I’ve tried this on normal a lot and also tried it on RF a lot. Combined normal and rf runs = more than 50 times and still haven’t seen this boss below half hps.
Say what you will but this is bad game design when you have so many mechanics in an encounter that most players can’t do the content.
Join a new guild? Even most casual guilds can kill it on heroic eventually. Undergeared players killed the boss on the 2nd week of mythic so if you can’t kill it on normal then the players are the problem.
It’s not really forgiving, especially the first half of the fight, but once you get into the final phase it’s just pound town. But the first part requires communication, properly dividing the raid into groups, etc.
It is possible once you replace all the folks that are under geared, afk, or don’t do mechanics…
Do not be surprised if it takes 4 or more hours and a lot of replacements. I cleared it after replacing the entire group 3-4 times with 8 stacks of the fail buff and 11 wipes.
The fight is fine. People playing poorly isn’t bad game design. Just play with better people if you want to clear it faster. LFR has some of the worst players in WoW.
Are you new to WOW? I ask because you seem to think wiping on RAID bosses is something new or out of the ordinary. People have been wiping on RAID bosses since 2004. If you want easy RAID bosses, this isn’t the game for you. I’m sure there are plenty of players here who can tell you how difficult the first RAID bosses in this game were.
Getting everyone in Psychus Phase on the same page. Tank marking next target helps a ton.
Paranoia Chains. People freak about getting partners together, but realistically it’s a MUCH bigger deal for other people to not touch the chains. Partners can eat some damage to get to each other safely a few seconds later if needed.
That aside, I highly recommend only running small groups for N’zoth. It just works out to be much easier with how it scales down, as well as making dealing with Paranoia kind of a joke due to the amount of free space. I got my AotC in a 2/2/6 group.
Oh, also, if your Psychus Group is going insane all the time, it’s probably because they’re standing in garbage. People need to realize that, yeah, they only get hit for like 60k for finishing that cast, but it screws up their sanity.
I haven’t done it yet but looking at other bosses in LFR sounds like LFR might be tuned a tad high. Again haven’t actually done it because why bother progressing something this difficult with a group of people I won’t ever see again?