If I want to spend 10 runs a day in Nighthold Mythic to get that mount, why shouldn’t I be able to? I don’t get why anything over one expansion old has weekly lockouts.
I only started playing in 8.3 so can someone enlighten me as to why the game is this way? Like the world bosses for MoP. Once a week lol? That just seems to block players from what they want to do/acquire. Raid lockouts for every raid instance? Why is that a thing for older expansions?
Of course I may not have considered a few things so please enlighten me.
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Honestly after they absolutely gutted gold from doing old raids n crap
No idea why they’re locked out
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Ahhhh. See, I never considered the gold farming. Maybe only allow gold to be locked out weekly. You only get it once a week. But everything else is open 24/7!
Just a relic of the past that needs modernizing.
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I just don’t think it was really brought up much. Most players just decided to throw a million alts at it and never really bothered to suggest the lockouts be removed.
I’m with you though 
If content is flagged legacy then remove the lockout. They did it with SL Heroics so they must have the framework to do it in place already.
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You mean just like the person in charge of the game’s development is
I wish we can just farm the old raids as much as we want. The lockouts are one of the reasons that pushed me to having a ton of alts. That and the love rocket mount farm.
Then they go and make more timegated system. It just seems so obvious its for the subscription model that hurts the gameplay and repeatable of some things.
Yeah it is no longer Gamers making games for gamers .
No it’s more like Pencil pushers making spreadsheets for investors.
I often wonder how much more they could actually make for their investors by making something more people would want to stick around for and play instead of seeing how many they can hopefully keep around to make up for the revenue loss of others leaving .
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Wow. You really think that is the logic? I guess that makes sense but to me people get more frustrated and leave the game because they are so limited at what they enjoy rather than keep playing to kill Sha of Anger 3 more times for their subscription.
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Some days I feel like farming something. That is something I enjoyed in single player rpgs. Some weeks I dont ever touch legacy stuff.
And I feel like just pvping or doing mythic pluses.
For all the weeks snd years I played I have missed out on so many lockouts because I didnt feel like grinding then.
Some days you just feel like grinding out s mount or rep or transmog set. And the weekly lockout feels arbitrary. Leaving you to farm a dungeon/raid once or make multiples of the same class to farm something when you feel like it.
For gold you can farm the same resource as much as you want if its current. But to farm snd complete a transmog set? That can take months or years depending on how bad the rng is ( looking at you throne of thunder transmog from trash mobs).
The lockout also causes problem in stuff like lfr where you dont get credit for bosses you already killed, making you want to leave? Why not just let people who backfill at least get a chance at transmog pieces or a currency to buy from like a vendor the transmog sets.
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Wow. Spot freaking on. I think you nailed it.
That’s it. Perfectly said. Some days I would just want to run Nighthold over and over and over. Then I might go months without doing it.
Damnit, I want to be able to do what I want to do without limitations. I think that would add so much more fun to the game and not make it seem like a job.
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Also for sha of anger you are better off doing an army of alts and doing it every 15 minutes if you are farming that. Its a ridiculous farm, if they had bad luck tokens it would be so much of a better farm.
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I was just using sha as an example of the torture. When I first started playing in 8.3 and I learned it was a once a week kill I couldn’t believe it. Then I learned how many attempts some people had at it and it made me physically ill. Like class action law suit ill lol. How can they justify torturing their player base so much.
It has a lower drop rate then usual mounts. And its a world boss that everyone kills fast, and spawns every 15 minutes.
Its something you can do on 30 characters a week and not get for a decent while, and the most boring part is just waiting for it to spawn.
I stopped farming for it a while back, because I was hoping they would make it like a minute spawn and just not let him spam his voicelines.
The mount is also available in the bmah. But I got the blue green and yellow celestial dragons and I got content with those.
I also think it would have been nice to be able to spawn him once a week and the other Mop bosses that would make the farm more friendly, snd just turn off there broadcast yells.
Compared to like shiny farming in pojemon wows system is so bad lol.
Its so that Blizzard can stretch out your play time to make you continue playing and paying monthly.
I honestly would find that boring because, knowing me, I’d incessantly farm until I got everything, and then i wouldn’t have anything to look forward to the next week haha