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    Quote Originally Posted by Caliph View Post
    I cleared all of vanilla with exception of naxx and aq40 without strats so what?

    And yes you called me disingenuous after i clearly stated how and why i 3 shot illidan implying i'm lying.
    Not good enough to clear all of naxx and aq40?

    You should look up "disingenuous" in a dictionary.

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    I'll let you know what I consider to be toxic players, people who only find satisfaction if the majority of players can't enjoy the game because it makes them feel less special about themselves if someone else gets something too. If your only way to enjoy the game is to ruin it for others then that is Toxic. If you have to destroy everyones environment to survive then that is Toxic.

    I raid normal raids, will I ever see Heroic Ra'den? No, and I don't really care if I do. Do I get pissed off that others beat the Sha of Fear in LFR? Hell no, I don't care because I don't feel the need to worry about other peoples accomplishments or what difficulty they were achieved at. I worry about myself and my guild. Thats it. I don't care if you are a social guild or a hardcore guild. It doesn't matter, what matters is my experience and the experiences of my close friends. Thats it.

    You are not special because you have a heroic mount or gear, you are special because you enjoyed the challenge with your guild/friends and everyone had a good time achieving that goal. No amount of golden boots will make me want to lick anothers golden boot. No amount of others licking my golden boot could ever satisfy me because I am not a shallow person.

    Did I have a good time with my friends? Yes? It was a good day to play wow.
    I agree exactly with this. I have fun and I make sure the guild that I am in (being an officer) are also having fun. Nobody cares who has what and if anyone needs help.....I will do everything in my power to help. I don't only enjoy getting gear or killing raid bosses. I enjoy the casual friendly relationship our guild has. We talk, we are friendly, and we have fun. We also keep out the drama.....anyone causing drama tends to not stay very long.

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    You should look up "disingenuous" in a dictionary.
    He used it appropriately.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gamingmuscle View Post

    I can mindlessly push buttons just as well in heroic as LFR =P Nothing in WoW has really required much thought...just awareness and reaction time. So yes pretty much every raid has been as mindless as LFR =P
    to what would you attribute lower participation/completion rates of those older raids vs. LFR? anything that mindless the server should have on farm pretty quickly - and why did you need a guild to get swp on farm in 2.4.x? just pug it - this would be consistent with LFR-type difficulty.

    Obviously I am being sarcastic, but I feel I am making a valid distinction between 'farming naxx40 as current content' and running LFR.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DarkstarG View Post
    I agree exactly with this. I have fun and I make sure the guild that I am in (being an officer) are also having fun. Nobody cares who has what and if anyone needs help.....I will do everything in my power to help. I don't only enjoy getting gear or killing raid bosses. I enjoy the casual friendly relationship our guild has. We talk, we are friendly, and we have fun. We also keep out the drama.....anyone causing drama tends to not stay very long.
    I could care less if EVERYONE gets gear, it's the people too lazy or lack the intelligence to be GOOD at the game and demand everything be dumbed down to the point where my dog could do everything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deficineiron View Post
    to what would you attribute lower participation/completion rates of those older raids vs. LFR? anything that mindless the server should have on farm pretty quickly - and why did you need a guild to get swp on farm in 2.4.x? just pug it - this would be consistent with LFR-type difficulty.
    Used to be SOMEONE had to put in more effort to put the raid together (I've done it, and it's not much fun frankly). That is no longer needed, thus more people raid in LFR then in older raids when they where current.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kujako View Post
    Used to be SOMEONE had to put in more effort to put the raid together (I've done it, and it's not much fun frankly). That is no longer needed, thus more people raid in LFR then in older raids when they where current.
    Actually a lot of guilds still have attendance issues and it has gotten worse since LFR with people having the mindset of "Well, I can just see it in LFR then unsub til next raid tier" (and yes I have had quite a few in my guild do that)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Nye the Spy View Post
    Because the cloak is brain dead simple to get

    and everyone could also get it first day to 5.4

    in short you don't have to be good to get it

    I wont be getting mine for a while because I can't be bothered to do the pvp part of the quest
    alright. so you argue that it's simple to get but that you won't get it because the pvp part is too hard for you to bother with. Do you not see the hypocrisy of this statement?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seefer View Post
    Actually a lot of guilds still have attendance issues.
    Yea, its kind of a PITA to keep a raid together. Flex raids look promising for this. No more sitting around looking for people to fill in spots in a 25 man raid.

    Personally, I really dislike LFR. I'm a tank (and have been since the game was released many moons ago). I can not stand the expectation that I know the fight mechanics perfectly the first time I step into the instance. The amount of crying because I didn't sit through hours of videos and research before I dare to queue is saddening.
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    It seems a bit pointless if everybody has it. That might seem silly, but that's just how legendaries are. They're meant to stick out like a sore thumb, as something exceptionally powerful; yet it's hardly exceptional when it's pretty much standard for the slot, even if it does give a large boost to performance once you get it. I understand the desire to reward everyone and get everyone involved, but giving the average player an ilvl 608 cloak with a very powerful proc had problems that came with the novelty.

    As someone who has the cloak, it seems to feel more like a penalty for those that don't have it than a boon for those that do. On top of that, having to get it by grinding LFR for weeks after I'd gotten all of the actual gear that I wanted left a really bad taste in my mouth. Particularly Throne of Thunder. Fuck those runestones, seriously. The trials were cool but the raid grinds were too long and just generally sucked. If they wanted a time gate, they should have just had time-gated weekly steps, like the current Hourglass quest does, and put trials (like the Celestial one) in each of those steps.

    I generally let long material grinds in raids slide because you're not there solely for the materials. You're progressing through the raid and, unless you've cleared absolutely everything, getting needed upgrades. As someone that only did LFR, going back into raids JUST for the legendary quest was painful, yet felt like an obligation; if gear is a motivator, then it's impossible to ignore an obtainable legendary item.

    TLDR; I'm not convinced that giving everyone a legendary is terribly in-line with what generally powerful items are meant to accomplish and can come across as more of a penalty for those that miss out for whatever reason, and I have issues with the grind associated with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ijoemomma View Post
    alright. so you argue that it's simple to get but that you won't get it because the pvp part is too hard for you to bother with. Do you not see the hypocrisy of this statement?
    The PvP part isn't "hard", it's just more tedious for some of us then the cloak is worth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kujako View Post
    Used to be SOMEONE had to put in more effort to put the raid together (I've done it, and it's not much fun frankly). That is no longer needed, thus more people raid in LFR then in older raids when they where current.
    OK this is getting absurd, if that is all it was folks would have formed a party in .2 or /lfg to pug naxx40/bt/swp as current content.

    The elephant in the living room seems to be difficulty - no one wants to come out and say naxx40 was harder than LFR. I know, its sacrilege that anything have been hard, but sources have said for years that naxx 40 as current content had a number of non-trivial fights, ditto swp and bt (to say nothing of bt attunements).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kujako View Post
    Yea, its kind of a PITA to keep a raid together. Flex raids look promising for this. No more sitting around looking for people to fill in spots in a 25 man raid.

    Personally, I really dislike LFR. I'm a tank (and have been since the game was released many moons ago). I can not stand the expectation that I know the fight mechanics perfectly the first time I step into the instance. The amount of crying because I didn't sit through hours of videos and research before I dare to queue is saddening.
    Meh, I rarely if ever watch videos, waste of time I never retain the knowledge I just go in and do it and learn from my mistakes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ijoemomma View Post
    alright. so you argue that it's simple to get but that you won't get it because the pvp part is too hard for you to bother with. Do you not see the hypocrisy of this statement?
    5th time I've responded to someone about what I said

    Your implying I said it's hard. It's not hard at all. I just refuse to pvp in this game. 1750 arena rating arms warrior every season prior to this one is at 2200 now. That's fucked up. Reckful isn't playing his rogue this season at all. He's playing a arms warrior. Pvp in this game is just fucked. Flavors of the month
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    Quote Originally Posted by DarkstarG View Post
    I agree exactly with this. I have fun and I make sure the guild that I am in (being an officer) are also having fun. Nobody cares who has what and if anyone needs help.....I will do everything in my power to help. I don't only enjoy getting gear or killing raid bosses. I enjoy the casual friendly relationship our guild has. We talk, we are friendly, and we have fun. We also keep out the drama.....anyone causing drama tends to not stay very long.
    This is all well and good in la la fluffy pillow pussy land. But it's called competition, and games thrive off of it. It's not about feeling superior, it's about setting yourself apart from others. And about making your character unique. Something the new breed of WoW players can't seem to comprehend. Idc that you see or get content, what I care about is the content being given out for free, because it then makes that content pretty meaningless. Would you want to climb Everest if anyone could do it and it wasn't considered a great feat?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deficineiron View Post
    OK this is getting absurd, if that is all it was folks would have formed a party in .2 or /lfg to pug naxx40/bt/swp as current content.
    a) people did.
    b) it still took someone to organize the pug and make sure there was a balance of dps, tanks & healers. very difference then just clicking a button and letting the game do it for you.
    c) the difficulty if LFR is scaled down, as I'm sure you know (note that I have not argued that LFR is as difficult as classic raid content).

    Thus, more people raid LFR then did "classic" content.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seefer View Post
    Meh, I rarely if ever watch videos, waste of time I never retain the knowledge I just go in and do it and learn from my mistakes.
    Reading the encounter description in the online tool is probably good enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deficineiron View Post
    to what would you attribute lower participation/completion rates of those older raids vs. LFR? anything that mindless the server should have on farm pretty quickly - and why did you need a guild to get swp on farm in 2.4.x? just pug it - this would be consistent with LFR-type difficulty.

    Obviously I am being sarcastic, but I feel I am making a valid distinction between 'farming naxx40' and running LFR.
    You see when you discuss how easy something is, that is an entirely subjective form of measurement. I gave you my opinion on it. I found it not to be very hard. Doesn't mean I didn't wipe. Cause there's the whole practicing of stuff to get into your grove thing and train the body to react instead of having to think about the ability that is about to/currently affecting you. Learning not to drink X glasses of wine when you have duty ABC to perform etc...LOL

    Would I then say everyone found it easy...no. I have seen the stats. Lots more failed then succeeded.

    Reason why there was less participation? My guesses would be: Age of the game...it was still fairly young then...growing rapidly...meaning a lot of non max level people. Blizzard was still working on tuning, class mechanics still were broken (better than vanilla tho). The silliness over attunements...forcing guilds to either poach or attune new people.
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    I think the problem with this legendary is that while it does take a lot of time and effort to get it, it doesn't take a lot of skill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brandon138 View Post
    This is all well and good in la la fluffy pillow pussy land. But it's called competition, and games thrive off of it.
    That's why the harder core, more competitive MMOs did better than WoW, right? Like, make everyone compete over world bosses, none of this instanced crap! Or full free for all PvP with the ability to loot your kills! Players obviously totally love all that, given how those games have hundreds of millions of subscribers now.
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