Like do you people load up Mario, fall into the first hole and die, and then blame Nintendo for not accommodating your playstyle?
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As a non-LFR raider myself (I avoid it), I find it kind of ridiculous that this mount does not come from LFR.
Slime cat was one of the four mounts we all got to vote on in the beginning of Shadowlands. Once the soaring Spelltome came out, it seemed like Blizzard had intention of releasing all 4 of these mounts.
2 of the 4 mounts that have been released DID NOT REQUIRE GROUPS. The tree was gifted, and while the spelltome is locked behind tougher content, it is completely soloable. Any solo or casual person does not need to rely on anyone else to get this mount.
Not to mention, casuals/solo players have basically nothing to look forward to in Season 4. No open world content is planned at all for season 4.
I’m a 100% advocate that the Slime Cat should be obtainable from LFR.
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I would argue normal is actually easier than LFR, because you can remove the people who are just trying to troll or are barely doing more than auto attacking. If it is too much for you to put forth a smidge of effort to either find a group, form your own group, or join a casual guild, then you clearly don’t actually want the slime cat mount as much as you think.
You can’t have rl achievements. You have WoW to live in order to have value man, lol.
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Hahahaha.
Okay. Wut about normal? Yeah, it’s sO hArD my dude. 
It’s not always about difficulty. Everyone knows that normal is only the slightest bit more challenging than LFR. The problem for many is the increased time commitment.
Many people cannot commit several consecutive hours to try to (and usually get declined for over an hour) get in a group then full clear a whole raid.
LFR alleviates that by allowing people to queue for segments of a raid and guaranteeing that you get a spot.
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They should take the same approach with the slime cat – make it obtainable in LFR as well as the other difficulties, but have different colors for the cat for LFR, Normal, Heroic and Mythic. Or just have the LFR one be a different color, if it’s too much work to do four different colors.
Blizzard is doing this to make more money off of token sales. Isn’t it obvious? They know that guilds will be taking advantage of this fiasco by selling carries. And people will be buying WoW tokens to afford those carries. Not everyone. But enough for Blizz to make a tidy profit.
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Which is exactly why people are on here with their sales pitch, trying to get people to do other difficulties.
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Dude what? This is getting ridiculous. Normal is designed for all players. It’s the absolute most basic entry level for players.
LFR is literally just a story mode and not actual raiding. You don’t need to do mechanics, or pay attention to anything. If a boss is hard you just wipe until you get enough determination stacks to burn through it.
I’m all for the slime cat being obtained through LFR but y’all need to stop acting like normal raids are some impossible task that is gate kept by the absolute elite players.
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Oh you definitely need to do mechanics. I’m not sure where the no mechanics thing comes from, but it’s gotta be from an earlier version of LFR.
It’s actually really easy
You really don’t, hence the determination buff. Mechanics too hard? Wipe until you hit hard enough to burn through them.
I’m not knocking LFR players because that’s what that mode is designed for and it’s fine.
You can just join a PUG for a couple bosses and then leave, or make your own group, or just join one the many, many casual guilds that will likely do normal clears for the mount. Doing a Normal raid is not some big hurdle, and I’d argue someone who isn’t willing to do normal or find the time for it probably doesn’t really care that much about the mount anyway.
I’ve done Selpulcher and it doesn’t matter if you have the buff, you’ll still be there a long time trying to win if you don’t do mechanics. It was the same for N’zoth.
You don’t just stand around and die, get the buff and then are done. You do have to be in the fight a certain amount of time before the buff even becomes active.
It’s not really that ridiculous. I mean, come on. We’re talking about Blizzard here. You know. The people who made the brutosaur mount time-limited in BfA, knowing that they would make massive profits on token sales by doing so.
My issue isn’t with the difficulty. It’s dealing with pugs. Pugs can be extemely gatekeepy. One of the reasons people were looking forward to LFR was because you can just queue for the raids and not have to go through the headache of finding a group. Not everyone is in a guild that will or can do it, and others simply just don’t have much time to spend on putting a group together.
Also, aren’t they raising the difficulty threshold slightly across all raid modes? Like, why include LFR at all in that if we’re not able to get anything special beyond higher ilvl versions of the gear we already have?
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Okay. I never said it was fast, I said it was easy.
Okay? I’m not sure how that’s relevant. You can still get the buff which will eventually trivialize any boss.
I mean I agree.
To be fair there is probably enough people in this thread alone that are saying they “can’t get into a group” to form 3 raid groups.
I get that pugs can suck but obviously there are a lot of people that want to get this mount, shouldn’t be too hard to create a group if Blizz decides to keep this change.
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Well with all the LFR only folks who want the mount now diving into the pool of normal pug players, it should be overflowing.
Bonus that the LFR only crowd should be less picky about their groups considering they’re more casual, so it’ll be easier to get into groups/fill groups if you start one.
You don’t have to clear the whole thing at once.
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Eventually but you have to earn it first and can still be at it for a few hours, just like normal raid. Because fights now are so long and failures can lead to people leaving. It’s definitely not a cake walk.
I promise most either aren’t gonna do it at all or just buy a carry.
That makes the process even longer by going through the group finding process multiple times