Index wrote:1 behind a HEROIC raid encounter. Thanks for that.
Still aggravating even if it is in normal or heroic. Not everyone is in a guild that can form raids. When we do raid as a guild, we've got probably 6 peeps, so it's LFR as a group.
However, it's tradeable. You can buy it, or trade for it, so it shouldn't be that big a deal.
10 behind old raids, with a pretty crappy low drop rate + 1 as a bonus. Thanks for that.
The drop rate isn't the issue (though it can be bad).
What is the issue are the mechanics gimmicks that made these things a challenge back in the day that prevent reasonable solo now. The chess event isn't too bad, but it's annoying. The first fight in BWL is a prime example of this. It blocks solo peeps from progressing in BWL to get at the other pets there. The fight vs Vashj is at least as annoying as the BWL fight, but at least this is at the end of the raid rather than the start.
If you have a friend, then 2 of the 3 are trivial, and the third is very doable as long as the friend understands the mechanic.
1 Behind a long and boring grind collecting wood and other crap. Thanks for that.
It's not that long if you do it right.
Follow the groups killing the Ko'kron Commanders, you'll get a decent stack of 3 kinds, and a large stack of the 4th. In between commanders, just farm as normal. The commanders spawn often enough that it goes fairly fast. Once I joined in doing that, I was finished much sooner than I'd initially anticipated.
See where I'm going with this??
While there are legitimate complaints, the intent isn't for you to get all the pets all at once (Blizzard still doesn't understand the players
). Blizzard wants stuff that keeps people playing, stuff that can't all be done in a single afternoon while they work furiously for months to put out the next content patch.
1 behind farming dinosaurs, with a crappy low drop rate. THANKS FOR THAT!
I don't think the drop rate is bad. I spent a couple hours there and got one. A guildie spent less time and got 2 (but he's a super-hunter and can solo the big ones and the little ones). I spoke to some other collectors on my realm and they got theirs in a couple hours too.
1 behind PVP pet battles. Oh dear god the rage this has caused....
If I wanted to PvP, I'd have been PvPing from the start.
However long and painful the slog to 1000 wins is going to be, I look at it as similar to the holiday meta achievements. I didn't want to PvP then, but I did it anyway (actually, I completed WaLSTIB on 8 toons before Cata).
1 from the pet store. Yay, MORE ££££ to get a pet.
Yeah, not thrilled, but they'll be getting my $$ anyway.
1 from farming (see. More farming) Slimes in Isle of Thunder.
The drop rate here is not bad. What would be a legitimate complaint is the fact that it was initially bugged. They really do need better QA at Blizzard.
1 from LFR. A small token of gratitude for us?
1 from Horridon. Doesn't say what raid level?
Both from LFR.
It's no different than the sandling, ji-kun hatchling or son of animus. All of those are tradeable, and if you wait a little bit, the prices will drop from newness-stupid to reasonable. Yes, not everyone has a ton of gold, but gold comes easier now than before, and if you do LFR yourself and somehow get dupes, then you can trade those for the ones you have.
1 lets not even mention the Val'kyr, and the APPALING mechanics behind that one!!!
I'm not a fan of the 27 spawn points across the continent, but is that really any worse than the other rare spawns?
Rather than hanging out in a single spot (along with eleventy-billion other peeps), you fly around. (and realize that there's 1-5 other peeps camping each of the spots because of CRZ.
)
Other than the gimmick mechanics that should be adjusted for small group/solo of old raids, none of these is really all that awful.
Then again, my basis for comparison is camping all colors of whelplings for 13 different toons, with 3 others having 3 of the colors. Plus all the running around/camping/farming/&ct. I did to get multiples of dozens and dozens of other pets.
You're having a better win rate as i have already. And i used to do a little pvp before patch even 
Either way it's good to spill your irritations sometimes to get a little relaxed 
