There are various difficulty levels unlike back in the day. Also, the extreme optimization mentality is the mentality of modern gaming. It does not originate from the game. It's just how people approach any semi-competitive game now. Just look at how people approach Classic WoW now.
LFR serves no purpose from a progression standpoint now and is mindlessly easy. The only time I enjoyed LFR was in MOP when the raids were tuned so at least 10 people had to execute the mechanics correctly or the raid would fail. I really enjoyed being one of those 10 people with my wife. Wiping on Durumu and Dark Shaman until we did it corrctly was fun. LFR has been terrible since WoD.
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but if that Dragonflight "leak" turns out to be true, with the introduction of micro-classes, I would be surprised if Blizzard didn't copy over the multi class system from FF14. Seems like a good way to convince people to play the new classes more easily, fix account-wide rep issues, and consolidating alts.
I'd dig that. It was super nice and refreshing to be able to pick up BOTH the new classes in Endwalker and level them up alongside my main classes without having to reroll a new character and do everything on them to make that new character equal to my main.
If WoW allowed multiclassing I'd probably have 5 alts instead of 15 lol
I highly doubt we will ever see the removal of LFR. We are more likely to see the removal of normal or even mythic before as people like the ability to just queue into lfr and wont touch higher difficulties because they cant queue. We see this even mega-dungeons where people refuse to do them til they introduce them to LFD where they are split in half.
I'd go different way:
- remove LFR
- leave normal for casuals, with heroic being hardmode style from Ulduar. For those who didn't play back then it was activated by either pressing a big red button or doing certain mechanics. More fun
- mythic for hardcore
It would lower amount of content somehow, but at the same time it would make it more fun. Runing the same thing on 4 difficulties is just poo. That's my personal hope.
Make a proper "Story mode" instead of LFR and just let people queue for normal.
Honestly on heroic and mythic my opinion is they are fine as they are and do not need "+". What we could get is something as simple as the ESO trifecta leaderboards; who can clear Mythic the fastest with no deaths.
Appears to be using the new "World" text, consistent with the Alexstrasza picture.
Last edited by Hitei; 2022-04-16 at 06:51 AM.
It wouldnt ever happen unless normal becomes queueable. While it does suck running the same raid on 4 difficulties in theory there are probably not a lot of people who do progress from lfr to mythic. Its 2 different audiences, I know personally that I only touched LFR for legendary patterns in shadowlands and before hand the last time i did was legion for tier.
Last edited by ExiHext; 2022-04-16 at 07:15 AM.