There is a high chance that you only have a screenshot of a person using this item: http://www.wowhead.com/item=89682 At least if it's an older screenshot
fix'd (10chars)I lol so hard at all these 'collectors' going boo-hoo-50-toons-4-tears-no-mount-I-deserve... you deserve nothing, since the purpose of it's existence isn't something someone can deserve... just hope you're lucky and learn to live with the fact you may never have this
Ive been wanting this mount for years, and sadly this year isnt looking any better. 5 toons per day isnt enough chances
I really wish they'd up it to 1%. This coming from someone who owns a netherrocket.
I luckily got this on an alt in Cataclysm that I leveled up purely for guild achievements, never played it since.
All I can say is good luck, you have a wealth of toons to hopefully get it on and the odds are you'll get it when you don't expect it to drop. I almost missed Ashes dropping in January because I was accustomed to the regular disappointment of no mount. Chin up, keep going. Good luck.
Before the speed was implemented some mounts was simply 310% speed it wasn't a skill simply some mounts had it. Early "Glory of xxxxxxxx raider" achievements Mimiron's head, Ashes of Al'ar, gladiator mounts and so on. When it was converted to a skill everyone with a 310% mount got the skill. And afaik the love rocket was infact 310%.
In other words, you feel fuzzy and warm on the inside knowing that you just got lucky? Hrmm..
When the mount first came out, I ran the event a total of 327 times. I did this by advertising in Trade Chat, getting low lvls through the instance, asking ppl if they wanted to go ahead and do it. Being completly honest about the fact that I did the daily already, it wasn't that hard to continuasly get groups up. But yea, 327 tries the first time it was out, didn't see the mount once.
Then they changed it to once/day/character. Didn't up the drop rate. When the next event happened, I was only able to do it about 32 times, compared to the previous 327 (or 10x more attempts). ATM, since I lvld up a ton of alts, I got about 90ish total attempts on this boss, still a far cry from the previous 327 attempts...
So, yea. For a limited time event that you can't even "grind" anymore, a .03% drop chance is downright retarted.
People can keep arguing forever but it's not like anything will change before next year. Either way the only people complaining are the collectors that already have like 300 mounts. If the drop rate was buffed it would fall in the baron mount category and you know how that ends up.
A 10 page topic complaining about how certain aspects of this game are difficult if you have bad luck. Ridiculous.
I bet some of the people posting here are the same people that complain this game caters to casuals. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Disclaimer: I have a Big Love Rocket from a few years ago. Wasn't even trying to farm it, I just happened to get it on my DK. RNG is RNG.
I don't think anyone is complaining about anything being "difficult," rather annoying. 1% drop rate mounts keep the "mount economy" small enough that you don't see everyone and their mother on them, but can be realistically farmed if you truly want the mount (albeit probably taking several level capped characters and hours of repetition). 0.03% is a bit ridiculous, though I'm not sure if the drop rate is actually that low.
The rocket is sooo amazing. 12 alts here, 4th year. Still nothing, I feel your pain :S
I've seen a single Love Rocket since I started playing wow. It has always been the mount that I wanted to obtain, but I didn't know it was that low of a chance. I thought it was closer to 1% and was feeling good about my roughly 60-70 runs of it I will probably get in over all my characters. With normal mounts, Anzu, Fiery, Riverdare, etc. I have no problem with them being low, but with an event that happens 2 weeks out of every year I think the mount should be at least 1% if not 5%.
I dont understand the purpose of this thread. Its a rare mount, thats all. I wish the drop rate would be even lower.
I wonder if anyone has the Galleon mount
They make the drop chance as low as possible so if you manage to get it, you'll earn the title 'Special Snowflake' and people won't QQ about the fact that anyone has them.
The only reason i want it is because of rarity, not a special snow flake but it is kinda cool to have something not everyone has. I wouldn't care if i had it when drop rate was .03% and it got raised to 5% its still kinda rare who cares?
"I hated hating Garrosh before it was cool."
FOR THE HORDE!!!
From the wikipedia page on Reinforcement (aka. psychological conditioning, or "brainwashing"):
"Variable ratio: high rate of responding greatest activity of all schedules, responding rate is high and stable."
Giving it a teeny tiny chance to drop is a great way to keep people hooked on WoW.
It sucks for mount collectors who only get one small time of the year to get it, would be nice if the holiday mounts we're Bind on Use