Why are we talking about mythic having guilds doing LFR? That hasn't been an issue since MoP. Stuff like the Challenge mode daily quest gear made people geared long before LFR Highmaul was opened. Then normal&heroic raids opened before LFR did and people got geared from those.
Legion will be the same most likely.
Well, fuck, I guess my post was completely unclear.
The point is, myth guilds don't do LFR and they aren't forced to - because they don't need it. Progression guilds split farm heroic, casual guilds spend many resets in normal/hc - by the time LFR is opened, progression guilds are already heavily into Mythic (and collecting any missing pieces by speedclearing hc), casual guilds are progressing heroic/early mythic and clearing normal for tier (usually 3-4 weeks is enough). Who, then, would be "forced" to run LFR? Even more casual guilds that do just normal - but these usually progress at their own pace, nobody is "forced" to do anything.
So "clearing LFR on progression" is bullshit not in the sense I don't like it (no reason to, as I don't do it), it's bullshit in the sense most guilds are unaffected by it.
In other words, LFR doesn't overlap or otherwise affect the raiding scene at all - as long as we have 3 raid difficulties to actually raid and as long as it's staggered the way it is.
I like how people are genuinely upset about the fact that LFR could drop tier gear again but are okay with the fact that LFR is the primary source for getting a legendary ring for most people.
In all seriousness though, you dweebs really need to calm the fuck down. The current gear progression is fucking cancer with the way it is now, you spend ~4-5 hours doing PvP and Ashran and get a full set of 700/710 gear. If you kids are going to complain about something, it should be that. Whether you nerds like it or not, LFR needs to have better gear drops. I mostly blame the initial introduction of Flex mode and the shift in difficulties that made gearing weird, I really wish it remained to be LFR -> Normal -> Heroic. Mythic raiders being forced to do LFR is questionable but it will never be as controversial as the whole DS fiasco. In addition, the majority of you won't even really have to worry about that.
Originally Posted by Bigbazz
I'm a casual raider who got a nice taste of mythic this expansion. I don't LFR ever. But I remember having to run it to farm trinkets and set bonuses in MoP and it was a real PITA. I'll only LFR if I have to.
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You realize this is a game, yes? If I work a long week, study in between, in order to make as good a life as possible for myself and people I care about (rather than it being "handed to me"), and I want to relax at the end of the night, log onto a video game and acquire a cool looking gear piece, without hampering anybody else's enjoyment, or gaining a disproportionate amount of power (vs time spent), then there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Unless of course you are on MMOC trying to prove how greatly skilled and hardcore that you are, in which case yeah I see the problem. Don't worry, you're still a snowflake in my eyes, just for different reasons.
This is truth.
I don't raid anything more than LFR. Occasionally I sub into my guilds heroic runs, but for the most part I do my LFR and that's it. There is no reason we shouldn't have LFR ilvl tier sets. We should be able to have the same set bonuses and look but at the appropriate lower ilvl. It doesn't hurt you(the tryhards) but it definitely makes our game experience better, thus keeping us subbed.