Why IS LFR gated? I honestly don't know or understand that. People say "finding a PuG is easy" or "Normal is easier than LFR anyway" I don't think people do LFR because they think it's easier, some people that love this game can't commit to X hours per Y days on a schedule for "regular" raiding or can't/don't want to do PuGs that don't stop and blow your lockout without you if you can't commit to the time.LFR is a great way for people with little time to spare to still feel connected to the game and gain minor rewards. Or for people to run Alts they like through fast without the same constraints and commitments.I'd have thought Blizz would like people to spend more time online. The only time I can think it had a real impact on any higher leveled modes was when things had the chance to gain bonus levels (titanforged, etc) may have made people feel they had to run LFR aswell to stay AotC, so to speak.
I agree with everyone saying they should release LFR sooner, but I also think they should should make LFR about half as hard as it is at the moment and remove all loot from LFR. Or just have it drop normal dungeon quality loot.LFR should be there for those people who want to see the story and finish large quest chains etc.Hate to be "that guy" but blizzard to start pushing players back into waiting to be a guild and to play with groups of friends.On topic, the mythic change seems like a great idea to me. Might not fix everything, but I think it would do more good than bad in the long run.
No, the system works well now for the vast majority of players. If world first raiders want to do dumb stuff then let them, honestly just let them, do nothing about it.
Guess this is only important for the top10 mythic guilds and high-earning streamers.
I think the bigger question is simultaneous release across regions for the raid. If the patch release is stable, which could still be staggered for maintenance reasons, simultaneous raid release could work. For the RWF, that would remove legitimate gripes the EU community has about being a day behind or having an "extra" day after NA reset.
the 1% of players that consume mythic raids are NOT IMPORTANT. WoW didn't go from 10 million subscribers to less than 2 million because of Mythic raiding.
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Make the raid release at the same time for all regions
Might be good for the top 1% but as a casual rank 400ish guild having a week for people to get their character ready and being "forced" to run heroic and have people learn the bread 'n butter of the bosses is pretty damn helpful.
Release 'em all on the same day, including LFR, while making it so you have to clear heroic before you can set it and enter on mythic.
It's amazing how these two guys are talking about Mythic, and most comments here are talking about LFR. The disconnection with the playerbase is incredible.
It seems like RWF is the only esports event that is held on normal servers. With the contributions of social guild members and split runs they manage to get momentum for their mythic run. Fair enough.Why not put these teams on a private server, give them access to the same ill gear and lift the gate and let them go? Same playing field other than timezones in which case you can't help and it becomes a timed event?These guys are the best in the world at this. Obviously they can plan and take on these massive preparations but when the raids are so intense that people start melting down. That can't be healthy. I feel maybe it's time to take the raiding to a different level and set it up as a competition and help these guys skip the prep. We all know they can and will do it.
I know that our raid leader from our 500-something rank would push us straight into Mythic on day 1 if given the chance, so I hate the idea.