Originally Posted by
Luxeley
The problem is simple and the solution is even simpler. People don't bother to effectively learn how to play their class, don't bother to look up a boss fight on YouTube and don't look at the game as a challenge. Oddly enough, I am not a PVE'er, however; I do see evidence of all of these points in PVP and there is no doubt in my mind they trickle into PVE as well. Blizzard's brilliant solution up and until now has been make the classes easier and homogenous. From 71 to 32 to 6 talents and people still can't play their class.
Blizzard does nothing to instruct players on how to play their class. For example: warriors - the starting zones give you a quest to teach you charge somewhere around lvl 3-5 and that's it. After that, you're a pro, no other instruction of passive abilities, mastery, rotation, cds, nothing. Learn charge and you're good to go, next up : TOT LFR.
However, the community does a great job at instructing people, but I honestly don't think people care about playing well. They simply want to have fun and there is nothing wrong with that. So, I suggest Blizzard finds a way of making it fun to learn how to use each classes key abilities. Put the process in a series of quests that in the end payoff with a special Class mount and a decent amount of gold.
So, what you do is incorporate learning the abilities of your class in a series of quests while you level up, make them fun, engaging and rewarding.
Separate the lockouts of 10m and 25m raids and up the ante on the difficulty and the rewards for 25m.
Put LFR on a one patch lag and let the mechanism serve as a catch up tool as well as learning tool. Do the same they did with Conquest and up the Valor cap for a certain percentage for each week you failed to cap. This way ppl can spam run LFR with the purpose of catching up to be able to raid and perhaps learn something in the process.
Make 10M and 25M heroic modes - super hard so the hard core players can have their challenge and glory. Create and promote a system that shows guilds with the most Heroic boss kills for both modes.
This will bring back a challenge as well as sense of pride in the game.