Comments on: A Cornucopia, a Plethora, a Herd, Flock or Swarm?

By: Bristal

Bristal — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:40:12 +0000

@Theodoxus
How clueless can you be? You and your friends “stacking” to get gear in LFR is why they changed the loot system! Can you really not understand that? You gamed the system and broke the game for players like me who actually appreciate the chance to raid that LFR gives. You do understand what RNG stands for, right? Maybe it’s you who is so bad at the RNG. Without all your buddies carrying you in rolls, you’re really just not that good at it.

What? You didn’t get any gear from a single 30 minute LFR run last night? And you couldn’t get your buddies to take any from anyone else?

Ah the sweet nectar of “HA HA!” Now go play something else.

@BBB
I wiped at least a dozen times in the first week to Garalon in LFR over a few days. There was some random vitriol, but mostly people just left if they weren’t interested in an actual raiding experience. As a solo player, I loved it. I agree that LFR is a better place to be right now. I do wish there was some forced waiting time before bosses to encourage actual communication, though. I agree with Koala that it will likely get worse as the divide between “running it for the eleventh time” and “wait, what am I supposed to be doing?” widens.

By: dubhe

dubhe — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:40:43 +0000

We were running reg Firelands and reg DragonSoul heavily before Pandaland came. At the moment, I just cant get enthusiastic about raiding. I still have only gotten 1 toon to lvl 90 and have just now hit exalted with the tillers, lol the only faction I am exalted with. I guess I just need a break from the constant grinds and long hours raiding. I am stopping to smell the roses for a while. Right now, I don’t even have a desire to run the heroics, much less LFR. I am enjoying Pandaria, I’m just tired of rushing on the hamster wheel.

By: Theodoxus

Theodoxus — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:46:10 +0000

Ran Mogu last night. Spent all my elders. I got 9 sacks of gold (only had 3 elders). I’m so fed up with not getting anything (I’ve still only gotten one main hand weapon (I prefer staff, but will use whatever I get) and a neck that was worse than the valor one.

I admit, I used DS LFR to stack getting items with my guildies. I liked it, take 10 friends along, you’re pretty much insured to get a piece or two out of LFR. Now, it’s just RNG and blizz is notorious for horrid RNG. If there was some kind of stacking buff, where each week you get only gold increases a chance for a drop – that’d be great. But having a 2% (or whatever, but it feels like 2%) chance every boss, every raid… it’s killing me and my enthusiasm.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:02:21 +0000

I do try to run it Tuesday night on the reset, or as early as possible so I know by the weekend if I have upgrades to be gemmed, enchanted and reforged.

This week I ran Terrace and the second half of Mogushan vaults on Tuesday, and last night I ran the second half of Heart of Fear.

I have waited until Sunday/Monday for some runs, including the first week Heart of Fear was out (second half), and those went the same.

I don’t know, I’m sure your experience may vary, but right now is what we see, what we have to deal with, and it’s pretty good.

By: koalabear21

koalabear21 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:51:19 +0000

Are you running LFR early in the week? That is when most of the raiders run it. If you run it later in the week (especially Sat – Mon) you will get the trolls, scrubs and jerks.

If you want the run to usually be nice then you want to have LFR done by Thursday.

A lot of the problem with the DS LFR is the regular raiders had stopped running it. At the end of the expansion all that was left was alts, casual players (this does not mean bad players) and trolls. I remember running DS LFR when it first came out and not having many problems. I ran it again at the end of the patch on an alt and wanted to drop group almost the entire time. It was that bad.

Good luck with your weapon upgrade! :D

By: Verath@ghostlandsEU

Verath@ghostlandsEU — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:49:22 +0000

Very cool article! I have written about LRF on a few occasions, mostly cause I dislike what it risks doing to your guild and the community feeling. But if the attitudes have changed, then perhaps I need to poke my nose into it again… Or my snout.

By: Slumlord

Slumlord — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:28:33 +0000

Tanks get a stacking buff called Vengeance when you get hit by mobs, ramps up your attack power, hence the huge tank dps. Next time you are offtank and not getting hit by mobs you’ll notice your dps on that fight is through the floor.

By: Riegnman

Riegnman — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:59:40 +0000

Personally, I think that you’re not seeing as many asshats in LFR(470) because they’re too stupid to get there. Think about it, these are the same people that couldn’t focus one tentacle and then kill bloods until 9 stacks. Or the ones that couldn’t tab-target a corrupted tentacle or whatever to single target them. I think that blizz added an intelligence gating when they re-added trash/boss mechanics. :)

By: Ngita

Ngita — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:14:58 +0000

Uggh I hope they don’t remove the valor cap. At the moment i bash it out in 2-3 days. Then I feel free to do the fun stuff. pvp ,pet battles, old instances, old quests,old reps, alts.

As for lfr, no I am not see’ing it. Ok I suck pretty bad at dps on my alt warrior(main spec tank) and I am 471. So why I am 3rd,4th in dps in lfr?

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:20:18 +0000

The only way this expansion has worked for me is to dedicate every playing moment to my Hunter. This last weekend was the first time I’ve really had extra playtime so I was able to get on my Warlock.

it’s not that there is too much to do. there’s isn’t. It’s that if I want to raid and to be as prepared as I can be to be an asset to my raid team, I have to prioritize my time to whatever gets gear upgrades for my Hunter first, and that has meant heroics, all of LFR, Sha of Anger, and leveling rep and acquiring valor to buy high ilevel gear.

I would like to be spending time questing and random leveling my monk alt and my warlock alt, to go solo old raids for pets, pet battles at all, hunt treasures or rares, more hunter pets, etc.

I know I will eventually be able to do that stuff… and also level more 85s to 90, level their rep to buy patterns for crafting, all sorts of stuff. But there isn’t time to do it now, and that’s by my choice and because of my priorities.