Hellomane

So 2 stacks of dreamfoil, the occasional lotus + other herbs/ hour is too little for you? geez, can't believe they're actually listening to terrible players like yourself.

Yea, it's a pretty bad change. There was nothing wrong with the old system, the dynamic spawn rate scaled herbs up to blizzlike levels corresponding to the pop. If everyone felt entitled to chug every high level consumable in the game back then as now, the prices would be just as high. When different quality of life changes occured to retail over the years, they were applauded too, just like the masses of noobs are welcoming this change. Ultimately though, the people had no idea what they actually wanted, and the game was ruined in the end.

So you knew a bunch of aged nerds who came from Everquest/daoc back in 2005 that knew how to farm, and that proves everyone knew how to farm gold. Yep, it's absolutely ridiculous.

You simply can't compare gold on retail vanilla vs here 1:1 like that. People sucked back then and most had no clue how to make gold to any efficient degree. Therefore there has been an inflation of gold compared to then (also helped by things like gold duping), so the argument that a flask was 55g in 2005 so it should be 55g today is very weak.

Black Lotus spawn was 1 hour on retail, not 2. So that would make Nost's rate a 4x in your case - but only when pop was very high. Now you have essentially the dynamic respawn rate of 10k pop, but with a 2-3k pop. You think it's fine to get 5 stacks of dreamfoil in an hour? I don't care if more people are raiding, they still aren't forced or entitled to chug down every high level consumable with zero effort.

You as an MT allegedly having to flask is not an argument for a change that aims to make it effortless for everyone in the raid to flask. You could get some help from gbank to flask yourself up and be fine with the higher prices. Also, you never answered my question as to how you can defend these ridiculous new spawn rates if you've seen the extent of them.

People are also way more knowledgeable now (12 year old game), and we will be progressing through AQ with 1.12 talents. If you aren't willing to put in the work to pay, then simply don't flask, it's optional. If you have tried farming after the change, how can you honestly say this spawn rate is fine?

Nice response bro! You're sitting here arguing for making things easier for noobs on a vanilla server, which is hilarious in itself. As others have mentioned, it's not a human right to flask every week with minimal effort for content they can clear without. QOL stuff like this is the same line of thinking that ultimately resulted in retail, and should be avoided at almost all cost. At the very least, they could have tried out a 25-30% increase and not just bomb it with a 300% increase, which is what it seems they have done.

Your arguments for this QOL change are bad, and you're using bogus numbers to back it up. The dynamic spawn rate was made to kick in once pop succeeded blizzlike levels, and it worked fairly well. This new, large increase of spawn rates is bordering on funserver levels. Everyone who actually tried farming today can see that.