I absolutely despise the length of queue times nowadays - WoW has always been mainly a carnival-ride MMORPG, but this is beyond stupid now.
You once you’ve done the small amount of content that is available outside of an instance, you have to sit and wait for ages for a queue to pop. You can’t go and do anything else because that’ll break queue. You can’t even queue up for Group World Quests if you need to!
Anyway, little rant over; Why was there never an option implemented to have a solo player storied scenario run of each Raid? As either a difficulty below LFR or replacing LFR altogether. LFR hardly secures any sociability and in the end was only there to ensure that people got to see the end content that Blizzard created.
The Solo Experience could pretty much introduce boss mechanics to those who can’t be bothered to look them up or would prefer a hands-on demonstration. Even could tailor mechanics explaination based on your spec that you enter the scenario on. This could then lead to pugs being prepared for healing/tanking/DPSing alongside real players instead of NPCs when they progress to normal+.
Any thoughts on this or am I just grumpy about queue times?
Those queue times can be a pretty big problem in some cases, like horde warcampaign being blocked behind doing Jaina raid. If someone is trying to do the warcampaign and is not getting queue pop in reasonable time frame, they are then blocked for doing rest of the warcampign which is like main story content for the expansion.
I literally mentioned the problems with doing stuff outside of queues and instanced content. Once WQs are done and the story quests have dried up long ago, what else is there to do?
Too much of end content is based on taking the player out of the World and into a throwaway pocket realm.
LFR is not raiding, period. LFR will NEVER be raiding as long as you’re matched 100% randomly with 24 other players.
It’s meant to be the single player option that gives you the illusion of a raid, except it fails in this as well because blizz keeps expecting too much from people attending LFR.
Unless there are a couple of dps/tanks hard carrying LFR (let’s take crucible as an example) it’s always a wipefest without a shred of uncertainty, and once they get through after banging their heads against the wall until it breaks the majority of them still don’t know what they did to complete it, if anything.
LFR is a disgusting, despicable piece of the game. It’s meant to be the most straightforward “see-the-content” easymode and it should be, because the gear it rewards is absolute trash and definitely not worth the time investment for anyone thinking such.
Blizz should hardball nerf LFR to be the sightseeing tour that it’s meant to be, so it wouldn’t be a frustrating wipefest that’s full of deaf people that rearrange after every couple wipes.
It’s supposed to be the simplest possible easymode content for those who don’t care to bother otherwise and Blizz fails to tune it accordingly, utterly baffling.
It is, people should need to spend ONE MINUTE, to read the codex, tadaa, Uu’nat is not hard. But I guess for the instant gratification babies, reading is too much nowaday.
Blizz doesn’t have to learn from these guys. They should not even listen to them, these guys should listen to these 3 words : “Improvise, adapt, overcome”. Problem is actually the “adapt” part
yeah here is my two cents: remove lfr and while we’re at it remove every mode but mythic because it just doenst feel epic to kill a boss in difficulties. that would also somewhat fix the ilvl gains each patch
Maybe Blizzard could add some solo mode to previous expansion raid and dungeons using the bots AI they have been recently used on Island Expeditions and BGs vs AIs. Blizzard only need to train those bots and make so failsafes to avoid the bots to complete the LFR alone, for example if the player stops fighting/healing/tanking or the player make mistakes in the encounter like stand on the fire they start to die. If the player dies a few seconds later all the bots die.
So, allow people to solo queue with bots for example in any WOD LFR and Pandaria LFR during Pandaria and WOD Timewalking events.
There is too much in game content that is being wasted with the only options is to go in easy mode solo or with others because our level is too hight or it is impossible because some encounters are not possible to solo.
To be fair, I should have stated that I am not just trying to get a work around for the lazy gits who can’t open the adventure guide. I am just saying that a solo scenario where all the abilities are introduced can be an equally successful way of learning boss mechanics.
Especially when the adventure guide explanation doesn’t explain the ability in detail. When does it happen? Where will most people be standing? How big is the AoE? Etc.
Well really it should be Solo → Flex Normal → Flex Heroic → Mythic. Ilvl stupidity could be clipped by making the RNG upgrades capped at +15, but also make it that you can get that +15 by upgrading the piece yourself. So the RNG becomes a bonus to progression but doesn’t greatly barricade the way for those who are dedicated.
Like progress the story for those who want to get the full experience of leveling?
Well, with this it should allow anyone to play old expansions and do all the story in chronological order, instead of requiring to come back 20 level later to solo the things one left incomplete,
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yeah LFR is very healthy for game!!