Yeah the fix is has really been a blessing. Hours of farming and ONE single piece of gear from a Token of Remembrance, and not even for my loot specialisation. On my second character. First character got nothing beyond the small stuff (currency, crests, ring pieces). Another try on the first one and the boss did drop a piece of gear, but also not for the loot specialisation but at least a transmog I didn’t have yet. (though at least this is in line with the previous drops, but with single and much rarer drops? yeesh)
Before fix: almost always 1-2 piece of gear for every echo
Post fix: random chance on bosses, otherwise clear 40 echoes for 1 piece of gear that costs 8000 memories. 100 for a mount. +/- daily quest rewards and the meager 7 to deduct from a boss kill
So great they listened to “the playerbase” and “fixed” the event by taking out any meaning and meaningful progress (for people who aren’t keen on running around the place for hours just to get the currency and buy everything within hours and then not give a f*ck about the “event” anymore). Though I’m actually curious, I want them to listen further and give in to every follow up demand, I want to see where this trainwreck goes. At least the non boss echoes are on the chopping block, though obviously preferrably all of them altogether. Such a fun event they made now that previously should apparently never have hit live and now since it’s working for people they could speedrun and abandon it because now it’s fun.
I know it doesn’t look like it but I do not enjoy this level of sarcasm and cynicism. This was a foreseeable disaster and I’m not even working on the game. And this is why we can’t have nice things.
edit: I did get something wrong earlier and somehow after complaining I got 3 pieces of gear, (+2 after the aforementioned, my first leather pieces, yay…it’s actually good but oof) drop rates are horrible. I get they had to remove the guaranteed drops as a sacrifice for the frequence of the echoes but wow…for me now it’s almost literally unplayable. Just doing it for the off chance of getting equipment and otherwise having to farm for the pieces for several characters I’d like to equip?
Makes me wish there 2 versions of WoW, one for the powerplayers and one for the more relaxed players who aren’t averse to experiencing the games it was intended. Sweet Zombie Forkin Jeebus am I glad I’m not one able and willing to afford the current expansions and be even more exposed to these antics. I already look forward to events with abysmal drop rates but set one time tries per day.
There’s a US forum post complaint about taking 25 minutes to kill the Lich King. I think the problem is scaling works in response to tagging not actual DPS, so AFKers are effectively just a massive buff to the wrong guy.
It would be great if the unique Recruit’s set items would be possible to purchase with Residual Memories currency in case someone is unlucky with the drops. Right now, it is a random drop and only alts below 70 may have a chance to get them.
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Good to know, didn’t even know there was this type of equipment, so thanks for that. I know people mentioned it here but thought they referred to sub 70 gear generally. Characters I tried were already 70. The changes eliminated all benefits short bursts of participation had for the sake of persistent grind progress. Purchase options for everything now should be a given at least.
Least they made the other objectives more bearable… be great if they improved their damn layering system to curb overcrowding causing lag.
Do you realize TWW expansion is around coner so non of gear you get now wiil be usefull in few weeks anyway right?
Transmog collectors, but yeah if it’s strictly for gearing up it’s completely pointless wasting your time doing so.
So the Shield and Off-hand, attempting to get both on the one character an Elemental Shaman, aye?
This. Although gear as is will still be invaluable to someone like me who won’t have access to the new expansion. Will make previous content much more approachable for everyone who is mostly playing solo.
Bloody hell, doing them targeted objectives to kill a specific mob has been well overtuned now because people leveling keep adding to their health [+100% base hp per player tagging] and they do very little DPS [since their gear lags mile behind while they level] taking forever to do now with leechers afk’ing on top of that.
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Uh-huh, the magic of streamlining farms, a blessing for us all!
Personally am just glad if I get equipment at all…does recruit gear drop for all classes/specialisation or is that specific? My chars are mostly as best equipped as they can be (pre Dragonflight non-raid gear aka lvl 60 & 194 gear) but when I go for that gear I’ll disable exp gain anyway.
I only had 3 chars that were under 70 and they each got a couple of recruit pieces - they were a priest, rogue and mage ( they were level 61/63 at the start) - couple of events each so now all 70
It’s class and spec specific. Sucks… they need to be purchasable off the Vendor for a lot less than their level 70 counterparts for the absolute sake of adding their mogs to collection at the very least.
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I got an alt up from 10-70 doing this event but not all recruit pieces dropped during this process. I got some of the items multiple times while others are still missing. So yes, it would be nice if it was available via the vendor.
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Now, the event takes ages to complete, with many people afk or waiting for the boss to die
Onyxia and Ragnaros seem fine and little lag.
But, Lich King still huge laggy
Noted while leveling a character, you get credit for just being in the area for them “Kill Boss” objectives… so nubs like my character doing pitiful damage doesn’t add to their health bar making it take longer – advice ALL people leveling to not touch them, just sit back and let the level 70s nuke it.
You need to tag for Lich King, Ragnaros and Onyxia though.
Problem is most people are using chromie time during even which puts you into phase with just leveling dudes without single lvl 70 charcater.
This is annoying;
Why the hell did they make these ‘Recruit’ gear RARE drops in a one time event instead of making them purchasable off the vendor…?
Becouse if it would be put on vendor every noob would get it. And since these mogs were exclusive for recruit a friend only this will keep their relative exclusive status. Also its carrot for event since its literaly 5 days since event and i have everything farmed out.