If You Don't Like The People in Randoms...Follow

LOL WoW.

I imagine you can take the idiocy of a normal 5-man PUG and multiply it by two or five and it would be a pretty close representation. Like a Baradin Hold run, except no real raid leader and no kicking of bads.

It's going to be fun and then it's going to go down in WoW history as the most fail thing ever.

So, it goes by pretty quickly. We oneshot all but the last boss, and they all had basic mechanics. (We did Assault on Wyrmrest, by the way. Fall of Deathwing is greyed out for some reason)

Doesn't mean people didn't die, just that we beat the boss.

First boss was extremely simple. Players targeted by the exploding crystal had to stack on it. When he pulls you in, get behind the stalagmites, very similar to that boss in Stonecore.

Second/Third boss (They can be done out of order) was the blood ball boss. Make a priority system, then kill the most dangerous color. Easy.

Next boss was even easier. Just keep the ball bouncing. Tell the ranged to spread out, then hit it like a beach ball at a concert. Stack up when it hits him.

The fourth and final boss is what we wiped on, twice. Remember the orbs with the beams in Ruby Sanctum? Yeah, it has that mechanic again. Of course, people have to get out of the giant swirling bubble of doom in the middle first, then move with the ice waves. Why is this so hard.

On the bright side, whenever the terribads drop out it doesn't even say anything in the chat log. It just quickly puts you back in the queue and finds a replacement pretty freaking quickly.

Edited, Nov 29th 2011 6:34pm by IDrownFish

Personally I'm more annoyed at LFG right now.

"I've haven't done this before. What does this boss do?"
Crickets...
Boss pull.
Inevitable fail because I didn't know about 'thing that kills you'.
"OMG WHY YOU FAIL SO HARD?!?!?! Don't you watch fights on youtube?!"
Tank leaves.


Seriously?

Edited, Nov 30th 2011 1:38am by Karlina

Despite the fact that the dungeon journal spells it out for you, people still don't know fights.

It amazes me.

Good call from Blizz to only open half of the bosses on those difficulties that are actually going to matter in the long run. Allows them to focus on the raid finder and any potential issues with it rather than having to track it along with a bazillion boss encounters. A little bit more tweaking on the heroic part probably won't hurt either.

For 10-man, the comp would either be 2 tanks, 6 DPS, and 2 healers, or maybe 2/5/3. In the first case, if one healer fails, the other healer has to solo heal the whole raid. In the second, DPS are actually going through the queue SLOWER than the dungeon finder, since there's only 2.5 DPS / tank instead of 3. It's just a lot easier to absorb fail in 25-man than it is in 10-man, even if you have more of it.

This. Three f'ing times in a row. Too bad I have social commitments for most of this week and will have to miss out on more annoying, disappointing, and rude LFG pugs!

Good luck everyone! =)

Pretty much. I don't have a whole lot of experience with 25 mans, as until this past January, I didn't have a computer that could handle them. And even now, the only time I do 25 mans is in BH because my guild does 10 mans. So they still FEEL like a *********** to me because it just seems like there's so much more going on even though there isn't. The benefits of doing the LFR as a 25 man is that the queue is shorter for dps and healers, and that it's easier to succeed if you have a few derpies. Unless one of the derpies is a tank.

372 I think.

I actually prefer the dungeon journal now. Watching tankspot or reading detailed strategy guides leaves me feeling like I'm painting by numbers. With the journal I may fail a few times but when it clicks I feel like I've actually overcome a challenge. I purposely qued last night so I could get in before everyone had it figured out so I could actually develop a strategy and figure it out on the fly. It took a lot longer and some frustration but felt way more exciting than anything I have done in game for a long time.

The LFR groups are better than most of the pug raids on my server and I'm hoping this can only improve as more people become familiar with the fights. The fights are ridiculously easy, but it will certainly be a lot easier to run alts through than spending upwards of an hour trying to get a group together (assuming I can even find one that will let me in with my ilvl/lack of achievement) only to have it fall apart after the first boss (or if I'm really unlucky, on trash).

I'm ashamed to say that I was one of the failers in my raids last night. I queued as dps (on my only alt with high enough ilvl) and was expecting to have time to read the dungeon finder while I waited. Instead I got an almost instant group for a 2/8 raid and they were right in front of the boss, no tactics given just pulled. It was the ooze boss and I died as soon as they reached the boss (as I'd failed to notice everyone else had stacked up), got a BR towards the end of the fight and managed not to mess up after that. Next boss I had time to read the journal but wasn't expecting the ice waves to move around the room, so I died again (with at least 10 other raid members), that try was a wipe as they didn't have enough people to chain the lightning. Next attempt I moved correctly (I think we only lost 3 people to waves that time) and it was a pretty easy fight.

I re-queued for the first 2 bosses and had time to read up on tactics before the fight. We struggled a bit on orb bouncing, but killed it on the last try I had time for :) I feel sorry for the guy who ended up with raid leader for that though, he really was trying hard to get people moving/positioned correctly.

I'm looking forward to getting more alts geared up as I think this really will give me the opportunity to raid on them each week. Hopefully it will also improve the quality of pugs on my server as people will have the opportunity to practice the fights in easy mode, but I'm not going to get my hopes up too much for that :P

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