Blizzard struggles to balance Abundance world event

World of Warcraft: Midnight’s Abundance events are small collect-a-thons: players run a cave up to eight times a week, harvesting abundance and grabbing stacking buffs under a time limit.

Many players tackled the encounters in large raid groups, which made them chaotic and easier to farm for Unalloyed Abundance—a key currency for crafters. Those groups, however, caused heavy lag in zones, and Blizzard appears to have moved to restrict them.

The eight-per-week cap means early access players are already ahead and the system implicitly encourages hitting the maximum runs each week or falling behind. Recent tweaks have made reaching the 900 unalloyed abundance cap more stressful for min-maxers, possibly unintentionally, underscoring the difficulty of balancing an event that is both absurdly fun and tied to meaningful progression for a slice of the game.

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