How do you cope with LFR's many negatives?

[Queen of Hamsters]

I turn off the chat, and do my own thing. If someone wants to contact me, they'll whisper and I can honestly say I have only gotten positive whispers in LFR on most of my toons. Either about a mogg, my dps or someone asking me about tacts since I've been the guide. I did get some insulting whispers on my paladin since I wasn't topping healing meters (the top one had 550 ilvl, mine had 517) and I simply replied "/yawn" and ignored him. Since I was still pulling a good amount of weight there was no chance he'd get me kicked.

Life is easier if you don't spend every awaken moment worrying about everyone else. I've had bad experiences in LFR, yes, but would I quit over them? Hell no, there's plenty of stuff to do and Flex = a good thing if one doesn't want to do LFR. It requires more of you as individual though, but still.

Durumu was a nightmare to a lot of people, but I actually enjoyed it on LFR when it was new...why? Because usually I together with a small amount of other dps and 2 healers and a tank who knew the tacts would carry the rest of the group after the first maze, making the others members of the group grateful and giving them a chance to go past Durumu.

[FluFF]

with the introduction of flex modes there's no need for me to do LFR on any of my alts. LFR/LFD is a fucked up system that I hope will die one day.

Untill Blizzard fixes their realms LFG is a nessecary tool, way to many ''medium'' population realms out there where there are no flex runs going in trade, and not everyone wants to jump on the spammy oQueue addon that infiltrates every inch of your game with spam which hogs alot of memory.

[Redlokyldoreifanggore]

When I do it, if I do it, it's as a DPS. DPS is easy, laid-back, and you can quickly learn mechanics on the fly with little consequence. I will NEVER tank or heal one of those monstrosities again. Beyond that, it's a matter of maybe doing one on one of my characters every other month.

[Deleted]

I put on music and then I go in and kick everyones ass on the DPS meter. It's a competition for me. How many LFR scrubs does it take to measure up to the quality of 1 me. My best run(or the worst LFR) I did 20%+ of all damage done by the group on any given fight. I also actively ignore anything anyone says.

*Jevlin, stop aoeing the Paragons. Jevlin, why don't you attack the corruptions? Jevlin, why are you pulling trash with the cannons?*.

And when I do reply it's something along the lines of;

*How dare you speak to me you filthy casual?* or my favorite "Fuck you, that's why."

LFR can be fun if you let it be. Be an asshole, have a good time, get your money's worth.

[jetersky]

Simple: I avoid it. I haven't cleared LFR on any of my characters. Not once. I tried as SoO was being released, but it's just too painful anymore. I just stick to my main and do heroic raids. It's unfortunate for my alts, but it beats having to deal with the headache that LFR has become.

[mmokri]

I go tank.
I take the lead.
I kill garosh at first pull.
Profit.

[Yakshamash]

I... I... Just tried it. After 1 year not entering LOLFR. Added 1 more account on sale and leveled hunter just for fun, while guild taking break for new year eve. "Fuck" is every 1st and last word. Every 2nd word is "kick". No one says "hello" when you enter raid, instead someone will mention your mother. Guy who accidentally put need on green item was kicked and insulted like the worst scum on planet. Tanks being kicked from t14 raids if they are under 600k hp. Afking is perfectly normal. If you doing low dps, you'll get kick. If you doing insane dps, you'll get kicked too, cause you doing something wrong and probably pulling unecesary trash. If someone ever wonder where are all scums, fail abortions and jerkoffs of this planet ended, here is the answer - playing Wow and doing LFR. I just feel sorry for nice people and casuals trying to be nice with those idiots. Like Jevlin said few posts above, if you want to do LFR, you must be an asshole and you'll have fun.

[Deleted]

I just play LoL for a bit and WoW players looks like top community after that.

[Fim]

When I que on my alt, what I do is simply click the tab on my chat frame that brings up the combat log, Which in turns keeps raid chat concealed so I can't get angry at anyone if there's nothing to read, I also know the encounters front to back beforehand so having things explained to me is pointless anyway. I Flask, eat food, turn up my favorite music nice and loud then do the best job I can possibly do pertaining to the class and role I'm currently playing while minimizing avoidable damage taken . I just worry only about me and my job and block out what everyone else is doing, because frankly, I don't care.

I'm considerably less tolerant of LFR than I was pre-flex. With the addition of flex, it's easy enough to setup an alt run with some guildies or known competent people from the realm and fill the rest with oQueue. It's faster, it's more cordial and social, it's better gear, and it's less time waiting than the LFR queue. Flex is just a better experience overall, so the only reason I have to run LFR is the tier recolors.

[MagicBanana]

The lfr trash talk happens every run so I usually just tune it out cus the times I have to raid are rare. If there's an afk or bad egg I usually help out with a vote kick otherwise I keep to myself, keeping my bong close & shred the meters as well as I can with whatever alt I'm on :]

[clevin]

I dunno, I've not run LFr in a couple of months, but I never found it to be routinely bad or toxic. Yeah, a run here or there but not most runs. However, I followed one rule:

Run it right after the reset. Tuesday or Wednesday for the US, Wed or Thursday for the EU. This might have changed since the advent of Flex, but those days usually had the best groups overall. Once Flex came, though, I found a good group and ran with them until mid-November when I just got bored with WoW and let the sub lapse. I'll do a flex/normal thing in WoD when it's out. I can't see any real reason to LFR for long - maybe 1-4 runs to get a new toon geared or if you really can't do even flex raid times.

[Burnick]

I ignore it, And never do LFR to make the lives of those people who are complete assholes to us tanks have verrrrry long ques

Stand up for yourselves tanks! Don't take this bullshit, Just don't que up for LFR period.

[Axelond]

Disable recount, Create a new chat box that ignores raid chat, say, yells and just treat it like a scenario with 24 npcs

[slime]

For LFR issues I subscribe to the "If you can't beat them, join them" philosophy.

[Spazzer]

I have seen a higher complain about LFR as of recent and I believe this is because of the increase of people returning because of the Holidays. I can also stat that I have not since the Holidays been placed within a LFR from the start. I usually end up on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th boss which causes me to reque and redo the 1st boss and like many others I leave afterwords (why stay if you've already done them?). This has been happening to many people which is why you might see countless people leave after bosses because they just needed or missed that boss the first time around.

Not saying the system is perfect, just explaining it for the people who are missing the reason(s).

~Spazzer

[Ealyssa]

Flex is the new LFR for not braindead players.

http://eu.battle.net/wow/fr/characte...lista/advanced

Only doing flex with this char. And using openraid instead of oqueue (using OQ but not for flex as the quality is barely superior than LFR). Openraid is just that awesome everybody should try it.

[ComputerNerd]

All those "negatives" are player created.
They exist because most people in the raid do not care enough to votekick them.
The worst experiences in the game are mostly driven by players, yet are whined about most by players who willingly contribute to or create the issues in the first place.

[bals]

For the most part I just don't do LFR anymore.

[Aethilus]

I only ever tank LFR, I know this sounds backwards since tanks have the most responsibility but I always do 1 or 2 line raid warnings pre-fight for every fight, I mark skulls for the dps to burn, and in important moments I will stop my tanking rotation to type out and spam appropriate raid warnings. Even in the super low dps groups I have good success.

Most LFR groups just need one person who is willing to *really* lead them and they go smoothly. It helps that I'm experienced in raid leading normal/heroic I'm sure, but nothing is really hard about what I do for LFR groups.

[Calzaeth]

I use the ignore and votekick functions, and talk to the decent people.