Comments on: Gaming the LFR

By: Navimie

Navimie — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:32:07 +0000

Great post BBB. Linked it. Love that story with “Yalani”. Classic just desserts.

By: Nina

Nina — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:07:42 +0000

There is a bug/exploit – if you stand in the center of Hagara’s ice bubble you won’t be hit by ice waves, and if you can clear the debuff that the bubble places on you, you won’t take too much damage. Heck, a lot of raids on heroic just stack all the healers and ranged on Hagara and heal through the damage.

By: Pawzy

Pawzy — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:46:29 +0000

3B, you’ve just given me an evil idea of what to do on my alt priest. *cue super villain laughter*
Watch out asshats who LFR tomorrow, I just might life grip you into the ice if you tick me off sufficiently! >:D

By: Xaeth

Xaeth — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:00:48 +0000

I think you’re pretty accurate BBB, except on EU realms it’s wednesday that people raid and the reset is wednesday morning, so if you LFR 12-18:00 chances are you’ll see me and my guild pwning those bosses. Optimal non-asshat time? Sorry BBB but you’ll have to play a different game :(, I tried to run my alt tank (my main whos clearing hardmodes atm, although they are a little harder than we anticipated), I got kicked from the first one cause I had PVP shoulders, and whilst yes I’d love to have full 378, Hour of Twilight just wouldn’t drop them :(. But the next run guess what I get, a PVP hero, asshat leader yelling at everyone telling them what to do. My favourite moment? When they countered their own priority for oozes and wiped us, was priceless :). Ps the priest in our guild does that life grip thing to, but mainly to our Offtank during LFR cause he gets savage lag and doesn’t realise whats going on! GG to all those counter-asshats out there :) oh yeah and another great elitist douche fight is ultraxion, watch which tanks get one shot :D

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:05:30 +0000

Just to be clear… I don’t think dying to anything in the game is a sign of anything other than you were focused on something else at the moment, or got nailed by a lag spike, or had fifty kabillion spell effects just turn your screen into a slideshow.

Nothing is ever that cut and dried.

What I do love is seeing someone who lives by the ‘yell at others’ sword die by the ‘yell at others’ sword.

By: Xew

Xew — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:17:03 +0000

That’s me Bristol – to a tee. I’ve managed not to die once to the ice in LFR… I guess I’m a bit too focused on healing, and the first thing I notice when the ice phase has started is the giant white ice spike coming up out of my feet… then dead.

Guild runs are a lot easier, since people are talking (knowing I have that tunnel vision) – but the LFR is just bleh.

By: Bristal

Bristal — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:49:48 +0000

I’m not an idiot. Been playing a long time. Good dps. Smart person. I’ve died to a damn ice wave THREE times.

One person’s “it’s so easy how can you be so stupid?” is another person’s Achilles heel. Careful mocking, your own weaknesses may cause an embarrassing wet stain in a crowded room someday.

By: Gameldar

Gameldar — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:11:06 +0000

That Hagara story is fun, I wish I had a priest now… Lore was suggesting on his Weekly Marmot that something they did to slow the ice walls in LFR (not they needed it… but yeah they wiped runs) stuffed up and I’m not if it is a bug or it’s just a difference from week to week but my last run before this last reset had a couple of wipes – with lots of people going ‘how do you all die to the ice walls, wtf?’.

Now I was healing this on my pally… and so I actually watch the health bars (rather than the pretty platform) – people died instantly as soon as the phase started… yet the loud ones were complaining because of them dying to ice walls. As far as I can tell the difference – Hagara now chucks up a huge ice spikes in the middle as the phase starts… and the tanks were tanking the boss in middle where all the melee had no choice but to die. So third try (after I suggested to the tanks they don’t tank in the middle…) we finished it with no death.

Of course the other fun of Hagara in LFR is repeated – “don’t attack the boss I need to pick pocket it for the legendary quest line!” (and the following insistence by the said rogue that they can do it in LFR)

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:35:00 +0000

I have to say… I have been in some really, really offensive lfr groups.

Do they succeed? Yes.

But they have been filled with an abundant supply of asshats.

I’m just trying to find the optimal “asshat-free” time slot.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:28:09 +0000

Honestly, never looked that close at ‘em. I was usually killing the boss, noticing the lines heading out, signaling time to back the heck up and get ready for the ice to come. Plenty of time to move out of the way.

Thank you very much for making that clear and correcting my mistake, i’d hate someone to die to an Ice Wave because of me.