During the weekend, changes were made to the recycling rules in World of Warcraft. This aims to make low-level missions less attractive while rewarding higher-level ones more significantly. The goal is to relieve players who, in their attempts to optimize their gameplay, were not able to leave their garrison.
In World of Warcraft, follower missions, provided a recycling station has been built, occasionally yield a “Large Box of Salvage.” This contains loot from a massive loot table and occasionally even a piece of equipment for the followers.
The mission difficulty did not have measurable effects on whether a Large Box was included; it solely depended on the level of the recycling station.
So what happened? Players were sending their followers on even the last low-level missions to get something out of them, as those only take between 30 and 90 minutes and usually require just one follower.
Since there are currently only low-level missions available when you have a low-level follower in your team (we explain that in our follower guide), players intentionally kept low-level followers so that everything works.
The new rules for recycling rewards through follower missions
This was changed on Sunday afternoon. From now on, the following applies:
- Successful follower missions of level 100 always grant a “Large Box of Salvage.”
- Successful follower missions of levels 90-94 now only provide a “Bag of Reclaimed Parts,” which probably contains less impressive stuff.
- No changes for follower missions of levels 95-99.
Blizzard aims to ensure that players do not log in every hour to send followers on these low-level missions and gradually drive themselves insane.
Mein MMO thinks: In a personal experiment, it was also found that a “Large Box of Salvage” now frequently yields a rare 610 item, part of a specific set. This was not as common before. However, the control group consisted of 5 boxes, from which 3 items emerged. Profound statistics look a bit different.
