As the title says, it’s nice to have a predictable timer for when the rares will spawn. This was handled much, MUCH better than the mess that was Mechagon and Nazjatar rares, please stick to this method going forward.
It’s pretty relaxing to be able to cycle through all the rares in a zone, not worrying about missing a spawn when I go for a bathroom break, while binging a show I’ve not had chance to catch up on and this is exactly the kind of content I wish BfA had. Kudos.
I also like how they’re not attackable for a few minutes after spawning, giving people without addons or knowledge of the timers plenty of time to get there for the kill.
TL;DR: Best designed rare spawn mechanic Blizzard have done, keep it up.#
Also kinda gives me Isle of Thunder nostalgia with the whole cycling through rares thing.
The way they announce the spawn and took 2 min to be tagable is very nice and welcome change, it’s enough time to fly through the entire zone. I was in the Tournament Grounds and Noth spawned, i had enough time to fly all the distance and tag him.
I hope they continue using this rare spawning system in the future, maybe a little less scripted so it’s more variable and interesting.
This is the main take away, I don’t think rares should always be on a fixed predictable rotation but having a grace period allows you to alert and get as many people involved as possible. it’s a great idea and honesty should have been in the game already.
I mean, if I want to farm it like that then yeah? Way more than waiting in-game at a pre-determined spot for 6-12 hours for a <1% chance on maybe getting a mount.
I already have the plate set, leather set and the pet. And it certainly didn’t take me even half that time so…
It’s a casual way of farming rares. You can do stuff on your main for 20 minutes then hop back if you so desire. It might take a while to farm all the stuff, but you can farm is more or less at your own pace. It’s not just dailies, but if you want it to be then it can just be a daily grind.
As soon as I got the bag I lost any interest in camping these rares again.
I am not fond of having to wait 20 minutes for each rare. It’s afking until they spawn, there’s no active content to keep you occupied during the wait timer either.
I think the spawn protection and various zone-wide announcements are great features, but if you don’t have things to do between each spawn it’s not exactly engaging content. I don’t like having my play time cut up into little bits, but there are certainly features (as mentioned) that would be good to see for future rares.
I’m the kind of person who only sticks to one character, playing alts is usually a pain for me.
It’s a shame we didn’t get more stuff to do in Icecrown other than rare farming and dailies which are done really fast.
Kinda expected it would be less of an afk game if that makes sense D:
Totally this.
It has some good stuff that they added, but having nothing to do before each rare’s spawn is ehhh… x_x I take a nap in the chair every time xD
Fair I suppose. But that’s really the nature of rare mobs in general. They’re all about waiting. This way at least gives the player more control over their time. I can’t count the number of times I was camping arachnoid harvester only to need the bathroom and come back to find his corpse.
Oh aye absolutely, it’s nice that they announce it and that rares have a specific timer that they spawn.
Still, I feel they could’ve given us other things to do in the meantime, just so we’re not idly sitting there and just looking at the clock if that makes sense?
It’s nice what they did with announcement and blocking them from being killed instantly!
Or maybe gave us more drops from rares? There’s no purpose in camping them once you get the bag really, esp if you don’t want memento and already have the old Blue Proto Drake.
Aye, the patch is a bit lax on content. Not defending that. I just really like the rare system is all and figured I’d compliment it since I’m usually negative as hell towards this game.
Please no! Just give us a daily or weekly loot lockout and make them spawn as fast as world quest rares.
This system is awful, 9/10 times I’m busy doing something and I just forget about the rare. They are not a challenge and die within 1 minute, there’s literally no reason to make them spawn only 3~4 times a day.
This game really has enough weekly/daily lockout stuff. But I’d be all for making them respawn quicker. Maybe every 5 minutes. Or at least making them share a loot pool.
Yes this is great, I missed so many in the past because as soon as you se them on map, the time you get there, they are obliterated. The only bad point is the 20 min timer and 6 hour respawn, I know and understand why many people hate it.