Here is your disconnect sir. I havn't installed a PTR or beta since Ulduar. I Raid 20 hours a week MAX and no alt raids. And I'm still one if not the leading theorycrafter on rets in this game.
So why don't you get a reality check heroics and especially normal modes aren't out of reach for any player. If they are it's because the player doesn't care and is happy being drug around like a bag of trash. The best thing for trash and leaches is to get rid of them. Thankfully that happens quite often.
There are plenty of players doing normal mode content who are perfectly happy and don't bitch and moan for a chance to do heroics. There are plenty of players who do LFR content and are happy to not bitch and moan about normal modes.
Full clearing heroic guilds may be the minority. But the avid crybaby forum poster is an even bigger minority. Newsflash some people quit the game for real life commitments even if they are still enjoying the game.
I know you are trying to prop yourself up like blizzard is catering to you but they aren't MoP has been one of the more difficult expansions just because of Sheer length of content u take in so much at once with minimal gaps inbetween. It's a heroic raiders dream.It does end, it ends when the player base becomes so casual that you dont have people like you interested in raiding any longer... IE: thats what WoW is now. The evolution of the game as with most everything in society is: Instant gratification... not many ever wanted to spend hours playing and farming to raid, and that number is dwindling faster and faster everyday.
Btw I like instant gratification too so I choose to do heroic 25s. It means I will gear faster, Hit BiS, and generally always finiish gearing 100% while you are still begging for LFR drops that are inferior to the previous tier.
Are you aware I will be clearing the entire zone in under 4 hours. That is about the time it takes to clear LFR entirely not counting qued time.
Again this illusion world you live in. I'd say 500k Views means quite a few people care about improving their character. You may not and that is totally ok. Btw videos, write ups, notes, dummy training, 15 addons? You don't need that shit for normals, and you most certainly don't need to do all that if you spend 2 minutes looking at dungeon journal and use common sense after seeing the ability in combat if you have any remote concept of what situational awareness is. If you don't or praise not having that I wouldn't brag because awareness of ones surroundings is a fundamental life skill.Again with the ego... no one here cares what you do or do not do, they care about what 99% of the player base does... having fun.
Sorry but spending several hours to watch videos, read write ups, take notes, perfect a spell rotation on a dummy, downloading 15 addons, changing settings on those addons, switching specs, switching glyphs, running dailies for coins... etc etc etc... is not what people want to do or consider fun.
As skilled as I am I havn't perfected cloning yet so until then we still need new recruits to learn to play the game. People don't just appear out of thin air. Although sometimes an extra hunter pet could be more useful then your run of the mill auto attacking afk LFR player. There are always a few.No one is mad, the only way you could make me mad is if I cared what you thought, clearly I dont.
What I am is confused as to why your here in a discussion that has no bearing on your playstyle... saying that you want people to have skill so you can recruit them on the surface is a nice thought.
In reality its just a smoke screen so you can come here and lord over the lessers... You have no ability to recruit out of the 99% because none of them will ever be good enough to do progression raiding. Your recruitment comes from skilled players that do have time to spend hours and hours doing the above... and those few people are disapearing from the game and the genre as a whole.
Your time is past as is the competitive raiding envirment as a whole, keep your heroic modes and be happy Blizz caters to your very very miniscule percentage of players... as for the rest of us, we would like what we ask for. Numbers never lie... you can rant and rail against it all you want but it is what it is... and speaking down to others that arent up to snuff for progression raiding may make you feel important, but it just shows us how impotent you are.
Hours and Hours? 16-20 hours a week no weekends. Not hard to ask really how much time do you watch TV a week, play other video games or hobbies. Exactly.