotfixed it after all the chaos. I’d be interested to see if it’s now one “good” item per character, hopefully per day but if it’s per week that’s…ick.
Yeah, I guess that would be hard for me to confirm because I literally can’t do so now. We will have to see.
Would’ve better if there was a depressed Gnome dressed up as an Oompa Loompa then.
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Hi Blizzard,
I don’t often come to the forums, but I went through all the trouble of logging in to express how disappointing this event is.
I play on Wyrmrest Accord, which is currently participating the in the second largest cross-faction public roleplaying event of the year. It is being impacted by the Hearthstone event in that people’s time is being stolen by the need to farm, character hop, and guess the times at which the events will spawn.
Who amongst your team thought this event model was a good idea? There are a dozen better ways to implement an event, especially considering that there is currently -nothing to do-!
I’m not going to waste my morning listing what to do to fix this, as hundreds of people before me have listed valid suggestions in this thread. But one thing is certain: FIX IT
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Lmao, my druid was sitting outside Orgrimmar and at the top of the hour she got shifted to a phase with a new portal spawning. A couple of minutes later, before the portal finished setting up, she was shifted to a phase without a portal. I love this event.
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And that shouldn’t be happening …but it does the dang Tree walk in ED new zone does that…it disappears when your about to go purple then puts you back to one that is green …
Happened to me many times yesterday lol. I’m wondering what the % of things working vs not working are for this event.
I’ve done 3 (2 SW, 1 Vald) in the past few hours on 2 separate toons. Between them they got the disc mount, mouse pet, hat mog and 2 cards for the collection. This was after getting almost zilch on those same toons yerterday afternoon so I really can’t tell if they have any limitations on the drops.
ngl, having it rotate was a stupid idea. you should have it pop in all 3 locations at once to spread people out. having it bugged didnt help.
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