Is there a way to shift the black lotus spawn on Onyxia from the "one in each zone every hour or so" to the static 1-2% chance on endgame herbs like blizzard has it? It's basically impossible to farm it cause of the snipers and bots infesting the areas, and because of that the flasks on the server AH are crazy expensive.
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Black Lotus on Onyxia
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Herbalism for 2 months, only seen 3 ever spawned, I got 1 of them. This was early server back in december. Haven't seen since.
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No, it won't be shifted to a percentage chance on any endgame node.
But we recognize this became a problem, with certain players essentially abusing the fixed timer, together with creating accounts for free, to hog every node on spawn. The solution being implemented is that the timer won't be fixed anymore. It will have a rather wide time range when it can spawn, and a random one will be picked from that for each respawn. That way, we aim to make it so campers would either have to be extremely lucky to login at the right position on the right time by chance (ridiculously unlikely), or stay online waiting for when RNG decides to make them spawn - and then they're free game for people to slaughter.
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I see one problem with your proposed solution: Nothing is stopping them from waiting in ghost form on the spawn spot until the respawn happens, rezzing, and picking the herb instantly. This means your solution fixes nothing (as stated).
Solutions that come to mind are to make it so ghosts cannot see nodes, or that there is a delay between rezzing and being able to pick the herb. I personally think the first one is easiest.
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