A slimy cat in World of Warcraft causes drama. LFR players feel excluded after Blizzard changes the achievement.
Season 4 of World of Warcraft Shadowlands does some things differently and offers some interesting content, especially for raid lovers. After all, each week a different raid is “fated” and if you complete all of them, you can earn a rather exclusive mount that is unique in WoW.
However, this mount is causing trouble, as a large part of the player base feels excluded and believes they have no chance to get the mount.
What kind of mount is it? “Jigglesworth Senior” is the skeleton of a cat completely enveloped in green Maldraxxus slime. The mount was one of the options presented during a community vote back then. The winner at that time was the big Tree, which all players received for free. Unfortunately, the cat did not make it but has now entered the game.
How to get Jigglesworth Senior? To own the mount, you must defeat all bosses in the “fated” state in Season 4 of Shadowlands. This means all bosses from Castle Nathria, the Sanctum of Domination, and the Mausoleum of the First. Currently, only one raid is “fated” at a time, so it takes at least 3 weeks to obtain the cat.
What is the problem? The annoyance is that the achievement “Fated Raids of Shadowlands,” which grants the mount, had stated up until shortly before the launch of Season 4 on the PTR that players needed to defeat the bosses on “any difficulty.” Many players thought that the mount could be easily earned through the LFR.
In the meantime, Blizzard has adjusted the text of the achievement and clarified that players must complete the raids at least on normal or higher (heroic, mythic) difficulty to earn the cat.
This naturally annoys many players. Because even though the fated raids on normal difficulty are significantly easier than at their original normal difficulty, finding a raid group is much more demanding than just hopping into the LFR. After all, you need significantly more time to participate in a normal raid group, and usually much more social interaction – something that not all players may enjoy or can manage.
Friendly communities should help: Many players see only two options to obtain the cat – they pay other players to boost them through the raids. Or, as community manager Kaivax hopes, they turn to communities that have set themselves the goal of bringing joy to as many players as possible with these mounts. This was the case during Legion with the “Friendship Moose” community, where you could get the Keeper of the Grove.
However, there are also many players who believe that this restriction is good and sensible. For such an exclusive mount, you should do a bit more than “just stack the loser buff in the LFR and then scoop it up.”
What do you all think? Should the mount be easily accessible to everyone? Or is the barrier of “at least normal” good and reasonable?
