Are there any collectors left in WoW anymore?

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Lately, I’ve been wondering if there are even any collectors left playing WoW.

I don’t mean people who grab a few mounts or toys here and there, rather, I’m talking about the players who used to go after “everything”: mounts, pets, toys, achievements, titles, all of it. The ones who tried to 100% the game just because they loved the idea of finishing things, no matter how long it took.

But these days it feels like the game doesn’t really support that kind of play anymore. Stuff like the new Void-Scarred Lynx (a completely casual recolor) has such a low drop rate that it feels pointless even if you have a ton of alts, and if you push through, it will burn you out for weeks. Rep grinds are slower, and there’s way more RNG instead of clear goals you can work toward.

I’ve also been looking at Dataforazeroth, and it really looks like a lot of people at the top have just… stopped. Achievement and mount farming have dropped off a ton over the past couple of years. It’s like people just gave up trying because the system doesn’t respect the time they put in anymore, which was a common argument pre-DF, and it seems to be making a comeback now during TWW.

The sad thing is, when I bring this up, the few responses I get are usually just shrugs (just farm it lol), or even downvotes (thanks Wowhead), like collecting doesn’t matter anymore unless it has anything to do with raiding or M+. I don’t know, it just feels like something special has kind of faded away.

So, yeah, I just wanted to ask:

Are there still true collectors or completionists out there? Or has that part of the community mostly disappeared?

I mean, judging by the forum and the activity on Wowhead under latest achievements, mounts, etc., it seems to be indicating that at least 90% of the player base is here purely for raiding and M+ now. But perhaps that is just my uneducated guess.

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This kind of stuff has never respected peoples time.

‘Lets sit in a spot for 4 days hoping to tag a random spawn mob first’.

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I knew few and they left.
I knew a girl that played the game and was after mounts and achievements but when she saw the cash mounts she left.

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It gets boring after u have 100s and 1000s of everything tbh

Paid stuff being better than everything we can get, in a game we pay sub and aaa price for every 2 years doesnt help either

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Nah (there aren’t )… only people with no purpose go to insane length of collecting non-usable things :smiley:

I still use the same Transmo since Mop
After reaching 100…200…400 mounts… I never bother farming mounts or what mount should i use…
Pets… i loled , no actual function into the game …

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I tried this a decade ago and gave up, I still mostly collect things but I take a more curated approach, I don’t want everything only the stuff that’s appealing to me, collecting recolor nr.100000 isn’t

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I have “insane in the membrane” with the old Vanilla reputations, and Exalted with goblins AND simultaneously Honored with the bucaneers.

Whining for reps, especially for collectors… simply… makes me laugh…

But seriously. I used to be a “after everthing” person… but the thing is that every single expansion always has something you did not get.

Expansion after expansion… turns out that the time requirements to get “everything” have become so huge its simply not worth it.

And I cannot even imagine someone that starts the game right now. If you ask him to farm everything there is to farm in this game he would instantly quit.

There is simply too much. 20 years of stuff to be specific. And the only ones capable of spending the time required are those that already spent the massive time required. :slight_smile:

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All the people I used to collect wiith have quit the game, not all at once but piece by piece they all left. The final straw for the last couple was all the US only promotions.

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I used to be crazy for collecting everything. Especially during the MoP days. These days, no.

Some of these achievements and grinds belong more so in an Asian MMO than in WoW.

I’m not going to sit and waste my time waiting for rares and world quests that can take months to randomly appear/spawn. And it’s hard to feel fulfilled when you can’t get half of the achievements because of similar reasons I give above. If I don’t feel like my time is respected, I simply will not put myself through grinding it.

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Plenty of collectors play the game but very few have ever been able to 100% achievements.

Not everyone is onto collecting ofc.

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Collector present here :stuck_out_tongue: I just take it very steady so I don’t burn out, currently working on Legion raid appearances and Uldum

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To be fair, I was taking it pretty slowly to avoid burning out as well. I started collecting about 5 years ago, although I’ve been playing since 2014. My goal for each day was to earn at least one achievement and one mount/toy/pet. This strategy earned me over 680k completion score on Dataforazeroth while still being able to enjoy other games once I hit my daily goal.

But this patch with another recolored mount set at drop chance below 1% just broke me. I don’t know, but it feels like this expansion is piling up more and more RNG, and I just can’t seem to be bothered anymore, and damn, I even survived SL back in the day.

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There definitely are - you should head to Discord servers focused completely for collecting. There are plenty!

Btw, 1618 unique pets here - slowly progressing towards 1800.

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Yeah my own issue is that there’s just too much to collect, and they keep adding more too. I’ve yet to even make a serious dent into SL lol

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Obtaining 100% of everything is almost impossible, there’s simply not enough time/probability even if you play 24/7.

At best i’ve managed to obtain 100% of all obtainable reputations, which only lasts for as long as a patch is around. Yet, that is actually possible compared to obtaining all mogs which requires you to run every single instance a great many times, all quests and such.

Collecting can be fun for a while, until it is not. That’s just how it is :smirk:

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I take the same approach. I just set myself mini goals of what I’m working on. Doing it all might be effective but it’s the quickest way to burn out IMO.

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Guess the activity I don’t enjoy and will never achieve/collect from

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I see you’re a “pretend to not like PVP” kinda player :wink:

But thanks for reminding me I have to get some pets (grumble grumble stupid Mechagon)

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There’s far too many recolors and no uniqueness .
How many mounts did the Undermine patch bring . 20 ? 30 ? Most of them are basically 4-5 recolors of 3-4 mounts .
You get one of them , you got the model . Who cares if its blue or green or whatever . Most people won’t even know where it came from or how hard it was to grind .
Think Vanilla , TBC and Wotlk . You got like 3-4 rare mounts the entire expansion . You see someone with Zulian Tiger , or Al’ar > it was prestige .
But more than that it was a clear achievable goal you could aim for .

Now I see 20 mounts with sub 1% drop chance , that are just recolors of the one vendor mount I get for just doing quests , and I think "meh , why bother "…

I think these recolors should all be on the vendor to begin with .
Truly unique mounts can have 1 % drop rate and be like 3-4 max for the entire expansion .

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I think that’s most collectors :wink: I have it turned off myself in ATT , it doesn’t exist until I’ve finnished pve stuff :joy: