I honestly wouldn’t care, but this makes the decision to still lock the LFR wings at the start all the more puzzling.
No. The whole point is people pay carries, making blizzard token money. Blizzard doesnt care about players ego. Its a corporation.
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They never specified that it would be removed once the next raid tier or patch comes out.
In actuality its more or less like the mount ‘Hellfire Infernal’ from Nighthold, or the one from Jaina in Battle of Dazar’alor.
Honestly a better alternative would them giving TWO appearances on the raid - One that can be dropped from last boss all difficulties, and another that can drop from mythic — Much like the Nighthold raid does. If anyone still has the audacity to think that’s “Still unfair” – then take a step back, be humble and consider the effort required to achieve that … I mean, they’re raiding in mythic difficulty for pete’s sake. lol
The LFR wings are locked because of the Determination buff, Blizzard explained that in great detail when Throne of Thunder came out.
It’s still the lowest difficulty level with rewards to reflect that. Locking those wings never really made much sense.
It makes perfect sense, as Blizzard explained it back when they added Determination.
Still didn’t make any sense, but I’m not gonna go back and forth like this, so have fun.
That’s cute now explain to me why that’s still a thing for a difficulty that doesn’t matter after 10 years?
Why is Determination still in the game, you mean? I guess because a lot of people struggle on some LFR bosses until it cranks up?
Thus the question, why lock LFR for weeks, because of a Determination buff, for difficulty that doesn’t matter?
This doesn’t you to provide an actual answer (and I’m not tracking the thread so I won’t see if you respond anyway) because the answer would likely be stupid anyway. And I’m not calling you stupid I’m calling Blizzard stupid for it lol.
Because the entire point of raids is that they’re supposed to last a while, most of the tier in fact. Determination makes it so that every boss in LFR will absolutely die the first time you fight it, because you can just overpower it after enough pity buffs. As Blizzard said, since Determination removes the progression entirely that normally comes from difficulty and learning the fights, they instead delay the release of the wings to add an artificial sense of progression, that way.
considering how long and ongoing it is for them to fix the busted legacy raids Im guessing it will be decades before they either re-animate “normal” flying for dragon riding mounts, and possibly a century before they re-animate ALL the other flying mounts into dragonriding
They should have given mythic raiding a proper mount, a cool dragon riding/dragonflight inspired DRAGON that can be used on land and flying as normal elsewhere as that as well is a +1 to all those players collections. A skin is a nothing to those peoples collection tabs
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Conceptually, I have no issue with it. It’s just going to feel awful for everyone who got the Raz skin from LFR, Normal, or Heroic when they find out that this practice was reneged on a single patch later.
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I was referring to the skin from Aberrus
They made the rasz mount available to everyone because they don’t do mythic mounts for introductory raid tiers, also when your end boss is a unique dragon model it feels like an enormous waste not to make a mount out of it.
Should there be cool cosmetic stuff throughout the raid on all difficulties, absolutely yes. We need way more cosmetic weapon drops, any time there’s a cool boss model that seems rideable there should be a conversation about if it should also drop as a rare mount. But idk I don’t think it’s all that surprising that the unique model in the second raid tier of the expansion is mythic only.
Source on that? Or is that just a supposition?
They’ve said it in prior interviews, and the fact that there isn’t a mythic end boss mount in a single initial raid tier from WoD (Which is the first expansion to follow the mythic mount from end bosses pattern) to now, going further back there hasn’t ever been one from an initial tier. They even said they don’t normally do tier sets for initial raid tiers but were specifically doing basic ones this time around to test the acquisition systems.
Again, source?
You’re asking me for source to prove they don’t do something that they demonstrably don’t do? You can just go check the loot table of every end boss of the first raid of each expansion since the game began.
The ‘we have a cool dragon we should probably make a mount out of it’ comment was conjecture though, I should have clarified that.
You’re attributing a motive to a practice that I’ve never seen them comment on. You said interviews exist. I would like to see that commentary for myself. I clearly must have missed something.