Living Infernal core drop bugged?

I’ve been farming the green Gul’dan mount on over 20 characters on all 3 difficulties. Still no drop, even with the buffed drop rate.
I also noticed an article on icy Veins talking about the same thing and it’s suggesting that Blizzard didn’t flag this specific mount for the buff.

Anyone else having this problem?

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20 times is about 67% chance of it dropping… you’re just unlucky being in the other 33%.

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The green mount is well known to have a even lower drop rate than the red one even though it can drop on norm/hero/myth.

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Don’t know which one it is but got the green infernal this week so no bug on that front

It doesn’t add up though. Every time you kill it it’s still the same percentage chance.

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I have 105 attempts on Living Infernal Core this week. I started from 0.
I was featured in that article you saw. At the time I had 81 attempts and nothing.
Then tried a few more characters and nothing again.
I saw a friend getting it 1st try, and saw many posts on reddit people getting it sub 5 attempts. I don’t know what to believe anymore.

Bruh…
What is going on?

I got red one too.
If me and which dont get this green one. When wait Legion Remix.
We can easy buy coins for Infernal core like Mop Remix did.

Could save your time

This is me farming things but leaving Legion…

You are not wrong. But he is not wrong either. He is not saying that OP has a 67% of getting the mount. He is saying that between all players getting for a 5% drop mount this event, on average 67% of the players will get the mount in 20 tries or less. The OP is on the unlucky 33% percentil of players.

You are in the unlucky 0.5% percentile. It means 99,5% of players will get the mount in less attemps than you. It sucks but per every 1000 players it is expected on average to have 5 wich such bad luck.

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My guy nothing is going on. You could hypothetically do 300 attempts and still not get it. rng is rng

I’m leaving Legion mounts till last on the list since Remix is just around the corner.

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Yeap this indeed.

More people on wowhead reporting they are not getting it. Some at 46 tries, some at 60+ and so on. Something is definitely fishy with this mount.

95% chance to not drop. those numbers seem perfectly fine.

Just got it on my first kill. :slight_smile:

Okay, this is one of the comments from wowhead:

“I’ve done 345 attempts this week since the buff became a thing (115 characters) and have not seen the green infernal drop once. During these attempts i’ve seen 4 red infernal’s drop (sharing skip with friends), 1 Golden Hearthstone Card: Lord Jaraxxus, and the demon hunter toy did not drop. I did have 2 friends report they did get green infernal’s this week. Unsure if im really just that unlucky or if they did somehow forget to actually increase the drop rate for this mount. Happy hunting I guess :D”

5% my a** most likely.
Calculated: There is a 99.999997936313% probability of the item dropping at least once in 345 runs, if the item has a 5% drop chance.
Literally nobody is that unlucky at 5%.

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Blizzard purposely didn’t increase the droprates on Legion mounts because they’re afraid they won’t be able to show off data to investors that a gazillion people played Legion Remix if everybody already got the mounts and a lot of the transmog.

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I got the red one on my 3rd or 4th kill during the event. (36 overall according to rarity)
The green one took me 105 kills during the event (154 overall according to rarity)

It is dropping but it’s definitely the one that took me the longest to get. The most kills I had on a 3 other mounts were 40+ kills, everything else was below 20 kills.

50-ish runs on Normal/Heroic to get the Living Infernal Core, currently on 31 of 39 available characters to get the Fiendish Hellfire Core which is a base level 8% drop rate increased to 13% drop rate mount that simply refuses to drop.

Did the two WoD raids and got both mounts within 5 runs combined, did Tazavesh Market got the mount after a total of 11 attempts (4 during this event).

Even got the 1.4% drop rate https://www.wowhead.com/item=138828/illusion-chronos

Yet the 13% drop rate mount doesn’t drop…