It’s a tour mode though, that allows you to kill final boss of raid. Why should Jimmy who goes around Borean Tundra helping save elephants get to kill Arthas? You want to kill Arthas, Kil’jaeden, any big baddie that’s big in lore? Put some effort into it, show you mean it.
Because Arthas has been taunting Jimmy all through his journey in Northrend and he should be allowed to get a chance to pay him back.
That’s not always enough. All the effort in the world means squat if you can’t get yourself into the cool kids club that’s currently doing the raid.
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There’s so many guilds out there, and normal raid difficulty, which is just slightly harder than LFR. If you can clear LFR, you can clear normal, but they don’t want to put effort in finding guild or group, they want to press queue and get everything instantly.
Queue in general removes the feeling from MMO, it’s instanced content.
You don’t know that though. You don’t know the lengths some people have gone to find “that one good guild”, but fail, and have only LFR to do because they can’t find a guild or land a spot in a pug despite being of a reasonable ilvl (hint, most groups don’t want “reasonable” ilvls, they want “totally destroys the instance” ilvls).
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Sorry, your ilvl is too low.
Sorry, we have too many melee.
Sorry, you don’t have AotC.
Sorry, you don’t know fights.
Sorry, you don’t want to sign up for discord.
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^ What my magical collegue said, lol.
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Do you know why they want such high ilvls? Too much free loot. Free loot boosts up ilvl so that people outgear normal raid before even doing it. But that’s whole other story.
You sometimes fail, just because the guild you join doesn’t match you, doesn’t mean Blizzard should add queue to raid. You try next guild. Shouldn’t give up that easily.
As long as folks are getting left out there should be an LFR. There should be an all-inclusive option for those who lack luck when it comes to this wonderful community.
Again, you don’t know if they tried one guild, or a hundred, Whether they’ve been looking for one week or for 14 years.
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I know that I’ve tried several guilds, and giving up few times, before finally clearing my first raid. If there was LFR, I’d never have gotten into raiding, and with LFR now, the excitement of raiding is gone. If you have a guild then sure you can raid, but there’s no need for it, no need to look for one anymore. Raiding has become sidelined, they added so much content in that allows for that inclusivity you speak of, but to kill someone powerful in queued content with minimal effort, goes against very logic of the game.
Most games do in fact have easy mode difficulties for folks who aren’t skilled or aren’t interested in a stressful challenge and just want to see the game’s storyline.
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This is as funny to me as when people asked for easy mode for that Sekiro game. Game was meant to be like that, if devs give in to demands of people who don’t want anything even remotely challenging, they shift the game for everyone.
And that’s fine, some games do stick to that philosophy on principle, like Dark Souls. But those are not the majority and most game developers know there’s a market for gamers who just want to relax and take it easy.
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I miss the days when it was just simply 10man, or 25man difficulties, all these extra difficulties didn’t exist, and you had the option for activating hardmode like Ulduar.
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You don’t need to raid though, if you come to WoW to relax and take it easy, they added so much content in. Raid is for those who want to get in there and kill the baddie, and it’s not hard, no one is bad, like it started with WotlK, raids were made accessible, you could clear 10m raid with smaller group and easier fights. And no one out there doesn’t have time to spare for raid, if you can spare time for LFR, you can also spare a bit of time for normal raid.
As long as Blizzard continues to put the meat of the game into raids, then yes you do kind of need to raid. And everyone should be allowed to enter them without being told by a group that no, you are not cool enough to play with us, get out of here loser lol.
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Mythic is the only difficulty where there is a required amount of players. All the others are flex. Most Heroic and Normal Guilds won’t care if you have a night off.
What meat of the game? Loot from raids is irrelevant now, with tier sets gone, you can gear through mythic+ and all free gear around. Only thing left in raid is satisfaction of killing the final boss, Azshara let’s say, whom we waited for over a decade to meet. Why would that fight be queueable and near afkable? People should put at least that much effort to get into group, and really:
Not only can you make your own group, but find guilds, yes, there’s guilds in this game, you don’t have to pug with randoms who can be rude. Guilds will seldom insult you, and if they do, you find other guild, I can’t remember last time I got insulted by my guildmates for no reason.
They said themself, they design content to be seen by most of players in TBC. Otherwise there wasn’t gonna be multiple difficulty on same raid, this has been what 10 years plus ago. Why is this a concern
The conclusion of the game’s storylines, along with the majority of their art and encounter design efforts. Heard something along the lines of Black Temple costing millions of dollars to make.
You’re right, Azshara is a major player in the Warcraft universe, and some folks have been looking forward to finally meeting her. Some folks who might not have lots of raiding friends, some folks who aren’t very skilled at the game, some folks who are more interested in the lore and RP and less in being a crack squad commando with their class spec. Are you going to tell me that any decent normal+ guild is going to take players like them?
As I’ve tried to stress to you this whole time, not everyone finds all those things easy. I’ve already explained to you the troubles I’ve had in finding guilds. You don’t want me to start with my seriously sad and pathetic attempts to be a raid leader, lol. Let me promise you that some people should not be starting and leading groups. I am one of them.
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Raid leaders and guild masters don’t pop up from holes in the earth, I’ve been raid leader several times, guild leader once, wasn’t pleasant, but someone had to do it.
Anyways, let’s agree to disagree, topic of thread is that people who claim they can’t raid because they don’t have time are usually lying, as time can be found. So I’ll just say I agree on that. I know people who study at college, work a job, have a girlfriend, and find time to log in 2 nights a week to raid.