Oh, I totally agree. During wrath when content was EASILY puggable I went through that process. Even using Oque, I tend to pop on to someones armory before blinding accepting their posted ilvl.
Sadly the trade off that we made when moving to a lower pop server was in the non existent level of play that the players here do have.
Pugging normal mode just does not happen.
On the occasions we ask the only responses will be from 515 ilvl players who have only completed SOME LFR as far back as cataclysm.
So, no thank you, and on to the next refusal.
There is no Bad RNG just Bad LTP
It's simply a case of people not trying hard enough. Go to openraid and you can find a group. Not getting an invite? Make your own group. Maybe look up the strats before you start the group so that you have a basic understanding. You might have to replace other bad players, but there is literally nothing preventing anyone from getting in a Flex group if they're actually willing to try.
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Dragonslayer Kooqu
I would rather say tanks moved on to healer and dps. After the 5.4 changes I stopped playing lfr (and flex) on all my 3 tank classes since I find it utterly boring now. Instead I play on my dps and healer alts.
Same goes for heroic dungeons, actually especially heroic dungeons. The 1/n vengeance change made dugeons unbearable. Tanking dungeons with 5-10k vengeance while you have dps geared with 550+ ilvl is just dreadful. On my main that is a tank I sometimes still do dungeons for valor points. But then I queue as a dps/healer in tank spec and just do 50k dps in tank spec, since tanking is so boring I would rather take the longer queue timer. I also completely stupped tanking dungeons on my tank alts.
The 1/n vengeance formula is also causing me to dread the next expansion, as it will make leveling as a tank, and doing any daily quests / grinds completely dreadful. It is honestly making me consider rerolling from tank to my resto durid or hunter 100% due to the 1/n vengeance formula. I have talked with other tank friends and they think the same.
If you want one bad guy why there are even less tanks now than before, I would look at the 1/n vengeance formula and reverting that.
As a tank I get to focus on DPS and on Active mitigation... how is that boring? I love tanking now more than ever and I find way more fun on my prot war nwo than I was having as a mage before and I played that toon for years!
The days of standing in the bosses crotch and just taking hits while hoping you have enough stam are long gone! Active tanking is FUN and tryign to min max your dps on top of that just adds another layer of fun!
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