enchanting drops (rant)Follow

Okay. I'm getting sick and tired of all the best enchants having a >1% drop rate off of a mob that has 3 spawns in a freaking 5-man instance. ESPECIALLY the really good physical DPS enchants! I took up enchanting to...um... ENCHANT my gear! But they are so rare that you're the luckiest freaking person in the world if you can not only FIND a group to run the instances these things drop in, but GET THEM!

I've been trying to solo farm +12 Agility to boots from Auch Crypts since I got epics. I can never find a group for normal crypts, and no one ever seems to want to run heroic unless it's the daily, and I've never seen it as the daily.

Eredar Deathbringers in Arcatraz drop +35 agility to 2h weapon. Only 1-2 spawns, and they can't be solo'd- at least not by a hunter in T4/T5 mix armor.

Savagery is another hot-in-demand enchant that just *won't* drop off of the Centurions in Shattered Halls. There are FOUR of them that spawn.

Surefooted? Phantom Stagehand in Kara. I get to try once a week to kill a small handful of them.

But are there ANY epic enchanting drops from any of the 25-man instances? NO! My guild has half a dozen patterns for Red Havoc boots that won't sell... But blizzard didn't want to put in a few epic enchants.

God damnit. I've had more luck with MONGOOSE than I have had with trying to find groups for these freaking 5-man instances.

edit: I'm also sick of seeing all of the other "trash mob" crafting drops. I swear, every time I run a 5-man I see someone saying "anyone else a leatherworker? No? sweet"

Edited, May 14th 2008 5:52am by ProjectMidnight

While I agree with the annoyance of the drop-rate and location of mobs (helped a guildy farm Dexterity in Heroic Crypts for weeks), I was under the impression that the drop-rates were actually significantly more than 1%, but because they only drop with an enchanter present, the statistics were skewed.

It's higher than 1% but it's still very low. Like others, I can't even count the number of times my enchanter has been through SH and arc and I have yet to see either of those formulas drop.

Just to split up the rant, I got savagery first Shattered Halls run, Sunfire, Soulfrost on my 2nd full clear of Kara, +40 spell DMG - 20th kill, k continue ranting.

Grr..

At the OP- I've been pretty unlucky on enchant drops as well. I just gave up on the idea of having every enchant in the game.

35 agility dropped once- I got outrolled by a sub-300 level enchanter. I was pretty mad, mad enough to leave group but I just stayed, put the guy on ignore and logged after the run. The guy couldn't even disenchant boss drops, but he rolled need on the formula and I lost.

70 warlock enchanter, 70 mage enchanter. Both exalted with kara, no mongoose, sunfire, soulfrost or surefooted on either of them =/

Only dungeon enchants I have are 12 stam bracers (warlock), executioner (warlock), 12 stam boots (mage), 12 defense cloak (mage).

Oh and don't get me started on 15 spell damage to bracers (specific ogres in Blades Edge, ugh..)

Edited, May 17th 2008 1:03am by mikelolol

That is some fairly impressive luck right there.

I tend to have most luck when I'm not actually farming things.

My enchanter got Savagery (1st SH run), Surefooted (3rd Kara), 12 stam on something (4-5 SV), 12 agi on boots (5-6 runs I think, when it dropped I'd switched my enchanter in for my alt that needed the instance) and Vitality in a nice group that let me need it.

I farmed for Crusader for hours and never got it, 6 mobs in a tower, with a hunter, before they removed the dead zone. In the end I bought it.

My enchanter is an alt though, so I guess I'm lucky that she has so many instance drops, as I don't get much of a chance to play her.

If its on master loot it will still show in the loot window, just wont show on
a roll loot table.

I ran a H Arc to get the +35 AGI enchant. Finally one dropped.

But wait, there's another enchanter. Phew! I outroll him.

He was super-pissed...until the next pull, when another one dropped. 2 Pulls in a row with the +35 AGI enchant. 0.o

Pretty sure there is only one mob in Arc that drops the enchant.

QQ
Go roll a jewelcrafter and then complain about how hard it is to get recipes. Atleast enchanters have mobs that specifically drop an enchant. JC's have to rely on the AH and random world BOE recipe drops just so they can cut their gems. Go search up the blue recipes on the AH, you're looking at thousands and thousands of gold needed to even get all of the blue gem recipes, not counting epic recipes and other things you can make.

I'm a Jewelcrafter/Enchanter. I'd much rather have the reliability of being able to buy recipes that are only semi-rare on the AH(most blue gem recipes) than having to rely on those low droprate recipes from instances. I've run a fair number of both Arca and SH and have only seen 1 Savagery(guildie won it) and no 35 agi enchants drop. And I ran a ton of SVs and have only seen one 12 stam to bracers enchants drop.

It's much easier to farm the 400g than those bobdamned recipes.

On the other hand, I had extremely good luck on farming the recipes that drop outside of instances. Less than an hour on any one of them.

I just tried for this for the first time. I tries grinding the spellbinders in western plaguelands for the Crusader enchant. After about 45 minutes i just gave up. It isn't worth the time.