WoD Dropping.

[FranSeara]

I've started to leave WoB early mainly due to the lack of skilled players on runs. I've been in groups to couldnt beat the second boss. After re'Qing, restarting and rerunning WoB 10-15 times in 1 day, I'll take wantever I can get and get out. WoB on a bad day can take 1.5 hours to clear...ONCE. At this point, I find WoD not farm'able. "remeber just my opinion"

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Really? Most people I get paired with fail at the first boss or the final boss.

[FranSeara]

Really? Most people I get paired with fail at the first boss or the final boss.

I've been in 8 groups that couldn't beat the 2nd boss, all ending in vote adandon. One day, it took me 6 Q's to clear the 2nd boss. I got the healers coat and left...... I wanted the Blm coat. I may never make it to the last boss to get my BLM coat at this rate.....lol

[Nestama]

No, it's not. Because super low drop rate + rolling vs 7 others = not worth it for a mere vanity item.

23, actually.

[Nyalia]

I love it when people leave early, allowing me to join in progress. The loot I want is mostly dropped by Cerby, and if I join in progress after Cerby, chances are high that I'll get locked out from the final fight. That lets me go watch netflix for 5 minutes and get free light, 40 sold, and 20 poe for doing so. Totally worth it. The final fight is really fun too, especially when you screw around with BLM tricks (manaward to take nothing from meteors, aetherial manip if you're in the middle when she teleports, scathe with crazy spellspeed and UI up to tear through the Shadowlurkers, etc).

When people leave in progress, they're generally the people who are less dedicated to the run and generally worse players than the people who replace them. Most people that I've seen farming the first or second boss for gear to use in FCoB ignore mechanics and just try to burn everything down and drag out the raid by doing so. I love it when they leave. Also, over half of the people I've seen doing it are BRDs who refuse to sing, making them just low DPS DPS. Four BRDs one run - no foes, no ballard. Three of them left after the first boss (farming for the BRD hat, which is really nice (crit main, acc second, much much better than Ironworks (acc/det) or Dreadwyrm (ss/crit))).

The run went much smoother after that point.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

23, actually.

But you're not rolling against 23 people. Each alliance has their own loot to roll for.

[Kerwin]

I've started to leave WoB early mainly due to the lack of skilled players on runs. I've been in groups to couldnt beat the second boss. After re'Qing, restarting and rerunning WoB 10-15 times in 1 day, I'll take wantever I can get and get out. WoB on a bad day can take 1.5 hours to clear...ONCE. At this point, I find WoB not farm'able. "remeber just my opinion"

Ya I do the same for the your exact reasons. Get any piece of gear and then leave. This tower crap is going to be replaced anyways just like the two towers before. Nothing new here.

[Nestama]

But you're not rolling against 23 people. Each alliance has their own loot to roll for.

They changed that for the Puff of Darkness?

[Its_Elodie]

Lmao. You all are talking about groups that can't make it to the first boss. I had a group last night that wiped on the first mob. I ran wod 20 times and had a friend que with me so I could get the healer gloves, belt, or skirt when they dropped since he already got monk gear this week for his monk. Multiple wipes on bosses and mobs leading to hour long runs, only seeing a few types of gear drop for classes you don't want, the general troll fest that is raiding in the towers, that stupid minion dropping 3 times in 30+ runs. I can see why people drop, and I can't blame them one bit. Just getting my piece of loot for the week from there has been enough punishment for me.

[Alistaire]

The Puff of Darkness isn't incentive enough to stay until the end?

It's a minion. Hell, most of the armor drops on last boss aren't enough incentive to stay through the derpfest that seems to be getting worse instead of better.

They changed that for the Puff of Darkness?

No, they're just mistaken. You do roll vs 23 other people for that and the syrcus shard.