Originally Posted by
Ecwfrk
So, you'll take someone with a 496 iLevel on a Flex raid? I'm betting you wouldn't.
Yet you feel you have room to whine because people who aren't as dedicated to this game get to see the same content you do?
Right now, no one is keeping me out of a raid because there's LFR. If there wasn't LFR, assholes like you would be keeping a lot of people out of raids because anyone who doesn't invest as much time into this game would be beneath you.
You're the kind of person who says things like "Hey, I don't care if you have to defend some guy in court, do heart surgery, or be with your wife because she's in labor. Blow them off and farm mats so we have enough pots for this weeks runs or we're giving your spot to someone else."
The lack of LFR breeds elitism. It promotes players enacting whatever barriers they can to prevent players from achieving what they have to preserve their feeling of superiority.
Worse, seeing "LFM SoO Flex. 535 iLevel Minimum or don't waste our time" without LFR breeds lots of "Dear sir/madam for thankness of all our customer susanexpress offer lowest price soo run get gears now only $12.43 loowest price congratulations!" spam. When all most players can get is a few pieces of 496 from Timeless Isle without a lot of gold farming or paying someone to carry them through raids there's no reason for them to ever think critically about the boss fight or their own play because they'll never have the gear for it to become relevant.
There's plenty to hate about it. Not liking it is completely valid. If you have a good guild guild filled with good players, going into LFR can be absolutely maddening. For instance, you'll never see someone in a guild group pull 5 seconds after a mass rez and then hearth just to be a jerk. And that's just the very tip of the iceburg.
But many, many people do like it despite, or even because of, the things other people hate about it.
However, I've yet to see even one valid reason for it to be removed despite thousands of posts from people saying it should be. I see lots of lame theories about how it prevent people from wanting to be better and other complete BS. That argument always boils down to "WoW is my only source of self esteem and being one of the few to see the most iconic content in the game is all that has kept me from conducting a ballistic taste test over the past 9 years"