Comments on: The Ice Stone Has Melted

By: Elunamakata

Elunamakata — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:34:53 +0000

I didn’t even bother this year, I went in a few times with guildies because they wanted a healer and I’m a pushover. I’ve just lost interest…I’m not even working on loremaster either, though I am leveling an alt. I wanted a second druid for herbing and mining.

By: Lalinla

Lalinla — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 03:03:22 +0000

I completely agree with the them. I’ll be honest with you, if everything was handed to us on a silver platter, we wouldn’t appreciate it as much. I also am an avid pet collector. I strived for months to get to 75, 100, 125, and as of last week 150 pets. I did the Crocs In the City dailies, the fishing dailies, etc. After weeks or months or years that I have farmed for these items, and when they finally do drop I am giddy as a boy at a candy store! To this day, I have yet to fish up the Giant Sewer Rat or get Anzu to drop the Reins of the Raven Lord. I even once put in a petition into a GM to find out if the Raven Lord mount was still obtainable, while the GM misunderstood my initial query, they did state to me that some items will NEVER be obtained by a person. Say Ice chip drops in your bag whenever your roll a 7 on a roll of 1 to 1000… There is a possibility you never ever roll a 7. And what most people don’t realize with RNG and WoW is that even though you rolled a 9 this time, that doesn’t change the fact that next time you roll your odds are still 1 to 1000 (most people see it as 1 to 999 thinking that every miss gets them closer).

So really, I understand and feel your pain. Shoot, I think every collector in WoW feels your pain, but I will leave you with this. Remember how amazing and awesome you felt when you finally uncovered and unlocked the Mummy hand pet? When you finally do get Ice Chip, you will be just as excited. The real thing is not allowing your misses to overly aggravate you.

By: Jod

Jod — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 06:05:37 +0000

Just made a post about this myself, should have thought of something more creative for a 2nd post after my break damnit.

Nonetheless I feel your pain. 5 years and ahune hasn’t dropped either pet for me on any toon over that entire time. To call it frustrating would be an understatement. I think its the limited span you can get it in and the total rng .. least somet things can farmed whenever or on a regular basis. Outside a holiday event the most restrictive rare dropis a raid mount .. which you have 52 shots a year at per toon, sure beats 14.

Anyways u have my sympathies

By: Saya

Saya — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:47:26 +0000

I completely get where you’re coming from. I hit an all-time low during Firelands when the spirit staff (Smoldering Censur of Purity) refused to drop week after week. Heck it seemed to drop for every other raid group but mine, and it was downright painful for me to watch folks who strolled in with PvP gear get lucky and walk out with the staff. Always been bitter about Firelands thanks to this.

On the brighter side I’m hoping that account-wide pets and mount will help ease some of this. But yeah, it’s really frustrating.

By: mataokashaman

mataokashaman — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:06:30 +0000

When a game does not give us the satisfaction we are searching for and are denied in real life, it sucks the joy out of the play. We need to play, and it is bloody frustrating.

By: Erinys

Erinys — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:36:24 +0000

Completely agree. I’m actually contemplating not buying MoP for a variety of reasons, my failure in four years to ever get a pet of Ahune, ever see Midnight drop from Attumen in I’ve lost count of the number of kills and so on not withstanding. As Newsom says above, it should be available through blossoms, I’ve farmed 350 x 3 on my main at least so even 700 would have been an acceptable price. I’ve been making my husband who hates pets run it on multiple characters too just so that come MoP if we’re still playing I can box it up and steal it.

I’d even be ok with RNG for the damn thing if it was available all year around The fact that we have a narrow window of two weeks, one try day is a little frustrating.

Also I know my frustration with the pet comes from A. the AH area on my server is crowded with them throwing snowballs at people, it seems as if it’s a really common drop, just not for me and B. On my runs at least, if you are a dpser who stands in every icicle and does less than 3k dps, you seem to be “rewarded” with the pet. I know I shouldn’t care about other people getting stuff but when you’ve had to chase around after some idiot who seems intent on killing themselves whilst contributing about as much as Basil my shadowfiend… it gets a bit annoying.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:00:56 +0000

This is pretty much what I came here to say. All the game is RNG, we just have different things that bother us. For you, it’s a pet. For me, it’s the fact that we did DS heroic every week and I managed to get my heroic chest (third token drop) months after we had killed Madness heroic. Nothing is guaranteed when it comes to RNG, even though it might seem you “will” get that piece of gear eventually. I don’t see this being any different from a pet, a mount, a piece of transmog gear and so on.

Luckily, for me it’s easy not getting stressed out about this. I collect pets, but I don’t even hope I’ll get the rare ones (if I do, it’s a bonus). I really, really want to get my T8 set together, but I’m not going to be devastated if that chest continues to refuse to drop. Too bad I can’t channel this to other people Not caring is very relaxing.

By: glyneth

glyneth — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:22:08 +0000

For you it’s the Ice Chip. For me, it’s the Sea Turtle. I’ve fished since they put it in in Wrath – well, honestly, I fished before that because I love fishing. But when I heard the turtle went in, I fished in pools every chance. I provided my guild with fish feasts for all our LK attempts and heroic ICC tries. No turtle.

When Cata came out, and I found out you could get the turtle in Cata zone pools, I declared that none of my other characters were allowed to fish from pools (the lone exception has been at the DMF, though I try not to do it often with alts). I would be so upset if an alt got the turtle and my main did not. I don’t even care about account shared mounts; I want the gorram turtle on my main!

I have 4 alts with maxed fishing from farming up Lavascale Catfish in Uldum, since they can’t fish in pools. I’ve probably caught over 2000 fish from pools since the turtle was introduced. Never had it drop. Not even on alts on other servers, and characters with max fishing there.

I have 2 alts with the Frigid Frostling; one from this year, one from last. Ru still does not have it. But I’d give away any opportunity for the ice chip in my bags if I could just get a gorram turtle!!

By: Meliika

Meliika — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:38:41 +0000

Repeated failures to obtain rare mounts, pets and achievements for me made me give up on chasing them. It wasn’t a lack of effort or will on my part, but circumstances and luck were not on my side. So I just raid now, and don’t worry about the rest. I realised after about a year of chasing such things that this truly is a waste of time. Originally when I started playing I didn’t need to collect piles of mounts or pets to have fun playing, and now I’m back to that position again The fun for me now is in doing my best in raids, and exploring areas.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:33:39 +0000

I get the blues like this too. When your only goals left in the game are X super-rare thing you have no control over, things do feel pretty bleak. My downtime-Baron runs or digging for the Tol’Vir mount. Not very inspiring at all.