Originally Posted by
Spaceboytg
What it does invalidate, for the more casual player, is raiding at all i.e. LFR. Like I've already said I've barely scratched LFR this expansion and my toons, while not swimming in high ilvl, all surpass anything I could've acquired from LFR. And most likely from Normal as well, if I cared about that.
Now, I'm not completely complaining because I find the BfA raids to be boring and uninteresting so I'm happy there's no reason for me to do them (plus the transmog is horrid, so there's not even that carrot). But raiding, even just LFR, paces out the gear acquisition in a way that keeps you coming back for months to try and fill that last hole. So it serves a useful purpose for the life of the game. Right now I'm beyond bored with BfA because all systems are designed to funnel gear to the player rather than fun and the WQ/Emissaries/Warfronts have dominated that funneling for anyone that does anything less than Heroic raiding/High keystones.
I'm not sure if I like the way they're doing it or not. I kinda miss my weekly LFR runs but at the same time I've hated BfA raids so I can't really decide.