(Small disclaimer: English is not my native language, so I apologize in advance for the mistakes in the text)
I’ve spent whole day today flying around all Soundless spawn locations, spam-clicking group finder for him in parallel.
And guess what ? Nothing.
Problems:
Long spawn timer.
It was ok (not ok but tolerable) during BFA when you could easily find a group, get invited and make a try. And the overall wait time was never that huge. But now - the only option is to wait by yourself, checking each spawn location each minute. Otherwise someone will fly in and kill in 10 to 20 seconds. Amd that is the main problem.
Dead group finder.
Absolutely no groups for him, not a single one. There was a good experiment today - I have been in Nazjatar from early morning till late night today, spam-clicking refresh button in group finder for Soundless/Silent glider. Nothing.
Many spawn locations and…
…Low HP
225 ilvl demon hunter kills it in less than 10 seconds, 215 warrior takes a bit more time, but not that much. So if it has spawned while you’re flying from one spawn location to another you can literally miss it, even if you have spent several hours waiting for him before.
Ridiculous drop chance.
I know ppl who have 300, 400, 600 and more tries on him. It is days of wasted life. Many of them gave up their tries. What brilliant idea is hiding behind this? Most of the people are not even playing wow during this wait time. Watching TV, reading books, playing another game in parallel
Multi-tag
Considering all of the above - just forget about it.
Summary:
Compared with Soundless farm in BFA, in current conditions it will take years of real life to get it.
But more importantly there is totally no consistent strategy to farm it efficiently.
Even TLPD, Alpaca, Aeonaxx and Voidtalon have a more clear approach than Silent Glider.
Possible solutions:
There are only two of them and they are quite obvious.
Radically decrease spawn timer. 15 minutes or less
It will be pretty fair if the drop chance will remain the same.
Or radically increase the drop chance.
Again, it will be fair if the spawn timer will remain 2-8 hours, as it is now.
I hope the right people will read my message and make the game a little more fun.
Please upvote if it is not hard for you.
Long mob spawns are never fun to camp. I farmed my Soundless at the end of BfA and even then it was a pain.
I was a member of some discords that ping when Soundless has spawned, I have no idea if any of those are still up and running but it might be worth checking out.
Same here. I know both communities and actively used them during BFA also.
But the point is that it gives not that much help to be honest.
Key problem is that other long mob spawns usually have either 100% mount drop chance or ratherly certain and comprehensible way to get the mount (like Elusive Quickhoof and Springfur Alpaca).
I also farmed Soundless during BFA and I can say that now it is much MUCH worse.
I have never spent more than an hour in BFA for each character, switching between them and searching for groups and mob itself. Or even less.
But now you can easily spend 8+ hours with a high probability of not seeing it at all.
And after you get a kill - welcome to next day 8+ hours waiting.
I think we will just have to disagree. Sitting around waiting for a spawn is not hard, killing Mythic Sylvanas is. It’s something that skilled players get to do. Boosting wasn’t really relevant.
If you can make huge sums of gold in game good for you. If it was easy for all we’d all be sitting at gold cap on all characters.
I struggled to make the mere five million required for the long boi and even then had to buy the last million with tokens.
try farm tlpd and camel and aeonaxx before they made it (group loot aka 1kill=5 mounts) and when crz was first introduced and wow had 10 x subs.
soundless is ez mode if people shared it, like in bfa. but now can solo nobody shares. this is totally COMMUNITY problem, join a farming community that announces it or buy a boost (cuz thats totally not destroying wow)
At this point by now BFA rares should have their respawn timers reduced to be say every 20-30 minutes but keep the low drop rate or if they are feeling kind just copy what they did with Korthia.
MOP world bosses were 1-4hr spawn timers untill me and a bunch of other people made threads 24/7 and in-game suggestions to lower them. i think they lowered it by the end of wod?
Easy. I’ve farmed lots of long spawn rares by myself. Voidtalon, Frightened Kodo, etc. Solo.
There is no problem when you need to wait for something ONE time. Ok, this could be a challenge to fly between spawn points, be online for a long time, and so on. But you need to do it ONE time.
And here you can’t predict how much time you will spend to get it. As I said before - there is no consistent strategy, that is my point.
IF.
No. This is a game problem. You can not force people to join special out-of-the-game communities in order to make some aspects of your game playable.
I’m already a member of these, but this doesn’t help. As I said in my post - I made an experiment yesterday and there was not a single group during all day.
Besides this - even if I luckily catch a message in discord that Soundless is up on some server with some wm mode, and even if I get there in time, how it helps with current drop chance? I will need to make same exercise each day for eternity to get it.
So no, this is also cannot be called a consistent strategy.
The Pre Patch rares in Icecrown were kind of fun, lots of folk gathered there waiting, showing off their rare mounts, setting off toys and emotes.
I think they should have Most (maybe not all, keep TLPD as is due to its name) rares on a set timer and have them be unkillable for one minute after spawning and announcing their presence.
Every hour on the hour a rare spawns, announced their presence and then after one minute those gathered lay into them.
