Cliffside Wylderdrake: Black Hair drop is bugged

TL:DR FOR YOU BLIZZARD, READ THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH.

A message to copy-paste using in-game bug report: Cliffside Wylderdrake: Black Hair is flagged as learned for some people who never got it in first place which results in us not receiving it. For other people, it is never flagged as learned even tho they have dropped and learned it before so they can get it as a duplicate which is never the case with any manuscript. You cannot get them duplicates. There is obviously a bug with this manuscript. Cliffside Wylderdrake: Black Hair drop is bugged

I don’t know how to start with this one. This is the only manuscript I don’t have that are in-game at the moment or at least from those that have been discovered. I have 41 characters camped in the mini cave that Blightfur is located and have been killing it every day on all my 41 characters for a week straight now. That makes it 41*7=281 tries so far for an item which is supposedly a 5% drop. I’m not even counting my Rotknuckle or Blightpaw kills which I’ve killed around 50 times. So, where I’m going with this is obvious, I think there is some kind of hidden bug that blocks you from getting this specific drop if you get X, Y or Z manuscript before this one. Because the odds of me still not having received it in almost 350 tries total from all 3 rares is an anomaly of statistics. I do believe in math and science and this definitely is against it. I’m also aware of the fact that, there are people who literally got this one within their first 10-20 tries of killing the rares they supposedly can drop it. I know you people exist, and I really am happy for you. But if you are like me, and cannot get this one no matter how hard you try and this being the only one you’re missing from the ones we can get at the moment, please let me know and make tickets about this as well as sending bug reports in-game daily so they take it seriously and fix it sooner or later. There are currently 15 manuscripts that are yet to be discovered but this is the only one that I just cannot get to drop from those that are supposedly obtainable and are in-game. Looking forward to hearing back from people who read this long message. Peace.

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You can’t loot it.

It would be cultural appropriation.

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Please can you space that out a little better it is hard to read :frowning:

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Can’t you just buy all the black color versions for your drakes from wrathion and sabellian?

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What I want to know is where they got their information from telling them where to get the Cosmetics from.

mate you need go out in street.

Maybe your approach is flawed because it begins with you calling it black skin, which is sold by Wrathion/Sabellion vendors.
You mean black hair.
Do you have Altoholic or such to verify that you don’t have the manuscript already stashed somewhere in your inventory and forgot? (Happened to me with a cooking recipe I wasted a lot of time on farming while it was already in my bank.)

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doesn’t drop from any rare
iirc all scale colours come from reputation
blue - tuskarr rep
red - dragonscale rep
green - centaur rep
yellow - valdrakken rep
black - sab/wrathion (either/or)

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I got all manus scripts, just keep going.
I belive i had black hair when i was farming that toy that also drops from them.

Yeah, OP means the hair colour manuscript. They commented on the wowhead page for the item as well.

Hmm, I’ve had a little bad luck with some manuscripts to drop but this doesn’t seem normal. At this point I would do what Lukepukem says above and start searching in all my characters’ inventories. Especially with 41 characters that doesn’t even sound too crazy a scenario.

@Slapface, get out of here with those inappropriate jokes
@Billyblue, what do you mean where we get the info, we just wowhead them?
@Voidsteel, none of your business
@Lukepukem, I wouldn’t have posted this without having checked every single bag and bank space on all my characters before posting this, your suggestion is common sense, mate.
@Murbastic, not sure if you know how to read. It is clearly stated from which rares it drops on this link https://www.wowhead.com/item=196986/cliffside-wylderdrake-black-hair#dropped-by. From 3 rares that I’ve killed over 300+ times at this point.

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maybe you should’ve specified this was about the hair and not the scales
when I read black skin for dragons I assume you mean scales before hair

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I go out enough to not make any irrelevant comments about a topic of a video game issue and not involve it with real-life.

Well you didn’t ask about the Hair, you were asking about the Skin Colour, so one would assume that you meant the Black Scales that you buy from Wrathion and Sebillion Rep.

This is why you had such a confused response from people. It would have been a real Facepalm moment if you had been farming for 300 kills for an item that you could have bought from a vendor.

Luckily that wasn’t the case and you have corrected yourself.

Unfortunately, for the Black Hair cosmetic you are after I am not able to help you with any Data. Although I might point out that some items are designed to be rare drops.

Can you even kill the rares more then once with a single character and still get the manuscripts?
I thought it was a one time deal.

I hate how they have stuck some of the manuscripts behind rares, it just sucks. Some of them I havent even seen since expansion launch despite camping a few alts. One of them has been permabugged and you cant activate it since launch too.
I honestly despair of getting some of them…

They really needed to give us some sort of failsafe for the manuscripts like a chance for them to drop randomly elsewhere (I know hunt bosses are supposed to drop them too but Ive seen a grand total of one!).

I’ve been killing the Blightfur rare daily on 41 different characters. You can indeed only loot a rare with a single character once a day.

and the award for ‘Stupidest idea ever’ goes to Blizzard…

It’s not even the problem tho, this is an MMORPG and I’m fine farming rare drops here and there, but this is obviously bugged. You cannot not get an item with a drop rate of 5% within 300+ tries. That’s what is annoying. Having worked as a Customer Service Specialist in a game company before, I’m aware of such bugs. This item probably unintentionally got locked for some people who got another manuscript before this. Like item with id 123 can’t drop if already unlocked item with id 124 for example. This is indeed just a theory, but it is blizzard who needs to figure out the problem, I’m just here trying to think of possible ideas for them to look into.

TBH I feel like the whole thing with the rares is just a mistake they havent gotten round to fixing yet.
Either they needed a 100% drop rate on each rare or you could farm them multiple times…it makes no sense that you should have to create a new alt each time.

I do agree with you to some extent but let’s not change the topic and focus on this specific issue.