General How to get your BoA Shipyard Rings [Guide/Blog]
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DeLindsay
10s4Lyf
FML, I've already gotten the Gronnling Mount mission twice on the same toon and have yet to get a SINGLE Ring Mission to show up on any of (now) 4 100's. Blizzard seriously needs to increase the spawn % even if that means making it so nobody can achieve higher than say 90% success chance (with double Nelf/Undead crews).
Tom Ganks
Guest
If there aren't any traits a ship needs for a ring mission, you can always equipt Unsinkable - Item - World of Warcraft
Baumbart
Legend
Tbh, I find shipyard a lot more bearable if I just send ships without care (countering only the ship types) and never replace equipment unless I REALLY care about the reward. I'd rather spend surplus garrison resources on trading post materials and the ships are expendable anyway (yeah yeah, crews, whatever, rerolling ships for the right crew is a straight trip to insanity
). Oftentimes you can't reasonably 100% every mission anyway, so why bother.As for the ring missions, it's all a matter of rng. So far I've gotten the mount, left shark, BMAH, int and agility looms, all without any mage tower shenanigans.
Tom Ganks
Guest
Got my Garrison lvl 3 today. Excited. Gonna read up on this now.
DeLindsay
10s4Lyf
I'm beginning to think these don't really exist (yes I know they actually do). I've had (2) LvL 3 Shipyards with all Equipment unlocked since about a week after 6.2 hit. I've had (2) more LvL 3 Shipyards for many weeks now with most equipment unlocked. I clear the top right and all Treasure Missions every single day and have never once even seen a Ring Mission. I get the Rare Gold Missions constantly and the Iron Fleet Chest one regularly, but no Rings. Blizz seriously needs to do something about this, even if by upping the spawn chance they reduce the achievable success chance, just something. I don't know of one single person that actually enjoys the Shipyard past the first couple weeks, and EVERYONE I know only does it now for the Rings and once they get all the Rings they have said they'll NEVER touch that piece of crap again.
DeLindsay
10s4Lyf
So I now have (5) Shipyards (4 of them at LvL 3) and my very first Rare Mission other than gold is for Left Shark... on my LEVEL 1 with no equipment unlocked except the starting one, fml.
EDIT: This is the first time I've even gotten the Left Shark Mission, it's a "go figure" that I'd get it on my shittiest Shipyard possible.
EDIT: This is the first time I've even gotten the Left Shark Mission, it's a "go figure" that I'd get it on my shittiest Shipyard possible.
DeLindsay
10s4Lyf
Unless that changed in some recent patch then nope, my other 4 Shipyards have never seen it once.
OP
OP
Solipsist
They/Them
Both work for rings. However when I tested the panda ships it gave me the same as the human/undead and it only works on long missions which you won't want with the night elf/blood elf crews.
OP
OP
Solipsist
They/Them
DeLindsay
10s4Lyf
RNG in WoW has hated my ass ever since I started playing in TBC. As an example, my Hunter has been farming the Legendary bow every week since shortly after I hit 70 and I've never seen it drop. I've also never gotten the Baron's mount to drop even though I pushed (2) Characters to Exalted with Argent Dawn just running that Dungeon.Not sure why it's not happening for you. I got them with just one shipyard
DeLindsay
10s4Lyf
Irrelevant. I have ALL Tanaan reps at Exalted, the Void Trinket, Gronn Mount, etc and as I've stated before I DO get Rare Naval Missions, but they're the Iron Chest and Gold ones, not the BoA Ring variants (they're on the same spawn table, ALL Rares). Blizzard just needs to vastly increase the spawn rate of the BoA Ring Missions and the BMAH Mission as well. It never ceases to amaze me at the stupidity of Blizzard to put items in the game behind the most ridiculous grindy/RNG bullshit imaginable, but then again it's what WoW is infamous for.
Srs
Legend
Finally got all three rings. Yay.
This guide helped quite a bit, especially with what missions to focus on. I think if I'd have started out doing the NE corner and the treasure missions, I'd have had them weeks ago.
One thing I might add is: the gnome ships actually bring quite a few upgrades back from missions. They are worth like 500 resources per pop, which is nice. If you've pretty much given up on farming resources, going with a fleet with a few of the gnome crews is probably the way go. This is at the cost of not being the 100% fastest way to do things, but it's definitely a lot easier, and if you've got a bunch of each upgrade in your bags, you don't have to worry about running out of resources when you need them.
Also, I just kind of stopped caring about ships getting blown up. Except for my murloc crews, I'd send ships out on any mission with over 80% or so, depending on how much I liked the ship. Its just so easy to make ships, and so expensive to restock them. I had my A-team, and whoever wasn't on the A-team, was subject to be cannon fodder. A captain has to make tough decisions.
This guide helped quite a bit, especially with what missions to focus on. I think if I'd have started out doing the NE corner and the treasure missions, I'd have had them weeks ago.
One thing I might add is: the gnome ships actually bring quite a few upgrades back from missions. They are worth like 500 resources per pop, which is nice. If you've pretty much given up on farming resources, going with a fleet with a few of the gnome crews is probably the way go. This is at the cost of not being the 100% fastest way to do things, but it's definitely a lot easier, and if you've got a bunch of each upgrade in your bags, you don't have to worry about running out of resources when you need them.
Also, I just kind of stopped caring about ships getting blown up. Except for my murloc crews, I'd send ships out on any mission with over 80% or so, depending on how much I liked the ship. Its just so easy to make ships, and so expensive to restock them. I had my A-team, and whoever wasn't on the A-team, was subject to be cannon fodder. A captain has to make tough decisions.
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Honey Badger
OG
Congrats on the 3 rings. Did all 3 rings missions spawn on the same corner of the map?
Srs
Legend
Yes, all three were in the northeast corner. Solipsist said that the missions only spawned in NE corner. I just went with that, and that proved to be true.
My priorities were to do everything in the NE corner, so that the mission could spawn if it wanted to, and then to do all treasure missions to bring the missions up in queue.
I can't tell you all how glad I am to be done with this shipyard crap (and the garrisons, for the most part). Has to be the most inane "game" ever contrived.
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