This tier(ToT) Blizzard forced me to create a few macros to make my life less painful, and at the same time semi-explain boss mechanics.. lol
Like on Lei Shen;
/rw Person with arrow above them; stack with melee
/rw Person grows big, either run into their circle or run far away
/rw Thundery circles run away
/rw Blue Swirly Circles, Stand in it..
I'm not debating the fog being survivable in LFR--I know it is--but I refer the public to this Calvin & Hobbes comic:
When running the maze, stick to the inside track. There's no reason for the beam to catch up with anyone.
When he whips out the beam, as the fog begins to appear around the floor, look for the pie-slice with squiggly lines zipping around in it. That's where the maze begins.
Here is a diagram: http://imgur.com/YltD2hl
Last edited by Salted Beef; 2013-09-06 at 11:34 PM.
Last edited by rated; 2013-09-06 at 11:37 PM.
all you have to do is attack boss and run in a circle.
other bosses have you doing more then that, primordius you gotta stack buffs after they run out, and make sure you dont step in the purple shit, thats more effort.
jin'rokh you gotta move out the lightning storm thing, stand in the buff water, move from ball lightning or whatever it is.
council you gotta switch targets to attack, kill adds, dodge sand shit, move when you got debuff.
all require more effort than durumu which has 1 tactic: run in a circle when needed
someone saying LFR is hard. You serious bro?
The only toxic thing I can see in this whole issue is that "I'm sorry I'm here for the first time" is used more and more and even more as an excuse, no as a wildcard to justify failing without even trying. Don't get me wrong, you may die on Durumu all you want, but some people need a sharp reminder that their actions have consequences and cost other players time and nerves. Yes, the same time most of the LFR raiders claim they don't have and can't invest into real raiding. I'd think about that for a moment.
At least, maybe this Flex raid thing results in something I'd love to see if I could, leaving LFR to the LFR type raider alone. I wonder how far 25 people stating "I'm sorry I'm here for the first time" after every wipe will get.
Your rights as a consumer begin and end at the point where you choose not to consume, and not where you yourself influence the consumed goods.
Translation: if you don't like a game don't play it.
So you say. But if players try to be good scouts and read the online guides and watch the videos they all place enormous emphasis on following the clear path through the maze. And, in the two times that I've done this fight, nobody has said a word about not worrying about the maze but just staying ahead of the death beam.
So how in the world would you expect people to know something like this. In the LFR that I was in this morning I think it was an over-geared tank, a handful of players who had done it once or twice and a whole flock of people there for the first time.
Basically people were dying while doing their best to follow the mechanics of the fight. If this happened in Normal you would consider it part of the learning process. But when it happens in LFR you consider everyone an idiot and think that they should magically know something that they have no way of knowing.
Durumu is without a doubt one, if not the, hardest fights in LFR, mainly due to the maze which players needs to experience a couple of times before learning it to perfection. Addtionally there's the colorphase, which confuses several players as they do not know what to do with it when they have the beam on them.
On-Topic: I can understand the overgeared tank who just want to get done with it, he probably raids Heroic normally, so the way people slack in LFR and fool around is most likely annoying to him. Though he could've probably taken 1 minute to explain the basics, for the better of the group.
I feel you OP, but I'm quite sure that people don't join LFR's to "stroke their own ego" as you put it. =)
Are you seriously thinking that someone dying to beam this late in patch is actually in possession of a human brain? or even if they are do they know how to use it?
LFR durumu has one flaw and that is the color phase being completely different from norm/HC. other things are laughable (like almost no DMG from color beams and maze)
maybe not far, but I cant wait to see it (if someone will actualy be masochist enough to go there and stream)
Last edited by Dukenukem; 2013-09-06 at 11:46 PM.
Don't stand in the eye beam, that's all you have to do in LFR as a newbie. If new people can't do that then they don't deserve to be helped in the first place.
It's not the tanks job either to explain it, he might be a jerk but that doesn't change the fact that 23 other people could have explained it in 5 secs.
Also this. If asked I'l always explain, but if I wouldn't that wouldn't make me elitist. I explain because I choose to, not because "it's the right thing to do".
Again, if you can't dodge a beam that big then you deserve to kicked...new player or not. If a players best is shit, then hes shit. Why should other people carry them?
Last edited by mmoc6f961e454e; 2013-09-06 at 11:48 PM.
while you're whining about durumu, I'm having a blast whiping on Garalon lfr lol :d
In any other area of human experience in my entire life where people are in a group attempting to accomplish a goal the more experienced people would just naturally offer up their advice and experience so that things go more smoothly. My god, it's like some of you have never done anything in life besides play video games.
Even after watching videos, it took me a few tries to understand how the maze worked.
Now it's easy, of course, but there is a learning curve there. Bitching about people going through that phase hurts everyone.