Hello, LFR casual here. Not entirely by choice, if I had the time, I’d absolutely do Normal and maybe try for Heroic sometimes, but alas, here we are. It’s not all bad, though. I think LFR does get a bad rap in the community, it’s really not as bad as some people say (most of the time).
One thing I would like to see, though, is the removal of the two week gap between each wing. For people like me who want to experience the story and cinematics in game, it makes it really hard having to avoid spoilers for 2+ months, as well as having raid quests just sit in your quest log collecting dust until the final wing unlocks.
What I propose is this: still have LFR difficulty come out the week after N/H with Mythic difficulty, same as now, but release all wings at once. To balance this out, however, have each wing be locked until the previous one is completed. That way you won’t have people just skip right to the final raid boss and leave the first few wings completely empty. You have to run all the bosses in a more or less set order on the other difficulties, so why not make this one the same?
Having the wings still be separate, and having the overall difficulty lowered, makes it easy for someone like me to do bits of a raid at a time, rather than all at once, but I really would not like to wait until 2 months later to complete the raid.
I think some timegating is ok to have. It gives more time for normal+ raiders to properly discover and work on clearing the raid without LFR overshadowing it.
But they just need to shorten it. Two weeks is so long, I think it can be lowered to one week between each wing.
They explained exactly why they did it: To mimic a sense of progression. When determination was added, it became absolutely 100% guaranteed that everyone would beat every boss whenever they tried. And since that meant there was no longer ANY progression in terms of actually beating the bosses, they added the delay between wings, instead.
They were absolutely, 100% crystal clear about that.
It takes less time each week to run normal than it does LFR. After a couple months it takes a casual guild less time to clear heroic than it does for a player to clear LFR.
