What exactly will that look like?
Pretty sure it’s just the last boss of the raid.
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Basically Follower Dungeons.
Doesn’t give any gear, only the last boss. But it does count towards the Final Boss Kill quest we get with each raid tier which usually gives a heroic raid ilvl crafted Crest to make a piece of crafted gear equivalent to a heroic piece of raid gear.
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Last raid boss intended to help you live the story, rather or not you can complete quests in it has not really been said. This is a pilot program and so they don’t know if it will go evergreen or not. Feedback will be monitored to determine rather or not this is a system they want to invest in for future patches and expansions.
Follower Raids… at a slower pace, allowing people to actually listen and read as they go and not just get yelled at cause their gem is 606 instead of 609. I cannot WAIT for Storymode.
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It’d look like a wipe but in an RP area because everyone in the raid killed themselves because of the RP.
It’s just the last boss.
Not really that, many of the mechanics of the raid will be disabled from what they said. Which makes them terrible for a learning experience. This is in no way intended to be a replacement for LFR or Normal Raids. it’s one boss, only intended to allow you to live the story… The way they talk about it I don’t even think gear will be in it.
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If I want to learn, I can go to YouTube. I want to immerse myself in the story. Sounds like this is right up my alley 
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Be sure to try it out and give lots of feedback via the suggestion button in the game or on the forums. They mentioned this is a test so they don’t know if they will keep it. It will largely depend on community participation and feedback so using it and talking about it if you want it to stay around is your best option.
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What do you think LFR is?
Sound advice. I mean, it could sound great and then completely bomb… (I’m looking at you Warlords of Draenor). I was an RPer for almost 12 years in this game, so lore and stories are my bread n butter. Will have to offer an honest perspective, whether glowing or brutal.
WoW is becoming less and less social by the patch. Kinda crazy.
Really cool feature to be able to finish a patch campaign for a tier without having to wait for the lfr queue and what not. Queue up that story boss and beat it up in the raid!
Forced Social Interaction failed. Look at WarMode. Was hot out of the gate, now I hardly see anyone flagged. Follower dungeons allow the heroes of their own stories to experience the content without some Dungeon rat (like a gym rat) yelling at them cause their DPS is sub par. Casuals, like myself, want to play… and relax. Not get yelled at in a dungeon by someone we will likely never see again. WoW got toxic, and devs found a solution… and I love it.
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When social interactions become negative experiences, then in order to preserve the playerbase it becomes important to remove forced interactions. There is other ways to socialize besides the group content which usually only largely falls into one of the following catagories.
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Complete silent run, everyone may as well be AI.
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Negative experience where someone is being obnoxious.
When these are the only social experiences, it makes one question is this really the game that they want to develop. Their answer seems to reflect in their choices.
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Pretty sure they confirmed in a WoW cast that the Kill Quest for the final boss can be completed in Story Mode. It also makes sense that you can because the Kill Quest can already be done in LFR.
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Thanks for the information I must of missed that remark.
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Yeah… kinda annoyed they don’t give gear so not true solo content but hopefully when I start queuing for actual groups I don’t run into the toxic mess. Wonder how story mode raid will be if it’s a follower dungeon style thing as GW2 has story mode stuff too but it’s like the intro to the dungeon despite GW2 dungeons not feeling like a dungeon after such rather more like a new area to farm a certain currency. Hoping the story raid isn’t an exact clone of story dungeons from GW2 as that would suck in its own way
I would add a Third. I have had some groups where we just all naturally got along and had a great time.