As someone who grew up playing wow. It was fun to spend a day camping a spawn with a raid all day. I could. I’d chat to people make friends etc.
I can’t do that anymore. I’ve got stuff that needs doing, a job, house etc. But I still enjoy WoW.
I woke up this morning, checked wowhead. Great, I’ve got time to kill Bron before work.
4/5 days even with the 3 hour spawns I’ve killed him once a day. Just because it lined up with me not being busy. And I don’t have kids. I have friends with kids who have killed him twice the entire event because he’s not up between 8 and 10 when they can play. If he was a regular rare, they’d have missed it completely
Every time it was a spectacle. 40+ players from both factions all gathered fighting in war mode. And I got to see it in the 20 minutes I had spare before work and get the bag.
I hope more rares are done this way in the future.
Compared to previous rares, the long waits, the once per X days spawns, or even the constantly up spawns that have single time loot lockout so once killed no one goes to anymore. This definitely feels like the best implementation so far. Everyone can see when the one they need is coming and there is bound to be a group of people ready to help you fight it when it does spawn.
The only downside to it is that it is such an effective method of spawning rares and engaging people in fighting them, that people might feel pressured to keep fighting all the rares they can, or log on just to kill the rare they need a lot. Like people are doing for bag boss atm. The rare system itself is great but there is the potential for an addictive / compulsive side-effect which is worth addressing.