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    Reward "in demand" LFR roles with flex/normal gear

    In times of ridiculous tank and/or healer shortage, how about instead of the goodie bag you get, when the instance is complete:

    * 1 guaranteed piece of gear appropriate to your selected loot spec, chosen randomly from the bosses in the wing
    * 25% chance it will be flex
    * 10% chance it will be normal

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    Quote Originally Posted by Normie View Post
    In times of ridiculous tank and/or healer shortage, how about instead of the goodie bag you get, when the instance is complete:

    * 1 guaranteed piece of gear appropriate to your selected loot spec, chosen randomly from the bosses in the wing
    * 25% chance it will be flex
    * 10% chance it will be normal
    yah. cause I could use a bag full of 528 garbage to vendor.
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    Because tanks and Healers don't already get a HUGE benefit with having minimal queue times and goodie bags for dungeons... -.-

    Flex isn't LFR and is even more optional, so I don't see any reason for a reward there either. You're going because you want to. It's your choice.

    I do, however, think 1 piece of gear or maybe a token (collect 5 to get a piece of gear) should be part of all PUG raid experiences for all roles. You should never spend 3 hours doing something and come out completely empty handed.

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    Plain No,can't you see the obvious reasons that make it unfair for the other classes?

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    Rather than doing it that way, why not introduce a version of "Thunderforged" for LFR. Where if you win gear as a "call to duty" role (meaning every time you tank) there's a actually fairly decent (like 50%) chance that it comes with 1 upgrade already on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gatao View Post
    Plain No,can't you see the obvious reasons that make it unfair for the other classes?
    * Me waiting 45 min just to get to the last boss, and a 60 minute wait to get back to the first 3

    vs

    * Me getting 0-5 minute queue pops and some random tank gets 2 pieces of free gear

    Well, it wasn't hard for me to decide which one I liked better.

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    I wouldn't mind...healers and tanks need more intensive to actually do those roles, as choosing to play those roles comes with many disadvantages that dps don't have to experience eg. not being able to do high level brawlers guild, struggling to solo, people refusing to duel you etc.

    I don't think free gear is the answer but some issues need to be addrssed to bring healers/ tanks in line with dps roles outside raids >.<

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    "Blizzard, fix LFR DPS que times!"

    Ok, we'll give extra gear to tanks and healers to give them an incentive to que up....

    "WTF Blizzard, don't give them gear, they already get fast ques! Give everyone equal loot!"

    Ok, we'll give them a goody bag with a useless flask or gem and some gold to deal with a bunch of mouthbreathers for 4 hours of wipes...and that won't have any impact on que times.

    "Blizz, fix LFR DPS que times!"

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    OK, so once they gear up twice as fast as DPS, what is the incentive for them to continue to queue?
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    I have a better idea. How about Blizzard do nothing to help the LFR situation and let it die out completely. And Flex replaces it.

    Yeah, that's a much better idea than helping out the atrocity that's LFR.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MistsofBoredom View Post
    I have a better idea. How about Blizzard do nothing to help the LFR situation and let it die out completely. And Flex replaces it.

    Yeah, that's a much better idea than helping out the atrocity that's LFR.
    great for full servers not so great for servers that rarely run flex.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MistsofBoredom View Post
    I have a better idea. How about Blizzard do nothing to help the LFR situation and let it die out completely. And Flex replaces it.

    Yeah, that's a much better idea than helping out the atrocity that's LFR.


    This. THere's plenty of healers and tanks out there, they didn't disappear but LFR is an exercise in masochism, to the point where people will do what they can to either skip it. Putting in OP rewards like normal mode gear is an awful idea, much better idea would be to just let flex take LFR's spot and be done with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by omni View Post
    Because tanks and Healers don't already get a HUGE benefit with having minimal queue times and goodie bags for dungeons... -.-

    Flex isn't LFR and is even more optional, so I don't see any reason for a reward there either. You're going because you want to. It's your choice.

    I do, however, think 1 piece of gear or maybe a token (collect 5 to get a piece of gear) should be part of all PUG raid experiences for all roles. You should never spend 3 hours doing something and come out completely empty handed.
    This would be in place of the "goodie bags" (which aren't always that "goodie", a flask and gold to me is useless since my guild supplies all flasks for our raiders, gold...well, that's easy enough to get. mounts and pets are not ALWAYS in the bag) so it's not really a "HUGE benefit" to get a "goodie bag"

    Also, you can do a normal raid with your guild or a pug and come away with just a repair bill, so why should it be any different in LFR or Flex?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frozenbeef View Post
    great for full servers not so great for servers that rarely run flex.

    Open raid!!! Seriously though, blizz should implement this into the game on some level. Once you start using it, you don't go back.

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    Because tanks will continue running LFR after they get all the gear they need from said mode.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RickJamesLich View Post
    Open raid!!! Seriously though, blizz should implement this into the game on some level. Once you start using it, you don't go back.
    its amazing how people havent caught on to this yet. Need a XXXXXXX group? hit open raid and you dont have to wallow in the lfr shit show

    extra extra extra incentives are not needed encourages a bad mindset
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    Quote Originally Posted by UnifiedDivide View Post
    The two times I've used Open Raid, it's been just as bad as LFR apparently is... People leaving, people being morons and trolls. Worse than my standard LFR really.

    That said, giving healer/tanks more incentives like this, gearing them up so much faster than DPS, helps nothing. You'd have an abundance for a little while then they'd be nowhere around to do LFR anymore.

    Also doesn't help the attitude of players really.

    all it encourages is.....im gonna do this que to get extra gear. Oh im geared up no need to do que
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alpheus View Post
    People doing below 200k dps? Ain't nobody got time for that.
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    Why? Why should content be gated behind skill?
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    I'd probably queue as heals and just spam chain heal and hope that's good enough. Loot spec to Elly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by UnifiedDivide View Post
    The two times I've used Open Raid, it's been just as bad as LFR apparently is... People leaving, people being morons and trolls. Worse than my standard LFR run really.

    That said, giving healer/tanks more incentives like this, gearing them up so much faster than DPS, helps nothing. You'd have an abundance for a little while then they'd be nowhere around to do LFR anymore.

    Also doesn't help the attitude of players really.
    But then again I'll use myself for example, my main is a tank but will I currently tank in the LFR as it is, umm no not worth it I'll queue as DPS or not bother the instant queue is not enough of an incentive for me for it to be worth the hassle.

    Now bare in min 99.9% of tank actually have a 2nd dps spec so yes by doing whats being suggest I would get my tanking gear twice as fast possibly but I have 2 sets of gear to get ... so you get a normal duration tank at the end of the day.

    It all depends how much you like waiting for an LFR due to no tanks or waiting when one leaves etc.

    If people are so insanely jealous of other that "OMG no one can have more loot than me" like a spoiled kid then no it would not be a solution and we keep the long waiting times.


    At the end of the day everyone would gear up quicker because you would be doing more runs in less time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by UnifiedDivide View Post
    That said, giving healer/tanks more incentives like this, gearing them up so much faster than DPS, helps nothing. You'd have an abundance for a little while then they'd be nowhere around to do LFR anymore.

    Also doesn't help the attitude of players really.
    How would one piece of gear per completed queue gear anyone up "so much faster"?

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