Continued empty loot drop rates in Classic

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Hello first of all I apologize if this is not the correct forum to ask for Blizzard feedback regarding a bug.

Problem description: “Do these kobolds/spiders/raptors/trolls/etcetcetc drop any loot?”

This is the sentence I keep reading in the chat when I enter a new zone since I started playing Classic WoW, the problem is since Im level 1 I noticed many mobs would not drop any loot which seemed strange but I didnt care much about… however I am now level 30 and I find mobs that have empty loot drop rates above 80% which is simply not right.

Im a day 1 WoW player and I have not touched this game since the end of Lich King so after a decade my memory can be wrong but I do not remember mobs not dropping any kind of loot everytime they died. I have been reading these forums a little about similar threads and some veteran players agree mobs certainly had empty loots back in Vanilla so I may be wrong… however Im sure after years playing Vanilla I never had to kill 9 young panthers in a row in STV to get empty loots one after another so the 10th mob would drop a pesky grey item… this again and again every time… Im pretty sure this never happened to me back in Vanilla.

Another example I can give about how there is something fishy with the drop rates in Classic is the quest “Captain Sanders Treasure Chest” I religiously have always done this quest for years with all my characters when they reach level 16. You need to loot the quest item killing murlocs in the Westfall coast but this time to my surprise I started in the morning at level 16 and didnt get the quest item drop until late in the night when I was level 19 almost 20 just when I thought it was never going to actually drop after almost a full day cleaning the coast several times… again my memory can be not exact but Im pretty sure this was not a case of simply bad luck and Im completely sure this never happened to me not even once back in Vanilla with the dozens and dozens of characters I leveled and made this quest.

I know a mmorpg game is a time sink but there is something definitely broken and bugged with the drop rates in Classic, I feel like I am wasting my time killing enemies for nothing, I never thought I was going to say this after waiting for Classic for a decade but if this mess of drop rates stay the same or if Blizzard says everything is checked and there is nothing to fix then I will cancel my subscription.

Im sorry but I have not waited 10 years to pay for Classic and get in exchange a leaked version of the poison that is Retail WoW, Vanilla was not a perfect game but it sure was a perfectly calibrated clockwork machine where 2+2 was always 4, in fact I left WoW not because it became a powerpoint presentation of a slot machine but because it become more bugged than even stock pirate servers.

TLDR: Retail bugs are somehow leaking to the Classic client drop rates please Blizzard fix this.

Thank you for your help.

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Hello again since nobody seems interested in this topic sorry for the wall of text I suppose it has too many words to make it worth reading, but I have a last update to make and at least leave my written opinion about this problem.

I have been playing more my second character, a mage, since my hunter is a support char for farming but I feel stupid farming mobs that do not give loot half of the time, and to my surprise I have discovered a kind of mobs, dragonmaw orcs in Wetlands, who have a 100% successful drop rate, I have been farming these mobs because they drop a lot of silk cloth I need to level my tailoring and so far I have gained one whole level and after killing hundreds of these orcs every single one of them always dropped some kind of loot, greens and whites included, this is the first time that happens to me in Classic and is just the way I remember it used to be back in Vanilla.

So we have 2 mobs in the game of similar level: young panthers in STV have around a 80% EMPTY loot drop rate while dragonmaw orcs in Wetlands have a 100% successful loot drop rate…

There is no mathematical truth in that statement there is simply something wrong with the drop rates in the current Classic client… Im just going to leave this here and say nobody seems to care about this serious problem and everybody is eating it raw.

Thanks.

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Well the drop rate is seen is worse than vanilla , i don`t recall killing 15 striders for 1 meat drop and most of the beasts do not drop anything

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I think there is a loot bug and that’s why you get so few loot.

My group of 3 kills a mob and one loot it. Empty loot, but still it show the sparkle for the other members of my team. If any other party member than my skinner loots first, to often the mob can’t be skinned. If I try to loot with the other team members it say “is beeing looted by another team member” even if none of them are looting.
Bug, lag or layer problem, don’t know.

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I was thinking the same thing… You have to kill like 3-4 beasts in STV for one grey item drop… i don’t remember that being a thing in 2005-2006 when I was playing…

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The reason that you can’t skin it is because it has an item in it that you cannot loot. Most likely from an active quests where you’ve already gathered enough of said item thus the mob is not looted and you cannot skin it. Works the same with items that starts a quests etc.

Also it was exactly like this is in vanilla. It was very common for certain mobs to not drop anything. You’re all mistaken.

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And if it’s not loot from an active quest? If I don’t have the quest or have handed it in then this shouldn’t be an issue. Still, some mobs give the same issue, including spiders and some skinnable mobs. Spiders drop materials used by many professions and I need those loot on my tailors…

As I recall from Vanilla, there was never any mob that didn’t give loot in some kind of way. It might have been very poor quality loot, but they allways gave you a grey item and even some copper.
Now, it is like 50% of the mobs don’t give loot and on top of that you can’t skinn them because of this bug.

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When the lootdrop sucks, all i think about is the XP

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the drop rates is for sure worse than vanilla, ive been trying to follow some gold farm guides from back in the day, and the mobs they sugest you farm for decent vendor loot dont drop anything at all, like the cats in swamp of sorrows, i killed about 15 and got 1 item i could vendor for a few silvers, the other 14 kills dropped nothing at all

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