Players Want Return of Replaced Silver Dragon Rare Frame in Dragonflight

 

In one of the stranger changes to the Dragonflight UI, Blizzard decided to remove the silver dragon frame from rare mobs and replace it with something… less prominent. Rare elites will still keep the gold frame, so the visual will not be removed altogether, but regular rares will be downgraded to a much less prominent marker. As you might imagine, removing something as iconic as the frame left players none too happy, with a thread on the WoW reddit garnering over 5,000 upvotes and quite a few (hundred) comments, so we’ll be taking a look at some of them, with the main consensus being that an addon will soon pop up to simply return the frame, and a general bewilderment at the change even happening in the first place.

And here are some of the more interesting comments:

Countdown to an addon being made to add the dragon. ? – mcmanybucks
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Silver dragon should never go away. It’s iconic. Huge mistake if permanent. – ThatOneGiantofAMan
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On the beta, there was a big star on my minimap. I figured it was a rare, so I went searching for it in a cave. Took me a while to find it in between the other mobs, because I was expecting some sort of indicator that it was a rare mob, and I completely missed the tiny skull+star underneath its name. I think players should be able to tell right away if a mob is rare, and whilst some of the newer ones may be obvious, think of some of the older ones. Imagine a new player missing a rare in Redridge because it’s just a spider and they didn’t notice the new indicator. –Rambo_One2
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I remember playing WoW for the first time back in 2007, i didnt know how to do much but first time I encountered a rare I had no idea what the silver dragon means, but I knew this mob was special cuz i never seen it before. I honestly don’t know why blizzard thinks it needs to be changed when it did its job well – Thunderboltgrim
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I didn’t even notice the Skull+ on the new one until you said something and I went back up and looked.
Really poor use of design principals here. Even if they wanted to get to something so plain, they should have done a series of small changes to teach existing people what to look for…
And that’s not even taking into account how they took something iconic and hit it with a super “meh” – pixelprophet
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Mists of Pandaria had one of the best zone rare systems.
Each zone had a rare Jinyu, Hozen, Pandaren, Saurok, Yaundol, Mogu, Mantid.
You knew pretty quickly which rare mob you were missing from a zone by species and the loot was decent enough to warrant at least one kill. Multiple for some of the items to disenchant or if it was valuable (xp elixir, gold drops).
I remember having my brother in my party as I ran a route in Jade Forest of rare mobs so I could press the Disenchant button on the loot roll. – Seyon
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Let’s see if Blizzard take the comments to heart or if addon makers will indeed have to come to the rescue once again!