Originally Posted by
Raelbo
You are assuming a strawman lfr raider in a theoretical scenario to demonstrate your assertion that the item is "easy" to get. How many of the hundreds who got it at the start of 5.4 do you honestly believe got it by afking through at least 50 LFR instances? How many LFR heroes with zero skill and no normal mode ToT gear do you think one shotted the Wrathion solo encounter?
Anyone with an ounce of common sense will recognise that hundreds who got the cloak at the start of 5.4 were either:
a) the cream of the LFR-only crop
b) at least reasonably successful normal mode raiders (the top 5% of the playerbase)
Regardless, no matter who you were, you were going to need a certain minimum level of skill and a significant commitment of time and effort over the preceding 9 months to have been in a position to obtain the cloak on "day 1".
There is a world of difference between easily accessible and easily obtainable and you confuse the two.
Yes, because clearly those who disagree with you have a functional brain. lol.
Strawman argument 101. lol.
For a "LFR Hero" decked out in LFR gear the solo encounter was hardly trivial.
For a raider in ilevel 530 gear, yeah, I guess the encounter would likely have been trivial. But then again, as said above, someone in that kind of gear already has the credentials to prove that they have a clue.
Have you even put any thought into your argument? lol
Oh, you mean like going and getting say: Thunderfury: Blessed Blade of the Windseeker solo today? lol
Again: STRAWMAN. How many people, on patch day 5.4, had simply pushed the LFR button 50 times and voila, landed up with a legendary? Ok, I am sure there was probably one or two out there somewhere. But the vast majority (99.9%+) didn't.
The majority were normal or heroic raiders who had been raiding successfully for 9 months. A small minority were LFR raiders who probably busted their asses through 50+ LFR instance carrying those who were sitting afk in the corner because they have deluded themselves into believing that actually participating in that content is below them.
Yup, believe it or not, LFR bosses don't actually fall down all by themselves. They die because there are actually people in there, a lot of us actually, who are not worthless scrubs doing 30K dps and standing in fire. We carried the bads (who are not getting cloaks anyway), as well as the lazy, narcissistic normal mode heroes who felt entitled to afk through their LFR's (and who would be nothing raiders if not for their guilds carrying them anyway).
All that being said, I am not opposed to the idea of a special reward (above and beyond the cloak) reserved for top end raiders. But the cloak, as is, is an easily justifiable reward for the effort it took to get it and was a brilliant part of the MoP experience.
To say that people who got their cloaks don't deserve them is either disingenuous or retarded. You choose.