LFRFollow

Haven't done it yet. Don't plan on it, ever, this xpac.

The burnout vs gear ratio is not worth it to me. I'm confidant my guild will clear content and me not doing LFR will not be the thing that holds us back ever. Maybe some hours could be shaved if I did LFR but again burnout vs gear ratio. I also feel gear is secondary to skill and experience. Skill and LFR have no bearing on each other and the fights are typically different to make LFR experience useless to encouraging bad habits.

So this xpac I say chutz to LFR.

Opinions?

Other than the last boss, most groups I've been in have done ok so it's not been too much of a hassle. I'll keep doing it while I need the gear upgrades.

The nice thing about LFR is that you can get a general idea of what's going on, and experience it. I plan on doing at least one LFR before jumping in with a guild run. That way, I can see what's going on without holding up a guild run with the need for an explanation before every encounter.
I'm with you though, don't really care for it and I would much rather do the real thing with friends.

I have to agree that the rep grinds/dailies are tediously essential as heroics have jack for epic gear. It feels like a slow grind gearing up, praying for a raid drop since grinding out valor is fixed.

As for LFR itself, ive been running all that i can and while burning an elder charm for a bonus loot roll is a nice change, I dislike that I've won 2 items twice. Two shards is spiffy, but id prefer gear i could use : /

And pleeeeeease, give me -something- else to spend lesser charms on. Nearing 1k atm and using only 90 a week is aggravating.

I sort of like LFR, simply because it makes me a better healer. I can almost always rely on lots of people who ignore mechanics or simply react to them very slowly, and it both teaches me how dangerous the mechanic might be and if/how I need to use cooldowns to negate it. It's also good to hone my snap decision making and reaction skills with 25 different bars to prioritize since my normal raid group is only a 10 man.

Burnout doesn't seem to be an issue for me personally, probably because each raid feels different as a healer. DPSing generally feels on rails for me...the mechanics don't change and the bosses don't suddenly do things they've never done before the way that players themselves can.

Well did the new LFR this week, right away got put in 2/3, so i take it. My god this is the most PUG unfriendly boss there is, I forsee nerfs soon. Its not a difficult fight in theory but everyone has to actually work together.

This is how the fight goes. Boss Fixates on a person that needs to kite it around, while tanks stay in front to soak the cleave or it gets stacks of frenzy buff. While Dps needs to kill each leg that -3% of it Hp each time a leg dies (He heals them every once in a while), but be careful not to walk under it or it does a Crush move that damages the whole raid for about 125k. and One person in the raid gets a pheromone debuff that makes him pulse slow dmg(stack at 5k a tick, then like 7,10,15,20,25 etc.) to the raid and drop puddles that slow and dmg you if you walk on them, and this debuff starts stacking putting a debuff on the entire raid for extra dmg. You pass this debuff to someone by going near them that reset it, and pass the pheromone debuff to them.

How many things can go wrong, Well griefers will stand under him so he constantly crushes, or people just dont pay attention. Someone gets the pheromone and puts puddles everywhere, or stands in dps and it bounces everywhere. tanks dont stack or fixated person acts like an idiot and frenzy stacks to no end. Ohh yeah and if the person with the pheromone isn't careful and dies, the debuff just keeps stacking indefinitely on his body.

Its a Pug killer, as for the other 2 bosses i have no clue I qued for LFR on Heart of Darkness for 2 Hours canceling any 2/3 ones that popped and I never saw a fresh one. The worst part is you find a decent group that listens and seems to understand, but make 1 or 2 mistakes on the first attempt and wipe, then half leave so you explain to the new ones and they make mistakes and the other old half leaves so your constantly trying to explain, and people are making beginner mistakes then leaving. It's a Bitter cycle. The lowest i got it was 65%

Its not hard you just need cordination, which in LFR is like asking for world peace. I'm guessing Blizz is going to have to nerf it.

I've ended up queuing as healer in my sub-par gear (445) on my main the couple of times I've ran LFR. Thankfully, the other healers knew what they were doing, as I was bottom or second last of the table for heals.

You should try leading a guild. Every time I feel low, I go back and read threads archived on my old guild's forums. Then I can say "At least I'm not dealing with that anymore".

Told ya it was going to get nerfed.
Also If you ca find 2 competent people to do pheromones the fight is actually pretty easy. I cleared it on my warrior by sacrificing my dps to pheromone tag, kite. But I didn't trust the other people to do it.

Edited, Nov 12th 2012 2:38pm by BeanX

Edited, Nov 12th 2012 2:39pm by BeanX

Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/7207170/Patch_505_Hotfixes_November_12-11_13_2012

And now its a LFR friendly boss.


Edited, Nov 13th 2012 8:01pm by BeanX

So I did LFR for the 1st time last night. 1st 3 bosses of Mogu'shan. Holy crap was it easy. I think within 30min we were done, and I (being tank) did NONE of the mechanics that you have to do in normal 10 man. Snagged some gear that upgraded 5man gear, so that was nice.