The correct answer is “The worst thing in Dragonflight”. Farming this mount is horrible.
As most people I’m a big fan of Dragonflight and on most points it’s much better than Shadowlands and I think this in general is true for mount farming as well but this Breezebiter farm is worse than any of the individual mounts in Shadowlands. I complained farming Mal’Korak and Hopecrusher as well as it was mainly done by waiting but the droprates were higher, they were rares and had shorter spawntimers.
Wowhead claims this has around 2% drop chance which would be, if true, to low considering the amount of mindless hours of waiting needed for each try but based on my tries and everyone around on each try the drop rate seems way worse and many people seem to have over 200 tries.
I don’t mind spending loads of time farming a mount, feel free to add one or a few that takes 100h of playing to get. But this is not playing, this is waiting. To make it bearable it have to be done while watching series or playing another game making it the most disengaging thing I’ve ever done in WoW.
Some of the main problems and solutions:
Not a rare! Only 5 gets tag, there’s no groups being made for it and it dies super quick.
Low drop rate. Trying and failing a hundred times always sucks.
Long and irregular spawn timer. If it spawned on a pre-decided schedule I could play the game in between tries, now it’s just waiting.
In general and in the future when desirable drops are added (mounts are always desirable) it would be awesome if there could be a sanity check “What will the unluckier 20% need to do to get this?”. And 20% is one in five this will be a lot of people. If the answer is 200+ hours of standing still on a spot I would argue that a fix is needed as it’s only causing anger and frustration.
During the first 2 weeks of Dragonflight I stopped by to look for the rare. I think I saw and killed it once during that time.
I have never really bothered with it since then. It’s not important to me to collect every since mount in the game. And I’m far too busy playing the game and doing real content.
But some people enjoy AFKing and waiting for Rares to Spawn for a 0.1% Chance at a mount. So all the time they do that, then all the time you’ll get things like this in the game.
I’m having a blast with the actual content of the game. A Rare that drops a mount isn’t content.
I did a g00gle, I guess if you wana collect stuff sure. I’m really personally not fussed about mounts for the foreseeable with dragon flying as it is …
The way OP describes it is as if Blizzard has put weeks of thought into designing the encounter.
Where as likely, they probably just click the wrong Mob when choosing who would drop the mount.
Whilst I appreciate some people might enjoy camping rares for hours on end for a 0.1% chance at a mount. It doesn’t really deserve anything more thought that it already gets.
On a side note, upon realising how much time I used to waste gambling for Mounts from Rares and old Raids. During Dragonflight I made the concious decisions to completely stop running old content for this sort of thing. DF content is fine to work towards, but camping when I could be enjoying something else, no. And it has made my time playing the game that much more meaningful and enjoyable.
They need to make rares spawn way faster. They have a daily lockout anyway and no one has 1-2 hours to camp each rare. Also if you miss mount/pet rares from previous expansions due to not being lucky to drop them after hundreds of attempts when they were live and have to go back and camp them for 1 hour straight while we have current content to do.
I think we all set our targets based on time to play, ability, priorities, etc. I’ve no problem with time spent on mounts or grind, it’s the endless waiting that’s the problem.