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Curse you, Blizzard, and your battered hilt drop rate.
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Hyperspacerebel
THEN WHY IN THE NINE HELLS ARE YOU PLAYING AN MMO LIKE WORLD OF WARCRAFT?
Because you can play the game perfectly well with 0 grinding.
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pezz
Person who has picked the slowest method of obtaining this item says: This item takes too long to obtain!
I picked the
only
method that I find remotely tolerable.
Perfectly understandable. I hate grinding gold myself, hence why I'll never buy the sword even though my main is using a DPS sword to heal and my bear would kill for that two hander. My only point is you kind of lose your right to complain that it takes too long when you've actively and consciously picked the slowest method possible of obtaining the drop. You can't say 'Blizzard should give me a better/faster way to get this.' They
have
. Just because you don't like it (for reasons I empathize with completely) doesn't mean that it isn't available to you.
Post by
helloall
Blizzard caters enough to people such as yourself.
In this game, as in life, there are the haves and the have nots.
In this case, you are a have not. Accept it an move on, or adjust accordingly.
Wow, just wow. The ego and smarminess of this post just leaps off the page and smacks one in the face. Who the hell do you think you are to both dictate such a policy to your fellow gamer and then tell him to essentially 'suck it up buttercup'?
I happen to agree with the OP, the droprate of the Hilt is ridiculous. I have 4 80s, I farmed the ICC 5mans for months on all 4,
I only saw the Hilt drop ONCE,
and then I naturally lost the roll. This is just stupid. It needs to drop 5-10x more often, yes I mean that, and I know what those numbers mean.
I only saw the Hilt drop ONCE,
Yea.... i havent even seen it drop once. Plus correct me if im wrong but isnt the weapon you get at the end the best weapon a non raider can have?
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Post by
OptimusJ
What is this "lore" people speak of?
i think it's a magical unicorn or something?
if not that, then i'm lost :P
The Invisible Pink Unicorn just told me it have nothing to do with this "lore" thing.
Post by
Maddroxx
Average price is at AH is 9800g. In all the hours you spent grinding for a 1/5 chance of it, you could have bought it by now.
the average price on my server is anywhere from 15-20k. i saw it once for 10k but it was gone as soon as it was posted in the AH then reposted for 20k. ive been through the ICC 5mans about 50 times each and never seen the hilt once. i really could care less. the weapon is only a 251. and if i did end up winning it, odds are id sell it and buy the mats for the chopper since im not lucky enough to loot it while engineering FL and XT.
Post by
Rhapsodi
Um, it just starts a quest - it's not gear. In other words, I agree with LordBalrog and the OP. Not because I care much about doing the quest line myself, but I think Blizzard's logic here is laughable. If they want to limit epic and legendary BOP items to ridiculously low drop rates, ensuring that only a select few obtain them - great! If they want to make a particular quest line exceedingly difficult to weed out the feint of heart - fine! We all either accept those things or choose not to pursue the gear. But making the item that simply
starts
a chain so elusive? Come on.
Consider
Rhok'delar
. The
item
required to begin working toward that bow had a
44% drop rate
, vs 0.2% for the hilt. The real challenge was the series of events you had to complete AFTER looting the item - not looting it in the first place! There was still a significant investment of time, but it was all about the quests, and the strategy involved. That line is a good example of what Bizz should have done with the
Battered Hilt
. Sadly, they've made it about grinding instead.
To those suggesting a player should "suck it up" and fork out a ton of coin for the right to do the quests - that doesn't really jive with the concept behind the game. It's not about buying in. Classic WoW was all about questing because that's where the stories lived that made Warcraft famous. Remember when scrolling text for quests couldn't be turned off? They wanted you to actually read and enjoy the lore! There was no Quest Helper or built-in UI for figuring out where to go either. And the instances which dangled the most coveted gear required some type of attunement which, though difficult enough to accomplish in their own right, were never based on a minuscule percentage of looting something. Working through the line was the goal, not obtaining the item just to get started! The OP made it clear she doesn't expect a handout. She's just venting her frustrations, and maybe trying to bring some attention to a deserving issue.
Personally, I don't expect to be able to acquire the best armor, weapons, recipes, etc., because I have a family and a life outside of the game. I accept that high end content is designed for recluses and elitists whose lives are consumed by WoW and since I'm neither, I'll never have super awesome gear. But this is different. Blizzard is
all but preventing
players (especially casuals) from launching a quest line by burying it's availability in a profoundly bad drop rate. What purpose is served by that? Everyone should be able to pick this item up within a couple runs - not days or months of mindless farming.
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Post by
Varicelle
Go on PTR
Get the Battered hilt from your glyph vendor
Then do the "epic" quest chain on PTR
I'm extremely curious to read elsinne's (OP) and LordBalrog's respond to this.
Also, the whole "absolutely 100% in no way interested by the weapon" seems to me like a not so genuine way of preventing any accusation of greediness, a way of saying "unlike you mere mortals, i would never let petty purplz guide me in my actions".
It's ok, everybody likes nice things, and everybody likes to feel special, for instance by completing a very rare quest chain.
Sorry if i seem judgmental. I mght be, i dunno.
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