Does it really need to go on for so long? I mean seriously its Storymode literally taking 10mins to kill him is boring as hell. Its great they put this in 100% but I dont see why it doesn’t take half the time. Is it designed to get people interested in stepping up and moving onto the LFR/Raid ladder maybe but it literally bores you to sleep.
Nice work on the Storymode/Delves stuff and the new zones fun but just give him half the health or something.
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Be grateful it’s there in the first place. There’s a lot of people at Blizzard who if they got their way and were allowed to press further on with their frankly creepy fascination with making everyone play with each other (because it’s an MMO innit…) as soon as you got to your character select screen you’d be forced to group up before you even logged your character in.
It will likely be nerfed. It also wasn’t designed to lure people into raiding, it was designed purely to get a glimpse of the “epic last boss encounter and even more epic conclusion to the raid.” Such as they are.
Ironically. The vast majority of people who raid don’t give a monkeys what is going on around them. They’re only there for the shinies at the end of a boss fight.
So Story mode? Put all the fights in there, nerf them so it doesnt have to be a 10 minute slog with you and 4 npc’s to hit a pinata with wet noodles and keep it drop free except a 1st time completion reward of crests.
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“you cater to super casuals but gimme more now”
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Story mode exists specifically so that the people that don´t even run LFR can still finish the campaign. Full stop.
IMO, complaining about it taking 10 minutes (which is, in my experience, significantly exaggerated) as opposed to never being able to finish the campaign, ever, is misguided.
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theres no reason rf isnt enough for them
Not everybody wants to run LFR (=deal with 24 other players), or even realistically can (for ex. have fun finding a group @ 3AM if that´s the only time you can play), and not everybody wants to wait 4 weeks to finish the campaign. This is why storymode exists.
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the 24 others are effectively npcs 
IME, and of course yours may differ, LFR players can be some of the most insufferable tryhards the game has to offer. Many of them take themselves and the game more seriously than Heroic or even Mythic raiders… for example people constantly get flamed for not doing X DpS. Not to mention stupidity like 3/5 healers queuing as a healer and then speccing into ret /Balance /Ele /Windwalker /shadow, effectively making what should be a faceroll into a wipefest.
Why, pray tell, should a 12 year old, or anyone else, be forced to deal with that pointless BS just to be able to get a quest out of his log and watch a cinematic?
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fair i guess and i get where your coming from
No the follower NPCs are actually usefull and follow mechanics. LFR members are a diferent breed.
It’s fine as it is, we’re lucky to have the feature in the first place, and the fight taking a while does give a sense of significance to the fight, that we’re not just slapping down a named elite for an Undermine world quest or something…
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Agree it takes too long. If it’s going to take that long, it could at least be interesting. Just feels like hitting a HP sponge whilst your followers stand in everything. I’d happily do the LFR version but that isn’t out for weeks and I wanted to finish the campaign for the skip.
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What is the point of this… no loot… can be watched on youtube if you are really into the story.
Well, it allows people to see the ending to the story “properly”, and opens up the post-raid questline in Undermine, plus the kill-quest for Gallywix gives a runed crest for crafting.
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Story quests mainly. Stops babies whining cos story is tied to raid
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Wait 10 min to kill him? I hope u mean like 3 - 4 min
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Sums the forums up perfectly
It took longer than I expected but it didn’t bother me.
I did the story mode variant for the sake of completion. I’m geared and I know how to blast, and it felt like a slog. Not a 10 minute slog, but it certainly took much longer than needed, it’s just a glorified training dummy.
I’m tired of people making the argument that it’s good enough because it wasn’t there before, as if it can never be improved and people should just shut up because they got the cookie crumbs 
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I am thankful they allow you to finish the world content before raid finder opens up honestly, having to sit through 1 hour of raid finder a month into the patch in order to finally unlock all the world content like in the past was really painful, 10 minutes hitting a target dummy is nothing in comparison if you don’t like raiding and just want it over and done with
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