I wasn’t around for when looking for raid was introduced. I used to run pug raids to help people get gear on my healer or tank. I used to do a lot of looking for dungeons when that was introduced and sometimes runs would cost me a lot of gold in repairs because I refused not to finish a run.
My first LFR I completed just recently not knowing I could cue into it again and just not get loot. However, I would love to finish the quest to kill Fyrakk, just need to wait a few more weeks apparently since no one wants to let me join a normal run. Maybe it’s something called io, but I do have an item level of 443 just no runs in recent Shadowlands or Dragon Flight raid content.
Oh you won’t get into a normal. They won’t take anyone that’s not already heroic level geared, thus forcing you into M+ to get said gear. Best to just wait for it to open in LFR, or just make your own, because that’s how the community is now.
Yep, this is a bit of the point I was making. The Dungeon and Raid finders were implemented to make the game more solo friendly, but if you look at those who are against these new changes and lay them out in a Venn Diagram alongside those who were very vocal about Wrath Classic not launching with cross server group finders, you just about have a perfect circle.
I like to explore dungeons and complete dungeon quests, that something you can’t do in a group. They’re always asking “Where’s Hunter?” and calling me an idiot if I don’t keep up. I’m left holding the bag.
Sadly, that is probably what I am going to have to do. What would have been nice if you completed a wing in LFR it opened up the option to LFR for the next wing and so on until the raid was complete. It technically wouldn’t allow people to skip around and allow people to compete the content just as someone in normal, heroic or mythic.
I think people are missing the bigger picture here. If the game can attract more players by adding systems that foster solo progression, or offer more solo content for players, this is only going to help WoW grow its sagging population.
Plus, these players are all potential players to jump into grouping in the future.
Plus back when there were 12 million players, 99% of them did not raid, and most barely did 5 man dungeons. Most players that left got tired of being treated like second class citizens. Getting some of that style of play back can only help. Plus this allowes raiders to even be more special and elite, assuming they do the content and don’t just complain all day.
I think it was Wrath or Cataclysm, they said they was gonna put in a Dance Studio system, where you can customize your character’s racial dance. The made a big deal out of it, and it was printing on the packaging, when the expansion launched, it wasn’t there, and the devs said nothing, except there was some issues.
Yeah it was Wrath. Went through and looked at all my old boxes, and there it was. And then the Devs, much like they did with worgen tails, mocked the playerbase when they kept asking about the Dance studio. I saw it on my box…and all those memories flooded right back.
Had my 1st group I tried to heal a month before launch of Shadowlands not been toxic, I might have stayed a healer and then my tank might have dungeon lead groups again. But unfortunately, people want to rush through the content and don’t take the time to let new players explore and understand the dungeon.
I have four healers and six tanks that I only group up when a live event happens. I do this because I just can’t stand the toxic behavior when I group up for anything above normal dungeons let alone if I try and step into a mythic. For now, those 10 characters of my 20 on my server help people with crappy cue times possibly get drops like HH, Arfus, from those live events.
I find the list is quite accurate, Call of Duty definitely the worst, seen it first hand. As for the other games, I have poked my head into some of those and it’s correct too in my opinion.
I looked it up and it was Wrath of Lich King, then went and found my physical game box to confirm. They then went silent mode and then for an April Fool Joke they taunted it as something on its way with a video.
When Warlords of Draenor was introduced, it was mentioned that it was coming to Garrisons of which was another non-truth. That said, they did actually put in the Northern Academy of Dance, and you could allow one of your followers the dance trait.
It’s happened many times me, I’ll be on my way to someplace or another, I’ll come across a player doing something and I can see they are struggling, alliance and horde, so at first I would step in and help. After the fight, I would /wave, and /salute and go on my way. Then I would get a whisper, a string of epithets and questioning my relation with my mother.
Hmm, okay, I report and move on.
I will sitting in Valdrakis (or how ever it’s spelled) idling, talking on trade. A player would ride by and I saw he/she had a really cool transmog. I’d whisper him “Hey there! Cool Transmog, where did you get it?” Again, "Don’t talk to me!, Reported!, More epithets.
I have million of examples… some screenshots too (I can’t post those, forum rules and all that).
Hearthstone isn’t shooter DOTA2 isn’t a shooter, League of Legends isn’t shooter. Some I have talked to, OW2 is considered an MMO, more of a lobby game to me though. I think Fortnite is played in Third Person like WoW.
The online communities are the same, what type of game it is, is irrelevant.