Almost 50 Scarab Lords – on a single realm. Such a feat has probably never been accomplished in WoW Classic.
In World of Warcraft Classic, there are a number of special accomplishments that are reserved for only a few players. One of them is the Scarab Lord. A long questline that ends with an exclusive mount – the Black Qiraji Mount. Normally, there are only a handful of players per realm who can secure this mount. However, on the realm Fairbanks, a US PvP realm, there are as many as 49 players.
Why is the quest so difficult? The questline requires a lot of effort. Every player who wishes to complete it needs a unique item from a raid and must collect thousands of bug remains from Silithus, which are mostly highly contested. Although players can get help from others, the sheer effort of this task is immense.
However, the toughest part is that the quest has an indirect time limit. As soon as the first player on the realm completes the questline, there are only a few hours left to complete the quest as well. If you miss this time window, you cannot obtain the mount – the chance is unique on each realm.
What has happened now? On the realm Fairbanks, nearly 50 players have now possibly set a new record. With 49 Scarab Lords on one realm, of which 27 belong to the Horde and 22 to the Alliance, there are a quite large number of the special mounts.
How was this possible? This mass completion of the quest was made possible because the realm had not coordinated in advance for the war preparations. While other servers had all resources ready at the launch of the event, Fairbanks had to catch up on several weeks of work.
This additional time was used by over 50 players to communicate and coordinate their approach to obtaining the mount. Even though not all players obtained the mount, 49 is still quite an impressive number. This may be the largest number of players on a realm who have ever become Scarab Lords.
Additionally, there was relatively little drama on Fairbanks, which made coordination easier. On other realms, hundreds of players even blocked a quest giver to ruin a guild’s day.
What do you think about this? Is it a cool thing or somehow cheating for so many to coordinate on the realm?
