"The devs think that these changes will be enough to prevent most people from feeling that they need to do every raid difficulty every week."
Are these idiots out of their minds? I know this will be draw trolls and the like but I am wondering if Blizz hired some of the SWOTR devs. I personally am a former hardcore raider. I raided almost every night in 4 different raid groups for a couple of years. I watched countless bads get into not only my guild but other guilds. They broke raids with bad play, shit excuses, not showing up, and the like. Some nights it felt like going to hell for 3-4 hours. Then, along came bads and their crying did some good.
Lfr and the alternate to raiding with unknown bads. Lfr you know what you are getting. Save up your tokens and get a chance at gear. Blizz listened to them and actually got something good for people that wanted some casual play and not want to put up with shit excuses. You could level an alt and get gear in 2-3 days of raiding and isle running.
Now, the dev team makes this statement. Do you think that the bads will not go ape shit? I know that you can't give something then take it away. Look at the crying over no flying. Good lord, one would think you broke into these peoples houses, killed their cats and dogs, raped, then killed their mothers. WTF. I know that by saying taking away the tier gear makes me look bad, however, it was an easy way to get gear and not have to listen to bullshit excuses about how someone couldn't see a flashing warning on the screen or how fire, no matter what color, was unknown to burn.
This apparent tough love by Blizz over flying and now lfr will be interesting. I mean they dumb down the game almost every patch. WoD won't be different. Changing stats, removing most of them, giving us the ability to recruit npcs to run and get us gear, and changing gemming and the like will make is so a greased monkey fucking a football could play this game. Oh, wait. They already are. They are farming my gold as we speak.