I thought it’d be a nice easy time to just go into LFR and try to knock out the quest on an alt, instead I was met with the typical LFR community who’s clueless about everything and expect to be handed loot for no effort.
Pull Uu’nat, within 15 seconds there’s 7 dead DPS just standing in the outer rim damage to die intentionally.
The remaining DPS insist on running through puddles constantly healing Uu’nat up.
Nobody picks up the relics to do the mechanics of the fight, so we have 5 adds up constantly regenerating health and tanks just standing on top of each other giving Uu’nat a damage taken reduction.
8 minutes in Uu’nat is at 70% due to constant healing.
I just don’t understand the purpose of LFR anymore, it has no place in the game if it’s just going to encourage degenerate gameplay.
LFR is in a bizarre place where it’s too hard for a bunch of random players to pull it off but too easy and unrewarding for anyone competent to actually want to do it.
For them to move when the ground around them turns pitch black and takes like a dozen ticks to actually kill you?
As for the healing of the boss, yeah, that’s not intuitive. Bad on the ground is typically just some negligible damage on LFR, there’s no visual cue to show that it’s healing the boss, and it’s only 1% at a time so it’s easy to miss if you didn’t bother to read the journal.
Adds being alive doesn’t really matter. They do less damage at low hp so as long as some people are DoTing them or whatever, the tank damage should be manageable for a VERY long time without bothering to deal with the mechanic. It should happen eventually, but it’s not like that’s what usually gets people killed.
The Void Stone can mostly be ignored in LFR. People are going to run into the pools before you get the chance to clear them anyway.
The Trident is often ignored in actual higher difficulties too just because it can be a pain to make sure it pops.
The Crown is the only thing that REALLY matters, and you can get by with doing it like once or twice the whole fight.
So basically, tell people the pink pools heal the boss if touched and have like -one- DPS who knows the fight and it should go down easy enough.
LFR isn’t fun, people intentionally die to be carried, this has happened since the implementation of LFR. If your idea of “fun” is making other people miserable, then you deserve a griefing ban, simple as that. If people want LFR, fine, but actually be prepared for LFR by knowing the mechanics, don’t waste other peoples time because you don’t want to “make wow a job”. If your time is important to you, treat other peoples time with the same respect.
It wasn’t happening in WoD LFR when it was tuned MUCH more appropriately for completely random groups with zero communication.
With the dizzying array of mechanics in encounters these days, even in LFR, “read the dungeon journal and watch a video” does little to nothing to help even those who want to try. Blizzard seems to have decided that LFR needs to be a wipefest to replicate the “real raiding experience” or something.
And we all know how well that worked out in MoP. How soon people forget
It did happen in WoD though, I distinctly remember people standing in Butcher’s cleaves over and over to die, I remember people standing in every train until they died on Thogar, I remember people tagging Archimonde and running into his green puddles to die.
This has always been a thing, even going back to Dragon Soul when it first came out with jumping off of Ultraxion’s platform. The issue is, if people want LFR, if they actually want a version of raids they can just que up for and not have to worry about anything, then at least put in some effort to see what the fights are about, if your time is so precious that you choose not to raid with a guild, then respect other peoples time as if it was your own and take those 5 minutes to read the journal or watch a short video.
It’s funny to me that you say this because usually in LFR the main complaint is that people want to brute force their way through a boss fight with determination stacks.
Most of the KJ wipes were because people refused to stand in the swirls.
Most of the G’huun wipes was because nobody wanted to run the orb
If there’s even 1 simple mechanic that’s present, people want it nerfed to the ground. It floors me. It legit floors me that players are like this now. People would rather have scenarios like the Desolate Host in ToS. Where there wasn’t even a Desolate Host.
I did LFR UU’nat on an alt recently for the AP quest. Luckily I queued with a tank and healer buddy, so we were able to grab the relics ourselves (didn’t trust pugs with them). We one-shot it, but it was surprising how many people refuse to listen to instructions. No matter how many times I yelled at people to ignore the adds, I still saw melee running over to the add tank trying to pad their numbers. Then there were people who refused to stack in the final phase even though we were spamming raid warnings, and lust didn’t go off until the boss was 5%.
Never use the void stone or trident. If you can, tell a trustworthy tank or healer to grab it and never use it. They’re pointless on LFR. We only used the crown once during the final intermission to clear the adds since the dps was so low that we had lot, and then we had the dps tunnel the boss.
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