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Seriously, can anyone explain this to me? I used to know the point of it, but I don't anymore. It just seems like a way to waste a couple hours of my life and make a few hundred gold while reading a book. =/
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2013-01-22, 08:31 PM #1High Overlord
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LFR: What's the point?
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2013-01-22, 08:34 PM #2Field Marshal
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Worry not! they will increase the drop rate in LFR.
Though it is still pretty boring ...
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2013-01-22, 08:39 PM #3Deleted
Last few bosses I just autoattacked and alt-tabbed. I don't want to leech but LFR is so FUCKING boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are no tactics, no fire to stand out of, no one gives a shit about your place on the dps meter and you don't even know anyone in the raid so why would give an epic fuck about it ?! It's just a punching bag with a ridiculous amount of hp.
And I'm a pve-er mostly.
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2013-01-22, 08:47 PM #4High Overlord
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I just leveled a warrior up for my guild's second raid team, trying to get him as geared as possible before raids start. In two weeks of LFR (bear with me here) I've gotten the exact same drops: Nothing but gold bags and one item from Terrace. The exact same item I got last week.
My monk hasn't gotten anything in weeks (possibly months) but gold bags. I try, and follow the mechanics, and do the bosses and actively play. Yet I just get gold.
I seriously don't see a point to it anymore.
As for upping the drop rates, it's only for 5.0 MSV loot...Last edited by Nova Swaggins; 2013-01-22 at 08:49 PM.
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2013-01-22, 08:57 PM #5The Unstoppable Force
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You're not supposed to be using LFR to gear up for normal raids. :LFR is its own progression path, for those who don't want to bother with the increased difficulty/complexity/social demands of normal mode raids.
As its own progression path, the point of T14 LFR is to gear up for T15 LFR. And since it has to last a good chunk of T14's lifespan, the gearing rate is necessarily slow."There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite.
" -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
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2013-01-22, 09:07 PM #6High Overlord
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Which is itself useless if it doesn't gear people. But you are correct I suppose.
Originally Posted by Osmeric
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2013-01-22, 09:08 PM #7Epic!
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According to armory you've done each boss of LFR once and you have got a belt from it. Do you expect to be full geared from one run through of LFR ? Your gear levels are fine to start MSV normal. Originally Posted by Korza
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2013-01-22, 09:10 PM #8The Lightbringer
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To see content. Supposedly normal and heroic modes weren't going to be nerfed with the introduction of it but apparently not. Originally Posted by Korza
Originally Posted by Uggorthaholy
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2013-01-22, 09:10 PM #9I am Murloc!
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You say you used to know the point of LFR, so what is that? Because you say you don't now. Nothing has changed except the way loot is distributed. Originally Posted by Korza
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2013-01-22, 09:17 PM #10The Unstoppable Force
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And T15 LFR serves to gear people for T16 LFR. Originally Posted by Korza
LFR also serves to let people see the raid content, even in attenuated form.
I am interested in seeing how they extend the lifespan of T16 LFR. But then Blizzard has had problems with the last tier of expansions ever since Wrath."There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite." -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
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2013-01-22, 09:33 PM #11Deleted
i stopped doing LFR, cause so many people are being afk during it making the encounter so long. beside that every interresting dodge mechanic has been weakend so badly you can ignore them. sure on some fights its a good thing, but on stuff like windsbombs on windlord or breath of fear on sha of fear its just sad.
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2013-01-22, 09:36 PM #12High Overlord
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LFR is for people like me, my guild does only PvP but they are my RL friends so I don't want to leave the guild. Even if I left the guild, I can't set aside specific times each week to raid, so my options are limited. Pugs don't want someone without Normal mode experience, even if I have 487 ilvl.
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2013-01-22, 09:40 PM #13The Unstoppable Force
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That's the first time I've seen that claim (that it will only be MSV). Link? Originally Posted by Korza
Do you mean it will only be the T14 raids (MSV, HoF, ToES), not T15?"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite." -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
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2013-01-22, 09:40 PM #14Scarab Lord
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no point man
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2013-01-22, 09:43 PM #15High Overlord
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Twice actually. Which is a small amount, but is what I said, and no. I expect to get more than the same belt over and over. Originally Posted by Splatter
Also I'm not starting MSV normal. I'm starting MSV and HoF heroic... Did you even bother to look at the guild before assuming I'd be doing normals?
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2013-01-22, 09:44 PM #16Brewmaster
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LFR allows my main and alts to get powerful gear. This allows my main to advance in LFR progression and actually see this raid content while it's current, and allows my alts to kill virmen on their farms faster.
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2013-01-22, 09:48 PM #17Bloodsail Admiral
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LFR is for me. I'm rarely free during normal raiding hours and when I am, I might be interrupted. If I'm to see raid content, I need an efficient means to getting in a group, and we have to be done in a predictable period of time. I also can't listen to mouth-breathers on vent, but that is more of a personal preference.
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2013-01-22, 09:50 PM #18Bloodsail Admiral
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I enjoy it as an alternative to heroics. I don't depend on it for gear, but it does help for guild raids.
I dunno - I enjoy it.
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2013-01-22, 09:51 PM #19High Overlord
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I think you're the first person I legitimately believe enjoys LFR. Originally Posted by fooliuscaesar13
It's nice to see.
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2013-01-22, 09:53 PM #20The Lightbringer
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your luck sucks people,
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Flummer/simple <-- my hunter,
nearly fully geared, done vault 10 times, HoF 8 times, terrence 5 times, it takes time too get gear.. u wont get everything on first try, some weeks u get 1-2 things some weeks u get nothin, its just how RnG works =P
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