I would get rid of LFD, LFR can stay.
Reason is I really miss the server community. People would know eachother even if they weren't on the friend lists or guilds.
Assembling a raid however, is something that can be fatal to the casual.
I would get rid of LFD, LFR can stay.
Reason is I really miss the server community. People would know eachother even if they weren't on the friend lists or guilds.
Assembling a raid however, is something that can be fatal to the casual.
One day, I'll walk into a discussion topic like this doesn't devolve into people saying LFR is a cancer to the game, and we can discuss features that are truly determinedly to the game and why they should be removed.
Saddly, today is not that day.
PTR raid boss tests last like 2hours per boss 2bosses a day 2-3 days a week, soo.... yea they don't spend all day on them.
And no, people do leave right after they kill the last boss of a raid patch and then come back for the next or after not playing for so long don't feel like coming back for 1week to kill a boss and quit again. I highly doubt many would come back.
Restructure the raid/dungeon/scenario size/difficulty structure. There's just too much stuff. Here's the current list:
Dungeon
Heroic Dungeon
Challenge Dungeon
LFR
Flex
Normal-10
Normal-25
Heroic-10
Heroic-25
Scenario
Heroic Scenario
Cut it down to:
Dungeon (scale people down to match level/rewards up, and open up all dungeons for LFD for levelling)
Heroic dungeon (max level + challenge mode)
Easy Raid (flex)
Normal Raid (flex)
Heroic 10 or 25 (don't care which)
Scenario
As it stands, it spreads the playerbase out.
According to that dev round table, Flex raids have been a great success, and LFR is not very popular with the community- LFR's basically a poor man's flex. Just cut it out; it's not necessary.
Heroic Scenarios aren't really necessary; just add them as bonus objectives/challenges in regular scenarios. You can still queue for them with your friends to make sure you get all the bonus objectives.
One of the main strengths of WoW is that it has an incredible wealth of content in its history to tap. Part of the problem with the endgame grind is variety. Opening up every other dungeon in the game as a possible roll in LFD will help to increase variety by quite a bit, and mixing the levelling players and the max-level players will increase the pool of players on both ends; always a good thing. Merge Challenge and Heroic modes together to create that tough content that actually gives you meaty rewards.
Soften the trinity; There are a couple ways you can do it, and there's no reason not to do both.
1. More specs for each class, and therefore more classes filling each role.
I don't necessarily mean specs as in specs specs. I think the whole idea of "go down a tree with one goal that's it you're always gonna do that" is a bit silly, but that may just be me. But, open up the possibility for classes to fill more than the roles they currently have.
2. Make tanks/healers unnecessary in dungeons.
One of the draws of scenarios is that you don't need a tank/healer to do them. You get into them instantly, you chew through them, all done. You can chain them, which is currently only a possibility for tanks or healers depending on the time. Dungeons aren't really prized as difficult content, so I don't think it'd be really too painful to do. Let tanks and healers speed up the runs, but don't make them necessary.
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Remove faction grind. I'm done with it. Make longer quest-lines. I should be punished for Blizzards laziness by saving the same damn outpost every other day.
Remove the forums. Yes...
Changed Legendary quest-lines to not force multiple grinds of the same raid(s). My tank took over a month to get the damn tokens I needed for the first quest alone.
Alternate PvE advancement. Bring back WoTLK's 5-mans and two Valor tier pieces. Introduce something besides raiding to the game, to avoid EQ's fate when WoW first released.
I want LFR removed and replaced by boring old dungeons. I want to spend a hardcore weekend to get my alt in bis preraid gear at my own pace, instead of having to deal with enormous queues and weekly lockouts.
I want real dungeons, not cheap crap like scenarios. If they want 3man dungeons that don't require a tank, sure. No more "heroic" scenario crap either. Just spend some of those dollars and bring us well rounded dungeons that made this game so great in the first place.
So, alt gearing I want way simplified and much less time consuming. As for raids, I would like as I said LFR to be deleted, but flex be deleted too and instead make normals have the technologies of flex. I'd like to raid one difficulty per week, maybe two during progression. Not 4.
So basically what I want is plain old dungeons and the least possible amount of raid difficulties. Ideally I would like a single difficulty with twists like Ulduar.
It would never happen but whatever. Blizzard has managed to hook even casuals and alts to a weekly lockout. They are very $atisfied with that and they obviously won't be changing it anytime soon.
I want XP in Battlegrounds at level cap (60/70/80/85)to go away.
I want achievement points to have a purpose, unlocking vanity/transmog items etc. Think this might help to revive old content.
And I would like the new RNG loot system to go die in a fire.
Shields to not completely negate mechanics and negate the need to heal on most fights. I'd rather they absorb X amount of incoming damage up to the value, not 100%
Pastspirit <Ascension> 12/13 Mythic Hellfire Citadel
Except before LFD, you stood in your faction city and would spam for 2hrs LF3M Scarlet Monastery/Maraudon/Uldaman then you'd give up and either go outlevel it or get bored high level friend to carry you through. I liked dungeons on my characters so I could learn to tank etc.
I want to be able to suck the dicks of all the guys I play with because im a wow faggot
The benefit of LFR is that you can do it whenever you want, however you want, by hitting a button, and saying little or nothing to anyone else. That's why it's a rousing success, and without it, a giant segment of the playerbase will be left without an endgame.
Do you think most people pugging Flex are LFR players? :x It's Other Flex players, and above. LFR players aren't moving up to it.
But hey, considering you use the term "bads", I can't imagine you care for explanations or anything close to the nature of logic or reasoning.
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If Flex is so much better, how come LFR is still much, much, much more popular? Let me guess! Because all the players are so bad, yes?
Ugh hells no. I'm forced to do this for heroic scenarios, and I find that its the exact same experience when we zone in: We build no "community" and we don't talk save "right lets go" at the start, and a "thanks guys" at the end.
I didn't enjoy trade spamming during wrath and I don't enjoy it now.
You must show no mercy, Nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you: For your greatness will silence them all!
-Warrior Wisdom
People have built up this mythical idea of a community that never has really existed in the way in which they say it existed. (When all it's existence really meant was that you might of formed a small clique of people to talk with outside your guild, to run stuff, which is nice, yes (AND YOU CAN STILL DO THAT), but the reality was that very few people were seeing content, very few actual players were or have ever been "engaged" in the "community". Even back with the dungeons. LFD, LFR, they got made for very good reasons, and it wasn't just to "Help bad players" or "Be convenient" or whatever spiel is bantered about.)
I think in some ways, people find the IDEA of community enjoyable, and ignore the REALITY of it, and really, you just can't force this kind of stuff on people. They'll just quit and go play other things.
For the last time: LFR does not breed bad gamers. The people you call 'bad' or 'inadequate' players, or if you're a really arrogant narcissists: peasants or even 'tards' always existed. It's just that LFR gives them something to do now. Having something to do keeps them busy; keeping them busy earns Blizzard money. Money that can be put into better raids as opposed to every content patch having a ToC-like raid.
You're literally biting the hand that feeds you just because you can't fathom the concept of anyone but you having the ability to enjoy what you think is your game. The epitome of selfishness.
LFR is the worst feature ever and is only holding up the other difficulties from improving. Even Flex deserves more love than that lootfest for trolls. It should be removed.
Classes should indeed feel more distinct.
Class quests should be added more frequently, while rewarding something exclusively for your class. It should be challenging in terms of having to know the class if you want to succeed.
HC dungeons should be HC once again, something halfway MoP-Cata in terms of difficulty.