Spawn protection is good. 6h respawn time is not.
Mindlessly waiting for rares is not the most efficient way to get them, you get 18 commendations in the main questline, (on top of a 115 weapon from Nathanos) 24 if you do 2 dailies too, meaning it’s more efficient to do this on multiple characters.
I completed the Cloth and Leather set already, missing one from the mail and 2 from the plate using a method i made.
Since the spawn timers are scripted and it’s hard to miss them due to the 3 min timer, you can park one of your chars in a rare spawn, log on another to do the questline and dailies, once the rare is about to spawn, long on the first character again, kill it, park on the next one, continue the questing on the other character, and so on.
Plenty transmogs have shared appereances from PvP, with some being purchasable from the auction house, 7 out of the 10 cloth transmogs have shared appereances and you can buy them from the auction house under the name of “Uncanny combatant something”. Each costed 900g in my server. That saves a lot of time. The addon allthethings tell you if you have them or not.
Of course not, when there’s 40 people attacking them it’s obvious they would die easily, but, i still see plenty of people dying to them including myself
Rare annoucment, map icon, and protection timers are very nice.
But the rare is dead in like 2 mins and then u have 18 mins if not doing anything cuz u will miss the next one.
Imo it will be way better if it was like 5 mim between each, maybe make more of them spawn at same time, amd reduce rewards so its not super broken ( not like it matters but u get the point…)
Feels like such a waste time if u wanna farm them now.
Rare annoucement, map icon and protection, as you mentioned missing them is pretty hard, you only stay 18 minutes not doing anything if you want to.
Well yea andthats the issue OPs idea was that everything that includes rares will work like this.
Imagine doing mechagon daily for one hour where u play like 10 mins total and rest is waiting for respawns…
then what are you supposed to do in those 18 minutes? you cant really queue for a bg or a dungeon because you would miss the rare. you can’t hs out of there and do dailies/farm stuff due to only having 20 minutes and having to return in time as well.
You can only really do pet battles in the meanwhile
Like others said, the even would need some other active content to keep people busy in the meanwhile. Just having a portal to icecrown atm would be very useful just to be able to get back quickly
Literally what I did for an entire year since I used to kill the mount rares daily too. Sometimes more than an hour if I got unlucky and needed to quickly leave my computer to go to the toilet just before it spawned.
The system of predictability and the grace periods are excellent.
But 20 minutes is such an awkward amount of time. It’s too long to be engaging, but it’s too frequent to go do other things in the meantime.
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I am sorry but if you dont get a 34 slot bag your not gonna get one in SL cause its not obtainable after the event, so no, a rare change drop that you may never get is not imho, a good thing XD
Yea but those are mount rares which are supposed to be kind of rare u know.
We talk about those that are there for quest arent even rare nor elites, just wear those markings making them special…
If u have to wait at pc for respawn for few hours to get rare mount, be it, but if u have to fly over for 3 hours to finish quest thats bad design.
And even worse is if u know u will get your elite kill but u have to afk 20 minuts at location… Just for a quest…
Hop on an alt to do the dailies and progress on the questline or anything else, farm the stones, do the dailies if you haven’t, read a book, watch youtube videos, a stream, a tv series or a movie, home or work stuff, i mean, multitasking, you only stay staring at your screen for 18 minutes if you want to, because the spawn timers are scripted and you whenever it’s about to spawn again you hop on the character waiting for the rare again.
If the rares spawned randomly and without any protection i would understand the idea of not doing anything else but paying attention, but that’s not the case.
Mechanic for spawning rares itself is actually great.
Personally I suspect they testing it for Maw or something.
However it don’t fit that well into shortish event like this one.
To show its positives it needs situation when you are not as limited by it as you are now - situation where you can wait without fear of losing on something you want.
What they drop doesn’t matter, they’re not fun rares to farm. At all.
Today Aeula, I did all the rares while watching youtube videos about WoW, making coffee and eating. It was relaxing, I really enjoyed the pacing. I agree with you completely, I think it’s a good method going ahead. I even squeezed in a quick stratholme run for the mount and got back in time to hit the next spawn.
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Don’t need to, those mogs are available through other means. It’s about being able to target a particular rare or gather stones etc.
Meh, I loved it.
Actually these colours of the mogs are unique to this event, although some pieces are available on Horde (Usually just helm/shoulder/chest).
Yeah… and a mount…
and a bag… that should be purchasable for pointless currency called argent commendations. :v
i really feel like blizzard needs to create a new dragon portrait
almost no ‘‘rares’’ are actually rare these days
how about we have:
gold dragon = elite
silver dragon = actual rare mob like Time Lost or whatever
bronze dragon = unique named mobs, like the ‘‘rares’’ in mechagon/nazjatar that have short spawns, set locations etc
No one is saying the event is inspired. Its average at best but we are talking about the spawn mechanics of rares, not the quality of the rewards.