Comments on: Disappointment and Regret

By: Opal

Opal — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:56:41 +0000

Unfortunately I was unable to get any of the cool pets. I work from home and this time is extremely brutal for me, so outside of the JC dailies and a quick HH run I didn’t do much, and yes I received the Horsemans’s Horrific Helmet, but of course it was on my priest. Too bad, it’s not BOU because my level 78 Prot/Holy Paladin would have loved equipping it once she hits 85. /cry

By: Elvgren

Elvgren — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:20:14 +0000

It seems clear design revisions are in order.

Legendaries should scale with the player who owns them. It makes sense Blizzard wants them to be “special”, they should accept that the players want them to be special, too. They need to reward that level of work by keeping the item relevant. Not to say permanently BiS, just relevant.

Many items, holiday gear is an obvious example, should become BoA. Not sellable, not tradeable. BoA. The mechanism is there already.

More consistency would also be welcome. Brewfest Tankard was BoE, Sword was BoP.

By: DC

DC — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:10:05 +0000

I killed the Horseman every day, on my five L85 toons. I got the helm twice on my hunter, and once on my DK. I got the sword on my warrior, and finally, I got the mount on my warrior, which is the only toon I have that has ever gotten it.

By: Goldeneye

Goldeneye — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:28:51 +0000

One more vote here for drops tailored to the group. I hate having Mail drop when there are no Shaman or Hunters in the group. I hate having Cloth drop when the cloth users don’t need anything and my DK’s best PvE helm is still iLvl 308 (while my average iLvl is 350+).

Of course, once I had the Horrific Helmet from HH, Kilnara promptly dropped the helm on the very next ZG run.

AAAAAARRRGH!

By: Nosferatay

Nosferatay — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:43:35 +0000

great post. I hear you. I came back to wow just for Hallows end and got all the right drops on all the wrong toons. But kudos to blizzard for their excellence at mind control if nothing else. You do realize that “legendary” by nature is the stuff of myth, fish stories, somewhat irrelevant to the average grind. We aspire. And that’s what keeps us going. At some point we will look back on this era and wonder why we wasted so much time on it.

By: Asenath

Asenath — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:29:56 +0000

Last year neither my husband nor I had a character at max level. This was the first year that we’ve had the opportunity to try for any of the Horseman’s loot. Of course, it would be our luck that someone at Blizzard decided to *lower* the drop rate for the mount, so we don’t have the same chance as everyone did in previous years. Neither one of us got it. My husband’s warlock got the Hallowed Helm THREE times this year, though. A clothie who has utterly no use for it. I’m not embarrassed to say that I am complaining. That helm should be BoE, so he could sell the thing or give it to someone who wants it.

By: scaresome

scaresome — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:10:47 +0000

I wanted the sword, but no luck. It’s my third or fourth year at Hallow’s Eve and I like that we got some nice rings. We got trinkets for Brewfest too. So, the extra’s I figured would be like bonus candy.
This article got me thinking about some of the things that I have that can’t be had anymore. I have the hunter ooze pet from the oracles daily (thank you BRK for pointing that out) and I have the Sprite Darter pet, the quest line is gone and is a uber-rare drop. In the grand arc of the experience, I’m glad I have a few things that have become special over time: maybe a topic for another article, BBB!

By: Herr Drache

Herr Drache — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:56:34 +0000

I feel your pain. My “item” is the Horseman’s Mount. I tried to grind it since the first Halloween event on my warrior – so far, still no luck.
My non-collecting alts? They ALL have that mount, most got it last year – including my druid who only went in there a couple of times to get some ring or other.
The Squashling? I don’t know how many I had to delete – they kept popping up all over the place when visiting the numerous inns. Same with the Pumpkin Helmet.
So now the “What a long, strange trip it’s been” is mostly a “given”, at least from the Halloween perspective. Granted, the PvP achievements are still going to be a major PITA, but…

And I also agree with you on legendaries. It’s sad that by the time you get it, even if you’re in a progressed guild, you get another (very) few weeks use out of it before it becomes hopelessly obsolete due to some other drop, nerf, or stat-reset :(

Guess I’ll have to sign up for the 1-year contract, if I want the mount ;)

By: Xew

Xew — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:18:59 +0000

Azwing, while I agree the drop rate for a lot of the items – squashlings, helms, tooth picks, etc were a tad high (I ended up with over 200 toothpicks on one toon), it beats last years nail biting concern you’d never get what you needed for the meta. I remember one guildmate who didn’t get the toothpicks until the last day of the event – she was practically crying that’d she’d not make the meta for Hallowed. Having the items increased drop rate AND being able to purchase them with tricky treats was just overkill. And having to “DELETE” the blue items is just annoying. There should be a way to code them so if you Already Known them, they are simple drop and deletes, not typed DELETEs. (Having the helms sell for a copper was nice… if only the squashlings were similarly priced)

By: Xew

Xew — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:14:14 +0000

I consider myself fortunate. I got the helm on both my pally (twice) and DK. I got the sword on my rogue (and my druid, twice) and I got all the necessary rings (not that hard to do, obviously).

I am quite sad that I had 70 chances (and I took all 70 of them!) to get a horse. Not one dropped for me. And I only saw 1 drop for a friend (but she’d been trying for a LONG time, and it was her main, so I was happy for her).

Next year, I’ll probably have 10 toons capable of running HH… I’ll be shocked if I get the horse then ;)