Every new raid it’s the same thing. LFR players (ie solo players) have to carefully watch out for post-raid spoilers, cinematics, and quest lines for almost a month because Blizzard won’t open all the wings up. It’s baffling. Furthermore it seems to go against Blizzard’s ethos lately regarding player agency and respect for time.
There are ZERO logical arguments for time gating these LFR wings. Literally. Zero. You can give me arguments, but they certainly won’t be logical.
It’s to give you a sense of progress uwu
any half decent guild has already killed that entire raid already on normal
It’s just to keep LFR raiders subbed.
Or they can just run LFR and then log out. Which they were already going to do anyhow. I mean as a “LFR player” that frequents the forums you’re basically begging for spoilers, you aren’t avoiding them by any means.
I’d love to hear an actual explanation from Blizzard. LFR players aren’t rushing through the raid and then cancelling their subscription until the next one.
Its because some bosses have a BIS trink or weapon or w/e even if lower ilvl.
I’d still like to get a response from devs on why LFR players can’t play the whole raid right now.
I dont recall Blizzard time gating Ara Kara last season because of a trinket.
i keep wondering if the reason is to artificially stretch out content for people not in guilds or who can’t/won’t just pug the raid on normal or heroic.
also, to keep people from seeing gallywix die before the “harder core” community does.
Those are certainly the excuses I can see them floating…doesn’ t mean i agree.
I don’t particularly mind the gating, but two weeks between wings is mean.
Like, it’s retention. LFR has to wait four weeks which means their sub is close to getting renewed. There doesn’t seem to be another reason.
More people have seen Gallywix die at the end of the raid than have seen the cinematics from the questing campaign which is supposed to setup the raid.
We’re already out of order on cinematics and Blizzard can’t stop an LFR only person from seeing the cinematic on YouTube.
Players demanding answers from Blues/Devs/Blizzard will almost never get them. It’s in the forum rules to not have that sort of expectation.
If I had a guess, it’d be to incentivize grouping up with other players in guilds and communities if they want to see everything sooner but with Story Mode coming out next reset, if it has anything to do with the story itself, they’d see it sooner than solo players have in the past (which was not at all).
I forgot all about Story Mode. I guess that solves the dilemma for LFR players. They only have to wait a week to wrap up the post-raid campaign story. That’s not nearly as bad as waiting 4 weeks at least.
Killed Gally last night.
That, and it would be without suffering 10+ stacks of determination as everyone tries to figure out what to do. Things have been getting better for solo players in terms of rewards and accessibility and seeing how LFR Crucible still has pretty much all of the mechanics from normal that just hit for less damage means the learning curve for LFR might be a little tougher this season.
I agree.
But also I do like that there’s a raid rep now to give people an incentive to keep running LFR every week in hopes the queue times don’t get as bad. I thought that was a good idea, I hope it works.
So you should be used to it by now.
The best part of LFR is needing stuff for transmog even though it’s not an upgrade
Nothing drops in LFR… its just to get vault picks and/or use the Catalyst to convert veteran gear from weeklies into tier gear.