tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post5655496008856805432..comments2023-11-08T23:06:17.381-08:00Comments on Sugar & Blood: Day 27: WTFlibbertygibbit?*Mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05504775167541916213noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-22218058526107138362013-09-28T19:39:01.160-07:002013-09-28T19:39:01.160-07:00The stated reason for it being 25 man is that ther...The stated reason for it being 25 man is that there is more room for error. In a 10 man, if you have 2 DPS die, the fight is over. You may not wipe, but you won't beat the enrage timer. In 25 man, you can lose a healer and 3 DPS and still finish the fight.<br /><br />Honestly, I think the solution is simpler. Make flex and LFR share a lockout. Pick one or the other, and do it. This week I did 4 bosses on normal, 6 on flex, and 8 on LFR on Turkic. That's a lot of time and effort, but in order to progress on normal I need the upgrades. As you know, I'll stop doing LFR as quickly as possible. Once I clear SoO on Turkic on flex, I likely will never do flex on him again.DSDevelophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277644881418047148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-6791592955315955592013-09-28T17:14:23.645-07:002013-09-28T17:14:23.645-07:00I totally agree: you can't take out the relati...I totally agree: you can't take out the relationships and camaraderie of a tight knit group. But I do know that even with a guild run, things can get goofy-footed. But LFR is still okay for just grabbing a piece of gear (sometimes) and seeing the fight--maybe LFRs need to be ten-man, and not twenty five - perhaps that is the only fix it needs. Mattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05504775167541916213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-10950996217362223382013-09-28T16:23:22.571-07:002013-09-28T16:23:22.571-07:00Going to try to post this again. Either my iPad a...Going to try to post this again. Either my iPad ate the last one or the blogging software did.<br /><br />The reason that Flex is "easier" than LFR is the company you kept in doing it. With LFR, you are given a random lot of random people. A few are likely competent, one or two might be awesome, 5 or 6 die on purpose so they can go AFK and look at dancing cats on YouTube, and the rest are well intentioned but not skilled players.<br /><br />When you did flex, you did it with my new guild, at least two of the times you've been. That group of 15-20 consisted of 10 people from my normal raid group; a competent core within any group will be ultimately successful. I'd wager if you took that same core of 10 into a 25 man LFR you'd not have a single wipe. I know when I queue for LFR on my shaman I always choose healer; I can overcome a lot more bad play "healing stupid" than I can DPSing.<br /><br />As to tolerance for failure, that's clearly something that has changed. but it's also different for LFR than it is for normal. I expect to wipe some during normal progression. We wiped probably 5 or 6 times Thursday night while learning the fifth boss on normal difficulty, and we felt good about how much better we were getting at the fight; next week we'll likely get 6-7 bosses done instead of 4.<br /><br />Back in vanilla WoW we would wipe for 4-5 hours on a single boss, go to bed, and come back and do it again, for weeks. It took us probably 5 months before we could clear Molten Core in a single night. The game is different now; gear is the only mechanism for meaningful progression. That wasn't the case 8 years ago.<br /><br />- Krash/TurkDSDevelophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277644881418047148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-41336499053331518642013-09-27T14:24:03.639-07:002013-09-27T14:24:03.639-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.-abhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14899567485973250660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-13744426013433187152013-09-27T12:31:04.151-07:002013-09-27T12:31:04.151-07:00I was reading this post again and am pretty sure I...I was reading this post again and am pretty sure I was channeling my inner warlock when I wrote it. Mattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05504775167541916213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-33535034637073058712013-09-27T08:13:53.092-07:002013-09-27T08:13:53.092-07:00I should mention that is UI pre-clean up; this was...I should mention that is UI pre-clean up; this was the LFR I "practiced" in and then threw up my arms in disgust at myself: I spend more time tweaking UI frames than I do flossing teeth. Ewwwww....Mattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05504775167541916213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-29016949320747422852013-09-27T08:03:40.659-07:002013-09-27T08:03:40.659-07:00I enlarged that screen shot and stared at it for a...I enlarged that screen shot and stared at it for a while mesmerized by the pretty ui and then realized it's probably the same thing I'd do in a raid so probably good I don't go there, lol. Tome of the Ancienthttp://tomeoftheancient.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com