This, however, defeats one of the main reasons for which Flex was created in the first place: To have a Wrath 10-man style difficulty available for casual players and guilds. They've said this repeatedly and I take them at their word. Could flexible size raids come to normal? Yes. Will normal just go away and Flex be made more difficult? They've given absolutely no indication of this and the idea runs counter to everything they've said so far.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
I don't think he wants it to happen, but it's a lot more likely than LFR ever getting the axe. (Still UNLIKELY though.) According to Blizzard just a couple weeks ago Flex is already roughly as popular as normal mode raiding. Just make normal raiding into flex raiding. Have LFR, and Flex, and Heroic. Or just LFR, Normal, and Heroic, and make the latter two Flexible.
Realistically they could just make Flex the replacement for normal raiding, it would be tuned a little easier than normal for the sake of accessibility, but since Normal is already cleared very quickly it shouldn't make much difference?
It would need 2 more rules
-Can't use paid server transfer to move your character to these servers. This way players with big wallets couldn't just deck themselves out on normal servers, then change server.
-Selecting PvP would mean no flying mounts in zones where they aren't needed.
Oh, the stupidity in this post, you could slice it with a knife. So much elitism, blanketed beneath a pathetically obvious 'we can have it both ways' farce of a front that is just eleven kinds of pathetic.
Wouldn't separate the community? There's no such thing in the eyes of people like you. In the eyes of guys like you there is 'your' kind of player, the kind that actually wants the nonsense that you're suggesting here, and then there's everyone else. Wouldn't separate the community... ha. What a joke. Separatism is EXACTLY what you're seeking.
Don't like LFR? Don't queue for it. Want challenging 5mans? Run challenge modes. Don't like all the casuals and 'bads' that taint your game with their filthy LFR and lowly dungeon difficulties? Continue to remain unsubbed and continue to spare the 'community' you're so eager to be removed from this kind of ignorance.
How silly is it to demand heroic 5-mans to be challenging at ilvl 560+ when they're tuned for people in ilvl 435?
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I do think there are too many "modes" in the game now and I do feel that this "flex mode" is and was implemented as a testing ground for the future. I really do believe flex and normal will most certainly change in the future. I'd like a normal mode, but have the option to switch it to flex throughout the raid. The gear would still be drops when switching to flex as well. Or something a long those lines, anyways. JMO.
This idea is pretty old.
It is pretty obvious that hardcore players would prefer a healthy environment to play, without noobs, pugs,casuals and lfr-lovers.
Sadly, blizzard would never implement anything like that because
a) most players are lazy lfr-lovers who want to get everything without doing anything and blizzard is money-making casual-oriented company now.
b) blizzard is lazy and it requires some development cost. New content for hardcore players? Are you mad? New content for casuals would be 10 times more profitable!
So no matter how good your idea is, if it is not casual-oriented it would never be implemented.
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"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
Flex will not become normal mode. Guilds spend time and effort for weeks (sometimes months) to clear normal modes together,and they plan to move to heroic progression together as well, if it was flexible then lots of people will get the boot once the guild gets to heroic progression. Next thing you'll know people will be begging for heroics to be flexible.
1. Takes longer to gear up
2. Cant skip older tiers.
3. Makes older content worth playing
4. Doesn't skip older content
5. Enhanced means dont have to cater to the lowest idiotic denominator and the people who have no time (The game original benefited the opposite, as Enhanced would)
kthnx, logics
If you leave the game, take a break from the game or just cant beat the content - Not to worry, you can skip it all and than down Garrosh after looting some chests on /way and have nothing left to progress for - and you outgear the old stuff so bad / noone does it that's out of the question for a real experience.
Guild is a totally different thing. Guild is your family, realm is your city. Some cities are dirty, ugly and have rude and ignorant inhabitants, some cities are clean, beautiful and full of nice, friendly people.
Hardcore realms existed. For example in Ultima Online Felucca was free-pvp zone with +15% resources drop.
Diablo3 got totally independent "hardcore" difficulty with different community which feels nicer and more friendly to me.
It was already said by OP. Remove LFR/flex, increase difficulty in dungeons/raids/world. Without lfr noobs will either shape up and become proper players or will stop playing/transfer to noob realms.What's your best idea on how to keep the unworthy out of your new country-club realm assuming it existed?