For weeks, players have had the little Pocopoc at their side in World of Warcraft. But no player has been able to uncover a secret from it. Can you do it?
Update 04/06/2022: Blizzard has hotfixed the missing items and they are now available. They actually forgot to implement them into the game after the PTR.
Original story: The Patch 9.2 of World of Warcraft has been live for over 5 weeks now, the World-First race is over, and the Covenant campaign is completed all the way to the last video with Sylvanas. But there is still a secret in Zereth Mortis that nobody has been able to solve – and it has to do with the little Automa Pocopoc.
What riddle is it about? In Zereth Mortis, much revolves around the ciphers of the First Ones and the little Automa Pocopoc, which you unlock relatively early. With the ciphers, you can then buy additional upgrades, which we explained in this guide to the ciphers. Most of them have a clear benefit in combat and exploring the area, but some are purely cosmetic in nature – like “Visial”. This is the last ability in the first column and allows you to make permanent visual changes to Pocopoc at a special console.
The problem: These changes mostly have to be unlocked first. And no one knows how to do that.
Community puzzles: At the beginning, a few visual adjustments for Pocopoc are directly available, namely the first three. For all other items, it says that “the items must be found first.” And that is the problem. There are absolutely no clues as to where these items are to be found, what additional requirements there are, or how they could be obtained.
Even after 5 weeks, no one – not even the very discerning “Secret Finding” community – has discovered any of these items.
Is the riddle unsolvable or just very well hidden?
What could be possible solutions? The community discusses the feature from time to time, and there are several approaches regarding what this feature could be about. The most common theories so far are:
- Blizzard forgot the feature: The additional Pocopoc adjustments could not be tested on the PTR, and maybe they were never supposed to go live. Thus, the search seems unnecessary.
- The feature is bugged: Blizzard planned to release the various cosmetics, and they are also in the game data – however, a bug is preventing them from being found.
- You need the Pocopoc pet: Another theory is that you need Pocopoc as a pet. You can buy it from the Jiro for 500 ciphers. With this pet-Pocopoc, you then travel to specific locations and can only find the corresponding items this way.
- Time-gating: The feature works as planned because the different cosmetics for Pocopoc can only be found after a certain amount of time has passed.
Especially the last variant seems rather strange, after all, you could already unlock the console for the Pocopoc cosmetics on day 1. Not having been able to find any of these cosmetics for more than 5 weeks would be odd design.
What does Blizzard say? Some players have already contacted game masters via tickets to find out if the feature is simply bugged. The response of the game master to Reddit user “Mikeygames” was:
The good news is that there is no bug. But as with all other secrets in the game, we are not allowed to say more about it. Like many other elements in the game, it is up to the players to find these things.
At least one game master assures that the feature is working as intended.
Do you have any clues on how to unlock the Pocopoc improvements? Or are you just as puzzled as the rest of the community?
