I've actually been putting SoO raiding off till people have mastered the tactics and geared themselves adequately. The 2 hour runs I've been having are not fun, so any ease to LFR to hasten the process is welcomed by me.
I've actually been putting SoO raiding off till people have mastered the tactics and geared themselves adequately. The 2 hour runs I've been having are not fun, so any ease to LFR to hasten the process is welcomed by me.
Now you see it. Now you don't.
But was where Dalaran?
I did 5 raids (the 4 Runestone raids, SoO wing 2 twice due to incomplete first run) and had 0 wipes and 3 "new record" times set. Last week I only had one wipe (iron juggy.. really?) so it feels like it's all easy mode now.
I enjoy the nerfs. I mostly go there on a couple of alts to get transmog gear these days, and see fights personally. I like easy fights because I only have a limited amount of time to GET this gear and looks. On top of that, I hate being in a one hour queue, only to be on JUST Garrosh with 2 determination stacks and wipe 5 more times because people don't know how to kill MCed people, or to kill the axes.
Honestly, if people want a "raiding-like experience", they need to do Flex nowadays. Blizz needs to treat LFR differently and just let people blast through it quickly. It's already limited in rewards, and it already gets postponed so normal/heroic/flex raiders can see it first. Not like I can get achievements by doing LFR. I just want gear and lore, so let me get through it already.
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They've addressed that. The ilvl gap between LFR and normal is now 25. Do you know how big that is? Approximately the same as dungeon blues to Mogu'shan Vault normal gear. For a lot of classes, the lfr tier sets aren't worth wearing once they've got an ilvl above 550.
Soothing Mist:"Healing them for a minor amount every 0.5 sec, until you take any other action."
Jade Serpent Statue: "The statue will also begin casting Soothing Mist on your target. healing for 50% as much as yours. "
[What's half of minor?]
"Statue casts Soothing Mist at a nearby ally for toddler healing."
Because it is blatantly obvious an very easy way to get gear. They aren't even trying to disguise it now. Just call it what is ....The Blizzard Welfare System.
I finally did the last wing of SoO last night, just to have done it once. I thought queue times would be more forgiving since it was Tues... NOPE! Over an hour wait for dps. Then there's the random tank quitting/requeue time after everyone tells him he stinks. I think it took me a little over 3.5 hrs, including queue time.
I'd hate to see Blackfuse pre-nerf - we ended up w/ 5 stacks before killing him. Funny enough we had fewer stacks on Garrosh.
Honestly, they're nerfing LFR b/c it seems like fewer normal/HC raiders are even running LFR. LFR raids past, the more geared people carrying the rest of the raid, the quicker/smoother things went. Why do LFR if your guild runs Flex in addition to raiding? It drops better loot & is less painful. Not to mention the queue times - just silly.
I know I won't be stepping back into LFR - I'd rather run random scenarios/dungeons to VP cap if I don't raid much that week. There's really no extra incentive to do LFR. Maybe if they really bumped up the VP or something? No idea. But it's certainly not attractive currently to people that raid Flex+
LFR quality deteriorates as people gear up and drop off leaving just the R-tards... it's unfortunate
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Why do people care whether LFR gets nerfed or not? The obsession and hatred over it is becoming unhealthy. If you think you're too leet for LFR then by all means don't run it. LFR was never meant to have any significant difficulty as it is exclusively made of PUGs.
Most of the LFR haters I see don't even have heroic achievements. It's kind of pathetic. At least have the credentials to show us plebs how hardcore you really are before riding in on the high horse.
Maybe now I'll be able to actually clear LFR in less than two hours, since the language barrier between the 99% of English servers versus magically getting half a raid from Ragnaros/Azralon/Goldrinn/Drakkar (ie. portugese speaking, latin servers) won't matter.
Up until this tier, I've never been anti-LFR. But, ever since I've had to tank or DPS for LFR groups wherein you can't even explain to half the raid what to do because they don't understand you? At that point I say it's jumped the shark.
And no, I'm not exaggerating about how often my raids are made up of non-English speaking players. I have nothing against them - I'm sure it's just as frustrating for them at times. But, when you can't tell the other tank when to taunt and have to Google and find out to say "Provocado!" to them, it's getting ridiculous.
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No it is not.
LFR has more people raiding in it then _EVERY_ other raid mode currently. Blizzard has confirm as such. My perception of it is fine. I see it serves a purpose and since raiding is the main focus LFR should remain as it is and receive more improvements.
It is not a welfare system. Players still have to do the content to have a chance at getting any items. Same as any other raiding mode. It is just easier than the other raid modes and has automatic match making.
Until you can provide a valid counter argument I think we're done.
Just stop it with using "welfare" in terms of the ease of items. "Welfare epics" was a buzz term back in The Burning Crusade when Season 2 arena armor went to the Honor Vendor. After that, they added T6 quality blues to a Badge of Justice vendor (now Justice Points). They continued the trend by making honor gear easily available, adding Badge of Valor (later Valor Points) to ease the impact of randomization; and adding easily crafted epics among many many other things. The term was once coined because of something that wasn't yet the game's method of operation. It is such now, and "welfare" is no longer a remotely relevant term. What you call "wellfare" is and has been the status quo for several years now since the later half of The Burning Crusade, so drop the attitude over it. Three and a half expansions and 7 years later, it's a bit late.
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