[BUG?][#SomeChanges Suggestion] Change the requirements of the "Have... Have We Met?" achievement

[Kolmarwow]

Description

With the release of the Molten Front there's some new achievements to get, one of them being "Have...Have We Met?". How it works is you accept the daily quest "The Protectors of Hyjal" and fly to the quest area to kill some elite mobs. Four friendly NPCs will spawn by your side to help you kill these mobs, they can sometimes be named NPCs which you need to /wave at to gain achievement credit.

Two of these NPCs are faction exclusive (Thassarian only spawns for Alliance players & Mankrik for Horde players). Since the majority of Cataclysm servers are 1-faction sided, this makes the achievement extremely difficult to finish which is a part of the meta achievement "Veteran of the Molten Front". Far as I can tell the NPCs that spawn for you are the ones that you're stuck with for the entire day, you cannot spawn new NPCs by leaving the area or abandoning the quest or anything like that, so you cannot have 1 max level char on the dead faction "fish" for this NPC.

I'd suggest changing the achievement requirements to make the meta achievement more feasible for 1-sided servers to complete, such as: Removing Thassarian/Mankrik from the requirements & adding in 2 other neutral NPCs / Making Thassarian/Mankrik non-faction exclusive / Removing this achieve from the meta.

Edit 25th Sep 2024: Many servers have reported that the named NPCs start spawning considerably less often in the later parts of the week, to the point where it feels to be bugged rather than simple RNG. for example Pyrewood Village had Chromie show up once early Wed morning on the 18th and then she was never seen again Sep 19-24. She appeared again multiple times after maintenance on Sep 25 for a few hours in the early morning...and hasn't been seen again since.

[WiS3]

In our server Pyrewood Village EU, 97% Alliance populated, we got Mankrik multiple times. But this quest seems to be broken. Many people and my self on 3 alts, had the same 4 protectors spawn for days in a row and we haven't see Chromie for 4 days now and there is always someone camping in the zone. The 4 protectors, (excluding special named NPC) have different models/colors and I took screenshot of them and for 3 days they are the same, on 3 different characters! This has to be broken.

[lavjamanxd]

Yeah something is broken with this one. Day one we had multiple named npcs up and then for days now it feels like not a single named npc spawned, just those protectors.

[Jonnnyki]

I have an NPC scanner set up specifically for those 6 NPCs and have been AFKing at the roost, but I haven’t seen a single named NPC in 4 hours. I’ve been sitting here during peak hours. Definitely seems to be broken atm.

[Beakachu]

This must be bugged. On release day I got 3 tags in 10 seconds.

I've camped for probably 20 hours Sunday -> Tuesday before the EU reset and saw 0 named NPCs. Not just the ones for these achievements, no named npcs at all.

After reset day today, I'm seeing LOADS of named NPCs.

I feel like there's a counter on NPC spawns per reset which gets hit and no more spawn after that, or players are spawning an NPC and 'locking' it by not turning in the quest so no one else can spawn it.

I've spoken to several serious campers and achievement hunters and their experience is exactly what mine is - loads on release day, loads after realm reset, nothing in between

[Beakachu]

Gehennas seems to be stuck again, there were tons of named NPCs earlier in the day and now almost nothing. This supports my theories above.

[WiS3]

Today after reset I had the same 4 protectors on 3 characters and while doing the daily I seen only one named NPC, with loads of people in the zone, so is still broken.

[Beakachu]

On Gehennas the only named NPC spawning now is Chromie.

Everything else seems to be locked to a player. I have Vargoth and no one else has spawned him in around 7 hours.