Comments on: Most common mini-bosses in Violet Hold

By: Squirrel

Squirrel — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:13:24 +0000

I’ve been running it almost every day for 3 weeks. I’ve only actually seen Lavathor himself twice.
I feel like the talisman will never drop hehe.

By: vlad

*vlad* — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:10 +0000

Most pugs probably fall apart on the Shadow spam boss in Heroic mode (forget his name).

By: spinks

spinks — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:26:21 +0000

I hadn’t really thought about the achievements but that’s true, and also if you wanted a drop from a particular miniboss but got unlucky, you could have to repeat the instance way too many times (in my opinion ).

On the other hand, I do think the unpredictability of ‘which ones will we get’ probably does add to the fun here. If only they could have somehow decoupled that from the loot/achievements a bit.

By: Green Armadillo

Green Armadillo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:34:15 +0000

WoWhead reported numbers can be very quirky – if all five members of a group submit their logs, the database will log the same kill five times. You wouldn’t expect that to skew the data in the long term, but it probably drives the required sample sizes up a few notches.

Personally, I had 10 Cyanigosa kills, all the relevant mage loot from the instance, and various failed runs (with one or two sub-bosses downed) before a save finally graced me with Erekem for the achievement for killing all six subbosses. I feel bad for anyone who is bent on trying the achievements for killing specific sub-bosses, it must be irritating to have to wait for days to get a boss and then have the group kill the boss without fulfilling the achievement requirements.

By: Tarsus

Tarsus — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:16:44 +0000

It also is a reflection of the random number generator that Blizzard uses. Truth be told, there is no such thing as a truly random number generator just increasingly sophisticated ones, so that certain bosses would show up more than others is indicative of the lack of randomness in the system.