Glofer

Correct. The numbers turned in are far less than the number of mats stored on active accounts. This suggests that the war effort is progressing slowly because people aren't turning in the mats that they have, rather than because the target numbers are impossible to farm. Like I said, I'm glad they're reevaluating the numbers, but I'm going to be disappointed if they give us an under-tuned war effort. I hope it's hard but doable in 25-50 days if everyone (not just a handful of competitive guilds) chips in. I also hope that it's ported faithfully to the original war effort, where broad apathy towards the event forces the entire server to wait for the ~50-60 day autocomplete. Like everyone else, I'll be pretty unhappy if we get more than a couple months in and there's no playable AQ.

Check it out on wowwiki. Nobody outside the top 10 US/EU did it in less than 40 days. A full autocomplete with zero player turnins took about 60 days. Every retail vanilla server except the 10 or so fastest in the world took 6+ weeks. The retail blizz autocomplete literally didn't do a thing until the war effort hit 4 weeks without being finished, and then it ticked mats up by like 20%/week. Devs already said they used (current banked amount on active accounts)/0.7 to calculate the thresholds. So 70% of the mats are chilling on active accounts not being turned in. I think they could stand to reevaluate now that <NOPE> et al, who I assume held a good chunk of that, decided not to participate. But asking for an adjustment down to 3-4 weeks because the pace is too slow (since people don't feel rewarded enough to grind the mats or whatever) is basically just saying "this is too hard, please gift us a world record war effort time or we'll quit."

They already said they're reevaluating the turnins. People had 400k firebloom banked on active accounts and chose not to turn them in, since that's how they got the numbers in the first place. Demanding definitive action to make it easier on week 1 of 6-8 week thing or threatening to quit is petulant.

The war effort was hard, grindy, and not very rewarding in retail vanilla. It took months then. I'm not sure why it's the emulated servers' fault that people don't like the event. Asking for a two-week autocomplete or retail numbers on a server with multiple times a retail server pop and dynamic spawn rates is literally asking the devs to put it in easy mode because you don't like the content as designed.

They already said they're taking another look at the turnin requirements. This shit is supposed to take a month or two. It's been one week. If there's a blizzlike autocomplete mechanism, it's not even supposed to kick in til April (and it wouldn't finish the war effort til May).

FYI, the retail war effort took like 6-8 weeks on most servers, even with the blizzlike autocomplete kicking in. This isn't that long. Even if you round up that guy's estimate from 154 hours to 200 total hours to account for a more realistic farming speed, that's 20 people each putting in 10 hours of work (or 40 people doing 5 each, or 80 doing 2.5, etc). The server has 3-6k people logged on at any given time. Also, the guy who did this math excluded SFK spawns for some reason, and farming them in a resettable level 20 instance seems way easier than waiting for them to spawn in the open world. So, yeah, go farm.