Originally Posted by
Belloc
Blue posters have already gone over the thought behind staggered LFR releases: They're intended to follow normal mode progression. That is to say that, by the time the final LFR wing is released, the average normal mode group will have completed normal mode SoO.
LFR is not preparation for SoO. Releasing LFR before Normal mode would encourage players to completely ignore normal modes because they could simply do LFR instead, see the content, and be done. That's not a very good approach.
LFR has a place. That place is for people who cannot or will not engage in organized raiding. For everyone else, there is Flex, Normal, and Heroic modes... and those modes come before LFR. That's the way it is and the way it should be.
If you're the kind of player that needs to do LFR to learn a fight before going into normal mode, then normal modes are not for you. This game is designed with the intention that you pull a fight, wipe, pull it again, wipe, keep pulling it until you develop a working approach and THEN finally kill it. LFR does nothing along those lines. LFR's sole purpose is to see content in a state of reduced difficulty and provide easily acquired gear. LFR does not encourage proper strategy development. The average LFR player will learn nothing about a fight from LFR.