Many aspects of the achievements are purely RNG reliant on drops from rares, such as the paint vials and vinyls. Even worse, at least one of the vinyls needed has a drop rate seemingly equivalent to the Rustfeather and Arachnoid Harvester mounts.
There is no finish line and it’s all up to RNG whether or not you’ll ever complete the zone achievement. My solution is to either increase the drop rates, make the vinyls/paint vials spawn from more sources or to make them account wide so you have multiple tries per day.
I pay for game time. After almost 15 years, it still feels as a second job.
Grind is progress, it’s OK. This RNG upon RNG is bull!
6 weeks later, I’m still missing several drops. And it is not mounts.
3-5 hours almost every day. My time for other characters are gone.
I don’t think players understand the effect of 1% drop rate or less.
If 200 players try each day. After 50 days; 100 players will probably get a drop.
(200*50=10000, 1% of 10000 is 100. This is only statistics.)
I don’t understand 1% or less drop rate in a game when we pay for it.
Give every player a fair chance to get everything.
What about new players and old stuff. This game is now huge.
I can’t play other games, because this game consumes all time and more.
My future plan for WoW after this Mechagon Meta is to avoid all RNG.
I want to play more classes.
I have been running the Crazed Trogg and Reclamation Rig every day. I still require the green paint vial and the Triumph of Gnomeregan vinyl. These drop rates are just abysmal.
Yep Cogstar and the chicken for me plan wise. Then I didn’t talk the vinyls or the last paint one I need yet! But Nazjatar is horrible too, you need 12 resets (+opening week of 8.2) or 13 weeks to complete it. I’m with this reset 7/13…
Nazjatar: Literally weekly quest gated.
Mechagon: RNG and it’s character bound. So no farming with alts to speed it up /sigh.
Meta update here. Only Mythic Dungeon left. That’s 8 weeks after 8.2. My time is almost 7 weeks of daily quests and rares. First 3-4 weeks i did not hunt oxidized leachbeast every day.
I did finally get the Triumph of Gnomeregan vinyl. Now all that’s left is the green paint vial which also has a really low drop chance from the Crazed Trogg…
I only do the main world quest on mechagon each day now.
Don’t want to waste time sitting there for rares spawning, only for them not to give me what i want.
The zone turned from my favorite, to least favorite quite fast after flying was unlocked. Now that i have around 90% of the stuff, the other 10 will take 10 years for RNGesus to be granted.
and that is whats happening in almost every aspect of the game now. its blizzards MO. no finish lines. but yet people still defend it.
achievement finish line? yes, but rng basically makes it no.
reputation? no, welcome to paragon
gear? no, welcome to WF/TF/sockets
5 man content? no, welcome to never ending M+
quests? no, welcome to eternal WQ’s.
i just wish the people who are defending this attitude by blizzard saw the light, then we could all, 100% as a playerbase say to blizz, this is BS, and if it continued, we just go elsewhere (even if that is classic).
this. its a game. not a job. grinds and progression is ok. but a (manipulable) rng system on EVERYTHING with terribly low % chances to start with is just abusive to the playerbase.
heres an idea blizzard, make a game that we enjoy coming back to every week or month, even if we do take a few days/weeks off to try other things, like fresh air. we did this in 2004-2010. stop with all the “glue you to your seats to get anything” attitude. your personal conscience is ugly for allowing this. think on that every blizzard employee who actively gives the go ahead for such mechanics. starting with you Ion.
I gave up on mechagon meta when i realized that dungeon is required for it. I don’t do mythics, so never gonna get that meta done whether or not i get other collections done. It’s a shame, grinding those other parts for the meta would have kept me happily playing for months. Instead i am sitting and waiting classic while playing other games.
The only things I’m still missing is the microbot, triumph of gnomeregan and orange paint vial. The rest of the achievements are the contribution ones I do a bit every day. Triumph is the worst, my god. Or maybe microbot, paragon boxes can go to hell.
