Farming coveted mounts in World of Warcraft has become more difficult. The culprit is a small but significant change in the raids.
Collecting cool mounts is part of the weekly routine for many players in World of Warcraft. However, especially farming old raids has become tougher now. An undocumented change in Patch 9.0 means that players now need much more time to complete their weekly attempts on mounts like “Invincible”.
What has changed? It is no longer possible to change the difficulty in Legacy raids. Within the raid, the difficulty can no longer be switched from “normal” to “heroic” (or vice versa).
Why is this important? The changes are particularly relevant for players who previously farmed mounts with multiple characters. In Icecrown Citadel, it was possible to clear the entire raid on “normal” with one character and then “pass” that ID to other characters. The new character would take over the ID of the first and then change the difficulty inside the raid to “heroic”.
This way, it was possible to defeat the Lich King on heroic difficulty with multiple characters without having to defeat all the other bosses multiple times. A single “run” for the Lich King’s mount only took about 5 minutes and could be repeated as often as characters were available.
How are players reacting? The overwhelming feedback in the comments on wowhead seems negative. Players are wondering why this opportunity existed for many years and is now removed. This makes it particularly harder for mount farmers to obtain the coveted mounts.
Many also wish that Blizzard would add quests in the old raids that allow bosses to be skipped. This is already the case in most newer raids. After completing a raid four times, many bosses can simply be skipped.
However, keep in mind that this could also simply be a bug that may be fixed later. After all, there are also other very quirky bugs right now…
What do you think about this change? Annoyed that it was changed? Or is it more of a wonder that this trick was possible for so long?
