Originally Posted by
Varaben
You're not looking hard enough.
I agree that it's not a stepping stone to higher levels of raiding. THAT is the problem. People stop at LFR. What if we removed LFR? Would people stop at Normal? Maybe. But I'm a proponent of removing ALL of the raid difficulties except one, MAYBE two (but I'd rather an Ulduar style where you engage the "hard" mode), so maybe that's just me. I think having more than one difficulty just highlights the hamster wheel. It feels shitty to kill a boss on normal, then start again on heroic. The idea that people will work through LFR, then normal, then heroic, then mythic is so wrong. No one does this. They pick a lane, then they run out of content because they pick the lane that's easiest for them. Blizz needs to focus on one raid difficulty and stop trying to balance 4.