The other side of the coin is "Why does Blizzard have to take such a hard line on a stupid mount?"

It's a MOUNT. You can buy the cenarion war hippogrif for 1000g, omg everyone will have it.

We're talking about a YEAR'S INVESTMENT OF EFFORT making sure you don't miss ANY HOLIDAYS and with a RNG system in place you can't get unlucky during a holiday EVEN ONCE. If you do you get to wait another year.

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I got the Sinister Calling, My only problem atm is getting a toothpick >.<

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have fun playing the RNG :D

IMO there needs to be more to the meta req of the Title. It took me 2 days to complete it all (leaving out a Mask for All Occasions which I have 6/20 of already, just realized I had 1 duplicate, sigh).

These 2 not a req for the title but would still be fun:

Like, make the trick or treat thingy a daily, so you can go around the Azeroth and Outland everyday throughout the holiday getting treats!

Next year implement some costumes! (The wands don't count) no. I mean things that tailors and other crafters can learn and create! Or item sets (3 piece, helm/chest/shoulders like the Fire Festival) that make you look like a murloc or something. That'd be awesome. Make it available via a quest or 100% drops but random which 3 from heroic bosses.

Speaking of RNG, RNG drop rate is fine imo, for the helm, sword, pet and helm, however the mount needs a little tuning.

The chance of the pet / helm dropping is worse than finding a teebu's >_>

What the hell. I asked a question and its deleted too.

What is this vendetta against my posts!?

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I did that quite a bit earlier in the day. The explanation by the OP was a sound one, so I thought I'd give it a nod.

I greatly appreciate the feedback you and others are giving, but giving the feedback does not necessarily mean we must acquiesce to your desires. We're working from the larger picture of how common we'd like the achievements to be, and it's only natural you'd prefer it to be more common than it is.

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I think you're missing the point of many people's complaints. I don't think anyone is complaining about the achievement being too rare or hard to get, I think the complaint stems from the fact that it's based in large part on the whims of the random number generator. In effect, it seems like you could just have everyone on a server /roll and anyone who rolls 100 gets the achievement. I think I can speak for most players when I say, we don't typically like leaving something up to the RNG, we'd much rather it come down to skill, devotion, and effort, especially when it's something that takes a year to achieve even under the best of circumstances.

Heaven forbid a achievment be something difficult and require some luck. No it should just have 100% drop rate so every single person has this rite?

Thanks for ruining Brewfest and ruining Hallows End. Thanks for turning something fun into a chore.

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Thanks for ruining Brewfest and ruining Hallows End. Thanks for turning something fun into a chore.

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I feel sorry for all those people :(

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The other side of the coin is "Why does Blizzard have to take such a hard line on a stupid mount?"

It's a MOUNT. You can buy the cenarion war hippogrif for 1000g, omg everyone will have it.

We're talking about a YEAR'S INVESTMENT OF EFFORT making sure you don't miss ANY HOLIDAYS and with a RNG system in place you can't get unlucky during a holiday EVEN ONCE. If you do you get to wait another year.

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I have to say that is really my problem with it as well, its not that there is a RNG factor to it, but that there are many RNG factors to the holiday quests, so that if you don't get lucky on any number of achievements it spoils your chance of getting it this year.

May I make a request, lengthen the duration of the mask from 7 days to 12 days or w/e time we have left of the event, I'd kinda like to try to complete a mask for all occasions.

I watched the Sinister Squashling drop six times today, and lost every single time. I don't think it means that Sinister Calling is too difficult to achieve, so much as it simply means I have absolutely miserable luck.

On the plus side, I helped six players get their Squashling/Achievement all in one day. Maybe some poor sap will do the same for you. Good luck everyone. Based on what I've seen today, I think enough people actually will reach this achievement that it can't really be called too difficult--it's just that there will also have to be a certain number of luckless chumps like me who helped the rest of you get it.

To my fellow unlucky, let's try not to be too bitter towards the people we helped out. Maybe kharma will give us a break some day...