Increasing ShadowFrost Shards in normal encounters

[sajmoonce]

Raid Leader has not killed LK on 25-man

Before a given boss (or even better - if noone in guild killed LK25 - just at a start of instance run) - try setting the difficulty onto heroic - of course it will fail with an error message...

it is however fun to notice that even though bosses remain on normal HP/dmg/skill wise, the game somehow "thinks" you actually set the instance onto heroic - there is the "heroic" skull on entrance, people dying and releasing cannot enter instance and the most important part:
shadowfrost shard drop chance seems to be increased to the level of heroic difficulty (which is around 90%?)
when we were still without LK25 kill and just cleaning ICC, we got 10 shards on 11 bosses - while all on normal...
ye - it MIGHT be just awesome luck but seems to be more then that...

(a possible factor might be that RL did not have LK-25 kill, but had LK-10 kill; the "setting on heroic" was actually attempted again should a wipe occur just to be safe)

could not check it again since we got the LK25 kill and are now progressing on hard modes but seems to be "not working as intended" ;-P

[SacredSpenny]

cool ima try it

[Feroid]

Sounds amazing. +Rep if it works

[sorrows]

luck. nothing more

[ot4ku1992]

luck. nothing more

/sign.
There is in no way any proof this works.
Just based on a one-time experience and a possibility that it could be so.
But it looks more like it was pure luck.

[sajmoonce]

will be trying it out on some stuff we are doing normal due to time restraints and will let ya know tomorrow
(+ the "heroic mode" skull is clearly visible on the door as well as people who have not killed LK cannot enter instance once they die and release)

[poisoncandyman]

" skull is clearly visible on the door as well as people who have not killed LK cannot enter instance once they die and release)

im a lil lost at this part. i have never killed LK (which is sad 6kgs +) but while doing HMs with a pug if i died and they were out of combat i was always able to re-enter and could see the skull on the door.

[jazman84]

Just about our whole raid group has killed Normal LK. Should we pick someone who hasn't to be raid lead on Sindra/LK (we are doing all our HM attempts on PP) to activate this? Cause we are 9/12 HM.

[sajmoonce]

Yeah to activate this on stuff you are going to do "normal" mode you would need someone without LK25 kill - however there is the somewhat bothersome issue of 5 minute pause between mode changes
thus after a boss done on hard you would have to switch to normal - wait 5 minutes (or do trash) - give raid leader to the person without LK25 Kingslayer - "try" changing to heroic - kill boss on normal but benefit from higher shard drop chance

Now @

im a lil lost at this part. i have never killed LK (which is sad 6kgs +) but while doing HMs with a pug if i died and they were out of combat i was always able to re-enter and could see the skull on the door.

The thing is - this works when the difficulty is changed "legitimately" (i.e. RL has killed LK25) - however it seems to bug out when it is tried by a person without game authorization to change mode to "25 hard"...

[BlodyWarior]

this is purely based on luck ive had as low as 1shard for a 9/12HC and rest on normal clear and 10 shards on an full normal clear. everyone in the raid at that time had killed LK25.

From what i read youre post is just a 1time try wich is imho very lucky, and far from proof it works. If it works, say, 10 weeks in a row then it can be considered workin but right now its just insane luck.

[sajmoonce]

* had 2 heroic kills today - both with shard (BQL + rotface)
* 2 absolutely normal without the "exploit" (festergut + saurfang) since the 5-minute timer to wait was too long for us (we have 3 hour raids and there was no raid on Sunday due to World Cup final) - no shard
* and had 2 normal kills with "exploit" - got 2 shards out of that... (BPC + Putri)

Will post more on next reset I guess...

[Snowee]

we had 11hardmode kills and just 2shards dropt. i think, we cant prove that

[Vyre]

Tbh, i also think it's just about being lucky. Also experienced only getting 2 shards with 11/12 heroic..

[Sprayer1]

the loot is hero too?

[Vyre]

the loot is hero too?

no..

filler