Yes it’s tedious to get into, wish they would at least give mages a teleport and portal spell and maybe even a flight path that can take everyone down for when we are feeling lazy.
You can use the flight path master to get there.
Just clicky on the cavern image on the lower right corner and then clicky on the flight path.
2 Likes
Well gee… I will try that. I thought I tried that before and it seemed to NOT offer that. We need a ‘portal’ … IMO. 
(edit) Thank you for the info Latherfal.
1 Like
I actually feel its fine to get in to.
You just fly down the hole. Its a bit twisty but right next to valdrakken. Not really an issue in my eyes.
Its leaving the cavern which is annoying. A winding tunnel is okay while going downhill. Going up is a bit more of a hassle. And when you get out, youre low on vigor.
So on the way out, i just use a flight point from loamm to valdrakken.
1 Like
Cut all the mobs health in half, provide NPCs that can assist solo players like we had in Nazjatar and add Wyrm crests and Suffused gear as rare drops from the rares and you will get people down there. Otherwise, the Fyrakk assaults are a much easier way to gear up than the caverns are.
It doesn’t help that right now we have the Goblin event going…then the added fact new Diablo going live this week…DM island is up too…that even up on main surface for that Dragon quest line …the one that burns you in the air…these tend too draw folks away till later on…add in fact during the day hours till about 5 pm or so EST a good part of player base is at work or school…
No. The player base is divided on this one. Those that didn’t want to be forced into it are extremely happy that we don’t need to grind away out in the world and can just do what we want. For those that consider this their main content than they think its a bad change.
I did some of the quest line and got bored. The WQ don’t reward much of anything and many of them are just annoying. The rares take 10+ min to kill early morning for a very small chance of a transmog, pet or mount customization. I can wait until next expansion or two and come back and one shot all of this in far less time. The only time I do these are if I’m forced to like with the 424 ring (which I should farm at some point as its still good for tanks.)
This is the greatest flaws of one time 6 month long content. Its stagnant and can be done faster and more efficiently later on.
Moo!
Amen too that idea…done that before…it just gets old killing certain rares over and over and can’t get mount or pet to drop…
1 Like
I was just doing the snail stuff and the world quests with a rare or event here and there but in the last couple of weeks there seems to be less and less people so this week I completely skipped the elite world quests, rares and events.
I really wish there was more incentive for people to do this zone since I would like to at least be able to cap out my Loamm Niffen reputation.
1 Like
The entire zone feels like it has no real direction. The nerfing of killing rares really turned a lot of people off.
Even if you can solo the rares, still takes 3-4 minutes to cut through 16 million health.
Once I finish getting the snail mount and maxing out my Niffin rep, I’ll be a lot closer to never interacting with the zone… flying to the raid does not count.
Well it’s no deepholme, and though I personally loved deepholme a lot of people hated that. I blame Therizane.
1 Like
Really? On my server, it’s the forbidden reach that’s dead. Good luck getting the war creche done.
1 Like
The zone is for cosmetics and catch up on alts. This is new wow where we don’t have to slave away grinding systems to play the content we want to play. Most of us are instead playing the content we enjoy (raids,mythic+,pvp) Sure it’s not the best for solo world players but this game isn’t a survival game. It’s an mmo where the main facet is gear progression. So we are all doing the content we enjoy while simultaneously progressing our gear through the crest stystem.
sitting there pouting is better than just being a total **** on the forums and trashing someone for no reason other to antagonize them for a hit of dopamine, I suppose.
2 Likes
Just a quick word in case you didn’t realise it, you can use the flight master to get in and out of the Cavern, you don’t have to manually fly. You may know but I didn’t realise at first and it was only when I clicked on the little zone map in the corner on the flight map and saw the flight points that I figured it out.
2 Likes
One of the primary things that kept ZC alive was the fact you could farm drake crests off the elites and use them to upgrade your gear to a modest 424. Blizzard ended that by making them once daily. The minute they did that, ZC died.
So if the point of that zone was catch up for alts, no one told Blizzard.
3 Likes
That’s a bummer, I did not know that about limiting to once daily. It was great FR was get stuff from elites many times.
The other thing that makes no sense in ZC is the Zaqari Elders world boss. I don’t know anyone who has seen loot drop from them since they were introduced. You get less than 10g and maybe 15 loaam rep. I get that they have 415 loot in their table but either they’re horribly broken or the drop rate is about the same as the Big Love Rocket.
3 Likes
I got loot off them last week. It does drop, its just not awfully common. Also, Blizzard confirmed in a note somewhere that there is no announcement when other people get loot, something to do with there geing two Elders.
1 Like
Seems very rare then. I don’t ever recall being in a raid group for a world boss where loot didn’t drop for “someone”, usually 4-6 people. On Elders I’ve yet to see anything. Glad you got lucky!