5 year old defeats Fyrakk

Ethas-benediction · January 12, 2024, 11:14pm

“If you find the answer to this please let me know. Ive been searching for decades.”

Amantroll-amanthul · January 13, 2024, 12:31am

You dont go from igara to volocross in lfr. Whole story sounds made up…

Moozd-crushridge · January 13, 2024, 5:19pm

I love this. As one who has a bit of an issue controlling my language during raid leading (sorry everyone) I love playing with guildies/friends kids. They have an experience some of us veterans have not in over a decade. Good job papa! Glad to see your boy is enjoying the World of Warcraft!

Orkydorkydoo-burning-blade · January 14, 2024, 12:07am

So because it’s easy we should be forced to play with a toddler? Best to break that kid in early and votekick after the first pull.

Cvfour-sargeras · January 14, 2024, 4:06am

That is so wholesome. Thanks for sharing!

Anaqt-grobbulus · January 14, 2024, 4:52am

Very limited screen time okay helicopter parent

Chisteaks-mugthol · January 14, 2024, 6:08pm

Some people dont agree at whats inapropriate

Dojacàt-moon-guard · January 14, 2024, 6:15pm

Mizari:

In Looking for Raid.

So a little background, I’ve played WoW a long time. I was in the original beta, and played all the way up until Cataclysm there I took a break. Came back for Shadowlands and have been playing since.

I now have 2 beautiful kids, 3 and 5. My 5 year old son has taken an interest in Wow watching me play it ever now and then. At first I was very hesitant, but I let him explore a little bit while supervised. He loves flying around on the dragons and just exploring different areas. He finally got up the courage to try fighting things by himself (mostly just mashing buttons) and was so proud of himself when he was able to do it.

So I let him play every now and then, supervised, and only for short periods of time. He wanders around, fights stuff, sometimes he just likes flying or pretending to “patrol” around the towns.

Recently he saw me doing mythic plus and he asked what the other players were and I said they were my helpers. He said “When do I get my own helpers?” and I told him probably not for a while. So I was going to wait until the next patch dropped with the AI followers and just let him play around in there. Obviously I don’t just want to turn him lose with a group, both for his sake and for theirs

But he kept begging me, and he wanted some “helpers” to play with, so I thought about LFR and how it’s basically like playing with npcs anyway. So I joined him up in the queue for Amirdrassil LFR and we waited. He was so excited, “When are they going to join me?”

He got into the raid and I told him just to follow his helpers, which he did. I told him to stay out of the bad stuff on the ground, which he did…mostly.

He was nervous to do the first boss on his own, so I did Gnarlroot and then he wanted to try it so I let him take over after Gnarlroot was defeated. It was pretty funny watching a raid from a 5 year old’s point of view.

“People are trapped! I have to help them!”

“Why aren’t people running away? There’s bad stuff on the ground!”

So he made it through Igira and only died at the very end (because he ran all the way out of range of his healers because “he didn’t want to blow anyone up”). He was too scared to do Volcoross (which is fine, it’s a giant snake I get it). After that I was going to be done, but he was having so much fun and he wanted to do more so we queued up for the other LFR raids. He loved trying to stomp the mushrooms on Tindral.

Then came Fyrakk, and he was so focused. Even though his little sister was trying to distract him. “Not right now sis, I’m trying to kill a dragon!”. We’re starting! We’re fighting a dragon!

He ran around like a crazy person because of all the swirls and effects and to his credit managed to dodge most of them much to my amazement. I didn’t think he would react fast enough but he did and managed to live through the entire fight on his own.

When Fyrakk finally died, he let out a loud whoop “We beat the dragon! We did it!” and was jumping up and down on the chair.

Being able to share my hobby with my 5 year old has been a fun time and it’s so adorable watching things from his perspective. It makes me remember the amazement and wonder I used to have when I first started.

The only reason I share this, is not to brag, or to dump on LFR about how easy it is, or to share how “good” my kid is, but to simply share a wholesome moment I had with my son in WoW that I thought others might find amusing.

And for disclaimer:

He never plays by himself, it’s always supervised. I don’t let him go in the “scary” areas of WoW or more mature ones. I know the game well enough to know which places and activities he can do and which he can’t.

He hardly ever plays for more than an hour at a time. They have very limited screen time compared to most kids his age. I think we played two hours on a weekend once, but that’s the longest “stretch” he’s ever played. He’s a normal kid, loves trains, video games, and going outside and playing in the snow. He just happens to like video games too.

Outside of his first LFR experience he has had no other direct experiences with players. The most interaction he’s had is “helping his friends” complete the arena quests in the Ohn’aran plains.

Anyways, just thought I’d share something wholesome amongst the doom and gloom of the forums

TLDR pls

Molokai-veknilash · January 14, 2024, 6:27pm

“It’s so easy a 5 year-old can do it!”

Eàu-warsong · January 14, 2024, 7:30pm

A child participated in LFR raid,
we do not have logs of performance but it appears mostly it was just running around with no impact on progression, they defeated the last LFR boss of the expansion.

Mizari-moon-guard · January 15, 2024, 4:17am

How would you even know unless someone told you? You wouldnt.

Theres a huge difference in letting him join up for LFR where it doesnt matter how bad he does vs. a normal raid or dungeon group and I would never do that unless I thought he was ready and could perform adequately. Even then I would be leery of just letting him join any group for obvious reasons.

Dont worry, he’s not coming for your raid or mythic plus spots…

Yet

Akapally-barthilas · January 15, 2024, 6:27am

I’m going to be that guy and ruin everyones mood. But you sound like those news reports who are like “8 year old buys a house” or “College graduate purchases New York apartment” when we all know none of that is true.

Be honest, your kid was carried, and they should not have been because that just means other players are doing more then they should be. And stop with the “It’s only LFR” excuses already, I’ve had wipes over the weekend doing SARK LFR because people had that attitude, no one should be wiping on Sark, yet it is happening because I am getting people who are either bots, children, or slackers looking for a carry.

Lilithia-nagrand · January 15, 2024, 2:58pm

What are the more scarier areas please?

Dreadgoat-kilrogg · January 15, 2024, 10:45pm

What is scarier? I hear about this place called Moonguard or was it Goldshire? They are only legends though, I’m sure they don’t exist.

Lilithia-nagrand · January 16, 2024, 2:04am

It’s a myth, I assure you Mooguard on Alliance is quite safe.

Maybe you should meet me on one of my alts there, and I will take…good care of you.

snickers

Ringwraith-zuljin · January 16, 2024, 3:02am

Bro…got a youtube star in the making there

Rastabowl-area-52 · January 16, 2024, 3:10am

Even crazier more than one brewmaster monk has soloed heroic Fyrakk already.

Fathersouls-zuljin · January 21, 2024, 7:09am

My 6 year old leveled up and went to 60 and all 3 raids in shadowlands. It was amazing how easily and adaptable the game is now. There truly is something for everyone. The deep lore has him an avid reader now of deep books and similar. About to have him catching up with me here in dragonflight.

Mizari-moon-guard · January 21, 2024, 5:38pm

That’s awesome!

Lonaraee-moon-guard · January 27, 2024, 2:59am

Shots fired!
Jokes aside, that was the cutest thing I have ever read. Can’t wait for people to tell me they have a hard time on LFR. “Homie, a five year old can firm it, get your life together.”