The Queue: There is a Cow Level

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7-30-2009 @ 6:11PM

Radioted said...

Has anyone heard anything about Blizzard secretly upping the spawn rates of vanilla-Azeroth rares? I recently finished leveling an alt through to 60, and I swear I found at least one rare in every zone I spent significant time in (well, not the early zones, say everything from 35-up). I don't think my main ever spotted a rare... until he was going back through Azeroth for the Explorer title; then he ran into two. The most egregious part was when my alt ran into two Winterspring rares within five minutes. Has Blizzard juiced the rares, or did I just get incalculably lucky?

7-30-2009 @ 6:24PM

Rob Wynne said...

I don't think it's so much that the rares are more common, but that once they spawn, there's not that many people coming by to kill them. I don't think they despawn once they pop up, so until someone (say you) happens along, they wander about being all rarefied.

7-30-2009 @ 6:25PM

Docp said...

I've been finding this as well, but my guess was with fewer people running the old content, especially any content off the beaten path there's a lot of rare's that are going unkilled for longer periods of time, so if you're spending a lot of time in the old world content you're more likely to come across one.

I also recently got an addon called Silver Dragon which alerts me to any rares nearby, so if you got a similar mod that might also explain it.

7-30-2009 @ 6:26PM

flawless said...

Simply down to the lower population in those areas that are actually paying attention to anything but QuestHelper. I finished up Loremaster and must have killed about ten old-world rares in the space of 300 quests, and two or three outland rares.

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