tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post548470832008395374..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: LFR & New Dungeons: Not a Bad StartTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-18418845656787097632011-12-03T00:20:51.981-05:002011-12-03T00:20:51.981-05:00I honestly doubt they will lose any more subscript...I honestly doubt they will lose any more subscriptions for making raiding easier than they would for keeping it hard. In fact, now that everyone can actually see every aspect of the game without having to be in a hardcore raiding guild and shoving their real lives in a closet, they may even gain a few. The only reason the "Easy" raiding bothers anyone is because the "anyone" it bothers had to do everything the "hard" way before this. No one likes to see anyone else get something for free that they had to work for, even if they too can get it just as easily from now on. It's a classic human condition. Ridiculous, but classic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-33761527145890538802011-12-02T18:04:29.517-05:002011-12-02T18:04:29.517-05:00@anon consider this - wotlk was faceroll easy, and...@anon consider this - wotlk was faceroll easy, and wow set record numbers of subs. Cata came out, blizz listened to the vocal minority and made it harder. Subs lost. Za/zg come out, very long and difficult. More subs lost. Now we have 3 short, easier, fun dungeons. I see subs increasing. I've tanked these 3 over and over the past few days and the response had been overwhelmingly positive from the others in my pugs. There are the occasional "blizz sucks these too easy" members, but they are few and far between. Again proving that these people are thee MINORITY. I plan on doing the raid finder tonight, so I cannot comment on that aspect of the patch yet.<br /><br />The one negative that I do have is it seems the reg raid seems to easy... This content is fun, but how is it going to stay fun for months when so many guilds have already cleared it on reg? I'm all for an easy lfr raid, but I believe in having to farm the first bosses of an instance to get thee gear to be able to clear it.Cepingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-64606921775329034142011-12-02T13:25:43.610-05:002011-12-02T13:25:43.610-05:00The BOE turned soulbound on greed is a bug. Blizza...The BOE turned soulbound on greed is a bug. Blizzard is aware of that bug. BOEs are only supposed to be soulbound when someone rolls Need on it.Shannarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05700293580839115132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-33771054662815566982011-12-01T08:54:18.405-05:002011-12-01T08:54:18.405-05:00Had a try at the LFR system last night. Even with...Had a try at the LFR system last night. Even with only 1 or two people out of the 25 having done it before it was mostly a one shot on 1st four chaps, 2 silly wipes the whole run. Now i'm not convinced on either argument yet - is raid finder too easy or is it easy because only people with the gear can get in...it's probably a bit of both. Our dps across the board was decent, top chaps over 20k, 1 at 30 and our MT was really rather good so that helped. <br /><br />You know what though? I liked it. I had fun in a raid for the first time since WotLK. I wish it had been just a little harder, the adds on bosses seemed to drop quite quickly and didnt hurt that much for example. Perhaps this is only this difficulty for phase 1 though, for DW himself I imagine it to be much harder. Let the casuals chain run LFR stage 1 to thier hearts content and call themselves raiders, good on them and good luck. If it makes people happy and keep playing its a good thing. <br /><br />Like his Grumpness, I do slightly fear when every idiot gets 372 gear though.Rafflesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-43761600863290780672011-12-01T07:56:41.284-05:002011-12-01T07:56:41.284-05:00@Anon
Have not tried it on normal yet. We raid o...@Anon<br /><br />Have not tried it on normal yet. We raid on Thursdays so will most likely give it a shot tonight.<br /><br />The raid finder version was super easy when done with actual raiders. Once the people doing 3K DPS, like the warrior in one of my heroic runs yesterday, are in the raid finder version I assure you that the raid finder version will actually be harder then heroic mode.<br /><br />I've always said it. Raiding is not hard. It is only a matter of learning the fight. Once you know it, any fight is easy. It is the people that make it hard. You can only account for yourself you can not account for what the people around you do.<br /><br />This means the LFR will be extremely hard once the non-raiders get up to 372 item level. <br /><br />The first day was a bit of a joke because only raiders where doing it and for raiders there really was no challenge there. Even bad raiders that was easy for. But we have to remember, it was not made for raiders. That is why it was super easy for us.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-54119103854678476822011-12-01T04:42:33.033-05:002011-12-01T04:42:33.033-05:00It is just ridiculous how easy the raid is. Even i...It is just ridiculous how easy the raid is. Even in normal mode we could just ignore encounter elements like the black cloud at the first boss and survive it without any healing at all!<br />If we weren't running for the Raidachievements, we probably would have oneshotted every single boss. And we didn't even had PTR experience or read any guide or something...<br /><br />And then came the LFR. If a random group, where no one knows each other, without any organization at all and where most of them don't even know the raid, was able to kill almost every freaking boss in the first try (that shaman took two), there is something wrong. Horribly wrong.<br /><br />Hope they lose another shitloads of subs for that and maybe some day they would realize something...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-33138073332641748642011-11-30T15:48:22.401-05:002011-11-30T15:48:22.401-05:00That's very weird about the BoEs, did you open...That's very weird about the BoEs, did you open a ticket? I saw one drop while playing around with the new dungeons yesterday, and the person who won it through greeding (my guildie) definitely was able to sell it on the AH after. Strange!<br /><br />And I've heard overall, pretty positive things about the raid finder. Sometimes it's chaos, sometimes there's people in there with PVP gear or who just aren't that good, but the difficulty is low enough that it's still okay. My guildie was in one such group yesterday and they wiped a few times on various bosses, but he was just more amused by the anarchy than irritated. I've yet to try it myself, but I expect it will be interesting!Radeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07258438792268722044noreply@blogger.com