World drops and materials in the open world have been broken since patch 11.1.5.
Items that drop from specific mobs and open world epics are fine and dungeon loot stays the same, but most materials (ie any cloth, mote of mana etc.) are practically impossible to obtain now after killing a handful of mobs. This in turn has caused all the items affected to gradually increase in price on the auction house, making even old content far more expensive.
There’s overwhelming evidence to back this and I and the community would appreciate someone to look into this problem and address it one way or another.
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Could you list one example of a material that is “bugged”?
I’ve been chillaxing with leveling recently and I haven’t seen a difference. 
yeah its so frustrating we can loot any thing from any mob in hole open world after like 3min for example im usually farm my own rousing fire instead of buying it . normally i get 500 in 20 min farm now im farming for hole 1 hr and its about 20 rousing . its really a joke
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Bump.
Needs more upvotes, it’s terrible. Absolute clown-fiesta.
I like to hunt items in All the things, and openworld drops are near impossible to obtain now. It’s annoying AF.
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im not sure if im right or wrong about this.
but i heard that they did this and changed the drop rate of the materials from world map when your killing a group of mobs at the same time.
or if you do this as a group the drop rate goes down.
im not sure if this was reason but after that something like this happened those 2x4 cloth farming groups at hollowfall left this material farming for good,
I haven’t seen any drop rate change in recent weeks .but I haven’t gotten that much of a chance to do world quests that frequently because of mythic commitments.
I’m still curious if this is actually a thing or not, any clarification would be neat.
Keep seeing this still. I’m on the fence.
Terrible if it is active and intended.
The reason I’m back here to reply is because a YouTuber named “Pathalerix” who is doing a Goldbound series, stumbled on this issue himself trying to farm Linen Cloth from Murlocs in Elwynn Forest and noticed a sudden drop off in the cloth dropping, hindering his gold making goals, this was such an obvious change in the way the games loot functions that he knew to google the problem. He ultimately visited the forums to see if anybody had reported this issue and highlighted this very post.
There will be a select few items that aren’t broken, and I’m not the most knowledgeable regarding this problem but I understand what’s going on. Go and kill the same Murlocs and you will see what’s happening.
Youtuber Studen Albatroz has covered this issue many times.
Example:
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFFmErYXYW0
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Such a weird bug! I sincerely hope it is not intentional.
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I hope not also, I understand bots are an issue in the game but this is not the correct way to go about fixing the issue if this is their way of combatting it, just spoils it for everybody else:/
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Is farming for it in dungeons not worth it?