Lesson 1: Never ever, ever mention LFR (looking for raid) in a positive light or try to explain why some people stay there and don't move on.
I started a post the other day, trying to relate my feelings to Blizzard about why I personally felt that adding "incentives" wasn't going to motivate certain groups of people to run anything beyond LFR- what happens? Well, first it gets derailed, then people start trying to put words into my mouth, AND then it turns into a "Well this is a reward for raiders thing."
Guys- I'm sorry. It's bullshit.
There is no way in hell some of you DESERVE even more rewards. Not with the way some of you treat the rest of the populace. If those of you that didn't treat the casuals like utter dirt stopped recruiting these kinds of asshats into your raiding guilds- maybe people would start showing you some respect. When you stop inviting these types of individuals that think they are "special because the have more time in a video game" then MAYBE we can start talking about "rewarding" you.
You shouldn't be raiding for "special rewards" anyways. If you are raiding for gear- you are doing it wrong. A lot of the casuals don't raid because YOU WON'T LET THEM.
That is why you are having problems recruiting and that is why things like LFR are needed. We wouldn't even be in this predicament if the "hardcore elitists" (not to be confused with hardcores) didn't have their head so far into their ass that Bliz had to implement the system in the first place.
Myself- I have no problems getting into raid when I want to. But I'm frankly fed up with the attitude.
Lesson 2: Even though you know your class, if you haven't done heroic mode content, apparently you aren't "qualified" to give advice on general questions about your class.
I know- doesn't make sense to me either. I know a lot about some of the healing classes in the game. I've been healing for about 3 years now I better know something about healing. I'm sorry but no matter what people think: even though the damage is higher and the mechanics in hard modes are slightly different- the fundamentals of healing stays the same. The fundamentals do not automatically change when you step into a harder mode.
Do I somehow gain a new shaman spell I don't know about until I hit hard mode? No? Didn't think so.
That makes me qualified to talk about general knowledge.
Lesson 3: Don't bitch about RNG (the random number generator)
This I actually do agree with. RNG has existed since the dawn of gaming. It isn't changing anytime soon.
Folks, look- I know some of you aren't experienced with raiding- I got that. However, if you were to get a drop every single time you walked into that LFR, how long would you stick around until the next raid came out? The LFR loot system emulates the way boss drops work in a normal mode (etc) raid. The raiders don't just walk in and tell the boss that they want "XX of the Protector" to drop.
That is not how that works.
Anyways, I'm sure there's other lessons, but these are some of the on
/enough said
I started a post the other day, trying to relate my feelings to Blizzard about why I personally felt that adding "incentives" wasn't going to motivate certain groups of people to run anything beyond LFR- what happens? Well, first it gets derailed, then people start trying to put words into my mouth, AND then it turns into a "Well this is a reward for raiders thing."
Guys- I'm sorry. It's bullshit.
There is no way in hell some of you DESERVE even more rewards. Not with the way some of you treat the rest of the populace. If those of you that didn't treat the casuals like utter dirt stopped recruiting these kinds of asshats into your raiding guilds- maybe people would start showing you some respect. When you stop inviting these types of individuals that think they are "special because the have more time in a video game" then MAYBE we can start talking about "rewarding" you.
You shouldn't be raiding for "special rewards" anyways. If you are raiding for gear- you are doing it wrong. A lot of the casuals don't raid because YOU WON'T LET THEM.
That is why you are having problems recruiting and that is why things like LFR are needed. We wouldn't even be in this predicament if the "hardcore elitists" (not to be confused with hardcores) didn't have their head so far into their ass that Bliz had to implement the system in the first place.
Myself- I have no problems getting into raid when I want to. But I'm frankly fed up with the attitude.
Lesson 2: Even though you know your class, if you haven't done heroic mode content, apparently you aren't "qualified" to give advice on general questions about your class.
I know- doesn't make sense to me either. I know a lot about some of the healing classes in the game. I've been healing for about 3 years now I better know something about healing. I'm sorry but no matter what people think: even though the damage is higher and the mechanics in hard modes are slightly different- the fundamentals of healing stays the same. The fundamentals do not automatically change when you step into a harder mode.
Do I somehow gain a new shaman spell I don't know about until I hit hard mode? No? Didn't think so.
That makes me qualified to talk about general knowledge.
Lesson 3: Don't bitch about RNG (the random number generator)
This I actually do agree with. RNG has existed since the dawn of gaming. It isn't changing anytime soon.
Folks, look- I know some of you aren't experienced with raiding- I got that. However, if you were to get a drop every single time you walked into that LFR, how long would you stick around until the next raid came out? The LFR loot system emulates the way boss drops work in a normal mode (etc) raid. The raiders don't just walk in and tell the boss that they want "XX of the Protector" to drop.
That is not how that works.
Anyways, I'm sure there's other lessons, but these are some of the on
/enough said