…basically those who got lucky. I got a guildie whos been playing since Wrath and still doesn’t have it. Obviously, his word against nothing, but he claims he is farming it on multiple toons daily.
ah…the truth comes out… 30 year old dudes with fragile egos… Usually comes from the fact they got nothing IRL to show off.
and you think its caz taken them this long to see the “problem”? no, its cax alot of people are complaining and bliz went “we should prob change it. if anything to shut theres people up”
not saying its a bad thing, i think its good. to all the people complaining about this you will still have bragging rights. your achievement for when you got it will still show you got in when you did, so when it was a piss poor drop rate
What do you mean? My point was about RNG cosmetics and some drops, those should be designed from a point of view on which a player , new player or casual that only plays 1-2 characters have the same attempts that one with 50 characters on the same account.
I don’t go against alts in my opinion, actually Alts should be embraced by Devs and they should allow a lot of things regarding progress to be account wide like KSM upgrades (since you still need valor on each character) , reputations and other things and don’t catch up on later patches, we need them to trust on their own product, that if a player reached the BIS status on one clase that player could just swap to an alt and do the same or just leave the game for a while.
Right now Alts with a gameplay mentallity are killed by a lot of systems, there’s also Alts that are just created to roll a dice on a RNG drop like this one, i just created and level up 10 DHs between Dec-Jan just to reach 50 attempts per day on this event, those alts won’t represent anything else for me besides a roll on this mount.
Not everyone ask for it to be super easy, but an equal chance for all players, the alt army meta just motivates a negative player style that even the Devs know about it, that’s why they changed the anniversary mount from last year and Mechadone Achievement on 9.1.5.
Devs commited a mistake by changing the first iteration that allow players to spam the dungeon to a daily lock out on first place, rarity is related to the amount of attempts that you’ve enable and that’s my main issue, forcing players to have 50 character or multiple accounts if they really want that mount, when the scenario should be from a perspective of a player with a single character, if we could spam it with a single character every player could have the same balance, still the drop rate will be really low but i could NO LIFE the event on specific days instead of feeling force to do my runs each day.
They have to be careful,since they don’t want to make anyone feel like the “work” that they put in to getting the mount is “devalued”. /sarcasm Of course this can be applied to pretty much any rare/removed item.
Exactly, so if they never changed the first iteration of the event, there won’t be a huge amount of complains, because any player could NO LIFE the attempts on this mount any day of the event just like Death Charger Reins.
Your opinion that they should have designed the event for the convenience of you and others who play like you, people who don’t want to work as hard as the ones who are putting in the effort.
Do you not feel that way about casuals and gearing? “If you want the best loot, do the hardest content in the game.”
You don’t want to put in the effort, but you want the rewards anyway.
The reason it is so hard to fix the drop rate is because they think slowly. They’re probably thinking of some sort of BLP system. And maybe changing drop rates for certain rarities across the board.
I’m saying that everyone with not daily lockout could put the effort, the mount will still have a 0.03 drop, and you could do 100 runs with a single character, that’s effort. It’s still toxic gameplay like almost anything that Devs design true, but it’s effort just like death charger mount.
And that’s how the event was created on the first place, it was changed for worse each time.
Now it’s even better because Devs are listening and there’s going to be a new approach, i just hope that approach is designed for the whole playerbase, so a new player could have the same opportunities that an old player regarding the amount of attempts.
I think the best solution would be come out and say, “Hey, it’s a lottery” and limit it to one encounter per day per account.
I like doing it on about 5 toons myself, but I think some people just can’t control themselves.
Most people play alts, so this would be for the minority of players. Besides, if you’re really concerned about new players having opportunities, look hard at the increasing amount of FOMO and the things that are being removed or made inaccessible in recent times.
Do you really think the game is better with harsh time-gating on everything to keep people who like to farm things from farming them? Who is to say what is “can’t control themselves”? Since when have games been designed around people’s health?
Blizzard never said they were doing any of this.
They said they heard the frustration and were looking into it.
They may choose to just leave it as is.
Personally, I think it should be left alone. You don’t need it for gameplay or role-play so the drop rate only matters for serious collectors and having low drop rates for certain items give them some challenges.
It needs a whole different system to be obtainable now. It’s not fair to the people who run hundreds of times every year non stop.
Pre-Microsoft Acquisition - it was shown they cut a LOT of staff (Even prior to the harassment investigations) for ‘profit gains’ - I mean, the CEO got a huge pay rise after they cut all the staff — All that was just the tip of the iceberg. With everything that’s followed & incurred, lately it’s not so hard to see how their quality has fallen so tremendously …
Though Microsoft said they want to make Blizzard the giant it once was, both in reputation and its prestigious achievements. So hopefully we have brighter times ahead.
?? I’ll be for all players you can still play alts or just one character…same result like when this event was introduced and daily lockout didn’t exist, it doesn’t affect players with alts.
I always do post about that, for example: I’ve mentioned several times that this shouldn’t exist a cinematic that can’t be triggered in game anymore and youtube title is “Spoiler”, new players won’t know about Nathanos duel against Tyrande in game and they need to check other media to find this piece of art.
This is what I don’t get about those types of people who feel this way. If they value a holiday mount based off of rarity instead of fun and genuinely liking it, I consider that a problem.
This isn’t a challenge mode. It’s a holiday. And holidays are meant to be fun and rewarding for everyone of every level, not frustrating and disheartening year after year.
People that are outraged over a holiday mount are acting pretty ridiculous, imo. 
Again, in a game with hundreds upon hundreds of mounts, having a few of them be difficult to acquire, whether that is by making them extremely expensive or extremely rare shouldn’t be a big deal.
However, having said that, I think at this point the instances surrounding them have become a bit superfluous. It takes longer to wait to get an instance than it does to kill the boss to get your box. Keep the event for the transmog, (rose, mask) and consumables, but move the box to an NPC like the cupid goblin or whatever that, when spoken to, will hand you the box once a day while the event is current.
And I would like the idea expanded to other “lotto” type mounts that have become trivial due to their age. How about letting me use old bonus roll seals to buy a box once a week that has the same chance of dropping the sha of anger mount so I don’t have to fly out there every week with all my alts (just kidding, I got bored of doing that a while back and don’t bother anymore.)
There is precedent for this with the island expedition mounts that had ridiculously low drop rates and they eventually added essentially loot boxes that we could farm currency for to have more shots at them.
If these are going to be true lotto or slot machine mount drops, and they are past the point of being trivial, remove the middle man, stick them in crates, and give us an alternate way to farm them.
Since they’re going to ruin the rareness of the Big Love Rocket (because Blizzard fixes things with a sledgehammer) then the Infinite Timereaver needs to go on the Cata TW vendor for 5000 badges. Because reasons.
Spaghetti code. the change prob would require bringing all the servers offline to make the change. it’s also prob not using a modern interface where they can just tweak a number value in a box and expect to see changes that only affect the intended object.
Probably because they’re planning on adding some system that somehow makes the mount easier to acquire without actually increasing the drop rate.
Honestly, yeah. Add tokens to rare Panda boss mounts. Add BG tokens for the pvp elite sets and mounts. That stuff is too frustrating and difficult for me, so fair is fair!
Yeah it’s very unfun and stressful when I can’t get gud at pvp so let me solo queue for the Armored Twilight Drake, ok? thanks
Edit: Ok I was being facetious and dumb but seriously I probably have more attempts on the Infinite Timereaver than I do the Big Love Rocket. These two mounts are in a similar situation so put it on the vendor for 5000 tw badges. Cata doesn’t have a mount anyways.