World of Warcraftmount collectors can rejoice (or weep), as some of the rarest and most exclusive mounts in the game have just gotten significantly easier to obtain. The business of mount farming inWorld of Warcrafthas always been a serious affair, and ever sinceThe Burning Crusadeintroduced flying mounts, this aspect of the game only continued to rise in popularity. Everyone wanted to show off their rare mount, because whether it was hard-earned or purely by luck, mounts equaled just as much prestige inWorld of Warcraftas a full set of tier armor.
Though a lot of mounts inWorld of Warcraftare rare, very few can compare to those obtained from the world bosses ofMists of PandariaandWarlords of Draenorsuch as the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent, considered by Blizzard Entertainment to be the rarest mount drop in the entire game. It has not deterred players from tirelessly farming the Sha of Anger every morning, forever holding out hope that they’d eventually get lucky. To their fortune, the latest changes introduced in last night’s hotfix might make their mount farming just a bit less frustrating.
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Blizzard Entertainment has announced a sweeping list of changes to the drop rates of all world boss mounts fromPandariaandDraenor, greatly increasing the odds of obtaining them. The previous drop rate chance for the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent was at 0.01%, with the added complication thatWorld of Warcraftplayers could only loot the boss once. The current drop rate is unknown, and likely will need at least a month of loot attempts from theWorld of Warcraftcommunity until database websites like Wowhead can establish an accurate estimate.
This change undoubtedly comes as a source of great joy to popular Twitch streamers like Asmongold, who held the community together through some ofWorld of Warcraft’s darkest dayswith his extremely popular mount and transmogrification competitions. While it is a valid complaint that these changes rob the mounts of their exclusivity, it is a change that is ultimately healthier for the game. The affected mounts include:
Perhaps the problem lies less in their extremely low drop rate, but rather in the lack of any bad luck protection mechanics, such as those seen inFinal Fantasy 14’s Extreme Trialmounts.World of Warcraftfans see the best solution in introducing a cap on loot attempts, where players would receive the mount as a guarantee after a certain amount of pulls. This would disallow the existence of outlier situations such as farming a 1% drop rate mount over the course of five hundred attempts. While the ramifications of theseWorld of Warcraftloot changes have yet to be fully understood, they are undoubtedly in the right direction.
World of Warcraftis available now for PC.Dragonflightlaunches on November 28.
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